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1789 - Pope Pius VI appointed the Rt. Rev. John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States (in the diocese of Baltimore). Carroll’s consecration took place at Lulworth Castle, England, Aug 15, 1790.1860 - Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the 16th presidency of the United States. There was an 82% voter turnout. Abraham Lincoln, who had declared “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free...” was the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
1869 - The first intercollegiate football game was played -- in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4, with each team fielding 25 men, though not all at once.
1882 - ‘The Jersey Lily of England’ made her American debut. Lily Langtry starred in An Unequal Match which opened in New York City.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected the 23rd President of the United States. He received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168.
1899 - William Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes at the production’s debut in New York City. Later, Gillette would be razor sharp in the same part on the radio.
1900 - U.S. President William McKinley was reelected, beating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan. McKinley was assassinated September 6, 1901.
1905 - The original stage production of Sir James Barrie’s Peter Pan opened in New York. Who was the original Peter Pan? Maude Adams starred in the play that ran for 223 performances.
1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover was elected 31st President of the U.S. Hoover’s hopes for a ‘New Day’ tied to America’s scientific potential, were overwhelmed when the stock-market crash of October 1929 threw the U.S. into the Great Depression. Hoover was renominated in 1932, but overwhelmingly defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1928 - The first Motogram machine, also known as the Zipper, was installed -- on the New York Times Building in Times Square. It showed election returns via an electric flasher.
1936 - This was the day that big band icon Woody Herman played in his first recording session. He waxed Wintertime Dreams (Decca disc #1056).
1947 - Meet the Press was first seen in the local Washington, D.C. market. Two weeks later, two stations on the network were added to the Thursday night show. Martha Rountree served as the original moderator until 1953; then NBC newscaster Ned Brooks took over in 1953. Regular panelist Spivak served as moderator for ten years beginning in 1965. From 1975 to 1984, Bill Monroe, also a regular panelist, took over the moderator seat. He was replaced by Marvin Kalb, then Chris Wallace in 1987 and Garrick Utley in 1988. Tim Russert was Meet the Press moderator from late 1991 until his death in June 2008. Tom Brokaw filled in as interim moderator from June through the 2008 presidential election. And longtime NBC anchor David Gregory took over as moderator in early 2009, followed by Chuck Todd in 2014.
1955 - The first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast as TV viewers watched Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton star in The Constant Husband.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his VP, Richard M. Nixon, were reelected, as they defeated Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and his running mate, Estes Kefauver (by some 9.5 million votes). The campaign theme had been expanded from “I Like Ike” (used in 1952) to “I Like Ike, Peace & Prosperity”.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon lost the California election for governor to Edmund Brown. Nixon blamed the news media for his loss and promised, “Just think how much you're going to be missing. You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”
1962 - Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. senate from Masschusetts -- to complete the term of President John F. Kennedy. Teddy was re-elected to full six-year terms in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.
1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, Ohio. Later, the show moved to Chicago, was syndicated by Multimedia Productions and was highly rated for years.
1969 - A tie occurred -- for the first time -- in voting for the Cy Young Award. Pitchers Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers and Mike Cuellar of the Baltimore Orioles won equal votes for best pitcher in the American League.
1973 - Abraham Beame was elected the first Jewish mayor of New York City.
1973 - Coleman Young was elected mayor of Detroit.
1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a 30-foot wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
1979 - The world premiere of the movie The Rose was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City (with party at the Roseland Ballroom). The movie starred Bette Midler as a rock singer caught in the fast lane of drugs and death. The premiere and party raised $60,000 for the Phoenix House, a drug rehab organization.
1981 - A small population of black-footed ferrets was found near Meeteetse, Wyoming. The black-footed ferret was previously thought to be extinct.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan defeated liberal Democrat challenger, Walter F. Mondale, in a ‘landslide’ election. Reagan won in 49 states.
1986 - WOR-TV in Secaucus, NJ paid $182,000 per episode of The Cosby Show -- for the fall, 1988 season. The price was a record offering for a syndicated show. It beat the previous mark of $80,000 per show (for Cheers).
1986 - Edy’s Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 insurance policy to protect the taste buds of John Harrison, ice cream taste-tester.
1987 - U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett, acting with President Ronald Reagan’s approval, asked Douglas H. Ginsburg to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee because of revelations that Ginsburg had used marijuana.
1990 - About one-fifth of the Universal Studios back lot in Southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
1991 - Actress Gene Tierney died in Houston at age 70.
