June 1
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Events on This Day
1638 - An earthquake was reported in the unlikely locale of Plymouth, MA.1792 - Kentucky entered the United States of America as the 15th state. Since its name is an American Indian word for "great meadow", it is fitting that Kentucky’s nickname is the Bluegrass State, and its flower is the goldenrod. The official state bird is the cardinal. The capital of Kentucky is the city of Frankfort.
1796 - Tennessee, just south of Kentucky (and four years later than same), joined the United States of America on this day. Long before it officially became the 16th state, Tennessee had already begun to earn its nickname, the Volunteer State, as it sent large numbers of volunteers to fight in the American Revolution. The tradition continued for the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War. The country-music capital of the world, Nashville, is also the governmental capital of Tennessee. The state’s official flower is the iris, its bird, the mockingbird.
1831 - Sir James Clark Ross, an English navigator and explorer, discovered the magnetic North Pole while on his Arctic exploration.
1862 - Gen. Robert E. Lee was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate armies, replacing the wounded Joe Johnston. Lee then renames his force the Army of Northern Virginia. Union Major General George McClellan was not impressed, saying Lee is “likely to be timid and irresolute in action.” (Ironically, it was McClellan who was later criticized for overcaution in the unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign and who also allowed Lee in Antietam to withdraw across the Potomac.)
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, MA received a patent for his electrographic vote recorder. Ol’ Tom would soon have a filing cabinet full of patents.
1925 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first of what would become 2,130 consecutive baseball games (Gehrig played in every Yankee game until May 2, 1939), setting a major-league record not to be broken until Cal Ripken, Jr. of Baltimore did so in the summer of 1995. Gehrig wasn’t even a starter on this day. He was inserted in the lineup for Wally Pipp.
1936 - The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood. Cecil B. DeMille, the program’s host on the NBC Blue network, introduced Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.
1936 - The RMS Queen Mary arrived in New York City after completing her Maiden Voyage in just 4 1/2 days. A flotilla of vessels filled New York Harbor as crowds cheered.
1938 - The first issue of Action Comics was published. In its pages was the world’s first super hero, Superman. Jerry Siegel had a dream about the baby, Moses, who was abandoned by his parents in order that his life be saved. This dream prompted Siegel’s creation of the ‘Man of Steel’. Artist Joe Shuster made the comic book hero come alive. The first story, in this first issue, took place on the planet, Krypton, where baby Kal-El was born. The infant was shot to Earth in a rocket just before Krypton exploded.
1943 - British actor Leslie Howard (42) and sixteen others were killed when their KLM Royal Dutch Airlinces/BOAC DC-3 was shot down off the coast of France by the Nazi German air force.
1957 - The first American to break the four-minute mile was Don Bowden, who was timed at 3 minutes, 58.7 seconds on this day. And this was the only sub-4 minute Mile for Bowden in his running career.
1959 - Celebrating a solid year at the top of the album charts was Johnny’s Greatest Hits on Columbia Records. The LP stayed for several more years at or near the top of the album charts. It became the all-time album leader at 490 weeks.
1961 - There was a new sound in the air this day. FM multiplex stereo broadcasting was enjoyed for the first time by listeners to FM radio in Schenectady, NY, Los Angeles and Chicago. The FCC adopted the standard a year later.
1967 - The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. One of the first critically-acclaimed rock albums, Sgt. Pepper’s became the number one album in the world and was at the top of the U.S. album list for 15 weeks. (See June 2 TWtD for more on Sgt. Pepper’s.)
1968 - Author-lecturer Helen Keller died in Westport, CT. She was 87 years old. Keller earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life.
1973 - Actress Mary A. Korman died. Korman played the part of Mary in the Our Gang movie series.
1975 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels tied the no-hit record in major-league baseball. Ryan tossed his fourth career no-hitter with a 1-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles. The future Hall of Famer told reporters, “Gee, and to think I did this exactly five years after Al Kaline swallowed his tongue in the outfield in Detroit. Skeiciw adkehhf gdvrb ewix ke. I love this game!”
1979 - The former British colony of Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. Bishop Abel Muzorewa was elected as its first black prime minister, ending 89 years of white rule.
