June 16
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1883 - The New York Gothams (later known as the Giants) baseball team admitted all ladies free to the ballpark on this, the first Ladies Day.1884 - The first roller coaster actually built in the United States started rumbling at Coney Island, N.Y. LaMarcus A. Thompson opened the Switchback Railway, “an unimpressive railcar that used gravity to move it over a track.”
1890 - A glittering program of music and ballet, featuring composer Edward Strause, opened the second Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1909 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss sold his first airplane. Curtiss delivered the Golden Flyer to the New York Aeronautical Society. While doing so, he picked up a check for $5,000.
1922 - Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight -- at College Park, MD.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the closure of all German consulates in the United States. This after German submarines attacked American ships. The United States also ordered Atlantic patrol ships to shoot on sight.
1946 - Lloyd Mangrum won the U.S. Open golf title after a strange twist of events. Tourney leader Byron Nelson was assessed a penalty stroke when his caddie accidentally kicked his ball ... costing the golfing legend the Open title.
1949 - The gas turbine-electric locomotive was first demonstrated in Erie, PA.
1952 - Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in My Little Margie which debuted on CBS-TV on this day. Fans of the popular comedy will remember that My Little Margie was based at the Carlton Arms Hotel, Apartment 10-A. Vern Albright was a very eligible widower who worked for the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd. Margie Albright, his 21-year-old daughter, was continually scheming to help dad and continually causing big trouble while helping.
1956 - Be-Bop-A-Lula, by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, was released on Capitol Records. Vincent was called Capitol’s answer to Elvis Presley. The tune became Vincent Eugene Craddock’s biggest hit of three (Lotta Lovin’, Dance to the Bop) to make the pop music charts. Vincent died Oct 12, 1971.
1958 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian prime minister during the 1956 uprising that had been crushed by Soviet tanks, was hanged for treason. And on this day in 1989, Nagy was reburied after an emotional funeral that brought a quarter of a million people into Budapest’s streets.
1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova broke the gender barrier as she blasted off in the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days in orbit.
1966 - The (20th annual) Tony Awards show was held in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, New York. Winners included Marat / Sade (best Play); Man of La Mancha (best Musical); Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight! (best Actor Dramatic); Rosemary Harris in The Lion in Winter (best Actress Dramatic); Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha (best Actor Musical); and Angela Lansbury in Mame (best Actress Musical).
1967 - The Monterey International Pop Festival got underway at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Northern California. Fifty thousand spectators flocked to the first major rock festival in U.S. history. Ticket prices ranged from $3.50 to $6.50 to see more than two dozen rock acts, including Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas, The Who and The Grateful Dead. The festival was immortalized in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1969 documentary Monterrey Pop.
1968 - Lee Trevino became the first golfer in 68 years to play all four rounds of the U.S. Open golf tournament with sub-par totals of 69, 68, 69 and 67, respectively.
1970 - Football player Brian Piccolo of the Chicago Bears died of embryonal cell carcinoma, a rare disease that develops as the human embryo is developing. At the time, it was almost incurable. By 2004, it had a cure rate of more than 50 percent. A well-received and poignant, made-for-TV picture, Brian’s Song, told Piccolo’s tragic story and pictured his best friend, fellow football player Gayle Sayers, at his side when he died. In reality, Sayers wasn’t with Piccolo when he died (in a New York hospital), because Sayers was in a Chicago hospital suffering from pneumonia.
1972 - The only museum devoted exclusively to jazz music opened. The New York Jazz Museum welcomed visitors for the first time.
1978 - The film adaptation of Grease, a success on the Broadway stage, opened in the U.S.. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John starred. Several hit songs came out of the motion picture: Grease, by Frankie Valli, You’re the One That I Want and Summer Nights (both sung by Travolta and Newton-John). The first two songs were platinum 2,000,000+ sellers, while the third was a million-seller.
1980 - The movie The Blues Brothers opened in Chicago, IL. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, formerly of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, starred. The pair played Jake and Elwood Blues. James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin performed. Cab Calloway also appeared with a rendition of his classic Minnie the Moocher.
1981 - The Chicago Tribune purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million. The Wrigley family had controlled the team for over 60 years. The sale ended the longest continuous ownership of a team that stayed put in its original city.
1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis, IN. Banks broke the record that had been set by Brazil’s Joao Oliveria in 1975.
