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1741 - George Frederick Handel completed his Messiah. It took the composer just 23 days to complete the timeless musical treasure which is still very popular during the Christmas holiday season.1814 - Frances Scott Key, an attorney in Washington, DC, was aboard a warship that was bombarding Fort McHenry (an outpost protecting the city of Baltimore, MD). Key wrote some famous words to express his feelings. Those words became The Star-Spangled Banner, which officially became the U.S. national anthem by an act of Congress in 1931.
1886 - George K. Anderson of Memphis, TN patented the typewriter ribbon. For those of you who don’t remember typewriters, no less their ribbons, these ribbons were inked and had to be threaded through prongs and from reel to reel. Very messy and a big pain in the neck.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. (Czolgosz was later electrocuted in Auburn, NY). Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as President, becoming the youngest (42) to attain the office.
1927 - Gene Austin recorded one of the first million sellers. He recorded his composition, My Blue Heaven, for Victor Records.
1936 - The NBC radio network presented John’s Other Wife for the first time. Actually, John’s other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.
1936 - Irving G. Thalberg, film producer and husband to actress Norma Shearer, died of pneumonia on this day. In 1937, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) established the Thalberg Memorial Award for people whose work reflected a “consistently high quality.”
1939 - After many years of experimentation, Russian-born aircraft designer Igor I. Sikorsky flew his first successful helicopter, the VS-300.
1940 - The Selective Service Act was passed by the U.S. Congress providing the first peacetime (the U.S. had not entered WWII yet) draft in the United States.
1948 - Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in New York at the site of the Secretariat building of the United Nations. The Secretariat was completed in the spring of 1950 and the entire U.N. complex was finished by 1952.
1948 - Gerald R. Ford upset Representative Bartel J. Jonkman in the Michigan 5th District Republican primary. Ford won the election that year and would remain in the U.S. House of Representatives for the next 25 years.
1957 - Richard Boone became the hired gun, Paladin. The CBS-TV series Have Gun Will Travel debuted this night. The popular western continued for six years.
1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
1965 - F-Troop premiered on ABC-TV. The nutty post-Civil War sitcom ran through Aug 31, 1967.
1965 - My Mother The Car premiered on NBC-TV. The Jerry Van Dyke (as Dave Crabtree), Ann Sothern (as Gladys Crabtree) series lasted for only 30 episodes, running through Sep 6, 1966.
1968 - Cardigan Bay was retired at the age of 12. The famous horse was the first harness racer to earn $1,000,000 in career winnings.
1972 - As lights went out in bedrooms throughout America, voices were heard repeating the good-night routine performed on this, the first performance of The Waltons on CBS-TV. “Good night, John Boy”, “Good night, Jim-Bob”, “Good night, Elizabeth” and so on... Families tuned in every Thursday night to get a TV view of the life happenings of the Walton family. The Depression years (and later) story, narrated by its creator, Earl Hamner, Jr., was seen through the eyes of the oldest of 7 children, John Boy, portrayed by Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas.
1973 - Donny Osmond received a gold record for his hit single, The Twelfth of Never The song, released in March of 1973, was one of five which turned gold for the young Osmond. His other solo successes were Sweet & Innocent, Go Away Little Girl, Hey Girl and Puppy Love.
1978 - The first show of the TV series Mork & Mindy, starring the irrepressible Robin Williams as Mork and actress Pam Dawber as Mindy, aired on ABC-TV. Mork had made an earlier (February, 1978) appearance, landing on earth during an episode of Happy Days. Na nu, na nu.
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries suffered when her car plunged off a mountain road. Her daughter, seventeen-year-old Stephanie, a passenger in the car, suffered bruises and trauma. Princess Grace, the former movie star, Grace Kelly, of Pennsylvania and Hollywood, had been married to Prince Ranier III of Monaco since 1956.
1989 - Bandleader Perez Prado died in Mexico City of a stroke. He was 72. In the early 1950s, Prado helped spread the mambo craze throughout the world. Prado hits included Mambo Number Five, Mambo Number Eight and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (#1 in 1955). He topped the Billboard chart again in 1958 with a cha-cha number, Patricia.
