March 3
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1845 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a President’s veto. It was the first time Congress had done so. President John Tyler was in office at the time.1845 - Florida became the 27th of the United States of America. The word ‘Florida’ comes from the Spanish ‘feast of flowers’. But we call it the Sunshine State. The capital of the Sunshine State is ... no, not Walt Disney World ... Tallahassee. The state flower is the fragrant orange blossom and the mockingbird is the state bird. Do you think the mockingbird can mimic Donald Duck? Or maybe it sings the Florida state song, "Suwannee River". The Florida state motto is: “In God we trust.”
1915 - The now-famous film, The Birth of a Nation, debuted in New York City. The motion picture brought Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Wallace Reid to the silver screen in what has frequently been called the greatest silent film ever produced.
1923 - The first issue of the weekly periodical TIME appeared on newsstands. The first issue was 32 pages and featured a charcoal sketch of Congressman Joseph Gurney Cannon on the cover. It was the United States’ first, modern, news magazine. Today, the worldwide news weekly, founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, is printed in several languages and is among the most popular magazines in history with readership of 3 million.
1930 - Bert Lahr (The Wizard of Oz) and Kate (God Bless America) Smith starred in Flying High as it opened at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. The show had a run of 45 weeks at what is now the most famous black entertainment theatre in America.
1931 - Cab Calloway and his orchestra recorded Minnie the Moocher on Brunswick Records. It was the first recording of the famous bandleader’s theme song. The song was featured prominently in the motion picture, The Blues Brothers (1980), starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, officially became the national anthem of the United States. Despite the fact that millions sing (in a manner of speaking) the anthem before sporting events, civic club meetings and other public gatherings, it is still ranked as the most difficult national anthem on earth to sing.
1938 - A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
1939 - Oh, those crazy college kids: A new craze began to sweep college campuses. The much publicized fad began to take shape at the Ivy League’s Harvard University. It was perceived as being kind of ‘fishy’, however, coming from the button-down minds at Harvard. In fact, it was deemed quite unbelievable for such a prestigious school of higher learning. The fad? Goldfish swallowing. (Gulp!)
1943 - The Allies won the Battle of the Bismarck Sea as land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy.
1952 - Whispering Streets debuted on ABC radio, remaining on the air until Thanksgiving week, 1960. The end of that show brought down the curtain on what is called "the last day of the radio soap opera" (November 25, 1960).
1959 - The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park. The name was chosen in a contest to name the newly-built stadium. The contest winner didn’t have to look far, as the windswept and chilly confines of the National League stadium are located just a few hundred feet from Candlestick Point, on San Francisco Bay. In 1995, the venerable name, Candlestick Park was changed to 3Com Park, after a relatively small (at the time) local area computer software developer bid a half-million dollars for the rights to the stadium name -- beating out such giants as Apple Computer, IBM and others.
1962 - The British Antarctic Territory was formed. The territory has no permanent inhabitants, but at any one time there are about 100 researchers working at various stations.
1966 - Lou Christie was striking gold with his hit Lightnin’ Strikes. Christie was born Lugee Sacco and joined a group called The Classics before making his first recording in 1960. In 1961, he recorded under the name Lugee & The Lions until changing to Lou Christie for a string of hits beginning in 1963. Other notable tunes from Christie’s top 40 appearances include: The Gypsy Cried, Two Faces Have I, Rhapsody in the Rain and I’m Gonna Make You Mine -- all displaying his trademark falsetto voice, similar to that of Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons. Lightnin’ Strikes was Christie’s only million seller.
1969 - Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module and docking procedure. Crew: James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Schweickart.
1972 - Pioneer 10 was launched towards an asteroid belt and planet Jupiter. This was the first man-made craft sent to the giant planet.
1974 - All 346 people aboard a Turkish Airlines DC-10 died when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris. The aircraft suffered an explosive decompression while climbing through 11,000 feet after takeoff. Due to a design flaw in the locking mechanism of the cargo door, a ground crew member was able to force the locking arm into position, while the door was not really locked. Climbing into thinner air, the door burst open. The outrush of air caused the cabin floor to collapse, severing all control cables, leading to a loss of control by the flight crew.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth was elected commissioner of baseball.
1985 - Kevin McHale (Univ of Minnesota) set a Boston Celtics scoring record this night as he poured in 56 points in a 138-129 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1987 - Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.
