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1894 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed an act of Congress, making Labor Day a federal holiday in the U.S. The first Monday of September is when Labor Day is celebrated as a salute to working men and women across the country.1907 - The Washington Nationals stole 13 bases in a single baseball game against the New York Highlanders. The New York catcher, incidentally, fared far better as a baseball executive in later years. That catcher became baseball commissioner Branch Rickey.
1914 - World War I began. Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated while at what is now known as Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1919 - With the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, World War I ended - exactly five years after it began.
1919 - Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Wallace became Bess Truman when she married the future U.S. President, Harry S Truman.
1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It became known as the United States Bullion Depository.
1937 - In a poll conducted by a New York City newspaper, players for the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers said they opposed the proposed baseball players’ union.
1939 - Pan American Airways began regular transatlantic air service as the Dixie Clipper left the Port Washington terminal at Manhasset Bay, Long Island Sound bound Portugal.
1940 - As a summer replacement for blind, piano virtuoso Alec Templeton, The Quiz Kids was first heard on radio. The show continued on NBC until 1953.
1943 - The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC radio. Jane Wyman (the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan) starred in the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.
1944 - The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC radio. It was a summer replacement for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC lineup. Young, incidentally, made the switch to TV in 1961. He became a CBS star with a talking horse, of course, of course, named Mister Ed.
1948 - Football star Tom Harmon announced his retirement from professional football. Harmon later became one of the big names in sportscasting for ABC radio and TV.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, capital city of South Korea.
1951 - An old favorite of radio audiences made the switch to TV. Amos ’n’ Andy moved to CBS-TV. Two years later, a protest by the NAACP forced the network to drop the show.
1964 - Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
1967 - Israel formally declared Jerusalem to be reunified under Israeli sovereignty following the capture of the Arab sector in the June 1967 war.
1968 - The Uniform Holiday Bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law moved the celebration of Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in February; Memorial Day to the last Monday in May; and Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. Johnson said, “The bill that we sign today will help Americans to enjoy more fully the country that is their magnificent heritage. It will also aid the work of Government and bring new efficiency to our economy.”
1970 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Cassius Clay’s draft evasion conviction.
1975 - Rod Serling died when complications developed after coronary bypass surgery. The writer and director of the TV series Twilight Zone was 50 years old.
1976 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych was called “...the most interesting player since Dizzy Dean” on ABC’s nationally televised coverage of a Tigers-Yankees match-up. The 21-year-old rookie sensation led the Tigers past the Yankees and made the All-Star team two weeks after the TV appearance.
1976 - Women entered the Air Force Academy for the first time on this day. President Gerald R. Ford had actually opened the door by signed legislation [Oct 7, 1975] allowing women to enter the nation’s military academies. The first Air Force Academy class with women graduated in May 1980.
1979 - Billie Jean King defeated Linda Siegel with a first at the 102-year-old Wimbledon tennis championships. Not only did King defeat Siegel, but in an embarrassing moment, Siegel, wearing a plunging neckline tennis top became partly naked when the neckline plunged too far.
1981 - Jerry Pate won the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic after three years of disappointment on the men’s PGA tour. Pate celebrated with a birdie on the last hole. He was so excited, Pate handed his putter and his sun visor to his caddie and jumped into the lake that bordered the 18th green.
1985 - A survey by the U.S. Transportation Department indicated that 42 percent of drivers polled said that they drove faster than the legal 55 MPH speed limit. Three motorists out of four confessed to driving faster on the nation’s interstate highways. Slow down and buckle up, please. I’m Chief Matthews. Now back to the show...
1985 - Route 66, the 59-year-old highway of 2,200 miles of blacktop, was decertified as a U.S. highway. The highway that was a legendary part of Americana saw highway crews removing the classic roadway shield-markers that designated it as the highway west. Route 66 started in Chicago, Illinois and continued into Santa Monica, California. To travel from one end of Route 66 to the other, one would go through eight states and three time zones.
1987 - American League baseball hitters put their batting faces on as the league combined to hit a record 28 home runs in a seven-game day.
1988 - Founder Berry Gordy Jr. sold Motown Records to MCA Records and Boston Ventures, an investment firm, for $61 million.
1992 - A very strong earthquake shook the high desert of Southern California at 4:57 a.m. The M7.3 earthquake was centered on the eastern side of the San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Landers. The quake was the largest to strike California since the Kern County M7.7 earthquake in 1952. Vigorous rocking and rolling was felt 100 miles away in L.A. and the quake was felt as far away as Central California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Property damage: $56 million, including collapsed buildings, ruptured utility lines and widespread nonstructural damage. Human toll: One killed, 25 seriously injured, 372 treated for some sort of earthquake-related injuries, millions awakened with nightmares for weeks.