1990 - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr were the first father-and-son teammate combo to play on same baseball team: the Seattle Mariners. And, on this day, they hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning of a game at the California Angels. The Griffeys are the only father-and-son teammate combo to accomplish this feat.
1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp, Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America 1992 -- the first from the Aloha State.
1993 - Israel and Jordan signed an agreement fixing the borders between the two, laying the foundation for an end to the 1967 Six-Day War.
1994 - On this, the 34th day of a strike by players, acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced that the baseball season was over. All 28 baseball owners voted to cancel remaineder of the 1994 season.
1995 - The London auction house, Sotheby’s, auctioned Paul McCartney’s hand-written lyrics for the Beatles’ Getting Better (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) for £161,000 ($257,600). It was a record (pardon the expression) for a Beatles song.
1996 - Actress, dancer Juliet Prowse died at 59 years of age.
1996 - Miss Kansas, Tara Dawn Holland, won the Miss America beauty pageant.
1997 - LeAnn Rimes’ album You Light Up My Life debuted at #1 on the Billboard pop, country and contemporary Christian charts. She had just turned 15 years old.
1997 - At the 49th Annual Emmy Awards, Law and Order won Best Drama Series while Frasier won for Best Comedy Series.
1998 - WorldCom completed its $40-billion merger with MCI. “MCI WorldCom is open for business,” said Bert C. Roberts Jr., chairman of the company. “We have created a new kind of communications company with a unique set of assets, a top-flight group of employees, and a heritage for delivering the benefits of competition to our customers.”
1999 - Hurricane Floyd clobbered the Bahamas, toppling power lines, ripping roofs off homes and pushing a roiling sea into streets before heading toward the southeastern U.S. The storm forced the evacuation of 800,00 from coastal areas of South Carolina and 500,000 in Georgia.
2000 - Microsoft Windows Me (Millennium Edition) was released. It was the successor and last version of the popular Windows 9x series of operating systems which began with the enormously popular Windows 95. It also was, “Quite possibly, the most under-hyped version of Windows ever created.”
2001 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgard, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Dern, Michael O'Keefe and Chris North; Haiku Tunnel, with John Kornbluth, Warren Keith, Helen Schumaker, Harry Shearer, Joe Bellan and Margo Hall; and Hardball, starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D.B. Sweeney, Mike Mcglone and Sterling Elijah Brim.
2002 - American sprinter Tim Montgomery set a 9.78-second record in the 100-meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix in Paris.
2003 - Dhaher bin Thamer al-Shimry, a Saudi marijuana trafficker, was beheaded, bringing the number of beheadings in the kingdom to 41 for the year.
2004 - Arizona, California and Nevada joined with the U.S. government to undertake a 50-year, $620 million project to restore wildlife habitat along 342 miles of the lower Colorado River.
2004 - Firefox was released to the public. Developed by Mozilla, the Web browser features tabs to open multiple Web pages in a single window.
2005 - Delta and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Delta had lost over six billion USD since the start of 2001.
2006 - Mickey Hargitay died at 80 years of age. The Hungarian-born actor and world champion bodybuilder was named Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia (1955). Hargitaye was married to sex siren Jayne Mansfield (1957-1964).
2007 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews and Mary Steenburgen; Eastern Promises, with Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack, Donald Sumpter and Jerzy Skolimowski; King of California, starring Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Greg Davis Jr and Angel Oquendo; and Mr. Woodcock, with Seann William Scott, Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Suplee, Amy Poehler, Emily Wagner and Evan Helmuth.
2007 - Japan launched its much-delayed lunar probe, beginning what it calls the largest mission to the moon since the US Apollo flights. The Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) was launched aboard an H-2A rocket from the Japanese launch-pad on Tanegashima island.
2008 - An Aeroflot-Nord Boeing-737, traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm, crashed as it was attempting to land. All 88 people aboard, including 21 foreign nationals, were killed. A Russian investigator said the crash was caused by engine failure.
