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1783 - The Pennsylvania Evening Post, first published by Benjamin Towne in Philadelphia, PA this day, was the first daily paper in the U.S.1848 - William G. Young of Baltimore, MD patented “An Improvement in Ice-Cream Freezers” -- just in time for spring and summer treats! Nice timing, Mr. Young!
1868 - Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the United States -- at the request of General John A. Logan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was first called Decoration Day because the General had seen women decorating graves of Civil War heroes.
1879 - William Vanderbilt renamed Gilmore’s Garden to Madison Square Garden. There have been four different venues named Madison Square Garden since -- all in New York City.
1880 - Boxer Paddy Ryan won the Heavyweight Championship of America title by beating up Joe Goss in -- are you ready? -- the 87th round, near Colliers Station, West Virginia.
1896 - The first documented auto accident occurred -- in New York City. A Duryea Motor Wagon, driven by Henry Wells from Springfield, MA collided with a bicycle ridden by Evylyn Thomas of NYC.
1911 - Ray Harroun won the first 500-mile auto race at the Brickyard, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Harroun won the race with an average speed of 74.59 MPH. It took him six hours and 42 minutes to complete the race. He won $14,000 for his effort.
1922 - Max Flack and Clifton Heathcote became the first major-league baseball players to play on two teams in the same day! Here’s how it went down: Between games of a doubleheader, the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals made the switcheroo, with Flack putting on a Cubs uniform and Heathcote trading his Cubs uniform for that of the Cardinals. The outfielders both played in the nightcap of the twin-bill.
1922 - ‘Smilin’ Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.
1922 - Daniel Chester French created the famous sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, titled Seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC. Lincoln is in meditation, seated in a large armchair. Both French and the Piccirilli brothers completed the sculpture. On this day in 1922 the memorial in which the statue is permanently seated was dedicated, although the cornerstone was laid in 1915.
1931 - Science News headline: “LIFE IS RARE IN UNIVERSE, ASTRONOMER BELIEVES”. Sir James Jeans, British astronomer, assured the Franklin Institute meeting at which he was presented the Franklin Medal (one of Science’s highest awards). “I leave it to you to be pleased or not,” Sir James said, “at a large fraction of the life of the universe being concentrated on our planet.”
1933 - Sally Rand made a name for herself as she introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition. Twisting and turning behind two huge fans, one might wonder just how exciting the fan dance could possibly be. It is important to realize that Ms. Rand was, um, naked during the performance.
1935 - America’s Town Meeting of the Air was heard on radio for the first time. The NBC program continued for 21 years.
1938 - Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern was first heard interning on CBS radio. The serial later evolved into The Brighter Day (1948).
1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces. American losses: 600 dead and 1,200 wounded. Japanese losses: 2,350 killed (including many suicides).
1956 - A bus boycott began in Tallahassee, Florida. The boycott ended seven months later.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1962 - The King of Swing, Benny Goodman, turned 53 and celebrated by touring the Soviet Union. Goodman and his band played six concerts in the U.S.S.R.
1966 - The U.S. sent Surveyor 1 on its way to the Moon.
1967 - Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles lined up in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.
1970 - Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers collided with another player in the outfield as both were trying to snag a line drive during a game. Kaline ended up swallowing his tongue! After an overnight stay in the hospital, he was back in the lineup the next day. Kaline was said to have told reporters at Tiger Stadium, “Skeiciw adkehhf gdvrb ewix ke.”
1971 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida on a journey to Mars. Mariner 9 arrived at Mars on November 3, 1971 and became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. The images it returned revealed what appear to be riverbeds on the surface, suggesting the presence of water on Mars at some point in the past. Mariner 9 photographed the entire surface of Mars.
1975 - Alice Cooper received a gold record for the romantic album, Welcome to My Nightmare. Alice’s real name was Vincent Furnier. He changed his name to Alice Cooper in 1966 and was known primarily for his bizarre stage antics. He appeared in the film Prince of Darkness in 1987 and had 11 hits on the pop/rock charts in the 1970s and 1980s, including a pair of million-selling singles: I Never Cry and Poison. Romantic, indeed...
1981 - The president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated in a failed military coup. He was killed by a group of misguided army officers in Chittagong.
1982 - Spain became the 16th member of NATO. Spain was the first country to enter the alliance since West Germany in 1955.
