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1599 - The first known performance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London was Julius Caesar, staged on this day.1784 - America’s first daily paper, The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, was published in Philadelphia.
1897 - 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon had written a letter to The New York Sun: “I am eight years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” Editor Frank Church wrote the response that was printed for the first time on this day: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”
1937 - The Women’s airspeed record was set at 292 mph by American pilot Jacqueline Cochran. Cochran went on to set many world speed records.
1946 - After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton was heard for the first time on the entire CBS radio network. The Second Mrs. Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.
1948 - The Texaco Star Theater on NBC-TV chose this night to make one of its oft-appearing hosts the permanent host. Milton Berle stayed on as the regular host until 1967. He was so much a part of The Texaco Star Theater that it became known as The Milton Berle Show.
1948 - The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS radio. Luigi Basko was played by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish-American, became typecast as an Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version in 1952.
1955 - Boxing fans all over the world held their collective breath as Archie Moore, the light heavyweight champion, knocked the heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, to the floor on this night. But the champ got up ... just as he had done in every fight before this ... and went on to defeat Moore. Rocky Marciano was the only world champion at any weight to have won every fight of his professional career (1947 to 1956). 43 of his 49 fights were won either by KO’s or because the fight had to be stopped.
1957 - Famed trial lawyer Perry Mason came to TV. The creation of attorney/novelist Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason found fame first as a series of novels, then as a CBS radio series (1943-1955). TV’s Perry Mason, which continued for 9 seasons (TV’s longest-running lawyer series) on CBS, starred Raymond Burr in the lead role. Della Street was played by Barbara Hale.
1963 - Sugar Shack entered the Billboard Hot 100, starting a fifteen-week run (five at #1) for Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs.
1970 - ABC-TV debuted Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell, ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith and Keith Jackson. (Frank Gifford replaced Jackson the following year.)
1973 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State.
1974 - Author Jacqueline Susann died of cancer. She was at 56 years old. Her books include Valley of the Dolls (1966). Movies were made of her books, and movies were made of her life.
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter defended his budget director Bert Lance. This, as Carter announced Lance’s resignation. Lance had been accused of unethical behavior within the National Bank of Georgia.
1981 - For 191 years, the U.S. Supreme Court had existed without a woman sitting on the bench. That changed as Sandra Day O’Connor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 99-0 vote. She became the first female Justice of that august body.
1981 - Belize (British Honduras) gained independence from Great Britain.
1989 - Hugo is a nice enough sounding name -- unless you put a hurricane behind it. Hurricane Hugo tore into Charleston, South Carolina this day, leaving a trail of destruction calculated at over eight billion dollars.
1991 - I Adore Me Amore, by Color Me Badd, rose to #1 on U.S. singles charts. The hit, from their The Best of Color Me Badd LP, was number one for two weeks.
1993 - The police drama NYPD Blue premiered on ABC-TV -- produced by Hill Street Blues creator Steven Bochco (and David Milch). “The show broke every record” with 27 Emmy nominations its first season.
1996 - John F. Kennedy Jr. married his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette in New York City.
1998 - 38-year-old Florence Griffith Joyner, winner of three gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, died of an apparent heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo, CA. She held the women’s record in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
1999 - Julius Caesar was again staged at the Globe Theatre in London -- to commemorate the 400th anniversary of its first known performance.
2001 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Liam, starring Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anne Reid, Anthony Borrows and Megan Burns; and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, with Michael York, Noah Huntley, Gavin Fink, Michael Biehn, Diane Venora and Udo Kier.
2001 - The U.S. Senate passed a $15-billion emergency aid package for the ailing American airline industry. The airlines were suffering mounting economic losses in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.
2001 - Entertainers hosted America: A Tribute to Heroes, a telethon to raise money for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The show was carried on more than 30 networks.
2002 - Erika Harold, Miss Illinois, was crowned Miss America 2003 in Atlantic City, NJ.
2003 - At the 55th Annual Emmy Awards The West Wing won for Outstanding Drama Series and Everybody Loves Raymond was selected for Outstanding Comedy Series. Other winnners included James Gandolfini (Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series [The Sopranos]); Edie Falco - (Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series [The Sopranos]); Tony Shalhoub (Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series [Monk]); and Debra Messing (Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series [Will & Grace]).
2004 - The $219 million Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington DC. The museum included some 800,000 artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye (1874-1957).