2009 - American film star, dancer and singer-songwriter Patrick Swayze died in Los Angeles at 57 years of age. He had suffered from pancreatic cancer for several years. Swayze was best known for his romantic roles in the surprise movie hits "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost". Trained as a ballet dancer, he got his start in acting on the New York stage, and his success in the Broadway production of "Grease" led to a stellar career in Hollywood.
2009 - Google rolled out Fast Flip, which lets users scroll through the contents of on-line newspapers in much the same way as they leaf through pages in print.
2010 - The Wildlife Conservation Society reported that only about 3,500 tigers worldwide were left in the wild, with less than a third of them breeding females. Most of the tigers were in India.
2011 - The World Health Organization reported that cases of tuberculosis resistant to a multitude of drug treatments were rising at an alarming rate across Europe.
2012 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, William Friedkin, Monica Raymund, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker, Josh Pais and Chris Eigeman; Resident Evil: Retribution, with Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr and Bingbing Li; Liberal Arts, starring Zac Efron, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Radnor, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Reaser, Richard Jenkins, Michael Weston and Kate Burton; and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, with Emma Watson, Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman, Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman, Melanie Lynskey, Dylan McDermott, Ezra Miller and Kate Walsh.
2012 - India approved a series of sweeping economic overhauls, including a plan to allow investments by foreign big-box retailers for the first time. This, in a dramatic push to reverse the nation’s economic decline and boost capital flows from overseas. The Indian cabinet had approved the move previously, but reversed course due to intense opposition from those who said foreign supermarkets would put small-time Indian shopkeepers out of business.
2013 - U.S. and Russia agreed on a “framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons.” Leaders of the main rebel coalition were angered by the agreement. General Selim Idris, the head of the rebels, said the U.S.-Russian agreement to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons was a blow to the two-and-a-half-year uprising to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power.
2014 - Thousands of pro-democracy activists marched silently through Hong Kong. The ‘black cloth’ protestors said they felt betrayed and angry by Beijing’s refusal to allow fully-democratic elections for the city’s next chief executive in 2017.
2014 - Veterans of elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200 rallied to its defense after 43 ‘refusenik’ members said they would no longer take part in “injustices” against millions of Palestinians. 200 veterans of the unit denounced their former comrades’ refusal to serve.
2015 - Germany reported that Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War II had pushed it to the limit. Vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said there were “many signs that Germany this year would take in not 800,000 refugees, as forecast by the interior ministry, but one million.” Austria and Slovakia said they had also reinstated border controls to cope with the flood of refugees into their countries.
2016 - Israel and the U.S. signed an agreement that would provide Israel as much as $3.8 billion a year over 10 years, more aid than the U.S. had ever provided to any country, but lower than the $4 billion to $5 billion a year that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought. Netanyahu also agreed to limit Israel’s ability to lobby Congress for more aid, unless it was at war. And he agreed to not ask Congress for more aid to develop missile defense systems.
2017 - The European Union said it has extended sanctions by six months on dozens of Russian citizens and companies deemed to have had a role in threatening the stability and independence of Ukraine.
2017 - 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver, a pledge at Louisiana State University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity, died of acute alcohol poisoning. On Oct 11 ten people were arrested on hazing charges related to his death.
2018 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: The Predator, starring Yvonne Strahovski, Olivia Munn and Jacob Tremblay; A Simple Favor, with Henry Golding, Blake Lively and Linda Cardellini; Unbroken: Path to Redemption, starring Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson and Will Graham; Armed, with William Fichtner, Ryan Guzman and Mario Van Peebles; Bel Canto, starring Julianne Moore, Christopher Lambert and Ken Watanabe; The Children Act, starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Fionn Whitehead; Lizzie, with Kristen Stewart, Chloë Sevigny and Kim Dickens; Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache; MDMA, with Francesca Eastwood, Elisa Donovan and Pierson Fode; The Riot Act, starring Brett Cullen, Connor Price and Brandon Keener; Where Hands Touch, with Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg and Christopher Eccleston; and White Boy Rick, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rory Cochrane.
