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1818 - Illinois (from an American Indian word meaning ‘tribe of superior men’) is the name of the 21st state to enter the United States of America. Many superior men have hailed from Illinois, the most famous being Abraham Lincoln. The ‘Illinois rail-splitter’ is buried in the city where he was married and began his legal career, Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Also known as the Prairie State, Illinois calls the tiny, but beautiful violet, the state flower, while state bird honors were bestowed on the brightly colored cardinal.1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio started classes as the first coed institution of higher learning in the United States. Looking at the school’s registration, one would have found a total of 44 students enrolled: 29 men and 15 women.
1901 - King Camp Gillette filed an application for a patent on his ‘safety razor’. It had a double-edged disposable blade.
1922 - The first successful Technicolor motion picture, The Toll of the Sea, was shown at the Rialto Theatre in New York City.
1925 - The first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra was presented at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch, American composer George Gershwin presented Concerto in F, and was also the featured soloist playing a flugelhorn in a slow, bluesy style as one of his numbers.
1928 - The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The program aired each Monday evening at 8:00. The Voice of Firestone became a hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931 the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run. Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and semiclassical music was also seen on television.
1931 - Miles Laboratories introduced Alka-Seltzer. The combination of aspirin and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) was developed to combat colds. The fizzy stuff has since become famous for helping combat the effects of hangovers and headaches in general.
1944 - Frank Sinatra was in the Columbia Records studio recording Old Man River. The following year he sang it in the Jerome Kern biopic, Till the Clouds Roll By.
1944 - The U.S. 95th Infantry Division crossed the Saar River (near Saarlautern) in assault boats. The troops secured the main bridge on the Saar without firing a shot.
1948 - The Chinese passenger ship Kiangya, carrying refugees fleeing Communist troops during civil war, struck an old mine. The mine exploded, and the ship sank off Shanghai. Over 2,750 people are believed to have been killed. An estimated 700 survived.
1953 - Kismet opened on Broadway in New York. The show ran for 583 performances.
1955 - Elvis Presley’s first release on RCA Victor Records was announced. No, it wasn’t Hound Dog or Heartbreak Hotel. The first two sides were actually purchased from Sam Phillips of Sun Records: Mystery Train and I Forgot to Remember to Forget. Elvis was described by his new record company as “The most talked about personality in recorded music in the last 10 years.”
1960 - Camelot opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. Richard Burton and Julie Andrews played the leading roles in the musical written by Lerner and Loewe. Robert Goulet also got rave reviews. Camelot had a run of 873 performances. Broadway went Hollywood in the 1967 film version of Camelot. Its run was not quite as successful.
1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson was sworn in as the first black woman judge in the United States. She was elected associate judge of the Municipal Court in Chicago. (In 1950 Sampson had become the first African-American to serve on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.)
1967 - The world’s first successful heart transplant was performed. Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the operation at Cape Town, South Africa.
1968 - The rules committee of major-league baseball announced that in 1969 the pitcher’s mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches in order to “get more batting action.” What they didn’t know at the time was that batters would get taller in 1969...
1968 - The O’Kaysions received a gold record for Girl Watcher. The song had a promotional reprise in the 1990s as a theme for Merv Griffin’s Wheel of Fortune -- with the revamped lyrics, “I’m a Wheel Watcher...”
1977 - After 29 weeks in the #1 position on the album charts (a record, literally...), Rumours, by Fleetwood Mac, was replaced at the top spot by the album Simple Dreams, sung by Linda Ronstadt.
1978 - Mommie Dearest hit the best-seller list. The ‘poison-penned’ book, by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of movie-star Joan Crawford, stayed on the list for 42 weeks.
1979 - Eleven people were killed when thousands of rock fans jammed the entrances to get to unreserved seats at the Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio for a performance by The Who. Most cities have since banned first-come, first-served seating.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark, one day after the retired dentist became the world’s first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Clark survived with the artificial heart for over three months. He died on March 23, 1983.
1983 - In his final season as head basketball coach of the DePaul Blue Demons, Ray Meyer won game #700.
1984 - The world’s worst industrial accident occurred when gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. The deadly gas, methyl isocyanate, killed over two thousand people, and injured more than 200,000.
1988 - Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State University won the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - A Northwest Airlines DC-9 collided on the ground with a Northwest Boeing 727 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Eight people were killed in the resulting fire.
1991 - Embattled White House chief of staff John H. Sununu resigned -- and was replaced by Samuel K. Skinner.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalia.
1992 - The Greek tanker Aegean Sea spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil when it ran aground off La Coruna, Spain.
1993 - Great Britain’s Princess Diana, saying she was fed up with media intrusions, announced she would be limiting her public appearances.
