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Events on This Day
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.1884 - Larry Corcoran pitched his third no-hit baseball game, leading Chicago to a 6-0 win over Providence. Corcoran set a baseball record for no-hitters for the feat.
1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. The patent was granted on May 4, 1886.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from submarines on New York’s Long Island and Florida’s Ponte Vedra Beach.
1949 - Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network. Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio’s Green Hornet, Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955. Maybe, if you check the basement or the attic, you’ll find your Captain Video decoder ring. Now’s the time to use it, kids!
1950 - President Harry S Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North. The U.S. sent 35 military advisers to South Vietnam and agreed to provide military and economic aid to the anti-Communist government.
1952 - The Immigration and Nationality Act was passed, ending the last racial and ethnic barriers to naturalization.
1955 - The first Wide Wide World was broadcast on NBC-TV. Dave Garroway, of the Today show, was the program host.
1958 - After nearly three years on NBC-TV, Matinee Theatre was seen for the final time. And a good thing, too. Critics called the show one of the most successful failures in theatrical history.
1959 - West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 732 performances on Broadway. The show remains one of the brightest highlights in the history of the Great White Way.
1962 - Two albums of melancholy music by Jackie Gleason received gold record honors. Music, Martinis and Memories and Music for Lovers Only got the gold. Both were issued by Capitol Records in Hollywood.
1963 - Brenda Lee inked a new recording contract with Decca Records. She was guaranteed one million dollars over the following 20 years.
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It did not turn out to be one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages. The couple broke up 32 days later.
1966 - Dark Shadows began its popular run as a daily serial on ABC-TV. The show became a popular late-afternoon favorite for several seasons, then reappeared as a prime-time revival for a short, two-month run in 1991.
1969 - New York City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change. Many feel that the Gay Liberation Movement had its beginnings with the Stonewall Inn Riots. (See 1999 below.)
1970 - The Jackson 5: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy and Michael, jumped to number one on the music charts with The Love You Save. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. It was the third of four number one hits in a row for the group. The other three were I Want You Back, ABC and I’ll Be There. In 15 years (from 1969 to 1984), The Jackson 5/Jacksons had 23 hits, scored two platinum singles (Enjoy Yourself and Shake Your Body [Down to the Ground]) and one gold record (State of Shock).
1971 - Promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York City. It was a spin-off of San Francisco’s legendary rock ’n’ roll palace, Fillmore West (closed several days later). The Allman Brothers and J. Geils Band were among those performing on the final night. The New York City landmark and its San Francisco sister hosted just about every major rock group of the 1960s.
1972 - Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000, as he became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.
1975 - Sonny and Cher (Bono) called it quits as husband and wife. They were divorced soon after their CBS-TV variety show was canceled. Sonny went on to become mayor of Palm Springs and then a U.S. Congressman from California. (He was killed Jan 5, 1998 in a skiing accident.) Cher married rocker Gregg Alman just days after saying “bye-bye” to Sonny. She continued her recording career and became an Academy Award-winning actress.
1978 - The first dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, was launched.
1980 - The the National Anthem Act, making O Canada Canada's national anthem, was unanimously accepted by the House of Commons and the Senate. Royal assent was also given this day. O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallee and Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was officially proclaimed Canada’s national anthem on July 1, 1980.
1981 - Hi Infidelity, by REO Speedwagon, was replaced at number one by the LP, Mistaken Identity, by singer Kim Carnes. Hi Infidelity had been number one on the album charts for 14 weeks.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma) that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) contracts with ABC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting were said to violate federal anti-trust laws.
1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round. Fight fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall had paid big bucks (up to $1,500) to see this one. The match, touted in advance as “Once and for All” was all over in 91 seconds. No report on how many people blinked at the wrong time.
1990 - Jose Canseco signed a record $4,700,000 (per-year) baseball contract with the Oakland A’s. It was a five-year, $23.5 million deal.
1991 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement. Marshall was the first black to sit on the Court.
1992 - Michael Jackson kicked off the Dangerous Tour in Munich, Germany. 70,000 fans saw Jackson, with a helmet on and a fake rocket pack on his back, appear to fly off stage (or, maybe he really did). The tour would continue through November 11 stopping in some 42 cities.
1993 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett were wed in Marion, IN. The marriage ended in divorce March 22, 1995.
1995 - 71st U.S. space shuttle mission (STS-71), Atlantis, was launched. The shuttle was to dock later with the Russian space station Mir, pick up three scientists (including American Norman E. Thagard), and drop off a relief crew.
