March 7
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1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine that stitches buttonholes! Imagine what our clothes would be like without buttonholes! We’d use Velcro? Safety pins? Fishing hooks? Snaps? Paper clips? Staples? All of the above? And just why is it that women’s clothes have buttonholes on the opposite side of men’s clothes? Yet, so many women wear men’s clothes. It’s all so confusing. Time to take a nap to think about it.1876 - Alexander Graham Bell of Salem, MA ‘rang’ up a patent for his invention, the telephone. It was an invention, incidentally, that almost bankrupted his company in the beginning. Now, it’s his invention that almost bankrupts those of us who use the phone to call long distance each month...
1911 - Willis Farnsworth of Petaluma, CA patented the coin-operated locker. So, if you hang around the bus or train station or visit an amusement park today, remember this when placing your belongings inside a locker. And remember, we are not responsible for lost or stolen articles. Thank you.
1933 - CBS radio debuted the first daytime radio serial on this day. Marie the Little French Princess had a successful run of two years on the air.
1933 - Charles Darrow created the game we know as Monopoly. Or did he? Maybe Lizzie J. Magie’s The Landlord’s Game, patented in 1904, was the real monopoly game. Or was it? A Reading, Pennsylvania college student, Dan Layman, and his pal, Louis Thun, played the version his friends called Monopoly in the late 1920s. Thun even copyrighted several rules that the two had written. Or was it Ruth Hoskins? She learned how to play the game from a friend of Layman’s in Indianapolis. She then moved to Atlantic City and shared it with friends. In 1930, they made a version complete with Atlantic City street names like Boardwalk and Park Place; even including Marven Gardens, a residential area near Atlantic City. Darrow was introduced to Monopoly by mutual friends of Hoskins. He made some modifications, misspelled Marven Gardens as Marvin Gardens, added copyrighted artwork and produced games which he began to sell on this day. He could not keep up with the demand for the game and sold his ‘rights’ to Parker Brothers becoming a millionaire at age 46. And that's a fact.
1939 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians recorded one of the most popular songs of the century. The standard, Auld Lang Syne, was recorded for Decca Records ... about two months and a week late, we’d say.
1944 - Norman Corwin hosted a program titled, Columbia Presents Corwin on the CBS radio network this day. It was the first time the show was broadcast.
1945 - U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany. The troops used the damaged but still standing Ludendorff Bridge. (The bridge collapsed ten days later while hundreds of U.S. soldiers were still working desperately to maintain it.)
1946 - Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard was the site of the 18th Annual Academy Awards celebration. Bob Hope hosted the first half of the show with James Stewart stepping up to the mike for the second half. The Best Motion Picture of 1945 was Paramount’s The Lost Weekend, produced by Charles Brackett. It also won for Best Director (Billy Wilder), Best Actor (Ray Milland), and Best Writing of a Screenplay (Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder). The Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to James Dunn for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Best Actress was Joan Crawford for her perfomance in Mildred Pierce. The votes for The Best Actress in a Supporting Role prize went to Anne Revere for National Velvet. The Best Music/Scoring of a Musical Picture Oscar went to Georgie Stoll for Anchors Aweigh and Best Music/Song was It Might as Well Be Spring (from State Fair) by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.
1954 - Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to capture the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden. It marked the first time that Russia participated in the ice-hockey competition and started a dynasty -- until being checked by Team USA in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, NY.
1955 - Peter Pan, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, was presented as a television special for the first time.
1955 - Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA, leading to a stage, club and television career that spanned more than three decades ... and as many facelifts.
1955 - Baseball commissioner Ford Frick indicated that he was in favor of legalizing the spitball. The commissioner said, “It’s a great pitch.” Many, like Gaylord Perry and others would agree, but the rules never changed to allow the pitch. Catchers often said that when catching a spitball, one needed to wear a raincoat for protection.
