October 10
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1780 - ‘The Great Hurricane of 1780’ killed 22,000 people in the Caribbean. The storm completely flattened the islands of Barbados, Martinique, and St. Eustatius between Oct 10 and 16th and was the deadliest western hemisphere hurricane on record.1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy was established at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland. The academy is the undergraduate college for the Navy that prepares young men and women to become professional officers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. He was the first person to come up with a substitute for the ivory ball (in use at the time).
1886 - Griswold Lorillard (of Lorillard tobacco fame) wore a tailless dress coat that was tailored in England. He wore it to the country club at Tuxedo Park, New York; therefore, the name: tuxedo. The rest is formal fashion history. The tux would later replace the tailcoat.
1928 - You’re the Cream in My Coffee ... comes from Hold Everything, which opened on Broadway this day. It ran for 413 performances.
1932 - Two of radio’s earliest efforts at soap operas were heard on the air. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger’s Coffee, started on NBC this day. And Betty and Bob, sponsored by General Mills, debuted on the NBC Blue network.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.
1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72 cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co-op radio show. George Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy Tucker Orchestra.
1940 - Moonlight and Roses, by Lanny Ross, was recorded on the Victor label.
1947 - The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Allegro premiered in New York City.
1951 - Hank Bauer’s bases-loaded triple in Game 6 propelled the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win and their third straight world championship, 4 games to 2. It was Joe DiMaggio’s final game (his 51st World Series game).
1954 - Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi after French troops pulled out of the city following an armistice agreement.
1956 - An 11,000-carat emerald was found in northern Transvaal, South Africa. The hughe gem was discovered by Charles Kempt and J. Botes.
1957 - Fire broke out in the atomic piles at the Windscale plutonium plant at Sellafield, England. The escaping radiation spread through the nearby countryside.
1959 - Pan American World Airways inaugurated the first round-the-world jet passenger service.
1961 - Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 was published. When the book was originally submitted to various magazines, including The Atlantic and The New Yorker, it was dismissed and did not even make The New York Times bestseller list. Even among the elitist literary circles, it was snubbed. Despite this initial lukewarm reception, the popularity of Catch-22 soared among the masses.
1965 - Snoopy’s most famous alter-ego, the World War I Flying Ace, made his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip on this day. From his perch on his Sopwith Camel (actually his doghouse), Snoopy/Ace would battle the infamous Red Baron until getting shot down and his doghouse riddled with bullet holes. “Curse you, Red Baron!”
1966 - The game of Twister was introduced by the Milton Bradley Company.
1968 - Two of the season’s best pitchers were on the mound for game seven of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was Mickey Lolich against Bob Gibson, with Lolich winning and being named Series MVP in the process. The Tigers were only the third team to win a world championship after being down three games to one. The clubs combined for ninety-nine strikeouts in sixty-three innings of play.
1970 - Neil Diamond reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time with Cracklin’ Rosie. In 1972, Diamond would reach a similar pinnacle with Song Sung Blue.
1970 - Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office. He was fined $10,000 and placed on three years probation.
1977 - It was all over but the pantyhose commercials for Joe Namath, as he ended his playing career -- on ABC’s Monday Night Football. It was a game that saw his new team, the LA Rams, tangle with the Chicago Bears.
1979 - It was a big day for Fleetwood Mac. They received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was also ‘Fleetwood Mac Day’ in Los Angeles, by proclamation of Mayor Tom Bradley. And the group’s new album, Tusk, was unveiled at a record-company party that night. The double-record set took thirteen months to finish and cost over a million dollars.
1980 - 5000 people were killed in an earthquake in Algeria which registered up to 7.1 on the Richter scale. The earthquake centred on the town of El Asnam and left 330,000 people homeless.
1980 - The Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network was dedicated in New Mexico.
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonized Reverend Maximilian Kolbe, a controversial priest who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp. Present at the canonization ceremony was Mr. Franciszek Gajownizek, the man for whom Fr. Maximilian offered his life.
