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1542 - Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island, off Los Angeles, California.1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, New York. Founder Ezra Cornell gave a brief address, concluding with the University's newly adopted motto, “Finally, I trust we have laid the foundation of an University--an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
1916 - Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets beat helpless Cumberland College 222-0! Coach John Heisman (of Heisman Trophy fame) led the Golden Tornado, as his Georgia Tech team was nicknamed, into the history books. They carried the ball for 978 yards and never once threw a pass!
1940 - Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate’s husband, was played by eventual Beat the Clock host Clayton ‘Bud’ Collyer. The 15-minute radio drama was written by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award-winning actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s & 1950s). The announcer for the four-year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell House of coffee fame.
1940 - Portia Faces Life debuted on the CBS network. This radio soap opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and a widow with a young son. And we thought this concept was unique to TV nighttime soaps now... Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and therefore, had many sponsors -- none of which were soap. The sponsors included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal, Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.
1940 - Artie Shaw’s orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael’s standard, Star Dust -- for Victor Records.
1943 - Some 100 U.S. prisoners of war left behind on Wake Island were executed by the Japanese.
1943 - Mary Martin took the lead in One Touch of Venus, opening this day at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. Marlene Dietrich had backed out of the title role during rehearsals, calling the show “too sexy and profane,” but Martin did not seem to mind. One Touch of Venus closed on Feb 10, 1945 after 567 performances.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was proclaimed. Wilhelm Pieck was president and Otto Grotewohl was prime minister.
1950 - The Frank Sinatra Show debuted. It was the crooner’s first plunge into TV, the beginning of a $250,000 per year, five-year contract. Ben Blue, The Blue Family, the Whippoorwills and Axel Stordahl’s orchestra were regulars on the show.
1954 - IBM displayed the first all-transistor calculator.
1959 - World-famous tenor Mario Lanza died. He was 38 years old. Lanza went from listening to Enrico Caruso 78s in his parents’ South Philadelphia row house to playing Caruso in the 1951 feature film, "The Great Caruso". In the late 1940s and 1950s, Lanza became one of America’s most popular operatic tenors. Numerous annual Lanza music festivals are still held, most prominently at the Mario Lanza Museum in Phildelphia.
1963 - Deadly Hurricane Flora hit Haiti & Dominican Republic and Cuba. The storm killed between seven and eight thousand people.
1966 - Ian Fleming was pictured on the cover of LIFE magazine. Fleming was the author of the James Bond novels.
1969 - Put on your headband, love beads, surfer’s cross and give the peace sign. It was on this day that The Youngbloods hit, Get Together, passed the million-selling mark to achieve gold record status. And just try to get into those bell bottom hiphuggers...
1975 - The U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s order to deport Beatle John Lennon. The INS had officially denied John the right to live in America because of his 1968 marijuana conviction in London, but the Court of Appeals determined that under U.S. law Lennon’s guilty plea to possession of one ounce of cannabis resin couldn’t be used as grounds to prevent him from obtaining permanent residency, and therefore he had been prosecuted unjustly. The court called “Lennon’s four-year battle to remain in our country ... a testimony to his faith in this American dream.”
1981 - The Egyptian parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to be president of Egypt, following the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - Cats opened on Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical is probably most memorable for its song, Memory. On June 19, 1997, Cats became the longest-running musical in Broadway history after 6,138 performances. The show won eight 1983 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It closed on Sep 10, 2000, after a total of 7,485 performances. (Its Broadway record was surpassed on Jan 9, 2006 by The Phantom of the Opera.)
1985 - Terrorists hijacked an Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel. Of the four hundred people on board, only Leon Klinghoffer, wheelchairbound, was shot to death; an example that the four Palestinian gunmen meant business. They surrendered two days later to the Egyptians who promised them free passage out of their country. When Klinghoffer’s body was returned to his native New York City, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that Leon Klinghoffer died “because he was an American, because he was a Jew and because he was a free man.”
1989 - Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest.
1991 - University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments in her presence when she worked for him, and urged the U.S. Senate to investigate her claims. Thomas denied Hill’s allegations.
1991 - Baseball Hall of Famer Leo Durocher died at 86 years of age. Durocher played for the New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers. He managed the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros.
1993 - Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. She was the first black woman to received the award and one of America’s most significant novelists of the twentieth century. She is the Author of six major Novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 and Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
1995 - A crowd of some 125,000 people were sitting or standing in Central Park to see Pope John Paul II. The pontiff’s message at the outdoor mass was geared to the role of young people in the church and the world. “You young people will live most of your lives in the next century,” he said. “You must help the holy spirit to shape the social, moral and spiritual character.”