1994 - The U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced it would begin experimenting with a UV (ultraviolet) Index, “To enhance public awareness of the effects of overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, and to provide the public with actions they can take to reduce harmful effects of overexposure, which may include skin cancer, cataracts and immune suppression.”
1996 - The Citadel, which had fought to keep one woman from enrolling as a cadet in its all-male military academy in 1993, abruptly ended its opposition to enrolling qualified female cadets. The change of policy happened after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar all-male policy at the Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The court said the school could not refuse to accept women while receiving federal or state tax dollars. Had the Citadel decided to retain its 153-year-old men-only policy, it would have lost public tax dollars. As usual, money talked.
1996 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Nutty Professor, with Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, David Chappelle, John Ales and Larry Miller; and Striptease, starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames and Robert Patrick.
1997 - The headlines screamed: “Fight Bites into MGM Earnings,” “Bit Part for Tyson,” “Pay-Per-Chew Bout,” and the one that said it all, “Tyson Disqualified After Ripping Piece of Holyfield’s Ear.” Needless to say (but we will anyway), Evander Holyfield retained his World Boxing Association heavyweight championship after Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Holyfield, not once, but twice. The Nevada Athletic Commission revoked Mike Tyson’s boxing license for a year and fined him $3 million.
1999 - Announcing large projected budget surpluses, U.S. President Bill Clinton said the government could drastically reduce the national debt while still buttressing Social Security and Medicare.
2000 - The Patriot opened in U.S. theatres. The Revolutionary War drama stars Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs and Chris Cooper.
2001 - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2002 - These films opened in the U.S.: Hey Arnold! The Movie, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Sorvino, Spencer Klein, Jamil Smith, Francesca Marie Smith and Dan Castellaneta; Lovely and Amazing, starring Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dermot Mulroney, Raven Goodwin and James Le Gros; the romantic comedy Mr. Deeds, with Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Jared Harris and Peter Gallagher; and Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan and Sam Bal.
2003 - The Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium opened in Dubuque, IA.
2003 - Lawyer, academic Beatriz Merino, Peru’s first female Prime Minister, was sworn in, pledging to bring discipline and austerity to her beleaguered government. Her supporters hoped that her appointment would help salvage Alejandro Toledo’s presidency.
2004 - The Liberal Party of Canada suffered heavy losses forcing PM Paul Martin to establish the first minority government since 1979.
2005 - Internet search leader Google unveiled its free 3-D satellite mapping technology, Google Earth.
2005 - Canada’s House of Commons passed legislation, drafted by Prime Minister Paul Martin, to legalize gay marriage in spite of fierce opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders. The act became law on July 20, 2005, making Canada the third country in the world to gay legalize marriage.
2006 - The U.N. General Assembly unanimously admitted the newly independent Republic of Montenegro as the 192nd member of the world body.
2006 - The NBA (National Basketball Association) approved the switch to a synthetic basketball that promised improved control and more dunks for the following season. FLASH (Dec 11, 2006): After months of controversy, minor injuries, and complaints from coaches and players’ union reps, the NBA announced that it was abandoning the synthetic microfiber ball and returning to the old standard leather basketball.
2007 - Israeli President Moshe Katzav agreed to resign under an unexpected plea bargain that included no jail time for sex crimes, ending a year-long investigation. Allegations asserted that Katsav had sexually harassed up to 10 women, including one woman’s charge of rape.
2007 - The CN Tower in Toronto showed off its high-efficiency LED lighting, with millions of color combinations that will flow up and down the 53-meter (1,815-foot) tower during holidays and special occasions.
2007 - Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez visited Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin. Economic affairs and military-technical cooperation were on the agenda.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) declared a state of emergency in California and ordered federal aid to help the state battle more than 1,000 wildfires burning out of control.
2008 - Omar Aquino (24) and his sister, Teresa Sanchez (27), were shot to death in their home in Mountain View, CA. Police later determined that Aquino and Sanchez were victims of a conspiracy that included seven young people communicating with cellular text messages.
2009 - Swiss police reported that they had uncovered a child pornography ring involving more than 2,000 people in 78 countries. The ring involved some 2,000 Internet IP addresses.