1985 - Andy North won his first tournament in seven years by capturing the U.S. Open with a winning scorecard of 279. North won a paycheck of $103,000. Tze-Chung Chen of Taiwan, who had been the tourney leader until final day of competition, finished second in his U.S. Open debut.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Republic.
1993 - The Dan Quayle Center and Museum opened in Huntington, Indiana.
1995 - Batman Forever, the third film in the Batman series premiered. Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) faces Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey). Add a sexy psychologist (Nicole Kidman), with a thing for Batman and sidekick Robin (Chris O’Donnell), and you wind up with a smash: $52.78 million in the U.S. for opening weekend. Holy box-office, Batman!
1996 - Legendary sports broadcaster Mel Allen, one of the signature voices of the New York Yankees, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Allen became the Yankees’ lead announcer and called their games from 1939 to 1964. He later narrated the long-running TV show, This Week in Baseball. In 1978, Allen received the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship, beating the Seattle SuperSonics in game six, 87-to-75.
1998 - The Detroit Red Wings took home the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive year after completing a sweep of the Washington Capitals with a 4-1 victory in game four.
1999 - World-class sprinters all dream the impossible dream, to break the 100-meter world record. Maurice Greene’s dream came true this day at an invitational track meet in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of track and field events. Running in the stadium (home of the 2004 Olympics) with no wind at his back, his friend and training partner in another lane, 24-year-old Maurice Greene finished the 100 meters in 9.79 seconds. The previous record (9.84 seconds), set at the 1996 Olympics, belongs to Canada’s Donovan Bailey. Greene from Kansas City, Kansas is the first American to hold this sprint record since 1994. His training partner, Ato Boldon, placed second with a time of 9.86.
1999 - Kathleen Ann Soliah, a fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (that kidnapped Patty Hearst), was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had made a new life under the name Sara Jane Olson. Olson/Soliah was sentenced to 20 years to life in Jan 2002.
1999 - Cher launched her Do You Believe? Tour in Phoenix, Arizona. The CD had become a worldwide smash, and the single made Cher, at 52, the oldest woman to have a song hit #1. It was also the first time in nearly a decade that the Cher had done a concert tour.
2000 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, marking the final regulatory hurdle for the new company, Verizon, the largest U.S. local phone and wireless company.
2000 - These flicks started runs in the U.S.: Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes, Toni Collette and Richard Roundtree; and Titan A.E., with Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, Nathan Lane, John Leguizamo and Janeane Garofalo.
2001 - Meeting for the first time (in Slovenia), U.S. President George Bush (II) and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to deepen their nations’ bonds.
2002 - Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open and became the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1972 to capture the first two major championships of the season.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government can force medication on mentally ill criminal defendants only in the rarest of circumstances.
2004 - Around the World in 80 Days opened in the U.S. The action comedy remake of the 1956 smash stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecille de France, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Sammo Hung, Johnny Knoxville, Ian McNiece, Karen Mok, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wim Wenders, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Richard Branson.
2006 - New films in the U.S.: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, starring Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Brian Tee, Nikki Griffin, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin and Nathalie Kelley; Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, featuring the voices of Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray; The Lake House, with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ebon-Moss Bachrach, Willeke van Ammelrooy and Christopher Plummer; and Nacho Libre, starring ack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jimenez, Richard Montoya and Peter Stormare.
2006 - The U.S. House expelled Louisiana Democratic Representative William Jefferson from his seat on the Ways and Means Committee for his alleged role in a bribery scandal. (In June 2007, Jefferson was hit with 16 federal charges accusing him of using his political office to bribe businessmen and influence foreign officials.)
2007 - A coin shortage gripped Calcutta, India, and bank officials reported that coins were being melted down to make razor blades.
2008 - County clerks in California began issuing marriage licenses to gay men and lesbians, becoming the second U.S. state to grant such rights.
2009 - The Arizona Senate reversed itself and voted to allow people with concealed-carry permits to take handguns into restaurants that serve alcohol. Under the bill, a permit-holder carrying a weapon into a restaurant serving alcohol would not be allowed to drink. And restaurants would be allowed to deny entry by gun-toting citizens by posting a sign.
2010 - British Petroleum, under pressure from U.S. President Barack Obama, agreed to set aside $20 billion in an oil-spill recovery escrow program to compensate Gulf Coast fishermen and others who had lost work and wages from the massive BP oil spill.