1995 - Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill album made it to number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The album, in its fifteenth week on the chart, featured these tracks: All I Really Want, You Oughta Know, Perfect, Hand in My Pocket, Right Through You, Forgiven, You Learn, Head Over Feet, Mary Jane, Ironic, Not the Doctor, Wake Up. Jagged Little Pill was #1 for two weeks.
1996 - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Australian Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel from Switzerland for their work on how the immune system recognizes infected cells.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit alleging that Visa and MasterCard were inhibiting competition by preventing banks from offering other credit cards. A federal court later ruled that Visa and MasterCard must allow member banks to issue other credit cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corporation resolved one of the biggest product liability cases ever by agreeing to pay up to $3.75 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
2000 - Vojislav Koštunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia’s first popularly elected president, bringing to a close the turbulent era of Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - Washington Post cartoonist Herbert L. Block died at age 91. He authored Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life in 1993.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major-league record.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. This was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on Sep 11, 2001.
2002 - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston of Great Britain and H. Robert Horvitz of the U.S. for making progress in the study of human genes and how they regulate organ development and cell death.
2003 - Actor Randy Quaid received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2003 - Israel ‘Izzy’ Asper, the colorful, controversial, jazz-loving founder of Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, died. He was 71 years old. Asper created CanWest Capital, Western Canada’s first merchant bank and founded television station CKND.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California after the state’s voters removed Gray Davis from that office just eleven months into his second term.
2004 - Austria’s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novels and plays depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe. Her books included The Piano Teacher (1988), which was adopted for a 2001 film.
2005 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: The Gospel, starring Clifton Powell, Yolanda Adams, Dwayne Boyd, Idris Elba, Frank Taylor, Nona Gaye, Omar Gooding, Tamyra Gray, Fred Hammond, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Boris Kodjoe, Donnie McClurkin, Martha Munizzi, Michael J. Pagan, John Fitzgerald Page, Brandon Thaxton, Hezekiah Walker, Delores Winans, Aloma Wright; In Her Shoes, with Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith, Francine Beers, Richard Burgi, Norman Lloyd, Eric Balfour, Andy Powers, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Anson Mount, Nicole Randall Johnson, Kateri DeMartino and Brandon Karrer; Two For the Money, starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven; and Waiting, with Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long, David Koechner, Kaitlin Doubleday, Alana Ubach, Vanessa Lengles, Chi McBride, Luis Guzmán, John Francis Daley, Robert Patrick Bennedict and Andy Milonakis.
2005 - The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, shared the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.
2006 - Opening ceremonies were held for the new $13 million American Civil War Center in Richmond, Virginia’s former Civil-War gun foundry.
2006 - The 146,000-square-foot expansion of the Denver (Colorado) Art Museum (the Frederic C. Hamilton Building) opened to the public. It was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind.
2007 - A Cessna 208 Grand Caravan crashed in the rugged Cascade Mountains after leaving Star, Idaho (near Boise) en route to Shelton, Washington (near Olympia). Nine skydivers and the pilot were killed.
2008 - The U.S. Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy massive amounts of short-term debt in an effort to break through the severe credit clog. The Fed began unsecured lending to companies for the first time in its history.
2008 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American had won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics. Yoichiro Nambu, now of the University of Chicago, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan won for work that helped show why the universe is made up mostly of matter and not anti-matter via changes known as broken symmetries.
2008 - Senators John McCain and Barack Obama debated for the second time Tom Brokaw of NBC, the moderator of the presidential debate, screened questions and chose some that had been submitted via the Internet.
2009 - The Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno documentary The Yes Men Fix the World opened in U.S. theatres.
2009 - A Saudi court convicted Mazen Abdul-Jawad for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits. The court sentenced him to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes. The program, which aired July 15 on the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, was seen in Saudi Arabia and scandalized conservative viewers where such frank talk is rarely heard in public.
2009 - Egypt’s antiquities department severed its ties with France’s Louvre museum because it has refused to return what were described as stolen artifacts.
2010 - Russian Technologies chief Sergei Chemezov told reporters that Russia was refunding to Iran its down payments on a deal for advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles. Moscow halted the sale after tough United Nations sanctions.
2011 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: The Ides of March, starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei andJeffrey Wright; Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis and Dakota Goyo; Blackthorn, with Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea and Magaly Solier; The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, starring Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry, Gilbert Melki and Karel Roden; ... The Way, with Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen and James Nesbitt; and 1911, starring Jackie Chan , Bingbing Li, Winston Chao, Joan Chen and Jaycee Chan.