1994 - On Bended Knee, by Boyz II Men, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The smash was #1, off and on, thru January 1995.
1997 - It was reported that former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, Edward J. DeBartolo, owner of the SF 49ers, and three others were to be indicted for alleged fraud. DeBartolo had offered to pay the governor as much as $400,000 for a riverboat casino license.
1998 - A four-day conference in Washington, attended by 44 countries, the Vatican and over a dozen Jewish organizations, produced guidelines for documenting Nazi plunder to resolve claims on confiscated art. Stuart Eizenstat, undersecretary of state and head of the U.S. delegation sponsoring the Washington conference, said, “The art world will never be the same in the way it deals with Nazi-confiscated art. From now on, the sale, purchase, exchange and display of art from this period will be addressed with greater sensitivity and a higher international standard of responsibility.”
1999 - After rowing 2,962 miles in 81 days, Tori Murden of the United States eased her 23-foot boat, American Pearl, to the dock at Fort-du-Bas on the French Carribean island of Guadeloupe. She had just rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Astonishingly, Murden appeared relaxed, even radiant, as she stood up to toss out a rope. “Next time, the Concorde,” she quipped, as she bounded out of the boat.
1999 - Billionaire banker Edmond Safra suffocated in a smoke-filled bathroom in his Monaco apartment. American nurse Ted Maher later confessed to setting the fire that killed the 67-year-old Safra.
1999 - Six firefighters died while battling a fire in an abandoned Worcester, MA industrial building.
2000 - Poet Gwendolyn Brooks died at the age of 83. Brooks won a 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second book of poetry. She had been the poet laureate of Illinois since 1968.
2001 - In the wake of suicide attacks that killed 26 Israelis, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared war on terror. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was blamed for not stopping the attacks.
2002 - Thousands of personnel files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns.
2004 - Closer opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen.
2004 - Tommy G. Thompson resigned as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services as he expressed concern over the threat of global flu and the possibility of a terrorist attack on the U.S. food supply.
2005 - Montreal: Some 40,000 people protested inaction on global warming. The demonstration, held as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, was one of the largest environmental protests ever and was accompanied by marches worldwide.
2006 - Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez won reelection over challenger Manuel Rosales governor of the western state of Zulia). Chavez won 63% of the vote, to 37% for Rosales.
2007 - Artist Mark Wallinger won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize for a fiercely anti-war exhibit based on a lone protester's six-year vigil outside British parliament.
2008 - 94 nations signed a treaty in Norway that banned cluster bombs. The move was intended to shame the U.S., Russia and China into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians. Norway, which began the drive to ban cluster bombs, was the first to sign, followed by Laos and Lebanon, both hard-hit by the weapons.
2009 - Comcast Corp. announced plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion. The deal would give Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator, control of the NBC TV network, an array of cable channels and the Universal Pictures movie studio.
2009 - Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to renew Vatican-Kremlin relations to include full diplomatic ties.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: All Good Things, starring Ryan Gosling, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig and Frank Langella; Applause, with Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sara-Marie Maltha, Shanti Roney and Steen Rieks; Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey; Dead Awake, with Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten and Kim Grimaldi; I Love You Phillip Morris, starring Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro and Ted Alderman; Meskada, with Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz, Jonathan Tucker and Grace Gummer; Night Catches Us, with Kerry Washington, Novella Nelson, Anthony Mackie, Wendell Pierce and Jamie Hector; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, starring Tommi Korpela, Per Christian Ellefsen, Jorma Tommila, Jonathan Hutchings and Peeter Jakobi; and The Warrior’s Way, with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Dong-gun Jang and Tony Cox.
2010 - The unmanned spaceplane X-37B returned to Earth after more than seven months in orbit on a secrecy-shrouded mission for the U.S. Air Force.
2010 - PayPal announced that it had cut off access to the account used by on-line whistleblower WikiLeaks to collect donations. This, as Wikileaks struggled to stay afloat after corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet.
2010 - Businessman (Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather’s Pizza) Herman Cain, plagued by allegations of sexual harassment and marriage infidelity, announced that he was suspending his campaign for U.S. president.
2012 - In Northern Ireland a vote in the Belfast City Council reduced sharply the number of days per year that the British flag would be flown atop the city hall. The Alliance Party, which represented middle-ground opinion voted with the Catholic side to take down the flag except for 18 official days annually. Protestants reacted with violence.
2013 - U.S. Federal Judge Steven Rhodes ruled that the city of Detroit was eligible to proceed with its Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It was the largest municipality in the U.S. to enter Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
2013 - Bolshoi star dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced to six years in prison over an acid attack on the ballet’s director. The attack highlighted vicious backstage bickering and intrigue at the renowned theater in Moscow, Russia.
