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1895 - James P. Lee first published his Golf in America -- A Practical Manual. It was the first golf book written about the game in the U.S.1927 - The Ford Motor Company announced that its popular automobile model, the Model T, known as the Tin Lizzie, would not be rolling off assembly lines anymore. Instead, the discontinued car would be replaced by the more modern Model A. The first Model T was manufactured in 1908, designed, the Ford Motor Company stated, “as an inexpensive vehicle for the great multitude.” It was also the first item produced on an assembly line (Henry Ford’s new production system). By 1918, half of all motor cars in the entire world were Tin Lizzies.
1927 - The Movietone News was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City. Charles Lindbergh’s epic flight aboard the Spirit of St. Louis was featured. These newsreels were produced for showing in theatres until 1967 when competition from TV news forced them into extinction.
1935 - Babe Ruth, then of the Boston Braves, hit home runs 712, 713 and 714 on this day at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh -- home of the Pirates. These would be the last round-trippers for the ‘Sultan of Swat’. The Bucs, however, still beat the Braves, 11-7. Guy Bush is credited with serving up the historic home runs to Ruth.
1935 - This was “the greatest day in the history of track,” according to The New York Times. Jesse Owens of Ohio State University broke two world sprint records, tied a third, and broke a long-jump world record in a meet at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
1939 - An audience of 18,000 people waited patiently at Madison Square Garden in New York City to hear the piano virtuoso Ignacy Jan Paderewski begin a much-anticipated piano recital. However, the 78-year-old former premier of Poland was unable to perform for the enormous crowd. Paderewski suffered from ‘chilled fingers’, a severe arthritic condition that made it impossible for him to play the piano.
1941 - The British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the German battleship Bismarck got into one of the most famous surface engagements of World War II. The Hood lost -- and the Royal Navy lost the symbolic flagship of its fleet. The destruction of Hood spurred an all-out pursuit of the Bismarck by the Royal Navy, which resulted in her destruction two days later.
1946 - Jordan gained its independence from Great Britain. Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom and proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
1949 - Chinese communist forces entered Shanghai as Nationalist troops abandoned the city and moved to the island of Formosa (now Taiwan).
1950 - The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in New York City was opened to traffic. At 9,117 feet (2,778.87 meters), it was -- and still is -- the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America.
1953 - KUHT, the America’s first non-commercial educational television station went on the air in Houston, TX.
1954 - Robert Capa, war photographer for LIFE magazine, was killed in Vietnam when he stepped on a land mine. He was 40 years old.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy asked the Congress for funds to land a man on the moon “before this decade is out.” The first man (U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong) landed on the moon July 20, 1969.
1965 - From the Look But Don’t Blink file: A very short, heavyweight title fight happened in Lewiston, ME. Cassius Clay knocked out challenger Sonny Liston in one minute and 56 seconds of the first round. Liston never saw the punch coming. Neither did an unbelieving crowd at ringside, nor those in theatres all over the world watching the fight on closed-circuit TV. The phantom punch was never explained, but Liston was knocked cold from whatever Clay threw at him.
1968 - The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, was dedicated. The rain-soaked ceremony took place in St. Louis, Missouri and was presided over by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
1973 - Skylab 2 was launched with crew Joseph P. Kerwin, Charles C. Conrad Jr., and Paul J. Weitz. Skylab 2 was the first manned Skylab mission. The crew rendezvoused with the orbiting space station on the fifth orbit. They made substantial repairs, including deployment of a parasol sunshade.
1979 - 273 people died in the worst domestic air disaster in U.S. history. American Airlines Flight #191, a DC-10, crashed during takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The plane reached an altitude of about 400 feet before losing its left side engine. The resulting crash killed everyone on board the plane and two persons on the ground. Among those on board were Playboy Magazine’s managing editor Sheldon Wax and his wife, author Judith Wax, and the magazine’s fiction editor, Vicki Haider.