1990 - 20-year-old Carole Gist of Michigan was crowned 39th Miss U.S.A. Gist was the first African-American woman to win Miss U.S.A. title.
1991 - Switzerland voted to lower the voting age from 20 to 18. (In 2007 the Swiss rejected a proposal to further lower the voting age to 16.)
1991 - Motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a high-speed chase. The scene was captured on home video by George Holliday. Four officers were acquitted in 1992 of almost all charges in a state trial, sparking deadly riots in Los Angeles. Two were convicted in a federal trial.
1991 - Arthur Murray died in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 95 years old. Murray started teaching dancing in 1912 at a huge exhibition hall in New York City, the Grand Central Palace. Murray built a chain of 500 dance studios around the world. The backbone of the Arthur Murray Studios’ clientele was the ordinary citizen, but a considerable number of celebrities of the arts, business and politics also taken his lessons: Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Ed Sullivan, John D. Rockefeller, The Duke of Windsor and Bing Crosby, among others. Arthur Murray is said to have danced almost until the day he died, remarking that “age limits vitality, but moving rhythmically to music is still a joy.”
1992 - An underground coal mine explosion in Kozlu (Zonguldak), Turkey, claimed 270 lives.
1993 - Dr. Albert Sabin, the medical pioneer who helped conquer polio, died of heart failure at age 86. Sabin’s oral vaccine, introduced in 1957, was effective and did not require booster doses. Sabin refused to patent his vaccine insisting that the vaccine and its delivery be free of charge. Sabin is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
1998 - Microsoft head Bill Gates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that his company was not a monopoly out to crush rivals in the Internet software market.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local lawmakers’ votes are immune to lawsuits even if they had been based on illegal or discriminatory motives.
2000 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: My Dog Skip starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Bradley Coryell, Daylan Honeycutt, Cody Linley and Caitlin Wachs; The Next Best Thing, with Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Malcolm Stumpf, Neil Patrick Harris, Illeana Douglas, Josef Sommer and Lynn Redgrave; and What Planet Are You From?, starring Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, John Goodman, Caroline Aaron and Judy Greer.
2001 - John Ruiz became the first Hispanic WBA heavyweight champion by defeating Evander Holyfield in a unanimous 12-round decision.
2002 - Voters in Switzerland approved joining the United Nations, abandoning almost 200 years of formal neutrality.
2002 - Harlan Howard, song writer, died at 74 years of age. His hits included Heartaches by the Number and I Fall to Pieces, made famous by singer Patsy Cline.
2004 - Hundreds of gay couples applied for marriage licenses in Portland, OR following an overnight policy change by county commissioners.
2005 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. The cast included John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, and Sherie Rene Scott, with Joanna Gleason, Gregory Jbara, and Sara Gettelfinger. The musical was nominated for ten Tony Awards, including best musical, best book and best score, but it won only one -- for leading actor (Butz). Running for 627 performances, the show closed on Sep 03, 2006.
2006 - Opening day for these movies in the U.S.: 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse and Alfre Woodard; Aquamarine, with Jojo, Emma Roberts, Arielle Kebbel, Louise McClatchy, Shaun Micallef and, Sara Paxton; Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, featuring (you guessed it) Dave Chappelle, and Talib Kweli, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, Bilal Ahmir, Big Daddy Kane, Cody Chestnutt, Common, Kool G. Rap, Wyclef Jean, Freeway, Pras, Fred Hampton Jr., James Gray, Leonard Hubbard, Tariq Trotter, Tiffany Limos, Dead Prez, Kanye West, Dante ‘Mos Def’ Smith and Erykah Badu; and Ultraviolet, with Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner, Sebastien Andrieu, Ida Martin and Ricardo Mamood.
2006 - Thousands demonstrated across Pakistan and India against the visit by U.S. President George Bush (II). Radical Islamic groups called a strike that shut shops and businesses in several major cities.
2006 - Former U.S. Congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham, who had pleaded guilty in 2005 to taking $2.4 million in bribes, was sentenced by a federal judge in San Diego, CA to more than eight years in prison.
2006 - Research by NASA showed that shrinkage Antarctic ice sheet over the previous three years had raised the global sea level by 1.2 millimeters.
2007 - San Francisco staged its annual Chinese New Year parade, ushering in the Year of the Boar. People born in the Year of the Boar are said to be honest and tolerant and make good friends, and tend to expect the same from everyone else. They thrive in the arts as entertainers.
