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1751 - The first international boxing match was held -- in Harlston, England. Jack Slack, the champion from Great Britain, knocked out the French challenger, Jean Petit. Everybody got home at a decent hour, too -- the bout lasted only 25 minutes.1786 - The Pittsburgh Gazette became the first newspaper published west of the Alleghenies.
1835 - The first successful sugar plantation was established. William Hooper came started the plantation for Ladd & Company (Honolulu) at Koloa Plantation on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.
1874 - Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of England received a patent for the lawn-tennis court. Major Wingfield converted the design of an earlier French game to one that could be played in an open field. He called it “sphairistike” (Greek for “playing ball”). And where did the word “tennis” come from? In the French game, the server announced, “Tenez!” (“Look here!”) before serving the ball.
1914 - The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1931 - Helen Wills Moody announced that she favored short skirts and no stockings when she played tennis. She spurned the long, cumbersome skirts and petticoats that female tennis players had been expected to wear. Moody’s trademark white, knee-length pleated skirt served as an important transition to the tennis shorts that later became acceptable.
1948 - England’s King George VI opened the Olympic Games in London.
1950 - RKO pictures released the Walt Disney adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson literary classic, Treasure Island.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established by the U.N. to advance peaceful development of atomic energy.
1957 - Jack Paar began a successful five-year run as host of the Tonight show on NBC-TV, changing its name to The Jack Paar Tonight Show. Jack Paar came to NBC from CBS where he had been a game and talk-show host. Paar's forte was interviewing. He would get so involved with his guests and their stories that he would not only laugh with them, but would sometimes, even cry. Paar’s emotional outbursts, whether they involved an interviewee, a personal crusade or a feud with the likes of Ed Sullivan or Dorothy Kilgallen, became the major attraction of the show. Jose Melis and his orchestra stayed with Paar through the years as did his sidekick and announcer, Hugh Downs. The very first show had as guests Alexander King, singer Robert Merrill, and funnyman Buddy Hackett. King and Hackett became regulars over the years just as Jack Paar became a regular in our bedrooms every weekday night until March 30, 1962.
1958 - The United States space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was authorized by Congress this day.
1965 - England’s Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon attended the premiere of the motion picture, Help!, starring The Beatles. The command performance was held at the London Pavilion. The film later earned first prize at the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival in Brazil.
1967 - A fire swept through the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal killing 134 servicemen. The Forrestal was on station in the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea. A Zuni rocket was accidentally fired from an F-4 Phantom parked on the starboard side of the flight deck. The missile streaked across the deck into a 400 gallon belly fuel tank on a parked A-4D Skyhawk.
1969 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 6 began transmitting photos of Mars as it approached the Red Planet.
1974 - Jim Hartz was named to join Barbara Walters as co-host of the Today show on NBC. Hartz had been the original host of the popular morning TV show. Others who have hosted the show which has aired since 1952 include Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Hugh Downs, Frank McGee, Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira.
1974 - Mama Cass Elliott, formerly of the Mamas and Papas, died in London at the age of 32. She appeared to have choked on a ham sandwich, but an autopsy revealed that she had suffered a heart attack. The Mamas and the Papas sold millions of copies of such hits as Monday, Monday (1966), California Dreamin’ (1966) and Dedicated to the One I Love (1967). Elliott had a solo career after the Mamas and the Papas broke up in 1968. Her biggest hit was Dream a Little Dream of Me.
1981 - Millions of people around the world watched on television as England’s Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took center stage amidst the pomp and splendor of their royal wedding at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The ceremony took place in the wee small hours of the morning in America, but was still a ratings success, with coverage on all networks. 2,500 guests were in actual attendance.
1983 - Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres was injured in the first game of a doubleheader with the Atlanta Braves. Because he was unable to play in the second game, his National League consecutive game record ended at 1,207.
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk. He had been charged with being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible", and threw out his death sentence; Demjanjuk was set free.
1994 - Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer won the approval of the U.S. Senate. Breyer took his seat Aug 3, 1994.
1996 - Carl Lewis won his ninth Olympic gold medal by winning the long jump competition at the 1996 games. Lewis tied swimmer Mark Spitz for most golds by an American athlete. Lewis also was only the second athlete (the other was discus thrower Al Oerter) to win the same track event in four straight Olympics.
1998 - A 54-day strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors ended. The walk-out at two Flint, Michigan plants caused 27 other GM assembly plants to close.