1993 - Pearl Jam’s album Vs. rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks on the smash (number one for five weeks) album: Go, Animal, Daughter, Glorified G, Dissident, WMA, Blood, Rearviewmirror, Rats, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Leash and Indifference.
1993 - Meat Loaf’s I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That), hit #1 in the U.S. All in all, the smash (from the "Bat Out of Hell II - Back Into Hell" album) hit number one in twenty-five countries. It stayed at #1 in the U.S. for six weeks.
1995 - Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. President Bill Clinton led the U.S. delegation. Arab dignitaries also attended, including Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
1996 - Set It Off debuted in the U.S. The action/drama stars Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica Fox, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, John C. Mcginley and Ella Joyce.
1996 - Keck II, the world’s largest optical telescope (along with its five-year-old twin Keck I), began scientific observations this day. the telescopes are housed in the W.M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, a 13,796-foot dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Using the Keck telescopes, astronomers are able to probe the deepest regions of the universe with unprecedented power and precision.
1997 - The $83-million George Bush (I) Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated on the campus of Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. Among the guests of honor was President Clinton, the man who had sent Bush into retirement.
1998 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. this day: The Siege, with Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Bruce Willis; The Waterboy with Adam Sandler, M Kathy Bates and Fairuza Balk; and The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 classic starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton, digitally restored and remastered.
2000 - Storms in Western Europe killed at least 19 people. Three people died in storm-related incidents in Britain. Strong winds and heavy rain hit Europe as far south as Spain and Greece as the major front extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic states swept in. In France, hurricane winds and rain caused more havoc along the Atlantic coast. Spain and Scandinavia also bore the brunt of the storms.
2001 - Playwright Anthony Shaffer, who wrote the thriller Sleuth, died in London, England. He was 75 years old.
2001 - Michael Bloomberg, self-made billionaire, was elected New York City’s 108th mayor, defeating Democrat Mark Green. Bloomberg spent $69 million on his self-financed campaign.
2002 - A jury in Beverly Hills, CA convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills. The prosecutor said she would not seek to put the actress behind bars.
2002 - Benjamin Netanyahu was approved as Israel’s foreign minister, becoming a member of the Cabinet of the man he sought to succeed, Ariel Sharon.
2003 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed an $87.5-billion Iraq spending bill.
2004 - Seven people were killed and 150 injured when a Eurostar high-speed train crashed into a vehicle that was stopped on a level crossing near Ufton Nervet in Berkshire, England. A motorist’s suicide was suspected as the cause.
2005 - A half-mile wide tornado struck at 1:50 a.m. near Evansville, Indiana. The F3 strength (Fujita scale) twister killed twenty people and injured some 200 others.
2005 - Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway. The ‘jukebox musical’ kept audiences rocking for 4,642 performances over 11 years, closing Jan 15, 2017.
2006 - A Milan, Italy court sentenced Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, the mastermind of the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, to ten years in jail for membership in a terrorist organization. A second Egyptian was sentenced to five years in jail in the case.
2007 - Country singing star Hank Thompson died at 82 years of age. Hank Thompson had 29 songs in the top ten including A Six Pack to Go and The Wild Side of Life, Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart, Rub-A-Dub-Dub and Oklahoma Hills.
2008 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama chose Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff; and Obama’s chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, was picked as senior White House advisor.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: Collapse, a documentary on Michael Ruppert, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis; Disney’s a Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman and Robin Wright Penn; Endgame, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Strong, William Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller, Derek Jacobi and Clarke Peters; Precious, starring Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz; Splinterheads, with Thomas Middleditch, Rachael Taylor, Lea Thompson, Christopher McDonald, Dean Winters, Frankie Faison and Jason Rogel; The Box, starring Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella and James Marsden; The Fourth Kind, with Milla Jovovich, Corey Johnson, Alisha Seaton and Daphne Alexander; and The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Rebecca Mader and Terry Serpico.
2009 - The Labor Dept. said the U.S. unemployment rate had surpassed 10% for the first time since 1983. Unemployment in October hit 10.2% with some 16 million jobless Americans.
2009 - There were five U.S. bank failures. The largest was United Commercial Bank of San Francisco. The U.S. had invested $300 million from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the parent company, UCBH Holdings. The assets, loans and 63 branches of UCBH were sold to East West Bank of Pasadena. And China Minsheng Bank wrote off its 10% stake in UCBH.
