March 1
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1803 - Ohio (17th state) entered the United States of America. The Buckeye State (nicknamed because of the many buckeye trees, the state tree) with Columbus as its capital city seems to have a penchant for the color red. Its state bird is the cardinal; the scarlet carnation is its flower; the state insect is the ladybug; and the state drink is tomato juice. The state song is Beautiful Ohio, the word, Ohio, is derived from the Iroquois Indian word meaning ‘great river’. The Ohio River is not as great as the Mississippi, but it is pretty big! Ohio’s state motto: With God, all things are possible. So, maybe it is great!1826 - J.H. Hackett of New York debuted in Love in a Village at the Park Theatre in New York City. One month later, he played in London, England, becoming the first American actor to appear abroad.
1867 - The Cornhusker State, aka the Beef State, aka the Tree Planter State, aka Nebraska became the 37th of the United States of America. Nebraska means ‘flat water’ in Oto Indian speak. Lincoln is the official seat of Nebraska government. Nebraska’s motto: Equality before the law. The western meadowlark holds the honor of being the state bird; while the goldenrod takes its place as the state flower. Other state symbols include the cottonwood tree (state tree); the honeybee (state insect); blue agate (state gemstone); whitetail deer (state mammal); mammoth (state fossil); prairie agate (state rock); Beautiful Nebraska (state song) ... that’s original ... and, the state soil: typic arguistolls, Holrege Series. State soil?
1869 - Postage stamps depicting scenes were issued for the first time in the U.S.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY began the manufacturing of the first practical typewriter. The strong as steel, heavy black clunkers became instant fixtures in offices across the country. It would be another half-century before electric typewriters made their appearance.
1890 - Readers picked up copies of the Literary Digest for the first time.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry of the Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, MO made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. He jumped from an altitude of 1,500 feet at a speed of 50 mph.
1928 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded Ol’ Man River for Victor Records. The featured vocalist on the track was 29-year-old Paul Robeson. The song became an American classic.
1932 - Radio’s greatest effort of on-the-spot news coverage began as NBC and CBS radio rushed to Hopewell, NJ to cover the kidnapping of the Charles and Anne Lindbergh baby.
1937 - U.S. Steel raised workers’ wages. If you were a steelworker, you got a raise to $5 a day. That’s right. About 40 cents an hour. Now, punch that time clock and quit your complaining.
1941 - Duffy’s Tavern debuted on CBS radio -- and became a popular hit for 10 years. As Archie the Manager, Ed Gardner affected a thick New York accent and played host to his small cast of barroom regulars and a parade of guest stars who wandered into Duffy’s Tavern every week. The only individual missing was the title character, Duffy, who was never heard in the one-way telephone conversation with Archie that opened every episode.
1941 - FM Radio began in the U.S. when station W47NV (WSM-FM) in Nashville, TN started operations on this day. W47NV was the first commercial FM radio station to receive a license, some 20 years after its AM radio counterpart, KDKA in Pittsburgh. For those of you who don’t remember, FM stands for ‘frequency modulation’ as opposed to ‘amplitude modulation’.
1949 - ‘The Brown Bomber’, Joe Louis, announced that he was retiring from boxing as world heavyweight boxing champion. Louis held the title longer than any other champ -- 11 years, eight months and seven days.
1954 - The U.S. exploded a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb in a test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1961 - The Peace Corps was established by an executive order signed by President John F. Kennedy for U.S. volunteers for service in developing countries. The Peace Corps was formally established Sep 22, 1961.
1962 - The first K-Mart store was opened by variety store operator S.S. Kresge in Garden City, MI.
1962 - American Airlines Boeing 707 left New York International Airport (now John. F. Kennedy International) in New York and plunged nose first into Jamaica Bay. The crash, which killed 95 people, was later blamed on a broken rudder.
1963 - The first liver transplant in the U.S. took place at the University of Colorado. The experimental operation was performed by Thomas Starzl.
1966 - The Soviet spacecraft Venera 3 crash-landed on Venus. It was the first spacecraft to land on another planet.
1968 - Country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter got married on this day. Johnny walked down the aisle knowing that his 1956 hit, Folsom Prison Blues, was about to be redone for a June release. Cash has a daughter, Rosanne, (previous marriage) who became a country star in her own right in the 1980s.