2018 - Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, reached a plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office that required him to assist the Russia investigation and converted him to a government cooperator.
2018 - Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane and continued to wreak havoc along the East Coast. The big storm blew down trees and power lines and forced some 20,000 people to flee to shelters. Florence eventually left 39 people dead. Damage in the state was later estimated at nearly $17 billion.
2019 - State nuclear energy company Rosatom said Russia’s first-floating nuclear power plant, known as Akademik Lomonosov, had been moved to its permanent base near the isolated Russian town of Chukotka, across the Bering Strait from Alaska. The plant was replacing a coal-fired power plant and an aging nuclear power plant supplying more than 50,000 people with electricity.
2019 - British police reported the theft of a fully-functional 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, where it had been installed as an art exhibit. The toilet, named America, was previously on display in a cubicle at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, where more than 100,000 visitors were able to use it. Speculation about the fate of the toilet included it being melted down. Local imitations of the work have been made, including one that was itself stolen.
2020 - POTUS Trump visited California and blamed the wildfires ravaging the West Coast on the failure by Western states to properly manage their forests. Meanwhile, the fires pushed into new areas, prompting more evacuations in Idaho, Oregon and California. At least 27 people had died and dozens more were missing.
2020 - California and 19 other states filed a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to weaken curbs on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, saying the widespread West Coast wildfires should be a reminder of the dangers posed by climate change.
2020 - Amazon.com said it was recruiting 100,000 more workers during the fourth U.S. hiring spree it had announced for the year. This, to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during the pandemic.
2021 - Norm Macdonald, the acerbic, sometimes controversial comedian familiar to millions as the Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live from 1994 to 1998, died (leukemia, age 61) in Los Angeles.
2021 - California voters rejected a recall referendum to remove Governor Gavin Newsom in a landslide - 64% to 36%. The election also spawned a campaign to end California’s 100-year-old recall law.
2022 - Crowds gathered in London to watch a horse-drawn carriage take the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where Britain’s longest-serving monarch will lie in state until her state funeral at Westminster Abbey. King Charles III and his siblings marched behind the coffin, as did his sons. Well into the night, thousands of people, many having waited hours in line, filed solemnly past the late queen’s coffin, which was in the middle of the 900-year-old landmark. Some of the mourners were in tears. “I had to be here,” said Esther Ravenor, a Kenyan who lives in the U.K. “She is a true role model. She loved us all, all of us.” Elizabeth died Sep 8, 2022 at age 96.
2022 - A federal jury convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who had been one of the biggest R&B stars in the world. Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement. Prosecutors had painted a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse -- then discard them.
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Birthdays on This Day September 14
1849 - Ivan Petróvitx Pàvlov
physiologist: 1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine; developer of Pavlov’s Theory; died Feb 27, 19361867 - Charles Gibson
artist: The Gibson Girl; died Dec 23, 19441879 - Margaret Sanger
nurse, feminist: birth control advocate; 1st president of International Planned Parenthood; died Sep 6, 19661910 - Jack (John Edward) Hawkins
actor: Ben Hur, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Lola, Zulu; died July 18, 19731914 - Clayton Moore
actor: The Lone Ranger, Jesse James Rides Again; died Dec 28, 19991915 - Douglas Kennedy
