November 23
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1835 - The horseshoe manufacturing machine was patented by Henry Burden of Troy, New York.1876 - The first intercollegiate football association was established as representatives from Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale, met at Massasoit House in Springfield, MA.
1887 - The University of Michigan beat Notre Dame, 8-0, for the first time in their football rivalry.
1889 - The first ‘Nickel-in-the-Slot’ (jukebox) was placed in service in the Palais Royal saloon in San Francisco, California. Juke, at the time, was a slang word for a a disorderly house, or house of ill repute. The unit, developed by Louis Glass, contained an Edison tinfoil phonograph with four listening tubes. There was a coin slot for each tube. 5 cents bought a few minutes of music. The contraption took in $1,000 in six months!
1903 - Enrico Caruso, famed Italian tenor, made his debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He sang in the role of the Duke in Rigoletto.
1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Willis Campbell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbade the prescription of beer for medicinal purposes. It also rigidly limited physicians’ authority to prescribe wine and spirits.
1924 - Vincent Lopez and some 40 jazz musicians presented a concert of upbeat music at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC.
1929 - Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role (Hazel); but we remember when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on radio’s classic, Duffy’s Tavern. She also gave an Oscar-winning performance in 1952 in Come Back Little Sheba.
1935 - Ethel Leginska became the first woman to write an opera -- and conduct it. Her original work, titled Gale, opened at the Chicago City Opera Company.
1936 - LIFE magazine debuted. The first cover pictured the Fort Peck Dam in Montana (part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program) photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. On page 2, a photo showed a doctor slapping a newborn baby -- and the caption read, “LIFE begins.”
1938 - Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, The Big Broadcast of 1938. Thanks for the Memory became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song.
1943 - U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese during the Central Pacific offensive in the Gilbert Islands. On Tarawa, U.S. marines suffered 1000 killed and 2000 wounded. The Japanese garrison of 4800 troops was annihilated.
1945 - Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.
1947 - E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University first learned of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls on this day.
1948 - Dr. Frank G. Back of New York City patented the Zoomar lens. The device was first used by NBC television in April of 1947.
1958 - One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel was broadcast on CBS radio and starred John Dehner as Paladin. Richard Boone played Paladin on TV.
1958 - Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President.
1959 - The musical Fiorello!, with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, opened on Broadway. Tom Bosley played Fiorello LaGuardia. The show turned out to be a big hit, not closing until after its 796th performance on Oct 28, 1961.
1971 - The People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council. At the same time, the General Assembly voted to expel the Republic of China (Taiwan).
1973 - The first U.S. Representative to give birth while in office was Yvonne Braithwaite Burke.
1974 - Billy Swan reached the #1 spot on the singles charts for the first and only time. I Can Help was the most popular song in the U.S. for two weeks.
1979 - Thomas McMahon was sentenced in Dublin to life imprisonment for the assassination of Earl Mountbatten, cousin of England’s Queen Elizabeth. (McMahon was freed from prison by order of the Irish Government after serving 18 years.)
1980 - An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck Eboli in southern Italy, killing 2,735 people and injuring at least 7,500. The epicenter was at Eboli but damage was reported over a huge area to Naples. More than 1,500 people were reported missing.
1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passed his way into sports history by leading Boston College past Miami, 47-45, at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Flutie threw a 48-yard pass on the final play of the game. That play became known as ‘The Pass’. Incidentally, coaches said the 175-pound senior was too short to play football.
1990 - Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), died. He was 74 years old.
1991 - Actor Klaus Kinski, 65, died of a heart attack. His films include Android, Nosferatu and Little Drummer Girl.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation lifting the last U.S. sanctions against South Africa, and announced an initiative to spur investment in South Africa’s black private sector.
1995 - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic grudgingly accepted the U.S.-backed peace plan for the former Yugoslavia after meeting with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
1996 - Following a four-day visit to Australia, President Clinton arrived in the Philippines for a summit of Asian-Pacific leaders.
1996 - An Ethiopian Boeing 767 airliner crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grand Comore Island. It had been hijacked after takeoff from Addis Ababa and ran out of fuel after hijackers demanded to fly to Australia. 125 of 175 people died.