1980 - CNN, the Cable News Network made its debut as TV’s first all-news channel. Owner Ted Turner told to a crowd of dignitaries and reporters that the channel was not signing off until the end of the world. He said, “To act upon one’s convictions while others wait; to create a positive force in a world where cynics abound; to provide information to people when it wasn’t available before; to offer those who want it a choice ... I dedicate the news channel for America, the Cable News Network.”
1984 - Nate Nelson, lead singer of The Flamingos, died at age 52. He was with the group when they recorded their biggest hit, I Only Have Eyes For You (1959). Nelson joined the Platters three years later.
1986 - The (40th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Minskoff Theatre. Winners included I’m Not Rappaport (best Play); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (best Musical); Hume Cronyn in The Petition and Judd Hirsch in I’m Not Rappaport (best Actor Play); Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (best Actress Play); George Rose in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (best Actor Musical); and Bernadette Peters in Song & Dance (best Actress Musical).
1987 - Knuckleballer Phil Niekro won game number 314 by leading the Cleveland Indians to a 9-6 win over the Detroit Tigers. The victory also brought Phil and his brother, Joe, to a total of 531 career wins, breaking the record set by the Perry brothers.
1990 - E! (Entertainment Television) cable network was launched. In the interest of correctness (and we are always interested in that) the cable network had begun as Movietime on July 31, 1987 and was renamed E! on this day.
1991 - Former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in Philadelphia of a cocaine overdose at age 50. He was the lead singer on such Temptations hits as My Girl (1965) and Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1966). Ruffin had hits on his own with My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) (1969) and Walk Away from Love (1976).
1992 - The Pittsburgh Penguins completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks to win hockey’s Stanley Cup for the second straight year.
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a criminal conviction must be overturned if the jury received a constitutionally flawed definition of “beyond reasonable doubt.”
1995 - The U.S. Postal Service issued a 32 cent stamp honoring the late Marilyn Monroe.
1997 - The (51st annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Radio City Music Hall. Winners included The Last Night of Ballyhoo (best Play); Titanic (best Musical); Christopher Plummer in Barrymore (best Actor Dramatic); Janet McTeer in A Doll’s House (best Actress Dramatic); James Naughton in Chicago (best Actor Musical); and Bebe Neuwirth in Chicago (best Actress Musical).
1998 - Thousands of refugees from Serbia’s Kosovo province streamed into neighboring Albania to escape deadly fighting.
1999 - Eleven people died when an American Airlines jet carrying 145 people crashed into a light tower on landing in Little Rock, AR. Pilot error in stormy weather was later blamed for the crash.
2000 - Merchants in Japan emptied beer vending machines to comply with a voluntary ban on beer vending to help reduce alcoholism.
2001 - These films opened in the U.S.: The Animal, with Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. Mcginley and Edward Asner; and What’s The Worst That Could Happen?, with Martin Lawrence, Danny Devito, John Leguizamo and Glenne Headly.
2001 - Hank Ketcham, creator of the comic strip Dennis the Menace, died in Pebble Beach, CA. He was 81 years old.
2001 - The king, queen and seven other members of Nepal’s royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then killed himself.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) told West Point graduates the United States would strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans, saying “the war on terror will not be won on the defensive.”
2003 - Officials reported that a heat wave in southern India had killed at least 1000 people in three weeks.
2004 - Historian and biographer William Manchester died in Middletown, CT. He was 82 years old. His work included The Arms of Krupp (1958) and The Death of a President (1967).
2005 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy adventure stars Amber Tamblyn, Jenna Boyd, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Nancy Travis and Bradley Whitford.
2005 - A landslide destroyed seventeen multimillion-dollar homes and damaged eleven others in Laguna Beach, CA.
2005 - Basketball star George Mikan died at 80 years of age. The Minneapolis Lakers Basketball Hall of Famer was so big (6'10", 250 lbs) and dominant at DePaul University -- knocking so many shots away from the basket -- that the NCAA instituted a rule prohibiting goaltending.
2006 - Expo 2000 opened in Hanover, Germany. The World’s Fair ran thru Oct 31. 40,000,000 visitors were expected at the exposition, but only 25,210,000 people came to see the event, leaving Expo 2000 with a hugh financial loss.
2007 - New movies in the U.S.: Gracie, starring Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Carly Schroeder and Andrew Shue; Knocked Up, with Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel and Jay Baruchel; and Mr. Brooks, starring Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger, Rubin Santiago-Hudson and Danielle Panabaker.
