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1852 - The New York Lantern newspaper published an Uncle Sam cartoon for the first time. The drawing was the work of Frank Henry Bellew. Through the years, the caricature changed with Uncle Sam becoming symbolic of the U.S. being just like a favorite uncle. A prime example of this symbolism were U.S. Army posters that portrayed Uncle Sam pointing and saying, “I want you!” As a result, many of us joined his ranks.
1877 - Chester Greenwood of Farmington, ME patented ear-mufflers. Of course, being in very Northern Maine, he picked the right place to patent such much-needed outdoor gear, as it is extremely cold in upstate Maine for, oh, about 10 months a year. So cold, that some wear earmuffs indoors. We do here, as well, just to keep the office roar down to a minimum. Thank you Mr. Greenwood!
1918 - Tallulah Bankhead made her New York acting debut with a role in The Squab Farm.
1923 - A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised. The new models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones, which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and messed up hairdos. The new radios were also said to have a ‘foolproof’ design.
1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by astronomers who had been looking for another planet in the solar system.
1935 - Parimutuel betting became a reality as horse race bets were legalized in the state of Nebraska. There are still U.S. states where horse racing, betting or other forms of legalized gambling still ‘nag’ legislatures, despite the fact that other states have been participating in these activities for decades.
1942 - Bing Crosby and Mary Martin were heard having a bit of fun as they joined together to record Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie for Decca Records.
1942 - Julia O. Flikke of the Nurse Corps became the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
1943 - Frank Dixon became the first great black miler in track as he won the Columbian Mile in New York City. Dixon ran the mile in a record time of 4 minutes, 9.6 seconds.
1947 - The Best Years of Our Lives, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, was a big favorite winning the Best Picture prize at the 19th Academy Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Actor/producer/comedian Jack Benny hosted the glittering gala. The Best Years of Our Lives won Oscars for Best Director (William Wyler); Actor (Fredric March); Supporting Actor (Harold Russell); Film Editing (Daniel Mandell); Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood); and a shared award with The Jolson Story for Best Score. Other awards for the best of 1946: Actress: Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own, and Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Baxter in The Razor’s Edge. The Best Song was On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (from The Harvey Girls) by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. Foreign-made films showed up in these Oscars, bringing an end to Hollywood’s then exclusive rights to the coveted awards. Of the foreign movies nominated, three were British (Henry V - producer, Laurence Olivier; Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson; Perfect Strangers which won the Oscar for Best Writing/Original Story [Clemence Dane]), one was French (Les Enfants du paradis, an original screenplay by Jacques Prévert) and one Italian (Roma, città aperta, screenplay written by Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini).
1947 - The musical Brigadoon opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. The show ran for 581 performances and was later staged in London (1949). Memorable melodies from Brigadoon include I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean, The Heather on the Hill, Come to Me, Bend to Me, Almost Like Being in Love and There but for You Go I.
1954 - The North Vietnamese (the Viet Minh), under General Vo Nguyen Giap, started to attack the French at Dien Bien Phu in northwestern Vietnam. The French were defeated in the battle and surrendered May 7, 1954. The first Indochina War (1946-1954) then came to an end July 20, 1954.
1960 - The NFL’s Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis, MO.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy started the Alliance for Progress. It (Alianza para el Progreso) was described by JFK as “a vast cooperative effort, unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose..., to satisfy the basic needs of the American (north and south) people for homes, work and land, health and schools - techo, trabajo y tierra, salud y escuela.” The Alliance for Progress initiative focused on maintaining democratic government, on industrial and agrarian development, and on more equitable distribution of wealth.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy met Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo at Washington National Airport in Washington, DC.
1964 - Some 38 residents of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death. The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome", and the murder became a staple of U.S. psychology textbooks. But police interviews later revealed that some witnesses had indeed attempted to call the police.
1968 - The Byrds received a gold record for their Greatest Hits album, which featured Turn! Turn! Turn!, written by Pete Seeger (excerpted from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible); Eight Miles High; Mr. Spaceman; Mr. Tambourine Man; All I Really Want to Do; and My Back Pages. The group consisted of Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke. Kevin Kelly, Gram Parsons, Clarence White, John York and Gene Parsons were also members of the group through the years. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
1970 - The cover of LIFE magazine was extremely popular. It showed the extremes of the new hemline hassle that was raging -- a battle between long versus short skirts.
1970 - Austrian skier Karl Schranz won a second straight World Cup title.