1981 - From the Don’t Try This at Home, Kids file: Twenty-five year old Dan Goodwin was looking to have some fun. So, with nothing but three suction cups and a Spiderman cartoon costume, Goodwin began to scale the world’s tallest building -- the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL. Goodwin climbed for six hours, with Chicago’s boys in blue doing their best to safely stop him from the perilous climb. When Goodwin reached the 50th floor of the skyscraper, he stopped for a few minutes, talked with the police and, assuring them of his safety, made the rest of the climb in about an hour. The police had agreed not to bother him until he got to the top where he was arrested for trespassing. Goodwin was released after paying a fine.
1983 - Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, topped all previous opening day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629. It opened on 1,002 movie screens around the U.S.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers tied the 1916 New York Giants as they won their 17th road game in a row, beating the California Angels 5-1. That game broke the American League mark of 16 that was previously held by the Washington Senators -- dating back to 1912. The Seattle Mariners put a stop to that streak the following night, defeating Detroit 7-3.
1985 - The pop/rock group, Wham!, featuring George Michael, became the first group since the Bee Gees in 1979 to place three consecutive singles in the number one spot on the music charts. Everything She Wants started a 2-week run at number one on this day. The other Wham! number one-ers were Careless Whisper (2/16/85 - 3 weeks) and Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (11/17/84 - 3 weeks).
1989 - The Calgary Flames won their first Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens in Game Six (3-1) of the championship series.
1990 - Actor Vic Tayback died of a heart attack at 60 years of age. Fans of the TV sitcom Alice will recognize Vic Tayback as the gruff but lovable diner owner Mel Sharples. The series ran for a decade and made Tayback a household name. In his early career, Tayback played various thugs, mugs and mobsters. Star Trek fans will remember him as Jojo Krako in the episode A Piece of the Action.
1992 - Jay Leno made his debut as full-time host of NBC’s Tonight Show, succeeding Johnny Carson.
1995 - Singer, songwriter Dick Curless (A Tombstone Every Mile) died. He was 63 years old.
1997 - Senator Strom Thurmond (Republican, SC) became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history. Thurmond marked 41 years and ten months of service.
1998 - St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire made baseball history this day. The major-league player hit his 25th home run before June 1. Until this home run in the first inning of a game against the Colorado Rockies, McGwire was tied with Ken Griffey Jr., the only players in major-league history to hit 24 home runs before June 1 in a baseball season. McGwire finished out the month with a total of 27 home runs, the 26th on May 29th, and the 27th HR the next day, both against the San Diego Padres. These homers also gave McGwire the distinction of breaking the record for most home runs hit in one month (17) for the St. Louis ball club, a record he previously held with 15.
2001 - Pearl Harbor debuted in U.S. theatres. The action drama stars Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, Alec Baldwin, William Lee Scott, Mike Shannon, Mako, Peter Firth, Scott Wilson, James King, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Dan Aykroyd.
2001 - A federal appeals court lifted an injunction on publication of The Wind Done Gone, Alice Randall’s satirical remake of Gone with the Wind (from a black viewpoint).
2002 - A passenger train and a freight train collided in southern Mozambique, killing 193 people.
2002 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 jumbo jet, flying to Hong Kong, crashed in the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board were killed.
2003 - Racer Gil de Ferran won the Indianapolis 500.
2003 - In the film festival at Cannes, France, Elephant (loosely based on the Columbine High school shootings), by Gus Van Sant, won the Palme d'Or. The Turkish film Uzak won the second-place Grand Prize. Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon), by Samira Makhmalbaf of Iran, won the jury prize.
2004 - Catholic church officials in Boston said the Archdiocese would close 65 of 357 parishes (and 60 churches) due to declining attendance and increased financial problems.
2005 - China rolled out its red carpet for Uzbekistan’s authoritarian President Karimov, underscoring the importance China placed on curbing the rise of Islamic militancy. (Karimov had been criticized in the West for a bloody crackdown on protesters.) China also signed a $600-million joint oil venture with Uzbekistan on this day.