2007 - CNBC Africa was launched from headquarters in South Africa. The 24-hour African business channel broadcast to 14 African countries. For the launch, CNBC Africa broadcast an one-hour interview with Thabo Mbeki, president of the Republic of South Africa.
2007 - The U.S. government warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, died in Paris. He was 72 years old.
2008 - A fire roared through the back lot at Universal Studios, California destroyed film-set facades, videos and movie reels. A set from Back to the Future, a King Kong exhibit and a streetscape seen frequently in movies and TV shows were destroyed.
2009 - Hawaii’s Governor Linda Linda Lingle, blaming a fiscal emergency, ordered three days of unpaid furloughs each month for 14,500 state employees to help erase a $729-million budget shortfall.
2009 - Rules went into effect on this day, requiring passports or other approved identification to be shown at border crossings to U.S. entry points from Canada. Americans entering the U.S. by land or sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean were required to present identity documents embedded with RFID tags, though conventional passports remained valid until expiration.
2010 - Bank guard Zhu Jun (46), angry over a legal ruling in his divorce, opened fire with a machine gun and two pistols in a court building in the city of Yongzhou, China. Jun shot three judges dead and wounded three others before killing himself.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations. The decision was one that a dissenting justice said turned defendants’ rights upside down.
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Snow White and the Huntsman, with Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Toby Jones, Ian McShane, Sam Claflin and Lily Cole; and For Greater Glory, starring Eva Longoria, Bruce Greenwood, Andy Garcia, Peter O’Toole and Oscar Isaac.
2012 - California announced charges against two Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies for illegally selling dozens of weapons, some of which fell into the hands of criminals.
2014 - Thousands of people marched through downtown Hong Kong remembering the June 4, 1989 bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. This, just days before the 25th anniversary of the tumultuous event.
2015 - The cruise ship Eastern Star was hit by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River in China. Battling bad weather, divers and other rescue workers pulled out five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the four-deck ship, a small fraction of the 458 people state media said were on board the ship. All in all, the disaster killed 442.
2015 - A Canadian court ordered tobacco firms to pay $15.5 billion to smokers in Quebec who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. Judge Brian Riordan said, “The companies earned billions of dollars at the expense of the lungs, the throats and the general well-being of their customers.”
2016 - Ford Motor Co. recalled nearly 1.9 million vehicles in North America Because of faulty passenger-side front air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp.
2016 - Switzerland inaugurated the 57-km (35.4-mile) Gotthard Railway Tunnel. The major engineering achievement deep under the Alps’ snow-capped peaks took 17 years to construct at a cost of 12.2 billion Swiss francs ($12 billion).
2017 - California Governor Jerry Brown joined with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee in announcing an alliance of states dedicated to fighting global warming. The governors urged other states to join them.
2018 - Films debuting in the U.S. included: Action Point, starring Johnny Knoxville, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Johnny Pemberton; Adrift, with Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin and Elizabeth Hawthorne; American Animals, starring Ann Dowd, Evan Peters and Barry Keoghan; Breath, with Elizabeth Debicki, Simon Baker and Richard Roxburgh; Discreet, starring Jonny Mars, Atsuko Okatsuka and Joy Cunningham; A Kid Like Jake, with Ann Dowd, Priyanka Chopra and Claire Danes; Trading Paint, starring John Travolta, Michael Madsen and Barry Corbin; and Upgrade, with Logan Marshall-Green, Rosco Campbell and Richard Cawthorne.
2018 - The European Union and China said they would do their utmost to keep alive an international agreement to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons -- despite the U.S. abandoning the pact.
2018 - U.S. health officials said tainted lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, had killed five people and sickened at least 197 in 35 states. About a month later, contaminated canal water that irrigated the Yuma growing fields was found to be the source of the E. coli bacteria.
2019 - Pope Francis braved a rain-soaked, twisting drivethrough the mountains of Transylvania for a visit to Sumuleu Ciuc shrine, Romania’s most famous shrine. He urged Romanian and ethnic Hungarian faithful to work together for their future.
2019 - To celebrate International Children’s Day, 25 babies crawl-raced in Vilnius, Lithuania, urged on by parents, grandparents and onlookers. The winner of the annual baby racing contest was almost-12-month-old Ignas Dovydaitis.