1996 - Film producer Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli died at 87 years of age. Together with Harry Saltzman, Broccoli produced the James Bond series of films.
1997 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Face/Off, with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage; and the animated Hercules, featuring the voices of Tate Donovan, Joshua Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny Devito, James Woods, Susan Egan, Rip Torn, Samantha Eggar, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Frewer, Patrick Pinney, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Barrie, Paul Shaffer and the narrator Charlton Heston.
1999 - Juli Inkster won the LPGA Championship in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the second woman to win the modern Grand Slam in the LPGA. Of the eight players who have won the four major championships of their era, no one took as long as Inkster: 16 seasons from the time she won the Dinah Shore as a rookie [1984] to her victory in the LPGA Championship as a 39-year-old mother.
1999 - Sporting leather thongs, feather boas and political banners, gays and lesbians took to streets around the world in festive pride parades. The 29th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration took place in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Manila and many other cities. Among the organizations taking part were the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a gay veterans group, an antique auto club for gays and Roman Catholics in favor of gay rights. The pride marches commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village (New York) fought back against a police raid. The bar, the Stonewall Inn, is now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. (See 1969 above.)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, former Greek dictator, who led a military junta which tortured and jailed thousands of Greeks from 1967 to 1973, died. He was 80 years old.
2001 - Actor Jack Lemmon died in Los Angeles at age 76. Lemmon, whose roles ranged from brash or befuddled young men to grumpy old ones and who formed one of cinema’s great odd couples with late partner Walter Matthau, died at the University of L.A.’s Norris Cancer Center with his wife, actress Felicia Farr, and children at his side. Jack Lemmon, whose ability to play both comic and serious roles endeared him to audiences as a sort of American ‘Everyman’, died of complications from cancer.
2002 - In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that tuition vouchers (for private and/or religous schools) are constitutional.
2003 - Movies opening in the U.S.: 28 Days Later, starring Noah Huntley, Megan Burns, Bindu De Stoppani, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris, Jukka Hiltunen, Luke Mably, Cillian Murphy and Ray Panthaki; and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Robert Patrick, Luke Wilson, Bernie Mac, Matt LeBlanc, Justin Theroux, Crispin Glover, Demi Moore, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaclyn Smith (cameo), Mary-Kate Olsen (cameo), Ashley Olsen (cameo), John Cleese, Tommy Flanagan, Pink (cameo) and Bruce Willis (cameo).
2004 - Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans wearing white staged a silent march through the heart of Mexico City in a show of protest against kidnappings, violent crimes and the failures of law enforcement to curb them.
2005 - The U.S. Supreme Court (1) ruled that Kentucky could not display framed copies of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses; (2) allowed the Texas statehouse to keep the commandments as part of a display on its grounds; (3) ruled that cable-TV companies were not required to share their high-speed Internet connections with rivals; and (4) ruled that Grokster and other online file swappers could be held responsible for widespread copyright infringement.
2005 - BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill) killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to ten counts of first-degree murder, admitting to the series of slayings that terrorized Wichita, Kansas from 1974-1991.
2006 - U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona reported that secondhand smoke dramatically increases the risk of heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmokers.
2006 - A U.S. federal court in Hawaii authorized compensation of $2,000 each to 7,500 victims of human rights abuses under the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
2007 - Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) debuted in U.S. theatres. The action, crime, thriller stars Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Timothy Olyphant, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jonathan Sadowski.
2007 - After a six-month investigation, Chinese inspectors said industrial oils, acid, cancer-causing chemicals and other dangerous ingredients have been found in thousands of foods. Authorities said they had closed 180 food manufacturers found to have used industrial chemicals and additives in food products.
2007 - A Swiss investigator said European governments had built a wall of silence surrounding their complicity with a U.S. CIA program that included holding terrorist suspects in secret jails.
2007 - Power blackouts hit 13 locations in Athens as 95 fires were reported across Greece amid a heat wave that had killed dozens of people in southeast Europe over the previous week.
2008 - New movies in the U.S.: Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot, with Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Donte Greene, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love, Kyle Singler and Lance Stephenson; Trumbo, featuring Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Danny Glover, Peter Hanson, Nathan Lane and Donald Sutherland; the animated WALL•E, with the voices of Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger and Kathy Najimy; and Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common and Angelina Jolie.
2008 - In a big show, recorded by international and regional TV broadcasters invited to witness the event, North Korea destroyed what it said was the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor. “It’s symbolic. But in real terms, whether demolishing or not a cooling tower that has already been disabled doesn’t make much difference,” said Lee Ji-sue, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Myongji University.