2010 - While visiting Spain, Pope Benedict XVI blasted the ‘aggressive’ antichurch sentiment that he said was flourishing in Spain. This, as the Pope sought to rekindle the faith in the once-staunchly Roman Catholic nation that had become one of Europe’s most liberal.
2011 - Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 2011 winner of the Miss World beauty pageant at a glittering final ceremony in London.
2011 - Thousands of people in the northeast U.S., including some 88,000 in Connecticut, remained without power 8 days after an Oct 29 snowstorm.
2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama won re-election, beating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Obama got 303 electoral votes vs. 206 for Romney and 49.8% of the popular vote vs. 48.7%.
2012 - Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Under the new rules, personal possession of up to an ounce (28.5 grams) of marijuana would be legal for anyone 21 and older. Cannabis would be sold and taxed at state-licensed stores in a system modeled after one which many states follow for alcohol sales. The Colorado measure limited cultivation to six marijuana plants per person, but ‘grow-your-own’ pot would be still be banned in Washington. Both states prohibit public use.
2012 - Maine and Maryland became the first U.S. states to approve same sex marriage by popular vote.
2013 - Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency warned hotels, restaurants and food shops about dishonest labelling amid a growing scandal. The warning came as top department stores became the latest Japanese firms to admit they had been selling food with labels falsely claiming high-quality or expensive ingredients.
2014 - U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan charged Trendon Shavers, founder of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, with fraud. In this “first of its kind” securities fraud case, the Feds accused Shavers of masterminding a $4.5 million Ponzi scheme. [In Sep 2015 Shavers pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud.]
2015 - New movies in the U.S. included: Spectre (the 24th James Bond film), starring Daniel Craig, Monica Bellucci, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Stephanie Sigman and Naomie Harris; the animated, The Peanuts Movie, featuring the voices of Francesca Capaldi, Madisyn Shipman, Noah Schnapp, Venus Schultheis, Mariel Sheets, Alexander Garfin and Hadley Belle Miller; the documentaries and Barista, In the Basement, My Nazi Legacy and Palio; Lost in the Sun, starring Josh Duhamel, Josh Wiggins and Lynn Collins; Miss You Already, with Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette and Dominic Cooper; The Outskirts, starring Eden Sher, Victoria Justice and Avan Jogia; Spotlight, with Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and Liev Schreiber; Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning and Diane Lane; and Wrecker, with Anna Hutchison, Andrea Whitburn and Jennifer Koenig.
2015 - Toyota announced its investment of $1 billion in a research company it set up in Silicon Valley. The venture would develop artificial intelligence and robotics for cars and technology that would affect other areas of daily life.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal. The rejection followed a last-ditch effort by TransCanada, the Canadian pipeline company behind the pipeline, to save the project.
2016 - A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing, in central Oklahoma. The state had recorded 19 earthquakes in the week, which scientists linked to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production (fracking).
2017 - Computer chipmaker Broadcom offered $103 billion offer to buy competitor Qualcomm for $70 per share. Any deal struck between the two companies would face intense regulatory scrutiny, especially in China, which is home to expanding rivals. Chinese ambitions to buy U.S. chipmakers had been thwarted by U.S. regulators.
2017 - The European Union denounced revelations on the way top companies and dignitaries, including Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, have avoided taxes using offshore wealth hubs. The findings emerged as part of the Paradise Papers released by the U.S.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which was behind the similar Panama Papers made public in 2016.
2018 - Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Republicans in the midterm elections. The vote was seen as a referendum on POTUS Trump’s two-year-old administration and was closely watched around the world. Onetime Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, shared the historic distinction of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress.
2018 - In China billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates helped kickoff the 3-day Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. “This expo showcases, for the first time, radically new and pilot-tested approaches to sanitation that will provide effective alternatives for collecting, managing, and treating human waste,” Gates said. “The technologies you’ll see here are the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years.”
2018 - An aircraft flew 20 tons of pine nuts from Afghanistan to China, inaugurating the first air cargo link as landlocked Afghanistan turned to overseas markets to offset trade deficits.
2019 - Federal prosecutors reported charging three Saudi nationals in Southern California. The Saudis had violated U.S. export laws by buying $100,000 worth of gun parts while on student visas -- and smuggling those parts into Saudi Arabia.
