January 25
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Events on This Day
1799 - Eliakim Spooner patented the seeding machine. The device, like so many that we found while Christmas shopping, proved to be... impractical.1858 - Mendelssohn’s Wedding March was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1870 - G.D. Dows patented the ornamental soda fountain. The marble fountain featured a double stream draft arm and sold for $225! Make that a strawberry soda with two scoops of vanilla, please!
1905 - The world’s largest cut diamond, The Cullinan (3,106 carats, 621.2 grams or 1 and 1/4 pounds) was discovered in the Premier Mine, near Pretoria, South Africa.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in New York spoke to his assistant (Thomas Watson) in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.
1927 - Jack Benny married Sadye Marks on this day. You thought he married Mary Livingstone, didn’t you? You are right. Sadye changed her name after she married the timeless comedian.
1937 - NBC radio presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light. The program became the longest-running story line in daytime drama. The radio show remained until 1956. The Guiding Light began its long run on CBS-TV in 1952.
1940 - Mary Martin recorded My Heart Belongs to Daddy -- for Decca Records. The song was her signature song until she starred in South Pacific in 1949. Then, Larry Hagman’s mother had a new trademark: “I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair...”
1944 - The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white man, Marlin Hunt, aired on radio for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly. The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.
1945 - Richard Tucker debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in the production of La Gioconda.
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. community to fluoridate water.
1949 - The first Israeli election resulted in a win for David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party.
1949 - The first Emmys, the awards presented each year in recognition of excellence in television performance and production, were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The event was the 1st Annual Los Angeles Emmy Awards (for programming which appeared in 1948) and was presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Academy was also an infant, having formed just three years earlier. Mike Sotkey’s Pantomime Quiz Time was selected as the year’s top television show. Shirley Dinsdale and her puppet, Judy Splinters took honors as Most Outstanding Television Personality.
1952 - The Autronic Eye was introduced by General Motors. It was an automatic car headlight dimmer.
1956 - The record 24-hour rainfall in the U.S. was 38 inches. The deluge happened on Jan 24-25, 1956 at Kilauea Plantation on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.
1959 - American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707 for $301.
1961 - John F. Kennedy presided over his first presidential news conference televised live from the State Department auditorium in Washington, DC. Kennedy’s quick wit made him “an immediate sensation,” according to reporters gathered at the scene.
1964 - The Beatles reached the #1 spot on the music charts, as their hit single, I Want to Hold Your Hand, grabbed the top position in Cash Box magazine, as well as on the list of hits on scores of radio stations. It was the first #1 hit for the Beatles. Billboard listed the song as #1 on February 1. The group’s second #1 hit song, She Loves You, was also released this day -- but not on Capitol Records. It was on Swan Records (#4152). Other songs by The Beatles were released on Vee Jay (Please, Please Me), M-G-M (My Bonnie with Tony Sheridan), Tollie (Twist and Shout), Atco (Ain’t She Sweet) and the group’s own label, Apple Records, as well as Capitol.
1969 - U.S.-North Vietnamese peace talks began in Paris. However, it would be four more years of fighting and bloodshed before an agreement was finally reached ending direct U.S. participation in the war.
1970 - Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H movie premiered in New York City. The war comedy/drama stars Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Rene Auberjonois, David Arkin, Jo Ann Pflug, Gary Burghoff, Fred Williamson, Michael Murphy, Indus Arthur, Ken Prymus and Bobby Troup.
1971 - A trial strike of the Eisenhower Dollar was performed at the Philadelphia mint.
1974 - Ray Kroc, fast-food entrepreneur of McDonald’s, bought the San Diego Padres baseball team for $12 million.
1978 - Muriel Humphrey was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of her husband, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. She served until Nov 7, 1978.
1981 - Super Bowl XV (at New Orleans): Oakland Raiders 27, Philadelphia Eagles 10. The second Super Bowl win for the Raiders (they won Super Bowl XI), this one belonged to Oakland all the way. They led 14-0 after one quarter, 14-3 at the half and 24-3 after three quarters. MVP: Raiders’ QB Jim Plunkett. Tickets: $40.00.
1984 - Apple’s Macintosh computer went on sale. Price tag: $2,500.
1985 - Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie of Boston College signed a $7-million, five-year contract. Flutie would play with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. The deal made him the highest paid football player and the best paid rookie ever -- in any sport. The USFL would soon fold and players like Flutie joined the CFL; and some went to the NFL.