2020 - Police violently broke up a peaceful and legal protest by several thousands in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, DC. This, ahead of a POTUS speech in the Rose Garden. Trump’s following photo op at St. John’s Church, a house of worship known as the Church of the Presidents, was condemned by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. The Secret Service later admitted that pepper spray was used to clear protesters from the park.
2020 - George Floyd death reaction:
1)Protesters staged large-scale demonstrations across the U.S., expressing outrage at the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and, more broadly, anger at police brutality. Some cities, including Minneapolis, Atlanta and Louisville, saw clashes with police, buildings and cars set afire, and looting.
2)Police Officer Shay Mikalonis was shot in the head during a Las Vegas Strip protest of the death of George Floyd. Prosecutors later charged Edgar Samaniego (20) with deliberately shooting Mikalonis during the protest.
3)Nonviolent protests in New York City were punctuated by people smashing shop windows near Rockefeller Center and breaching the doors of Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street, littering the pavement with broken glass.
4)Several thousand people marched in Auckland, New Zealand to protest the killing of George Floyd in the U.S. as well as to stand up against police violence and racism in their own country.2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)In South Africa long queues formed outside shops selling alcohol after restrictions on its sale, imposed two months earlier, were lifted.
2)Spain recorded 71 new infections over 24 hours and no deaths from the virus. The official death toll stood at 27,127 with 240,000 confirmed cases.
3)Moscow residents ventured out to exercise, stroll and shop as the city eased a strict nine-week lockdown, but millions remained largely confined to their homes as Russia recorded thousands more coronavirus cases. Russia recorded 9,035 new infections bringing its total to 414,878. The death toll was put at 4,855.2021 - Representatives of the Euopean Union’s 27 nations and the European Parliament agreed to a deal that would require large companies in the E.U. to reveal how much tax they paid -- and in which country.
2021 - Isaac Herzog was elected Israel’s 11th president, with 87 of Knesset’s 120 votes. The Jewish agency head, former Labor chief and son of the 6th president defeated educator Miriam Peretz, saying he would work to ‘build bridges’ within Israeli society and with Diaspora (the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland [the Land of Israel] and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.
2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $2.12 billion damages award to a class action for women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in J&J’s baby powder and other talc products.
2022 - Turkey officially changed its name to Türkiye at the United Nations and internationally. That new name was simply the way it had always been spelled and pronounced in Turkish.
2022 - U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan assumed the post of Commandant, becoming the first female commander of a U.S. military branch.
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Birthdays on This Day June 1
1796 - Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot
physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics; died Aug 24, 18321801 - Brigham Young
Mormon church leader: led thousands across the wilderness to settle in over 300 U.S. western towns; survived by 17 wives and 47 children; died Aug 28, 18771878 - John Masefield
poet: Sea Fever, A Wanderer’s Song, Cargoes, The Wanderer, A Consecration, To-Morrow, Spanish Waters, Christmas Eve At Sea; died May 12, 19671890 - Frank Morgan (Francis Wuppermann)
actor: The Wizard of Oz, The Stratton Story, The Three Musketeers, Tortilla Flat, The White Cliffs of Dover, Naughty Marietta, The Great Ziegfeld, Key to the City; died Sep 18, 19491915 - John Randolph (Emanuel Cohen)
Tony Award-winning actor [Broadway Bound (1987)]; Serpico, Frances, Prizzi’s Honor, You’ve Got Mail, The Missiles of October, Lincoln, Christmas Vacation; over 150 film and TV roles; died Feb 24, 20041921 - Nelson Riddle
Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader: Cross Country Suite; Lisbon Antigua; arranger: for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole; died Oct 6, 19851922 - (Beatrice) Joan Caulfield
actress: Pony Express Rider, Daring Dobermans, Welcome Stranger, Blue Skies, The Lady Says No; died June 18, 19911922 - Joan Copeland