1972 - The Merv Griffin Show, starring perennial game show and late -night TV host, singer and pianist, Merv Griffin, debuted in syndication for Metromedia Television. Griffin had a number one song with the Freddy Martin Orchestra in the 1940s. I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts launched him to fame and fortune. He battled against Johnny Carson on CBS-TV late night. Merv lost. He also went against Joey Bishop over on ABC late night. Again, Merv lost; but won big in the Metromedia show; and in ownership of stations such as WPIX-TV in New York, WPOP Radio in Hartford, CT. Later, he devised Wheel of Fortune and the formula for the popular, syndicated show, Jeopardy; making him one of the richest entertainment moguls in the world at one time.
1976 - The Four Seasons, featuring the falsetto voice of Frankie Valli, returned to the pop charts after a 10-year absence. The group scored with December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), which became the top song in the country. Valli’s real name is Castelluccio and with him were Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito. Joe Long and Charlie Callelo were made members in the 1960s, when Gaudio concentrated on producing for the group and DeVito left. Bob Crewe was the group’s original producer. The name, The Four Seasons was taken from a New Jersey bowling alley. In all, the group charted 30 songs plus Valli had nine solo hits. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
1980 - Henry Ford II resigned as chairman of the Ford Motor Company. His retirement marked the first time in company history that a Ford was not at the helm. He remained chairman of the Finance Committee until his death in 1987.
1986 - The Philippine government confirmed that it had discovered a bank account containing $800 million, in the name of exiled President Ferdinand Marcos. Within days, hundreds of millions more was discovered. When the presidential palace was opened to the public, the people saw many expensive possessions including hundreds of pairs of shoes owned by First Lady Imelda Marcos.
1987 - Jack Morris, pitcher with Sparky Anderson’s Detroit Tigers, received the largest arbitration settlement in professional baseball. He was awarded $1.85 million to play for the Tigers in 1988.
1988 - Yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school’s first deaf president, replacing Elisabeth Ann Zinser, who could hear.
1991 - Cornetist Jimmy McPartland died two days before his 84th birthday. McPartland was one of the prime architects of the ‘Chicago’ style of traditional jazz. He was the leader of a group of west side Chicago musicians known as the Austin High Gang. McPartland replaced his idol Bix Beiderbecke in the Wolverines in 1924. His career spanned more than 65 years. (Another member of the Austin High Gang, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, died two days after McPartland.)
1992 - More than 400 people were killed when a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Erzincan in northeastern Turkey.
1993 - The Blizzard of '93 rolled up the U.S. east coast. The storm killed 212 people, and dumped one foot to more than four feet of snow with 15-foot drifts, from Alabama to Maine.
1996 - The Liggett Group, the fifth-largest U.S. tobacco company (maker of Chesterfield and Eve cigarettes), made history by settling a private class-action lawsuit -- becoming the first tobacco company to acknowledge that cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer.
1998 - Candice Bergen and the cast of Murphy Brown filmed the 247th and final episode of the award-winning and sometimes controversial CBS sitcom. The episode, titled Never Can Say Goodbye (Part 2), featured appearances by Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and Mike Wallace, as well as Bergen’s real mother, Frances; it aired May 18, 1998.
1998 - The Man in the Iron Mask opened in the U.S. The action adventure stars Leonardo Dicaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud, Judith Godreche, Peter Sarsgaard and Edward Atterton.
1999 - Evander Holyfield, the WBA and IBF champion, and Lennox Lewis, the WBC champion, kept their respective titles after fighting to a controversial draw in New York.
2000 - A quarter century after the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen arrived in Hanoi to “push the pace of reconciliation on a broader front.” Cohen said the main focus of his two-day visit was to emphasize the importance of U.S.-Vietnamese efforts to find, recover and repatriate the remains of American servicemen missing from the war.
2000 - The Tribune Co. and the Times Mirror Co., two of the oldest and largest newspapers in the U.S., announced that they would merge. Together, the combined companies would boast a daily newspaper circulation of 3.6 million, including readers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
2001 - Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, arrested with a carload of explosives just before New Year’s Eve 1999, went on trial in Los Angeles on this day. Charged with plotting to bomb Seattle and other U.S. cities during the millennium celebrations, Ressam was convicted of terrorism the following month.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban a medical procedure called partial birth abortion.
2003 - Robert Sørlie of Norway won the Iditarod Trail sled dog race in Alaska. It had taken Sorlie and his dog team nine days, 15 hours, 47 minutes to complete the course -- a couple of hours shorter thean Sorli’s winning time just the year before.