2009 - TV commercial pitchman Billy Mays died at 50 years of age. Mays was well-known in the U.S. for his OxiClean infomercials. The boisterous pitchman aired on commercials hundreds of times a week nationwide showing off his latest product or gadget. He died of a heart attack at his Tampa home, but an autopsy later revealed that cocaine use contributed to his heart disease.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court held that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live. The 5-4 vote extended principles the court had laid out in 2008, when it struck down a handgun ban in Washington, DC.
2010 - The FBI announced the arrests of ten deep cover Russian agents after tracking the suspects for years. They were accused of attempting to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles while posing as ordinary citizens.
2011 - The United Nations declared rinderpest disease to have been wiped off the face of the Earth. The U.N. program to eradicate the animal disease began in 1945 and cost some $5 billion over the years. Rinderpest was the first animal disease to be officially declared eradicated – and only the second disease ever to be wiped out. Smallpox was the other.
2012 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the heart of President Obama’s health care law, ruling that the government could compel Americans to buy health insurance. The complex 5-4 decision was a major legal boost for the president just months before he would face voters for re-election. It also complicated matters for Republicans on Capitol Hill, who had turned to the courts after their repeated efforts to repeal the law fell short. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who wrote the controlling opinion, attempted a delicate balancing act, saying the Commerce and Necessary and Proper clauses of the Constitution could not be bent to compel Americans to buy insurance, but it is allowed under Congress’s tax and spending powers, which are broader, but are subject to the checks of the political system.
2013 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: The Heat, starring Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, Tony Hale, Marlon Wayans, Ben Falcone, Demián Bichir and Kaitlin Olson; White House Down, with Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Joey King, James Woods, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Rachelle Lefevre; 100 Bloody Acres, starring Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan, Oliver Ackland, Jamie Kristian, and John Jarratt; the documentary, A Band Called Death, featuring Alice Cooper, Bobby Hackney, Dannis Hackney, David Hackney and Henry Rollins; Byzantium, with Saoirse Ronan, Barry Cassin, Gemma Arterton, David Heap, Warren Brown, Ruby Snape, Thure Lindhardt and Jenny Kavanagh; Copperhead, starring François Arnaud, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, Billy Campbell, Mary Fay Coady, Josh Cruddas and Ryan Doucette; Redemption, with Jason Statham, Vicky McClure, Lee Asquith-Coe, Senem Temiz, Ian Pirie, Siobhan Hewlett, Agata Buzek and Benedict Wong; I’m So Excited, starring Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Coté Soler, Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Laya Martí and Javier Cámara; and Some Girl(s), with Kristen Bell, Jennifer Morrison, Adam Brody, Emily Watson, Zoe Kazan, Mía Maestro, Laura Perloe and Kathleen Christy.
2013 - Ruport Murdoch’s News Corporation split into two parts: 21st Century Fox and News Corp. 21st Century Fox includes the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, Fox Sports 1 cable sports channel and the Fox movie studio.
2014 - China, India and Myanmar celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, signed in Peking in 1954. The five pinciples are:
1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
2. Mutual non-aggression.
3. Mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs.
4. Equality and cooperation for mutual benefit.
5. Peaceful co-existence.2015 - A New York state police sergeant shot and wounded escaped convict David Sweat in the town of Constable. “The nightmare is finally over,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters. The capture came more than three weeks after Sweat escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. Richard Matt, who escaped with Sweat, had been shot and killed by a border patrol SWAT team some 50 miles away from the prison.
2016 - World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H.), released its annual report. The Massachusetts-based organization cited toy guns, kiddie pools, hover boards and backyard trampolines in the list of hazardous summer toys.
2017 - Baby Driver opened in U.S. theatres. The action, crime comedy stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.
2017 - A Denver grand jury indicted 62 people and 12 businesses for involvement in a mammoth marijuana trafficking ring. The group had pretended to be growing weed for sick people but was instead shipping the drug to a half-dozen other states -- and bilking investors.
2018 - Australia’s Senate passed sweeping national security legislation that banned covert foreign interference in domestic politics, made industrial espionage for a foreign power a crime -- and offended China, the nation’s most important trading partner.
2018 - Governor Jerry Brown signed AB375, giving California consumers sweeping new internet privacy protections. The legislation expanded the rights of consumers to know what data is being collected about them online, and even to delete it. The bill also empowered consumers to decline the sale of their information and report violations -- which must then be addressed by the violator or risk civil action.