film actress: The Audrey Hepburn Story, The Object of My Affection, The Peacemaker, Jungle 2 Jungle, Her Alibi, Cagney and Lacey; Broadway: Coco, Pal Joey [Revival], The American Clock, 6; sister of playwright, author Arthur Miller; died Jan 4, 20221925 - Richard Erdman
actor: Tomboy, Stalag 17, Namu, the Killer Whale, Cry Danger; director: Brothers O’Toole; died Mar 16, 20191926 - Darel Dieringer
auto racer: champ: NASCAR California 500 [1963], Southern 500 [1966]; died Oct 28, 19891926 - Andy Griffith
actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock, A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, From Here to Eternity; comedian: comedy record: Make Yourself Comfortable; died Jul 3, 20121926 - Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker Mortenson)
actress: Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; model: famous centerfold: Playboy [1952]; died Aug 5, 19621930 - Pat Corley
actor: Bay City Blues, Murphy Brown, Of Mice and Men, Silent Witness; died Sep 11, 20061930 - Edward Woodward
actor: The Equalizer, Code Name Kyril, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Champions, The Final Option, The Appointment, The Wicker Man, ‘Breaker’ Morant; died Nov 16, 20091934 - Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone)
singer: Love Letters in the Sand, April Love, Moody River, Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Friendly Persuasion, Don’t Forbid Me, gospel LPs; actor: State Fair, Journey to the Center of the Earth; host: The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom; descendant: frontiersman, Daniel Boone; married to Red Foley’s daughter, Shirley1934 - Peter Masterson (Carlos Bee Masterson)
actor: The Exorcist; director: Arctic Blue, Night Game, Full Moon in Blue Water, Blood Red, The Trip to Bountiful; father of actress Mary Stuart Masterson; died Dec 18, 20181937 - Morgan Freeman
Academy Award-winning actor [Million Dollar Baby (2004)]; Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha1939 - Cleavon (Jake) Little
Tony Award-winning actor: Purlie [1970]; Emmy Award: Dear John [1988-1989]; Blazing Saddles, Vanishing Point, Fletch Lives, Perfect Harmony, Separate But Equal, Murder by Numbers; died Oct 22, 19921940 - Rene Auberjonois
Tony Award-winning actor: Coco [1970]; The Ballad of Little Jo, Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, Police Academy 5, Pete ’n’ Tillie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud, Petulia, Benson, M*A*S*H, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Boston Legal; died Dec 8, 20191941 - Dean (Wilmer) Chance
baseball: [pitcher]: LA Angels: Cy Young Award [1964]; died Oct 11, 20151942 - Randy (Cecil Randolph) Hundley
baseball: catcher: SF Giants, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1969], Minnesota Twins, SD Padres1944 - Robert Powell
actor: Jesus of Nazareth, Hannay, Holby City, The Detectives, Jude the Obscure1945 - Linda Scott
singer: I’ve Told Every Little Star, Don’t Bet Money Honey, I Don’t Know Why; TV host: Where the Action Is1946 - Brian Cox
actor: Troy, Braveheart, Rushmore, X2: X-Men United, Manhunter, The Straits, Ironclad, Shoot on Sight, Deadwood1947 - Jonathan Pryce
Tony Award-winning actor: Miss Saigon [1991], Comedians [1977]; Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carrington, Barbarians at the Gate, The Age of Innocence, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brazil, Breaking Glass1947 - Ron Wood
musician: guitar: group: Rolling Stones [after 1975]1948 - Powers Boothe
Emmy Award-winning actor: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones [1980]; Skag, Sudden Death, Nixon, Extreme Prejudice, The Emerald Forest, Cruising1948 - Tom Sneva
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1983]1950 - John M. Jackson
actor: JAG, A Few Good Men, The Spitfire Grill, The Glimmer Man, Home Front, Bones, NCIS: Los Angeles1950 - Misty Rowe
actress: Hee Haw, Hee Haw Honeys, When Things Were Rotten, The Man with Bogart’s Face, National Lampoon’s Class Reunion, Meatballs Part II1950 - Graham Russell
singer: group: Air Supply: Lost in Love, All Out of Love, The One that You Love1951 - Henry Boucha
hockey: U.S. National Team [1970-71], U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team [silver medal: 1972]; NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, Kansas City Scouts, Colorado Rockies1953 - Diana Canova (Rivero)
actress: Soap, I’m a Big Girl Now, Throb, Home Free, Night Partners, daughter of actress, Judy Canova1953 - Ronnie Dunn
country singer: duo: Brooks & Dunn: LPs: Brand New Man, Hard Workin’ Man, Waitin’ on Sundown, Borderline, If You See Her, Tight Rope, Steers & Stripes; songwriter: Boot Scootin’ Boogie1955 - Tony Snow