2005 - JetBlue Airways Flight 292, en route to New York from Burbank, CA, experienced nose gear malfunction shortly after takeoff. The nose wheels rotated 90 degrees to the left. The Airbus A320-232 circled Los Angeles to burn off fuel before landing safely at LAX. Some of the pasengers had even been watching on-board satellite TV showing the plane circling over the Pacific for more than two hours -- along with concerned viewers all over the world.
2006 - President Michelle Bachelet said her decision to allow Chile’s government to distribute free morning-after contraception pills to girls as young as 14 was a matter of equality within Chilean society.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell and Zooey Deschanel; Good Luck Chuck, starring Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and Dan Fogler; The Jane Austen Book Club, with Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker and Marc Blucas; Resident Evil: Extinction, starring Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Chris Egan, Ashanti, Iain Glen, Sienna Guillory and Jason O'Mara; and Sydney White, with Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton, John Schneider, Jack Carpenter, Crystal Hunt, Jeremy Howard, Samm Levine, Danny Strong and David Skyler.
2007 - Tony Award-winning actress Alice Ghostley [Designing Women 1991] died in Los Angeles at 91 years of age. Ghostley was well known for her roles of Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice on Designing Women.
2007 - Mattel Inc. apologized for damaging China’s reputation after massive recalls of its Chinese-made toys. Mattel said that in the ‘vast majority’ of cases, flaws in its own designs were responsible for high levels of lead paint and loose magnets which prompted safety scares.
2008 - HBO won 26 awards at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards show. Hosts were nominees Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Jeff Probst and Ryan Seacrest. 30 Rock was voted Outstanding Comedy Series and Mad Men won for Outstanding Drama Series. The telecast was viewed by 12.20 million people, making it the least viewed ceremony in its TV history.
2008 - During the final game at the 85-year-old Yankee Stadium, New York City police arrested more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of the stadium.
2009 - U.S. prosecutors announced the indictment of Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup out of some $290 million in loan proceeds. (In July 2010 Nemazee was sentenced to 12 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme.)
2009 - Mexican forces raiding a drug-gang safehouse in Monterrey found money-stuffed envelopes addressed to various police forces and one marked for ‘press’. Four people were arrested and $5 million in U.S. and Mexican currency was seized.
2010 - The Experiment opened in U.S. theatres. The thriller drama stars Fisher Stevens, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr., Cam Gigandet and Adrien Brody.
2010 - AT&T began selling its first satellite phone that could provide phone reception in areas where there are no cell towers. The U.S. coverage, even in the wilderness or hundreds of miles offshore, came at a price: $799 upfront for the phone itself. And calls, data, and messages through the satellite service were charged individually, with subscribers paying 65 cents per minute for voice, 40 cents per message, and $5 per megabyte of data.
2010 - The Lasker Foundation announced its Lasker Award winners. Dr. Napoleone Ferrara of Genentech won the clinical medical research award for his discovery of a protein that led to the development of a drug to halt vision loss in age-related macular degeneration. The award for basic medical research went to Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman for discovering the hormone leptin. And David Weatherall won for his work in genetic diseases and clinical care for children with the genetic blood disorder thalassemia.
2011 - The Obama administration was reported to be assembling a group of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. This, as part of an aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen. According to unnamed U.S. officials, The Washington Post reported that one of the installations was being established in Ethiopia. Another base was in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
2011 - Australian beer giant Foster’s said it had accepted a takeover bid worth A$9.9 billion ($10.2 billion) from British beer giant SABMiller.
2012 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Dredd 3D, with Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, Andile Mngadi, Porteus Xandau Steenkamp, Jason Cope and Emma Breschi; End of Watch, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, Cody Horn, America Ferrera, Frank Grillo, Michael Peña and Natalie Martinez; House at the End of the Street, with Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot, Nolan Gerard Funk, Gil Bellows, Krista Bridges, Allie MacDonald and James Thomas; About Cherry, starring James Franco, Heather Graham, Ashley Hinshaw, Dev Patel, Jonny Weston, Lili Taylor, Diane Farr and Megan Boone; Backwards, with Sarah Megan Thomas, James Van Der Beek, Glenn Morshower, Margaret Colin and Wynn Everett; the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel; My Uncle Rafael, starring John Michael Higgins, Missi Pyle, Vahik Pirhamzei, Anthony Clark, Rachel Blanchard, and Carly Chaikin; 10 Years, with Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Lynn Collins, Kate Mara, Ari Graynor and Rosario Dawson; and Trouble with the Curve, starring Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard, Robert Patrick and Scott Eastwood.