1968 - Elton John’s first record, I’ve Been Loving You, was released by Philips Records in England. Philips, not realizing the potential of the soon-to-be superstar, released him in 1969, just prior to his teaming with lyricist Bernie Taupin. Elton then signed a contract with Uni Records and began to turn out what would become a string of more than 50 hits over the next 25 years.
1969 - Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball on this day. ‘Number 7’ was considered to be the final link to the great Yankee dynasty of the 1950s and 1960s. Mantle’s World Series records include: home runs (18), runs scored (42), RBIs (40), walks (43) and strikeouts (54). Mickey Mantle died in 1995.
1977 - Bank of America adopted the name VISA for their credit card division replacing the old BankAmericard.
1979 - The original production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street premiered on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on this day. The musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim closed on June 29, 1980 after 557 performances. Directed by Hal Prince and choreographed by Larry Fuller, the scenic design was by Eugene Lee, costumes by Franne Lee and lighting by Ken Billington. The cast included Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett, Len Cariou as Todd, Victor Garber as Anthony, Sarah Rice as Johanna, Merle Louise as the Beggar Woman, Ken Jennings as Tobias, Edmund Lyndeck as Judge Turpin, Joaquin Romaguera as Pirelli, and Jack Eric Williams as Beadle Bamford. The production was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning eight including Best Musical. (Dorothy Loudon and George Hearn replaced Lansbury and Cariou on March 4, 1980.)
1981 - Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. He died two months later.
1981 - Sophisticated Ladies, based on the music of Duke Ellington, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The musical revue starred Gregory Hines, Judith Jamison, Phyllis Hyman, Hinton Battle, Gregg Burge, and Mercer Ellington. Hines’ older brother Maurice joined the cast later in the run -- which went on for 767 performances, closing Jan 2, 1983.
1983 - A freak tornado tore through downtown Los Angeles, injuring 33 people.
1985 - A Beatles song was used for the first time in a U.S. TV commercial. The rights for Lincoln-Mercury to use the song, HELP!, cost $100,000, helping boost the fortunes of the automaker known as Ford Motor Company.
1986 - Mr. Mister’s Kyrie rose to #1 on in the U.S. The single was a track from the album Welcome to the Real World, which became the #1 album in the U.S. this day.
1987 - The Boston Celtics defeated Detroit 112-102 to post win number 2,235.
1987 - S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals on this day, 90 years after the lick-and-stick stamps were introduced as a way for businesses to bonus their customers -- who then used the stamps to buy merchandise from catalog stores. The stamps became peel-and-seal stamps along with the name change.
1991 - Edwin H. Land, inventor of polarizing filters and Polaroid instant photography, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 81. Land had co-founded Polaroid Corp. with George Wheelwright III.
1993 - Authorities near Waco, TX continued negotiating with Branch Davidians holed up in their bullet-scarred compound. This, a day after a furious gun battle between the Davidians and federal agents that left ten people dead.
1994 - At the 36th annual Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and record of the year for I Will Always Love You. The Bodyguard won album of the year.
1995 - Sheryl Crow was awarded the record of the year prize for All I Wanna Do at the 37th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Tony Bennett’s MTV Unplugged was named best album.
1996 - Up Close & Personal opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic drama stars Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing and Joe Mantegna. A song from the flick, Because You Loved Me, was nominated for Best Music and Song at the 1997 Academy Awards.
1999 - Some 130 nations agreed to a United Nations Treaty banning land mines which went into effect this day. The U.S., Russia and China did not sign the treaty.
2000 - Ecuador replaced the sucre with U.S. dollars in a bid to end a recession.
2001 - The high court of Fiji ruled that the military-backed government was illegal and that the 1997 multi-racial constitution remained in effect.
2002 - 40 Days and 40 Nights opened in the U.S. The romantic comedy stars Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Paulo Costanzo, Griffin Dunne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Adam Trese, Mary Gross and Barry Newman.
2003 - The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) went out of business. It was incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security.
2003 - More than 170 nations meeting in Geneva agreed, despite U.S. objections, on wording for a tobacco treaty. The pact imposed worldwide restrictions on advertising and labeling, while clamping down on smuggling and second-hand smoke. The treaty was adopted later in the year.
2004 - The California Supreme Court ruled that a Roman Catholic charity had to offer birth-control coverage to its employees.
2005 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing murderers under the age of 18 is unconstitutional.