TV news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host: The Tony Snow Show; U.S. President George H.W. Bush administration: chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs; President George W. Bush administration: White House Press Secretary; died Jul 12, 20081956 - Lisa Hartman
actress: Knots Landing, Tabitha, Bare Essentials, Deadly Blessing, Red Wind, Where the Boys Are1959 - Alan Wilder
musician: keyboards, singer: group: Depeche Mode: Shake the Disease, LPs: Black Celebration, Music for the Masses1961 - Paul Coffey
hockey: Edmonton Oilers [Stanley Cups: 1984, 1985, 1987], Pittsburgh Penguins [Stanley Cup: 1991]; career: 1,409 games: 396 goals, 1,135 assists, 1,531 points1961 - Mark Curry
comedian, actor: Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, Bad Boy, Motocrossed, Armageddon, Switchback, Panther; TV host: It’s Showtime at the Apollo1963 - Mike Joyce
musician: drums: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing, Reel Around the Fountain, Suffer Little Children, Panic1965 - India Allen
model: Playboy Playmate [Dec 1987]; actress: Tattoo, a Love Story, Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2, The Force, Silk Degrees, Wild Cactus, Round Numbers1968 - Larry Centers
football [running back]: Stephen F. Austin State Univ; NFL: Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, NE Patriots1968 - Jason Donovan
singer: popular in Australia & Great Britain; actor: Neighbours, Rough Diamonds, The Sun, the Moon and the Stars; son of actor, Terence Donovan1969 - Teri Polo
actress: Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Little Fockers, I’m with Her, The West Wing, The Fosters1969 - Taylor St. Claire
actress [1995-2009]: X-rated films: Looking In, The Fashionistas, Where the Girls Sweat 5, Fade to Black, The Exotic Time Machine, The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead #121970 - António Pedro Cerdeira
Portuguese actor: Der Glaserne Blick, Ballets Rose - Vidas Proibidas, Os Mutantes, Ana E os Sete, Corrupção, Der Gläserne Blick, Camarate1970 - Raylee Johnson
football [defensive end]: Univ of Arkansas; NFL: San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos1970 - Shane Matthews
football [quarterback]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills1973 - Adam Garcia
actor: Wilde, Coyote Ugly, Kangaroo Jack, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen1973 - Heidi Klum
model: ‘spokesmodel’: Victoria’s Secret; TV host: World’s Greatest Commercials1973 - Derek Lowe
baseball: [pitcher] Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, LA Dodgers1974 - Alanis Morissette
musician: piano, guitar; singer: LPs: Alanis, Now is the Time, Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis Unplugged, Under Rug Swept1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies
actress: The Walking Dead, Prison Break, Prison Break: The Final Break, Tarzan, Black Gold, Faces in the Crowd, Foreverland1977 - Danielle Harris
actress: Halloween film series, Urban Legend, Stake Land, Hatchet film series1977 - Brad Wilkerson
baseball [left field, first base]: Montreal Expos, Washington Nationals [2001-2005]; Texas Rangers [2006–2007]; Seattle Mariners [2008]; Toronto Blue Jays [2008]1979 - Santana Moss
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Miami; NFL: New York Jets, Washington Redskins1979 - Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer, designer: Minecraft1981 - Brandi Carlile
songwriter, singer: LPs: Brandi Carlile, Give Up the Ghost, Bear Creek, The Firewatcher’s Daughter1981 - Amy Schumer
comedienne, actress Inside Amy Schumer, Girls, Trainwreck; more1984 - Taylor Handley
actor: Vegas, Hidden Palms, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Zerophilia, September Dawn, Jack Frost1985 - Nick Young
basketball [guard, forward]: Washington Wizards [2007–2012]; Los Angeles Clippers [2012]; Philadelphia 76ers [2012–2013]; Los Angeles Lakers [2013–2017]; Golden State Warriors [2017–2018]: 2018 NBA champs; Denver Nuggets [2018]1996 - Tom Holland
actor: stage: Billy Elliot the Musical, Victoria Palace; films: The Impossible, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Modern Ocean2000 - Willow Shields
actress: The Hunger Games, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, A Fall from Grace, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Wonder, In Plain Sight
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Hit Music on This Day June 1
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Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
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