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1866 - The rotary-crank bicycle was patented by Pierre Lallement in Paris, France. The bike, incidentally, was known as the bone shaker.1917 - The first tank-dominated battle took place at Cambrai, France. 476 British tanks rolled over German lines. However, the British made no gains and suffered 43,000 casualties.
1919 - The first municipally-owned airport in the nation opened -- in Tucson, Arizona. The entire community turned out for the big celebration.
1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue radio network. Later, the title would be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a week. The program continued until 1945 (it returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg brought The Goldbergs to TV in 1949, entertaining audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, “Button up your neck. It’s cold outside.”
1929 - Leo Reisman and his orchestra recorded Happy Days are Here Again for Victor Records. The classic was recorded just three weeks after the stock market crash that plunged the nation into the Great Depression. Some people have a unique sense of timing, don’t they?
1931 - The first commercial teletype(writer) service was introduced by American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
1943 - The U.S. offensive against Japan in the Central Pacific, known as Operation Galvanic, began this day with the Battle of Tarawa-Makin. U.S. forces attacked the heavily fortified Gilbert Islands. It took eight days to oust the Japanese invaders, at a cost of 1,000 American and 4,700 Japanese lives.
1947 - A royal wedding this day, as Princess Elizabeth (who would be Queen in four years) and Lt. Philip Mountbatten were married.
1953 - Albert Scott Crossfield in the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, was the first to break Mach 2, twice the speed of sound.
1959 - One of America’s great rock jocks was fired from WABC radio in New York. The ‘Moondoggy’ himself, Alan Freed, was axed in the midst of the payola music scandal.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the U.S. blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.
1965 - U.S. casualties in Vietnam after a week-long battle in the Ia Drang Valley, were placed at 240 dead, exceeding the Korean War weekly average of 209 killed.
1966 - Cabaret opened on Broadway for the first of 1,165 stellar performances. Joel Gray starred in the hugely successful musical that is an adaptation of both the play, I Am a Camera, and the novel, Goodbye to Berlin.
1969 - Soccer star Pelé collected his 1,000th career goal -- in Rio de Janeiro.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to the residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout.
1971 - Isaac Hayes of Memphis, TN got his first #1 hit as the Theme from Shaft began a two-week stay at the top of the charts.
1973 - Allan Sherman (Copelon) died, ten days shy of his 49th birthday. Sherman, whose Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp) was a big novelty hit in 1963, was also associate producer of the game show I’ve Got a Secret. (Sherman’s death was attributed to a respiratory illness caused by obesity.)
1974 - The first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet happened on this day. A Lufthansa airliner went down after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya. The crash killed 59 of the 157 people on board. Investigators concluded the aircraft was not properly configured for takeoff and stalled shortly after becoming airborne.
1975 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain died. Franco had ruled Spain since 1939. Spain soon made the transition to a parliamentary democracy under King Juan Carlos.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel’s parliament.
1980 - In a highly unusual move, United Artists withdrew the $44-million movie Heaven’s Gate from theatres. The flick had been so badly received that it was withdrawn and re-edited to reduce its running length was from 219 minutes to 140 minutes.
1984 - “You deserve a break today...” by knowing that 35 years and 11 months after the very first McDonald’s hamburger was sold, the 50 billionth burger was made by Edward Rensi, president of Mickey D’s. The milestone was celebrated this day at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
1984 - The largest crowd to see the unveiling of a Hollywood Walk-of-Fame star turned out as Michael Jackson got his piece of the sidewalk right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ‘The Gloved One’ became star number 1,793 on the famed walk. Michael Jackson was the first celebrity to have two different stars dedicated to him (The Jacksons were awarded a star on Sep 3, 1980).
1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Congressional leaders announced agreement on a two-year, $76-billion deficit-reduction plan designed to reassure jittery financial markets.
1989 - More than 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms, free elections and the ouster of Communist Party leader Milos Jakes. Free elections were allowed the following month.