1997 - Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban exile leader and head of MasTec, died in Miami. He helped create Radio Marti and TV Marti and served as chairman of the U.S.I.A. (U.S. Information Agency) stations that beamed uncensored news to Cuba.
1998 - The Wall Street Journal reported, “States Agree to $206 Billion Tobacco Deal.” The money was to be paid by the tobacco industry to help 46 U.S. states cover costs of treating people for tobacco-induced illnesses.
1998 - Whitewater figure Susan McDougal was acquitted in Santa Monica, California of stealing about $50,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife when McDougal worked for them as a bookkeeper. It was a charge McDougal said was trumped up to pressure her into testifying against President Clinton.
1999 - In a plea met with scant applause and silent stares, U.S. President Bill Clinton told ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, “You can never forget the injustice that was done to you. No one can force you to forgive what was done to you. But you must try.” to forgive Serb neighbors and stop punishing them for the terror campaign of Slobodan Milosevic.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court rejected an emergency plea by Al Gore to force Miami-Dade County to resume manual vote counts; and Gore’s lawyers argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy.
2001 - In the Bedroom opened in the U.S. The drama stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother, William Wise and Celia Weston.
2001 - Stanford and UCSF researchers published a long list of genes responsible for multiple sclerosis (MS).
2002 - Chilean artist Roberto Echaurren Matta master of surrealist painting and sculpture, died at a hospital near Rome. He was 91 years old.
2003 - Hong Kong residents voted in elections seen as a showdown between pro-Beijing politicians and democratic candidates. Voters turned out in record numbers to hand the territory’s top pro-Beijing party a stunning defeat in local elections.
2004 - A United Nations AIDS report said infections had risen 7.7% over the previous two years to 39.4 million; growth was fastest in Asia and Eastern Europe.
2005 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Ice Harvest, with John Cusack, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Monica Bellucci and Jenny Wade; In the Mix, starring Usher, Chazz Palminteri, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Anthony Fazio, Matt Gerald, Robert Davi, Kevin Hart, Robert Costanzo, K.D. Aubert, Jennifer Echols, Page Kennedy and Misti Traya; Just Friends, with Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Amy Smart, Chris Klein, Christopher Marquette, Stephen Root, Julie Hagerty and Fred Ewanuick; Rent, starring Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Tracie Thoms; and Yours, Mine & Ours, with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo.
2005 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, visited Paris, France during her first foreign trip while in office.
2006 - The Isle of Man held a general election to choose members for its seats in the House of Keys, the main branch of the Isle’s bicameral parliament. For the first time in the British Isles 16- and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote -- but many teens didn’t bother.
2006 - Secret agent Alexander Litvinenko died in London. The British government said Litvinenko, former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic, had a toxic radioactive substance in his body. Litvinenko had blamed a “barbaric and ruthless” Russian President Vladimir Putin for his fatal poisoning. The radioactive element polonium-210 was found in Litvinenko’s system. (In 2007 it was disclosed that Litvinenko had been working for British secret intelligence service MI6.)
2007 - Fugitive financier Robert Vesco died of lung cancer in Cuba. He was 73 years old. Vesco had been wanted in the U.S. for crimes ranging from securities fraud and drug trafficking to political bribery.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II), wrapping up his final summit with world leaders, offered a message of hope. He said that, despite the worst economic crisis in decades, the global economy would emerge in better shape. Bush touted the benefits of free trade during a meeting with his host, Peru’s President Alan Garcia, before attending the final sessions of the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Summit leaders predicted a worldwide recovery in 18 months.
2009 - Geneva’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, circulated beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time, causing the first particle collisions in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs.
2010 - Authorities in southern Italy arrested two women in an operation against suspected mobsters. The development reflected the increased role of women in running the mob’s affairs. Those arrested included Carmelina Capria, wife of imprisoned clan boss Antonio Pesce, and Maria Grazia Pesce, wife of fugitive boss Roberto Matalone.
