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1816 - Ten inches of wonderful wet, white snow fell this day in New England. The rare event was a result of a massive volcanic explosion Apr 5, 1815 on Mount Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa in southern Indonesia. Many tons of ash and debris were thrown up into the stratosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering the temperature globally. 1816 became known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in the Northeast.1833 - The first U.S. President to ride in a railroad car was Andrew Jackson. President Jackson boarded a B&O (Baltimore & Ohio) passenger train in Baltimore, MD.
1844 - The first YMCA was founded in London by George Williams, a young draper’s assistant who had come to London to learn the drapery trade. At that time, wholesale drapery houses employed large numbers of young men, who were given room and board at their work places. They worked long hours and had poor living conditions. Williams sought permission to hold prayer meetings in his bedroom with other young men who, like himself, shared the Christian faith. Soon, the group expanded, drawing to it young men who were alone and lonely in the City of London.
1882 - The first electric flatiron, or what we call the electric iron, was patented by Henry W. Seely of New York City. We bet he probably had the nicest pressed shirts in the neighborhood.
1904 - The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was organized in Atlantic City, NJ. In 1918, the organization changed/shortened its name to the National Tuberculosis Association.
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler incorporated the Chrysler Corporation with himself as President and Chairman of the Board.
1932 - The first U.S. federal tax on gasoline was enacted. The rate was a penny per gallon. Ride a bike. Save some money.
1933 - The first U.S. drive-in to show movies opened in Camden, New Jersey on Crescent Boulevard. Those first drive-in moviegoers got to see Wife Beware, a flick not destined to be a classic. The screen measured a huge 40 feet by 50 feet and was easily seen by everyone in the first cars in the front to the 500th car in the back row. Everyone (including the whole town) could hear the sound, too ... with a slight delay for the folks in the back row because the sound emanated from speakers mounted next to the screen. Admission was 25 cents per person plus 25 cents for the car, maximum $1.00.
1934 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) was established as an independent agency by the U.S. Congress (Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red radio network. The serial was “the true to life story of mother love and sacrifice.” Stella Dallas continued to do this and so much more until 1955.
1942 - Adeline Gray made the first nylon-parachute jump in Hartford, CT. (And here’s one way Adeline made that jump pay off: a Camel cigarettes ad that said, among other things, “No wonder the first thing Adeline Gray did when she reached the ground was to light up a Camel. Now a girl's life can't be all 'chutes and ships, can it? There must be moments now and then for soft lights sweet music a table for two and two cigarettes on one match.”)
1944 - CBS radio saluted America’s war doctors with The Doctor Fights, presented for the first time this day.
1944 - This was D-Day, the day thousands of Allied troops invaded Normandy, France. Their objective: to open a second major European front in the battle against the Nazis. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of these united forces (and, who later became President of the United States) said, “This landing is but the opening phase of the campaign in Western Europe. Great battles lie ahead. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us.”
1946 - New York City was the site of the formation of the Basketball Association of America.
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s vision of a world ruled by Big Brother, was published.
1956 - Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown) reached the top spot on the Billboard singles chart for the first and only time in her career. Her hit, The Wayward Wind, stayed at the top of the top-tune tabulation for eight weeks and on the music charts for 22 weeks. It was her second record release. The first, in October, 1955, was Suddenly There’s a Valley which climbed to number nine.
1962 - The Beatles auditioned for producer George Martin of EMI Records. After listening to a playback of the audition tapes, Martin said, “They’re pretty awful.” He changed his mind after meeting the group, however. The rest, of course, is rock-music history.
1966 - Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded by a white sniper as he walked along a Mississippi highway. Meredith was attemptimg to encourage black voter registration in the area.
1966 - The U.S. spacecraft Gemini 9 splashed down after a three-day mission during which astronaut Eugene Cernan walked in space for a record 2 hours 8 minutes.
