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1620 - Do you stick your nose up in the air and say that your ancestors came over on the Mayflower? If so, you of staunchly English pedigree, should know that on this day, 102 passengers and crew set sail on the ocean blue from Plymouth, England. Their destination was the New World. And, although they encountered stormy weather and treacherous seas, this hearty group of 41 men, the rest, women and children; half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs, made it to Provincetown, Massachusetts on November 21, 1620. A month later, the Plymouth Colony was founded by the passengers of the "Mayflower". Better check that family tree ...
1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was used for the first time on a document granting president Washington the authority to consult with the British about prisoner exchanges.
1810 - Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla began an uprising meant to free Mexico from Spanish colonial rule -- on what is now considered Mexican Independence Day.
1840 - The term “OK” was popularized by the O.K. Club, a Democratic political group. The initials stood for the birthplace of president Martin Van Buren: Old Kinderhook, New York. Now, if that explanation does not satisfy your curiosity, please do read on...
1862 - The Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland began. The three-day battle was the bloodiest in American history. Out of the 56.000 Union troops engaged in the fighting, 12,400 were killed. The South committed 37,400 troops and lost a staggering 10,300. During this battle, one out of every four participants was killed, wounded, captured, or missing in action. To put things in perspective, more Americans died at Antietam than did in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Spanish-American War combined. The Battle of Antietam marked the turning point in the Civil War. Even though the battle was a draw, it was considered a strategic victory for the Union.
1893 - At noon, a shot rang out and some 100,000 determined settlers raced into the Cherokee Strip, a 226-mile tract of land between Oklahoma and Kansas. The 100,000 were competing for 42,000 claims. By sunset, there were tent cities, endless lines at federal land offices and more losers than winners. The Cherokee Strip Land Run was a tumultuous finale to what many have called the last American frontier.
1908 - General Motors was founded on this day. The man responsible for the beginning of the huge auto-manufacturing company (maker of Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet) was William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant.
1919 - The The charter of incorporation for The American Legion was issued by the U.S. Congress on this day.
1920 - Enrico Caruso made his last recordings for Victor Records at Trinity Church studio in Camden, NJ. Caruso sang the Domine Deus and Crucifixus from Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle.
1924 - Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major-league baseball record by knocking in 12 runs in a single game.
1938 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded the swing classic Boogie Woogie for Victor Records.
1940 - Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rayburn served as Speaker for 17 years.
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
1941 - CBS radio debuted The Arkansas Traveler. The program was later renamed The Bob Burns Show. Burns played a very strange musical instrument called the ‘bazooka’. The U.S. Army chose the name to identify its rocket launcher, because it looked so much like Burns’ bazooka, believe it or not...
1945 - The Japanese garrison in Hong Kong surrendered to Great Britain.
1950 - The U.S. 8th Army broke out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and began heading north to meet MacArthur’s troops heading south from Inchon.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given the OK to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.
1955 - Play-Doh was introduced. Joe McVicker of Kutol Chemicals in Cincinnati was the man behind Play-Doh. His sister-in-law, a nursery school teacher, had been complaining about the modeling clay she had been using. It wouldn’t model! So McVicker sent her some of the non-toxic wallpaper cleaning stuff his company had created. What a hit! Soon the Cincinnati Board of Education was using it in all their elementary schools. McVicker then took his invention to an educational convention where department store Woodard & Lothrop picked it up to carry in their toy department.
1960 - Amos Alonzo Stagg announced his retirement from football coaching. He was 98 years old at the time!
1963 - She Loves You, by The Beatles, was released for the first time in the U.S. Amazingly (from our current perspective), the song did not hit U.S. music charts until Jan 25th, 1964. She Loves You reached #1 on Billboard Mar 21, 1964, but had been #2 for four weeks, held back only by I Want to Hold Your Hand -- by The Beatles.
1963 - The science-fiction anthology series The Outer Limits premiered on ABC-TV.
1964 - Shindig premiered on ABC-TV. The program had go-go girls and the biggest rock bands of the day in a dance party environment. Regulars were Jimmie O’Neill and the Shindig Dancers. The first show featured Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, The Wellingtons, Bobby Sherman and comic Alan Sues.
1965 - San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral became the site of the first concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington.
1965 - The Dean Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV. It was a weekly variety show that continued on the network for nine years. Regulars over the years were The Goldiggers, Ken Lane, The Ding-a-Ling Sisters, Tom Bosley, Dom DeLuise, Nipsey Russell, Rodney Dangerfield and Les Brown and His Band. The theme song? Everybody Loves Somebody.