2011 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The animated comedy drams, Arthur Christmas, featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunto, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton and Laura Linney; Hugo, starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee and Helen McCrory; The Muppets, with Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones; A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel and Sarah Gadon; My Week with Marilyn, with Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond and Kenneth Branagh; and Rampart, starring Jon Bernthal, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Anne Heche and Ice Cube.
2011 - Jimi Hendrix was named greatest guitar player in history by Rolling Stone magazine in a list compiled by a panel of music experts and top guitar players.
2012 - Actor Larry Hagman, who created one of U.S. TV’s most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of Dallas (1978-1991, 2012), died in Dallas. Hagman, who first gained stardom by playing astronaut Major Anthony ‘Tony’ Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, was the son of actress Mary Martin.
2014 - Britain’s One Direction won artist of the year at the American Music Awards. The band took two other honors (Favorite Album – Pop/Rock: Midnight Memories; and Favorite Band, Duo Or Group – Pop/Rock). Other winners included Iggy Azalea, Imagine Dragons, Luke Bryan, Sam Smith, Enrique Iglesias, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, John Legend and Beyoncé.
2015 - A U.S. federal appeals court panel ruled that a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital was unconstitutional.
2015 - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for calm ahead of the release of a “hideous” video that showed officer Jason Van Dyke firing 16 bullets into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke was charged the next day with first degree murder.
2016 - Movies opening in the U.S.included Allied, starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard and Jared Harris; Bad Santa 2, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates and Tony Cox; the animated Moana, featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Alan Tudyk and Nicole Scherzinger; and Rules Don’t Apply, with Haley Bennett, Alden Ehrenreich and Taissa Farmiga.
2016 - POTUS-elect Donald Trump chose South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was the first woman picked for a top-level administration post during the Trump White House transition. Trump chose charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education. Governor Haley had little foreign policy experience, yet Trump praised her as “a proven dealmaker.” DeVos, like Trump, was new to government but had spent decades working to change America’s system of public education. The president of the National Education Association, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, said that for years DeVos had “lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers’ expense.”
2017 - Australia warned against U.S. disengagement from Asia at a time of rising Chinese power. This, as Canberra outlined its approach to the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region in a 136-page document. “Navigating the decade ahead will be hard because, as China’s power grows, our region is changing in ways without precedent in Australia’s modern history. Without sustained U.S. support, the effectiveness and liberal character of the rules-based order will decline.”
2017 - France-based Interpol reported that 40 suspected human traffickers had been arrested and some 500 of their victims freed in a vast police operation in five African countries. The operation was carried out in Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal and 236 of those rescued were children.
2018 - Berlin prosecutors said 95-year-old Hans Werner H. (his last name wasn’t released because of privacy regulations) had been charged with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder. He was alleged to have served as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp from 1944 to 1945.
2018 - The 170 member states of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions chose Japan’s Osaka to host the 2025 World Expo. Osaka beat out cities in Russia and Azerbaijan for the event expected to draw millions of visitors.
2018 - Workers walked off the job at Amazon distribution centers in Rheinberg and Bad Hersfeld, Germany on this Black Friday -- as part of a years-long push for higher pay. In Spain Labor groups representing workers at Amazon said that around 90 percent of workers at a logistics depot near Madrid had joined a walkout.
2019 - V.P. Mike Pence visited Iraq to reassure Iraqi Kurds of U.S. support. It was a puzzling effort by Pence, since POTUS Donald Trump had recently withdrawn troops from northern Syria, betraying U.S. Kurdish allies there.
2019 - Pope Francis (82) arrived in Japan, the second leg of a week-long Asian trip. The Pope hoped to bring an anti-nuclear message to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the cities that suffered the U.S. atomic bombings that ended World War II.
2020 - Some 100 former Republican national security officials demanded that party leaders denounce POTUS Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election. They called Trump’s game a dangerous and anti-democratic assault on U.S. institutions.
2020 - New York state was set to reopen an emergency facility on Staten Island, where hospital capacity was strained. New York City will be in “dire, dire shape” without federal aid, its mayor said. And in neighboring New Jersey, the number of patients in intensive care jumped 13% in one day.
2021 - A federal jury in Cleveland found that three of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains -- CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens -- had substantially contributed to the crisis of opioid overdoses and deaths in two Ohio counties.