2008 - Settlement documents were filed for Steven Hatfill, a former Fort Detrick, MD U.S. Army scientist. He had been named in 2002 as a person of interest in those 2001 anthrax attacks. Hatfill was to receive $5.8 million to settle his lawsuit against the Justice Department, after he claimed investigators violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case -- and what they considered to be his connection to it.
2008 - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton began a joint campaign in Unity, New Hampshire. It was an attempt to display newfound harmony after their brusing campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
2008 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control said at least 810 Americans had been sickened by Salmonella in vegetables. As of Aug 25, the CDC had received reports that 1,442 people had been infected -- at least 286 of whom were hospitalized. By September 2008, although no firm conclusions were reached on the particular food that caused the illnesses, jalapeño peppers from a Mexican farm were considered the prime suspect. Serrano peppers and tomatoes also were grown on the same farm and may have played a role.
2009 - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was ordered by a U.S. District Judge to forfeit $171 billion. The order stripped Madoff of virtually all of his possessions just days before prosecutors sought to put him in prison for the rest of his life.
2009 - U.S. TV networks continued their wall-to-wall coverage of the death of pop star Michael Jackson. Meanwhile, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson reported that Michael Jackson’s family wanted an independent autopsy following the pop star’s sudden death on June 25, 2009 at age 50.
2010 - Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner under a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the country. The pair was among the first gay couples to marry under the new law.
2011 - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was convicted in Chicago of a wide range of corruption charges, including trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
2011 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to let California regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children. The Court ruled that governments do not have the power to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints about graphic violence.
2012 - Firefighters struggled with the Waldo Canyon Fire at the edge of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The blaze that forced 32,000 people from their homes, prompted evacuations from the U.S. Air Force Academy and consumed 346 homes was not declared 100% contained until July 10, 2012. But as of August 27, it was still an actively burning fire.
2012 - Austrian police stopped 3 overloaded vans about to cross into Hungary and found them packed with 9.5 tons of stolen garlic, valued at $37,500, apparently stolen in Spain. Police did not need sniffer dogs to know what kind of contraband they had captured.
2013 - Kevin Rudd was sworn in as Australian prime minister three years and three days after he was ousted from the same job. Rudd forced Julia Gillard out in nearly the same way that she had ousted him in 2010.
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included, Transformers: Age of Extinction, starring Nicola Peltz, Mark Wahlberg, T.J. Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Ken Watanabe, John Goodman and Sophia Myles; the documentary, America; La Bare, with Joe Manganiello, Nick Soto and Lance Winters; Drones, starring Amir Khalighi, Mae Aswell and Vivan Dugré ; the documentary, The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz; Snowpiercer, with Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Tilda Swinton; They Came Together, starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Cobie Smulders, Christopher Meloni, Max Greenfield, Bill Hader and Ellie Kemper; and the documentary, Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger.
2014 - California’s Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District approved $76 million to install steel cable nets beneath the edges of the GG bridge to prevent suicides.
2015 - A protester scaled a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina state legislature and removed the Confederate flag. Bree Newsome, a black woman, and James Ian Tyson, a white man, were later charged with defacing a monument.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-3 to stike down the widely replicated Texas rules that sharply reduced abortion clinics. By a 5-3 vote, the justices held that the regulations were medically unnecessary and unconstitutionally limited women’s right to abortions.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump rolled back the 2015 Obama clean water policy that had protected more than half of all U.S. streams from pollution.
2018 - The U.S. Supreme Court barred public employee unions from collecting representation fees from nonmember workers.
2018 - Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the ban on civil partnerships for heterosexual couples was incompatible with human rights laws. The ruling paved the way for legalized parterships (instead of marriages).
2019 - Frontrunner Joe Biden faced repeated criticism on multiple fronts from his Democratic rivals in a debate televised from Miami, Florida. In the standout moment of the two-night event, Senator Kamala Harris sharply criticized Biden’s musings about his past productive work with segregationist senators. (“At least there was some civility. We got things done,” Biden had said.)
2019 - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census. This, over doubts about the Trump administration’s rationale. “The reasoned explanation requirement of administrative law, after all, is meant to ensure that agencies offer genuine justifications for important decisions, reasons that can be scrutinized by courts and the interested public,”the opinion continued. “Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise. If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case.” “This case has never been about a line on a form,” Dale Ho, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who argued the case, said in a statement. “It is about whether everyone in America counts. This ruling means they do.”
2020 - American intelligence officials said a Russian military intelligence unit was offering bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing foreign soldiers in Afghanistan -- including targeting Americans.