2006 - The name of the San Francisco Giant’s ballpark changed from Pac Bell Park to AT&T Park.
2006 - British police charged three suspects in the $92-million robbery at a cash depot in southeastern England. The robbery was the world’s largest peacetime theft. The accused were all Britons.
2007 - Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia opened at IMAX theatres across the U.S. The documentary is narrated by actor/narrator Donald Sutherland.
2007 - A violent tornado ripped apart Alabama’s Enterprise High School killing eight of the students hunkered inside. Storms also tore through Georgia, tearing up a hospital. At least twenty people were killed across the Midwest and Southeast U.S.
2007 - NASA reported that the Cassini spacecraft had snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn showing the planet from perspectives above and below its ring system.
2007 - Morocco’s King Mohammed VI pardoned 8,836 prisoners to celebrate the birth of his daughter. Princess Lalla Salma gave birth to the baby the previous day. The king also reduced the sentences of 24,218 other prisoners.
2008 - Thousands of pro-hunting demonstrators in Spain thronged a boulevard in central Madrid to protest a law restricting the use of lead shot.
2009 - China’s lunar probe, the Chang’e-1, named for a moon goddess, ended its 16-month life with a planned crash into the moon.
2010 - A U.N. World Food Program spokesman said militants in Somalia were preventing food from reaching more than 366,000 needy people. And Somalia’s most prominent rebel group, Al Shabaab, ordered the U.N. agency out of the impoverished country.
2011 - The U.N. General Assembly suspended Libya from the United Nations Human Rights Council as governments worldwide pressured Moammar Gadhafi to halt the deadly crackdown against his people. It was the first time any country had been suspended from the 47-member council since it was formed in 2006.
2013 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: 21 and Over, with Skylar Astin, Miles Teller, Sarah Wright, Justin Chon, Bonnie Bentley, Jonathan Keltz, Samantha Futerman, François Chau and Danielle Hartnett; Jack the Giant Slayer, starring Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Warwick Davis, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Ian McShane, Raine McCormack, Ewen Bremner and Eleanor Tomlinson; The Last Exorcism Part II, with Ashley Bell, Spencer Treat Clark, Andrew Sensenig, Judd Lormand, Julia Garner, Muse Watso, Louis Herthum, E. Roger Mitchell, Raeden Greer and Cristina Franco; Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, Jacki Weaver, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode, Lucas Till, Alden Ehrenreich, Judith Godrèche, Ralph Brown and Phyllis Somerville; Phantom, with Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Lance Henriksen, Johnathon Schaech, Jason Beghe, Dagmara Dominczyk, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Gray-Stanford, Julian Adams, Kip Pardue; the documentary A Place at the Table, featuring Jeff Bridges and Tom Colicchio; The Sweeney, with Damian Lewis, Hayley Atwell, Allen Leech, Ray Winstone, Mark Killeen, Ben Drew, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Anderson, Alan Ford and Kara Tointon; and Jack the Giant Slayer, starring Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Warwick Davis, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Ian McShane, Raine McCormack, Ewen Bremner and Eleanor Tomlinson.
2013 - A massive sinkhole swallowed 37-year-old Jeff Bush when it opened under his Seffner, (near Tampa) Florida bedroom. Five other people in the house were unharmed.
2014 - A knife-wielding group attacked the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, southwestern China. The rampage killed 29 people and wounded 143. Police fatally shot four of the assailants. The Ministry of Public Security said a terrorist gang of six men and two women [Xinjiang separatists] was responsible for the attack. 4 attackers were killed and 4 faced death sentences.
2015 - The Seattle, Washington transit system began pricing tickets based on passengers’ income. The fare changes were intended to strike a balance between generating revenue that would support Metro service and keeping bus trips affordable for people with low incomes.
2015 - Tens of thousands of Russians marched through central Moscow, carrying banners declaring, “I am not afraid” and chanting, “Russia without Putin.” This, in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who had been assassinated on Feb 27 on a bridge near the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. He was shot four times in the back.
2016 - Australian scientists warned that coral bleaching was occurring on the Great Barrier Reef as sea temperatures warmed. They worried that the reef was facing permanent destruction as the worst mass bleaching event on record was affecting reefs all around the world.