2021 - The White House said the U.S. was releasing 50 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help cool oil prices. This, while India said it would release 5 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves in coordination with other buyers including the United States, China, Japan and South Korea.
2022 - Movies scheduled to debut in U.S. theatres this day included: Devotion, starring Glen Powell, Jonathan Majors and Serinda Swan; Strange World, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Dennis Quaid and Lucy Liu; Bones and All, with Kendle Coffey, Taylor Russell and André Holland; and The Fabelmans, starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen.
2022 - Russia stepped up its airstrike campaign against Ukraine, with widespread power blackouts across the country and into Moldova. 80% of Kyiv, Ukraine was without power or water.
2022 - London drivers were being given a record 30,000 parking tickets a day. The Daily Mail said that “shocking figures” revealed ruthless private companies issued 2.7 million tickets to drivers between April and June – or one every three seconds. Ministers had “caved in” after parking firms launched a judicial review of plans to protect drivers, which included cutting the maximum fines from £100 to £50. Jack Cousens, head of roads policy for the AA (Automobile Association), said: “Private parking companies are acting like pirates.”
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Birthdays on This Day November 23
1804 - Franklin Pierce
14th U.S. President [1853-1857]; married to Jane Appleton [three sons]; nickname: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills; died Oct 8, 18691859 - Billy the Kid (William Bonney or Henry McCarty)
outlaw: killed 21 men; last words: “Quien es? Quien es? (Who is it? Who is it?)” Bang. Bang. You’re dead.: killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner NM July 15, 18811883 - Oswald Tower
Basketball Hall of Famer: member of the National Basketball Rules Committee for 50 years; editor of the Official Basketball Guide; official rules interpreter; died May 28, 19681887 - Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)
actor: Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die Monster, Die!, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Mummy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Body Snatcher, Mystery Playhouse Starring Boris Karloff, host: Thriller; narrator: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; panelist: Down You Go; died Feb 2, 19691888 - Harpo (Adolph) Marx
comedian, musician: harp, piano; actor: silent member of the Marx Brothers comedy team: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, A Night at the Opera, Go West, At the Circus; actor: Silent Panic; died Sep 28, 19641902 - Victor Jory
actor: Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Miracle Worker, Papillon, Charlie Chan in Rio, Manhunt, Kings Row; died Feb 12, 19821912 - George O’Hanlon
actor: Trenchcoat in Paradise, Getting Wasted, Rocky, Schlock, Octavius and Me, Bop Girl Goes Calypso, Battle Stations; died Feb 11, 19891913 - Maurice Zolotow
author: Billy Wilder in Hollywood; died Mar 14, 19911915 - John Dehner
actor: Jagged Edge, Airplane II: The Sequel, Greatest Heroes of the Bible, Fun With Dick and Jane, How the West Was Won, War and Remembrance; he appeared in more than 250 films; died Feb 4, 19921915 - Ellen Drew
actress: Hollywood Boulevard, China Sky, Christmas in July, Dark Mountain; died Dec 3, 20031917 - John Newland
actor: The Gold Diggers, Homicide for Three, Sons of Adventure, 13 Lead Soldiers, The Challenge, Silver Glory, Police Woman; died Jan 10, 20001925 - Johnny Mandel
composer: M*A*S*H theme; worked with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O’Day, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Horn; died Jun 29, 20201927 - Sybil Jason (Jacobs)
actress: The Blue Bird, The Little Princess; died Aug 23, 20111928 - Jerry Bock
composer: Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, Mr. Wonderful; died Nov 3, 20101931 - Gloria Lynne
singer: I Wish You Love, June Night, Love I Found You, I’m Glad There Is You, (You don't have to be a) Tower of Strength; died Oct 15, 20131933 - Krzysztof Penderecki
Grammy Award-winning composer: Devils of Loudan; died Mar 29, 20201934 - Lew Hoad
tennis: Australia and French Open Champion [1956], Wimbledon Champion [1956-1957]; died July 3, 19941934 - Robert Towne
Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Chinatown [1975]; Shampoo, Reds, The Two Jakes, Days of Thunder, The Firm, Love Affair, Crimson Tide, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II1934 - Michael Wayne