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. PDT at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles. His death came 25 1/2 hours after he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. Kennedy was 42 years old.
1971 - For the last time, we saw Polish dancing bears, a little mouse named Topo Gigio, remembered The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, the comedy of Jackie Mason, John Byner, Rich Little, Richard Pryor and so many more, as The Ed Sullivan Show left CBS-TV. Gladys Knight and The Pips and singer Jerry Vale appeared on the final show. The Ed Sullivan Show had been a showcase for more than 20 years for artists who ranged from Ethel Merman to Ella Fitzgerald, from Steve and Eydie to the Beatles. The Ed Sullivan Show was the longest running variety show on TV -- a “rillly big sheeeew.”
1973 - Barry White was awarded a gold record for I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby. It was his first hit and his first of five number one million-sellers. White began recording in 1960. He formed the group, Love Unlimited, in 1969 and married one of the group’s singers, Glodean James. He also formed the 40-piece Love Unlimited Orchestra which had the number-one hit, Love’s Theme in 1973. I’m Casey Kasem. Now back to the count down...
1976 - U.S. billionaire J. Paul Getty died. He had amassed one of the world’s largest private fortunes through the oil business.
1978 - Proposition 13 passed in California. Voters joined Senator Howard Jarvis in cutting property taxes by 57 percent. This was seen as the birth of a taxpayer’s revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending.
1978 - The ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20 debuted. Producer Bob Shanks, realizing that the first show was a disaster, fired the co-hosts, magazine editor Harold Hayes and Australian art critic Robert Hughes. The next week, Shanks tapped former Today and Concentration host Hugh Downs, formerly of NBC, to take over the show.
1981 - India’s worst rail disaster happened this day, when seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train were blown off the tracks and into the River Kosi by a cyclone. The freak accident happened in Bihar, India. Between 500 and 900 people were killed.
1982 - The (36th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Winners included The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (best Play); Nine (best Musical); Othello (best Reproduction [Play or Musical]); Roger Rees in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (best Actor Play); Zoe Caldwell in Medea (best Actress Play); Ben Harney in Dreamgirls (best Actor Musical); and Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls (best Actress Musical).
1985 - Authorities in Embu (near São Paulo), Brazil exhumed parts of a skeleton. The remains were later identified as Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious ‘Angel of Death’ of the Nazi Holocaust.
1987 - Steffi Graf beat Martina Navratilova and won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open in Paris. She is the only player in tennis history to win each of the four Grand Slam titles at least four times [Wimbledon: 7, French Open: 6, U.S. Open: 5, Australian Open: 4].
1989 - On Capitol Hill, Thomas Foley was elected the 57th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1990 - A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, FL declared the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty as They Wanna Be to be obscene. (The decision was later overturned.)
1991 - Jazz tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, who helped popularize bossa nova music, died of cancer at his home in Malibu, California. He was 64. Getz first gained fame as a member of the ‘Four Brothers’ reed section in the Woody Herman band in the late 1940s. Jazz Samba, a 1962 album by Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd reached number one on the Billboard album chart. From it came the hit single, Desafinado. Several other bossa nova albums followed, including Getz-Gilberto (1964), featuring the Brazilian husband and wife team of Joao and Astrud Gilberto. It featured a top-five single, The Girl from Ipanema.
1992 - A.P. Indy won the 124th running of the Belmont Stakes.
1993 - The (47th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Gershwin Theatre, New York. Winners included Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (best Play); Kiss of the Spider Woman (best Musical); Anna Christie (best Revival); Ron Leibman in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (best Actor Dramatic); Madeline Kahn in The Sisters Rosensweig (best Actress Dramatic); Brent Carver in Kiss of the Spider Woman (best Actor Musical); and Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman (best Actress Musical).
1993 - The Broadway musical The Who’s Tommy won five Tony awards, including Pete Townshend for Best Original Score.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries from around the world visited Normandy, France. Many D-Day veterans joined them to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Overlord and to pay respect to the thousands who died there in World War II.