2006 - A power outage stranded thousands of rush-hour commuters between New York and Washington, stopping trains inside sweltering tunnels and forcing many passengers to get out and walk.
2006 - Poland welcomed Pope Benedict XVI with cheers and fluttering yellow and white Vatican flags as the German-born pontiff started a four-day visit aimed at honoring predecessor John Paul II and healing wounds from World War II.
2007 - Bug opened in the U.S. The thriller stars Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins, Brian F. O’Byrne and Michael Shannon.
2007 - Actor, comedian, director and drama teacher Charles Nelson Reilly died at 76 years of age. Reilly won a Tony Award in 1962 for his role of Bud Frump in the original Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. And he was later well known as a game show fixture as a panelist on game shows such as Match Game and Hollywood Squares; and he appeared more than 95 times on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End debuted in the U.S. The action-adventure-comedy is the third in the film series starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Also appearing: Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Jack Davenport, Kevin R. McNally, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Andy Beckwith, Reggie Lee and Chow Yun-Fat.
2008 - Mr. Spud, the king of America potatoes, died in Boise, Idaho at 100 years of age. J.R. Simplot had left home in 1923 at age 14 with four gold coins given to him by his mother. He ended his life as one of the America’s richest men. In 2007 Forbes magazine listed him as the 89th richest in the U.S. with $3.6 billion.
2009 - A roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy in Fallujah, western Iraq, killing three Americans, including Terry Barnich, a State Department employee. The U.S. military had withdrawn from most of the cities in the vast Anbar province, including Fallujah.
2010 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average sunk below 10,000 as investors worried about the global economic slowdown.
2011 - The Swiss government announced plans to decommission all of the country’s nuclear power plants -- by 2034. The decision came days after some 20,000 people participated in the biggest anti-nuclear protest in Switzerland in 25 years.
2011 - A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to finalize the measure that had grown into one of the most contentious requirements of 2010’s Dodd-Frank Wall Street overhaul law. Under the program, corporate whistleblowers could earn multi-million-dollar payouts for reporting financial wrongdoing.
2012 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres: Men in Black III, starring Will Smith, Alice Eve, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Bill Hader, Michael Stuhlbarg and Lady Gaga; Chernobyl Diaries, with Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Devin Kelley, Dimitri Diatchenko and Alex Feldman; The Intouchables, with François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny and Audrey Fleurot; Mighty Fine, with Chazz Palminteri, Andie MacDowell, Jodelle Ferland, Rainey Qualley, Paul Ben-Victor and Arthur J. Nascarella; and Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman and Kara Hayward.
2012 - The Dragon capsule, from the privately held U.S. company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), docked with the International Space Station. During its uncrewed maiden flight in December 2010, Dragon had become the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit.
2014 - Pope Francis began the final leg of his Holy Land pilgrimage, landing in Israel. The Pope invited the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to come to the Vatican to pray for peace.
2015 - Judges sentenced former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert to serve an additional eight months in prison over a graft conviction. The sentence was added to a separate six-year jail term the ex-politician got for taking cash from an American businessman in exchange for political favors.
2016 - Anti-slavery campaigners said the jailing of two slave-owners and the release of two leading anti-slavery activists from prison could mark a turning point in Mauritania’s efforts to eliminate slavery.
2017 - The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia upheld a lower court ruling that blocked the Trump administration from suspending new visas for six Muslim majority countries.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump told fellow NATO leaders in Brussels that the U.S. would never stop fighting terrorism, but made no explicit mention of NATO’s mutual defense pact.
2018 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres included: Solo: A Star Wars Story, starring Thandie Newton, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson and Donald Glover; Feral, with Scout Taylor-Compton, Olivia Luccardi and Lew Temple; Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece, starring Danny Trejo, Jason London and Ron Jeremy; Future World, starring James Franco, Milla Jovovich and Lucy Liu; In Darkness, with Emily Ratajkowski, Natalie Dormer and Ed Skrein; Mary Shelley starring Elle Fanning, Ben Hardy and Maisie Williams; and The Misandrists, with Susanne Sachße, Viva Ruiz and Kembra Pfahler.