1956 - Lonnie Donegan’s hit song, Rock Island Line, was doing well on the pop music charts from across the big pond. The popular music from Great Britain’s ‘King of Skiffle’ ushered in the new music craze called ‘skiffle’. Donegan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was a member of Chris Barber’s Jazz Band. He had one other major hit on the U.S. pop charts even bigger than Rock Island Line. In 1961, Donegan’s Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor (On the Bedpost Over Night) made it to the top five in America. The song was a top-10 hit in 1924 by Ernest Hare and Billy Jones. However, instead of “Chewing Gum” in the original title, it was “Spearmint”. Donegan recorded his version of the song in 1959, two years before it became a hit. Incidentally, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles both started their careers in skiffle bands.
1962 - The U.S. Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO I) was launched to begin the first comprehensive study of the sun from a satellite.
1967 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa started an eight-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Hoffa had been convicted of defrauding his union and jury tampering. (The sentence was commuted Dec 23, 1971 by President Richard M. Nixon.)
1973 - The comet Kohoutek was discovered by Dr. Lubos Kohoutek, a Czechoslovakian astronomer, at Hamburg Observatory, Bergedorf, West Germany. As with most modern discoveries, this one was made photographically.
1975 - The U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule to allow 60 senators (three-fifths) to limit debate in most cases. This, instead of the previously required two- thirds of senators present.
1979 - Scientists spotted a ring around Jupiter while examining photographs taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Astronomers had discovered rings around Saturn in 1610 and Uranus in 1977.
1983 - Willie Nelson received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in New York; and Margaret Whiting and Rosemary Clooney were co-recipients of the Hitmaker award.
1985 - The song We Are the World, from the album of the same name, was played on the radio for the first time. Forty-five of pop music’s top stars had gathered together to combine their talents to record the music of Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. Richie and Jackson sang, too, while Quincy Jones did the producing of the USA for Africa record. The proceeds of the multimillion-selling recording went to aid African famine victims. The project, coordinated by Ken Kragen, was deemed a huge success.
1987 - World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champ, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson, became the youngest heavyweight titleist ever as he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round bout in Las Vegas.
1993 - Authorities said David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, was becoming irritable and had rejected proposals to end a week-long standoff at his compound near Waco, Texas.
1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that copyright owners cannot bar parodies of their songs. The case involved rap group 2 Live Crew’s bawdy version of Roy Orbison’s 1964 hit Oh, Pretty Woman. The owner of the song, Acuff-Rose Music, had sued for copyright infringement. 2 Live Crew had sought permission to use the song and offered to pay royalties, but Acuff-Rose refused. The rap group’s version was released on the 1989 album, As Clean As They Wanna Be.
1995 - New York Governor George Pataki used pens which had belonged to two slain New York Police officers to sign a new law reinstating the state’s death penalty. New York was the 38th of the 50 states to establish capital punishment.
1996 - The first surface photos of Pluto were taken -- by Hubble Space Telescope.
1997 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Jungle 2 Jungle, starring Tim Allen, Martin Short, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden Stiers, Bob Dishy, Jobeth Williams, Valerie Mahaffey, Leelee Sobieski, Luis Avalos, Frankie J. Galasso and Carole Shelley; and Private Parts with Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, Gary Dell’Abate, Jackie Martling, Kelly Bishop, Mary Mccormack and Richard Portnow.
1999 - Movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England 70 years of age. Kubrick’s films included Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush and U.S. Vice President Al Gore were the big winners in the Super Tuesday primaries.
2000 - Country singer Frank ‘Pee Wee’ King died in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 86 years old.
2001 - 2000 census results put the U.S. Hispanic population at 35.3 million, just above the 34.7 million total of African Americans.
2003 - Films debuting in the United States: Bringing Down the House, starring Queen Latifah, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Missi Pyle, Betty White, Jean Smart, Angus T. Jones, Kimberly J. Brown, Aengus James, Michael Ensign, Matt Lutz and Victor Webster; and Tears of the Sun, with Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner, Charles Ingram and Chad Smith.
2003 - The U.S. set March 17 as the final deadline for Saddam Hussein to prove he had given up his “weapons of mass destruction.”
2004 - Actor Paul Winfield died of a heart attack. He was 62 years old. Paul Winfield was known for his versatility on the stage, and in film and TV roles.