2008 - The U.N. Security Council tightened its sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran vowed to continue its nuclear program, which it insisted was aimed only at generating electrical power.
2009 - Igor Panarin, dean at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s school for future diplomats, predicted, “There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010.” He also said the U.S. would break up into six autonomous regions and Alaska would revert to Russian control.
2009 - Khamisa Sawadi, a 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who were not close relatives. The case drew new criticism of the kingdom’s ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
2010 - A 26-foot rogue wave off the coast of Spain smashed into the Louis Majesty, a Mediterranean cruise ship, flooding cabins, breaking windows in a restaurant. The freak event terrified many travelers -- and claimed two lives.
2011 - Japanese researchers said they had developed a human-shaped mobile phone with a skin-like outer layer that enabled users to feel closer to those on the other end. A speaker is installed in the head of the doll-like gadget and a light-emitting diode in its chest turns blue when the phone is in use and red when it is in standby mode.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon to smooth over troubles in their drugs war alliance. The two countries agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing into the U.S. And the agreement included Mexico dropping tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. pork, cheese, corn and fruits.
2012 - Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in New South Wales state (including Sydney) as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.
2013 - Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior. He apologized for his actions and recused himself from the upcoming conclave to select the new pope.
2013 - Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. The original cast included Laura Osnes in the title role, Santino Fontana as the Prince, Victoria Clark as Crazy Marie/the Fairy Godmother, Harriet Harris as Ella’s stepmother, Peter Bartlett as Sebastian, The Prime Minister, Ann Harada and Marla Mindelle as stepsisters Charlotte and Gabrielle, and Greg Hildreth as the rebel Jean-Michel. The musical ran for 770 performances, closing on Jan 03, 2015.
2014 - Libya’s parliament moved into a five-star Tripoli hotel to conduct business. This, a day after rioters armed with knives and guns stormed the legislature building, torching furniture, killing a guard and wounding six lawmakers.
2015 - Computer researchers in the U.S., Spain and France found a serious flaw in cryptography designed to guard private data. The flaw was dubbed FREAK (Factoring RSA Export Keys). It seems FREAK’s underlying vulnerabilities had been present for many years, dating back to the 1990s. Vulnerable software and devices included Apple’s Safari web browser, the default browser in the Android operating system, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and OpenSSL.
2016 - The U.S. gave Jordan eight refurbished helicopters to help in the battle against Islamic State extremists along the kingdom’s borders.
2017 - Motion pictures new in U.S. theatres included: Before I Fall, with Zoey Deutch, Liv Hewson and Jennifer Beals; the animated, Leap!, featuring the voices of Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan and Maddie Ziegler; Logan, starring Doris Morgado, Hugh Jackman and Boyd Holbrook; The Shack, with Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer and Tim McGraw; The Freedom to Marry, starring Evan Wolfson, Mary Bonauto and April DeBoer; Headshot, with Julie Estelle, David Hendrawan and Chelsea Islan; The Institute, starring James Franco, Pamela Anderson and Topher Grace; The Last Word, starring Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried and Anne Heche; Table 19, with Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow and Amanda Crew; and Wolves, starring Carla Gugino, Michael Shannon and Zazie Beetz.
2017 - Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch ruled in Florida that Miami-Dade County violated the U.S. Constitution when it agreed to jail people slated for deportation. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez had allowed county jails to hold immigrants awaiting deportation after POTUS Donald Trump threatened to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities that did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
2018 - Film and TV actor David Ogden Stiers died at his home in Oregon. He was 75 years old. Stiers was best known for his portrayal of Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (1977-1983) on the M*A*S*H TV sitcom.
2018 - The Marshall Islands became the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as its legal tender when it passed a law to create the digital "Sovereign," or SOV. In the nation of 60,000, the cryptocurrency will have equal status with the U.S. dollar as a form of payment.
2019 - South Korea and the U.S. announced the elimination of their massive springtime military drills, replacing them with smaller exercises. It was an effort to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis. It was also seen by some as a capitulation to the ongoing bullying tactics of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
2019 - The SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, with just a test dummy aboard, docked smoothly with the International Space Station in a major move toward putting the U.S. back in the business of launching astronauts.
