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1824 - The republic of Mexico was proclaimed and the constitution of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos was published. The constitution called the election of a president and vice president to four-year terms.1830 - Belgium formed itself into an independent state, having been part of the Netherlands since 1815. One year after independence, Belgium became a constitutional monarchy. In 1977 the country was divided into 3 regions: Flanders (the Dutch-speaking region in the north), Wallonia (the French- speaking region in the south) and Brussels, the capital region, which is predominantly Francophone.
1854 - Honest Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
1881 - The player piano was invented by Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England, who received a U.S. patent for it this day. There were many player piano inventions going on throughout the world during this time. This first completely automatic piano player (manufactured in the U.S.) was called the "Angelus", which was patented by Leveaux, in England in 1879. He was issued a U.S. patent on this day for an “apparatus for storing and transmitting motive power.”
1931 - “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” Gumshoe Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror. A week later, The New York Daily News and hundreds of others picked up the Chester Gould comic strip.
1933 - Esquire magazine was published for the first time. Considered racy for its time, it pales in comparison to today’s choices of reading material. Esquire can now be described as sophisticated.
1939 - A barber from Canonsburg (near Pittsburgh), PA, who had quite a singing voice, recorded That Old Gang of Mine with the Ted Weems Orchestra. That singer was the feature of the Weems band for many years before going solo as a radio, TV and stage star. You know him as ‘The Incomparable Mr. C.’, Perry Como. His string of hits for RCA Victor spans four decades. He was an NBC mainstay for years and years.
1943 - Is You is or is You Ain’t My Baby? was the musical question by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five on this day -- on Decca Records.
1948 - Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The Railroad Hour debuted on ABC radio. The theme song was I’ve Been Working on the Railroad and the show was sponsored by -- get ready -- America’s Railroads.
1953 - I Led Three Lives was first seen in syndication (it was never on a TV network) this day. Richard Carlson starring as Herbert Philbrick.
1954 - Comedienne Spring Byington began the successful network TV series, December Bride -- on CBS. The show had started on radio in 1952 before making the switch to black and white TV.
1957 - The first Earth satellite was launched into space this day by the Soviet Union. The craft circled the earth every 95 minutes at almost 2,000 miles per hour. Sputnik I fell from the sky on January 4, 1958.
1957 - Leave It to Beaver premiered on CBS-TV. “...And starring Jerry Mathers as the Beaver,” Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver), Tony Dow (Wally), and Barbara Billingsley as Mrs. June Cleaver. The Cleavers lived a surreal-American life. June even did the housework in three strands of pearls, fashion plate dresses, makeup and high heels. Life was so grand!
1958 - The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corporation with flights between London and New York.
1959 - The first World Series game to be played west of St. Louis began. Game three of the series was played this day in Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA (L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago White Sox 1).
1963 - Hurricane Flora killed an estimated 6,000 people in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 - Pope Paul VI arrived in New York City and celebrated mass before a crowd in excess of 80,000 at Yankee Stadium. During his packed one-day U.S. visit, limited entirely to New York City, the Pope also visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral, met with President Lyndon B. Johnson, and addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations. It was the first visit to North America by any Pope.
1966 - It was, indeed, a Sunny day for singer Bobby Hebb, who received a shiny gold record award for his song.
1970 - Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose. She was 27. Joplin, known for her passionate, bluesy, vocal style, was the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. She became a superstar with hits like, Down on Me, Pearl (her nickname) and Every Little Piece of My Heart; but Me and Bobby McGee was her only certified top 40 hit. The Bette Midler movie, The Rose, was based on Joplin’s life.
1976 - TV audiences watched as Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News for the first time. Walters made the switch with a million-dollar paycheck, becoming the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast.
1978 - Tammy Wynette, popular country music singer, was abducted, roughed up and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper. The man, wearing a ski mask, held a gun on Wynette and forced her to drive 90 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. She was later released and the kidnapper escaped.
1981 - Olympic star Bruce Jenner added the title of actor to his resume. He joined singer Harry Belafonte in their first dramatic roles on NBC-TV’s Grambling’s White Tiger. The story line involved Jenner as an object of reverse discrimination upon his enrollment at the famous all-black southern college.