1991 - California Democrat Alan Cranston accepted a Senate reprimand for his dealings with former savings-and-loan chief Charles H. Keating Jr. Cranston insisted he was not guilty of many of the allegations.
1992 - Fire erupted at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth's official residence west of London, causing an estimated £37 million in damage. The queen and Prince Andrew pitched in to help save priceless artworks and other valuables housed in the fortress. The fire burned for 15 hours damaging or destroying nine principal rooms and over a hundred other rooms. It took a million and a half gallons of water to put out the blaze. The next five years would be spent restoring the Castle to its former glory.
1993 - The U.S. Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1995 - U.S. radio stations began airing a new Beatles recording, Free As a Bird, which had debuted on ABC-TV the previous evening.
1995 - 28-year-old Olympic figure skating champion Sergei Grinkov died of a heart attack in Lake Placid, New York.
1996 - A fire raged in the 16-story Garley Building in Hong Kong. The fire started by sparks from welding torches inside a lift shaft that was under repair. 39 people were killed in the blaze that burned for two days.
1998 - 46 states embraced a $206 billion settlement with U.S. cigarette makers over health costs for treating sick smokers.
1998 - It was movie debut day for: Woody Allen’s Celebrity, starring Hank Azaria, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo Dicaprio and Melanie Griffith; Enemy of the State (“It's Not Paranoia if They’re Really After You.”), starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight and Regina King; and the animated The Rugrats Movie (“An adventure for anyone that ever wore diapers.”), with the voices of David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg, Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugha and Cheryl Chase.
2000 - A French judge ordered the U.S.-based Internet portal Yahoo! to block Web surfers in France from an auction where Nazi memorabilia is sold.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2001 - The U.S. approved the sale of the world’s first contraceptive skin patch, Ortho Evra.
2001 - The September 11 death toll at the World Trade Center was reduced to just under 3,900.
2002 - Thomas S. Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza, pledged $220 million to build the Catholic Ave Maria University near Naples, FL.
2003 - Singer Michael Jackson turned himself in to police in Santa Barbara, CA on an arrest warrant alleging multiple counts of child molestation. Jackson posted a $3-million bail bond.
2003 - Motor Trend magazine selected the Toyota hybrid Prius to be Car of the Year for 2004.
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson at his home in Alhambra, CA.
2004 - The new New York City MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) opened in midtown Manhattan. Its new tower was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
2005 - Because of intense public criticism, the O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It, and TV special, O. J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How it Happened, were both cancelled. In the book/show, Simpson describes ‘hypothetically’ the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994. Simpson was tried and acquitted of those crimes in a criminal trial, but later found financially liable for them in a civil trial.
2006 - Film director, producer, writer Robert Altman died in Los Angeles at 81 years of age. Among Altman’s many successes were Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, M*A*S*H, Nashville, Gosford Park and A Prairie Home Companion
2007 - Travel problems continued in France with air traffic delays adding to a week of rail strikes as many of the nation’s five-million civil servants held a day-long walkout.
2007 - Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. buyer of home loans, reported a $2-billion loss for the third quarter and warned that it would need to raise fresh capital. Fannie Mae, another U.S. mortgage guarantor, had already posted a $1.4-billion loss.
2008 - An Australian ‘political’ party, the Sex Party was launched at Sexpo, an annual sex exhibition in Melbourne. The party had already gathered the required 500 members and planned to register with the electoral commission (which approved it in Aug 2009).
2008 - The Norwegian government said it had selected the Lockheed Martin-developed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace its aging U.S.-made F-16 aircraft in a 60-billion kroner ($8.5-billion) deal.
2009 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker, Xzibit, Katie Chonacas and Brad Dourif; Broken Embraces, with Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portilla, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave, Lola Duenas and Angela Molina; Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, and Michelle Williams; the animated Planet 51, featuring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman and John Cleese; The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Oher and Kathy Bates; The Missing Person, with Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan and Margaret Colin; and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lafevre, Billy Burke, Charlie Bewley, Jamie Campbell Bower, Daniel Cudmore, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dakota Fanning, Cameron Bright, Noot Seer, Michael Sheen, Graham Greene and Tinsel Korey.