2012 - Additional crews arrived to fight a wildfire in northern Colorado that had scorched 85 square miles and destroyed 181 homes, the most in state history. Meanwhile, the Whitewater-Baldy wildfire had scorched 450 square miles of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
2013 - 25-year-old Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, CT won the Miss USA beauty pageant held at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Brady won the crown and a New York apartment for a year.
2013 - Smoke from forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra choked Singapore and large parts of Malaysia. Indonesia’s government outlawed land-clearing by fire but weak law enforcement resulted in the ban being largely ignored.
2014 - General Motors announced the recall of 3.36 million cars because their ignition switch could be jarred out of the ‘run’ position, turning off power steering and power braking while the car was being driven. Extra weight on the key chain could jostle the ignition if the vehicle struck something in the road like a pothole.
2015 - The Golden State Warriors (Oakland, CA), beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in game 6 of the NBA finals to win the series 4 games to 2.
2015 - An apartment balcony crowded with birthday revelers collapsed near the University of California at Berkeley, killing five college students from Ireland and an American friend, and injuring seven others. The 13 people plunged 40 feet (12 meters) to the street below when the balcony gave way. (Later lawsuits alleged that the balcony had been poorly constructed and had sustained dry rot, and that officials at the apartment complex knew about the dangers, but failed to fix them.)
2016 - Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to approve a soda tax. The City Council approved a 1.5 cent-per-ounce tax on sugary and diet beverages.
2016 - A search team recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir Airbus A320-232 that crashed on May 19 into the Mediterranean. (On 29 June, Egyptian officials announced that the flight data recorder data indicated smoke in the aircraft, and that soot plus damage from high temperatures was found on some of the wreckage from the front section of the aircraft.)
2017 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: 47 Meters Down, starring Mandy Moore, Claire Holt and Matthew Modine; All Eyez on Me, with Demetrius Shipp Jr, Danai Gurira and Kat Graham; the animated Cars 3, featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion, Larry the Cable Guy, Armie Hammer, Ray Magliozzi, Tony Shalhoub, Bonnie Hunt, Lea DeLaria, Kerry Washington and Bob Costas; Rough Night, starring Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz and Kate McKinnon; The Book of Henry, with Lee Pace, Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay; The Journey, starring Freddie Highmore, John Hurt and Toby Stephens; Kill Switch, with Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe and Mike Reus; Once Upon a Time in Venice, starring Jason Momoa, Bruce Willis and Elisabeth Röhm; and Pray for Rain, with Jane Seymour, Annabelle Stephenson and Nicholas Gonzalez.
2017 - Amazon announced that it was paying $13.7 billion to acquire Whole Foods grocery chain. The deal sent stocks for grocery stores, big retailers, and food makers and distributors plunging. Shares for Whole Foods Market increased by 28 percent and Amazon shares gained 2.9 percent.
2018 - American film producer Martin Bregman died in New York City. Bregman’s movies included Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1975), Scarface (1983) and Sea of Love (1989). As a child, Martin Bregman suffered from polio. He got into the entertainment business as a night club agent.
2019 - Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman joined the U.S. in accusing Iran of attacks on two oil tankers traveling near the Strait of Hormuz. The second attack in a month in a strategic shipping lane amid a tense United States-Iran standoff, prompted fears of a regional conflagration and sent oil prices soaring.
2020 - PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the 2018 Camp Fire that nearly leveled the California town of Paradise. Bill Johnson, the company’s chief executive officer, entered the plea during a hearing in Butte County Superior Court. “I am here today on behalf of the 23,000 men and women of PG&E, to accept responsibility for the fire here that took so many lives and changed these communities forever,” Johnson said in a written statement. Under the agreement, PG&E would pay a maximum $3.5 million fine plus $500,000 in costs, and up to $15 million to provide water to residents after the fire destroyed the utility’s Miocene Canal.
2020 - Florida reported a record-high one-day increase of 2,783 coronavirus cases. 55 more virus-related deaths raised that state’s toll to 2,993.
2020 - Doctors Without Borders said it closed its operation in Kabul, ending yearslong work to support a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital. The closure came a month after an attack at the facility killed 24 people, including two infants, nurses and several young mothers. MSF, said it would keep its other programs in Afghanistan running.