1987 - Super Bowl XXI (at Pasadena): New York Giants 39, Denver Broncos 20. MVP: Giants’ QB Phil Simms. It was all Phil Simms. He completed 22 of 25 passes (88%) for 268 yards and three touchdowns and he brought the Giants back from a first-half 10-9 deficit. The 30 second half points were a Super Bowl half-game record. Tickets: $75.00. The game featured TV commercials that cost $550,000 for 30 seconds of NBC’s most prime time.
1990 - An Avianca Boeing 707 ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, NY. 73 of the 161 people aboard Flight #52 were killed.
1993 - Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced the closing of its famous ‘big book’ catalog sales department -- after 97 years. Sears also closed 113 of its stores and eliminated 50,000 jobs.
1994 - Pop super-star Michael Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit that had been brought against him -- for some $20 million.
1997 - Astrologer Jeane Dixon died in Washington, DC at 79 years of age. Dixon became famous after John F. Kennedy’s death, because she had predicted in 1956 (in Parade magazine) that “a Democrat would be elected in 1960 and would die in office.”
1998 - Super Bowl XXXII (at San Diego): Denver Broncos 31, Green Bay Packers 24. The dream finally came true for John Elway and the Broncos. They broke a 4-game Super Bowl losing streak with 1:45 to go in the game. The Broncos’ MVP RB Terrell Davis ran for a 1-yard TD run up the middle and put Denver in the Super Bowl win column at last. Tickets: $275.00.
1998 - Grease closed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in New York City -- after 1,505 performances.
1999 - A powerful earthquake of a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale rocked el Eje Cafetero, in the coffee growing region of Colombia. In 32 seconds 150 buildings collapsed and 1,500 houses were destroyed. Other facts & figures: 1,052 dead; 4,500 injured; 205,000 homeless; 138,000 in improvised shelters; 51,600 houses destroyed or damaged; 80% of schools destroyed.
2000 - Martina Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame -- in the ‘Recent Player’ category.
2000 - A snow storm hit the U.S. East Coast and left Raleigh, NC with over a foot of snow. At least five deaths were blamed on the storm.
2001 - A jury in Fort Lauderdale, FL found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a six-year-old family friend. Tate said he accidentally killed the girl while imitating moves by pro wrestlers.
2002 - These new films were in U.S. theatres: I Am Sam, with Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Doug Hutchison, Stanley Desantis, Brad Allan Silverman, Joseph Rosenberg, Richard Schiff, Laura Dern and Loretta Devine; Kung Pow! : Enter the Fist, starring Steve Oedekerk, Leo Lee and Jennifer Tung; and A Walk to Remember, with Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German and Clayne Crawford.
2002 - A judge in Cambridge, MA sentenced Thomas Junta to six to ten years in prison for beating another man to death at their sons’ hockey practice.
2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final installment of the epic fantasy trilogy won the best dramatic film award and three other trophies at the Golden Globes.
2004 - NASA’s Opportunity rover transmitted its first pictures of Mars to Earth, delighting and puzzling scientists just hours after the spacecraft bounced to a landing on the opposite side of the red planet from its twin rover, Spirit.
2005 - Lawmakers in San Francisco, CA voted to ban smoking in public parks. It was the first major American city to embrace such an expansive ban on the use of tobacco.
2006 - Google’s launch of a new, self-censored search engine in China was a “black day” for freedom of expression, says leading international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
2007 - Ford Motor Co. reported a $5.8 billion loss in the fourth quarter amid slumping sales and huge restructuring costs. All in all, the automaker's deficit for 2006 was $12.7 billion, the largest in its 103-year history.
2008 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: How She Move, starring Tracey Armstrong, Clé Bennett, Nina Dobrey, Romina D'Ugo, Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Fernandez, Brennan Gademans, Jason Harrow, Jai Jai Jones, Tristan D. Lalla, Daniel Morrison, Dwain Murphy, Mya and Rutina Wesley; Meet the Spartans, with Diedrich Bader, Kevin Sorbo, Method Man, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Sean Maguire, Greg Ellis, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker and Emily Wilson; Rambo, starring Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake LaBotz, Maung Maung Khin and Ken Howard; and Untraceable, starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks and Erin Carufel.
2008 - India and France announced their intentions to push their military ties beyond weapons sales and open up nuclear power cooperation.
2009 - An avalanche slammed into a group of Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau. The group was dragged some 500 meters (1640 feet) into a valley. Ten of the hikers were killed.