2019 - New York developer Paramount Group confirmed that it was buying the former Chevron headquarters at 555 and 575 market St, San Francisco, for $722 million. It was one of the biggest real estate deals in city history.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Let Him Go, starring Diane Lane, Kevin Costner and Lesley Manville; Blind, with Sarah French, Jed Rowen and Caroline Williams; The Dark and the Wicked, starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr and Xander Berkeley; The Informer, with Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike and Common; Jungleland, starring Charlie Hunnam, Jonathan Majors and Jessica Barden; and Kindred, starring Fiona Shaw, Edward Holcroft and Jack Lowden.
2020 - Norway’s capital Oslo shut down theatres, cinemas, training centers and swimming pools to contain the spread of COVID-19. Bars and restaurants were prevented from serving alcohol for three weeks.
2020 - The death toll from the coronavirus in the U.S. state of Illinois surpassed 10,000. The state’s total case count was 465,540.
2021 - Fire swept through the intensive care unit of a government hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra state. The blaze in a newly built Indian COVID-19 ward killed 11 people.
2022 - Russia’s secretive Internet Research Agency (in St. Petersburg), which interfered in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections, was using social media posts to stir up anger, aimed to chip away at support for the Biden administration’s military aid to Ukraine. The New York Times reported that “The posts mostly denigrated President Biden and other prominent Democrats, sometimes obscenely.”
2022 - A small passenger jet crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, killing 19 people. Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said the flight, which was chartered by Tanzanian carrier Precision Air, had been carrying 43 people when it crashed into the lake, which is Africa’s largest. The plane took off from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, and was attempting to land at the lakeside Bukoba Airport when it experienced unspecified problems and bad weather, and came down in the water.
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Birthdays on This Day November 6
1814 - Adolphe (Antoine-Joseph) Sax
musician: inventor: saxophone, saxotromba; died Feb 4, 18941835 - Cesare Lombroso
professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types; died Oct 19, 19091851 - Charles Dow
journalist: founded The Wall Street Journal; co-founded Dow Jones & Company [with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser]; developed the principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior [Dow theory], the groundwork for technical analysis; died Nov 6, 18511854 - John Philip Sousa
‘The March King’: composer, bandleader: Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, El Capitan, King Cotton, The Thunderer, Washington Post March; died Mar 6, 19321861 - James Naismith
inventor: game of basketball; died Nov 28, 19391892 - (John Siguard) Ole Olsen
vaudevillian: team: Olsen & Johnson: Hellzapoppin’; actor: All Over Town, Country Gentlemen; TV host: Fireball Fun-for-All [w/Johnson]; died Jan 26, 19631893 - Edsel Bryant Ford
President of Ford Motor Company [1919-1943]; the infamous Edsel automobile named for him; died May 26, 19431896 - Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan)
actor: radio’s Fibber McGee and Molly; died Apr 1, 19881914 - Jonathan Harris
actor: Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, The Rogues, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Third Man, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir; voice actor: A Bug’s Life, The Banana Splits, My Favorite Martians, Rainbow Brite, Darkwing Duck, Happily Ever After, Problem Child, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Star Command, Toy Story 2; died Nov 3, 20021916 - Ray Conniff
choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: S’wonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone; died Oct 12, 20021921 - James (Ramon) Jones
novelist: From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line; died May 9, 19771931 - Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky)
Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May]; died Nov 19, 20141932 - Stonewall Jackson
singer: Waterloo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, B.J. the D.J., Why I’m Walkin’; died Dec 4, 20211937 - Eugene Pitt
singer: group: The Genies: Who’s that Knockin’; group: The Jive Five: Never Never, What Time is It?, I’m a Happy Man; solo: My True Story; died Jun 29, 20181938 - P.J. Proby aka Jet Powers (James Smith)
singer: Hold Me, Together, Somewhere, Maria, Niki Hoeky, Love Will Tear Us Apart; actor: Catch My Soul, Elvis on Stage1941 - Doug Sahm
singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: She’s about a Mover; died Nov 18, 19991943 - Mike Clifford
singer: Close to Cathy1946 - Sally Field (Sally Mahoney)