2018 - Molten rock continued its rampage on Hawaii Island in Hawaii, turning the Big Island countryside, including homes and other buildings, into a volcanic wasteland. The number of homes destroyed by the erupting Kilauea volcano totalled 82 and authorities warned residents to flee the surge of lava heading towards them.
2018 - Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was arraigned in a Manhattan court, charged with rape and criminal sex acts with two women. Weinstein agreed to post $1 million cash bail at and was ordered fitted with a GPS monitoring device.
2019 - British climber Robin Haynes Fisher (44), became the 10th climber to die on Mount Everest. Fisher had made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain but died some 150 metres (500 ft) into his descent.
2019 - Trade unionist-turned-businessman Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as South Africa’s president. Ramaphosa pledged to create jobs and tackle deep-rooted corruption that had strangled economic growth. “It is time for us to make the future we yearn for ... it is through our actions now that we will determine our destiny,” Ramaphosa said, after taking the oath of office in front of 30,000 people in the administrative capital, Pretoria. “The challenges our country faces are huge and real. But they are not insurmountable. They can be solved. And I stand here today saying they are going to be solved.”
2019 - South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s raucous social satire Parasite, about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, won the Cannes (France) Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)Missouri’s health director issued a dire warning after photos and video showed Memorial Day weekend revelers partying close together. Missouri had confirmed 11,988 cases of COVID-19 and 681 deaths to that point.
2)Germany-based Siemens Healthineers said it was ready to ramp up production of its antibody test to more than 50 million per month from June as governments across the world wanted to identify those who may have developed immunity to the coronavirus.
2020 - Traffic returned to a major highway in northeastern Syria for the first time in seven months, following Russian mediation to reopen parts of the road captured in 2019 by Turkey-backed opposition fighters.2020 - Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit service failed on its first attempt to launch a test satellite into space aboard a rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific off the coast of California.
2020 - 46-year-old George Floyd died after repeatedly pleading, “I can't breathe,” as a Minneapolis police officer pinned Floyd to the ground with a knee on his neck -- for some eight minutes. The action prompted the FBI and Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to step in and investigate. Four police officers involved were fired the following day.
2021 - Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced that the U.S. was reopening the Consulate General in Jerusalem that handled relations with the Palestinians but was shut down by the Trump administration.
2021 - In other nefarious former POTUS news: A federal judge dismissed an indictment against Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to POTUS Trump, for taking part in a scheme to defraud donors to a crowdfunding campaign to build a wall along the southern border. The indictment was dismissed because Bannon had been granted a presidential pardon.
2021 - Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be effective in adolescents aged 12-17 and showed no new or major safety problems in a clinical trial.
2022 - President Biden signed an executive order reforming federal police practices and establishing a national database of police misconduct. His action came two years to the day after George Floyd was murdered at the hands of the police in Minneapolis.
2022 - Low-cost Indian airline Spicejet customers complained of shoddy service after the airline was hit by a ransomware attack the previous day. The attack slowed down airline operation in various parts of the country.
2022 - After the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas the previous day, President Biden called upon Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and build pressure on members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws. Suggesting to reinstate the assault weapons ban and other common gun laws, Biden said, “We have to act.” He stressed that Americans should fight the feeling of powerlessness from seeing yet another mass shooting. “As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name we’re going to stand up to the gun lobby, when in God’s name we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done,” said Biden. “I am sick and tired. We have to act. And don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage.”
