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1866 - James and Jennie Bushnell became the proud parents of sextuplets in Chicago, IL. Three boys and three girls were born. Though two babies died, the surviving four lived long lives. This was the first recorded birth of sextuplets in North America.1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America was written by a former Baptist preacher, Francis Bellamy. It only took Mr. Bellamy three hours to write the original 23 words in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America.
1900 - Galveston, Texas was struck by the worst hurricane (and deadliest natural disaster) in American history. 23-foot waves fronting winds up to 135 mph took 6,000 lives. The storm battered Galveston for 18 hours. When the city, on an island connected to the mainland by a 2-mile long causeway, was rebuilt, it was raised 15 feet above its previous level; and a new sea wall was built six feet higher than the previous high-water mark.
1921 - The first Miss America Pageant was held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. This first contest was a promotion to keep tourists in the resort town after the Labor Day holiday (the unofficial end of summer). Miss Washington, D.C. won the contest and received a golden statue of a mermaid as her prize! She was 16-year-old Margaret Gorman. Miss Gorman was 5'1" with blonde hair, blue eyes, weighing 108 pounds and her vital statistics were 30-25-32! Diminutive compared to the more recent and rather statuesque Miss Americas.
1930 - Scotch Cellophane Tape was developed by Richard Drew and on this day the first roll of the sticky stuff was sent to a prospective customer. That customer wrote back with the following comments for 3M, “You should have no hesitancy in equipping yourself to put this product on the market economically. There will be a sufficient volume of sales to justify the expenditure.”
1935 - The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR radio. The group won the competition held at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
1939 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared an “unlimited national emergency” in response to the outbreak of war in Europe.
1941 - Harry James and his orchestra recorded Misirlou for Columbia Records.
1943 - New York Giants player Ace Adams pitched his 62nd game, and set a major-league baseball record for number of games worked by a pitcher in a single season.
1944 - Ed Wynn resumed his radio career after seven years off the air. Wynn starred in Happy Island on the NBC Blue network.
1944 - Germany launched its first V-2 missile at Paris, France.
1945 - A bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time -- in Washington, DC.
1949 - German composer Richard Strauss (Also Sprach Zarathustra) died. He was 85 years old.
1950 - Sandy Sadler grabbed the world featherweight boxing title from Willie Pep by a knockout. Pep’s shoulder was dislocated while he was in a clinch with Sadler. Yeeeeeeowwwwccccchhh! That was probably more of a passout than a knockout.
1952 - Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea was first published.
1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League pennant this day -- the earliest a team had done so.
1958 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates tied a major-league baseball record by hitting three triples. Clemente led the Bucs to a 4-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
1960 - NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This followed the activation of the facility in July of 1960, when a key element of the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Missile Agency was transferred from the Department of Defense to NASA. The center is named in honor of General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff during World War II, U.S. Secretary of State, and a Nobel Prize winner for his post-World War II Marshall Plan.
1965 - Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City Athletics played all nine positions as the Athletics lost to the California Angels, 5-3 in 13 innings. He gave up one run while playing the role of pitcher. That’s what we call a one-man team!
1965 - An ad appeared in Los Angeles Daily Variety: Madness!! Running parts for 4 insane boys, aged 17 to 21. Wanted spirited Ben Franks'-type. 437 youngsters auditioned for parts in the TV series The Monkees. Among those trying out were Stephen Stills, Paul Williams, Danny Hutton and Charles Manson. (Micky Dolenz, Davey Jones, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith got the parts.)
1966 - NBC-TV headed into “Space: the final frontier” on this day. The first episode of Star Trek, titled, The Man Trap, was seen on the network. Although Star Trek has become a cult phenomenon, with Trekkie (or the member preferred title, Trekker) conventions held annually, the NBC series did not do well. It was regularly beaten in its time slot, and it placed #52 among all series in 1966-1967, its best season. NBC canceled the show on September 2, 1969.
1971 - The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a cultural center named after U.S. President John F. Kennedy, made its public debut in Washington, DC. The gala opening performance featuring the world premiere of a Requiem Mass honoring President Kennedy, commissioned from legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
1973 - Home run number 709 went into the record books for Hank Aaron. The Atlanta slugger established a major-league baseball record for the most home runs hit in one league. Aaron eclipsed Babe Ruth’s record of 714 homers in 1974.
1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford granted “a full, free and absolute” unconditional pardon to former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes he may have committed while in office.
1981 - Civil rights activist Roy Wilkins, former head of the NAACP, died in NYC. He was 80 years old. Wilkins led (as Executive Director) the NAACP through the Civil Rights Era and helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King.