2019 - An EF4 tornado hit southeastern Alabama killing 23 people. Some 18 tornadoes struck in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
2020 - The Federal Reserve cut interest rates half a point in an emergency move designed to shield the U.S. economy from the impact of the coronavirus. It was the Fed’s first emergency rate cut since 2008 (at the height of the financial crisis). The yield on the ten-year Treasury bond fell below 1% for the first time ever.
2020 - Joe Biden became the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, setting up a showdown with Bernie Sanders over whether a centrist -- or a progressive -- should take on Donald Trump. Sanders won Super Tuesday’s biggest prize -- California.
2021 - The Dept of Transportation inspector general reported that Elaine Chao, while serving as transportation secretary during the Trump administration, repeatedly used her office staff to help family members who run a shipping business with extensive ties to China.
2021 - Twitter began labeling tweets that include misleading information about coronavirus vaccines. And it was reported to be using a ‘strike system’ to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.
2021 - Poland’s north-eastern lake district region of 1.4 million saw 1,132 new daily coronavirus cases. Poland’s government had already increased restrictions on the region, closing shopping centers, hotels, cinemas and museums. And, after having lifted restrictions only two weeks earlier, the government ordered children in the first three years of primary school back to remote learning.
2021 - Police in China and South Africa seized thousands of doses of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests, according to Interpol. In China, police made 80 arrests at a factory making the fake vaccine. Three Chinese nationals and a Zambian were detained at a warehouse in Gauteng, South Africa, where the phony shots were discovered.
2022 - President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. If it is not immediately clear to you from that title, the law allows the alleged an aggrieved party of sexual assault or sexual harassment to choose the forum where they want to have their claims adjudicated: either in court -- or arbitration. In other words, forced arbitration was outlawed.
2022 - The Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma LP, reached a deal with nine state attorneys general to pay some $6 billion to resolve widespread litigation alleging the Sacklers fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic, bringing the OxyContin maker closer to exiting bankruptcy.
2022 - Seven of the Arctic Council’s eight members said they would not be attending an upcoming meeting in Russia, which held the rotating chairmanship. Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States said Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine had posed “grave impediments to international cooperation.”
2022 - Germany said it was moving 2,700 shoulder-launched surface-to-air rockets to Ukraine. This, in addition to arms shipments the country had already announced.
2023 - At least thirty three people were killed and fifty others are injured in a fire at a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia. Officials said the fire spread from the Plumpang fuel station, owned by state energy company Pertamina, to the nearby neighborhood of Tanah Merah in North Jakarta. Video from Indonesian broadcasters showed hundreds of people in the densely populated neighborhood running in panic, while firefighters worked to put out the flames.
2023 - A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentenced human rights activist and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison. He had been charged with “financing actions violating public order” and smuggling. The harsh punishment of Bialiatski and three of his colleagues was delivered in response to massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko -- a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin -- a new term in office. Lukashenko has ruled the ex-Soviet country with an iron fist since 1994. More than 35,000 people were arrested, and thousands More were beaten by police amid the protests.
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Birthdays on This Day March 3
1831 - George Pullman
inventor: railroad sleeping car; industrialist: Pullman Palace Car Company; died Oct 19, 18971847 - Alexander Graham Bell
teacher of the deaf, inventor: telephone; founder of Bell Telephone Company; died Aug 2, 19221872 - Willie (William Henry) Keeler
‘Wee Willie’: National Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Giants, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Baltimore Orioles [record for singles hit in single season: 206: 1898], Brooklyn Superbas, NY Highlanders; died Jan 1, 19231895 - Matthew Ridgway