1985 - ABC-TV announced that every game of the Octoberfest known as the World Series would be played under the lights for the biggest baseball audience possible.
1989 - Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called Goddess of Democracy. (The statue was destroyed on June 4, 1989, by soldiers clearing the protesters from Tiananmen Square.)
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Washington for his summit with U.S. President George Bush (I).
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in Burns v. Reed) that prosecutors may be sued for the legal advice they give police; prosecutors may also be forced to pay damages when their bad advice leads to someone’s rights being violated.
1993 - Emerson Fittipaldi won the 77th Indianapolis 500. His average speed was 157.2 mph.
1994 - Mormon Church president Ezra Taft Benson died in Salt Lake City at the age of 94.
1996 - Britain’s Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their ten-year marriage.
1996 - Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was convicted on corruption charges. He was sentenced to prison for 28-months and fined for misappropriation of $17 million from a secret security spending fund.
1997 - These movies made debuts in the U.S.: Gone Fishin’, with Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield and Willie Nelson; Rough Magic, starring Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent and D.W. Moffett; ’Til There Was You, featuring John Plumpis, Janel Moloney, Yvonne Zima and Christine Ebersole; Trial & Error, starring Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron and Jessica Steen.
1997 - Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ of raping and strangling seven-year-old Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired Megan’s Law, which requires communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
1998 - A tornado in Spencer, South Dakota killed six people and destroyed 90% of the town; meanwhile, storms tore from Pennsylvania through New England, killing several people and knocking out power for nearly one million customers.
1999 - Fifty-two people were crushed to death when hundreds ran into an underground railway station to escape a storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.
2000 - Former Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey died in Scranton. Hew was 68 years old.
2000 - Gordon ‘Tex’ Beneke, singer and sax player with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, died in Costa Mesa, CA at 86 years of age.
2001 - Moses Malone and college coaches Mike Krzyzewski and John Chaney were elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
2002 - A silent ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, almost nine months after September 11, 2001.
2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft issued new terror-fighting guidelines allowing FBI agents to visit Internet sites, libraries, churches and political organizations as part of his purported effort to preempt terrorist strikes.
2002 - Nine climbers fell into a crevasse near the summit of Oregon’s Mount Hood. Three of the men died. And, to make matters even worse, in the midst of the rescue mission, a helicopter crashed into the mountain while attempting to airlift one of the critically injured climbers.
2003 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres: Finding Nemo, with Albert Brooks, Ellen Degeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Austin Pendleton and John Ratzenberger; The Italian Job, starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Mos Def, Franky G and Donald Sutherland; and Wrong Turn, starring Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Jeremy Sisto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth.
2004 - An Israeli air strike killed Wael Nassar (38), a top Hamas commander, along with his assistant and a bystander in Gaza City.
2004 - Buddy Rice won the Indianapolis 500 in the rain. The 28-year-old started from the pole position and led the most number of laps (91 out of 180 -- shortened from 200 because of the wet track).
2005 - Natalee Holloway disappeared on the last night of a trip to Aruba to celebrate her graduation from an Alabama high school.
2005 - Miss Canada, Natalie Glebova, was crowned Miss Universe at the 54th annual pageant held in the Thai capital of Bangkok.
2006 - Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo-Choong (69) was sentenced to 10 years in prison in South Korea. Kim was charged with accounting fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust in the collapse of the firm under 82 billion dollars of debt in one of the largest corporate failures in history.
2007 - Microsoft introduced a computer designed in the shape of a table with a touch-screen called ‘Surface’. It was aimed for use in restaurants, hotels, retail locations and casino resorts. This original Surface was killed shortly after the debut of the Surface Pro (laptop) in 2013.
2008 - New movies in the U.S.: Sex and the City: The Movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson and Lynn Cohen; and The Strangers, starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Glenn Howerton, Kip Weeks and Laura Margolis.
2008 - A construction crane collapsed on New York’s Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building before crashing onto the street below and killing two workers.
2008 - A jury in Syracuse, New York found Hewlett-Packard guilty of infringing a patent for data processing held by Cornell University and ordered HP to pay Cornell $184 million.
2009 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel reported that General Motors Corp. would sell its Opel unit and other European assets to Canada’s Magna International Inc. in a deal that would protect the assets from GM’s looming bankruptcy.