2014 - A Japanese space explorer took off on a multi-year journey to blow a crater in a remote asteroid and then bring back rock samples -- for clues as to the origin of Earth. Hayabusa2 surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on Dec 5, 2020, dropping the contents by parachute in a special container at a location in southern Australia. The Hayabusa2 six-year mission was then extended through at least 2031, when it would rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroid 1998 KY26.
2015 - West Virginia coal boss Don Blankenship was convicted on a misdemeanor conspiracy charge related to the April 5, 2010 mine disaster that killed 29 men. A federal jury in West Virginia found the former Massey Energy CEO conspired to willfully violate mine safety standards at the Upper Big Branch Mine.
2016 - A coal mine explosion in Chifeng in northern China killed 32 miners. News of the blast in the Inner Mongolia region came just hours after 21 miners were confirmed dead in an explosion at their unlicensed coal mine in Heilongjiang province. (Four people were arrested in connection with that disaster.)
2017 - U.S.-based pharmacy giant CVS Health announced its acquisition of health insurer Aetna for $69 billion.
2018 - Three-time Wimbledon champ Boris Becker dropped his claim of diplomatic immunity. He had said because of his being a sporting ambassador for the Central African Republic, he was exempt from bankruptcy proceedings. After being told that Becker was no longer attempting to claim diplomatic immunity, a judge ordered a planned auction of Becker’s trophies and memorabilia – previously put on hold – to go ahead.
2018 - The Czech spy agency BIS said it was obvious that Russia was behind cyber attacks
against the country’s foreign ministry, calling them the most serious case of cyberespionage to hit the Czechoslovakia. 150 e-mail accounts were hacked in an attack by the Russian state that began in early 2016 -- but no discovered until 2017. The BIS report concluded that the attacks were part of the Turla malware campaign by ’s FSB intelligence agency and the APT28 or ‘Fancy Bear’ campaign by Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency.2019 - 25 Baltimore corrections officers were indicted on charges of using “illegal and excessive” force against inmates in Maryland jails. The officers threatened and violently assaulted inmates, falsified public documents and tampered with evidence, according to the indictment.
2019 - The United Nations reported the decade ending with 2019 had been the hottest in history. Climate change was outpacing humanity’s ability to adapt to it. Man-made emissions from burning fossil fuels, building infrastructure, growing crops and transporting goods meant 2019 had broken the record for atmospheric carbon concentrations, locking in further warming. Oceans, which absorb 90 percent of the excess heat produced by greenhouse gases, were at their highest recorded temperatures.
2020 - Pacific Northwest researchers reported that a toxic material from tire treads was the killer of as many as 90% of the coho salmon in parts of the Puget Sound.
2020 - The U.K. became the fifth country to officially record more than 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths. 414 new deaths took the confirmed total to 60,013.
2021 - Nebraska’s state’s health department reported six cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. It was the sixth state with confirmed cases, joining New Jersey, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Utah.
2021 - The National Weather Service said 19.04 inches (48.4 cm) of rain had fallen in Seattle, WA between Sep 1 and Nov 30, breaking a record set in 2006.
2022 - Former POTUS Trump called for “termination” of all rules -- including the U.S. Constitution -- hoping to overturn the 2020 election, which he continued to falsely say that he won.
2022 - The FBI investigated a targeted attack on two electricity substations in North Carolina. The attacks closed schools and left some 40,000 people without power for several days. (As of 2023 the FBI investigation had not answered any questions.)
2023 - Alaska Airlines announced that it had reached a $1 billion deal to buy Hawaiian Airlines. The acquisition was the culmination of “several months” of negotiations, according to Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci. It would include $900 million in Hawaiian Airlines debt. Hawaiian shares, which had been down more than 50% for the year, climbed more than 180% on the news.
2023 - Indonesia’s Mount Marapi, on the island of Sumatra, erupted 3km (1.85 miles) into the air. Twenty-four hikers were found dead near the crater of the volcano. Volcanological Survey of Indonesia head Hendra Gunawan said that the agency had been warning the local conservation agency and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for over a decade against allowing climbers to go near the volcano’s crater.
2023 - The prestigious Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was held (in Washington DC) for pop singer Dionne Warwick, singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, comic-actor Billy Crystal, operatic soprano Renée Fleming, and singer-actress Queen Latifah.