producer: McLintock!, The Green Berets, Chisum, Big Jake, Cahill: United States Marshal, Brannigan; son of actor John Wayne; died Apr 2, 20031936 - Steve Landesberg
actor: Barney Miller, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Dean Martin Presents, Sodbusters, Leader of the Band, Final Notice, Blade, Conrad Bloom; died Dec 20, 20101939 - Betty Everett
singer: Shoop Shoop Song [It’s in His Kiss], There’ll Come a Time, You’re No Good, I Can’t Hear You; died Aug 19, 20011940 - Luis (Clemente Vega) Tiant
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1968], Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1974, 1976/World Series: 1975], NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels1941 - Franco Nero
actor: Letters to Juliet, Die Hard 2, Rasputin, Force 10 from Navarone, The Versace Murder, Megiddo: The Omega Code 21942 - Susan Anspach
actress: Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, The Yellow Rose, The Slap Maxwell Story; died Apr 2, 20181950 - Chuck Schumer (Charles Ellis Schumer)
politician: Democratic U.S. Senator from New York [1999- ]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [1981-1999], represented New York’s 16th congressional district, later redistricted to 10th congressional district in 1983, then to the 9th congressional district in 19931951 - David Rappaport
actor: L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries; died May 2, 19901952 - Steve Riley
football: Minnesota Vikings tackle: Super Bowl IX, XI1954 - Bruce Hornsby
musician: piano, singer: group: The Range: The Way It Is1957 - Andrew Toney
basketball: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Philadelphia 76ers1959 - Maxwell Caulfield
actor: The Colbys, Sundown, The Supernaturals, Alien Intruder, Grease 2, Mind Games1960 - Robin Roberts
journalist: Good Morning America; sportscaster: ESPN SportsCenter1963 - Kevin Chamberlin
actor: Broadway: Dirty Blonde, Seussical, The Addams Family; films/TV: Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lucky Number Slevin, Heroes, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Jessie1964 - Steve Alford
basketball: Indiana Univ. [capt. of 1987 NCAA national championship team]; Manchester, Southwest Missouri State Univ. head coach1966 - Vincent Cassel
actor: Black Swan, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen, Our Day Will Come, Irréversible, Brotherhood of the Wolf, A Dangerous Method1966 - Michelle Gomez
actress: The Book Group, Green Wing, Bad Education, Doctor Who, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Flight Attendant1967 - Salli Richardson-Whitfield
actress: Eureka, I Spy Returns, Prelude to a Kiss, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Rude Awakening, Family Law1969 - Dave McCarty
baseball: Stanford Univ; Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics1970 - Oded Fehr
Israeli actor: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Killer Net series, The Knock series, Presidio Med series1971 - Vin Baker
basketball [forward, center]: Univ of Hartford; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Houston Rockets1971 - Chris Hardwick
actor: House of 1000 Corpses, Halloween II, The Life Coach, Johnson Family Vacation, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Jack and Diane, Art House1974 - Malik Rose
basketball [forward]: NBA: Charlotte Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, New York Knicks1974 - Jamie Sharper
football [linebacker]: Univ of Virgina; NFL: Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks1975 - Tony Parrish
football [safety]: University of Washington; NFL: Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers1977 - Adam Eaton
baseball [pitcher]: San Diego Padres [2000–2005]; Texas Rangers [2006]; Philadelphia Phillies [2007–2008]; Baltimore Orioles [2009]; Colorado Rockies [2009]1984 - Lucas Grabeel
actor: High School Musical film series, Switched at Birth, Halloweentown High, Return to Halloweentown, Sheriff Callie’s Wild West1984 - Justin Turner
baseball [3rd base]: Baltimore Orioles [2009–2010]; New York Mets [2010–2013]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2014– ]: 2017, 2018 World Series; 2020 World Series champs1992 - Miley Cyrus
actress: Hannah Montana; songwriter, singer: Who Said, Best of Both Worlds, True Friend1996 - Lia Marie Johnson
actress: Counterpunch, Finding Cody, MyMusic, OMGtv!! LIVE, The Unit, Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!
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South America, Take It Away (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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