1997 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Buddy, featuring Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Paul Reubens, Peter Elliot and Mak Wilson; Con Air, with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Rachel Ticotin and Monica Potter.
1998 - The Boy is Mine, by Brandy and Monica, zoomed to number 1 on the Billboard pop chart. It ruled the Hot 100 roost for 13 weeks -- putting it in the top ten of longest-running #1 singles in the modern rock era.
1998 - Real Quiet lost horse racing’s Triple Crown as Victory Gallop won the Belmont Stakes by a nose.
1999 - The (53rd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Gershwin Theatre, New York. Winners included Side Man (best Play); Fosse (best Musical); Death of a Salesman (best Revival Play); Annie Get Your Gun (best Revival Musical); Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman (best Actor Dramatic); Judi Dench in Amy's View (best Actress Dramatic); Martin Short in Little Me (best Actor Musical); and Bernadette Peters in Annie Get Your Gun (best Actress Musical).
1999 - Andre Agassi won the French Open tennis tournament, defeating Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. The victory, completing Agassi’s rare career Grand Slam meant that he was the first man in 30 years to win all four Grand Slam tournaments and the only player to do so on four different surfaces.
1999 - Juli Inkster shot a final-round 1-under-par 71 for a 16-under 272 total to win the U.S. Women’s Open golf tourney.
2000 - Unilever (Netherlands) agreed to buy Bestfoods (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) for $20.3 billion in a deal creating the world’s biggest food company. Bestfoods’ brands included Skippy peanut butter and Hellman’s mayonaise. Unilever brands included Lipton tea, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Dove soap.
2001 - A Los Angeles jury awarded $3 billion to lifelong smoker Richard Boeken. The jury agreed with Boeken that tobacco giant Philip Morris was responsible for his incurable lung cancer. (The award was later reduced by a Superior Court judge to $100 million; Boeken died Jan 16, 2002.)
2002 - Israeli troops stormed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in response to a Palestinian suicide attack on an Israeli bus in which seventeen people had died.
2003 - 2 Fast 2 Furious opened in U.S. theatres. The crime thriller stars Paul Walker, Tyrese, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Ludacris, Thom Barry, James Remar, Devon Aoki, Amaury Nolasco, Jin, Mark Boone Jr, Matt Gallini, Roberto Sanz and Eric Etebari.
2004 - The (58th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at Radio City Music Hall, New York. Winners included I Am My Own Wife (best Play); Avenue Q (best Musical); Henry IV (best Revival Play); Assassins (best Revival Musical); Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife (best Actor Play); Phylicia Rashad in A Raisin in the Sun (best Actress Play); Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz (best Actor Musical); and Idina Menzel in Wicked (best Actress Musical).
2005 - Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft died of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. Bancroft won a Best Actress Oscar in 1963 for her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (1962). Bancroft was nominated for Oscars for four other films over the years, including her role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.
2005 - Apple Computer confirmed plans to switch to Intel microprocessors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, said the company would continue to support IBM’s PowerPC 970FX chip, Apple’s previous processor chip.
2006 - Engineers blew up a temporary barrier used during construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China, unleashing the full force of the Yangtze River upon the world’s largest hydroelectric project.
2006 - Singer, keyboardist, rock star Billy Preston died in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 59 years old. Preston worked with the Beatles (and was dubbed the fifth Beatle) on Get Back and the Rolling Stones (on albums Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock’n Roll and Black and Blue) and wrote the 1974 Joe Cocker hit You Are So Beautiful. He scored his own chart-toppers with Will It Go Round in Circles (1973) and Nothing From Nothing (1974).
2007 - Cyclone Gonu battered Oman’s coast on its path toward the world’s most important crude oil tanker route. The storm waned after killing 49 people in Oman and nine in Iran, where severe flooding encircled some 100 villages.