2011 - A computer virus infected networks used by pilots controlling U.S. Air Force drones in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. "Wired" magazine also reported that the spyware had resisted efforts to remove it from computers in the cockpits at Creech air force base in Nevada, where pilots remotely fly Predator and Reaper drones in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
2012 - The SpaceX CRS-1, the third flight for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, was launched carrying gear and supplies for the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule caught up with the Space Station on Oct 10 and successfully returned in a splashdown off the Baja California coast on Oct 28.
2013 - Residents in the Black Hills of South Dakota were navigating through a sloppy mess after warmer temperatures began melting record-setting snowfall, leaving standing water on plowed roads rather than making its way through drainage systems. The early storm had dropped some four feet of snow on parts of South Dakota and left over 22,000 homes and businesses without electricity. The storm also buried parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
2013 - A French oceanographic vessel rescued 29 Syrian refugees, part of a group of 360 asylum-seekers that had landed in Italy in the previous 24 hours. Some 30,000 migrants had landed in Italy in 2013 - more than four times the number in 2012.
2014 - A U.S. federal lawsuit accused Hammond, IN police of malice and reckless indifference when they smashed a car window and used a Taser on a passenger during a traffic stop. A cell-phone video was released showing Indiana police breaking the car window and then using a stun gun on a man in the car after police stopped the driver for not wearing a seat belt.
2014 - Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” Isamu Akasaki (85), Hiroshi Amano (54) and naturalized U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura (54) revolutionized lighting technology when they came up with a long-elusive component of the white LED lights.
2015 - Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned any further negotiations with the U.S. His ban directly contradict those of moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said his government is ready to hold talks with the U.S. on how to resolve the conflict in Syria.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Birth of a Nation, starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer and Mark Boone Junior; Friend Request, with Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley and Connor Paolo; The Girl on the Train, starring Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett and Rebecca Ferguson; Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, with Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Isabela Moner; The Alchemist Cookbook, with Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom and actor who calls himself Fiji; The Greasy Strangler, with Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo; and The Great Gilly Hopkins, starring Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates and, Glenn Close.
2016 - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize -- for trying to end Colombia’s five-decade long civil war with leftist rebels.
2016 - In a 2005 audio recording, obtained by The Washington Post, Donald Trump is heard talking with Billy Bush of Access Hollywood as he bragged about making advances on women. The two were headed to the set of the soap opera, Days of Our Lives, where Trump was making an appearance. At one point, speaking about women, he is heard saying, “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” Trump released a terse statement moments after the Post published the story. “This was locker-room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago,” said Trump. “I apologize if anyone was offended.”
2016 - The Rolling Stones played the first night of the Desert Trip festival, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The event also featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and the Who. The six-day (split over two weekends) event brought in $160 million, making it the highest-earning music festival to that time.
2017 - Thousands of Polish Catholics formed human chains on the country’s borders, begging God “to save Poland and the world.” The event was viewed as a spiritual weapon against the ‘Islamisation’ of Europe. Many Poles see Islam as a threat and the conservative government, which enjoys the backing of a sizable portion of the population, refuses to welcome migrants to Poland, which has very few Muslims of its own.
2018 - Some 1,000 dogs and their owners marched on Britain’s parliament demanding an end to Brexit by putting the the country’s exit from the European Union to a second vote of the people. From the tiniest terriers to a lumbering leonberger, the dogs led their owners to Westminster in an event called a ‘Wooferendum’.
2018 - Sara Netanyahu, wife of the Israeli prime minister, appeared in court in the fraud trial against her. She was charged with misusing state funds in ordering catered meals.
2019 - U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators launched a round of talks aimed at resolving the two nations’ 15-month trade war, with neither side showing any signs of giving ground. About 30 Chinese officials, led by Vice Finance Minister Liao Min, entered the U.S. Trade Representative’s office in Washington DC for two days of negotiations, to be followed by the first trade talks in more than two months.
2019 - U.S. House of Representatives Democrats issued subpoenas to the Pentagon and the White House budget office as part of their impeachment inquiry. Documents related to POTUS Trump’s decision to withhold military assistance for Ukraine were requested.
2019 - The FBI announced that Samuel Little (79), who had confessed to murdering more than 90 women, was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Little had been serving a triple life sentence (since 2014) for three murders, and was indicted for murdering multiple others.
2020 - V.P. Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris debated in Salt Lake City. Pence and Harris traded barbs through plexiglass shields in a debate dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Pence echoed many of Donald Trump’s falsehoods in this one and only 2020 V.P. election debate.
2020 - The Justice Department took control of 92 domains used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to pose as independent media outlets targeting audiences in the United States, Europe, Middle East and South East Asia.