2001 - Lance Armstrong won his third straight Tour de France. He was the first American to win the famed bicycle race three times in a row.
2002 - Pope John Paul II greeted thousands of Roman Catholic faithful as he arrived in Guatemala City.
2003 - Boston’s Bill Mueller became the first player in major-league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a game and connected for three homers in a 14-7 win at Texas. Mueller finished the game with a total of three home runs and nine RBIs.
2004 - U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry gave his acceptance speech before 15,000 supporters in Boston’s FleetCenter. Kerry began by saying, “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.”
2005 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres this day: Must Love Dogs, starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Perkins, Alli Hillis, John Cusack, Christopher Plummer, Stockard Channing, Dermot Mulroney and Julie Gonzalo; Sky High, with Kelly Preston, Lynda Carter, Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bruce Campbell, Dave Foley, Steven Strait and Kurt Russell; and Stealth, starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh, Ian Bliss, Megan Gale and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
2005 - Scientists reported a tenth planet, bigger than Pluto, to be the farthest-known object in the solar system. Later named Eris, the planet was 9 billion miles -- or about three times Pluto’s distance -- from the Sun. Eris orbits the Sun once every 560 Earth years.
2006 - Workers at Wal-Mart stores in China formed their first trade union committee -- the first trade union committee in the world to be formed in a Wal-Mart store. It was formed in secret and held at night to include night and day shift workers.
2007 - Journalist Dilip Ganguly died in Calcutta, India at 57 years of age. His 21-year career with the Associated Press saw him report from Baghdad during the Gulf War, on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and on stories across South Asia.
2007 - TV talk host Tom Snyder died in San Francisco after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71 years old. Snyder hosted NBC’s Tomorrow Show from 1973 to 1982 and The Late Late Show on CBS from 1995 to 1999.
2008 - 84-year-old Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was indicted for making false statements concerning gifts he received from an oil-services firm.
2008 - The San Francisco Board of Directors voted to ban the sale of tobacco products at most pharmacies in the city.
2009 - Adam debuted in the U.S. The romantic movie stars Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Amy Irving and Frankie Faison.
2009 - Microsoft and Yahoo agreed to a 10-year Internet search partnership, setting the stage for the rivals to make a combined assault against the dominance of Google Inc. And the extended reach allowed Microsoft to introduce its search engine, called Bing, to more users.
2009 - The five-month-old coalition government of Zimbabwe lifted restrictions on the British Broadcasting Corp. and CNN. The networks were allowed to resume broadcasting for the first time since being banned in 2001.
2010 - Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev signed a security law which restored Soviet-era powers to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the KGB’s main successor agency. Rights advocates feared the law could be used to stifle protests and intimidate the Kremlin’s political opponents.
2010 - The United Nations released $650 million in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait. It was part of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994. The payment brought the total sum of compensation paid to Kuwait to $30.15 billion, with $22.3 billion still owed to Kuwait.
2011 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Cowboys and Aliens, starring Daniel Craig, Abigail Spencer, Buck Taylor, Matthew Taylor, Cooper Taylor, Noah Ringer and Harrison Ford; the animated The Smurfs, featuring the voices of Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Tim Gunn and Meg Phillips; Crazy, Stupid, Love, starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Analeigh Tipton and Jonah Bobo; The Devil’s Double, with Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Mem Ferda and Khalid Laith; Attack the Block, with Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway,. John Boyega and Joey Ansah; Good Neighbors, starring Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman, Xavier Dolan, Kaniehtiio Horn and Emily Hampshire; and The Guard, with Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan and Mark Strong.
2011 - Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged a ‘revolutionary’ shift away from atomic power and toward renewable energy. The shift in national policy came about as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster following the Mar 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan.
2012 - Iran’s 2011 census was published, showing its total population to be 75.2 million, 99.4 percent of whom were Muslim. 55 percent of Iran’s population was under 30 years of age -- and the country enjoyed a literacy rate of 93 percent. But Iran’s population growth had fallen to one of the lowest in its region: 1.3 percent. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei worried that the nation would face population aging and reduction if the existing birth-control policy was to continue.
2012 - U.S. Republican presidental candidate Mit Romney visited Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Romney presented himself as Israel’s best friend in the November 6 U.S. election, saying, “any and all measures” must be used to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
2013 - The FBI arrested 159 people in a three-day sweep across the U.S. on charges of holding children against their will for prostitution. Officials said the operation was the largest-ever against child sex-trafficking.