1984 - “There it goes! It could be, it might be, it’s...” A sad day for long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans. Chicago lost to the Padres 7-1 in the National League Championship Series.
1986 - Dan Rather, of The CBS Evening News, was mugged in New York City. Some ten years later, Rather’s attacker was identifed as William Tager, who fatally shot an NBC technician outside of the Today show studios in 1994.
1990 - The FOX network launched one of its most successful shows: Beverly Hills 90210. The original cast starred Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, James Eckhouse, and Carol Potter.
1991 - Leonard C. Odell died at 83 years of age. Odell, along with his brother, Allan, wrote 600 Burma-Shave rhymes, which appeared in 7,000 locations from 1926-1963.
1992 - Miami Dolphins’ safety Louis Oliver grabbed three interceptions from the Buffalo Bills and returned one for a 103-yard touchdown. At the time, that return tied for the NFL’s all-time longest interception return with a 103-yard return by San Diego’s Vencie Glenn against Denver on November 29, 1987.
1993 - U.S. troops blasted their way out of Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia and left an estimated 500 Somalis dead. Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets; and U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered more American troops to Somalia.
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela was welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - That Thing You Do! was released by 20th Century Fox. The movie marked the directorial debut of Tom Hanks and starred Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Jonathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Rita Wilson, Chris Isaak, Kevin Pollak, Peter Scolari, Charlize Theron, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Ellis, and Bill Cobbs. The story revolves around a rock & roll band trying to hit it big in the wake of the British Invasion in early 1964. That Thing You Do! brought in a decent $25,513,987 in the U.S.
1996 - Also opening in U.S. theatres: Bound, with Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano and John Ryan; The Glimmer Man, starring Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, Michelle Johnson, John Jackson and Stephen Tobolowsky; and D3: Mighty Ducks III, with Emilio Estevez, Jeffrey Nordling, David Selby, Heidi Kling, Joss Ackland and Joshua Jackson.
1997 - 4 Seasons of Loneliness, by Boyz II Men, was the #1 single in the U.S. The song, from their Evolution album, was number one for one week.
1999 - An Illinois jury ordered State Farm to pay $456 million to 4.7 million policy holders in a lawsuit accusing the car insurer of using inferior parts for auto body repairs. A few days later, the court ruled that State Farm had indeed committed fraud, and awarded the plaintiffs an additional $130 million in compensatory damages and $600 million in punitive damages.
2001 - A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally shot down by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea. All 77 people on board were killed.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb’s major-league record.
2002 - Films opening in the U.S.: Heaven, starring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Stefania Rocca, Mattia Sbragia, Stefano Santospago and Alberto Di Stasio; Jonah - A VeggieTales Movie, featuring the voices of Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, Tim Hodge, Lisa Vischer, Kristin Blegen and Dan Anderson; Red Dragon, starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary Louise-Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Heald, Frankie Faison and Tyler Patrick Jones; and Welcome to Collinwood, starring William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzman and Patricia Clarkson.
2002 - Richard Reid pled guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes and declared himself a follower of Osama bin Laden. We can all thank Richard each time we are asked to remove our shoes as we traipse through airport security...
2004 - Gordon Cooper (b.1927), U.S. astronaut in the Mercury program, died in Ventura, CA. He piloted Faith 7 around Earth on May 15-16, 1963.
2004 - Americans Dr. Richard Axel (58) of Columbia University and Linda Buck (57) of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their 1991 discovery of how people recognize odors.
2005 - Some one million French transportation workers and teachers staged a nationwide strike in opposition to the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s economic and labor policies. The strike caused massive disruptions to transport, schools and industry across France.
2006 - Roger D. Kornberg, whose father, Arthur Kornberg, won a Nobel Prize in 1959, was awarded the prize in chemistry for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.
2007 - The U.S. recording industry won a battle in its effort to stop illegal music downloading when a U.S. jury imposed $222,000 in damages against a Minnesota woman who used a Web service to share music.
2008 - The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy met in Paris at a summit on the world financial crisis threatening banks, growth and jobs across the continent. The European Union leaders vowed to do all they could to prevent Wall Street’s turmoil from destabilizing their banking systems.