2021 - After an 8-month investigation, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported on Donald Trump’s extraordinary efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department had been brought to the brink of chaos with top officials there -- and at the White House -- threatening to resign.
2021 - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created a group to focus solely on China and the national security challenges it poses, calling it the most important threat the United States faces.
2022 - Movies opening in the U.S. included Amsterdam, starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola and Andrea Riseborough; and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, with Javier Bardem, Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Brett Gelman and Winslow Fegley.
2022 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation, Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights organisation, Center for Civil Liberties. “The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy.”
2022 - An Arizona appeals court struck down the enforcement of a sweeping abortion ban that would have blocked the procedure with almost no exceptions. The decision granted an emergency stay that had been filed by Planned Parenthood, meaning that abortions up to 15 weeks could continue in the state.
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Birthdays on This Day October 7
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley
poet: When the Frost is on the Punkin’, Little Orphant Annie; died July 22, 19161888 - Henry Wallace
33rd Vice President of U.S. [1941-1945]; died Nov 18, 19651905 - Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz)
actor: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Flipper, Andy’s Gang, Whale of a Tale, Myra Breckinridge, How the West was Won, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; died Feb 18, 19771911 - ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones
musician: drums: the first to minimize use of bass drum, keeping time on top cymbal; piano, reeds, trumpet: played with Count Basie, Bennie Goodman sextet, led trio: LPs: The Essential Jo Jones, The Drums, The Main Man, Our Man Papa Jo; died Sep 3, 19851911 - Vaughn Monroe
bandleader, singer: Racing with the Moon, Riders in the Sky, There I Go, Rum and Coca Cola, There! I’ve Said It Again, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, Ballerina, They Were Doing the Mambo; actor: Meet the People, Carnegie Hall, Singing Guns; died May 21, 19731914 - Sarah Churchill
actress: Serious Charge, Richard II, All Over the Town, Who’s Your Lady Friend?; TV host: The Sarah Churchill Show; daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; died Sep 24, 19821914 - Alfred Drake (Capurro)
Tony Award-winning actor: Kismet [1954]; Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma; died July 25, 1992; more1917 - June Allyson (Ella Geisman)
actress: Best Foot Forward, The Glen Miller Story, Little Women, Strategic Air Command; TV host: The Dupont Show with June Allyson; wife of actor Dick Powell; died July 8, 20061917 - Helmut Dantine
actor: Casablanca, International Squadron, The Fifth Musketeer, The Wilby Conspiracy, Edge of Darkness, Mission to Moscow, Northern Pursuit, Passage to Marseille, The Mask of Dimitrios, Hotel Berlin, Call Me Madam, Watch on the Rhine; died May 2, 19821918 - Frankie (Conrad) Baumholtz
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies; died Dec 14, 19971922 - Grady (Edgebert) Hatton
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1952], Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs; died Apr 11, 20131922 - Martha Stewart (Haworth)
singer; actress: Those Two, Holocaust; died Feb 17, 20211926 - Alex Groza
basketball: Univ of Kentucky; USA Men’s Basketball Olympic basketball team [1948]; Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 1948, 1949; Indiana Pacers; banned by NBA for accepting bribes at Univ. of Kentucky; brother of football Hall of Famer Lou Groza; died Jan 21, 19951926 - Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr)
actress: Bedtime for Bonzo, The Kentuckian, The Annapolis Story, My Friend Irma, Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; died Dec 18, 19711927 - R.D. (Ronald David) Laing
psychiatrist, author; died Aug 23, 19891927 - Al Martino (Cini)
singer: Here in My Heart, I Love You Because, I Love You More and More Each Day, Spanish Eyes, Mary in the Morning; actor: The Godfather, The Godfather, Part 3; died Oct 13, 20091931 - Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1984]: Archbishop: 1st black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, S. Africa; died Dec 26, 20211934 - Imamu Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones)
playwright, poet: An Agony, As Now, The System of Dante’s Hell, Home; died Jan 9, 20141935 - Thomas Keneally
Australian author: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, Confederates, Schindler’s Ark, Bring Larks and Heroes, Three Cheers for the Paraclete; screen writer: Schindler’s List, Libido, Silver City, Olympic Glory1936 - Charles Dutoit
symphony orchestra conductor/director: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra1938 - Gary Bergman