2004 - The Samson, a ferry carrying 113 people, vanished after it was caught in cyclone Gafilo as it sailed between the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros and Madagascar. Only two people survived. The drownings brought the death toll from the cyclone to 154.
2005 - Sony Corporation picked 63-year-old Sir Howard Stringer, Welsh-born head of its U.S. operations, to replace chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei.
2006 - Gordon Parks, photographer, writer and film director, died in New York City at 93 years of age. Parks’ semi-autobiographical novel The Learning Tree became a best seller in 1963. His films include Shaft [1971] and Leadbelly [1976].
2007 - A Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737 crash-landed and erupted in flames at Adisucipto International Airport, near Yogyakarta, on the island of Java, Indonesia. Twenty-two people were killed, but 115 escaped through emergency exits as black smoke billowed around them.
2008 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: 10,000 B.C., with Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Reece Ritchie and Suri van Sornsen; The Bank Job, starring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern, Don Gallagher and David Suchet; and College Road Trip, with Donny Osmond, Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone, Will Sasso and Arnetia Walker.
2010 - The 82nd annual Academy Awards show was held at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the event. The winners were: Picture: The Hurt Locker; Director: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker; Actor: Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (as Otis ‘Bad’ Blake): Actress: Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side (as Leigh Anne Tuohy); Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (as SS Col. Hans Landa); Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique for Precious (as Mary Lee Johnston); Animated Feature: Up; Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (in Spanish); Original Score: Michael Giacchino for Up; Original Song: The Weary Kind (from Crazy Heart): Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett; Visual Effects: Avatar: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones.
2011 - Ten Japanese companies announced plans to install electric vehicle chargers at the sites of vending machines across Japan. Japan, with machines that sell live crabs, grow lettuce, are covered in moss, and dispense smart cars, to name a few, would install 10,000 vending machines to charge electric cars.
2012 - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the creation of an Internet oversight agency that included top military and political figures. Khamenei signed an executive order establishing the Cyberspace Council and appointed the president as its chair. Iran already had one of the world’s toughest Internet-censorship regimes, routinely blocking Web sites it deemed immoral or in some way threatening to the country’s national security.
2012 - And more from the Iran news desk: Iranian media reported that Ali Shakouri-Rad, a ranking member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, former lawmaker and a leading reformist of a banned political party had been sentenced to four years in prison for spreading anti-regime propaganda.
2013 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its Feb 12 nuclear test. North Korea’s Army General Kang Pyo Yong told a crowd that North Korea was ready to fire long-range nuclear-armed missiles at Washington.
2014 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: 300: Rise of an Empire, with Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro and Eva Green; the animated Mr. Peabody & Sherman, featuring the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles and Stephen Colbert; The Grand Budapest Hotel, starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Edward Norton; Grand Piano, with Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Kerry Bishé; and Haunt, with Jacki Weaver, Liana Liberato and Harrison Gilbertson.
2015 - Rains in Brazil led to an increase in the numbers of mosquitoes transmitting dengue fever. 174,676 cases had been reported up to this point in 2015.
2016 - The Golden State Warriors (basketball) won their 45th straight home game, setting a new NBA record. The Warriors surpassed the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls’ 44 straight regular-season home victories.
2017 - Ranking Judiciary Committee member Senator Dianne Feinstein told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that she wanted to see a special prosecutor appointed to investigate 2016 election meddling by Russia, arguing that it would be in the public interest. When she asked Rosenstein whether he would appoint a special prosecutor, he responded that Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch had been faced with the same question, and she rejected the request. She had confidence in the career attorneys at the Justice Department to look into the matter, he noted. Asked whether that could be taken as a “no,” Rosenstein said that he’s “simply not in a position to make that decision.” He also said, however, that he doesn’t presume that Lynch and Boente are correct in not appointing a special counsel. If he were to determine they’re wrong, “I would overrule them,” he told the panel. (On May 17, 2017 Rosenstein appointed former Department of Justice official and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller as special prosecutor.)
2018 - The Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation, sponsor of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced that architect and educator Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the 2018 honor and medal. Doshi was the first Indian to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in its 40-year history.