2009 - Australia battled dozens of bush blazes as record-breaking hot weather sparked ‘catastrophic’ warnings in two states, just months after the country‘s worst-ever wildfire disaster.
2009 - German prosecutors reported that some 200 football matches in nine European countries, including at least three Champions League games, were implicated in a match-fixing scandal.
2010 - The 2010 hurricane season came to an end. “As NOAA forecasters predicted, the Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most active on record, though most storms avoided the U.S. For that reason, you could say the season was a gentle giant,” said Jack Hayes, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s National Weather Service.
2011 - Spain held a national election and became the third eurozone country in as many weeks to throw out its governing party in an attempt to dig itself out of an economic crisis. Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy and his conservative Popular Party won control of Parliament in a landslide, winning 186 seats in the 350-seat lower chamber of Parliament. The Socialists plummeted from 169 seats to 110, their worst performance ever.
2012 - The United Nations reported that U.S. efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had failed because of high prices for the illicit crop. Because of the price increases, farmers had grown some 18 percent more poppies in than the previous year.
2013 - White supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin was executed in Missouri. Franklin, who targeted blacks and Jews, admitted to shooting and wounding Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan in 1980.
2014 - A band of lake-effect snow pounded cities and towns near Buffalo, New York. The winter-like storm piled more misery on communities already paralyzed by a 5-foot blanket of snow. Authorities confirmed an eighth death blamed on the storm.
2014 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth; The Night Before, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lizzy Caplan and Seth Rogen; Secret in Their Eyes, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts; Carol, with Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson and Cate Blanchett; #Horror, starring Chloë Sevigny, Taryn Manning and Natasha Lyonne; Legend, with Tom Hardy, Emily Browning and Taron Egerton; Mediterranea, featuring Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy and Pio Amato; Mustang, with Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu and Elit Iscan; and the documentaries, Censored Voices; and TransFatty Lives.
2015 - Officials reported an outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill in Washington and Oregon had spread to six states including California, New York, Minnesota and Ohio.
2015 - British police issued an “unreserved apology” to seven women who had been deceived into having sexual relationships with officers who were on undercover assignments. The relationships took place over 25 years and continued until the undercover units were disbanded in 2008 and 2011.
2016 - In North Dakota months-long protests over an oil pipeline came to a head in sub-freezing temperatures, as hundreds of protesters tried to push past a police barricade on Backwater Bridge. They were met with tear gas, water cannon spray, and rubber bullets. Construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline (from western North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois) had been protested for months by the Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation lies near the pipeline route, and the tribe’s allies, who feared a leak could contaminate their drinking water. They also worried that construction would threaten sacred sites.
2017 - U.S. District Judge William Orrick II of San Francisco issued a final ruling that POTUS Trump had acted unconstitutionally when he threatened to strip billions of dollars in federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties.
2018 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued a report accusing China of stepping up hacking aimed at stealing American technology. Chinese hacking efforts aimed at stealing American technology and trade secrets have “increased in frequency and sophistication” this year, said Lighthizer’s report, issued in Washington.
2018 - A U.S. federal court struck down a Mississippi law that banned abortions after 15 weeks. Judge Carlton Reeves ruled that the law “unequivocally” violates women’s constitutional rights. “The record is clear: States may not ban abortions prior to viability,” Reeves said, citing U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
2019 - The 5th Democrat presidential debate featured 10 candidates: Joe Biden sought to turn Donald Trump’s impeachment to his own advantage, declaring it showed he was the candidate Trump feared most. Bernie Sanders called Trump a “pathological liar.” Elizabeth Warren said she had already decided to convict Trump in a Senate trial. Speaking on stage at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, California Senator Kamala Harris went after Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard on foreign policy. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker took on former VP Biden over marijuana. And Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar characterized South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg as inexperienced.