1985 - Actor Yul Brynner died of lung cancer in New York. He was 65 years old.
1985 - Actor-director Orson Welles died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 70 years old.
1986 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck San Salvador, El Salvador. The quake killed some 1,500 people.
1987 - Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again was the #1 single in the U.S. The hit, from the album, Whitesnake, was number one for one week.
1993 - A ferry carrying 362 people capsized off the coast of Puan, South Korea. 292 people were killed.
1994 - Americans Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1995 - Gary Kasparov retained his PCA (Professional Chess Association) title by defeating Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand. The match had lasted nearly a month.
1995 - University of Chicago professor Robert E. Lucas won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
1997 - Jodie Williams, key organizer of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, won the Nobel Peace Prize. And what did she say was her secret weapon for organizing 1,000 different human rights and arms control groups on six continents? “E-mail.”
1997 - Most Wanted opened in U.S. theatres. It is an action/thriller starring Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jon Voight, Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, Eric Roberts, Robert Culp and Wolfgang Bodison. Plot is about a top-secret special operations squad with a mission to neutralize really bad guys. The U.S. box office gross was a meager $6,320,276.
1997 - Also new in the U.S.: Rocket Man, starring Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey Demunn, James Pickens Jr., Don Lake, Peter Onorati and Beau Bridges; and Washington Square, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey and Arthur Laupus.
1998 - Former U.S. Defense Secretary and presidential counselor Clark Clifford died. He was 91 years old.
2000 - Americans Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Japan’s Hideki Shirakawa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Russian Zhores I. Alferov and U.S.-based researchers Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) unveiled a list of 22 most-wanted terrorists, including Osama bin Laden and associates.
2001 - Americans George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Americans William S. Knowles, K. Barry Sharpless, and Japanese Ryoji Noyori won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2002 - Imre Kertész, a Hungarian novelist and secular Jew, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books included Fiasco (1988) and Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990).
2003 - Movies showing for the first time in the U.S.: Good Boy!, with Liam Aiken, Kevin Nealon, Molly Shannon, Matthew Broderick, Brittany Moldowan, Hunter Elliott, Donald Faison, Brittany Murphy, Mikhael Speidel and Carl Reiner; and Intolerable Cruelty, starring George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Duffy, Jonathan Hadary, Tom Aldredge, Stacey Travis, Jack Kyle, Irwin Keyes and Judith Drake.
2003 - Right-wing radio gab host Rush Limbaugh announced that he was addicted to painkillers and that he was going to check into a rehab center.
2004 - Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman, Somewhere in Time) died in Mount Kisco, NY of complications from an infection. He was 52 years old. Reeve had been paralized after he broke his neck after being thrown from a horse on May 27, 1995 and, for the rest of his life he was a wheelchair user, becoming a spokesperson for disabled people and for stem cell research.
2005 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann the 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.”
2006 - Cheung Yan, 49-year-old founder and chairwoman of Chinese paper packager Nine Dragons Paper Ltd., was ranked first on the list of China’s richest people. She passed two-time leader Huang Guangyu of GOME Electrical Appliances and a coterie of CEOs at various enterprises. Ms Cheung was said to be worth US$3.4bn (£1.8bn).
2006 - Britain’s Man Booker Prize was won by 35-year-old Indian novelist Kiran Desai. She won the big prize for her The Inheritance of Loss, a saga that covers the world from the Himalayas to New York City.
2007 - Germany’s Gerhard Ertl won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces. If you understand these processes, they say, you begin to understand questions like how pollution eats away at the ozone layer.
2007 - A Russian rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur launch pad, carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, an orthopedic surgeon and university lecturer from Kuala Lumpur, traveled alongside Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and American astronaut Peggy Whitson.