2007 - The Anaheim Ducks wrapped up the Stanley Cup in five games by defeating the Ottawa Senators 6-2 in the fifth game of the (best 4-out-of-7) series.
2008 - New films in U.S. theatres: Kung Fu Panda, featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim and Dan Fogler; ; and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, starring Adam Sandler, Alex Luria, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lainie Kazan, Rob Schneider, Sayed Badreya and Shelley Berman.
2008 - James Delayo, New Ork City’s senior crane inspector, was arrested and charged with taking bribes to allow cranes to pass inspection when they should not have.
2009 - Brazilian search crews retrieved two bodies in the Atlantic Ocean from the May 31 crash of Air France Flight 447. And investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on other Airbus A330 jets.
2009 - A screening of the Saudi film Menahi brought a taste of the moviegoing experience to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. No women were allowed. Men and children, including girls up to 10, were allowed to attend the show at a government-run cultural center. Saudi Arabia’s few movie theatres had been closed in the 1970s as part of an effort by religious conservatives to limit opportunities for the mixing of the sexes, behaviour said to undermine Islamic values. For three decades, Saudi movie enthusiasts had to make do with watching films at home on television, renting censored movies from video stores or travelling to nearby Bahrain to catch the latest releases.
2010 - Millions of gays and lesbians jammed several of São Paulo, Brazil’s main avenues for the 14th annual Gay Pride parade. (São Paulo is South America’s largest city with some 17 million residents, while the state of São Paulo is home to 40 million residents.)
2011 - Veteran CBS news reporter Scott Pelley made his debut as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, after being chosen to replace Katie Couric.
2013 - Swimming champion and Hollywood star Esther Williams died in Beverly Hills, CA at 91 years of age. MGM created a special subgenre for her known as ‘Aqua Musicals’. Her films included Bathing Beauty, Ziegfeld Follies, On an Island with You, Neptune’s Daughter, Neptune’s Daughter and Million Dollar Mermaid, which is also the title of her 1999 autobiography.
2014 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Edge of Tomorrow, starring Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise, Bill Paxton, Lara Pulver and Jeremy Piven; The Fault in Our Stars, with Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff; Obvious Child, starring Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy and Gaby Hoffmann; Anna, with Taissa Farmiga, Indira Varma and Mark Strong; Burning Blue, with Trent Ford, Tammy Blanchard and Morgan Spector; and Little Boy, starring Kevin James, Emily Watson and David Henrie.
2014 - Israeli police raided the east Jerusalem studios of Palestine TV, detaining several staff members for questioning. Police suspected Palestine TV of broadcasting “incitements to violence.” TV transmission was stopped when those police officers arrived.
2015 - Convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat used power tools to cut through steel walls and pipes to escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. It was later learned that the two had planned to be picked up by a prison employee, Joyce Mitchell, who later decided not to do so. And for days after the prison break, corrections officers beat and abused inmates in an effort to extract information from them about the escape. By August 12 nine officers had been suspended and the prison’s leaders had been replaced.
2015 - American Pharoah, ridden by Victor Espinoza, led wire to wire to beat the field at the Belmont Stakes [in Elmont, New York] -- and captured the first Triple Crown since Affirmed did it in 1978.
2016 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a public database for clinical data on cancer that aimed to help researchers and doctors better tailor new treatments to individuals.
2017 - Attorneys general of California -- and six other states -- accused U.S. environmental chief Scott Pruitt of acting illegally and dangerously. Pruitt had refused to ban the use of chlorpyrifos, a widely used farm pesticide that had been banned from household use because of health hazards.
2018 - A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration could not cut off grants to Philadelphia over the city’s dealings with immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally.
2018 - India’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate to 6.25% to tamp down rising inflation following an increase in oil prices.