2021 - The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard opened in U.S. theatres on this day. The action, comedy, crime flick stars Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Frank Grillo, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas.
2021 - The U.S. Dept of Education said that transgender students were protected under Title IX, a law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools. The decision reversed a Trump-era policy that had said the opposite.
2021 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill allowing people to carry concealed handguns without any permit. Proponents of what Republicans call “constitutional carry” argued that Texas should follow the lead of at least 20 other states with similar laws on the books. Meanwhile, gun control advocates were disappointed. “The permitless carry bill will cause more violence and loss,” said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. “Despite overwhelming support for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation like universal background checks, Texas Republicans, led by a cowardly governor, are more interested in groveling for the gun lobby’s attention than they are in preventing gun violence and honoring victims and survivors in El Paso and across Texas.”
2021 - Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin shook hands as they greeted each other at Villa La Grange, near Geneva, Switzerland. The site was chosen due to its history of political neutrality. The summit featured discussions of cyberattacks and human rights.
2022 - The Golden State Warriors beat Boston Celtics, 103-90 for a four games to two NBA series win. It was the Warriors’ fourth title in eight years. The MVP was point guard Stephen Curry.
2022 - China launched its third aircraft carrier as it continued a push to modernize its military. The new ship, named the Fujian, after the province facing Taiwan, was China’s most advanced yet.
2023 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: The Blackening, with Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins and Sinqua Walls; Elemental, starring Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie and Ronnie Del Carme; and The Flash, starring Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller and Michael Keaton.
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Birthdays on This Day June 16
1890 - Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson)
actor, comedian: Laurel & Hardy: made over 200 films together; died Feb 23, 19651899 - Helen Traubel
opera singer: St. Louis Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera [“The Met’s premier Wagnerian soprano.”]; actress: Deep in My Heart, The Ladies’ Man, Gunn; died July 28, 19721905 - Leslie Denison
Broadway and film actor: Signpost to Murder, Flame of the Islands, Brave Warrior, The Fighting O’Flynn, A Double Life, Dangerous Money, Follow the Boys; died Sep 25, 19921907 - Jack Albertson
Academy Award-winning actor [1968]; Tony Award-winner [1965]: The Subject was Roses; Emmy Awards: Cher [1974-75], Chico & The Man [1975-76], Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; died Nov 25, 19811916 - Angelo ‘Hank’ Luisetti
Basketball Hall of Famer: Stanford Univ. 3-time All-American [scored a school record 50 points: Jan 1, 1938], revolutionized game with his one-handed shot; died Dec 17, 20021917 - Katharine Graham
publisher: The Washington Post; won Pulitzer Prize for her memoir, Personal History [1998]; died July 17, 20011920 - John (Howard) Griffin
author: Black like Me [his journal posing as African American], Nuni, The Devil Rides Outside, The John Howard Griffin Reader; died Sep 9, 19801934 - Bill Cobbs
actor: Night at the Museum, The Sopranos, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Outer Limits, I’ll Fly Away, Yes, Dear, Six Feet Under, The Others, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, October Road, One Tree Hill, Go On, Air Bud, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Hudsucker Proxy, That Thing You Do1937 - Erich Segal
writer: Love Story, Acts of Faith, Man, Woman and Child, Oliver’s Story; died Jan 17, 20101938 - Joyce Carol Oates
novelist: The Time Traveler, Triumph of the Spider Monkey1939 - Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock
singer: Don’t Destroy Me, Ruby, Baby, Rub It In, Sea Cruise1941 - Lamont Dozier
songwriter: team: Holland-Dozier Holland: Baby Love, I Can’t Help Myself; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; solo: Why Can’t We Be Lovers, Trying to Hold on to My Woman1942 - Eddie Levert
singer: group: The O’Jays: Love Train, Back Stabbers1943 - Joan Van Ark
actress: Knots Landing, Tainted Blood, Frogs1945 - Ian Matthews (McDonald)