2018 - British authorities identified said a Novichok nerve agent had been used to poison Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter, Yulia (33) on March 4. Skripal was a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the U.K.’s intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. He had been jailed in Russia but settled in the U.K. in 2010 in an Illegals Program spy swap. His daughter had been visiting him in Salisbury, England from Moscow at he time of the poisoning. Both Skripal and his daughter eventually reconvered from the dastardly deed done to them. The British government accused POTUS Trump’s good friend, Russia, of the attempted murders and announced a series of punitive measures against against the country, including the expulsion of diplomats.
2019 - Former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to four years in prison for tax crimes and bank fraud. The high-profile case stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
2019 - Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) reported the battle against Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo was failing because ordinary citizens did not trust health workers and an overly militarized response was alienating patients and families.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Grand Princess Captain John Smith told passengers that the cruise ship hit by the coronavirus was headed to the port of Oakland, CA. The ship, carrying more than 3,500 people from 54 countries, was expected to dock in two days. 2)Passengers were then quarantined at Travis Air Force Base; many were released on a staggered basis from March 9-13. 3)Hawaii Governor David Ige said a patient who had traveled aboard the Grand Princess in early February had become Hawaii’s first case of COVID-19. 4)The number of Americans diagnosed with novel coronavirus was 424, according to a case count by Johns Hopkins Univ. At least 19 people had died in the U.S. in Washington state, California and Florida. There were more than 101,000 infected worldwide and more than 3,400 deaths.
2020 - About 70 people were trapped in a collapsed hotel in the city of Quanzhou, in southeastern Fujian Province, China. The collapsed hotel had been used for coronavirus quarantine. Some 20 people died in the collapse. On March 9 a boy and his mother were rescued. And a man was rescued after being trapped for 69 hours.
2021 - An Oprah Winfrey interview featured Prince Harry and his wife Meghan. Meghan spoke of finding life as a royal so difficult she felt suicidal, and accused the royal family of racism. Harry said his father, Prince Charles, had let him down, stopped taking his calls for a while, and that he had been cut off financially in 2020.
2021 - The Russian organization "For Human Rights" disbanded, citing the wrongful inclusion of its leader, Lev Ponomarev, on the Russian Justice Ministry’s list of foreign agents. Ponomarev founded FHR in 1997.
2021 - COVID-19 insurance policies were increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation necessities. This, as more countries required mandatory coverage in case visitors fell ill from the coronavirus.
2022 - The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till anti-Lynching Act. Amazingly, three Republicans, Representatives Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Chip Roy of Texas, had voted against a companion anti-lynching bill in the House.
2022 - The Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by prosecutors to undo 2021’s ruling in Pennsylvania that overturned Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction. Cosby had been convicted of sexual assault in 2018 and sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, but he was released in June 2021. This, after the Pennsylvania supreme court overturned the ruling because Cosby’s due process rights had been violated during his conviction -- and a 2005 agreement with a prosecutor should have prevented him from being charged again. The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection kept that reversal in place.
2022 - In still another international request to be ignored by Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Russia to hold direct talks with Ukraine. And while this request was being ignored, New Zealand’s government rushed through a new law that will allow it to impose economic sanctions on Russia because of its invasion.
2023 - The Capitol Police criticized Fox News host Tucker Carlson, saying he cherry-picked footage from security video of the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol attack to make it look like a peaceful protest. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger wrote in a message to officers that Carlson failed “to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.” And Republican senators slammed Carlson for portraying the attack as non-violent. Several House Republicans said it was fine for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to release thousands of hours of security footage to Carlson. “But if your message is then to try and convince people that nothing bad happened,” Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said, “then it’s just gonna make us look silly.”
2023 - More than a million people protested in nationwide demonstrations throughout France -- against government plans to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.