2019 - Federal regulators voted to give phone companies the right to block unwanted calls without getting customers’ permission first. The Federal Communications Commission’s move could make call-blocking widespread and help consumers dodge annoying robocalls, which has exploded into a problem that pesters Americans on the level of billions of calls a month. One caveat: The FCC expected phone companies to offer the blocking tool for free, but did not require them to.
2019 - A German court imposed a life sentence on 42-year-old Niels Hoegel, a nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country’s post-war history. Hoegel had murdered 85 patients in his care.
2020 - Domingo Choc Che, a Mayan medicine specialist and traditional healer, was murdered by a mob after he was accused of witchcraft in his hometown of Chimay, Guatemala. Che, a collaborator on a University College London (UCL) pharmaceutical project, was burnt alive.
2020 - Massive nationwide protests against police brutality capped a week that began in chaos but ended with largely peaceful expressions that organizers hoped would sustain their movement.
2020 - Guadalajara, Mexico police seized 80 protesters planning to demonstrate against police brutality and held them incommunicado for over 24 hours. Talk about irony...
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)India reported 9,887 new cases -- its biggest one-day spike so far -- bringing the total there to 236,657.
2)U.S. cases reached 1,909,077 with the death toll at 109,127.
3)The OPEC alliance extended production cuts by a month as world demand for oil fell amidst lockdowns to fight the pandemic. OPEC controlled about 70% of the world’s oil reserves.2021 - Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov left Russia for Ukraine. He had been held by police for two days in a criminal investigation, which Gudkov said was aimed at preventing him from running for the national parliament.
2021 - Britain’s health secretary said the delta variant, which was fast becoming the dominant coronavirus variant in the U.K., was 40% more transmissible compared to the country’s existing strains. And French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that France had multiple clusters of the variant, first identified in India, notably in the southwest Landes region.
2022 - The former chairman of far-right group the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and four others, were indicted for seditious conspiracy for their role in Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
2022 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of no-confidence that could have resulted in his removal from office. The final vote was 211 to 148, considerably more than the simple majority of 180 votes he needed.
2022 - An Amazon 20-for-1 stock split took effect, giving shareholders who owned stock as of May 27 an additional 19 shares for every share they owned -- while keeping the total value of their holdings the same. Share prices responded positively, rising 2 percent.
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Birthdays on This Day June 6
1606 - Pierre Corneille
playwright: Cinna, Le Cid, L’illusion Comique; died Oct 1, 16841755 - Nathan Hale
American patriot & Revolutionary War military officer: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”; arrested [Sep 20, 1776] by British troups while spying for General George Washington; executed Sep 22, 1776 at age 21 [by order of British General William Howe]1756 - John Trumbull
artist: painter of the Revolution: The Battle of Bunker Hill, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Declaration of Independence; son of colonial Connecticut’s governor; died Nov 10, 18431799 - Aleksandr Pushkin
poet: Boris Gudunov, Eugene Onegin; died Feb 10, 18371875 - Thomas Mann
author: Little Herr Friedemann, Royal Highness, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Death in Venice, Reflections of an Unpolitical Man, Order of fhe Day, Disorder and Early Sorrow, Mario and the Magician; died Aug 12, 19551891 - Ted Lewis (Theodore Leopold Friedman)