1986 - Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League. He led the Dallas Cowboys to a 31-28 win over the New York Giants. Walker had played in the USFL for the New Jersey Generals.
1990 - Jon Bon Jovi’s Blaze of Glory hit number one on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 singles list. The song, from the album of the same name, was the theme song from the movie Young Guns II and earned Jon Bon Jovi an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
1990 - The Ellis Island Historical Site opened on Ellis Island in New York City.
1991 - Stefan Edberg won the U.S. Open (tennis) in New York, defeating Jim Courier in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6-0.
1994 - USAir flight 427 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport. All 132 people on board the Boeing 737 were killed. In March of 1999, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that rudder malfunction was the most likely cause of the crash.
1995 - Opening in U.S. theatres: To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner and Arliss Howard.
1996 - Frasier won its third consecutive Emmy for best TV comedy; ER was named best drama. Other winners at the 48th Emmy Awards included Dennis Franz and Kathy Baker.
1996 - Pete Sampras defeated Michael Chang and Steffi Graf beat Monica Seles to win the top prizes at the U.S. Open tennis championships.
1996 - Okinawans voted more than 10-to-1 in favor of a reduction of U.S. military bases on their islands. It was a referendum aimed at pressuring Washington to pull out American troops.
1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe, the oldest U.S. on-line computer service. The billion-dollar deal also saw AOL involved with WorldCom, a telephone company with hundreds of miles of high-capacity line. Under the deal, WorldCom kept CompuServe’s global data network and agreed to provide network services to AOL. The deal gave AOL much-needed cash to develop new online content and expand its base of 9 million subscribers.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 62nd home run of the season. It broke NY Yankee Roger Maris’ all-time major-league home-run record set in 1961. McGwire went on to set a season record of 70 homers.
1999 - Economist Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Nixon administration, died in Washington DC. He was 83 years old.
2000 - These films made debuts in the U.S.: Nurse Betty, with Morgan Freeman, Renee Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Tia Texada; The Way of the Gun, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Scott Wilson, James Caan, Dylan Kussman, Kristin Lehman and Geoffrey Lewis; and The Watcher, with James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson, Chris Ellis and Keanu Reeves.
2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open tennis title by beating her sister Serena 6-2, 6-4 in the women’s Grand Slam final.
2002 - Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to win his 14th Grand Slam title and the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
2003 - Filmaker Leni Riefenstahl died at 101 years of age in Bavaria. Her 1934 depiction of Hitler’s Nuremberg rally, Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), was despised -- and renowned as the best propaganda film ever made.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed 261 suits across the U.S. for Internet piracy. The suits were filed against people who illegally downloaded and distributed copyrighted music.
2004 - NASA’s $260 million Genesis space capsule crashed in the Utah desert after its parachute failed to open. Genesis carried a cargo of solar wind particles.
2005 - Hosni Mubarak won Egypt’s first-ever multi-candidate presidential election garnering 78 percent of the vote. Ayman Nour was the nearest runner-up with 12 percent.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Covenant, with Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, Chace Crawford and Wendy Crewson; Hollywoodland, starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Robertson, Steve Adams, Jordan Barker, Donald Burda, Larry Cedar, Brad William Henke, Lois Smith, Joe Spano, Jeff Teravainen and Robin Tunney; and The Protector, with Tony Jaa, Mum Jokmok and Xing Jing.
2006 - 21-year-old Melinda Duckett shot herself to death in Florida one day after taping a TV interview with Nancy Grace for CNN. Duckett had reported that her 2-year-old son had been kidnapped on Aug 27. Duckett’s family later filed a wrongful death claim against Nancy Grace and CNN, alleging that the aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett and led to her suicide.
2007 - The Singularity Summit 2007: AI and the Future of Humanity opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA. The singularity term was used to describe the day when machines become smart enough to reprogram themselves. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, was the principal backer.
2008 - The stock of Lehman Brothers began to get pummeled. In the following two days, shares were down by almost half their value. And by Sep 15, 2008 the firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following the drastic stock losses and the massive exodus of most of its employees and clients.
2009 - Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA announced their plan to combine their British mobile telephone units to. The combined company would become Britain’s biggest cellular operator with revenue of €9.4 billion ($13.5 billion).
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama addressed school children on the C-SPAN cable TV network, encouraging the kids to study hard and stay in school. The President challenged students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.
2010 - British mobile-phone giant Vodafone lost a legal appeal against an Indian tax bill estimated at $2 billion relating to the group’s 2007 purchase of local group Hutchison Essar. It was the first time an Indian court had ruled that the country’s tax department could charge a foreign company over a transaction that occurred outside India.