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, Kansas City Scouts; died Dec 8, 20001939 - Colin Cooper
musician: guitar; singer: founding member of Climax Blues Band: Couldn’t Get It Right, Don’t Start Me Talkin’, A Stranger in Your Town, Flight, Please Don’t Help Me, Hey Mama, Shake Your Love, I Love You; died Jul 3, 20081942 - Joy Behar
comedienne, TV host: The View, The Joy Behar Show1943 - José (Rosario Domec) Cardenal
baseball: SF Giants, California Angels, Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, KC Royals [World Series: 1980]; NY Yankees outfield coach1943 - Oliver North
U.S. military: Marine Corps Lt. Col.: center of Iran-contra Affair; radio/TV personality; more1945 - Kevin Godley
musician: drums, singer: group: 10cc: Neanderthal Man, Rubber Bullets, I’m Not in Love, The Things We Do for Love; Godley & Creme: Donna, Wedding Bells1949 - Dave Hope
musician: bass: group: Kansas: Dust in the Wind1950 - Bo (David) Rather
football: Miami Dolphins1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp
singer: Jack and Diane, Cherry Bomb, Get a Leg Up, Hurts So Good; LPs: American Fool, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow; songwriter: Colored Lights1952 - Vladimir Putin
authoritarian ‘President’ of Russia [1999-2008; 2012- ]; Prime Minister of Russia [1999-2000; 2008-2012]1952 - Jacques Richard
hockey: NHL: Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Quebec Nordiques1953 - Christopher Norris
actress: Trapper John, M.D.1953 - Tico Torres
musician: drums: group: Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name1955 - Yo-Yo Ma
musician: cello virtuoso: albums: Obrigado Brazil, Classic Yo-Yo, Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams1956 - James Van Patten
actor: The Odd Couple [TV], The Chisholms, Young Warriors, The Flunky, Life Stinks, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, For Love and Honor, The Sunshine Boys [stage]1958 - Judy Landers
actress: B.J. and the Bear, Vegas, Madame’s Place1959 - Simon Cowell
A&R exec; TV host: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, The X Factor1959 - Dylan Baker
actor: Political Animals, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Radioland Murders, Disclosure, Murder One, The Invisible Man, Random Hearts, Thirteen Days, The Good Wife, The Good Fight1967 - Toni Braxton
Grammy Award-winning singer: Another Sad Love Song [1993], Breathe Again [1994], Un-Break My Heart, You're Makin’ Me High [1996]1968 - Thom Yorke
musician: guitar; singer: group: Radiohead: Pyramid Song, Fake Plastic Trees, Knives Out, Karma Police, Paranoid Android1970 - Nicole Ari Parker
actress: Boogie Nights, Soul Food, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Divas, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, Blue Streak, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins; Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire [2012]1971 - Johnnie Morton
football [wide receiver]: USC; NFL: Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers1972 - Jason Padgett
actor: Sideliners, Extreme Dating, The Metro Chase, Spider-Man, The Closer, ER1973 - Priest Holmes
football [running back]: Univ of Texas; NFL: Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs1974 - Allison Munn
actress: That ’70s Show, Carpoolers, A Couple of Days and Nights, Elizabethtown, White Oleander, Local Boys, What I Like About You, St. Sass1976 - Taylor Hicks
singer: talent-show winner [2006]: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar1976 - Charles Woodson
football [cornerback]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Oakland Raiders [1998–2005]; Green Bay Packers [2006–2012]: 2011 Super Bowl XLV champs; Oakland Raiders [2013–2015]1978 - Omar Benson Miller
actor: CSI: Miami, Sex, Love & Secrets, American Pie Presents: Band Camp, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, 8 Mile, The Express, Transformers, Take the Lead, The Bro Code, Liquor Store Cactus, Blood Done Sign My Name, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Beastly, The Lion of Judah1979 - Aaron Ashmore
actor: Warehouse 13, Smallville, In Plain Sight, Lost Girl, XIII: The Series, Privileged, The Stone Angel, Veronica Mars, 1-800-Missing; twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore1979 - Shawn Ashmore
actor: Animorphs, X-Men film series, Mariachi Gringo, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Smallville, In a Heartbeat, Melanie Darrow, The Big House; twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore1985 - Evan Longoria
baseball [third base]: Tampa Bay Rays: Gold Glove award winner [2009, 2010]1986 - Holland Roden
actress: Teen Wolf, Bring it On: Fight to the Finish, House of Dust, Cry of Fear1986 - Amber Stevens
actress: Greek, Weekends at Bellevue, Baby Daddy, 90210, Ben and Kate, The Amazing Spider-Man1992 - Mookie Betts
baseball [outfielder]: Boston Red Sox [2014-2019]: 2018 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2020- ]
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Hit Music on This Day October 7
1944I’ll Walk Alone (facts) - Dinah Shore
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma Baby?) (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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