clarinettist, singer, bandleader: Ted Lewis & His Band: Somebody Stole My Gal, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; died Aug 25, 19711898 - Walter Abel
actor: Raintree County, Mirage, Quick Let’s Get Married, 13 Rue Madeleine, Wake Island, Silent Night Bloody Night, Kid from Brooklyn, Holiday Inn, The Indian Fighter; died Mar 26, 19871902 - Jimmie Lunceford
musician: sax; orchestra leader, arranger: For Dancers Only, Stomp It Off, Rhythm Is Our Business, Swing Sation Series; died Jul 12, 19471903 - Aram (Ilyich) Khachaturian
musician, composer: Sabre Dance, Spartacus; died May 1, 19781907 - Bill (William Malcolm) Dickey
Baseball Hall of Famer: catcher: NY Yankees catcher [1928-1946: played in 38 World Series games: 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946/record: caught 100 or more games 13 years in a row]; died Nov 12, 19931909 - Isaiah Berlin
philosopher, historian; died Nov 5, 19971926 - Tom Ryan
cartoonist: Tumbleweeds; died Mar 12, 20191932 - David R. Scott
NASA astronaut: flew on Gemini 8, Command Module pilot [Apollo 9], walked and drove first Lunar Rover on the moon as commander of Apollo 151932 - Billie Whitelaw
actress: Frenzy, The Dressmaker, The Secret Garden, The Omen, Masterpiece Theatre productions; died Dec 21, 20141934 - Roy Innes
civil rights leader: National Chairman of Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]; died Jan 8, 20171935 - Jon Henricks
swimmer: Univ of Southern California, Olympic Gold Medalist: Melbourne: 2 gold [1956], Rome: 2 gold [1960]1935 - Bobby Mitchell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns running back; Washington Redskins wide receiver: 1st black player for Washington; All Pro [1962, 1964]; four Pro Bowls; died Apr 5, 20201936 - Levi Stubbs (Stubbles)
lead singer: group: The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can’t Help Myself, Reach Out I’ll be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Seven Rooms of Gloom, Bernadette; died Oct 17, 20081939 - Gary U.S. Bonds (Anderson)
singer: Quarter to Three, New Orleans, Rendezvous, Come on Let’s Go1939 - Ed (Edward) Giacomin
Hockey Hall of Fame goalie: NHL: NY Rangers [Vezina Trophy winner: 1970-71], Detroit Red Wings1940 - Laudir de Oliveira
musician: drums: group: Chicago [1973-1981]: LPs: Chicago VI - Chicago XIV; died Sep 17, 20171941 - Marshall Johnston
hockey: Univ. of Denver [NCAA Championship team: 1961], Canadian Olympic Team [1964, 1968]; NHL: Minnesota North Stars, California Golden Seals; coach: California Golden Seals, Denver Univ., Colorado Rockies, NJ Devils, NY Islanders, Ottawa Senators1943 - Merv (Mervin Weldon) Rettenmund
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975], SD Padres, California Angels1943 - Joe Stampley
singer: Soul Song, There’s Another Woman, Whiskey Chasin’, Back Slidin’, Double Shot of My Baby’s Love1944 - Peter Albin
musician: bass, guitar & vocals: group: Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart1944 - Monty Alexander
jazz musician: piano: So What?1944 - Bud (Derrel McKinley) Harrelson
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969, 1973/all-star: 1970, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers1945 - David Dukes
actor: War & Remembrance, The Winds of War, Sisters, The Men’s Club, Snow Kill, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, The Josephine Baker Story, Held Hostage; died Oct 9, 20001946 - Syd Barrett
singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: group: Pink Floyd: See Emily Play, Arnold Layne; died July 7, 20061947 - Robert Englund
actor: A Nightmare on Elm Street [1-5], Hustle, A Star is Born, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane1947 - Ada Kok
swimmer: Netherlands Olympic silver medalist Tokyo [1964]1951 - Dwight Twilley
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: The Dwight Twilley Band: I’m on Fire1954 - Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award-winning actor: Torch Song Trilogy [1983]; Mrs. Doubtfire, Bullets Over Broadway; and playwright: Torch Song Trilogy [1983]; La Cage aux Folles, Tidy Endings; films: Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day1955 - Sandra Bernhard