1968 - The Andy Griffith Show was seen for the final time on CBS-TV. Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith), Opie (Ron Howard), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), and the rest of the gang from Mayberry, NC, are still seen regularly on TV through syndication.
1968 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon proved he was a real party animal on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In by uttering the catchphrase, “Sock it to ... me?”
1972 - The Bob Newhart Show premiered on CBS-TV. Bob Hartley (played by Newhart) is a successful Chicago psychologist who shares secretary Carol (Marcia Wallace) with Dentist Jerry Robinson (played by Peter Bonerz). Part of the show revolves around his crazy dealings with his patients. The rest involves his school teacher wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette), neighbor/airline navigator Howard Borden (Bill Daily) and others in their apartment building. the show ran through Sep 2, 1978.
1975 - Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia (National Day).
1977 - Marc Bolan, leader of the British band T. Rex, died in a car crash in London. He was 28 years old. The car was driven by Gloria Jones, an American singer with whom Bolan was living. The most memorable T. Rex hit was Bang a Gong (Get It On) (1971).
1978 - Boston’s album Don’t Look Back ascended to number one on U.S. charts. Other LPs in the top five that week: 2. Some Girls (The Rolling Stones); 3. Double Vision (Foreigner); 4. Grease (Soundtrack); 5. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Soundtrack).
1979 - A fire in California’s Hollywood Hills destroyed 23 homes, including those of singer-actress Mackenzie Phillips and British bluesman John Mayall.
1981 - Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, at age 25, knocked out Thomas ‘Hit Man’ Hearns. Leonard won the welterweight boxing championship -- and the richest payday in boxing history.
1987 - The Montreal Protocol was signed by 24 countries in an effort to save the Earth’s ozone layer by reducing emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.
1988 - Tom Browning made it into the history books of major league baseball when he pitched a perfect game. The 12th perfect game in history was a National League match between Cincinnati and Los Angeles with a score of 1-0.
1989 - Debbye Turner, Miss Missouri, was crowned Miss America at the pageant in Atlantic City, NJ.
1991 - A federal judge in Washington dismissed the Iran-Contra charges against Oliver North.
1992 - Former U.S. Representative Millicent Fenwick (R-NJ), died at the age of 82.
1993 - Frasier debuted on NBC-TV. The sitcom was spin-off of Cheers, which had ended its long run the previous season. Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer as a psychologist who returns to Seattle to host a radio talk-show. The supporting cast includes David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Peri Gilpin, and Jane Leeves. Frasier has won several Emmy awards, including prizes for Grammer and Pierce.
1995 - Miss Oklahoma, Shawntel Smith, was crowned the 75th Miss America in Atlantic City, The highlight of the night, however, came from a call-in vote pushed by pageant president Leonard Horn. Horn wanted to know how viewers felt about the swimsuit competition, long a target of complaints from some women. But the vote favored that portion of the competition. Nearly one million viewers cast their votes, 79 percent in favor and 21 percent opposed to the swimsuit competition.
1996 - Romania and Hungary signed a treaty to end a centuries-old rift between the countries. The agreement helped the two neighbors join NATO and the European Union.
1997 - Typhoon Oliwa hit southwestern Japan. The storm killed seven people and left 80,000 homeless.
1998 - The first photos of Phobos (a moon of Mars) from the Mars Global Surveyor were announced. The diameter of Phobos is 16 miles at the equator and 11 miles pole to pole. Deimos (the other Mars moon) measured 7 miles in diameter.
1999 - Hurricane Floyd stormed ashore, pounding North Carolina with 110 mph winds, dumping more than a foot of rain, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives. Floyd also caused the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history, with 2.6 million people ordered away from the shores in the hurricane’s path.
1999 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $1-billion program to fund minority scholarships. The twenty-year plan was called the Gates Millennium Scholars program.
2000 - American Nancy Johnson captured the first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics, winning the women’s 10-meter air rifle competition.
2001 - Movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff died in Burbank, CA. He was 83 years old.
2002 - Indian-ruled Kashmir ended the first stage of state assembly elections. The voting went on against a backdrop of violence and in the shadow of a tense confrontation between nuclear powers India and Pakistan.
2003 - Actor (Rawhide), singer (The Purple People Eater) Sheb Wooley died in Nashville, TN. He was 82 years old.
2004 - Hurricane Ivan made landfall in Alabama with winds of 130 mph, packing deadly tornadoes and a powerful punch of waves and rain. The storm threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. At least 23 people were killed.