actor: The Destructors, Valley of Mystery, Flight of the Lost Balloon, The Alligator People, Lone Texan, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold; he appeared in some 190 films & TV shows; died Aug 10, 19731920 - Kay Medford (Maggie O’Regin)
actress: Lola, Funny Girl, Butterfield 8, The Rat Race, Dean Martin Presents, The Dean Martin Show, To Rome with Love; died Apr 10, 19801921 - Constance Baker Motley
civil rights attorney; 1st woman elected as president of Manhattan [NYC]; 1st black woman to become a state senator of New York; federal judge; died Sep 21, 20051921 - Hughes Rudd
news correspondent: CBS Morning News [20 years]; ABC; died Oct 13, 19921924 - Jerry Coleman
baseball: NY Yankees; broadcaster: San Diego Padres, CBS Radio Sports: “There’s a long drive. The outfielder is back at the warning track and hits his head on the wall! It rolls back toward second base! This could be a triple!”; died Jan 5, 20141927 - Gardner Dickinson
golf: member of NCAA Championship team at LSU [1947]; 1st PGA tour victory: Miami Beach Open [1956]; last tour victory: Atlanta Classic [defeated Jack Nicklaus in playoff: 1971]; member U.S. Ryder Cup teams [1967, 1971]; member of Sports Halls of Fame: Georgia, Alabama, LSU; died Apr 19, 19981930 - Allan Bloom
author: The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship; died Oct 7, 19921933 - Zoe Caldwell
actress: Medea, Lantern Hill; died Feb 16, 20201933 - Harve Presnell
actor: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Old School, Legally Blonde, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot, The Family Man, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Patch Adams, Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Flags of Our Fathers, The Pretender, Andy Barker, P.I., Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Dawson’s Creek; died Jun 30, 20091934 - Kate Millett
writer: The Basement, Flying, Sexual Politics; sculptor; died Sep 6, 20171935 - Ed Khayat
football: Philadelphia Eagles, NE Patriots1936 - Walter Koenig
actor: Star Trek, Antony and Cleopatra, Moontrap1936 - Nicol Williamson
actor: The Advocate, Christopher Columbus, Excalibur, The Human Factor, Robin and Marian, Hamlet; died Dec 16, 20111940 - Larry Brown
basketball coach: Southern Methodist Univ; only person to coach two NBA franchises in same season [San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers [1991-1992]; only coach to win both an NCAA National Championship [Kansas, 1988] and NBA Championship [Detroit, 2004]; 1,275–965 in career1944 - Joey (Davenie) Heatherton
actress: Dean Martin Presents, Cry-Baby, Bluebeard; daughter of Ray Heatherton of Tropicana Orange Juice fame1946 - Pete Agnew
musician: bass, singer: group: Nazareth: Love Hurts1947 - Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman
singer: group: Sha Na Na: LP: Rock & Roll is Here to Stay!; VJ: VH-11947 - Sam Neill
actor: In the Mouth of Madness, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, The Piano, Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October, Sleeping Dogs, Ivanhoe, The Final Conflict, My Brilliant Career1949 - James Dearden
writer, director: Rogue Trader, A Kiss Before Dying, Pascali’s Island, Diversion, The Contraption1949 - Ed King
musician: guitar: groups: Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense and Peppermints; Lynard Skynard: Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special, Swamp Music; died Aug 22, 20181950 - Paul Kossoff
musician: guitar: group: Free: All Right Now; died Mar 19, 19761953 - Robert Wisdom
actor: Happy Town, Burn Notice, The Collector, Ball Don’t Lie, The Hawk Is Dying, Duplex, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, Mighty Joe Young, Prison Break, The Wire1954 - Barry Cowsill
singer: group: The Cowsills: Indian Lake, Hair, The Rain, the Park and Other Things; died in New Orleans, LA of injuries related to Hurricane Katrina [Aug 29th, 2005]; his body was recovered Dec 28, 2005 from the Chartres Street Wharf1957 - Tim (Timothy Charles) Wallach
baseball: Montreal Expos [all-star: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990], LA Dodgers, California Angels1959 - Mary (Frances) Crosby
actress: Dallas: she shot J.R.; The Berlin Conspiracy, Corporate Affairs, Deadly Innocence; daughter of Bing and Kathryn Crosby1959 - Ashlyn Gere