2010 - British biologist Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Edwards’ contributions to the technology of in vitro fertilization had made more than 4 million couples parents.
2011 - Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics. The three -- on competing teams -- overturned a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating. During the 1990s, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess found that the light from more than 50 distant exploding stars was far weaker than they expected, meaning that galaxies had to be racing away from each other at increasing speed.
2012 - A federal strike force charged 91 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals across the U.S. with submitting false bills totaling nearly $430 billion.
2012 - Israeli authorities indicted Milad Khatib, an Arab citizen of Israel, on charges of spying for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Khatib was charged with gathering intelligence on security for Israel’s president and on army installations. (In April 2013 he was sentenced to seven years in prison.)
2013 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Eric Michels and Basher Savage; Runner Runner, starring Ben Affleck, Gemma Arterton, Justin Timberlake, Anthony Mackie, David Costabile, Diana Laura, Bob Gunton, Ben Schwartz, Oliver Cooper and Jeannine Kaspar; A.C.O.D., with Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clark Duke, Ken Howard, Valerie Tian and Sarah Burns; All Is Bright, starring Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker, Tatyana Richaud, Michael Drayer, Colman Domingo, Halley Feiffer and Nikki M. James; Five Dances, with Kimiye Corwin, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller, Luke Murphy, Ryan Steele and LuLu Roche; Grace Unplugged, starring AJ Michalka, James Denton, Kevin Pollak, Shawnee Smith and Michael Welch; Parkland, starring Zac Efron, Tom Welling, James Badge Dale, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Duplass, Paul Giamatti, Ron Livingston and Marcia Gay Harden; and Vikingdom, with Dominic Purcell, Natassia Malthe, Craig Fairbrass, Jon Foo, Conan Stevens, Jesse Moss and Tegan Moss.
2014 - Ireland held a nationwide referendum to abolish the country’s Senate. Proponents said the upper house wielded no essential powers and its closure could save taxpayers €20 million ($27 million) annually. Voters rejected the referendum with a 51.7% ‘no’ vote.
2014 - Paul Revere, organist and leader of Paul Revere and the Raiders rock band, died at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was 76 years old. The group’s hits included their version of Louie, Louie, Indian Reservation, Just Like Me, Kicks, Hungry, Good Thing and Him Or Me, What’s It Gonna Be.
2014 - General Motors issued a recall of 47,000 cars for the same ignition-key defect that had forced the earlier recall of some 2.6 million vehicles -- and was linked to at least 23 deaths.
2015 - Syrian activists said that Islamic State militants had destroyed the Arch of Triumph, a nearly 2,000-year-old arch in the ancient city of Palmyra. The militants were destroying and and all temples they considered to be sacrilegious.
2016 - Jack Utsick, a former concert promoter who staged hundreds of shows around the world by top acts such as the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees and Rod Stewart, was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for running the business as a $200 million fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga handed down the sentence for Utsick’s guilty plea to a mail fraud charge. The sentencing ended a decade-long investigation involving Worldwide Entertainment Inc., a Miami Beach concert promotion firm handling some of the world’s biggest acts that prosecutors say defrauded nearly 3,000 investors.
2016 - Indiana Governor Mike Pence and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine battled it out in the one and only Vice Presidential debate of the 2016 election campaign. The debate was staged at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. Both candidates made reasonable arguments backing their running mates’ platforms and suitability for office. But parts of their impassioned speeches were drowned out, as they kept speaking over each other and had to be admonished by moderator Elaine Quijano (CBS News), who struggled to keep them in line. (“Gentlemen, please. Senator Kaine, Governor Pence, please.”) The debate closed on a highly predictable note for both candidates. The final question: How will each of these presidential campaigns unite our very divided nation in the event of a victory? Kaine went straight for the campaign slogan: “Stronger together”, saying it would not just be the motto that took Clinton to the White House, but it would be the overarching plan for a presidency that would benefit all Americans, whether they voted for her or not. And Pence, who displayed a decidedly un-Trumpian measure of control throughout the night’s debate, ended with the promise of a “comeback” in strength and power, to make every citizen proud to be members of Team America.
2017 - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came under pressure after a report claimed he had branded POTUS Donald Trump “a moron” during a Pentagon meeting.