2010 - Thirty people, including ten children, were burned alive when a bus bound for the southern Indian city of Bangalore ploughed into a roadblock and caught fire.
2010 - Marco Andretti was declared to have finished in third place at the Indy 500 following an extensive video review that showed three cars illegally passing him, under a caution flaf, in the race‘s final yards.
2011 - Germany’s governing coalition said it would shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022. The decision, prompted by Japan’s nuclear disaster, would make Germany the first major industrialized nation to go nuclear-free in decades and gave the country just over 10 years to find alternative sources for 23% of its energy.
2011 - Russia banned the import of all vegetables from Germany and Spain and warned the sanction could soon be applied to the rest of Europe because of the deadly E. coli bacteria scare. German officials suspect the deadly strain, which had killed 12 people, may have come from organic cucumbers imported from Spain.
2012 - Canadian authorities issued a ‘Canada-wide arrest warrant’ for 29-year-old porn actor Luca Rocco Magnotta. He was a suspect that police had connected to a homicide and the mailings of two body parts from Montreal to Ottowa. Police said that he had killed Jun Lin (33), last seen on May 24. Police reported that Magnotta had dated Lin, filmed the murder and then fled the country. On June 4, 2012, Magnotta was apprehended by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while he was reading news stories about himself.
2013 - Russian scientists reported finding a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass, with liquid blood. An expedition led by the Russian scientists earlier in May 2013 uncovered the well-preserved carcass of a female mammoth on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. “This find gives us a really good chance of finding live cells which can help us clone a mammoth,” head expedition scientist Semyon Grigoryev said.
2014 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning and Sharlto Copley; A Million Ways to Die in The West, with Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson, Seth MacFarlane, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman, Giovanni Ribisi, Christopher Lloyd, Challen Cates, Evan Jones, Wes Studi, Dennis Haskins, Preston Bailey, Catherine Shu and Rex Linn; and Emoticon ;), with Livia De Paolis, Michael Cristofer and Carol Kane.
2014 - Pakistani police chopped off the left hands of two men accused of theft after they refused to confess to stealing electrical wire and mobile phones. Ghulam Mustafa and Liaquat Ali later said they had been arrested after local people falsely accused them of stealing and handed them over to the police, who then beat and tortured them.
2014 - The hit single, Gangnam Style, by South Korean pop star Psy (Park Jae-sang), became the first YouTube video to surpass 2 billion views.
2015 - The U.S. called for an immediate end to China’s intensifying ‘reclamation works’ in the South China Sea and announced that it would continue sending military aircraft and ships to the tense region. U.S. Secretary of Defence Ash Carter told a high-level security conference in Singapore that Beijing was behaving “out of step” with international norms. His statement drew a scathing response from China’s foreign ministry in Beijing.
2016 - An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader, and 35 other people to life in prison over violent clashes after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Badie had already been sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials.
2017 - The United Nations reported that surging violence in Central African Republic had killed hundreds and forced some 88,000 people to flee their homes since the beginning of May. The U.N. report identified hundreds of human rights violations since 2003.
2017 - White House communications director Michael Dubke confirmed that he was leaving the White House. Dubke held the job from March 6, 2017 to June 2, 2017.
2018 - U.S. Representatvie Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a longtime Trump supporter, said there was no evidence that the FBI planted a spy in Trump’s 2016 POTUS campaign. Trump had quoted, and embellished, reports on an informant in his campaign, calling it “spygate” and tweeting that it was “starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.” Gowdy said he had “never heard the term ‘spy’ used” and did not see evidence of that. “Informants are used all day, every day by law enforcement,” he said.
2018 - Two men broke the speed climbing record at El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California. Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell used the ‘Nose’ route to climb the 3,000 foot monolith in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 15 seconds. “It’s like breaking the two-hour marathon barrier, but vertically,” said Hans Florine, who, with his climbing partner Yuji Hirayama in 2002, was the first to set the speed record on the ‘Nose’ under three hours.
2019 - The African free-trade zone was created in a step toward creating what the African Union (AU) hoped would become a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth $2.5 trillion. Fifty-two of the AU’s 55 member states had signed the agreement to establish the free trade area, with the notable exception of Nigeria, the largest economy on the continent.