2005 - Cry_Wolf debuted in U.S. theatres. The thriller stars Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki and Jon Bon Jovi.
2005 - The Bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson was commemorated in a re-enactment of his 1806 waterborne state funeral procession on the River Thames in London.
2006 - Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the U.S., making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.
2007 - The Sopranos won best drama series and 30 Rock was best comedy series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. NBC won seven awards, HBO and ABC both won six.
2007 - Las Vegas police booked O.J. Simpson on five felony counts, including suspicion of assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. Simpson was charged with being part of an armed group that broke into a hotel room on Sep 13, 2007 and snatched memorabilia from his his sports career.
2008 - Urgently trying to help ease credit stresses amid a Wall Street meltdown, the U.S. Federal Reserve pumped $70 billion into the financial system -- and it agreed to a 2-year, $85-billion loan to insurance giant American International Group (AIG) in exchange for a 79.9% equity stake. Central banks in Europe and Japan also pumped tens of billions into their banking systems to keep money flowing.
2009 - Russia reached a settlement with Bank of New York Mellon over a $22.5 billion lawsuit against the bank. Russia would receive at least $14 million for court costs in the out-of-court deal, and would also get a $4 billion discounted loan from the bank in an “act of goodwill.” The case stems from a decade-old scandal in which a Bank of New York vice president and her husband were convicted of illegally wiring $7.5 billion of Russian money into accounts at the bank.
2010 - The Israeli government reported its plan to buy U.S.-made F-35 stealth fighter jets. Israel planned on buying 20 of the warplanes for nearly $3 billion and would begin taking delivery of the jets by 2015.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Straw Dogs, starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods, Dominic Purcell and Rhys Coiro; Drive, with Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman; I Don’t Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks, Kelsey Grammer and Seth Meyers, Olivia Munn and Jane Curtin; Restless, with Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Lusia Strus and Jane Adams; Stay Cool, starring Winona Ryder, Mark Polish, Sean Astin, Hilary Duff, Josh Holloway, Jon Cryer and Chevy Chase; Prince of Swine with Nell Ruttledge, Mark Toma, John Klemantaski, Angel Marin, Julian Starks and Amber Holley; the documentary The Weird World of Blowfly; and the short, The Whale, with Kevin Machate, Colin Beaton and Julia Beaton.
2011 - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts, an American and two Russians, landed in Kazakhstan following a stay at the International Space Station. The launch of Soyuz TMA-21 had been devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space mission -- by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.
2011 - Libyan revolutionary forces faced fierce resistance as they streamed into Bani Walid and Sirte -- towns that were among the last remaining bastions of support for Moammar Gadhafi. Meanwhile, the U.N. General Assembly voted to give Libya’s seat in the world body to the National Transitional Council (the de facto parliament of Libya, established by anti-Gaddafi forces).
2012 - A 7th person died at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland from an antibiotic-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC). The outbreak stemmed from a single patient who carried the superbug into the hospital the previous summer. Gene detectives spent six months teasing apart the bacteria’s DNA to finally solve the germ’s mysterious spread.
2013 - A former U.S. Navy reservist opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast Washington, DC. Aaron Alexis (35), a civilian contractor from Queens, NY killed 12 people before he was shot and killed by police. It was the second-deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military base (behind only the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009).
2014 - The Three Feet for Safety Act took effect in California. The law requires motorists to give bicyclists at least three feet of space when passing by them.
2014 - NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017.
2015 - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation group reported the number of fish in the oceans had been cut in half since 1970. The plunge to the “brink of collapse” was caused by over-fishing, damage to coral reefs, coastal development, pollution and climate change, which continues to raise temperatures and make waters more acidic.
2015 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake killed some 20 people and sent powerful waves barreling into coastal areas of Chile, forcing more than a million people from their homes.
2016 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Blair Witch, with Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry; Bridget Jones’s Baby, starring Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey and Colin Firth; Snowden, starring Scott Eastwood, Shailene Woodley and Nicolas Cage; 31, with Meg Foster, Sheri Moon Zombie and Elizabeth Daily; Bastard Son of a Thousand Fathers, with Lanre Sarumi, Tirf Alexius and Remoh Romeo; The Devil’s Dolls, starring Christopher Wiehl, Kym Jackson and Tina Lifford; The Good Neighbor, with James Caan, Logan Miller and Keir Gilchrist; Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?, with Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore and Cloris Leachman; The Last Descent, with Chadwick Hopson, Alexis Johnson and Landon Henneman; Malibu Road, starring Jessica Jade Andres, Michael Andricopoulos and Lillian Solange Beaudoin; Miss Stevens, with Lily Rabe, Rob Huebel and Oscar Nuñez; Operation Avalanche, starring Matt Johnson, Owen Williams and Josh Boles; and The Vessel, starring Lucas Quintana, Martin Sheen and Jacqueline Duprey.