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Birthdays on This Day March 7
1849 - Luther Burbank
naturalist: creator of new varieties of flowers, trees, edible fruits and vegetables; died Apr 11, 19261875 - Maurice Ravel
composer: Bolero; died Dec 28, 19371908 - Anna Magnani
actress: The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive Kind, Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema; died Sep 26, 19731917 - Davis Roberts
actor: The Gifted, Dallas: The Early Years, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Honky Tonk Freeway, The Winds of War, Roots, Star Trek; died Jul 18, 19931917 - Lee Young
jazz musician: drummer: Nat King Cole Trio, Lee Young Band; died Jul 31, 20081922 - Andy Phillip
NBA Basketball Hall of Famer: Univ. of Illinois [‘floor general’: Whiz Kids]; Philadelphia Warriors, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons; Associated Press all-time All-American team [1950]; died Apr 29, 20011923 - Mahlon Clark
musician: clarinet/reeds: Lawrence Welk’s band; died Sep 20, 20071927 - James Broderick
actor: Alice’s Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon; died Nov 1, 19821930 - Tom (Thomas James) Acker
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds; died Jan 4, 20211934 - Willard Scott (Willard Herman Scott Jr.)
weatherman: Today show; died Sep 4, 20211938 - Homero Blancas
golf: champ: Phoenix Open [1972]1938 - Janet Guthrie
auto racer: first woman in Indianapolis 500; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer1940 - Daniel J. Travanti
Emmy Award-Winning actor: Hill Street Blues [1980-81, 1981-82], Weep No More My Lady1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker (Tamara Faye LaValley)
TV evangelist; once married to founder of PTL CLub, Jim Bakker; died Jul 20, 20071942 - Pete Beathard
football: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback: Super Bowl I1942 - Hamilton Bohannon
bandleader, percussionist, arranger, producer for 1970s disco/dance music: South African Man, Foot Stompin’ Music, Disco Stomp1942 - Michael Eisner
CEO, chairman of the board of Walt Disney Company [1984-2004]; president and COO of Paramount Pictures [1976-1984]; VP of Prime Time Production at ABC [1966-1976]1943 - Bill MacMillan
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlanta Flames, NY Islanders; coach/GM: New Jersey Devils1943 - Rick (Richard) Redman
football: Washington State, Univ. of Washington; San Diego Chargers1943 - Chris White
musician: bass: group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, She’s Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Seasons1944 - Townes Van Zandt
songwriter, singer: If I Needed You, To Live Is To Fly, No Place to Fall, Tecumseh Valley, Our Mother the Mountain, Snake Mountain Blues, White Freightliner Blues, Tower Song, Who Do You Love, Pancho & Lefty; died Jan 1, 19971946 - Matthew Fisher
musician: organ: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; solo: LPs: Journey’s End, I’ll be There, Matthew Fisher, Strange Days; operated own recording studio1946 - John Heard
actor: The Pelican Brief, Radio Flyer, Home Alone series, Rambling Rose, The Milagro Beanfield War, Big, Beaches, First Love, Between the Lines, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town; died Jul 21, 20171946 - Peter Wolf (Blankfield)
singer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold; Lights Out, Freeze-Frame; more1947 - Richard Lawson
actor: Out of the Rain, Blue Hill Avenue, Jackie’s Back!, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Wag the Dog, Pandora’s Clock1950 - Franco Harris
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; died Dec 20, 20221950 - Bernie MacNeil
hockey: NHL: SL Blues1950 - Billy Joe DuPree
football: Dallas Cowboys tight end: Super Bowl X, XII, XIII1951 - Jeff Burroughs
baseball: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers [all-star: 1974], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1978], Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays1952 - Ernie Isley
songwriter, musician: guitar: group: The Isley Brothers: Shout, It’s Your Thing, Twist and Shout, I Wanna Be With You, Don’t Say Goodnight [It’s Time for Love]1952 - Lynn Swann
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; TV sportscaster1953 - Kenny Aronoff