2019 - Movies showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Yesterday, with Himesh Patel, Lily James and Sophia Di Martino; Killers Anonymous, starring Gary Oldman, Jessica Alba and Suki Waterhouse; Ophelia, with: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts and Tom Felton; The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith, starring Christopher Gorham, Natalie Medlock and Russell Dixon; The Other Story, with Maayan Blum, Maya Dagan and Sasson Gabai; The Plagiarists, starring William Michael Payne, Emily C. Davis and Lucy Kaminsky; and This Changes Everything, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Natalie Portman and Jessica Chastain.
2019 - A federal judge prohibited POTUS Trump from grabbing $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr in Oakland acted on two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats. “All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in one lawsuit.
2019 - Two U.S. marshals led former Honolulu prosecutor Katherine Kealoha out of a courtroom after a federal judge ordered her detained. A day earlier a jury had found Kealoha and her husband, former police chief Louis Kealoha, guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The Kealohas were in that fix because of allegations that she had bilked relatives and children whose trusts she controlled.
2019 - The temperature in France surpassed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time on record as Europe sweltered in an early summer heatwave. Temperatures in the southern Gard region hit an all-time high of 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.62°F), hotter than in California’s Death Valley, sparking scores of fires that burned 2.12 square miles of vegitation and destroyed several homes and vehicles. At least two deaths linked to the heatwave were reported in Spain.
2020 - A new milestone was reached with were more than 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide. The U.S. reached 2,531,733 cases with the death toll at 125,928.
2020 - The Mississippi legislature abolished the state flag -- the last in the U.S. to feature the Confederate battle emblem.
2020 - A Jerusalem court ordered the release of Retired Brigadier General Amir Haske, a leading activist opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His arrest (for demonstrating against Netanyahu) had prompted hundreds to protest outside the Israeli leader’s residence.
2021 - Juul Labs Inc agreed to pay $40 million to North Carolina to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing the e-cigarette maker of marketing its products to minors.
2021 - An Oxford study said a mixture of shots (Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine given four weeks after an AstraZeneca shot) produced better immune responses than giving another dose of AstraZeneca alone.
2022 - Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for grooming girls and aiding Jeffery Epstein in his abuse of underage women.
2022 - At the Jan 6 Committee hearing, a senior White House aide testified that then POTUS Trump wanted to march to the Capitol to cheer on the rioters -- and that he was furious (he had to be physically restrained) when he was told he could not.
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Birthdays on This Day June 28
1491 - Henry VIII
King of England [1509-1547]; Henry’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon [divorced], Anne Boleyn [beheaded], Jane Seymour [died], Anne of Cleaves [divorced], Catherine Howard [beheaded], Catherine Parr [survived]; plagued by illness brought on by overeating, Henry died Jan 28, 15471577 - Sir Peter Rubens
artist: Elevation of the Cross, Coronation of Marie de Medicis; died May 30, 16401703 - John Wesley
religious leader: founder of ‘Methodism’ [forerunner of Methodist church]; writer: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection; died Mar 2, 17911712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher; died July 2, 17781876 - Clara Maass
nurse: victim of yellow fever medical experiments; died Aug 24, 19011902 - Richard Rodgers
Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring [1945]; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening; died Dec 30, 19791905 - Ashley Montague
author, anthropologist: “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”; died Nov 26, 19991906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel Prize-winning physicist [w/J. Hans Jensen & Eugene Wigner - 1963]: nuclear shell theory; 1st American woman to win Nobel Prize; died Feb 20, 19721909 - Eric Ambler
writer: The Dark Frontier, Journey into Fear; died Oct 22, 19981914 - Ian MacDonald
actor: Warlock, Money, Women and Guns, Duel at Apache Wells, Stagecoach to Fury, Son of Sinbad, Apache, Blowing Wild; died Apr 11, 19781923 - Pete (Walter) Candoli
musician: trumpet: Superman with a Horn; died Jan 11, 20081924 - George Morgan
singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, I’m in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; died July 7, 19751926 - George Booth
cartoonist: New Yorker magazine: Mrs. Ritterhouse, Mr. Ferguson, The Man in the Tub, That Dog, Maw Maw and the Family; died Nov 1, 20221926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky)
director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart; Broadway producer: The Producers; author: All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business1932 - Pat (Noriyuki) Morita