2017 - Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a way to create exquisitely detailed images of the molecules driving life. The prize was shared by Switzerland’s Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne, German-born U.S. citizen Joachim Frank at New York’s Columbia University and Briton Richard Henderson of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
2018 - A federal grand jury in Pennsylvania has indicted seven Russian military intelligence officers, accusing them of hacking into U.S. and international anti-doping agencies and sports federations and of accessing data related to 250 athletes from about 30 countries.
2018 - Britain and the Netherlands condemned the dastardly Russian GRU military intelligence unit for targeting the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons through a cyber attack. A joint statement from Prime Ministers Theresa May of the United Kingdom and Mark Rutte of the Netherlands said the alleged cyber attack “demonstrates the GRU’s disregard for the global values and rules that keep us all safe.”
2018 - A judge in southern California sentenced former rap mogul Marion ‘Suge’ Knight to 28 years in prison for running over -- and killing -- businessman Terry Carter outside a Compton burger stand in 2015.
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Robert De Niro and Jolie Chan; El Coyote, with Michael Saquella, Robert Costanzo and John Capodice; Cuck, starring Zachary Ray Sherman, Sally Kirkland and Timothy V. Murphy; Low Tide, with Jaeden Martell, Keean Johnson and Shea Whigham; Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm and Zazie Beetz; Pain & Glory, starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia and Leonardo Sbaraglia; Rogue Warfare, with Stephen Lang, Will Yun Lee and Chris Mulkey; and Sometimes Always Never, with Bill Nighy, Sam Riley and Alice Lowe.
2019 - Singer, actress, model, activist Diahann Carroll died in Los Angeles at 84 years of age. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. And she was the first black woman to star in a non-stereotypical role in a TV series. Julia aired from 1968-1971. In the 1980s, she played the role of Dominique Deveraux, a mixed-race diva, in the prime time soap opera Dynasty. Carroll’s films include Carmen Jones, Goodbye Again, Paris Blues, Hurry Sundown, The Split and Claudine. Carroll was also a founding member of the Celebrity Action Council, a volunteer group of celebrity women who served the women’s outreach of the Los Angeles Mission, working with women in rehabilitation from problems with alcohol, drugs and/or prostitution.
2019 - Microsoft reported that a hacker group linked to Iran had unleashed cyber-attacks on U.S. journalists, government officials and accounts associated with a U.S. presidential campaign. Only four accounts were compromised as a result of the “significant cyber activity of the threat group,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of computer security and trust, said. He did not identify which presidential candidate’s campaign was in the crosshairs of hackers, nor whose accounts were breached. Burt did say that Microsoft had notified those whose accounts were targeted, advising them to ramp up their online defenses.
2020 - Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
2020 - Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White House physician, acknowledged that Mr. Trump had a high fever and saw his oxygen drop on Oct 2. Conley acknowledged that he had provided a rosy version of events to please his notoriously sensitive patient. Trump made an unannounced exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the early evening, climbing into his armored Chevrolet Suburban to ride past supporters holding Trump flags gathered outside the building.
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the U.S. presidential race after Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, and a majority of Americans thought Trump could have avoided infection if he had taken the virus more seriously.
2020 - California set a grim new record when officials announced that the wildfires of 2020 had scorched a record 4 million acres — and the fire season was far from over. There had been 31 deaths and more than 8,400 buildings had been destroyed.
2021 - Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain was aiming to produce clean power by 2035 as part of the country’s goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions.
2021 - The two Koreas restored their hotlines -- the North had severed the links months earlier. Pyongyang urged Seoul to step up efforts to improve relations after criticizing what it called double standards over weapons development.