2016 - Even though he lost Texas, Donald Trump was the clear winner for the Republican Party, ending Super Tuesday as the unrivaled favorite for the nomination. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton strengthened her momentum, helped in part by a sweep of Southern states with large black voting populations.
2017 - The Washington Post reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former U.S. senator, received Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in September 2016. Sessions met with Kislyak a second time in July at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention. Comitting apparent perjury during his Senate confirmation hearing in January 2017, Sessions responded to a question from Democratic Senator Al Franken that he had not have communications with the Russians during the course of the presidential campaign.
2017 - The U.N. reported that the Syrian government had “meticulously planned and ruthlessly carried out” air raids on a U.N. and Syrian Red Crescent convoy at Orum Al-Kubra, in rural western Aleppo on September 19-20, 2016 that killed 14 aid workers. The report also said Syrian and Russian forces conducted daily air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo between July 2017 and its fall on December 22, killing hundreds and destroying hospitals.
2018 - A British inquiry into child abuse ruled that the government should pay compensation to 2,000 people who had been sent as children to countries where many met harsh conditions, neglect and abuse. More than 100,000 poor children were sent to then-British colonies including Australia, New Zealand and Canada starting in the 19th century.
2018 - China expressed anger after the U.S. Senate passed a bill promoting closer U.S. ties with Taiwan. The move drew praise from the self-ruled island which pledged to deepen cooperation with the U.S.
2018 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Greta, with Zawe Ashton, Chloë Grace Moretz and Maika Monroe; A Madea Family Funeral, starring Courtney Burrell, Tyler Perry and Patrice Lovely; The Hole in the Ground, with Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey and Simone Kirby; Saint Judy, starring Michelle Monaghan, Leem Lubany and Common; Something, with Michael Gazin, Jane Rowen and Joel Clark Ackerman; We Die Young, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, David Castañeda and Elijah Rodriguez; and The Wedding Guest, with Dev Patel, Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh.
2019 - Former Virginia high school teacher Christopher Brannon was sentenced to 34 months in prison for hacking into private digital accounts -- and distributing photos -- of celebrities and others. He was the fifth person to be charged in the 2014 ‘celebgate’ scandal. The celebrities pictured included Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, who confirmed the photos were real, and pop star Ariana Grande, who said they were fake, and dozens of other A-list actors and musicians.
2020 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency and, as a result, lacked the authority to give asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial screening interviews. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss found Cuccinelli’s appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a 1998 law governing who is eligible to lead federal agencies in an acting capacity. The ruling came at odds with POTUS Donald Trump’s penchant for temporary appointments and his generally sloppy control of the presidency.
2020 - COVID-19: China had a total of 2,870 deaths and 79,824 infection. Britain had 12 new infections taking the total to 35. France reported 100 confirmed cases with two deaths (Louvre workers who guard Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and other masterpieces walked off the job, fearful of being contaminated by the museum’s flow of tourists from around the world). Germany said its number of confirmed cases was 117. More than 86,500 cases had been confirmed. Outside of China, the coronavirus had spread to 60 countries and had killed some 3,000 people.
2021 - The value of Bitcoin rose nearly 6% as risk assets rallied after the previous week’s bond rout cooled. Citibank said the most popular cryptocurrency was at a tipping point and was looking like it might become the preferred currency for international trade.
2021 - Tyson Foods Inc, the largest U.S. meat processor, said it was offering COVID-19 vaccinations to thousands of its frontline workers at its Iowa meat processing plants.
2021 - Israel’s Supreme Court banned the government from using mobile phone tracking to find coronavirus carriers. The court called the practice a grave infraction of civil liberties.
2022 - Joe Biden devoted the opening of the State of the Union address to a pledge of solidarity with Ukraine’s democratically elected government and a promise to hold Russian leader Vladimir Putin accountable.
2022 - Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia had committed A$70 million ($50 million) to fund lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine, including missiles and ammunition.
2022 - The Munich Philharmonic fired Russian chief conductor Valery Gergiev due to his support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2023 - Some 1000 Iranian school girls had been exposed to toxic gas attacks since November 2022. The revelation came amid accusations that the gas attacks were a government attempt to close schools because the girls had participated in anti-government protests.
2024 - Dune: Part Two opened in the U.S. The epic science fiction film from Warner Bros. was directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and was the sequel to 2021s Dune.