2010 - China announced plans to close thousands of local government lobbying offices in Beijing to cut down on waste and corruption. Beijing said closing offices of xome 10,000 county administrations, industrial zones, and local government departments would cut down on a bloated bureaucracy and limit abuses of public resources.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address told Congress, “We will move forward together or not at all.” Obama played up U.S. progress in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while declaring that the U.S. would stay tough on North Korea and Iran over their nuclear ambitions.
2012 - A 20-story building collapsed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The crash caused two other smaller buildings to also come down. 17 people were killed.
2013 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, with Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Zoe Bell, Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, Robin Atkin Downes and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal; Movie 43, starring Hugh Jackman, Emma Stone, Elizabeth Banks, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet, Kristen Bell and Naomi Watts; Parker, with Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Sala Baker, Nick Nolte, Bobby Cannavale and Michael Chiklis; John Dies at the End, starring Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck and Fabianne Therese; and noobz, with Casper Van Dien, Jason Mewes, Moises Arias, Mindy Sterling, Jon Gries, Lin Shaye, Richard Speight Jr. and Carly Craig.
2013 - Brazil’s government announced that it was undertaking a 4-year, $33 million study of its Amazon rain forest to compile a detailed inventory of the plants, animals and people living there.
2014 - Arizona’s Republican Party censured Senator John McCain, citing his voting record as too liberal. The right-wing party heads said McCain’s record had been “disastrous and harmful” to the state and nation. Former three-term Arizona Republican U.S. Senator Jon Kyl dismissed the anti-McCain resolution as “wacky.”
2015 - Rescue workers found the bodies of six skiers who had been swept away by an avalanche the previous day in the Queyras mountain range in the French Alps.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to extend a 2012 ruling that struck down automatic life terms with no chance of parole for teenage killers. Even those who were convicted years ago would be considered for parole or given a new sentence.
2016 - Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne and tech billionaire Bill Gates announced a £3 billion ($4.28 billion, €4 billion) fund for research and support for efforts to eliminate malaria.
2017 - Mary Tyler Moore, star of TV’s The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at her home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80 years old. Moore won seven Emmy Awards during her illustrious TV career. Her film work includes Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
2017 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 20,000 for the first time, marking a historic high and continuing a giddy post-Trump run-up that had seen the major indexes break records almost every day since the election.
2018 - The New York Times reported that POTUS Trump had ordered the firing of Russia investigation special prosecutor Robert Mueller in 2017, but backed off when White House counsel Donald McGahn threatened to resign.
2018 - French fishermen blockaded Calais, halting shipping movements at France’s busiest passenger port and a major entry point to Europe for British goods. This, in protest of losses inflicted by the practice of electric pulse fishing. French fishermen said pulse fishing is depleting fish numbers. The technique uses electrodes to emit electric waves, stunning fish which then float upwards and are scooped up by giant nets.
2019 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The Kid Who Would Be King, starring Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Taylor and Patrick Stewart; Serenity, with Diane Lane, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway; and King of Thieves, starring Michael Gambon, Michael Caine and Charlie Cox.
2019 - POTUS Trump ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, while dropping his previous insistence on immediate funding for wall construction along the Mexican border. This, after the Senate and House of Representatives both passed a spending measure by unanimous consent.
2019 - Roger Stone, a Trump confidant, was arrested by the FBI in a pre-dawn raid of his Florida home. In November 2019, subsequent to the Mueller Report and Special Counsel investigation, Stone was convicted of seven felonies related to his work for the Trump campaign. (In November 2019 a jury convicted Stone on seven felony counts. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison. Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020.)
2019 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a measure making it illegal to deny people a job, housing, education or public accommodations because they are transgender. And he signed a bill prohibiting conversion therapy, in which a therapist tries to change a person’s sexual orientation. Cuomo signed the bills at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan.
2020 - Australia declared its first confirmed case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state of Victoria, with the patient hospitalized in a stable condition in a suburb of Melbourne.
2021 - The U.S. House of Representatives formally charged former POTUS Donald Trump with inciting insurrection with a fiery speech to his followers before the deadly Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. The charge signalled the start of Trump’s second impeachment trial.
2021 - The G20 World Economic Forum began a virtual meeting (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) in lieu of the annual in-person meetings in Davos, Switzerland. China’s President Xi Jinping called for unity in fighting the coronavirus and climate change. He also called on Joe Biden to end America’s trade war against Beijing.
2021 - Hong Kong approved use of the Fosun Pharma-BioNTech vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be accepted there.
2022 - The soundtrack to Disney’s Encanto hit the #1 spot on Billboard’s album chart -- for the second time.
2022 - Russia jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and a handful of his allies were added to an official list of "terrorists and extremists". It was the latest in an ongoing series of moves by Vladimir Putin to stamp out any opposition.