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Birthdays on This Day December 3
1755 - Gilbert Stuart
artist: portraits of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, etc.; died July 9, 18281838 - Cleveland Abbe
meteorologist: first U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist; died Oct 28, 19161857 - Joseph Conrad
author: Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness; died Aug 3, 19241907 - Connee Boswell
blues singer: trio: The Boswell Sisters: vaudeville, radio, played New York’s Paramount Theatre, recorded with/Dorsey Brothers: You Oughta Be in Pictures; appeared on U.S.’s first public TV broadcast; solo: entertained World War II troops, appearing on Broadway, recorded with/Woody Herman, Bing Crosby: Basin Street Blues, in films: The Big Broadcast [1932], Moulin Rouge [1934], Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Swing Parade of 1946, Senior Prom [1958]; died Oct 11, 19761921 - Phyllis Curtin
singer: soprano: New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala, Teatro Colon; coordinator of Voice Dept and Opera at Yale School of Music, Dean Emerita of Boston Univ School for the Arts; died Jun 5, 20161922 - Tom Fears
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Los Angeles Rams: 400 catches for 5,397 yards, scored 38 touchdowns; died Jan 4, 20001922 - Sven Nykvist
cinematographer: Something to Talk About, Sleepless in Seattle, Chaplin, New York Stories, Agnes of God, The Postman Always Rings Twice; died Sep 20, 2006; more1925 - Ferlin Husky
singer: Gone, A Fallen Star, Wings of a Dove, The Waltz You Saved for Me; died Mar 17, 20111925 - Harry Simpson
baseball: Cleveland Indians, KC Athletics [all-star: 1956], NY Yankees [World Series: 1957], Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Apr 3, 19791927 - Andy Williams
Emmy Award-winning entertainer: The Andy Williams Show [1962-63]; singer: Can’t Get Used to Losing You, [Where Do I Begin] Love Story, Days of Wine and Roses, Canadian Sunset, Moon River, Born Free, Butterfly, I Like Your Kind of Love [w/Peggy Powers], Are You Sincere, Lonely Street, In the Village of St. Bernadette; died Sep 25, 20121930 - Jean-Luc Godard
producer, writer, director: Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary, King Lear, A Married Woman1931 - Jaye P. Morgan
singer: That’s All I Want from You, The Longest Walk; performer: Stop the Music, Perry Presents, The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show; panelist: The Gong Show1933 - Nicolas Coster
actor: The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard In Hollywood, Love Happens, Full Circle, Betsy’s Wedding, Big Business, Beverly Hills Madam1933 - Les Crane
TV talk host: The Les Crane Show; Grammy-winning [Best Spoken Word, 1971] narrator: Desiderata; died Jul 13, 20081936 - Clay Dalrymple
baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969]1937 - Bobby Allison
race car driver: International Motorsports Hall of Famer: Daytona 500 winner [1978, 1982, 1988], oldest Daytona 500 winner [1988]1947 - Wayne Garrett
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969, 1973], Montreal Expos, SL Cardinals1948 - Ozzy Osbourne
songwriter, singer: groups: Rare Breed, Black Sabbath: Paranoid; solo: Blizzard of Oz; dead bat-head biter1949 - Mickey Thomas
singer: Alive Alone, group: Jefferson Starship: We Built this City, Sara1951 - Mike Bantom
basketball: St. Joseph’s Univ., 1972 USA Olympic Men’s Team, Phoenix Suns1951 - Rick Mears
auto racer: Indy 500 winner [1979, 1984, 1988, 1991]; Rookie of the Year [1976]; Roger Penske racing team1952 - Larry Anderson
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Brewers Chicago White Sox1952 - Don Barnes
musician: guitar; singer: group: .38 Special: Hold on Loosely, Caught Up to You, You Keep Runnin’ Away, Chain Lightnin’, Teacher, Teacher, Back to Paradise, Second Chance, The Sound of Your Voice1955 - Melody Anderson
actress: Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair, Landslide, Hitler’s Daughter, Final Notice, Speed Zone, Firewalker, Beverly Hills Madam, Policewoman Centerfold, Dead and Buried, Flash Gordon, Manimal1955 - Steven Culp
actor: Desperate Housewives, JAG, Grey’s Anatomy, Saving Grace, Traveler, The West Wing, Mister Sterling1960 - Daryl Hannah
actress: The Fury, Splash, Steel Magnolias, Blade Runner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Roxanne, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Grumpier Old Men, Diplomatic Siege, Dancing at the Blue Iguana1960 - Igor Larionov
hockey [center]: Vancouver Canucks, San Jose Sharks, Detroit Red Wings, Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils1960 - Julianne Moore