2020 - NASA astronauts lifted off in a SpaceX capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket in the first launch into orbit from American soil with a crew since the space shuttles were retired in 2011.
2020 - Brazil reported a record 33,274 new cases of the novel coronavirus. With 498,440 confirmed cases, a level of contagion second only to the United States, the death count increased to 28,834, with 956 new deaths in the last 24 hours. That death toll surpassed the count in France and ranked only below the United States, Britain and Italy.
2020 - George Floyd death reaction:
1)A fourth day of violence in Los Angeles prompted Mayor Eric Garcetti to impose a citywide curfew. The National Guard was also called in after demonstrators clashed repeatedly with officers, torched police vehicles and pillaged businesses. Community leaders denounced the violence that had accompanied protests over the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
2)What started out as a peaceful protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd turned violent as protesters hurled rocks and bottles at cops outside Miami police headquarters. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered a local state of emergency and a 10 p.m. curfew.
3)Chicago demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis started out peacefully, but gave way to violence and destruction around the city, prompting Mayor Lori Lightfoot to order a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew indefinitely and city officials to raise bridges to limit access to Chicago’s business core.
4)Minnesota Governor Tim Walz acknowledged that he did not have enough manpower to contain the chaos in Minneapolis. Police, state troopers and National Guard troops moved in soon after an 8 p.m. curfew took effect to break up the demonstrations.
5)Federal agents arrested three men before they disrupted a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas. The men were arrested by an FBI SWAT team while preparing Molotov cocktails in a parking lot near the site of another protest. Various other explosives and firearms were found in their cars. All three, who are white and have U.S. military experience, “self-identified as part of the ‘boogaloo’ movement,” growing collection of extremists, including far-right militias, radical gun rights activists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.2021 - The Texas state Senate voted along party lines to pass a bill, whose provisions included limiting early hours to cast ballots, banning drive-through polling sites and placing other new requirements on voters. Over Democrats’ objections, Republicans suspended the chamber’s own rules to narrow the window lawmakers had to review the new legislation before giving it final approval near the end of the legislative session.
2021 - Farmers in Australia’s New South Wales state were in the middle of an unprecedented mouse plague. The state government had "ordered 1,320 gallons of the banned poison Bromadiolone from India to help eradicate the little devils.
2021 - Vietnam ordered its business hub Ho Chi Minh City to begin social distancing measures for 15 days starting on May 31 in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
2022 - The National Rifle Association (NRA) board of directors voted 54-1 to re-elect scandal-plagued Wayne LaPierre as the gun-rights activist group’s CEO and executive vice president. The vote came during the NRA’s annual meeting, suggesting that the group would not shift direction -- even after recent mass shootings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
2022 - The European Union agreed on a plan to block two-thirds of Russian oil. The embargo was part of the European Union’s sixth sanctions package on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.
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Birthdays on This Day May 30
1672 - Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov)
Peter I: Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725]; died Jan 28, 1725; note: these dates are based on the Julian calendar -- see June 9 for Gregorian calendar dates1896 - Howard Hawks
producer, director: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monkey Business, Hatari, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Sergeant York, A Song is Born, The Thing; died Dec 26, 19771899 - Irving Thalberg
producer, director: Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Mutiny on the Bounty; helped found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS award named in his honor); died Sep 14, 19361901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner
author: Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Broadway producer, writer, director, performer; died July 9, 19791902 - Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry)
pioneering black actor ostracized for a time by the black community for his portrayal of the lazy, shiftless black character he created: Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, The Sun Shines Bright, Miracle in Harlem, Zenobia, 36 Hours to Kill, Helldorado; died Nov 19, 19851907 - Jean Fenwick