2008 - New films in U.S. theatres: Ashes of Time Redux, with Jacky Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau; Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, Golshifteh Farahani, Oscar Isaac and Simon McBurney; Breakfast with Scot, with Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett and Colin Cunningham; City of Ember, starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Toby Jones and Mary Kay Place; The Express, with Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown, Omar Benson Miller, Clancy Brown and Charles S. Dutton; and Good Dick, with Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter.
2008 - Global stocks plunged to five-year lows at the end of a brutal week. Even traditional safe-havens, like gold and government bonds, suffered as fear-stricken investors sought refuge in cash. The DJIA fell 128 to close at 8451.19 in its most volatile day ever as the Dow swung 1019 points during the day.
2008 - G7 leaders, meeting in Washington DC, announced a 5-point plan to support financial institutions.
2008 - The Connecticut Supreme Court voted to give gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, ruling that civil unions fell short of giving them full equality. Connecticut became the 3rd state to legalize such unions.
2010 - Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, achieved its first solo glide flight. Manned by two pilots, it flew for 11 minutes before landing in Mojave, CA. Although an official flight date had not been released, Virgin Galactic had an estimated $50 million dollars in deposits from nearly 400 passengers waiting to board a flight.
2011 - An undersea telecommunications cable was completed to Sierra Leone. The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable’s arrival in Freetown was part of a 17,000-km fiber optic line to connect countries along the west African coast to Europe.
2012 - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford Medical Center and Robert J. Lefkowitz of Duke University for discovering how receptor proteins carry signals from outside the human body into cells.
2012 - Germany’s Cabinet approved a law allowing male circumcision under medical supervision. The German Parliament passed the legislation in Dec 2012.
2013 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan for the last time before it hands over total responsibility for security to Afghan forces at the end of 2014.
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Addicted, starring Kat Graham, William Levy and Boris Kodjoe; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, with Bella Thorne, Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell; Autómata, starring Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Dylan McDermott; Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, with Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst and Martin Starr; The Devil’s Hand, starring Rufus Sewell, Alycia Debnam Carey and Adelaide Kane; Dracula Untold, with Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Samantha Barks; the documentaries, I am Ali and The Overnighters; The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall and Vera Farmiga; Kill the Messenger, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen and Jeremy Renner; One Chance, starring James Corden, Alexandra Roach and Julie Walters; and St. Vincent, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy.
2014 - A Los Angeles County judge threw out the murder conviction of Susan Mellon who has spent over 17 years behind bars for a crime she did not commit.
2014 - The U.S. Navy took control of a new missile defense base in southern Romania. The base was one of two European land-based interceptor sites for a NATO missile shield that Russia strongly opposed.
2016 - U.S.-based British-American economist Oliver Hart of Harvard Univ, and MIT’s Bengt Holmstrom of Finland, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for groundbreaking research on contract theory that had helped design insurance policies, executive pay and even prison management.
2016 - Donald Trump’s characterization of his caught-on-tape crude and predatory comments about women as “locker room talk” raised the ire of plenty of athletes, the overwhelming majority saying that what goes on even in private doesn’t match what the Republican presidential nominee said on the now-infamous leaked tape. “I don’t know what locker room he’s been in,” said Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said the vulgar comments were simply a reflection of Trump’s true self. “Locker room talk? Not on your life--this was Trump exactly how he is. Authentic. Obnoxious. Criminal. Etc....,” Navratilova said on Twitter.
2017 - Allegations surfaced against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in on-the-record reports that detailed claims of sexual abuse from 13 women from 1990-2015. Weinstein’s wife announced she was leaving her husband. The next day Britain’s film academy said it had suspended Weinstein over the multiple accusations. On Oct 14 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences expelled Weinstein.
2017 - Utah police Officer Jeff Payne was fired after being seen on video roughly handcuffing and shoving nurse Alex Wubbels -- and dragging her from a hospital because she refused to allow a draw blood per hospital policy (requiring a warrant or formal consent to draw blood from the patient who had been injured in a car crash). Nurse Wubbels later reached a $500,000 settlement with Salt Lake City and the university that runs the hospital.