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Birthdays on This Day May 25
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
writer: Essays, Representative Men, Nature; poet: Days; editor: The Dial; died Apr 27, 18821878 - Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson
vaudeville dancer: Sammy Davis Jr. and Shirley Temple’s tap-dancing coach; in films: The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Just Around the Corner, Harlems Heaven; on Broadway in: Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, Ain’t Misbehavin’; died Nov 25, 1949
1886 - Philip Murray
labor leader: founded Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]: “Unions are created to make living conditions just a little better than they were before they were created, and the union that does not manifest that kind of interest in human beings cannot endure.”; died Nov 9, 19521889 - Igor Sikorsky
engineer: developed 1st successful helicopter; died Oct 26, 19721897 - Gene (James Joseph) Tunney
World Heavyweight Boxing Champion [1926]; died Nov 7, 19781898 - Bennett Cerf
editor, publisher: co-founder/president of Random House; humorist, TV personality: What’s My Line? [1951-1967]; died Aug 27, 19711915 - Ginny Simms
singer, actress: That’s Right You’re Wrong [1939], Seven Days’ Leave [1942], Broadway Rhythm [1944], Disc Jockey [1951]; died Apr 4, 19941919 - Lindsay Nelson
sportscaster: CBS Sports, Cotton Bowl Football, NCAA College Football, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants; author: Hello Everybody, I’m Lindsay Nelson; died June 15, 19951921 - Hal David
Oscar-winning songwriter [w/Burt Bacharach (music)]: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head [1969]; The Four Winds and the Seven Seas, American Beauty Rose, Broken-Hearted Melody; w/Burt Bacharach: The Story of My Life, Magic Moments; president of ASCAP; died Sep 1, 20121923 - John Weitz
fashion designer: “Underwhelm them.”; died Oct 3, 20021925 - Jeanne Crain
actress: Pinky, State Fair, People Will Talk; died Dec 14, 20031926 - Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello)
singer: Little Things Mean a Lot, Go on with the Wedding [w/George Shaw], If I Give My Heart to You, My Coloring Book; died Jan 7, 20161926 - Bill Sharman
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics NBA Champion teams [1957, 1959, 1960, 1961]; coach: NBA Coach of the Year: LA Lakers, Lakers General Manager & President; died Oct 25, 20131927 - Robert Ludlum
novelist: The Gemini Contenders, The Rhinemann Exchange; died Mar 12, 20011929 - Beverly Sills (Belle Silverman)
opera soprano; chairperson of Lincoln Center; National Chair of March of Dimes’ Mothers’ March on Birth Defects; died July 2, 20071932 - K.C. Jones
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics; Olympic Gold Medalist [1956]; head coach: Boston Celtics, Capitol Bullets, San Diego Conquistadors, Brandeis University; died Dec 25, 20201934 - Ron Nessen
newsman: NBC; White House Press Secretary: Ford administration; president Mutual News1935 - Cookie Gilchrist
football: Buffalo Bills [shares record of 5 touchdowns in a game (Dec. 8, 1963) w/Jim Brown, Ernie Nevers and James Stewart]; died Jan 10, 20111936 - Tom T. Hall
singer: P.S. I Love You; songwriter: Harper Valley P.T.A.; syndicated host: Pop Goes the Country, The Nashville Network; died Aug 20, 20211938 - Raymond Carver
poet: A New Path to the Waterfall; died Aug 2, 19881939 - Dixie Carter
actress: Family Law, Designing Women, Diff’rent Strokes, Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, Ladies Man; died Apr 10, 20101939 - Sir Ian McKellen
Tony Award-winning actor: Amadeus [1981]; Jack and Sarah, Richard III, The Shadow, Six Degrees of Separation, And the Band Played On, Windmills of the Gods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Last Action Hero; more1943 - John ‘Poli’ Palmer
musician: sax, flute, keyboard: group: Family: No Mule’s Fool, Weaver’s Answer, In My Own Time, Burlesque1943 - Leslie Uggams
singer: Sing Along with Mitch, The Leslie Uggams Show; actress: Skyjacked, Roots, Backstairs at the White House, All My Children1944 - Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz)
puppeteer: Yoda, Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy1947 - Jessi Colter (Mirian Johnson)
country singer: I’m Not Lisa; widow of singer Waylon Jennings1947 - Mitch Margo