actress: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Everything I Have Is Yours, No Minor Vices, Ivy, Diamond Horseshoe, We Were Dancing, New Moon; died Dec 5, 19981908 - Mel Blanc
‘the man of a thousand voices’: cartoon voice: Barney Rubble, Dino the Dinosaur, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Quick Draw McGraw; actor: Jack Benny Show [radio]; died July 10, 19891909 - Benny Goodman
clarinetist, bandleader: Jersey Bounce, Taking a Chance on Love, Let’s Dance, Sing, Sing, Sing, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, St. Louis Blues, Goodnight My Love, One O’Clock Jump, Perfidia; died June 13, 19861912 - Hugh Griffith
actor: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Passover Plot, The Final Programme, I Racconti di Canterbury; died May 14, 19801912 - Joseph Stein
playwright: Fiddler on the Roof, Enter Laughing, Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys; producer: Enter Laughing; died Oct 24, 20101913 - Pee Wee (George) Erwin
musician: trumpet: Tommy Dorsey Band, Isham Jones Band; died June 20, 19811915 - Frank Blair
newscaster: Monitor [NBC radio], The Today Show; moderator: Georgetown University Forum; host: Heritage; died Mar 14, 19951917 - Peter Leeds
actor: Dragnet, Senior Trip, Harlow, The Wheeler Dealers, The Facts of Life, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, The Rookie; died Nov 12, 19961920 - George London
baritone singer: group: Bel canto Trio [w/Frances Yeend and Mario Lanza]; member: Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Dir: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Director: National Opera Institute; head: Washington Opera; established George London Foundation for Singers [1971]; died March 24, 19851920 - Franklin Schaffner
Academy Award-winning director: Patton [1970]; The Boys from Brazil, Papillon, Planet of the Apes, The Stripper, Islands in the Stream, Lionheart; died July 2, 19891926 - Johnny Gimble
musician: fiddle: Sally Goodin’, Goodnight Waltz, Ragtime Annie, Barefoot Fiddler, Carroll County Blues; died May 9, 20151927 - Clint Walker
actor: Cheyenne, The Ten Commandments, Yellowstone Kelly, The Dirty Dozen, None But the Brave, Cheyenne; died May 21, 20181936 - Keir Dullea
actor: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Oh, What a Night, Blind Date, The Hostage Tower, Paperback Hero1936 - Ruta Lee
actress, dancer: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Doomsday Machine, Forever Young at Heart, For Better or for Worse, Love, American Style, Fantasy Island, Elvis and the Beauty Queen, Coming of Age, Christmas at Cadillac Jack’s; game show celeb: Hollywood Squares, What’s My Line?, co-host [w/Alex Trebek]: High Rollers; more1939 - Michael J. Pollard
actor: Bonnie and Clyde, Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills, Dick Tracy, American Gothic, The Arrival, Roxanne, Tango and Cash, Skeeter; died Nov 20, 20191940 - David Ackroyd
actor: Prison Life, Raven, Dead On, Breaking the Silence, Memories of Me, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, Dynasty, St. Elsewhere, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, Murder, She Wrote1942 - Jack Stanfield
hockey: CHPL: St. Louis Braves, Dallas Black Hawks; WHL: Los Angeles Blades, San Diego Gulls, Houston Aeros1943 - Gayle Sayers
College & Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears: NFL Rookie of the Year [1965]; NFL Individual game record for touchdowns scored [6]; died Sep 23, 20201944 - Lenny Davidson
musician: group: The Dave Clark Five: Do You Love Me, Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, Good Old Rock & Roll, Everybody Get Together; film: Catch Us if You Can1944 - Meredith MacRae
actress: Petticoat Junction, My Three Sons, Bikini Beach, Sketches of a Strangler, Vultures; daughter of Gordon and Sheila MacRae; died July 14, 20001945 - Gladys Horton
founding singer of The Marvelettes: Please Mr. Postman, Playboy, Beechwood 4-5789, Too Many Fish in the Sea; died Jan 26, 20111946 - Mike (Michael George) Sadek
baseball: catcher: SF Giants1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa
golf champion: DuMaurier Classic [1973]1949 - Lydell Mitchell
football: Penn State Univ. [single-season rushing record: 1,567 yards in 1971]; NFL: Baltimore Colts, SD Chargers, LA Rams1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky
actor: Californication, Murder in the First, Radioland Murders, Groundhog Day, Sneakers, Basic Instinct, Thelma and Louise, Bird on a Wire, Mississippi Burning, Spaceballs, Keep My Grave Open, The Grifters, A Whole New Ballgame, Against the Grain1953 - Colm Meaney
actor: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hell on Wheels, The Damned United, The Barrytown Trilogy, Scarlett, The Conspirator, Whole Lotta Sole1955 - (Nicky) Topper Headon
musician: drums: group: The Clash: White Man, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, London Calling, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz; songwriter: Rock the Casbah1955 - Brian Kobilka, M.D.