2005 - The Disney Corporation board of directors named Robert Iger to succeed Michael Eisner as Chief Executive Officer.
2006 - The McClatchy Co. said it has reached a deal to buy Knight Ridder Inc., the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock. McClatchy also assumed about $2 billion in Knight Ridder’s debt.
2007 - Canada reported that it had the highest population growth rate among G-8 industrialized nations between 2001 and 2006, thanks to the arrival of 1.2 million immigrants.
2007 - Viacom filed a $1-billion suit against YouTube and parent company Google, in an attempt to stop the publication of Viacom videos without authorization. (In April 2013 U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton ruled that YouTube was shielded from copyright infringement claims by a safe-harbor provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Stanton dismissed Viacom’s lawsuit, and ordered Viacom to pay some of YouTube’s costs.)
2008 - U.S. gold futures rallied to a high of $1,000 an ounce. The rise in value was fueled by a combination of a weakening dollar, strong investment demand and inflation fears. Get the current price of gold here.
2008 - Indian police arrested 100 Tibetan exiles who were beginning a 6-month walk to their homeland. The trek was part of a Tibetan protest of China’s control of their homeland.
2009 - Race to Witch Mountain opened in the U.S. The family fantasy adventure stars Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, Alexander Ludwig, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Marquette, Cheech Marin and Garry Marshall.
2009 - The Swiss government said it would begin cooperating on cases of international tax evasion, breaking a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars in Switzerland.
2010 - A two-week United Natons conference focusing on the Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life opened in Qatar. The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) featured proposals on regulating the trade in a number of plant and animal species.
2011 - The Indian navy captured 61 pirates who had jumped into the Arabian Sea while fleeing from a gunfight and fire on the hijacked ship from which they had staged several attacks. Two Indian navy ships rescued 13 crew members from the Mozambique-flagged Vega 5, a fishing boat that had been seized in December 2010.
2011 - Thousands across the devastated swath of Japan suffered for a third day without water, electricity or proper food, as the country grappled with the enormity of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The quake and resulting flooding left more than 10,000 people dead in one area alone. This, while scientists and workers continued fighting to avert a meltdown at three earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors.
2012 - Republican U.S. presidential primaries were held in the far-right-leaning states of Alabama and Mississippi. Rick Santorum won both. Newt Gingrich placed second in both contests with narrow leads over Mitt Romney.
2012 - Federal prosecutors in Brazil announced the filing of criminal charges for the first time related to crimes committed by government representatives during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship. Prosecutors argued that kidnappings and the hiding of bodies so the victims were never found are ‘permanent crimes’. And since such crimes continue to the present, they fall outside the 1961-1979 period covered by an amnesty law that had effectively barred criminal prosecutions for dictatorship-era abuses.
2013 - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans for three renewable energy projects in California and Nevada. Enough power would be generated from the projects to power more than 340,000 homes.
2014 - The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that people whose cases were under appeal when (State Constitution) Amendment 64 (cannabis rules) took effect in Dec 1012, were eligible to have their convictions for possessing a small amount of marijuana dismissed. The amendment allowed adults over 21 to have up to an ounce of marijuana.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Cinderella, starring Lily James, Hayley Atwell and Helena Bonham Carter; the documentaries, Champs, Earth’s Golden Playground and The Wrecking Crew; Home Sweet Hell, starring Katherine Heigl, Jordana Brewster and Patrick Wilson; It Follows, with Linda Boston, Caitlin Burt and Heather Fairbanks; The Lovers, starring Josh Hartnett, Tamsin Egerton and Alice Englert; Muck, with Kane Hodder, Bryce Draper and Lachlan Buchanan; Run All Night, starring Genesis Rodriguez, Liam Neeson and Joel Kinnaman.
2015 - Japan and France signed an arms transfer agreement, paving the for development of drones and other unmanned equipment. Japan was slowly re-militarizing after decades of pacifist policies resulting from its role in World War II.
2016 - Palestinian ex-refugee teacher Hanan Al-Hroub was awarded the $1 million Global Teacher award in Dubai for her innovative technique of using play to counter violent behavior. Her approach, detailed in her book We Play and Learn, had led to a decline in violent behavior in schools where it was used.
2017 - Intel announced its purchase of Israeli car tech firm Mobileye -- for $15.3 billion. The deal was a sign that the computer chip giant was committing to developing technology for self-driving vehicles.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump sacked his top diplomat Rex Tillerson and named current CIA chief Mike Pompeo to succeed him as secretary of state. The abrupt announcement ended the turbulent tenure of the man who reportedly called Trump a “moron”, and deepened the disarray in the Trump administration.