Commander of the U.S. 8th Army in Korea [1951]; Supreme Allied Commander of NATO [1952]; US Army Chief of Staff; died July 26, 19931904 - Mayo Methot
actress: Goodbye Love, Marked Woman; died June 9, 19511911 - Clifford Fagan
Basketball Hall of Famer: coach; author: Basketball Officials Manual, Basketball Rules, Simplified and Illustrated; died Jan 18, 19951911 - Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter)
actress: Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady; died June 7, 19371916 - Robert Whitehead
Tony Award-winning producer: Terrence McNally’s Master Class [1996]; Whitehead’s long producing career inspired the Robert Whitehead Award, established in 1993 by the Commercial Theater Institute (CTI) to honor “outstanding achievement in commercial producing” by a graduate of CTI [US’s only formal training program for commercial theatre producers]; died June 15, 20021920 - Julius Boros
golf: U.S. Open Champion [1952. 1963]; PGA Champion [1968]; died May 28, 19941920 - James Doohan
actor: Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations, Loaded Weapon 1, Bug Buster; died July 20, 20051921 - Diana (Blanche) Barrymore (Blythe)
actress: The Mob, Hollywood Canteen, Fired Wife, Between Us Girls, Eagle Squadron, Nightmare; died Jan 25, 19601923 - Barney Martin
actor: Seinfeld, I Married a Monster, Us, Deadly Weapon, Arthur, Splash, Too, McGurk, Twinky, The Producers; died Mar 21, 20051923 - Doc Watson (Arthel Lane Watson)
Grammy Award-winning musician: guitar; singer: Keep on the Sunny Side, Muskrat, Country Blues, Rising Son Blues, Tennessee Stud, Down in the Valley to Pray; died May 29, 20121926 - Ann B. (Bradford) Davis
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Bob Cummings Show [1957, 1958-59]; The Brady Bunch, Lover Come Back, A Very Brady Christmas; died Jun 1, 20141926 - Cathy Downs
model, actress: State Fair, The Dolly Sisters, The Dark Corner, My Darling Clementine, Missile to the Moon, Curfew Breakers, The Oklahoma Woman, The Big Tip Off, The Flaming Urge; died Dec 8, 19761931 - Paul Clayton
folk singer, songwriter: “Paul was just an incredible songwriter and singer. He must have known a thousand songs.” - Bob Dylan; died Mar 30, 19671933 - Princess Lee Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier)
sister of U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis]; died Feb 15, 20191934 - Gia Scala (Giovanna Sgoglio)
actress: Don’t Go Near the Water, Tunnel of Love, The Guns of Navarone; died Apr 30, 19721937 - Bobby Driscoll
actor: Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart, Treasure Island; voice actor: Peter Pan [1953]; died Mar 30, 19681938 - Willie Chambers
musician: guitar, singer group: The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today1941 - John Thomas
Olympic medalist: high jump [1960 & 1964]; 2nd athlete to clear 7’ [indoor high jump 1959]; Track & Field Hall of Famer; died Jan 15, 20131942 - Mike Pender (Michael John Prendergast)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Searchers: Sweets for My Sweet, Needles and Pins, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, Love Potion No. 91943 - Paul Schaal
baseball: LA Angels, California Angels, KC Royals1944 - Jance Garfat
musician: bass, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia’s Mother, The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone’, A Little Bit More, When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time1945 - George Miller
director, screenwriter, producer: Mad Max film franchise; Happy Feet [2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]1945 - Hattie Winston
actress: Becker, The Electric Company, Nurse, Homefront, All Grown Up, The Soul Man, Mike & Molly1947 - Dennis Shaw
football: San Diego State Univ., Buffalo Bills1947 - Jennifer Warnes
singer: Right Time of the Night, Up Where We Belong [w/Joe Cocker], [I’ve Had] The Time of My Life [w/Bill Medley]1949 - Joey Johnston
hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars, California Golden Seals, California Seals, Chicago Blackhawks1949 - David Pritchard
jazz/classical guitarist: group: Contraband: LP: Time and Space; solo: LPs: Lightyear, City Dreams, Air Patterns; author: Music for the Contemporary Guitarist, composer: Four Clockworks1950 - Tim Kazurinsky
actor, comedian, writer: Saturday Night Live; Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, The Cherokee Kid1952 - Randy Gradishar
football: Denver Broncos LB: Super Bowl XII1953 - Dave Amato
musician: lead guitar, singer: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Loving You, I Don’t Want to Lose You, Here With Me, Roll With the Changes, That Ain’t Love, Take It on the Run1954 - Robert Gossett
actor: The Closer Crossing Jordan, NYPD Blue, Black Angel, Arlington Road, The Net; nephew of actor Louis Gossett Jr; married to theater director Michele Gossett1954 - Chris Hughes