actress [1986-2003] X-rated films: Swedish Erotica Featurettes 5, Deep Inside Centerfold Girls, Sexual Instinct, Bonnie & Clyde: Outlaws of Love, Sorority Sex Kittens; actress: The One, Willard, The X-Files1959 - Morten Harket
singer: group: a-ha: Take on Me1960 - Anthony Addabbo
actor: Black Sea 213, A Place Called Truth, Who Killed Buddy Blue?, Love on the Run, Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story1960 - Melissa Leo
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: The Fighter [2011]; Homicide: Life on the Street, All My Children, The Young Riders, 21 Grams, Frozen River1960 - Callum Keith Rennie
actor: Due South, Battlestar Galactica, Californication, Shattered, Normal, Code Name: The Cleaner, Unnatural & Accidental1962 - Robert Herjavec
businessman, investor, TV Shark Tank shark; more1964 - Faith Ford
actress: Hope & Faith, Murphy Brown, Thirtysomething, Another World, If It’s Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium, The Norm Show1965 - Dmitry Medvedev
tenth Prime Minister of Russia [2012-2020]; third President of Russia [2008-2012]1967 - Anna Malle
actress [1994-2005]: X-rated films: Natural Born Thrillers, Let’s Play Doctor, The Big Stick-Up, Taboo 14: Kissing Cousins, Witches Are Bitches, Carnal Cuties, Babes Behind Bars, Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures series; died Jan 25, 20061969 - Michael J. Cox
actor [1993-2005]: X-rated films: The Devil in Miss Jones 5: The Inferno, All the President’s Women, The Hollywood Starlet Search, Candy’s Custom Car Wash, Busty Bangkok Bangers, Swinging in the Rain, L.A. Uncovered, Nothing to Hide 3 & 4, Loose Screw, Busty Pom Pom Girls1971 - Pat Healy
actor: Great World of Sound, Harmony and Me, Treasure Island, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Great World of Sound, Rescue Dawn, Mullitt1971 - Kimberly Williams
actress: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II, Jake’s Women, Elephant Juice, Simpatico1972 - David Bell
baseball: Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies1973 - Andrew Lincoln
actor: The Walking Dead, Afterlife, Teachers, Love Actually, Human Traffic, Hey Good Looking!, Made in Dagenham1973 - Nas (Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones)
rapper: LPs: It Was Written, I Am..., Hip Hop Is Dead, Untitled, Life Is Good, King’s Disease II1977 - Kenny Wright
football: Minnesota Vikings, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars1978 - Ron DeSantis
conservative Republican U.S. politician: representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district [2013-2018]; governor of Florida [2019- ]1981 - Ashley Roberts
singer: group: Pussycat Dolls [2003–2010]: Don’t Cha, Stickwitu, Buttons, When I Grow Up, Jai Ho! [You Are My Destiny]; solo: Theme from a Summer Place, Yesterday, Clockwork, Woman Up; TV personality: I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Dancing on Ice, Saturday Night Takeaway, Butterfly Effect1983 - Amy Winehouse
songwriter, Grammy-winning singer: Rehab, Back to Black [2008]; Just Friends, Love Is a Losing Game, Tears Dry on Their Own, You Know I'm No Good; died Jul 23, 20111986 - A.J. Trauth
actor: Even Stevens, Kim Possible, Numb3rs, Bones, The Last Word, Wild Hearts, Mystery Woman: Game Time, The Deerings, Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum1987 - Michael Crabtree
football [wide receiver]: Texas Tech Univ, San Francisco 49ers [2009-2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII; Oakland Raiders [2015–2017]; Baltimore Ravens [2018]; Arizona Cardinals [2019]1989 - Jessica Brown Findlay
actress: Downton Abbey, Jamaica Inn, Albatross, Black Mirror, Winter’s Tale, Lullaby1989 - Jimmy Butler
basketball: NBA: Chicago Bulls [2011–2017]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2017–2018]; Philadelphia 76ers [2018–2019]; Miami Heat [2019- ]: 2021 NBA finals1989 - Tony Finau
golf pro: six PGA Tour wins; 2018 Ryder Cup1989 - Jesse James
actor: Pearl Harbor, As Good As It Gets, The Gingerbread Man, A Dog of Flanders, Slap Her, She’s French
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Hit Music on This Day September 14
1948A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic (facts) - Doris Day
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