2014 - Japan announced that it had ended a whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean. It was the second campaign since the U.N.’s top court ordered Tokyo to halt a separate slaughter in the Antarctic. The country’s fisheries agency said 115 whales had been killed during the two-and-a-half month campaign.
2015 - Vacation opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy, adventure stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Gillies and Leslie Mann.
2015 - Microsoft debuted Windows 10 -- and offered a free upgrade to the new OS for a year.
2015 - France beefed up its police presence at the Channel Tunnel. One man had died as authorities fought off some 2,000 desperate attempts by migrants to enter England through the Chunnel.
2015 - Plane debris was found on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The reckage was part of a Boeing 777 and was the first -- and only -- evidence, up to that point, found in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since March 8, 2014.
2016 - Films opening in the U.S. included: Bad Moms, with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn; Jason Bourne, starring Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles and Tommy Lee Jones; the documentaries, Ants on a Shrimp, Gleason and Miss Sharon Jones; Equity, with Anna Gunn, James Purefoy and Sarah Megan Thomas; Indignation, starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield; Into the Forest, starring Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood and Max Minghella; The Land, with Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Moises Arias and Rafi Gavron; The Tenth Man, starring Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg and Usher Barilka; Yoga Hosers, with Natasha Lyonne, Johnny Depp and Harley Quinn Smith; and Café Society, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Steve Carell.
2016 - Mosquitoes had begun spreading the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland, health officials said. It was a long-feared turn in the epidemic that was sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. Four infected people in the Miami area — one woman and three men — were believed to have contracted the virus locally through mosquito bites, Governor Rick Scott reported.
2016 - A federal appeals court blocked a North Carolina law that required voters to produce photo identification and follow other rules that disproportionately affected minorities. The court ruled that the law was intended to make it harder for blacks to vote in North Carolina. The Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the measures violated the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act by targeting black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
2017 - Australian police foiled an ‘Islamic-inspired’ plan for a bomb attack on an aircraft. Four Lebanese-Australians were arrested in several Sydney suburbs during counter-terrorism raids. Police later said one of the men had sent his unsuspecting brother to Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home-made bomb. The explosive device was disguised as a meat-mincer and had been built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander.
2017 - The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica set a record for the earliest transit of the Northwest Passage after 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 km (6,214 miles).
2018 - The Carr Fire in Shasta County, California had consumed 95,368 acres and was just 17 percent contained. The Ranch Fire grew to 16,300 acres and the River Fire to 14,200 acres. Both were just 5 percent contained. The death toll in California state fires rose to eight.
2019 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that softened penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and allowed for the expungement of some past convictions.
2019 - POTUS Trump signed a bill ensuring that a victim’s compensation fund, helping those impacted by the Sep 11, 2001, attacks never runs out of money. The $7.4 billion fund had been rapidly depleting, and administrators had cut benefit payments by up to 70%. The bill passed Congress on a bipartisan basis but only after delays by some Republicans exposed the legislative branch to brutal criticism from activists, including comedian Jon Stewart.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Capitol officials issued broad mask requirements after a Republican member of Congress tested positive for the coronavirus. The member, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, often shunned wearing masks and was known to vote without one. 2)The United States became the worst-affected country, with more than 4.3 million diagnosed cases and over 150,000 deaths. 3)Moderna Inc announced plans to price its coronavirus vaccine in a way that ensures broad access, adding that it did not intend to conduct late-stage trials of the vaccine outside the United States. 4)The European Union said it had made available up to 45 million euros ($53 million) to increase the collection of plasma from COVID-19 survivors for the treatment of people with the disease. 5)The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance led by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Co said it had completed test supplies of a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19, but would not be meeting a July goal for the start of trials because of pending regulator approval.
2021 - President Biden called on states and localities to use federal money given to them to pay unvaccinated people $100 to get a shot. The Pentagon said members of the military would also be subject to the same rules: Get vaccinated or face regular testing, social distancing, mask wearing and limits on official travel.
2021 - Congress passed emergency legislation that would bolster security at the U.S. Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent January 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked alongside Americans in the Afghanistan war.
2021 - A federal grand jury indicted four current and former executives at Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, one of the largest U.S. poultry producers, for their roles in a price fixing conspiracy for chicken products. Illinois chicken company Koch Foods was also indicted for being part of a conspiracy to fix the prices of broiler chicken products.