2016 - Donald Trump, who, for several years, had spread false claims about Barack Obama’s birthplace, grudgingly accepted the fact that the president was born in the U.S., “period.” But Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton’s team of starting the so-called ‘birther’ campaign in 2008. The ‘birther’ movement had questioned the Hawaii-born Obama’s citizenship and therefore his eligibility as president. Hillary Clinton said Trump had founded his campaign on “this outrageous lie.”
2016 - Michelle Obama warned young voters against being “tired or turned off” on election day. She urged them to rally behind Hillary Clinton, “particularly given the alternative.” Mrs. Obama was emerging as one of Clinton’s most effective advocates, especially with voters who backed President Barack Obama but are less enthusiastic about his potential Democratic successor. Speaking to mostly students at George Mason University in Virginia, she repeatedly jabbed Trump without mentioning him by name, declaring that being president “isn’t anything like reality TV.”
2017 - Counterterrorism analysts said thousands of Shiite Muslims from Afghanistan and Pakistan were being recruited by Iran to fight with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria. The recruits were being lured by promises of housing, a monthly salary of up to $600 and the possibility of employment in Iran when they returned.
2017 - The 184th Oktoberfest opened in Munich, Germany. The world’s largest beer festival ran thru October 3rd. It typically draws over six million visitors over its three-week run and includes massive beer tents, each run by a different Bavarian brewer, as well as amusement rides and activities.
2018 - Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced that a sphinx made of sandstone had been found in the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan. The discovery was made during work to drain groundwater from the site. The ministry said the statue probably dates back to the Ptolemaic time, 30BC-320BC.
2018 - Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad linked over half of the Netherland’s bishops between 1945 and 2010 to sexual abuse. The bishops were either child abusers or allowed the transfer of abusive priests.
2019 - Xiaoning Sui, of Surrey, British Columbia, was arrested in Spain on a charge of fraud and conspiracy. Sui was accused of paying $400,000 in 2018 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as a fake soccer recruit.
2019 - The World Health Organization (WHO) said three people had died and 222 had been infected with listeria in Spain’s largest ever outbreak. This, while Sudan’s Health Ministry reported that seven people had died from a cholera outbreak over the previous three weeks.
2020 - South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co Ltd said it had delivered the world’s first very large container ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Singapore’s Eastern Pacific Shipping Pte Ltd. Ship owners were looking to LNG-powered vessels to meet the International Maritime Organization’s environmental regulations that call for ship emissions to be reduced by more than 30% by 2025 from 2008 levels. The IMO rules also target 40% emissions reductions by 2030 and by 70% reductions by 2050.
2020 - The U.N. children’s agency UNICEF called on Nigerian authorities to urgently review an Islamic court’s decision to sentence a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison -- for blasphemy. The boy was convicted in August of making uncomplimentary remarks about God during an argument with a friend in northern Kano state.
2021 - Classic movie star Jane Powell died at her home in Wilton, Conn. She was 92 years old. Powell appeared in dozens of films, including Song of the Open Road (1944), Royal Wedding (1950), The Girl Most Likely (1958) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).
2021 - Chinese health officials announced that more than 1 billion people -- or about 72% of its 1.4 billion people -- had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
2021 - The Wall of the Disappeared, a U.S.-funded photo exhibit, opened in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The display, showing photos of dozens of people who were missing or alleged to be held in Chinese-run camps in Xinjiang, China, highlighted China’s treatment of the Uyghur population, an ethnic minority that the country’s communist government had subjected to human rights abuses, including reported internment and sterilization.
2021 - The European Commission launched a health crisis body to coordinate E.U. spending of almost €30 billion ($35.3 billion) to prepare for a future pandemic.
2022 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Silent Twins, with Jodhi May, Letitia Wright, Michael Smiley and Jack Bandeira; The Woman King, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Viola Davis, John Boyega and Lashana Lynch; and Moonage Daydream, a David Bowie documentary (at IMAX).
2022 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly criticized Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Modi told the Russian president during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that “today’s era is not an era of war. I have spoken to you on the phone about this," the Indian leader continued. Putin responded, “I know your position on the conflict in Ukraine, the concerns that you constantly express. We will do everything to stop this as soon as possible.” That Putin quote got great worldwide press coverage, but Putin -- as always -- did not live up to that promise.