Academy Award-winning actress: Norma Rae [1979], Places in the Heart [1984]; Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Hooper, Forrest Gump, Absence of Malice; Emmy Award-winner: The Big Event/NBC World Premiere Movie: Sybil [1977]; The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Girl with Something Extra, Alias Smith and Jones, Brothers & Sisters1946 - George Young
musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times; AC/DC; died Oct 22, 20171948 - Glenn Frey
musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Smuggler’s Blues; LP: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, The Heat is On, You Belong to the City; died Jan 18, 20161949 - Nigel Havers
actor: Lie Down with Lions, The Burning Season, Farewell to the King, The Little Princess, Empire of the Sun, A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?1953 - John (Robert) Candelaria
‘Candy Man’: baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1977/World Series: 1979], California Angels, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, LA Dodgers1955 - Maria Shriver
TV news correspondent: 1986, The American Parade, Today; news anchor: NBC News; former First Lady of California as wife of actor and then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger1957 - Lori Singer
actress: Fame, Born Beautiful, Footloose, Summer Heat, Equinox, Short Cuts, Sunset Grill, VR.5; musician: cellist: Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande1958 - Trace Beaulieu
actor, puppeteer: Mystery Science Theater 30001960 - Lance Kerwin
actor: James at 15, The Family Holvak, The Loneliest Runner, The Mysterious Stranger, Salem’s Lot, The Snow Queen1966 - Peter DeLuise
actor: seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Children of the Night, Rescue Me, The Midnight Hour1968 - Chad Curtis
baseball [left, center field, second base]: California Angels, Detroit Tigers, L.A. Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers1968 - Kelly Rutherford
actress: Swimming Upstream, The Tag, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, Scream 3, No Greater Love, The Perfect Getaway, Buried Secrets, Gossip Girl, Melrose Place, Generations1968 - Jerry Yang
cofounder, CEO of Yahoo!; 2013 net worth: 1.2 billion; February 2007; in 2007 Yang and his wife gave $75 million to Stanford Univ, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building1970 - Ethan Hawke
actor: Search and Destroy, Reality Bites, Alive, Waterland, A Midnight Clear, White Fang, Dead Poets Society, Dad, Explorers1971 - Derrick Alexander
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings1972 - Thandie Newton
actress: Westworld, Mission: Impossible II, Flirting, Interview with the Vampire, Crash, For Colored Girls, Run Fatboy Run1972 - Rebecca Romijn
actress: Eastwick, Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand, Ugly Betty1973 - Carlos Almanzar
baseball [pitcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers1973 - Justin Speier
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, Toronto Blue Jays1974 - Zoe McLellan
actress: NCIS: New Orleans, Sliders, Silk Stalkings, Diagnosis Murder, Star Trek: Voyager, The Invisible Man, Dungeons & Dragons, JAG, Dirty Sexy Money1976 - Pat Tillman
football [strong safety]: Arizona State Univ; NFL: Arizona Cardinals; he left football to become a U.S. Army Ranger; killed in Afghanistan Apr 22, 20041978 - Nicole Dubuc
actress: Our House, Major Dad1978 - Taryn Manning
actress: Orange Is the New Black, Crossroads, 8 Mile, White Oleander, A Lot Like Love, Hustle & Flow, Sons of Anarchy, Hawaii Five-0; more1979 - Lamar Odom
basketball [forward]: Nevada-Las Vegas, Univ of Rhode Island; NBA: Los Angeles Clippers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers1981 - Vonta Leach
football [fullback]: NFL: Green Bay Packers [2004-2006]; New Orleans Saints [2006]; Houston Texans [2006-2010]; Baltimore Ravens [2011-2013]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII champs1984 -Annie Cruz
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Sex Sex Sex, The Great American Squirt Off 2, Corruption, Flavor of the Month, A Little Cumster in the Dumpster, Porn Star Training Camp1986 - Katie Leclerc
actress: Switched at Birth, Veronica Mars, Fashion House, The Big Bang Theory, The Inner Circle, Seven Lanterns, The Confession1987 - Ana Ivanovic
tennis pro: former world no. 1 player; 11 career singles titles1988 - Emma Stone
actress: Drive, Superbad, Zombieland, Easy A, The House Bunny, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Paper Man, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man [2012]1988 - Barrett Wilbert Weed
actress: Off-Broadway: Heathers: The Musical; Broadway: Mean Girls; film, TV: Blue Bloods, Crashing1990 - André Schürrle
soccer [forward]: 1. FSV Mainz 05 [2009–2011]; Bayer Leverkusen [2011-2013]; Chelsea [2013- ]; German national team [2010]: 2014 World Cup champs1990 - Bowen Yang
comedian, actor and writer: Saturday Night Live1992 - Robert Aramayo
actor: The Lord Of the Rings: The Rings of Power1999 - Robert Finke
Olympic swim champ: 2020 Summer games: gold in men’s 800/1,500m
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Hit Music on This Day November 6
1947Near You (facts) - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
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