musician: drums: group: Lynard Skynard: Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special, Swamp Music, Ballad of Curtis Loew1956 - Bryan Cranston
Tony Award-winning actor: All the Way [2014]; Emmy Award actor: Breaking Bad [2008–2010, 2014]; Hard Four, Illusion, Seeing Other People, Thanksgiving Family Reunion, Terror Tract, The Big Thing, Saving Private Ryan, Malcolm in the Middle, Better Call Saul1959 - Tom Lehman
golf champ: 1996 Open Championship; only golfer in history to have been awarded Player of the Year honor on all three PGA Tours: the regular PGA Tour, the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour Champions1959 - Donna Murphy
Tony Award-winning actress: Passion [1994], The King and I [1996]; films/TV: Tangled, Star Trek: Insurrection, Spider-Man 2, Center Stage, The Astronaut’s Wife, Jade, Trust Me, Hack, The Bourne Legacy1959 - Nick Searcy
actor: Justified, The Expendables, Blood Done Sign My Name, Eagle Eye, An American Crime, Cold Storage, Mall Cop, Double Teamed1960 - Joe Carter
baseball: [right field, first base]: Chicago Cubs [1983]; Cleveland Indians [1984–1989]; San Diego Padres [1990]; Toronto Blue Jays [1991–1997] [World Series champs: 1992, 1993]; Baltimore Orioles [1998]; San Francisco Giants [1998]1960 - Ivan Lendl
tennis champion: Australian Open [1989,1983,1990], French Open [1984, 1986, 1987], U.S. Open [1985, 1986, 1987]1961 - Mary Beth Evans
actress: Days of our Lives, American Coffee, Lovelines, Toy Soldiers, Secrets of a Mother and Daughter1962 - Taylor Dayne
singer: Tell It to My Heart, Prove Your Love, I’ll Always Love You, Don’t Rush Me, Every Beat of My Heart, Love Will Lead You Back; actress: Fool’s Paradise, Martial Law, Rude Awakening; LPs: Tell It to My Heart, Can’t Fight Fate1964 - Wanda Sykes
actress, comedienne: Evan Almighty, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Monster-in-Law, Pootie Tang, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Back at the Barnyard, The Wanda Sykes Show1965 - Steve Beuerlein
football [quarterback]: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: LA Raiders, Dallas Cowboys, Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos1966 - Paul Davis
musician: keyboards: group: Happy Mondays1966 - Alex Sanders
actress [1991-2012]: X-rated films: Pussyman 5, Dear Diary, American Tushy, Icon, Whoomp! There She Is, The Butt Sisters Do... series, Last Tango in Paradise, Oral Addiction, Busty Backdoor Nurses, Whoriental Sex Academy 4, Summer Camp Sun Bunnies, Coming from Behind1969 - Sam Gash
football [running back]: Penn State Univ; NFL: New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens1970 - Rachel Weisz
actress: Page Eight, The Whistleblower, The Lovely Bones, Definitely, Maybe, The Constant Gardener, Masterpiece Contemporary1971 - Peter Sarsgaard
actor: Garden State, Dead Man Walking, Another Day in Paradise, Desert Blue, The Man in the Iron Mask, Boys Don’t Cry, The Center of the World, Empire, The Salton Sea, K-19: The Widowmaker, Shattered Glass, The Dying Gaul, Flightplan, Jarhead, Orphan, Knight and Day, Green Lantern, The Killing1974 - Larry Bagby
actor: Walk the Line, I Will Go and Do, Saints and Soldiers, The Trip, God’s Army, Black Friday, L.I.N.X.1974 - Jenna Fischer
actress: The Office, Blades of Glory, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Promotion, Hall Pass1975 - T.J. Thyne
actor: Bones, Dharma and Greg, Walker Texas Ranger, Erin Brockovich, Something’s Gotta Give, Huff, The Pardon1978 - Katie Gold
actress [1997-2011]: X-rated films: The Mobster’s Wife, Pornogothic, Daily Grind, Katie Gold Cock Star, Stick It in My Face! 2, Spring Break Sex Kittens, Stiffer Competition, Down the Hatch1980 - Laura Prepon
actress: That ’70s Show, October Road, American Dad!, King of the Hill, How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Castle, Are You There, Chelsea?, Men at Work, Orange Is the New Black1984 - Brandon T. Jackson
comedian, actor: Roll Bounce, Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Lottery Ticket, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son1998 - Amanda Gorman
poet, activist: delivered the poem The Hill We Climb at President Joe Biden’s inauguration
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Hit Music on This Day March 7
1951If (facts) - Perry Como
My Heart Cries for You (facts) - Guy Mitchell
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