2022 - California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) challenged Ron DeSantis (R) to a televised debate. This, after Newsom decried the Florida governor and his conservative counterpart, Texas’ Greg Abbott, for relocating vulnerable migrants in protest of President Biden’s border policies. And Newsom called on the Department of Justice to investigate whether Abbott, who that same day bused some 100 migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, and DeSantis, who flew some 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, were in violation of federal law.
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Birthdays on This Day September 16
1823 - Francis Parkman
author: The Oregon Trail; died Nov 8, 18931875 - J.C. (James Cash) Penney
merchant: founder: J.C. Penney Co. died Feb 12, 19711887 - Louise Arner Boyd
explorer: first woman to fly over the North Pole [at the age of 67]; died Sep 14, 19721890 - George Whitney Calhoun
sportswriter: Green Bay Press Gazette; cofounder [w/Earl Curly Lambeau] of Green Bay Packers [Calhoun named the team]; died Dec 6, 19631908 - (Colonel) Buster ‘Bus’ Mills
baseball: SL Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, SL Browns, NY Yankees, Cleveland Indians; died Dec 1, 19911914 - Allen Funt
radio/TV producer, host: Candid Microphone, Candid Camera; films: What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, Money Talks; died Sep 5, 19991916 - Arleen Whelan
actress: Raiders of Old California, The Women of Pitcairn Island, The Sun Shines Bright, Passage West, That Wonderful Urge, Castle in the Desert; died Apr 7, 19931919 - Marvin Middlemark
inventor: rabbit ears TV antenna; died Sep 14, 19891922 - Guy Hamilton
film director: Goldfinger, Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, Force 10 from Navarone, The Mirror Crack’d, Evil Under the Sun, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Try This One for Size; died Apr 20, 20161922 - Janis Paige (Donna Mae Tjaden)
actress: The Pajama Game, Silk Stockings, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Hero1924 - Lauren Bacall (Betty Perske)
actress: Key Largo, Applause, Woman of the Year, How to Marry a Millionaire, To Have and Have Not; married actor Humphrey Bogart; died Aug 12, 20141925 - Charlie Byrd
musician: guitar: Meditation, Desafinado [w/Stan Getz]; died Nov 30, 19991925 - B.B. (Riley B.) King
musician, singer: The Thrill Is Gone, I Like to Live the Love, Rock Me Baby; appeared in films: Into the Night, Amazon Women of the Moon; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [1987]; died May 14, 20151925 - Morgan Woodward
actor: The Waltons, Dark Before Dawn, The Longest Drive; died Feb 22, 20191926 - John Knowles
author: Backcasts: Memories & Recollections of Seventy Years as a Sportsman; died Nov 29, 20011926 - Robert H. Schuller
pastor, motivational speaker, author, televangelist: Hour of Power; founder of Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA; died Apr 2, 20151927 - Peter Falk
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Price of Tomatoes: The Dick Powell Show [1961-62]; Columbo [1971-1972, 1974-1975, 1975-1976, 1989-1990]; Murder by Death, Pocketful of Miracles , The Great Race, The In-Laws, The Princess Bride; died Jun 23, 20111927 - Jack Kelly
actor: Maverick, Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal, Get Christie Love, To Hell and Back; host: NBC Comedy Theater; mayor: Huntington Beach, California; died Nov 7, 19921930 - Anne Francis
actress: Funny Girl, Blackboard Jungle, Laguna Heat, Battle Cry, Bad Day at Black Rock, Born Again; died Jan 2, 20111934 - Elgin Baylor
Basketball Hall of Famer: LA Lakers: holds NBA Playoff Record for points scored in a game [61], and for points scored in a playoff series [284] [both in 1962]; died Mar 22, 20211934 - George Chakiris
Academy Award-winning actor, dancer: West Side Story [1961]; Is Paris Burning, Dallas1936 - Gordon Beck
jazz pianist: group: Gordon Beck Trio: Dr. Dolittle Loves Jazz, All in the Morning, Gyroscope, Sunbird, One for the Road, Once Is Never Enough; died Nov 6, 20111938 - Larry Grantham
football: NY Jets linebacker: Super Bowl III; died Jun 18, 20171942 - Bernie Calvert
musician: bass: group: The Hollies: The Air that I Breathe; group: The Dolphins1943 - Joe Butler
musician: drums; singer: founding member of The Lovin’ Spoonful: Do You Belive in Magic?, You Didn’t Have to be So Nice, Daydream, You Baby, Wild About My Lovin’, On the Road Again1944 - Linda Henning
actress: Petticoat Junction1944 - Betty Kelly
singer: group: Martha and the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street1948 - Kenny Jones
musician: drums: group: Small Faces, Faces: Stay with Me; group: The Who1949 - Ed Begley Jr.