2010 - The leader of a small Florida church that espoused anti-Islam philosophy said he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, 2010. This, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call the symbolic burning off.
2011 - The Mexican Navy said it had dismantled a telecommunications system set up by the Zetas drug cartel in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. 80 people were arrested, including six police officers, during the 26-day operation.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a $450 billion bill to boost jobs and put cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans, urging Republican skeptics to embrace an approach heavy on the tax cuts they traditionally love. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R.-Va.) promptly declared the bill dead on arrival. And such was the atmosphere in the U.S. House of Representatives of 2011.
2012 - Pakistan and India signed a visa agreement in Islamabad making cross-border travel easier. The agreement gave a hint of thawing relations between the two countries that had long seen each other as enemies.
2013 - The German news weekly Der Spiegel reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had been cracking protective measures on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving the American spies access to users’ data.
2014 - Human Rights Watch reported that internationally-funded African Union troops in Somalia (AMISOM) had raped women and girls as young as 12 and had traded food aid for sex.
2014 - Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy died in Georgia at 93 years of age. The billionaire rose from poverty by building a privately held restaurant chain that famously closed every Sunday. But Cathy drew unwanted attention for the family’s opposition to gay marriage.
2015 - Pope Francis made the procedure for Roman Catholics to get marriage annulments faster and simpler. At the same time, he called on bishops around the world to provide greater help to divorced couples.
2016 - Israel announced that it had begun work on a $530 million underground barrier along the border with Gaza. The new underground wall was part of Israel’s ongoing effort to block Hamas militants from tunneling into the country.
2016 - Wells Fargo was hit with a record fine by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for covertly opening some 2 million unauthorized customer credit card and deposit accounts. The bank drained real accounts to fund the phony ones, and charged fees for services customers did not request. The bank, one of the largest in the U.S., also said it had fired 5,300 over the past five years for the conduct.
2017 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres included: 9/11, with Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg and Gina Gershon; Home Again, starring Reese Witherspoon, Lake Bell and Michael Sheen; It, with Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher and Finn Wolfhard; The Good Catholic, starring Zachary Spicer, Wrenn Schmidt and Danny Glover; and Gun Shy, with Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko and Ben Cura.
2017 - Country singer Don Williams died in Mobile, Alabama (emphysema, age 78). His seventeen No. 1 hits include Till the Rivers All Run Dry, You’re My Best Friend, Tulsa Time, Stay Young, and I Believe in You (his only solo U.S. pop hit). Williams’ straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and imposing build earned him the nickname, the ‘Gentle Giant’ of country music.
2017 - Pacific island leaders demanded urgent action from the global community to address climate change, following warnings that the region would be hit harder than anywhere else on Earth. The plea followed a week-long gathering of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in the Samoan capital Apia. The forum included countries such as low-lying Kiribati and Tuvalu, which are at risk of being swamped by rising sea levels.
2018 - Engineers set to sea from San Francisco to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii. This, in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest floating plastic patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The system was created by The Ocean Cleanup, an organization founded by 24-year-old Dutch innovator Boyan Slat.
2018 - Japan’s Naomi Osaka defeated Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 in the women’s final at the U.S. Open in Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City. Osaka has lived in the U.S. since she was three years old. Osaka came to prominence at the age of sixteen when she defeated former U.S. Open champ Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Stanford Classic.
2019 - Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the Causeway Bay shopping district. Demonstrators had rallied at the U.S. Consulate asking for help in bringing democracy to the Chinese-ruled city.
2019 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approved legislation to have cameras monitor polling stations in elections, a move opponents said was meant to intimidate Arab voters. The legislation will go to parliament for approval before the Sep 17 election. The following day the Israeli Parliament barred the right-wing PM’s scheme.
2019 - Mexican women marched in Mexico City demanding justice for women who have been killed, kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
2020 - A major fire swept through the notoriously overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving thousands of people in need of emergency shelter. 36 people had tested positive at the camp for COVID-19. A second fire a couple of days later destroyed nearly everything that had been spared by the first. Authorities said both fires were deliberately started.
2020 - South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem announced that she was using federal coronavirus relief funds to pay for a $5 million tourism ad campaign aimed at drawing people to the state. This, as South Dakota became one of the top hot spots for COVID-19 infections in the U.S.
2021 - The U.S. Treasury reported that the wealthiest 1% of Americans were the nation’s most egregious tax evaders, failing to pay as much as $163 billion in owed taxes per year.
2021 - The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said it was launching a new task force incorporating airborne, sailing and underwater drones. The task force would help the Navy use unmanned platforms across all domains. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, who leads the 5th Fleet said, “We want to put more systems out in the maritime domain above, on and below the sea.” Cooper added, “We want more eyes on what’s happening out there.”