2019 - The Pentagon outlined new Trump-ordered rules for transgender troops. The new policy largely barred transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex, and required most individuals to serve in their birth gender.
2019 - Alaska Native Pete Kaiser won the 1,000-mile Iditarod dog sled race. The 31-year-old Kaiser crossed the finish line in Nome after beating back a challenge from defending champion, Norwegian musher Joar Ulsom. Kaiser won $50,000 and a new pickup truck for the victory. Four other Alaska natives have won the race, including John Baker, an Inupiaq from Kotzebue, in 2011.
2019 - The United States grounded all of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft because of safety concerns. The action followed 737 MAX groundings by most of the other world nations after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people. The groundings left the world’s largest plane maker facing its worst crisis.
2020 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Bloodshot, starring Sam Heughan, Eiza González and Vin Diesel; The Hunt, with Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts and Ethan Suplee; I Still Believe, starring Britt Robertson, K.J. Apa and Melissa Roxburgh; My Spy, with Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman and Parisa Fitz-Henley; Inside the Rain, starring Rosie Perez, Eric Roberts and Aaron Fisher; Lost Girls, with Thomasin McKenzie, Amy Ryan and Gabriel Byrne; M.O.M. (Mothers of Monsters), starring Edward Asner, Melinda Page Hamilton and Julian de la Celle; Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, with Ryan Eggold, Théodore Pellerin and Talia Ryder; and The Roads Not Taken, starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning and Salma Hayek.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)POTUS Trump declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a national emergency, freeing up money and resources to fight it, and threw his support behind a congressional aid package. Trump inexplicably said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for the slow rollout of testing. He said major cruise lines including Royal Caribbean would suspend cruises for 30 days at his request after repeated transmission of coronavirus among passengers at sea. 2)The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied by some 2000 points, its biggest point gain ever, after Trump declared the national emergency. 3)Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards postponed the state’s presidential primaries due to fears of the coronavirus, making it the first state to push back its election because of the outbreak. 4)All United Nations staff at its New York City headquarters were told to work from home unless it was essential for them to come to work. 5)Australia warned citizens the coronavirus pandemic was so widespread that they should reconsider all foreign travel. This, as the government stepped up measures to slow the spread of the disease. 6)Greece said it had closed all its museums and archaeological sites, including the entire Acropolis that looms over Athens. Greece had 117 confirmed cases and one fatality. 7)More on the pandemic this day.
2020 - 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a decorated Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), was shot at least eight times by police officers in her apartment by Louisville, Kentucky police. Officials later said that police were executing a drug warrant. The aspiring nurse’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, a licensed gun owner, was said to have fired shots at officers when they attempted to enter.
2020 - Federal prosecutors hit R&B singer R. Kelly with more criminal charges in a revised indictment filed in New York City. The chargin included one of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes.
2021 - Georgia, the last European country to start a COVID-19 vaccination program, received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines. The first shots were given to medical workers on this day.
2021 - Jordan’s health minister stepped down after seven patients in a hospital COVID-19 ward died due to a shortage of oxygen supplies. Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh ordered an investigation into the deaths. And King Abdullah ordered the hospital’s director to also be suspended.
2022 - Actor William Hurt died at his home in Portland, OR (prostate cancer, age 71). Hurt appeared in over a hundred films, was a leading man in many, including Body Heat (1981) and Broadcast News (1987) -- and won an Oscar for his role in the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman.
2022 - A somber Pope Francis condemned the invasion of Ukraine, saying the “unacceptable armed aggression and massacre” must stop. As usual, Vlad wasn’t listening. But, in Russia, protests against the war were happening, as people continued to defy a crackdown on dissent. Apparently, Vlad did hear these folks. More than 860 people were detained by police in 37 Russian cities.
2023 - The U.S. sued Rite Aid, accusing the pharmacy chain of missing ‘red flags’ as it illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances, including opioids. Rite Aid pharmacists were accused of ignoring obvious signs of misuse, including in prescriptions for ‘trinities’ -- the combination of opioids, benzodiazepine, and muscle relaxants -- preferred by drug abusers for their increased euphoric effect.