actor: Young Sheldon, St. Elsewhere, Parenthood, She-Devil, The Applegates, The Accidental Tourist, The In-Laws1950 - David Bellamy
singer: duo: The Bellamy Brothers: Let Your Love Flow, If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me; songwriter: Spiders and Snakes1950 - Susan Ruttan
actress: L.A. Law, Sweet 15, A Perfect Little Murder, Funny About Love, Fire and Rain, Chances Are, Bad Dreams, Eye of the Demon, Bad Manners1952 - Ron Blair
musician: bass: group: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American Girl, Breakdown, Listen to Her Heart, I Need to Know, Refugee1952 - Mickey Rourke
actor: Body Heat, Diner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Year of the Dragon, Nine Weeks, Barfly, Angel Heart, Johnny Handsome, Wild Orchid, Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man1953 - Kurt Fuller
actor: Wayne’s World, Ghostbusters II, No Holds Barred, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Auto Focus, That’s My Bush!, Nailed, The Prankster, Van Wilder: Freshman Year, Mr. Woodcock, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Civilization of Maxwell Bright, Better with You, Evil1955 - Robin (R) Yount
Baseball Hall of Famer: Milwaukee Brewers outfielder [all-star: 1980, 1982, 1983/World Series: 1982/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1982-shortstop, 1989-outfielder]1956 - David Copperfield (Kotkin)
magician, illusionist1958 - Orel (Leonard Quinton) Hershiser
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers [all-star: 1987, 1988, 1989/World Series: 1988/Cy Young Award: 1988], Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1995]1958 - Jennifer Tilly
actress: The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Webbers, The Getaway [1994], Stuart Little, The Magnificent Ambersons1963 - Richard Marx
singer, songwriter: Hazard, Children of the Night, Too Late to Say Goodbye, Keep Coming Back, Angelia , Take This Heart, Right Here Waiting, Satisfied , Hold on to the Nights, Endless Summer Nights, Should’ve Known Better, Don’t Mean Nothing1964 - Molly Shannon
actress: Saturday Night Live, Evan Almighty, Gray Matters, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Scary Movie 41968 - Marc Anthony
singer: I Need To Know, My Baby You, You Sang to Me, Give Me a Reason, She Mends Me, Tragedy1970 - Tamron Hall
NBC Today show national correspondent; host: MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall1971 - Amy Poehler
comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [2001-2008]; Wild Girls Gone, Envy, Mean Girls, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Parks and Recreation, Making It1973 - Richard Engel
TV journalist: NBC News chief Middle East correspondent; writer: A Fist in the Hornet’s Nest, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq1975 - Todd Weiner
football [tackle]: Kansas State Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Atlanta Falcons1979 - Flo Rida (Tramar Lacel Dillard)
rapper: Low, Right Round, Club Can’t Handle Me, Good Feeling, Wild Ones, Whistle; hits by others featuring Flo Rida include: Running Back by Jessica Mauboy, Bad Boys by Alexandra Burke, Troublemaker by Olly Murs1981 - Alexis Bledel
actress: Gilmore Girls, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Conspirator, The Kate Logan Affair, Mad Men1985 - Madeline Zima
actress: Alice, Once in a Very Blue Moon, Dimples, A Cinderella Story, Lucy, The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, Lethal Vows, Second Chances, The Nanny, Californication1986 - Ian Harding
actor: Pretty Little Liars, Adventureland, Christmas Without You, Business Card on the Rocks, NCIS: Los Angeles1992 - Nick Jonas
musician: guitar; songwriter, singer: group: The Jonas Brothers: S.O.S., Hold On, That’s Just the Way We Roll, Still in Love With You, When You Look Me in the Eyes, Hollywood1993 - Bryson DeChambeau
golf champ: PGA: 2017 John Deere Classic, 2018 Memorial Tournament, 2018 The Northern Trust tournament, 2018 Dell Technologies Championship, 2018 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, 2020 Rocket Mortgage Classic, 2020 U.S. Open, 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational
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Hit Music on This Day September 16
1950Mona Lisa (facts) - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene (facts) - The Weavers
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