2023 - Tesla reported a record quarterly profit for late 2022. The electric-car maker said its fourth-quarter profit rose 59 percent from a year earlier to nearly $3.7 billion. Sales came in at $24.3 billion, up 37 percent from a year. Tesla acknowledged that its prices were “on a downward trajectory,” but said recent cuts had been “necessary to become a multi-million vehicle producer.”
2024 - Miller’s Girl opened in U.S theatres. The thriller stars Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Gideon Adlon, Bashir Salahuddin, Dagmara Domińczyk and Christine Adams.
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Birthdays on This Day January 25
1759 - Robert Burns
poet: “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us!”; wrote Auld Lang Syne; died July 21, 17961860 - Charles Curtis
31st U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover [1929-1933]; died Feb 8, 19361874 - W. (William) Somerset Maugham
author: Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge; died Dec 16, 19651882 - Virginia Woolf
author: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, Golven; died Mar 28, 19411901 - Mildred Dunnock
actress: Death of a Salesman [1951], Baby Doll, The Pick-Up Artist, And Baby Makes Six, A Summer Without Boys, Sweet Bird of Youth; died Jul 5, 19911918 - Ernie Harwell
Radio Hall of Fame sportscaster: baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Giants, Atlanta Crackers; actor: Cobb, Cooperstown, Tiger Town; died May 4, 20101919 - Edwin Newman
journalist: NBC News, PBS; author: Comet, A Civil Tongue; died Aug 13, 20101924 - Lou Groza
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns; Ohio State; sports broadcaster: ABC Radio; died Nov 29, 20001925 - Barbara Carroll
jazz pianist, arranger, occasional vocalist: LPs: Everything I Love, This Heart of Mine, Live at the Carlyle, Old Friends; died Feb 12, 20171927 - Ferdinand ‘Fernie’ Flaman
Hockey Hall of Famer: Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs; career: scored 34 goals, 174 assists; one Stanley Cup; was a coach, general manager, player representative, scout; died Jun 23, 20121929 - Elizabeth Allen
actress, singer: The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Bracken’s World; died Sep 19, 20061931 - Stig Anderson
songwriter, lyricist, publisher, founder of group: ABBA: Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Thank You for the Music, Voulez Vous, Fernando, SOS; died Sep 12, 19971931 - Dean Jones
actor: The Love Bug, Tea and Sympathy, Beethoven; died Sep 1, 20151933 - Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines; died Aug 1, 20091935 - Don Maynard
Pro Football Hall of Famer: New York Jets wide receiver: Super Bowl III; died Jan 10, 20221936 - Diana Hyland (Gentner)
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The ABC Friday Night Movie [11/12/76], One Man’s Way, Eight is Enough, Peyton Place; died Mar 27, 19771938 - Etta James
singer: Wallflower, Good Rockin’ Daddy, All I Could Do Was Cry, Tell Me Mama, I’ve Found a Love; died Jan 20, 20121941 - Buddy Baker
International Motorsports Hall of Famer: fastest win ever in the Daytona 500: 177.602mph [1980]; died Aug 10, 20151942 - Carl Eller
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Minnesota Vikings Defensive end: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI; one of the ‘Purple People Eaters’1943 - Tobe Hooper
film screenwriter, director: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Salem’s Lot, Poltergeist, Spontaneous Combustion, Masters of Horror, Djinn; died Aug 26, 20171944 - Eugene Washington
football: wide receiver: Univ of Minnesota, Minnesota Vikings (1967-1972): Super Bowl IV, Pittsburgh Steelers (1972-1973), Denver Broncos (1973), New England Patriots (1974-1976)1944 - Bob Dickson
golf: won British & U.S. amateurs [1967]; left job as Tournament Director of Nike Tour to join Senior Tour [1994]1945 - Wally (Wallace Edward) Bunker
baseball: pitcher: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966], KC Royals1945 - John Leslie
actor [1975-2007]: X-rated films: Talk Dirty to Me film series, Nothing To Hide, Dracula Sucks, Expensive Tastes, Erotic Adventures of Candy, The Ecstasy Girls, Candy Goes to Hollywood, Sex Machine; director: Nightshift Nurses, The Chameleon, Curse of the Catwoman, Dog Walker, Drop Sex, Voyeur, Fresh Meat, Crack Her Jack; died Dec 5, 20101945 - Leigh Taylor-Young
actress: I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Soylent Green, Can’t Stop the Music, Honeymoon Academy, Peyton Place, Dallas1950 - John Terry