singer: groups: Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour; The Tokens: Tonight I Fell in Love, The Lion Sleeps Tonight1947 - Karen Valentine
actress: Room 222, Karen, The Love Boat, Children in the Crossfire1948 - Klaus Meine
singer: group: Scorpions: LPs: Animal Magnetism, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live1950 - John (Joseph) Montefusco
‘The Count of Montefusco’: baseball [pitcher]: SF Giants [all-star: 1976], Atlanta Braves, SD Padres, NY Yankees1953 - Rich Alves
musician: guitar: group: Pirates of the Mississippi: Honky Tonk Blues, Feed Jake, Speak of the Devil, Fighting for You1955 - Connie Sellecca
actress: Hotel, The Great American Hero, The Brotherhood of the Rose1958 - Paul Weller
musician: guitar, singer: Brand New Start, If I Could Only Be Sure, Don’t Make Promises, Wild Wood, Has My Fire Really Gone Out?1962 - Susan Diol
actress: Touch ’Em All McCall, Alien Nation: Millennium, A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester, Star Trek: The Next Generation, NCIS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
1963 - Mike Myers
actor: Saturday Night Live, Wayne’s World series, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Austin Powers series, voice of Shrek; TV host Tommy Maitland on The Gong Show [2017]1966 - Bill Haselman
baseball: UCLA; Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers1967 - Ruthie Bolton
basketball [guard]: Auburn Univ; member of women’s basketball team for 1996 Summer Olympics; WNBA: Sacramento Monarchs; coach: William Jessup Univ1967 - Matt Borlenghi
actor: Married... with Children, DinoCroc, Spider’s Web, The Crew, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, The American Scream, The Bold and the Beautiful1969 - Anne Heche
actress: Birth, Gracie’s Choice, John Q, Auggie Rose, Psycho [1998], Return to Paradise, Six Days Seven Nights1970 - Jamie Kennedy
actor: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Spring Break ’83, Extreme Movie, The Afterparty, Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Pretty When You Cry, The Cleveland Show, Ghost Whisperer1971 - Justin Henry
actor: Andersonville, Sixteen Candles, Kramer vs. Kramer1972 - Octavia Spencer
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: The Help [2012]; Ugly Betty, Pretty Ugly People, Pulse, Wannabe, Beauty Shop, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, Bad Santa, Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School1973 - Molly Sims
model: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006; actress: Las Vegas, The Benchwarmers, Yes Man, The Pink Panther 2, Fired Up, Royal Pains, Men at Work1973 - Todd Walker
baseball: Louisiana State Univ; Minnesota Twins, Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs1975 - Lauryn Hill
Grammy Award-winning singer [The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1999)]; Ex-factor, Doo Wop [That Thing], When It Hurts; Grammy Award-winning group: The Fugees: The Score (1996): Killing Me Softly; more1976 - Ethan Suplee
actor: My Name Is Earl, American History X, Remember the Titans, Boy Meets World, The Butterfly Effect, Unstoppable, Rise of The Zombies1978 - Brian Urlacher
football: [middle linebacker]: Univ of New Mexico; NFL: Chicago Bears1979 - Andre Dyson
football [cornerback]: Univ of Utah; NFL: Tennessee Titans, Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets1979 - Monica Keena
actress: Dawson’s Creek, Undeclared, Entourage, Freddy vs. Jason, Bad Girls from Valley High, Fifty Pills, Night of the Demons, Walter Don’t Dance, Manson Girls1980 - Joe King
musician: guitar: group: The Fray: How to Save a Life, You Found Me, Over My Head (Cable Car), Never Say Never, Look After You1982 - Esme Bianco
actress: Game of Thrones, Chemical Wedding, The Big I Am, The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power1985 - Alexis Texas
actress [2007-2013]: X-rated films: Hillary for President, Pretty as They Cum, The Office: A XXX Parody, It Starts with a Kiss, Slutty & Sluttier 14, The Insatiable Miss Texas1993 - Dilley Sextuplets
America’s first surviving sextuplets: Adrian, Brenna, Claire, Ian, Julian, Quinn1994 - Aly Raisman
artistic gymnast: captain of gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she won individual gold medal on the floor performance and a bronze on the balance beam
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