musician: drums: group: Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier, Dog Eat Dog, Antmusic, Stand and Deliver, Prince Charming, Ant Rap, Goody Two Shoes; executive music producer: Music Week’s Producer of the Year award for his work on the album, Kings of the Wild Frontier; songwriter: Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World1955 - Darnell Williams
actor: All My Children; The Breakup Artist, S1m0ne, Firestarter 2: Rekindled, Short Cuts, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Sidewalk Stories1958 - Miranda Richardson
actress: Fatherland, The Crying Game, Empire of the Sun, Dance with a Stranger1959 - Ira Glass
radio, TV producer, host: This American Life1961 - Mary Page Keller
actress: Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board, Timecop: The Berlin Decision, The Negotiator, Picture Perfect, Criminal Minds1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Olympic gold medalist & 1st woman to hold world record in the heptathlon: 7,044 points [1992]; 1st athlete to win multi-event medals in 3 Olympics [pentathlon, long jump]1962 - Herschel Walker
football: Heisman Trophy winner: Univ of Georgia [1982]; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles1962 - Herschel Walker
football: Heisman Trophy winner: Univ of Georgia [1982]; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles1963 - Jason Curtis Newsted
musician: guitar: group: Metallica [1986-2001]; founder of Chophouse Records studio and label in Walnut Creek, California1964 - Laura Harring
actress: Mulholland Drive, General Hospital, Sunset Beach, Rabbits, Inland Empire, The Punisher, The Shield, Love in the Time of Cholera, Bitter Grapes and Kluge, Gossip Girl1965 - Ian Beattie
actor: Game of Thrones, Space Truckers, Alexander, Starred Up, Vikings, The Tudors1966 - Tone Loc
rapper: Wild Thing; actor: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Spy Hard1968 - Brian Leetch
hockey: NHL: New York Rangers [1987-2004: Stanley Cup Champs 1994]; Toronto Maple Leafs [2003-2004; Boston Bruins [2005-2006]1968 - Scott Radinsky
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers, SL Cardinals, Cleveland Indians1970 - Julie Bowen
actress: Modern Family, Crazy on the Outside, Kids in America, Joe Somebody, Multiplicity, Runaway Daughters, Five Spot Jewel, Boston Legal1971 - Annabeth Gish
actress: Shag, Hiding Out, Mystic Pizza, The Last Supper, Double Jeopardy, The X-Files, The West Wing, Brotherhood1972 - Christian Oliver
actor: Ready or Not, The Good German, A Light in the Forest, Kept, Eat Your Heart Out, The Baby-Sitters Club1973 - Matthew Marsden
actor: Coronation Street, Helen of Troy, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tamara, Resident Evil: Extinction, Rambo [2008], Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; singer: She’s Gone, The Heart’s Lone Desire, Walk My Way, Didn’t We Say, The Writing’s on the Wall, Lost for Words1974 - David Faustino
actor: Married with Children, Nice Guys, Easier, Softer Way, 10 Attitudes, MacArthur Park, The Heist, Kiss and Tell, Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O’Hara Story, Star-ving1976 - Eric Warfield
football [cornerback]: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs1977 - Sarah Smart
actress: Five Days, Love Again, Sweet Revenge, The Locksmith, Bliss, Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage1978 - Samantha Ryan
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Nurses Gone Wild, $ex $ells, Topless Helpless Bondage Toys!, The Chloroform Solution to Knotty Problem!, Women Seeking Women 40, Battle of the Hogtied Maids, Nymphetamine 3, The Breakfast Club: A XXX Parody, Ruthless Bondage Restrains Sexy Secretaries1982 - Jessica Biel
actress: 7th Heaven, The Illusionist, Elizabethtown, Stealth, London, Blade: Trinity, Cellular, Summer Catch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sinner1984 - Santonio Holmes
football [wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [2006-2009]: 2009 Super Bowl XLIII MVP; New York Jets [2010-2013]; Chicago Bears [2014]1985 - Nathalie Kelley
actress: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Vampire Diaries, UnREAL, Dynasty [2018]1986 - Patton Kizzire
golf champ: 2017 OHL Classic at Mayakoba; 2018 Sony Open in Hawaii1985 - Nathalie Kelley
actress: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Vampire Diaries, Furious Seven, In Like Flynn, Dynasty [2017-2018]1993 - Michael Thomas
football [wide receiver]: NFL: New Orleans Saints [2016- ]: 2019 NFL Offensive Player of the Year; NFL record for most receptions by a player through his first five seasons [510]; most receptions by a player in a single season [149 in 2018]; led league in receptions [2018/2019]; led league in yardage [2019]
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Hit Music on This Day March 3
1947The Anniversary Song (facts) - Dinah Shore
Managua, Nicaragua (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Don Rodney)
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