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Birthdays on This Day March 1
1837 - William Dean Howells
author: Life of Lincoln, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham; U.S. consul to Italy; editor: Atlantic Monthly; columnist: Harper’s Monthly; died May 11, 19201904 - Paul Hartman
actor: Getting Away From It All, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Reluctant Astronaut, Those Calloways, Inherit the Wind; died Oct 2, 19731904 - Glenn Miller
bandleader: Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Perfidia; led WWII U.S. Army Air Force Band; presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel Dec 15, 1944; more1905 - Doris Hare
actress: Second Best, Nuns on the Run, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Confessions of a Pop Performer, Day of Rest, Nicked at the Bottle; died May 30, 20001910 - (James) David (Graham) Niven
Academy Award-winning actor: Separate Tables [1958], The Moon is Blue, Paper Tiger, The Pink Panther, The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, Casino Royale; died July 29, 19831914 - Harry (Christopher) Caray (Carabina)
Ford Frick Award-winning sportscaster: SL Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs; “Holy Cow!”; died Feb 18, 19981914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison
author: Invisible Man; essayist: Shadow and Act, Going to the Territory; died Apr 16, 19941916 - Dinah Shore
singer: Buttons and Bows, Two Silhouettes, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Willow Weep for Me, There’ll Be Some Changes Made, Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy; TV host: actress: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show; died Feb 24, 19941917 - Robert Lowell
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Lord Weary’s Castle [1947], The Dolphin [1974]; National Book Award for Poetry [1960]; died Sep 12, 19771922 - Michael Flanders
songwriter, comedian: duo: Flanders and [Donald] Swann: made humorous mockery of English and American failings; Flanders quote, “Always remember that if it hadn’t been for the English, you’d all be Spanish.”; died Apr 15, 19751922 - William Gaines
publisher: Mad magazine; died June 2, 19921922 - Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli general, statesman, politician: fifth Prime Minister of Israel [1974–1977 & 1992-1995]; assassinated Nov 4, 19951924 - Deke (Donald) Slayton
astronaut: Apollo Mission, July 1975; chief of flight operations at Johnson Space Center; died June 13, 19931926 - Robert Clary (Widerman)
actor: Hogan’s Heroes, Holocaust Survivors/Remembrance of Love1926 - Pete (Alvin) Rozelle
football: LA Rams GM, NFL commissioner; died Dec 6, 19961927 - Harry Belafonte
singer: The Banana Boat Song, Jamaica Farewell, Mary’s Boy Child; actor: Island in the Sun, Buck and the Preacher; UNICEF goodwill ambassador; Shari’s father; died Apr 25, 20231930 - Benny Powell
jazz musician: trombone Ernie Fields band, Lionel Hapton; Count Basie veteran [1951-1963]; died Jun 26, 20101931 - Larry Keith
actor: All My Children, The Baxters, Law & Order, Damages; died Jul 17, 20101935 - Robert Conrad (Konrad Robert Falkowski)
actor: The Wild Wild West, High Mountain Rangers [w/sons Christian & Shane], Crossfire, Lady in Red, Samurai Cowboy, Jingle All the Way; died Feb 8, 20201936 - Georgina Spelvin (Dorothy May)
actress [1969-2005]: X-rated films: The Devil in Miss Jones, Lip Service, Inside Georgina Spelvin, The Russians are Coming, The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann, The Journey of O, The Erotic Adventures of Candy, Tropic of Desire, The Ecstasy Girls, Babylon Pink, Police Academy, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Legends of Porn, Still Insatiable1941 - Robert Hass
poet: Poet Laureate of the U.S. [1995-1997], won 2007 National Book Award, shared 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-20051944 - Roger Daltrey
singer: group: The Who: Pinball Wizard, Won’t Get Fooled Again; solo: Without Your Love, Giving It All Away; actor: Tommy, Lisztomania, The Legacy and McVicar1945 - Dirk Benedict
actor: The A-Team, Chopper One, Battlestar Galactica, Alaska, Blue Tornado, W, Georgia, Georgia1946 - Lana Wood
actress: Diamonds Are Forever, The Searchers, Peyton Place, O’Hara, U.S. Treasury, Nightmare in Badham County, Captain America II: Death Too Soon, The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith1947 - Alan Thicke
actor: Hope & Gloria, Growing Pains, Not Quite Human series; TV host: Thicke of the Night, Animal Crack-Ups; died Dec 13, 20161952 - Brian Winters