2012 - Tens of thousands marched in Benghazi, Libya to the gates of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigade, one of the country’s strongest armed Islamic extremist groups, demanding that it disband. The protestors were angry over the previous week’s killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
2013 - Thousands of Romanians formed a human chain around parliament in a protest against a Canadian company’s plan to open Europe’s largest gold mine in a picturesque Rosia Montana in Transylvania. It has become the big political issue in Romania because the gold mine plans would mean moving hundreds of Romanians, demolishing dozens of houses and two churches and cutting down 1,000 hectares of forestry.
2014 - Thousands marched through Moscow to protest the Kremlin’s involvement in the Ukraine crisis. It was Russia’s first major anti-war rally since fighting erupted in April 2014.
2015 - Volkswagen saw around €15 billion ($16.9 billion) wiped off its market value following revelations that the German carmaker rigged U.S. emissions tests for some 500,000 diesel cars.
2016 - For the second straight night, the streets of Charlotte, NC erupted in violence. Protesters clashed with police over the death of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, who had been sitting in his car near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte when officers arrived. They had been searching for someone else with an outstanding warrant and saw Scott holding what they thought to be a handgun as he exited his car and returned to his vehicle. He then exited again as officers approached him and posed an “imminent deadly threat,” said police.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory. Trump said that Maria “totally obliterated” Puerto Rico with its electrical grid destroyed.
2017 - Enact, Africa’s leading anti-poaching coalition called for the fight against poaching to be treated as a war, and the illicit wildlife trade to be monitored like global conflicts. Enact is a European Union-funded anti-poaching analytical taskforce that includes Interpol.
2018 - New movies in U.S. theatres on this day included: Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore’s provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out?; The House with a Clock in Its Walls, starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black and Lorenza Izzo; Life Itself, with Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde and Annette Bening; American Dresser, starring Gina Gershon, Penelope Ann Miller and Keith David; Assassination Nation, with Odessa Young, Hari Nef and Suki Waterhouse; A Happening of Monumental Proportions, starring Nat Faxon, Jennifer Garner and John Cho; the documentary Love, Gilda (comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career); The Sisters Brothers, starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal; and The Song of Sway Lake, with Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan and Isabelle McNally.
2018 - China said it was “outraged” over U.S. economic sanctions against a Chinese military agency and its director over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment, and demanded the U.S. cancel the sanctions.
2018 - The Japan Space Exploration Agency said two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft arrived near the asteroid, about 280 million kilometers (170 million miles) from Earth, in June 2018.
2019 - The 186th Oktoberfest got underway in Munich, Germany. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg with two blows of a hammer and the cry of “O’zapt is” — “It’s tapped.” As tradition demanded, he handed the first mug to the Bavarian governor, Markus Soeder. More than six million people from around the world attend the event every year. (Oktoberfest was cancelled in 2020 due to the Corona Pandemic. Over the past 209 years, Oktoberfest has been cancelled only 24 times -- for outbreaks of disease or war.)
2020 - The Abu Dhabi Film Commission, the Israel Film Fund and the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film and Television School said they had signed a cooperation agreement for training and production. The agreement included plans for an annual regional film festival rotating between Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and Israel.
2020 - A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to reverse operational changes that had slowed mail delivery in recent months -- and to prioritize election mail. It was another in a series of legal and political rebukes to Louis DeJoy’s management of the agency.
2020 - Canadian health officials warned COVID-19 infections had surged in Canada and if people did not take stringent precautions, infections could balloon to exceed levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic. The U.S. had suffered 6,813,984 confirmed cases and 199,525 deaths.
2021 - From our "Big Surprise" Dept.: The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for the 2006 assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko in London. The 43-year-old Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on November 1, 2006, after he drank tea that was poisoned with polonium-210 (a highly radioactive isotope).
2021 - President Biden told the United Nations General Assembly that he would work with the U.S. Congress to double funds for helping developing nations deal with climate change. Biden wanted the U.S. funding to increase to $11.4 billion per year by 2024.