physiologist: professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; received 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on G protein-coupled receptors1958 - Marie Fredriksson
singer: duo: Roxette: The Look, Dressed for Success, Listen to Your Heart , Dangerous, It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, Fading Like A Flower [Every Time You Leave], Almost Unreal, Wish I Could Fly; died Dec 9, 20191958 - Ted McGinley
actor: Married... with Children, Hope & Faith, Happy Days, The Love Boat, Eavesdrop, NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323, Pearl Harbor, The Big Tease, Major League: Back to the Minors, Wayne’s World 21962 - Kevin Eastman
comic artist: created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles1962 - Tonya Pinkins
actress: All My Children, Romance and Cigarettes, Love Hurts, Above the Rim, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Rage of Angels: The Story Continues, American Dream1964 - Wynonna Judd (Christina Claire Ciminella)
Grammy Award-winning singer: with her mother, Naomi: The Judds: Mama He’s Crazy [1984], Why Not Me [1985], Grandpa [Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days] [1986], Give a Little Love [1988], Love Can Build a Bridge [1991]; solo: She is His Only Need, I Saw the Light, No One Else on Earth, A Bad Goodbye [w/Clint Black], Only Love; sister of singer, actress Ashley Judd1964 - Mark Sheppard
actor: Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Leverage, Firefly, Mysterious Island, Xtinction: Predator X, Sons of Liberty, NCIS, Burn Notice, Dollhouse, The Conduit, White Collar, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Warehouse 13, Chuck, Doctor Who, Prime Suspect1965 - Tammy Parks
Penthouse centerfold, actress [1994-1998]: X-rated films: The Dinner Party, Strap-on Sally #8, Little Shop of Erotica, Titanic 2000, Smooth Operator, Nude Bowling Party1968 - Renee Allman
actress: Doomsday Man, Criminal Affairs, Number One Fan, Encino Man, Hollywood Boulevard II1968 - Tim Burgess
singer: I Believe; group: The Charlatans: The Only One I Know, Indian Rope, Charlatans vs. Chemical Brothers1970 - Sam Rogers
football: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Buffalo Bills, SD Chargers, Atlanta Falcons1971 - John Ross Bowie
actor: The Big Bang Theory, Episodes, Riot, Chasing Life1971 - Idina Menzel
singer: LPs: Still I Can’t Be Still, Here, I Stand; actress: Glee, Rent, Wicked, Enchanted, The Tollbooth, Kissing Jessica Stein; more1972 - Scott Eyre
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs1972 - Manny Ramirez
baseball [outfield]: Cleveland Indians [1993–2000], Boston Red Sox [2001–2008] World Series champs 2004, 2007; Los Angeles Dodgers [2008–2010]; Chicago White Sox [2010]; Tampa Bay Rays [2011])1974 - CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway)
singer-songwriter, rapper: Closet Freak, Soul Machine, Living Again, My Kind of People, All Day Love Affair, Glockapella, Die Trying, Bad Mutha, A Thug’s Concern, Spend the Night in Your Mind, Bass Head Jazz, Awful Thing, Young Man [Sierra’s Song]; group: Goodie Mob: Cell Therapy, Soul Food, Black Ice, Dirty South, What It Ain’t; more1974 - David Wilkie
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers1975 - Marissa Mayer
CEO: Yahoo! [2012-2017]; ranked eighth on the list of America’s most powerful businesswomen of 2013 by Fortune magazine1979 - Clint Bowyer
stock car racing driver: won 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship; drives #15 Toyota Camry for Michael Waltrip Racing in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series1980 - Steven Gerrard
English footballer: plays for and captains Premier League club Liverpool; has 90 caps for the England national team; has scored in numerous cup finals, including the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final and the 2006 FA Cup Final1981 - Blake Bashoff
actor: Lost, Bushwacked, Big Bully, The New Swiss Family Robinson, Deuces Wild1983 - Jennifer Ellison
actress: Brookside, The Phantom of the Opera1992 - Harrison Barnes
basketball [forward]: NBA: Golden State Warriors [2012-2016]: 2015 NBA champs; Dallas Mavericks [2016–2019]; Sacramento Kings [2019– ]1999 - Sean Giambrone
actor: The Goldbergs, Kim Possible
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