2021 - Nancy Salzman, the co-founder of Nxivm, was sentenced to three years for her involvement in the cult-like group that branded women and coerced them into sex.
2022 - Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She ruled for 70 years and was the U.K.’s longest-serving monarch. Her eldest son inherited the throne as King Charles III.
2022 - The European Central Bank on raised interest rates by 0.75 percent, its biggest hike since 1999. The move was intended to help bring down record inflation. The efforts were complicated by an energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that had nearly pushed Europe into recession. ECB President Christine Lagarde said inflation was threatening to spread beyond energy to many other goods. “We want all economic actors to understand that the ECB is serious” about fighting inflation, Lagarde said.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, starring Stephanie Nur, John Corbett, Elena Kampouris and Lainie Kazan; and The Nun 2, with Taissa Farmiga, Anna Popplewell and Bonnie Aarons.
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Birthdays on This Day September 8
1157 - Richard the Lionheart
Coeur de Lion: Richard I: King of England [1189-1199]; died Apr 6, 11991841 - Antonin Dvorak
composer: Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies; died May 1, 19041896 - Howard Dietz
publicist, lyricist, librettist; credited with creating Leo the Lion for MGM and choosing their slogan Ars Gratia Artis; died Jul 30, 19831897 - Jimmie (James Charles) Rodgers
‘The Blue Yodeler’: Country Music Hall of Famer: ‘T’ for Texas, Brakeman’s Blues, Blues Yodel , Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues; 1st country singer to be in a film: Singing Brakeman; member: Country Music Hall of Fame; died May 26, 19331900 - Claude (Denson) Pepper
U.S. Senator from Florida [1936-1950]; member of Congress for fourteen terms; champion of social welfare for the elderly; died May 30, 19891914 - Hillary Brooke (Beatrice Peterson)
actress: The Admiral was a Lady, Confidence Girl; died May 25, 19991915 - Frank Cady
actor: Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, These Are the Days, The Girl Most Likely; died Jun 8, 20121915 - Duffy (Hugh) Daugherty
College Football Hall of Famer: player, coach: Syracuse University; coach: Michigan State: won two Big Ten championships; died Sep 25, 19871922 - Sid Caesar
Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951], Caesar’s Hour [1956]; Sid Caesar Invites You, Admiral Broadway Revue; died Feb 12, 20141922 - Harry Harris
Emmy Award-winning director: Fame [1982]; ABC Afterschool Specials, The Waltons, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Kung Fu, Lost in Space, Hawaii Five-O, Falcon Crest, Eight Is Enough; died Mar 19, 20091925 - Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers
comedian, actor: The Pink Panther series, What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There; died July 24, 19801932 - Patsy Cline (Virginia Petterson Hensley)
Country Music Hall of Famer: Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You, Heartaches, Sweet Dreams (Of You), Faded Love; killed in plane crash Mar 5, 19631934 - Guitar Shorty (David William Kearney)
blues guitarist: influenced Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy; played with blues and R&B luminaries like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, B.B. King, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker; his renowned live performances kept him constantly in demand all over the world; died Apr 20, 20221936 - Virna Lisi (Pieralisi)
actress: Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard, Christopher Columbus, Le Serpent [Night Flight from Moscow], Casanova, The Secret of Santa Vittoria; died Dec 18, 20141938 - Sam Nunn
U.S. Senator from Georgia [1972-1997]: Chairperson of Senate Armed Forces Committee1941 - Christopher Connelly
actor: The Messenger, Mines of Kilimanjaro, Benji, The Martian Chronicles: Part 3; died Dec 7, 19881941 - Dante Drowty
singer: group: Dante and The Evergreens: Alley-Oop1941 - Alan Feinstein
actor: The Runaways, Jigsaw John, The Family Tree, Berrenger’s, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night, Love of Life1941 - Bernie Sanders
Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont [2007- ]; represented Vermont in House of Representatives [1991-2007]: longest-serving independent in U.S. Congressional history; ran [and lost to Hillary Clinton] for 2016 Democratic Party POTUS nomination1942 - Brian Cole
musician: bass, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You, Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies; died Aug 2, 19721945 - Lem Barney
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Detroit Lions cornerback: NFL’s Defensive Rookie of the Year [1967]; played in 10 Pro Bowls1945 - John McAfee
computer programmer, founder of McAfee Associates computer anti-virus company1945 - ‘Rogie’ Rogatien Vachon