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Birthdays on This Day September 21
1788 - Margaret Mackall Smith ‘Peggy’ Taylor
First Lady: wife of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor; died Aug 14, 18521866 - H.G. (Herbert George) Wells
writer: War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Outline of History; died Aug 13, 19461903 - Westbrook Van Voorhis
radio announcer, narrator: The March of Time [as the Voice of Time and the Voice of Fate]; died July 13, 19681907 - Lloyd Gough
actor: The Babe Ruth Story, Roseanna McCoy, Sunset Boulevard, Storm Warning, Tony Rome, Earthquake, The Green Hornet [TV], House Calls, The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Great White Hope, Funny Girl, Valentino; died Jul 23, 19841912 - Chuck Jones
cartoonist: The Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Wiley Coyote; died Feb 22, 20021918 - Rand Brooks
actor: The Sex Symbol, Requiem for a Gunfighter, Stump Run, The Matchmaking Marshal, The Maverick, Waco, The Vanishing Westerner; died Sep 1, 20031921 - Chico Hamilton
jazz drummer: played in orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Lester Young, Floyd Ray, Jim Mundy, Count Basie, Charlie Barnet; bandleader: Chico Hamilton Quintet; scored movies and commercials for TV and radio; died Nov 25, 20131924 - Gail Russell
actress: Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour, Angel and the Badman, The Great Dan Patch, The Lawless, The Silent Call; died Aug 26, 19611931 - Larry Hagman
actor: I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas, Staying Afloat, Ensign Pulver, In Harm’s Way, Fail-Safe; son of actress Mary Martin; died Nov 23, 2012; more1932 - Don Preston
musician: piano, keyboards, Moog synthesizer: groups: Mothers of Invention: Absolutely Free, One Size Fits All, Uncle Meat, Cruising With Ruben and the Jets; The Grande Mothers; actor: Sinister Flesh, 200 Motels1934 - Leonard Cohen
singer, songwriter: group: The Army: Famous Blue Raincoat, Joan of Arc, Avalanche; died Nov 7, 20161935 - Henry Gibson (Bateman)
comedian: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; Nashville; died Sep 14, 20091941 - Dickey Lee (Lipscomb)
singer: Patches, I Saw Linda Yesterday, Never Ending Songs of Love, Rocky; songwriter: She Thinks I Still Care1942 - Sam (Samuel Edward Thomas) McDowell
‘Sudden Sam’: baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971], SF Giants, NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates; led American League in strikeouts five times in six years1943 - Jerry Bruckheimer
film producer: Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Enemy of the State, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, National Treasure film series; TV producer: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The Amazing Race1945 - Richard Childress
auto racer; racing car team owner: six Winston Cup championships, one NASCAR Truck Series championship, 79 victories1947 - Don Felder
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Eagles: One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, Best of My Love, New Kid in Town; solo: LP: Airborne; more1947 - Stephen King
author: Pet Sematary, Christine, The Duel, Misery, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining, 11/22/63; more1947 - Marsha Norman
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: ’Night Mother [1983]1947 - Reggie Rucker
football: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver: Super Bowl V1949 - Artis Gilmore
basketball: Chicago Bulls: holds league record for career field goal percentage [.599], Kentucky Colonels: Rookie and Player of the Year [1971]1950 - Bill Murray
Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: Saturday Night Live [3/12/77]; actor: Stripes, Ghostbusters series, Groundhog Day, Mad Dog and Glory, What About Bob?, Scrooged, Rushmore, Cradle Will Rock, Scout’s Honor, Hamlet, Charlie’s Angels [2000], Speaking of Sex, Osmosis Jones, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation1952 - Brent McClanahan
football: Minnesota Vikings running back: Super Bowl IX, XI1953 - Mike Collier
football: Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Super Bowl X1953 - Arie Luyendyk
racecar driver: Indy 500 winner [1990, 1997]; People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People list [1992]1954 - Shinzo Abe
politician: Prime Minister of Japan [2012-2020]; he was shot and killed Jul 8, 2022 by a former member of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force while delivering a campaign speech in Nara.1954 - Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor)
musician: drums: group: Motorhead1958 - Rick Mahorn
basketball [forward]: Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets1959 - Dave Coulier
actor: Full House; TV host: America’s Funniest People1960 - David James Elliott