2018 - A U.S. congressional report concluded that China was undertaking unprecedented repression of its ethnic minorities, including Muslim Uighurs, as human rights conditions deteriorated there.
2018 - The Justice Department approved the $69 billion merger between CVS Health, a pharmaceutical retailer, and the Aetna insurance company. CVS said it would begin integrating Aetna and start trying to accomplish its three main priorities: making health care local and accessible, simplifying how consumers access care -- and lowering costs.
2018 - Category 4 Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle and charged into Georgia. By October 28 the death toll from the storm’s path -- from Florida to Virginia -- reached 45 with 35 dead in Florida.
2019 - From the U.S. Drought Monitor: Nearly 56 million residents were living in drought conditions in parts of 16 Southern states. The furnace-like "flash drought" was intensifying as it blasted away the little moisture left across a vast swath of the South, shriveling up backyard gardens and raising alarm among farmers.
2019 - The National Audubon Society reported that two-thirds of bird species in North America faced extinction unless immediate action was taken to slow the rate of climate change.
2020 - Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was discharged from a New Jersey hospital where he had spent a week suffering from COVID-19.
2020 - The French health ministry reported 26,896 new infections, taking the total to 718,873 since the start of 2020. The number of deaths from the coronavirus was 32,684.
2021 - According to studio estimates No Time to Die, the final James Bond film featuring Daniel Craig as Bond, grossed $56 million from 4,407 North American theaters. But do not let that ‘meager’ opening weekend figure fool you. No Time to Die went on to land in the top ten of all Bond films. As of October 2022 it had grossed $160,891,007.
2021 - Southwest Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights, wreaking havoc on weekend travel plans for thousands of passengers. Air traffic control staffing shortages and weather in Florida was blamed.
2022 - The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for “significantly improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital.”
2022 - Disc jockey Art Laboe, one of the first to play rock and roll music on the West Coast, died of pneumonia at 97 years of age. Laboe’s popular “Art Laboe Connection Show” had a legion of devoted listeners, and was especially beloved by Latinos. “He was the voice of the real L.A.,” record producer Lou Adler said. “He reached out and touched people growing up in this melting pot.” Laboe started an amateur radio station in his South Los Angeles bedroom in 1938, and later did broadcasts from drive-ins and hosted dance shows. He said he had loved radio since childhood, saying, “I was enthralled with this box that talked.” Laboe is also credited with coining the phrase, “oldies, but goodies.”
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Birthdays on This Day October 10
1813 - Guiseppe Verdi
composer: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida; died Jan 27, 19011825 - Paul Kruger
president: South Africa; leader of the Boers; died July 14, 19041900 - Helen Hayes (Brown)
actress: Tony Award-winning actress: Happy Birthday [1947], Time Remembered [1958]; Academy Awards: The Sin of Madelon Claudet [1931], Airport [Best Supporting Actress - 1971]; Arrowsmith, A Farewell to Arms, Anastasia; Emmy Award: The Snoop Sisters [1953]; mother of TV’s James MacArthur (Hawaii Five-O’s Danno); died Mar 17, 1993
1908 - Johnny Green
songwriter: Coquette, Body and Soul, I’m Yours, [You Came Along From] Out of Nowhere, I Cover the Waterfront, Easy Come, Easy Go; won five Oscars for work on MGM films: Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris, Bye Bye Birdie, High Society, Raintree County, The Great Caruso, Summer Stock, Brigadoon; died May 15, 19891914 - Ivory Joe Hunter
singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Ain’t That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise; died Nov 8, 19741915 - Bill Chadwick