comedienne, actress: Roseanne, The Richard Pryor Show, Comedy Central: The A-List, The Late Shift, Hudson Hawk, King of Comedy1956 - Björn Borg
International Tennis Hall of Famer: French Open [1974-1975, 1978-1981], Wimbledon [1976-1980]; 11-time Grand Slam winner1959 - Amanda Pays
actress: Exposure, Dead on the Money, Leviathan, Off Limits, Psych, Nip/Tuck, The Kindred, Oxford Blues, Mad Headroom, The Flash1960 - Steve Vai
musician: guitar: groups: Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band: California Girls1961 - Aaron Sorkin
film, TV producer: A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Social Network, Moneyball, The Newsroom1962 - Paul Nassif
facial plastic surgeon; TV personality: Botched with Dr. Terry Dubrow, Dr. 90210, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Botched by Nature; more1963 - Jason Isaacs
actor: Harry Potter film series, Awake, The Patriot, Brotherhood1965 - Cam Neely
hockey [right wing]: Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins; Boston Bruins Vice President [2007]; founded Cam Neely Foundation: provides support, housing for families of adult, pediatric cancer patients1967 - Max Casella
actor: Doogie Howser, M.D., Bristol Boys, Analyze This, Trial and Error, Sgt. Bilko, Windrunner, Ed Wood, Newsies1967 - Paul Giamatti
actor: American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, Man on the Moon, Win Win, Duplicity, Cinderella Man1968 - Mark Wood
actor [1998-2013]: X-rated films: Nasty Filthy Cab Rides 8, Sluts, Butts, and Housewives 2, Extremely Yours, Jewel DeNyle, More Than a Handful 13, Bikini Babes from Burbank, Double Her Pleasure, The Good, the Bad & the Slutty1970 - James ‘Munky’ Shaffer
musician: guitar; singer: group: Korn: LPs: Korn, Life Is Peachy, Follow the Leader, Issues, Untouchables, Take a Look in the Mirror, See You on the Other Side, Korn III: Remember Who You Are, The Path of Totality1970 - Randy Jordan
football [running back]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: LA/Oakland Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars1972 - Tony Graffanino
baseball: Atlanta Braves, TB Devil Rays, Chicago White Sox, KC Royals1972 - Natalie Morales
TV journalist: Today, Rock Center with Brian Williams, Dateline, NBC Nightly News1974 - Anson Carter
hockey: Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, NY Rangers, LA Kings1974 - Patrick Hape
football: Univ of Alabama; NFL: TB Buccaneers, Denver Broncos1974 - Danny Strong
actor: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Pleasantville, Dangerous Minds, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth, Bad Guys, Losing Lois Lane, Spoof! An Insider’s Guide to Short Film Success, Pleasantville1974 - Sonya Walger
actress: FlashFoward, Common Law, Lost, The Mind of the Married Man, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear1975 - Staci Keanan (Anastasia Sagorsky)
actress: My Two Dads, Step by Step, Downhill Willie, Hidden Secrets, Death and Cremation1975 - Niklas Sundstrom
hockey: NY Rangers, SJ Sharks, Montreal Canadiens1977 - Mark Ellis
baseball [second base]: Univ of Florida; MLB: Oakland Athletics1979 - Jeremy Affeldt
baseball [pitcher]: Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies1983 - Amber Borycki
actress: Harper’s Island, Sleepaway Camp Reunion, Shred, Beyond Loch Ness, John Tucker Must Die, A Perfect Note, The Stranger Beside Me1983 - Gianna Michaels
actress [2004-2013]: X-rated films: Naughty Naturals 3, Dripping Wet Teens, 10 Things I Love About Milfs, Top Heavy Tarts 2, Strap-on Boot Camp, Boobs Like Whoa!, Mother May I?, Point Blank P.O.V.1985 - Becky Sauerbrunn
footballer [defender]: 2012 Olympic gold medalist, U.S. 2015 World Cup championship team1990 - Ellie Kendrick
actress: Game of Thrones, The Diary of Anne Frank [BBC], Upstairs Downstairs [BBC]2007 - Aubrey Anderson-Emmons
actress: Modern Family
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Hit Music on This Day June 6
1947Mamselle (facts) - Art Lund
Linda (facts) - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
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