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Birthdays on This Day March 13
1733 - Joseph Priestley
chemist: discovered oxygen; his scientific works covered chemistry, physics, electricity, magnetism, and optics; died Feb 6, 18041798 - Abigail Fillmore (Powers)
U.S. First Lady, wife of 13th President Millard Fillmore; instituted the White House library; died Mar 30, 18531813 - Lorenzo Delmonico
restaurateur: the famous Delmonico’s in NYC; the Delmonico cut of steak is named for him; died Sep 3, 18811855 - Percival Lowell
astronomer: founder: Lowell Observatory; initiated search for planet Pluto; died Nov 12, 19161860 - Hugo Wolf
composer, songwriter of late romantic period; died Feb 22, 19031910 - Sammy Kaye
bandleader: Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: Too Young, "A" - You’re Adorable, Harbor Lights; died June 2, 19871911 - L. Ron Hubbard
founder: Church of Scientology; author: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health; died Jan 24, 19861913 - William J. Casey
director of U.S. Central Intelligence [1981-1987]; died May 6, 19871913 - Tessie O’Shea
singer, Tony Award-winning actress: The Girl Who Came to Supper [1964]; films: The Way Ahead, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, The Entertainers, Bedknobs and Broomsticks; fun trivia note: Tessie shared the bill on the Ed Sullivan show Feb 9, 1964 with the Beatles; died Apr 21, 19951913 - Harold Stone
actor: Hardly Working, The Wild McCullochs, Pickup on 101, Which Way to the Front?, Ready and Willing, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; died Nov 18, 20051914 - Bobby Haggart
musician: bass: groups: Bob Cats; Peanuts Hucko’s Pied Piper Quintet, Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, composer; died Dec 2, 19981916 - Ina Ray Hutton (Odessa Cowan)
tap dancer; Ziegfeld Follies; pianist, bandleader; singer: Every Man a King; actress: The Big Broadcast of 1938, Ever Since Venus; died Feb 19, 19841918 - George McAfee
Pro Football Hall of Famer [halfback, placekicker]: NFL: Chicago Bears: career: scored 234 points, gained 5,022 net yards, had 21 interceptions, punt return average of 12.78; died Mar 4, 20091918 - Eddie Pellagrini
baseball: Boston Red Sox, SL Browns, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Oct 11, 20061919 - Irina Baronova
ballerina: one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Léonide Massine’s Le Beau Danube, Jeux d'enfants, Les Présages, Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Cent Baisers; actress: Toast to Love, Florian; died Jun 28, 20081923 - Helen St. Aubin (Callaghan)
‘The Ted Williams of Women’s Baseball’: Minneapolis Millerettes, Ft. Wayne Daisies, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; inspiration for film: A League of Their Own; died Dec 8, 19921924 - Dick Katz
pianist, composer: Tony Scott Quartet, J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding groups; died Nov 10, 20091925 - Roy Haynes
modern jazz drummer, bandleader: Hip Ensemble1929 - Peter Breck
actor: The Big Valley, Maverick, Benji, Highway 61, Shock Corridor; died Feb 6, 20121929 - Jan Howard
country singer: The One You Slip Around With, Evil on Your Mind, My Son; toured with Carter sisters; died Mar 28, 20201932 - Ordell Braase
football: Univ of South Dakota; NFL: Baltimore Colts defensive end: Super Bowl III; died Mar 25, 20191933 - Mike Stoller
record producer, songwriter with Jerry Leiber Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Up on the Roof, On Broadway, score for Jailhouse Rock1935 - Leslie Parrish (Marjorie Helen)
actress: The Manchurian Candidate, Sex and the Single Girl, The Invisible Strangler, Li’l Abner1938 - Joseph Bellino
football: Heisman Trophy Winner: Navy [1960]; died Mar 27, 20191939 - Neil Sedaka
songwriter, singer: Oh! Carol, The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Bad Blood, Laughter in the Rain1940 - Candi Staton
singer: Young Hearts Run Free, You Got the Love, Destiny, Nights on Broadway, Honest I Do Love You, Victim, When You Wake Up Tomorrow1941 - Charo (Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza)
actress: Chico and the Man, Airport ’79; singer: LPs: Guitar Passion, Cuchi-Cuchi, Ole Ole, Caliente!, Gusto; her original Spanish birth certificate and passport state that her birth date is March 13, 1941, but she asserted in a 1977 court hearing that her passport and naturalization papers were wrong and that her birthdate was January 15, 19511949 - Donny York
singer: group: Sha Na Na1950 - William H. Macy
actor: Fargo, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Boogie Nights, Happy, Texas, Pleasantville, ER, State and Main, Jurassic Park III, Door to Door1951 - Steve Craig