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Fairport Convention: Book Song; Matthew’s Southern Comfort: Woodstock; solo: I Survived the ’70s, LPs: If You Saw Through My Eyes, Tigers Will Survive, Stealin’ Home, Spot of Interference, Discreet Repeat1946 - Derek Sanderson
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins: shares season record for shorthanded goals scored [3 in 1969], NY Rangers, SL Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins1948 - Ron LeFlore
baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1976], Montreal Expos [stole 97 bases: 1980], Chicago White Sox1951 - Roberto Duran
boxing: champion: WBA Lightweight, WBC Lightweight, WBC Welterweight, WBA Light Middleweight, WBC Middleweight, WBA Junior Middleweight; record: 101-13 [69 KOs]1951 - Stan (Stanley Arthur) Wall
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers1952 - Gino Vannelli
singer, songwriter: I Just Wanna Stop, Living Inside Myself1953 - Valerie Mahaffey
Emmy Award-winning actress: Northern Exposure [1992]; Newhart, Cheers, Seinfeld, National Lampoon’s Senior Trip, Jungle 2 Jungle, ER, Seabiscuit, United States of Tara, Quantum Leap, L.A. Law, Ally McBeal, Judging Amy, The West Wing, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Frasier, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Private Practice, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, Raising Hope, Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids1955 - Laurie Metcalf
Emmy Award-winning actress: Roseanne [1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994]; A Dangerous Woman, JFK, Pacific Heights, Uncle Buck, Desperately Seeking Susan1959 - Warrior (James Brian Hellwig)
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania IV/V/VI/VII,VIII,XII, Royal Rumble, WCW Monday Nitro1962 - Wally Joyner
baseball: California Angels, KC Royals, SD Padres, Atlanta Braves1962 - Arnold Vosloo
actor: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Morenga, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Darkman III: Die Darkman Die1964 - Danny Burstein
(Tony Award-winning actor: South Pacific [2008]; The Drowsy Chaperone, Nor’easter, Duane Incarnate, Transamerica, Deception; TV: Absolutely Fabulous [BBC], Louie [FX], Boardwalk Empire [HBO]; video game voice: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: IV1964 - Doane Perry
author, composer, musician: drums: group: Jethro Tull [since 1984]1968 - James Patrick Stuart
actor: Gods and Generals, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Exit to Eden, Pretty Woman, Conquest of the Earth; son of Chad Stuart of the 60s pop duo Chad & Jeremy1969 - Kevin Young
baseball: Southern Mississippi Univ; Pittsburgh Pirates, KC Royals, Minnesota Twins1970 - Michael Husted
football [kicker]: Univ of Virginia; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs1970 - Phil (Alfred) Mickelson
golf champ: six majors; dozens of PGA Tour victories; dozens of PGA Tour victories)1970 - Matt Turk
football [punter]: Wisconsin-Whitewater; NFL: Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins1971 - Chris Gomez
baseball: Loyola Marymount; Detroit Tigers, SD Padres, TB Devil Rays, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles1971 - Tupac Shakur
rapper: Runnin’, Letter to the President, Hail Mary, Keep Ya Head Up, Temptations, So Many Tears, Unconditional Love; victim of drive-by shooting in Las Vegas NV Sep 7, 1996 -- died of gunshot wounds Sep 13, 19961972 - John Cho
actor: Harold & Kumar film series, American Pie film series, Better Luck Tomorrow, Yellow, Star Trek film series [2009, 2013], FlashForward, Off Centre, Sleepy Hollow1973 - Eddie Cibrian
actor: Rosewood, Sunset Beach, CSI: Miami, Third Watch, Invasion, Working Miracles, Hot in Cleveland, Healing Hands, Chase, The Playboy Club, Rizzoli & Isles, Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, Good Deeds1975 - Frederick Koehler
actor: Mr. Mom, Kate and Allie, A Kiss Before Dying, Pearl Harbor1975 - Chris McAllister
hockey: Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers, Colorado Avalanche, NY Rangers1976 - Anthony Carter
basketball [guard]: Univ of Hawaii; NBA: Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, Minnesota Timberwolves1977 - Kerry Wood
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago Cubs1978 - Daniel Brühl
actor: Inglourious Basterds, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Fifth Estate, Rush1978 - Dainius Zubrus
hockey: Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals1979 - Dana DeArmond
actress [2005-2013]: X-rated films: Trapped and Wrapped, Blue Light Project, Bitchcraft, iTouch Myself, Dana DeArmond’s Pornstar Vacation1982 - Missy Peregrym
actress: FBI, Stick It, Heroes, Reaper, Rookie Blue, Smallville, Catwoman, Black Sash, Dark Angel1987 - Abby Elliott
actress: Saturday Night Live [2008–2012], 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother, Inside Amy Schumer
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