actress: As the World Turns, The Fugitive, Jurassic Park, The Forgotten, Laws of Attraction, The Hours, Far from Heaven, The Shipping News, Evolution, Hannibal1964 - Darryl Hamilton
baseball [outfield]: Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets; died Jun 21, 20151965 - Barbara Garrick
actress: Tales of the City, Lobster Farm, Far from Heaven, Pollock, Mary and Rhoda, Miami Rhapsody1965 - Steve Harris
actor: The Practice, Booker, Awake, Homicide: Life on the Street, New York Undercover, Quarantine, Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Bringing Down the House, The Rock, The Mod Squad, Minority Report1965 - Katarina Witt
Emmy Award-winning performer: Carmen On Ice [1989-90]; Olympic Gold Medalist ice skater1968 - Brendan Fraser
actor: The Mummy film series, George of the Jungle, Encino Man, The Quiet American, Crash, Inkheart, Journey to the Center of the Earth1968 - Montell Jordan
singer: This Is How We Do It, I Like, Let’s Ride, Falling, What’s On Tonight, Get It On Tonite1969 - Kwamie Lassiter
football [safety]: Univ of Kansas; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams1970 - Paul Byrd
baseball [pitcher]: Louisiana State Univ; New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Royals, LA Angels1970 - Lindsey Hunter
basketball [guard]: Alcorn State Univ, Jackson State Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors1971 - Keegan Connor Tracy
actress: Final Destination 2, Once Upon a Time, Jinxed, Beggars and Choosers, Stargate SG-1, Jake 2.0, The 4400, Psych, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, White Noise1973 - Holly Marie Combs
actress: Pretty Little Liars, Charmed, Picket Fences, Chain of Desire, A Reason to Believe, Daughters, Ocean’s Eleven1975 - Malinda Williams
actress: Soul Food, Nailed, Daddy’s Little Girls, Dancing in September, Laurel Avenue1976 - Gary Glover
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, Anaheim Angels, Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Devil Rays1976 - Cornelius Griffin
football [DT]: Univ of Alabama; NFL: New York Giants, Washington Redskins1977 - Chad Durbin
baseball [pitcher]: Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers1977 - Cristi Harris
actress: Sunset Beach, Passions, Star Quality, Lurid Tales: The Castle Queen, Night of the Scarecrow, Kiss of Death, Night of the Demons 21979 - Daniel Bedingfield
singer: Gotta Get Thru This, If You’re Not the One, Never Gonna Leave Your Side, Wrap My Words Around You, Friday, I Can’t Read You1979 - Tiffany Haddish
actress: If Loving You Is Wrong, The Carmichael Show, Keanu, Girls Trip, The Last O.G.1980 - Anna Chlumsky
actress: Veep, My Girl, My Girl 2, A Child’s Wish, Miracle in the Woods, In the Loop, The Pill, Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, The End of the Tour1980 - Jenna Dewan-Tatum
dancer, actress: Step Up, The Playboy Club, Slightly Single in L.A., The Jerk Theory, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal; co-founder of 33andOut Productions and Iron Horse Entertainment1981 - Brian Bonsall
actor: Family Ties, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Father and Scout, Lily in Winter, Father Hood, Desperate Motives1981 - Liza Lapira
actress: NCIS, 21, Traffic Light, Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Super Fun Night; Broadway: As You Like It, The School for Wives, The Odyssey, No. 11 [Blue and White]1981 - David Villa
Spanish footballer [striker]: Sporting Gijón B [1999–2001]; Sporting Gijón [2001–2003]; Zaragoza [2003–2005]; Valencia [2005–2010]; Barcelona [2010–2013]; Atlético Madrid [2013–2014]; New York City [2014–]; Melbourne City [loan] [2014]; National teams: Spain U21 [2000–2003]; Spain [2005–2014]: 2010 World Cup champs; Asturias [2001–2002]1985 - Amanda Seyfried
actress: Mean Girls, Breaking Waves, Letters to Juliet, Dear John, Chloe, Mamma Mia!, Alpha Dog, Nine Lives, American Gun1987 - Michael Angarano
actor: Sky High, The Forbidden Kingdom, Little Secrets, Lords of Dogtown, The Bondage, Black Irish, Man in the Chair, Snow Angels, The Final Season, One Last Thing..., Will & Grace, Gentlemen Broncos, Ceremony, Red State1991 - Shanley Caswell
actress: The Conjuring, iCarly, CSI: NY, Bones, The Middle, Detention, NCIS: New Orleans1994 - Jake T. Austin
actor: Wizards of Waverly Place, Go, Diego, Go!, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, New Year’s Eve, Rio, The Perfect Game, Hotel for Dogs
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Hit Music on This Day December 3
1947You Do (facts) - Dinah Shore
Near You (facts) - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
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