football: Minnesota Vikings tight end: Super Bowls IX, XI1953 - Andy Bean
golf: PGA Tour champ: Doral-Eastern Open Invitational [1977]; Kemper Open, Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, Western Open [1978]; Atlanta Classic [1979]; Hawaiian Open [1980]; Bay Hill Classic [1981]; Doral-Eastern Open [1982]; Greater Greensboro [1984]; Doral-Eastern Open,Byron Nelson [1986]; career earnings: $3,359,5491953 - Deborah Raffin
actress: Foul Play, Noble House, Death Wish 3; died Nov 21, 20121954 - Robin Duke
actress: Getting Along Famously, Quints, Degas and the Dancer, Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Only You, Blue Monkey1955 - Glenne Headly
actress: Mr. Holland’s Opus, Grand Isle, Mortal Thoughts, Dick Tracy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Purple Rose of Cairo; died Jun 8, 20171956 - Dana Delany
actress: China Beach, Baby for Sale, A Time to Remember, Sirens, Mother Ghost, Final Jeopardy, Desperate Housewives1960 - Adam Clayton
musician: group: U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday, With You or Without You1964 - Will Clark
baseball [first base]: Mississippi State Univ; San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals1965 - Gigi Rice
actress: Frasier, The John Larroquette Show, Columbo: Columbo Cries Wolf, Mr. Write, A Night at the Roxbury, Hard Time: The Premonition1971 - Annabeth Gish
actress: The X-Files, The West Wing, Brotherhood, Shag, Mystic Pizza, Double Jeopardy, Texas Killing Fields, The Chaperone, At Risk, Of Murder and Memory, Mojave Phone Booth, The Celestine Prophecy1971 - Adina Porter
actress: True Blood, The Newsroom, The 100, American Horror Story1971 - Scott Sullivan
baseball [pitcher]: Auburn Univ; Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals1972 - Leigh-Allyn Baker
actress: Will & Grace, Good Luck Charlie, Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas, Back at the Barnyard, The 7D1972 - Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr)
Grammy/Golden Globe/Academy Award-winning rapper: Glory [from the film Selma]; Love of My Life, Be, Southside [featuring Kanye West]; actor: Smokin’ Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Year’s Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, John Wick: Chapter 21972 - Trent Dilfer
football [quarterback]: Fresno State Univ; NFL: TB Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns1973 - Bobby Jackson
basketball [guard]: Univ of Minnesota; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies1973 - Dan Wilkinson
football [defensive tackle]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions1975 - Landon Wilson
hockey [right wing]: Colorado Avalanche, Boston Bruins, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins1976 - Troy Hudson
basketball [guard]: Southern Illinois Univ; NBA: Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Clippers, Orlando Magic, Minnesota Timberwolves1976 - Danny Masterson
actor: That ’70s Show, Hold On, Comic Book Villains, Dracula 2000, Too Pure, Wild Horse, The Faculty, Face/Off1979 - Johan Santana
baseball [pitcher]: Minnesota Twins1979 - Molly Stanton
actress: Twins, Passions, CSI: Miami1980 - Caron Butler
basketball [forward]: NBA: Miami Heat [2002–2004]; Los Angeles Lakers [2004–2005]; Washington Wizards [2005–2010]; Dallas Mavericks [2010–2011]: 2011 NBA champs; Los Angeles Clippers [2011–2013]; Milwaukee Bucks [2013–2014]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2014]; Detroit Pistons [2014-2015]; Detroit Pistons [2015–2016]1984 - Noel Fisher
actor: Shameless, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hatfields & McCoys, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Lie to Me, Bones, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1985 - Emile Hirsch
actor: Milk, Imaginary Heroes, The Girl Next Door, The Emperor’s Club, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Gargantua1989 - Harry Melling
actor: Harry Potter film series1991 - Austin Cook
golf champ: 2017 RSM Classic1991 - Tristan Thompson
basketball [forward]: Cleveland Cavaliers [2011-2020]: 2016 NBA champs; Boston Celtics [2020-2021]; Sacramento Kings [2021–2022]; Indiana Pacers [2022]; Chicago Bulls [2022]1992 - Kaya Scodelario
actress: Skins, Clash of the Titans, Maze Runner film series, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile1995 - Mikaela Shiffrin
U.S. Olympic gold medalist [2014, 2018], World Cup alpine ski racer2004 - Coco Gauff
pro tennis champ: seven WTA Tour singles titles; 2023 U.S. Open; eight doubles titles
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Hit Music on This Day March 13
1948Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (facts) - The Art Mooney Orchestra
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