actor: Nine Dead, Surfer, Dude, Crazylove, A Change of Heart, Dead By Sunset, Miracle Child, A Killing in a Small Town1951 - Vern (Vernon Gerald) Ruhle
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, California Angels; died Jan 20, 20071952 - Ken Grandberry
football: Washington State Univ., Chicago Bears1954 - Richard Finch
songwriter, musician: bass: group: KC and the Sunshine Band: Blow Your Whistle, Do It Good, Queen of Hearts, Rock Your Baby, Get Down Tonight, That’s the Way [I Like It], [Shake, Shake, Shake] Shake Your Booty, I’m Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin’ Love, I like to Do It, Boogie Shoes, It’s the Same Old Song, Please Don’t Go1956 - Andy Cox
musician: guitar: groups: Fine Young Cannibals: Johnny Come Home; The Beat: Stand Down Margaret, Wha’appen, Can’t Get Used to Losing You1957 - Jenifer Lewis
actress: Antwone Fisher, The Brothers, Cast Away, Blast from the Past, Mystery Men, The Temptations, Jackie’s Back!1957 - Edmund Sylvers
singer: group: The Sylvers: Boogie Fever, Wish That I Could Talk to You, Through the Love in My Heart, Stay Away From Me, Can You Handle It, Cotton Candy; died Mar 11, 20041958 - Dinah Manoff
Tony Award-winning actress: I Ought to be in Pictures [1980]; Soap, Empty Nest1962 - Chris Chelios
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings1966 - Paul Ranheim
hockey: Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes1966 - Mark Schlereth
football: Univ of Idaho; NFL: Washington Redskins, Denver Broncos; TV football analyst: ESPN, FS11967 - Randy McKay
hockey: Detroit Red Wings, NJ Devils, Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens1969 - Steve Maltais
hockey: Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, TB Lightning, Detroit Red Wings, Columbus Blue Jackets1970 - Mark Greig
hockey: Hartford Whalers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers1970 - Chris Mills
basketball: Univ of Kentucky, Univ of Arizona; Cleveland Cavaliers, NY Knicks, Golden State Warriors1971 - Ana Ortiz
actress: Ugly Betty, Batman: Gotham Knight, Labor Pains, Noah’s Ark: The New Beginning, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son1971 - Kevin Williams
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, Bufflalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers1974 - Erika Wicoff
golf: consecutive medalist honors at 1994, 1995 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships1975 - Mia Kirshner
actress: The L Word, 24, 388 Arletta Avenue, The Barrens, The Surrogacy Trap, I Think I Do, The Black Dahlia1975 - John Wade
football [center]: Marshall Univ; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders1978 - Gordie Dwyer
hockey: TB Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, NY Rangers, Carolina Hurricanes1979 - Christine Lakin
actress: Step by Step, Big Monster on Campus, Finding Kelly, Whatever It Takes, Boston Public, Opposite Sex1981 - Alicia Keys
singer: You Don’t Know My Name, Fallin’, Gangsta Lovin’, Brotha, Jane Doe, Why Do I Fell So Sad, Rear View Mirror1985 - Michael Trevino
actor: The Vampire Diaries, Out of Control, Roswell, New Mexico1985 - Hartley Sawyer
actor: The Flash, Glory Daze, I Am Not Infected, Miss 2059, The Young and the Restless1985 - Patrick Willis
football [linebacker]: Univ of Mississippi; NFL: San Francisco 49ers [2007-2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII1987 - Maria Kirilenko
tennis pro: WTA Tour title [2005 China Open]; WTA singles titles 12 WTA doubles titles1990 - Dustin Ingram
actor: Cabin Fever [2016], Unfabulous, Salt Water, Magnum Opus, Good Trouble, Watchmen1991 - Ariana DeBose
actress: stage: Hamilton, A Bronx Tale, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical; film/TV: The Prom, West Side Story, Schmigadoon!1991 - Craig Roberts
actor: Submarine, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Jane Eyre, Red Lights, The First Time, Comes a Bright Day1992 - Pauline Chalamet
writer, director, actress: The King of Staten Island, Black and White and Red All Over, What Doesn’t Float, After Dark, The Sex Lives of College Girls1992 - Jack Fowler
musician: guitar: group: Sleeping with Sirens: LPs: With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, Let’s Cheer to This, Feel1996 - Tati Gabrielle
actress: Uncharted, The 100, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, You; voice actress: The Owl House
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Hit Music on This Day January 25
1946Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
I Can’t Begin to Tell You (facts) - Bing Crosby with the Carmen Cavallaro Orchestra
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