NHL referee [1940s and 1950s: ‘The Big Whistle’]: pioneered the system of hand signals for penalties which is used in all hockey games; radio, TV hockey analyst for New York Rangers; died Oct 24, 20091917 - Thelonious (Sphere) Monk
composer, jazz musician: piano: Round Midnight, Misterioso, Straight No Chaser, Blue Monk, Epistrophy; died Feb 17, 19821924 - James Clavell
author: Shogun, Noble House, Tai-pan, Gai-Jin; died Sep 7, 19941926 - Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel
actor: Come Back Little Sheba, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Drowning Pool, Sands of Iwo Jima, Starman, Walking Tall, Part 2, Supercarrier, Spenser: For Hire, Frontier Circus, Baywatch; died June 14, 19971930 - Harold Pinter
playwright: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Quiller Memorandum, The Trial, The Comfort of Strangers; died Dec 24, 20081937 - Bruce Devlin
golf: 8 PGA Tour titles, 3-time Australian PGA champ, Australian Open champ: 1960, desiged over 140 courses, TV commentator: NBC, ESPN1941 - Peter Coyote
actor: Western Big Sky, Resurrecting the Champ, A Little Trip to Heaven, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, Shadow of Fear, Commander in Chief; “I'm a Zen-Buddhist student first, actor second. If I can’t reconcile the two lives, I’ll stop acting. I spend more time off-screen than on.”; more1941 - Dallas Smith
hockey: Pittsburgh Hornets, Portland Buckaroos, San Francisco Seals, Oklahoma City Blazers, Boston Bruins, NY Rangers1942 - Joe Don Looney
football: Univ. of Oklahoma, NY Giants, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins; died Sep 24, 19881943 - Denis D’Ell (Dennis James Dalziel)
musician: harmonica; singer: group: The Honeycombs: Have I the Right, That’s the Way, Is It Because, Something Better Beginning, Colour Slide; died July 6, 20051945 - Alan Cartwright
musician: guitar: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel; died Mar 4, 20211946 - Charles Dance
actor: Undertow, The Surgeon, Last Action Hero, Alien 3, China Moon, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief, The Jewel in the Crown, For Your Eyes Only1946 - John Prine
singer, songwriter: Sam Stone; LPs: Common Sense, Aimless Love1946 - (Fury) Gene Tenace
baseball: Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974/all-star: 1975], SD Padres, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982], Pittsburgh Pirates1946 - Pete Mahovlich
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins1946 - Ben Vereen
singer, dancer, Tony Award-winning actor: Pippin; All that Jazz, Funny Lady, Webster, Roots, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Ben Vereen...Comin’ at Ya; TV host: You Write the Songs1949 - Jessica Harper
actress: Eat a Bowl of Tea, Blue Iguana, My Favorite Year, Pennies from Heaven, Stardust Memories, Phantom of the Paradise, The Innocent and the Damned, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show; more1950 - Nora Roberts
novelist: The Heart’s Victory, Carolina Moon, Montana Sky; more1953 - Midge (James) Ure
singer, songwriter: Do They Know It’s Christmas?; groups: Slik, Rich Kids1954 - David Lee Roth
singer: group: Van Halen: Jump, Eat ’Em and Smile; solo: California Girls, Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody, Yankee Rose, Just Like Paradise1956 - Melissa Belote
Olympic gold medalist: 100-meter & 200-meter backstroke [world record: 2:19:19], 4x100 meter medley relay [1972]1958 - Tanya Tucker
singer: Delta Dawn, Lizzie and the Rainman, San Antonio Stroll, Here’s Some Love, Texas (When I Die), Pecos Promenade; in film: Jeremiah Johnson1959 - Julia Sweeney
actress, comedienne: Saturday Night Live, Don’t Come Knocking, Clockstoppers, Beethoven’s 3rd, Beethoven’s 4th, Whatever It Takes, My Funny Valentine, Stuart Little1959 - Bradley Whitford
actor: The Good Guys, The West Wing, Adventures in Babysitting, Scent of a Woman, Black Tie Affair, Billy Madison, In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip1961 - Jodi Benson