2020 - New movies scheduled to open in U.S. theatres on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis): Embattled, starring Elizabeth Reaser, Stephen Dorff and Donald Faison; The Forgotten Carols, with Christy Summerhays, Michael McLean and Adrien Swenson; Jiu Jitsu, starring Nicolas Cage, Marie Avgeropoulos and Frank Grillo; Mank, with Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton and Amanda Seyfried; and Vanguard, starring Jackie Chan, Yang Yang and Miya Muqi.
2020 - President-elect Joe Biden turned 78. He entered office as the oldest president in the U.S. history.
2020 - A federal judge ruled against Michael Pack, head of the agency that runs the Voice of America and other US-funded news outlets. Pack was accused of trying to turn VOA into a propaganda vehicle to promote POTUS Trump’s agenda. The judge barred Pack from interfering in editorial operations or making personnel decisions.
2020 - California authorities said they had dismantled the senior leadership of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood. This, as part of a statewide takedown of the notorious prison gang and its associates in the Fresnecks street gang in Fresno County.
2021 - The Walt Disney Company stopped a coronavirus vaccine mandate for employees of its Florida theme park after the State Legislature and the governor made it illegal for employers to require workers to get the shots.
2021 - Five police officers were injured in the Netherlands and some 40 people were detained as violent protests against COVID-19 restrictions continued for a second night.
2022 - Elton John finished the North American leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
2022 - President Joe Biden turned 80 years old, becoming the first octogenarian to serve in the U.S.A.'s highest office.
2022 - Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX reported (in a bankruptcy court filing) that it owed its top 50 creditors some $3.1 billion. The documents filed to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware said the company owed 10 of its creditors at least $100 million, underscoring how many lenders and investors stood to lose big as the three-year-old company went down. FTX owed its biggest creditor $226 million. The names of the creditors were redacted from the document, although it has previously been reported that FTX got money from investment firms Sequoia Capital, BlackRock, and Tiger Global.
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Birthdays on This Day November 20
1841 - Sir Wilfrid Laurier
eighth Prime Minister of Canada [1896-1911]; died Feb 17, 19191858 - Selma Lagerlöf
author: Gosta Berling’s Saga, Jerusalem, Christ Legends, The Wonderful World of Nils, Liljecrona’s Home, The Ring of the Lowenskolds; first woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature [1909]; died Mar 16, 19401889 - Edwin Powell Hubble
Rhodes Scholar, lawyer, astronomer: developed the concept of an expanding universe; Hubble Space Telescope bears his name; died Sep 28, 19531900 - Chester Gould
cartoonist: Dick Tracy; died May 11, 19851907 - Fran Allison
TV host: Kukla, Fran and Ollie; actress: The Reluctant Dragon, Damn Yankees!, Pinocchio [1957], The Mikado; died June 13, 19891908 - Sir Alistair Cooke
author: America; Emmy Award-winning TV narrator/writer: America [1972-73], TV host: Masterpiece Theatre [1974-75]; Omnibus; 8th Annual ATAS Governor’s Award [1985]; died Mar 30, 20041913 - (Juliette) Judy Canova
comedienne, actress: The Judy Canova Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Oklahoma Annie, The Steve Allen Show, Matinee Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Danny Thomas Show; died Aug 5, 19831914 - Emilio Pucci (Marchese deBarsento)
fashion designer; died Nov 29, 19921916 - Evelyn Keyes
actress: Before I Hang, Gone with the Wind, The Jolson Story, The Seven Year Itch, Return to Salem’s Lot; author: autobiography: Scarlet O’Hara’s Younger Sister; died Jul 4, 20081917 - Robert Byrd
legislator: Democratic whip of U.S. Senate [1971]; died Jun 28, 20101921 - Phyllis Thaxter