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Birthdays on This Day October 4
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President [1877-1881]; married to Lucy Webb [seven sons, one daughter]; nickname: Dark-Horse President; died Jan 17, 18931861 - Frederic Remington
artist: captured the American West on his canvases; died Dec 26, 19091862 - Edward L. Stratemeyer
author: used over 60 different names to pen over 800 books: Laura Lee Hope: The Bobbsey Twins; Arthur Winfield: The Rover Boys, Tom Swift; The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew series; died May 10, 19301884 - (Alfred) Damon Runyon
journalist; script writer: The Lemon Drop Kid, Little Miss Marker, Sorrowful Jones, Guys and Dolls, Pocketful of Miracles; died Dec 10, 19461895 - Buster (Joseph Frank) Keaton (VI)
actor: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hollywood Clowns, Man in the Silk Hat, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, When Comedy was King, Sunset Boulevard, God’s Country, Doughboys, The Saphead; grandfather of actor Michael Keaton; died Feb 1, 1966; more1904 - Philip Van Zandt
actor [over 200 films]: Fifi Blows Her Top, The Crooked Circle, Hot Stuff, So You Want to Be a Vice-President, Scotched in Scotland, Playgirl, Frankenstein, The Big Clock, Cyrano de Bergerac, Superman in Exile, The Pride and the Passion, Man of a Thousand Faces; died Feb 15, 19581910 - Frankie (Frank Peter Joseph) Crosetti
‘Crow’: baseball: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939, 1942, 1943/all-star: 1936, 1939]; died Feb 11, 20021917 - Jan Murray (Murry Janofsky)
TV host: Dollar a Second, Treasure Hunt, Songs for Sale, Sing It Again, Go Lucky, Blind Date; comedian: Jan Murray Time; died July 2, 20061923 - Charlton Heston (John Charlton Carter)
Academy Award-winning actor: Ben-Hur [1959]; In the Mouth of Madness, A Thousand Heroes, Tombstone, El Cid, Earthquake, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Khartoum, Airport ’75, Midway, Omega Man, Antony & Cleopatra, True Lies; president: National Rifle Association [NRA]; died Apr 5, 20081927 - Rip (Eldon John) Repulski
baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1956], Philadelphia Phillies, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959], Boston Red Sox; died Feb 10, 19931928 - Alvin Toffler
author: Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave; died Jun 27, 20161929 - Leroy Van Dyke
singer: Walk on By, Auctioneer, If a Woman Answers; film: What am I Bid?1932 - Felicia Farr
actress: Charley Varrick, Kotch, Kiss Me Stupid1934 - Sam Huff
Pro Football Hall of Famer: New York Giants middle linebacker: All Pro 1958, 1959; Washington Redskins; subject of TV special: The Violent World of Sam Huff; died Nov 13, 20211935 - Jimmy Orr
football: Baltimore Colts wide receiver: Super Bowl III, V; died Oct 27, 20201937 - Jackie Collins
author: Hollywood Wives, Hollywood Husbands, Rockstar, Lady Boss, American Star; actress: Barnacle Bill, The Safecracker, Passport to Shame, Jackie’s Back!; sister of actress Joan Collins; died Sep 19, 20151941 - Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice)
author: Interview with a Vampire1941 - Lori Saunders (Hines)
actress: Petticoat Junction, Dusty’s Trail1941 - Jerrel Wilson
football: Kansas City Chiefs punter: Super Bowl I, IV; died Apr 9, 20051942 - Christopher Stone
actor: The Howling, Cujo, The New Lassie, The Interns, Three for the Road, Spencer’s Pilots, Legend of the White Horse, Runaway Daughters, The Bionic Woman; died Oct 20, 19951944 - Tony La Russa
Baseball Hall of Famer: Kansas City/Oakland Athletics [1963/1968–1971]; Atlanta Braves [1971] Chicago Cubs [1973]; manager: Chicago White Sox [1979–1986]; Oakland Athletics [1986–1995]: 1989 World Series champs; St. Louis Cardinals [1996–2011]: 2006, 2011 World Series champs1945 - Clifton Davis
actor: That’s My Mama, Amen, Love, American Style, The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, Dream Date, Don’t Look Back: The Story of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige; songwriter: Never Can Say Goodbye, Lookin’ Through the Windows1946 - Chuck Hagel
Republican U.S. Senator: Nebraska [1997-2009]; 24th U.S. Secretary of Defense [2013–2015]1946 - Susan Sarandon (Tomaling)
Academy Award-winning actress: Dead Man Walking [1995]; Little Women, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham, The Client, Search for Tomorrow, The Company You Keep1947 - Jim Fielder