2020 - The state of Georgia reported a new high in coronavirus cases -- almost 2,000. The 7-day average had nearly tripled since late May.
2020 - The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to remove the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school because of his segregationist views -- reversing a decision the Ivy League school made four years earlier to retain the name. Wilson served as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. He then served as the 28th U.S. president from 1913 to 1921, supported segregation and imposed it on several federal agencies not racially divided up to that point. He also barred Black students from Princeton while serving as university president and spoke approvingly of the Ku Klux Klan.
2021 - The temperature reached 112 degrees at Portland (Oregon) International Airport -- the highest temperature recorded there since historical records began in 1940.
2022 - Australia launched its first rocket in 25 years -- to establish NASA’s first commercial spaceport outside the U.S. The rocket was Nasa’s first of three to blast off from the newly constructed Arnhem Space Centre on the edge of the Northern Territory.
2022 - Vladimir Putin’s forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. The rockets hit the Amstor shopping mall and the Kredmash road machinery plant. A fire broke out and the attack killed 20 people and injured dozens more. The U.K. Ministry of Defence stated that Russia’s use of the anti-ship missiles against ground targets, “are highly inaccurate and therefore can cause severe collateral damage and casualties.”
2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state school district violated the religious freedom of a former high school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, who lost his job after holding postgame prayers on the 50-yard line. Kennedy led the prayers for years, and refused to stop after the Bremerton School District asked him to because administrators feared the district could be sued for violating students’ religious rights. The 6-3 conservative majority said the First Amendment clause against the establishment of religion doesn’t require the government to “single out religious speech for special disfavor.” The court’s three liberal justices said in a dissent that the ruling weakened “the nation’s longstanding commitment to the separation of church and state.”
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Birthdays on This Day June 27
1859 - Mildred J. Hill
teacher, musician, composer [lyrics by her younger sister Patty Smith Hill]: Happy Birthday to You, originally: Good Morning to All; died Jun 5, 19161880 - Helen Keller
author, educator; advocated new policies to help the blind live in normal surroundings; died Jun 1, 19681907 - John (Herrick) McIntire
actor: Wagon Train, Honkytonk Man, Rooster Cogburn, Summer and Smoke, Psycho, Elmer Gantry; died Jan 30, 19911908 - Bill Kennedy
actor: host: Bill Kennedy at the Movies; actor: Male and Female Since Adam and Eve, Died a Thousand Times, Red Planet Mars, Nevada Badmen, Abilene Trail, I Shot Billy the Kid; died Jan 27, 19971909 - Billy Curtis
actor: The Adventures of Superpup, Head Office, Eating Raoul, High Plains Drifter, Out of Sight, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jungle Moon Men, Adventures of Superman; died Nov 9, 19881912 - Audrey Christie
actress Splendor in the Grass, Harper Valley P.T.A., Frankie and Johnny; died Dec 19, 19891913 - Willie Mosconi
billiards champ: World American Straight Pool champion: 6 times between 1941-1956; died Sep 12, 19931920 - I.A.L. Diamond
screen writer: Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Apartment; died Apr 21, 19881923 - Elmo Hope
musician: piano: group: The Elmo Hope Trio; died May 19, 19671924 - Rosalie Allen (Julie Bedra)
country singer/yodeler: Guitar Polka, Yodel Boogie, He Taught Me How to Yodel; Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Famer; died Sep 24, 20031925 - (Jerome) Doc Pomus
songwriter: Boogie Woogie Country Girl, Lonely Avenue; w/Mort Shuman: A Teenager in Love, Turn Me Loose, Can’t Get Used to Losing You, Save the Last Dance for Me, This Magic Moment; Jerry Wexler [Atlantic Records co-owner]: “If the music industry had a heart, it would be Doc Pomus.”; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1992]; died Mar 14, 19911926 - Don (Bones) Raleigh
hockey: NHL: New York Rangers; died Aug 21, 20121927 - Bob Keeshan
children’s TV host: Captain Kangaroo Clown Hall of Famer; died Jan 23, 2004
1930 - H. Ross Perot
billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, U.S. presidential hopeful [1992, 1996]; died Jul 9, 20191931 - Charles Bronfman
billionaire industrialist: Seagrams, Montreal Expos1931 - Eddie (Edward Michael) Kasko
baseball: SL Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961/all-star: 1961], Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox; died Jun 24, 20201932 - Anna Moffo