basketball: LA Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks [all-star: 1975, 1976/his number 32 retired by Bucks: October 1983]; assistant coach: Princeton Univ., Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets1954 - Catherine Bach
actress: The Dukes of Hazzard, African Skies, Rage and Horror, Street Justice, Driving Force, Cannonball Run 2, Nicole1954 - Ron Howard
Emmy Award-winning producer: From the Earth to the Moon [1998]; actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 131956 - Timothy Daly
actor: Madam Secretary, Diner, Wings, Storm of the Century, The Fugitive [2000], Private Practice1957 - Jon Carroll
singer: group: Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight, Boulder to Birmingham, California Day, Late Nite Radio, Too Long a Journey1958 - Nik Kershaw
singer: Wouldn’t It Be Good, You Might, Human Racing, The Riddle, I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me1962 - Mark Gardner
baseball [pitcher]: Fresno State Univ; NFL: Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants1964 - Clinton Gregory
musician: fiddle: Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine, Couldn’t Love Have Picked a Better Place to Die, One Shot at a Time, Play Ruby Play1966 - Paul Hollywood
TV baker/judge: The Great British Bake Off, American Baking Competition; author: 100 Great Breads, The Great British Bake Off, How to Bake, Bread1966 - Don Lemon
CNN TV news journalist: CNN Newsroom1967 - George Eads
actor: MacGyver [2016-2019]; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [2000-2015], Grapevine, The Spring, Crowned and Dangerous, The Ultimate Lie, Dust to Dust1969 - Javier Bardem
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: No Country for Old Men [2007]; Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol, Mar adentro1973 - Jack Davenport
actor: Swingtown, Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Wedding Date, Ticks, Deadwood1973 - Ryan Peake
musician: guitar, singer: group: Nickelback: Savin’ Me, Hollywood, Gotta Be Somebody1973 - Chris Webber
basketball [NBA: Golden State Warriors Washington Bullets/Wizards [1994–1998], Sacramento Kings [1998–2005], Philadelphia 76ers [2005–2007], Detroit Pistons [2007], Golden State Warriors [2008]; 5× NBA All-Star [1997, 2000–2003]; TV analyst: NBA TV’s NBA Gametime Live, Tuesday Fan Night1974 - Cara Buono
actress: Spook House, Cthulhu, From Other Worlds, Hulk, Attention Shoppers, Chutney Popcorn, Man of the Century, Mad Men, Stranger Things, The Sopranos, Hulk, Next Stop Wonderland, Happy Accidents, Paper Towns1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar
actor: Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, NYPD Blue, Raising the Bar, Franklin & Bash, 12 Dates of Christmas, Law Dogs, Hitched, Beer Money, She Cried No, White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II1976 - Ramón Castro
baseball [catcher]: Chicago White Sox, Florida Marlins, New York Mets1977 - Emily Holmes
actress: Prisoners of the Sun, The Wicker Man, Snakes on a Plane, Into the West, The Goodbye Girl, Paycheck, The Secret Life of Zoey1978 - Jensen Ackles
actor: Supernatural [2005-2020], Smallville, Blonde, Still Life, Dark Angel, Days of Our Lives, Mr. Rhodes1983 - Lupita Nyong’o
Academy Award-winning Supporting Actress: 12 Years a Slave [2014]; Non-Stop, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Jungle Book [2016], Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Black Panther, Little Monsters1987 - Ke$ha (Kesha Rose Sebert)
songwriter, rapper, singer: Tik Tok, Blah Blah Blah, Your Love Is My Drug, Take It Off, We R Who We R, Blow1994 - Justin Bieber
former teen heartthrob, singer: One Time, One Less Lonely Girl, Love Me, Favorite Girl, Baby, Never Let You Go, U Smile; LPs: My World, My World 2.0, My Worlds Acoustic, Never Say Never - The Remixes, Eenie Meenie, Somebody to Love1994 - Tyreek Hill
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Kansas City Chiefs [2016–2021]; Miami Dolphins [2022– ]; selected to the Pro Bowl in each of his seasons in the NFL, won Super Bowl LIV with the Chiefs, and was named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team as a punt returner
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Hit Music on This Day March 1
1945Accentuate the Positive (facts) - Johnny Mercer
I Dream of You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Freddy Stewart)
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