actress: Three Sovereigns for Sarah, Superman: The Movie, Jim Thorpe: All American, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; died Aug 14, 20121923 - Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize-winning writer (1991): July’s People, Lifetimes Under Apartheid; won Nobel Prize in Literature [1991]; died Jul 13, 20141924 - Mark Miller
actor: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Guestward, Ho!, Gunsmoke, The Millionaire, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Andy Griffith Show, General Hospital, I Dream Of Jeannie; died Sep 9, 20221925 - Kaye Ballard (Catherine Balotta)
actress, comedienne: What a Dummy, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, The Perry Como Show, The Mothers-in-Law, Henry Morgan’s Great Talent Hunt, The Doris Day Show; died Jan 21, 20191925 - June Christy (Shirley Luster)
singer: My Heart Belongs to Only You; sang with Stan Kenton band; died June 21, 19901925 - Robert F. (Francis) Kennedy
U.S. Attorney General under brother President John F. Kennedy; U.S. Senator [from New York]; shot by Sirhan Sirhan June 5, 1968, died June 6, 19681927 - Estelle Parsons
Academy Award-winning actress: Bonnie and Clyde; Dick Tracy, For Pete’s Sake, Don’t Drink the Water, Roseanne, Backstairs at the White House1928 - Franklin Cover
actor: The Jeffersons, Almost Heroes, A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle, Zits, Wall Street, A Woman Called Golda, The Stepford Wives; died Feb 5, 20061929 - Don January
golf: champ: PGA Championship [1967]; died May 7, 20231932 - Richard Dawson
actor: Hogan’s Heroes, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Running Man, The Devil’s Brigade; TV host: Family “Survey says?” Feud; panelist: I’ve Got a Secret; died Jun 2, 20121939 - Dick Smothers
comedian: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Steve Allen Show; actor: Speed Zone, Tales of the Unexpected1940 - Tony Butala
singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall in Love, Goin’ Out of My Head, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You1942 - Joe Biden (Joseph Robinette Biden Jr)
46th President of the U.S. [2021- ]; U.S. Senator from Delaware [1973-2009] 47th U.S. Vice President [under Barack Obama 2009-2017]1942 - Norman Greenbaum
singer: Spirit in the Sky, The Eggplant That Ate Chicago1943 - Veronica Hamel
actress: Hill Street Blues, Taking Care of Business, The Gathering series, Cannonball1943 - Robert Lipton
actor: Die Hard 2, Desperado: The Outlaw Wars, Roommates, Diamante Lobo, See the Man Run, The X Files, Walker, Texas Ranger, Judging Amy, JAG, Without a Trace1945 - Jay (John William) Johnstone
baseball: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees [World Series: 1978], SD Padres, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1981], Chicago Cubs1945 - Rick (Robert James) Monday
baseball: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1968], Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978]; broadcaster1946 - (Howard) Duane Allman
musician: lead guitar: group: Allman Brothers Band; killed in motorcycle crash in Macon GA Oct 29, 19711946 - Ray Stiles
musician: bass, singer: group: Mud: The Cat Crept In, Crazy, Myna-Mite, L-L-Lucy, Lean on Me, Lonely This Christmas, Moonshine Sally, Oh Boy, Rocket, The Secrets That You Keep, Shake It Down, Show Me You’re a Woman, Tiger Feet; The Hollies1946 - Judy Woodruff
TV news anchor/host: PBS: Frontline, CNN, PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer1947 - Joe Walsh
musician: guitar, singer: groups: James Gang; The Eagles: Hotel California, New Kid in Town, In the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Life’s Been Good, A Life of Illusion, All Night Long1948 - Richard Masur
actor: Hiroshima, The Man Without a Face, And the Band Played On, Stephen King’s It, Rent-A-Cop, Heartburn, The Burning Bed, Under Fire, Risky Business, The Thing, East of Eden, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Semi-Tough, Picket Fences, Hot L Baltimore, One Day at a Time1952 - John Van Boxmeer
hockey: Nova-Scotia Voyageurs, Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Rockies, Buffalo Sabres, Fredericton Express, Quebec Nordiques, Rochester Americans1956 - Bo Derek (Mary Cathleen Collins)