2021 - Tokyo Olympic news: 1)Sunisa Lee became the first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she won the women’s artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold. 2)Russian backstroke swimmer Evgeny Rylov wrapped up the 100/200m double with an Olympic record 1:53.27 in the longer event. 3)South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker set the women’s 200m breaststroke world record 2:18.95, beating the U.S. pair of Lilly King and Annie Lazor.
2022 - An explosion at a prison in a Russian-occupied area of Donetsk Oblast killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the attack as a “deliberate war crime,” while Ukraine’s military accused Russia of targeting using artillery on the prison to cover up the mistreatment of Ukrainian POWs.
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Birthdays on This Day July 29
1861 - Alice (Hathaway Lee) Roosevelt
first wife of 26th President of the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt; died Feb 14, 1884 [17 years before her husband became President]1869 - Booth Tarkington
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Magnificent Ambersons [1919], Alice Adams [1922]; died May 19, 19461885 - Theda Bara (Goodman)
actress: A Fool There Was, The Unchastened Woman, The Love Goddesses; died Apr 7, 1955
1887 - Sigmund Romberg
operetta composer: Blossom Time, The Student Prince, The Desert Song, Up in Central Park; songs: When Hearts are Young, Deep in My Heart Dear, Golden Days, Lover Come Back to Me, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, When I Grow Too Old to Dream; founding member of ASCAP; died Nov 9, 19511892 - William Powell
actor: The Thin Man series, Mister Roberts, It’s a Big Country, The Senator Was Indiscreet, The Heavenly Body, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney; died Mar 5, 19841905 - Clara (Gordon) Bow
actress: Hula, Dancing Mothers, Mantrap, Free to Love, Down to the Sea in Ships; died Sep 27, 19651906 - Thelma Todd
actress: The Bohemian Girl, Twin Triplets, Sing, Sister, Sing, Done in Oil, Cockeyed Cavaliers, Babes in the Goods; died Dec 16, 19351907 - Melvin Belli
‘King of Torts’: attorney: represented Mae West, Errol Flynn, Muhammad Ali, Jack Ruby, Tammy Fae Bakker; author: Everybody’s Guide to the Law; died July 9, 19961911 - Stephen (Horace) McNally
actor: Dear Detective, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Bullet is Waiting, The Black Castle; died June 4, 19941917 - Homer (Henry D. Haynes)
comedy singer: duo: Homer and Jethro: Baby, It’s Cold Outside [w/June Carter (Cash)], That Hound Dog in the Winder, Hernando’s Hideaway, The Battle of Kookamonga, I Want to Hold Your Hand; died Aug 7, 19711921 - Richard Egan
actor: Love Me Tender, The Hunters, A Summer Place, Blackbeard the Pirate; died July 20, 19871924 - Lloyd Bochner
actor: Naked Gun 2 1/2, Morning Glory, Dynasty, The Richard Boone Show, One Man’s Family, Hong Kong; died Oct 29, 20051924 - Robert Horton
actor: Wagon Train, A Man Called Shenandoah, Kings Row, The Green Slime, Men of the Fighting Lady; died Mar 9, 20161925 - Ted Lindsay
Hockey Hall of Famer: Detroit Red Wings: 4 Stanley Cup titles, Chicago Black Hawks; held NHL records for most goals and assists by a left wing and most minutes spent in penalty box; died Mar 4, 20191926 - Don Carter
bowling champion: U.S. Open 4 time winner [1953, 1954, 1957, 1958]; died Jan 5, 20121930 - Paul Taylor
dancer: Martha Graham Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company: Emmy Award-winning choreographer: Speaking in Tongues [1992], Kennedy Center Honors [1992] “...for enhancing the lives of people around the world and enriching the culture of our nation.”; died Aug 29, 20181933 - Robert Fuller
actor: Laramie, Wagon Train, Emergency, Maverick, Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, Sinai Commandos; more1933 - Randy Sparks
folk singer, songwriter: groups: New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green, Saturday Night, Today; The Back Porch Majority, Randy Sparks and the Patch Family1934 - Felix (Lamela) Mantilla
baseball: Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958], NY Mets, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1965], Houston Astros1936 - Elizabeth Dole
U.S. Senator North Carolina [2003-2009]; U.S. secretary of transportation [1983-1987]; U.S. secretary of labor [1989-1990]; president American Red Cross [1991-2000]; wife of former U.S. Senator Robert J. Dole1938 - Peter Jennings
journalist: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Peter Jennings’ Journal [ABC radio]; died Aug 7, 20051938 - Don (Donald Ralph) Wert
baseball: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968/all-star: 1968], Washington Senators1941 - David Warner