hockey: NHL: Houston Apollos, Montreal Canadiens, LA Kings, Boston Bruins1946 - Ken (Kenneth Roth) Forsch
baseball: pitcher: Houston Astros [all-star: 1976], California Angels [all-star: 1981]1946 - L.C. Greenwood
football [defensive end]: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV1947 - Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski)
musician: bass guitar, singer: group: The Cars: My Best Friend’s Girl, Just What I Needed, Let’s Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes; solo: LP: The Lace; died Oct 3, 20001956 - Maurice Cheeks
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Philadelphia 76ers; head coach: Portland Trail Blazers [2001–2005], Philadelphia 76ers [2005-2008]; assistant coach: Oklahoma City Thunder1957 - Heather Thomas
actress: Hidden Obsession, Red Blooded American Girl, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, Cyclone, Zapped!, The Fall Guy, The Ultimate Challenge, Co-Ed Fever1958 - Michael Lardie
musician: group: Great White1959 - Chessie Moore
actress [1989-2005] X-rated films: Girls of the Double D 13, Triple Header, Slip of the Tongue, Girls Will Be Boys, Positively Pagan 61960 - Aimee Mann
songwriter; musician: guitar; singer: LPs: Whatever, I’m with Stupid, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, Lost in Space, The Forgotten Arm, One More Drifter in the Snow, @#%&*! Smilers, Charmer1960 - David Steele
musician: keyboards, bass: group: Fine Young Cannibals, The Beat: Stand Down Margaret, Wha’appen, Can’t Get Used to Losing You1962 - Thomas Kretschmann
actor: Stalingrad, The Pianist, Der Untergang, King Kong, U-571, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, In Enemy Hands; voice actor: Cars 21962 - Scott Levy
pro wrestler: WCW Saturday Night, WWF Monday Night RAW, Wrestlemania X, WCW Thunder, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon, WWF No Way Out1970 - Latrell Sprewell
basketball: Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves1970 - Clarence Weatherspoon
basketball [forward]: Southern Mississippi Univ; NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Houston Rockets1971 - David Arquette
actor: The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Webbers, Dead Man’s Walk, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland1971 - Brooke Burke (Charvet)
model, dancer: won 7th season of Dancing with the Stars; actress: Rock Star, Naked Wild On, Less Than Perfect, Las Vegas; co-host: 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards [2009], Dancing with the Stars1971 - Martin Freeman
actor: Fargo [TV series], The Office, Love Actually, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock, Nativity!, The Hobbit, Band of Misfits, Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy; voice actor: The Pirates!1974 - Amani Toomer
football [wide receiver]: New York Giants [1996–2008]: 2008 Super Bowl XLII champs1975 - Larenz Tate
actor: Waist Deep, Ray, Crash, Biker Boyz, The Postman, Dead Presidents, Seeds of Tragedy, The Women of Brewster Place1976 - Zeron Flemister
football: Univ of Iowa; NFL: Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders1977 - Jason Collier
basketball: Georgia Tech Univ; NBA: Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks; died Oct 15, 20051978 - Alicia Rhodes
actress [2002-2012] X-rated films: 7 The Hardway, Orgazm Addictz, Good the Bad and the Filthy, White Knights and Pink Maidens, It’s My Party and I’ll Bang If I Want To1979 - P!nk (Alecia Moore)
singer: Get the Party Started, Missundaztood, 18 Wheeler, Dear Diary, Numb, My Vietnam, Split Personality, You Make Me Sick1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas
actor: The Adventures of Pinocchio, Tom and Huck, Man of the House, Home Improvement, Itsy Bitsy Spider cartoon1987 - Alexandre Bilodeau
Canadian freestyle skier: first back-to-back gold medal winner in a freestyle skiing event [moguls]: 2010 Vancouver Olympics and 2014 Sochi Olympics1987 - Wiz Khalifa
rapper: Black and Yellow, Roll Up, Work Hard, Play Hard, We Own It [Fast & Furious], We Dem Boyz, See You Again, Sucker for Pain1990 - Matthew Dellavedova
basketball [guard]: NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers [2013-2016]: 2016 NBA champs; Milwaukee Bucks [2016–2018]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2018–2021]; NBL: Melbourne United [2021–2022]; NBA: Sacramento Kings [2022– ]1990 - Dianne Doan
actress: Descendants, Descendants 2, Last Night in Suburbia, Warrior, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.1997 - Sydney Scotia
actress: Some Assembly Required, See Dad Run, The Haunted Hathaways, ReBoot: The Guardian Code2002 - Gaten Matarazzo
actor: Stranger Things, Prank Encounters
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Hit Music on This Day September 8
1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House (facts) - Rosemary Clooney
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