singer, actress: Broadway: Marilyn: An American Fable, Smile, Welcome to the Club, Sophisticated Ladies, Once Upon A Mattress, Dangerous Music; voice actress: The Little Mermaid, Smile, Crazy for You, Welcome to the Club1961 - Martin Kemp
musician: bass: group: Spandau Ballet: True, To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, Gold, Only When You Leave; actor: Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Growing Rich, Aspen Extreme, Murder Between Friends, Embrace of the Vampire, Cyber Bandits, Sugar Town; brother of musician Gary Kemp1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon
actress: Heist, Homicide, The Winslow Boy, State and Main1966 - Bai Ling
actress: The Crow, Red Corner, Wild Wild West, Shanghai Baby, The Gene Generation, Man About Town, Lords of Dogtown, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Entourage, Lost1966 - Derrick McKey
basketball [forward]: Univ of Alabama; NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers1967 - Mike Malinin
musician: drums: groups: Goo Goo Dolls, Forty Marshas1967 - Gavin Newsom
politician: Mayor of San Francisco 2004-2011]; California Lieutenant Governor [2011-2019]; Governor of California [2019- ]1969 - Manu Bennett
actor: Spartacus, Arrow, Street Legal, The Hobbit film series1969 - Brett Favre
football [QB]: Southern Mississippi [6 school passing records; 2.9 INT rate for 4-year career ranks as one of best in NCAA history]; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers [Super Bowls XXXI, XXXII], New York Jets1971 - Tiffany Mynx (Shannon Cummings)
actress [1992-2012]: X-rated films: Nikki Never Says No, Mr. Peepers’ Amateur Home Videos 50: All That Glitters, The Good, the Bad & the Nasty, Bikini Beach series, Superstar Sex Challenge, Lewd Behavior series1972 - Joelle Carter
actress: American Pie 2, High Fidelity, Inconceivable, Cold Storage, FX, To Be Friends, A Girl and a Gun, Room 314, Tempting Adam, The Perfect You, Quarantine1972 - Hunter Goodwin
football [tight end]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins1972 - Mike Holtz
baseball [pitcher]: Clemson Univ; MLB: California/Anaheim Angels, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox1972 - Brian Holzinger
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins, Columbus Blue Jackets1973 - John Mobley
football [linebacker]; NFL: Denver Broncos1973 - Jeff Shantz
hockey [center]: Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.
NASCAR racer: 16 Career Cup wins; father was racer Dale Earnhardt, Sr.1976 - Pat Burrell
baseball [‘Pat the Bat’; first base, outfield]: Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants1978 - Jodi Lyn O’Keefe
actress: Hit the Floor, Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Whatever It Takes, Teacher’s Pet, Criminal Minds1979 - Mya (Marie Harrison)
singer: LPs: Mya, Fear Of Flying; in films: Bulworth, The Rugrats Movie, Moulin Rouge!, Atlantis: The Lost Empire1982 - Dan Stevens
actor: Downton Abbey [2010–2012], The Guest, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Beauty and the Beast Marshall, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Legion1984 - Troy Tulowitzki
baseball [shortstop]: Colorado Rockies [2006–2015]: 2007 World Series; Toronto Blue Jays [2015–2017]1986 - Andrew McCutchen
baseball [center field]: Pittsburgh Pirates [2009–2017]; San Francisco Giants [2018]; New York Yankees [2018]; Philadelphia Phillies [2019–2021]; Milwaukee Brewers [2022]; Pittsburgh Pirates [2023– ]1988 - Rose McIver
actress: iZombie, Predicament, The Lovely Bones, Blinder, A Christmas Prince, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, Petals on the Wind, Daffodils1989 - Aimee Teegarden
actress: Friday Night Lights, Scream 4, Prom, Star-Crossed, Beneath the Darkness, Love and Honor1991 - Lali Espósito
Argentine singer: group: Teen Angels, solo: LPs: A Bailar, Soy, Brava, Libra; model, actress: Casi Ángeles, The Crucible, The Accused, Sky Rojo
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Hit Music on This Day October 10
1947I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ (facts) - Dorothy Shay
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