actor: Holocaust, Tron, Tom Jones, Time Bandits, Star Trek V & VI, Wild Palms, Ice Cream Man, In the Mouth of Madness, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Man with Two Brains; died Jul 24, 20221942 - Tony Sirico
actor: The Sopranos, Turn of Faith, Mickey Blue Eyes, Celebrity, Mob Queen, Deconstructing Harry, Cop Land, Gotti; died Jul 8, 20221946 - Neal Doughty
musician: keyboards: group: REO Speedwagon: Can’t Fight this Feeling, Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run1946 - Robert LuPone
actor: Broadway: A Chorus Line, Late Nite Comic, A View From the Bridge; film: The Door in the Floor, American Tragedy, Dead Presidents, Palookaville, Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story, The Doors; TV: All My Children; died Aug 27, 20221947 - Carlo Santanna
musician: guitar, singer: group: Paper Lace: Billy Don’t Be a Hero, The Night Chicago Died, Hitchin’ a Ride1949 - Leslie Easterbrook
actress: Police Academy film series, The Devil’s Rejects, The Moment After, The Song of the Lark, The Hunted, Private Resort1949 - Marilyn Quayle (Tucker)
wife of 44th Vice-President of the U.S. Dan Quayle1951 - Dan (Daniel) Driessen
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975, 1976], Montreal Expos, SF Giants, Houston Astros, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1987]1952 - Wendy Hughes
actress: Homicide, Number 96, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Homicide: Life on the Street, Wallflowering, Caterpillar Wish, Paradise Road, Princess Caraboo, A Woman Named Jackie, Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue; died Mar 8, 20141953 - Ken Burns
Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director: The Civil War [1990-91]; Baseball, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frank Lloyd Wright1953 - Tim Gunn
fashion consultant, TV host: Project Runway1953 - Geddy Lee
musician: bass, singer: group: Rush: Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, Necromancer, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning1956 - Patti Scialfa
singer: backup vocalist for Bruce Springsteen on 1988 tour; wife of rocker Bruce Springsteen1959 - John Sykes
musician: guitar, singer: group: Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar, Rocker, She Knows, Still in Love With You, Showdown, Rosalie, Wild One, Fighting My Way Back; more1963 - Alexandra Paul
actress: Baywatch, The Paperboy, Sunset Grill, American Nightmare, Christine1965 - Luis Alicea
baseball: Florida State Univ; SL Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers, KCRoyals1966 - Martina McBride
singer: The Time Has Come, The Way I Am, Wild Angels, Evolution, Live from the Crazy Horse [Radio Show]1968 - Mike Williams
baseball [pitcher]: Virginia Tech Univ; Philadelphia Phillies, KC Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros1969 - Timothy Omundson
actor: Judging Amy, Xena: Warrior Princess, Psych, Cold Case, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, The Deep End, Human Target, 25 Hill, Voltron: The End, Galavant1971 - Monica Calhoun
actress: Bagdad Cafe, The Players Club, The Salon, The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, Different Worlds: A Story of Interracial Love, Diary of a Single Mom1972 - Wil Wheaton
actor: Stand by Me, Toy Soldiers, Star Trek: the Next Generation, The Liar’s Club1973 - Wanya Morris
singer: group: Boyz II Men: End of the Road, I’ll Make Love to You, On Bended Knee, 4 Seasons of Loneliness1974 - Josh Radnor
actor: How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, Judging Amy, ER, Law & Order, Mercy Street; Broadway: Disgraced1975 - Greg Comella
football [running back]: Stanford Univ; NFL: NY Giants, Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans, TB Buccaneers1978 - Mike Adams
baseball [pitcher]: Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres1980 - Rachel Miner
actress: Thanks to Gravity, Little Athens, Bully, Joe the King, Henry Fool, The Orphan Trains, Alice1982 - Allison Mack
actress: Smallville, My Horrible Year!, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Stolen Memories: Secrets From the Rose Garden, Camp Nowhere, A Mother’s Revenge1983 - Ashley McBryde
songwriter, singer: Girl Goin’ Nowhere, A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega, One Night Standards, Never Wanted to Be That Girl [with Ashley McBryde]1991 - Miki Ishikawa
actress: Hit, The Terror, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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1946They Say It’s Wonderful (facts) - Frank Sinatra
The Gypsy (facts) - The Ink Spots
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