opera singer: Metropolitan Opera [1959-1969]; died Mar 9, 20061933 - Gary Crosby
actor: Lady Chatterley, The Night Stalker, Partners in Crime, Which Way to the Front?, Girl Happy, Operation Bikini; son of crooner Bing Crosby; died Aug 24, 19951938 - Shirley Anne Field
actress: The EntertainerHear My Song, Shag: The Movie, Getting It Right, Two by Forsyth, My Beautiful Laundrette, House of the Living Dead, Alfie1940 - Sandra Smith
actress: The Interns1941 - Errol Mann
football: Oakland Raiders kicker: Super Bowl XI1942 - Frank Mills
musician: piano: Music Box Dancer1943 - Rico (Americo Peter) Petrocelli
baseball: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967, 1975/all-star: 1967, 1969]1944 - Doug Buffone
football: Chicago Bears; died Apr 20, 20151945 - Norma Kamali
fashion designer1948 - Vernon Holland
football: Tennessee State Univ., Cincinnati Bengals; died Apr 20, 19981949 - Vera Wang
fashion designer, former figure skater: known for her bridesmaid gowns, wedding gown collections, and figure skating dresses for competitions and exhibitions1950 - James Daughton
actor: National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Beach Girls, Fantasy Island, Spies Like Us, House of the Rising Sun, Sorority Boys1951 - Julia Duffy
actress: Designing Women, Newhart, Children in the Crossfire, Night Warning1955 - Isabelle Adjani
actress: Queen Margot, Ishtar, Subway, The Tenant, The Story of Adele H, The Slap1959 - Lorrie (Loretta Lynn) Morgan
singer, songwriter; daughter of country singer George Morgan1960 - Craig Hodges
basketball: Chicago Bulls1961 - John McCarthy
composer: films: Tempo, Another Day, Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, Virtual Mom, Milgaard, Kipper Kids, Recipe for Revenge1962 - Michael Ball
singer: Love Changes Everything; stage actor/singer: Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love1966 - J.J. Abrams
film writer, producer: Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Armageddon, Cloverfield, Felicity, Alias, Lost, Star Trek [2009], Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission: Impossible III, Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker1966 - Jeff Conine
baseball: UCLA; KC Royals, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles1966 - Eric Kretz
musician: drums: group: Stone Temple Pilots: Sour Girl, Sex and Violence, Down, Revolution, Vasoline, Wicked Garden, Big Empty, Plush1970 - Jim Edmonds
baseball [center fielder]: California / Anaheim Angels [1993–1999], St. Louis Cardinals [2000–2007], San Diego Padres [2008], Chicago Cubs [2008], Milwaukee Brewers [2010], Cincinnati Reds [2010]; 8× Gold Glove Award winner: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 20051970 - Robi Rosa
songwriter: Livin’ La Vida Loca; singer: Frio, Vagabundo; actor: Salsa1974 - Eric Cairns
hockey: NY Islanders, NY Rangers1975 - Tobey Maguire
actor: Great Scott, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man1975 - Daryle Ward
baseball: Houston Astros, LA Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates1976 - Johnny Estrada
baseball [catcher]: College of the Sequoias; Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves1976 - Chris Woodward
baseball [shortstop, second base]: Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves1978 - Malik Allen
basketball [forward]: Villanova Univ; NBA: Miami Heat, Charlotte Bobcats, Chicago Bulls1979 - Lauren Hill
Playboy magazine covergirl [Miss February 2001]; actress: Heavy Weights, Made in Heaven, Entourage, Baywatch1984 - Emma Lahana
actress: The Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, Haven, Heartland, Trading Christmas, Big Time Movie, Emily Owens, M.D.1986 - Drake Bell
actor: Drake & Josh, The Amanda Show, Chasing Destiny, High Fidelity, Dragonworld: The Legend Continues, Jerry Maguire, The Neon Bible1986 - Sam Claflin
actor: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Snow White & the Huntsman, White Heat, Mary and Martha, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire1987 - Ed Westwick
actor: Gossip Girl, Children of Men, Californication, J. Edgar1988 - Julius Thomas
football [tight end]: NFL: Denver Broncos [2011–2014]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII; Jacksonville Jaguars [2015–2016]; Miami Dolphins [2017]1989 - Matthew Lewis
actor: Harry Potter film series, The Sweet Shop, Our Boys, Wasteland, The Sweet Shop, The Night of the Loving Dead, The Syndicate1990 - Bobby Wagner
football [linebacker]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2012– ]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs, 2015 Super Bowl XLIX1997 - Gabi Wilson aka H.E.R.
singer: Could’ve Been, Best Part, Focus, Slow Down, Damage
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Hit Music on This Day June 27
1950My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched (facts) - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
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