musician: bass: groups: Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears: Spinning Wheel, You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, And When I Die1947 - Jim McFarland
football: Univ. of Nebraska [All Big 8/All-American: 1968, 1969], SL Cardinals, Miami Dolphins; attorney; Nebraska State Senator1948 - Cedrick Hardman
football: Oakland Raiders defensive end: Super Bowl XV1949 - Mike Adamle
football: Northwestern Univ. [All-America fullback/Big Ten MVP: 1970], KC Chiefs, NY Jets, Chicago Bears; sports anchor/host: WLS-TV, Chicago, NBC Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN1949 - Armand Assante
actor: Mambo Kings, Hoffa, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Blind Justice, Fatal Instinct, Trial by Jury, Private Benjamin, Jack the Ripper, The Lords of Flatbush1949 - Brynn Thayer
actress: One Life to Live, Island Son, Matlock, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Hero and the Terror, Moonlighting, Murder, She Wrote, 7th Heaven, Diagnosis: Murder, JAG, Cold Case, Without a Trace, How to Get Away with Murder, General Hospital1950 - Ed (Edward Louis) Halicki
baseball: SF Giants, California Angels1950 - Alan Rosenberg
actor: The Last Temptation of Christ, The Preppie Murder, L.A. Law, Witch Hunt, Cybill, Chicago Hope, The Guardian1956 - Sherri Turner
golf champ: LPGA Championship [1988]1956 - Christoph Waltz
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Django Unchained [2013], Inglourious Basterds [2010]; The Green Hornet, Water for Elephants, The Three Musketeers, Carnage1957 - Bill Fagerbakke
voice actor: SpongeBob SquarePants; actor: Coach, Funny Farm, The Stand, Oz, Heroes, Shrieking Violet, Halloween II1959 - Chris Lowe
musician: keyboards: group: Pet Shop Boys: LP: What Have I Done to Deserve This1962 - Dennis Cook
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Anaheim Angels1967 - Liev Schreiber
actor: Jakob the Liar, Buffalo Girls, The Sunshine Boys, Ransom, Scream series, Sphere, The Hurricane, Hamlet, Ray Donovan1969 - Abraham Benrubi
actor: Open Range, A Touch of Hope, Tempting Fate, George of the Jungle, Twister, Wagons East, The Program1970 - Brian Kozlowski
football [tight end]: Univ of Conneticut; NFL: New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals1970 - Ryan McNeil
football [cornerback]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos1971 - Tammi Ann (Fallon)
actress: X-rated films: Superstar Sex Challenge, Stripper Nurses, Nasty Girls 7, Bad Girls III: Cell Block 69, Adventures of Mr. Tootsie Pole 21972 - Kurt Thomas
basketball [forward, center]: Texas Christian Univ; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns, Seattle SuperSonics1976 - Alicia Silverstone
actress: Clueless, The Babysitter, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook
actress: American Crime, Bookies, Tangled, Texas Rangers, Josie and the Pussycats, AntiTrust, Get Carter1980 - Jimmy Workman
actor: The Addams Family, Addams Family Values1981 - Daniel Lissing
actor: Home and Away, Crownies, Entwined, Last Resort, The Cure, When Calls the Heart, A December Bride, Christmas in Love1985 - Zhang Dan
figure skater [China]; her partner was pairs figure skater Hao Zhang1988 - Melissa Benoist
actress: Glee, Supergirl, Homeland, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Whiplash, Danny Collins1988 - Derrick Rose
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Chicago Bulls [NBA Rookie of the Year (2009), NBA Most Valuable Player (2011)]1989 - Dakota Johnson
actress: 21 Jump Street, Goats, The Five-Year Engagement, Fifty Shades film series, Black Mass, A Bigger Splash, How to Be Single, Suspiria, Bad Times at the El Royale, Wounds, The Peanut Butter Falcon; daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith1989 - Kimmie Meissner
U.S. figure skater: 2006 World Champion, 2007 U.S. National Champion, 2007 Four Continents Champion; first American and the first lady to simultaneously hold the World, Four Continents and National titles1996 - Ella Balinska
actress: The Athena, Charlie’s Angels [2019], Run Sweetheart Run, Resident Evil [Netflix TV series], The Occupant
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Hit Music on This Day October 4
1950Goodnight Irene (facts) - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose (facts) - Tony Martin
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