actor: JAG, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Knots Landing, Melrose Place, Clockwatchers, The Shrink is In1960 - Mary Mara
actress: Nash Bridges, ER, Law & Order, Mr. Saturday Night, Prom Night, Swedish Auto, The Problem With Percival, Jumbo Girl, K-PAX, Switched at Birth1961 - Nancy Travis
actress: Becker, Fluke, Body Language, The Vanishing, Chaplin, Three Men and a Little Lady, Loose Cannons, Married to the Mob, Three Men and a Baby, Harem, Almost Perfect, Duckman1962 - Rob Morrow
actor: Numb3rs, Northern Exposure, Quiz Show, Tattingers1963 - Cecil Grant Fielder
baseball: Detroit Tigers 1st base; Toronto Blue Jays1963 - Angus Macfadyen
actor: Braveheart, Saw III, Criminal Minds, Californication, Equilibrium, Chuck, Turn: Washington’s Spies; more1967 - Faith Hill
singer: LPs: Take Me as I Am, It Matters to Me, Faith; sold eleven million records, eight #1 singles, ten #1 videos1967 - Tyler Stewart
musician: drums: group: Barenaked Ladies: Too Little Too Late, Wonderful Wizard of Magicland, Never Do Anything, It’s All Been Done, Testing 1,2,3, Maybe Katie1968 - Trugoy the Dove (David Jolicoeur)
musician: group: De La Soul1968 - Ricki Lake
TV talk show host: The Ricki Lake Show; in films: Serial Mom, Hairspray1969 - Anne Burrell
chef, TV personality: Food Network: Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Worst Cooks in America, Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell [2012–2013]1969 - Jason Christiansen
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants1969 - Curtis Leschyshyn
hockey: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Minnesota Wild, Ottawa Senators1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro
actor: Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Silver Spoons, Ticks, The Mighty Pawns; dancer: won 19th season [Sep-Nov 2014] of Dancing with the Stars with partner Witney Carson1971 - Luke Wilson
actor: The Wendell Baker Story, Legally Blonde series, Charlie’s Angels series, Alex and Emma, The Royal Tenenbaums1972 - Liam Gallagher
musician: drums; co-lead vocalist [w/brother Noel Gallagher]: group: Oasis: LPs: Definitely Maybe, [What’s the Story] Morning Glory?, Be Here Now, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, Familiar to Millions, Heathen Chemistry, Don’t Believe the Truth, Dig Out Your Soul1972 - Jon Kitna
football [quarterback]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals1972 - Scott Spiezio
baseball: Univ of Illinois; Oakland Athletics, Anaheim Angels, Seattle Mariners1973 - Mike Anderson
football [running back]: Univ of Utah; Denver Broncos1973 - Kevin Carter
football [defensive end]: Univ of Florida; NFL: St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins1976 - Steve Heiden
football [tight end]: South Dakota State Univ; NFL: San Diego Chargers, Cleveland Browns1977 - Mia Smiles
actress [1996-2011]: X-rated films: Girls Playing With Girls, MILF O’ Maniacs, Flesh Gallery, Misty Beethoven: The Musical!, Pacific Rim University1980 - Autumn Reeser
actress: The O.C., Entourage, No Ordinary Family, Last Resort, The Big Bang, Necessary Roughness; more1981 - Katie Cleary
model: Deal or No Deal; actress: Fake or Real, Shipping and Receiving, The Break-Up, Get Out; more1981 - Phoenix Marie
actress [2007-2012]: X-rated films: BatFXXX: Dark Knight Parody, Here Cums the President, Squeal If You’re Ticklish, Behind the Cyber Door, Busty Waitresses1981 - Nicole Richie
socialite best known for her sometimes troubled friendship with heiress Paris Hilton; actress: The Simple Life; adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie1983 - Maggie Grace
actress: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, 2; Murder in Greenwich, Lost, The Fog, Suburban Girl, The Jane Austen Book Club, Taken, Taken 2, Malice in Wonderland, Californication, Susanna1983 - Greg Jennings
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Green Bay Packers [2006–2012]: Super Bowl XLV champs [2011]; Minnesota Vikings [2013–2014], Miami Dolphins [2015]1983 - Joseph Mazzello
actor: Simon Birch, Jurassic Park, Radio Flyer, Presumed Innocent, Unspeakable Acts, Stories from My Childhood [voice of Pinocchio]1987 - Ryan Guzman
actor: Step Up film series, Ladies’ Man: A Made Movie, April Rain, Beyond Paradise, There’s Always Woodstock1988 - Doug Baldwin
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2011-2018]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs, 2015 Super Bowl XLIX1990 - Allison Scagliotti
actress: Warehouse 13, Drake & Josh, Read It and Weep1990 - Christian Serratos
actress: The Walking Dead, The Twilight Saga film series, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
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Hit Music on This Day September 21
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