actor: Happy Days, Karate Kid, Babes in Toyland, Thoroughly Modern Millie; died Nov 24, 20051935 - John Inman
actor: The Mumbo Jumbo, In the House with Cleopatra and Friends, The Tall Guy, Revolver, Grace & Favour (aka Are You Being Served?; died Mar 8, 20071936 - Cathy Carr
singer: Ivory Tower; died Nov 22, 19881937 - George Knudson
golf champ: 5 CPGA titles, 12 PGA victories [1961-1972]; died Jan 25 19891941 - Al (Alphonso Erwin) Downing
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1963, 1964/all-star:1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974]1943 - Bobby Harrison
musician, drummer: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel, Cerdes [Outside the Gates Of]1943 - Gary Veneruzzo
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues1945 - David Knights
musician: bass: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale1945 - Türkan Soray
Turkish actress: Aci Hayat (Bitter Love); Vesikali Yarim (My Licenced Love); Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen (My Dreams, My Love and You); Ask Rüzgari (The Wind of Love); has appeared in some 200 movies1946 - Bruce Davison
actor: Widow’s Kiss, It’s My Party, Six Degrees of Separation, Longtime Companion, The Ladies Club, The Gathering, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Mame, Ulzana’s Raid, Last Summer, Hunter, Harry and the Hendersons1946 - Gilda Radner
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [1977-78]; Haunted Honeymoon [w/husband Gene Wilder]; died May 20, 19891948 - Kathy Bates
Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Harry’s Law, Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss1949 - Don Baylor
baseball: manager: Colorado Rockies; California Angels MVP [1979]1949 - Clarence Davis
football: Univ of Southern California; NFL: Oakland Raiders [running back]: Super Bowl XI champs1950 - Chris (Edward) Speier
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1972, 1973, 1974], Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs1954 - Alice Krige
actress: Star Trek: First Contact, Joseph, Sharpe’s Honour, Sleepwalkers, Barfly, Chariots of Fire, A Tale of Two Cities, In the Company of Spies1960 - John Elway
football: Denver Broncos quarterback: Super Bowl XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII: MVP; car dealership tycoon1964 - Bryan Barker
football [punter]: Santa Clara Univ; NFL: KC Chiefs, Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins1964 - Mark (Eugene) Grace
baseball: San Diego State Univ, Chicago Cugs, Arizona Diamondbacks1965 - Jessica Hecht
actress: Friends, At Last, The Forgotten, Sideways, Seven Girlfriends, Harvey, Intimate Betrayal, The Heidi Chronicles, The Single Guy, Dan in Real Life1966 - John Cusack
actor: Money for Nothing, The Player, True Colors, Bullets over Broadway, The Grifters, Say Anything1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson
actress: Kate Brasher, Heaven’s Prisoners, Radioland Murders, Funny About Love, Benny & Joon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Heaven Help Us1967 - Gil Bellows
actor: The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal1969 - Danielle Brisebois
actress: All in the Family, Knots Landing, Annie, Mom, the Wolfman and Me1970 - Steve Burton
actor: General Hospital, Out of This World, Taken, Semper Fi, CyberTracker, Red Sun Rising, The Last Castle1971 - Tichina Arnold
actress: Little Shop of Horrors, Martin, Big Momma’s House1971 - Ron Mahay
baseball [pitcher]: Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves1971 - Elon Musk
South African born engineer, entrepreneur: founded PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors1972 - Alessandro Nivola
actor: Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, Timecode1973 - Jose Flores
baseball [second base]: Univ of Texas; NFL: Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers1973 - Corey Koskie
baseball: Kwanten College; Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays1974 - Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar
football [running back]: UCLA, NFL: Miami Dolphins [1996–1999], Cleveland Browns [1999], Indianapolis Colts [2000]1977 - Matt Chatham
football [linebacker]: Univ of South Dakota; NFL: New England Patriots [2000–2005], New York Jets [2006–2008]1978 - Camille Guaty
actress: Scorpion, 30 Days Until I’m Famous, Love Object, Gramercy Park, Chaos Theory, Crossing Jordan, American Family, The Help, Prison Break1978 - Maya Hazen
actress: Revenge, Shutter, Moonlight, Six Months Later, 1/4life, Miami Medical, Beyond the Break1978 - Ric Jackman
hockey: Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins1979 - Felicia Day
actress: Eureka, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bring It On Again, June, Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder, Short Story Time, The Mortician’s Hobby, Final Sale, Backslide, They Shoot Divas, Don’t They?, Supernatural; more1988 - Lacey Schwimmer
competitive ballroom dancer: So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars1992 - Elaine Thompson-Herah
Jamaican sprinter: 2016, 2020 Summer Olympic Games: was the first female Olympian since Seoul 1988 to win a gold medal in both the 100 meter and the 200 meter sprint
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Hit Music on This Day June 28
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey (facts) - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
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