actress: 10, Bolero, A Change of Season, Tarzan, the Ape Man, Ghosts Can’t Do It, Shattered Image; married to producer/director John Derek1956 - Mark (Marcus) Gastineau
football: NY Jets defensive end: AFC Defensive Player of the Year [1984]1957 - Jimmy Brown
musician: drums: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think It’s Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, If It Happens Again, Red Red Wine, Don’t Break My Heart, Sing Our Own Song, Amandla Awethu [The Power is Ours]1959 - Sean Young
actress: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Fatal Instinct, Cousins, Blade Runner, No Way Out, Dune1963 - Ming-Na Wen
actress: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Joy Luck Club, ER, The Single Guy, One Night Stand, Mulan, Teddy Bears’ Picnic1964 - Ned Vaughn
actor: Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire, A Distant Thunder, The Inner Circle, The Beach Boys: An American Family, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest1965 - Mike D (Diamond)
rap singer: group: The Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn, She’s On It, [You Gotta] Fight for Your Right [To Party]; more1967 - Alex Arias
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees1969 - Dabo Swinney
football head coach: Clemson Univ [2009- ]: 2017 College Football National Championship1969 - Callie Thorne
actress: The Mysteries of Laura, Necessary Roughness, Rescue Me, David and Layla, Robin’s Big Date, Strangers With Candy, The Wrong Coast, Analyze That, Revolution #9, Whipped, Californication1970 - Sabrina Lloyd
actress: Racing Daylight, Charlie’s Party, The Sisters of Mercy, Something for Henry, Dopamine, On Edge, Iris, Love Off Limits1971 - Joey Galloway
football [wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers1971 - Joel McHale
actor: The Soup, Community, The Informant!, Giants of Radio, Wait, Spider-Man 21971 - Gabe White
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals
1974 - David O’Donnell
actor: Always, But Not Forever, The End of Suffering, Thirteen Days, Bella Mafia, Forbidden Island; married to actress Jennifer Aspen1975 - Dierks Bentley
singer: What Was I Thinking, Come a Little Closer, Settle for a Slowdown, Every Mile a Memory, Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go), Feel That Fire, Sideways, Am I the Only One, Home, 5-1-5-0, I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes, Lot of Leavin’ Left to Do; more1975 - J.D. Drew
baseball [right fielder]: St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox [2007 World Series]1975 - Joshua Gomez
actor: Chuck, Without a Trace, Bring It On Again, Invasion, Imagination Movers, Castle1976 - Dominique Dawes
‘Awesome Dawesome’: artistic gymnast: 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team [1989–1998, 2000]; competed in three Olympics as part of medal-winning teams: Barcelona 1992 [bronze], Atlanta 1996 [gold], and Sydney 2000 [bronze]1976 - Laura Harris
actress: A Friend of the Family, A Mighty Wind, Going Greek, The Highwayman, Come Together, The Faculty, Suicide Kings1977 - Josh Turner
singer: Time Is Love, Your Man, Would You Go With Me, Firecracker, Why Don’t We Just Dance; more1978 - Nadine Velazquez
actress: My Name Is Earl, The League, Flight, Hawaii Five-0, The Last Ride, Hollywood Vice1981 - Carlos Boozer
basketball [power forward]: Duke Univ [1999–2002]: 2001 NCAA champs; NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers [2002–2004]; Utah Jazz [2004–2010]; Chicago Bulls [2010–2015]1981 - Kimberley Walsh
songwriter, singer: group: Girls Aloud: Sound of the Underground, Love Machine, Biology, No Good Advice, I’ll Stand By You, Jump, Show, See the Day1984 - Jeremy Jordan
actor: Broadway: Newsies, Bonnie & Clyde; films/TV: Smash, Supergirl; more1985 - Dan Byrd
actor: Cougar Town, Aliens in America, Easy A, Norman, The Hills Have Eyes, A Cinderella Story, Mad Men1989 - Cody Linley
actor: Hannah Montana, The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It, Rebound, Hoot
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Hit Music on This Day November 20
1952You Belong to Me (facts) - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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