Your birthday

January 28.

Challenger blew up. Nick Carter was born. So was Gigi Buffon. We are the World was recorded.


98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 – A locomotive, on the Panama Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
1917 – Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, that dumped 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 – In R. v. Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hanged.

Births

1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 – Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician (d. 1610)
1578 – Cornelius Haga, Dutch diplomat (d. 1654)
1582 – John Barclay, Scottish poet (d. 1621)
1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)
1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1693 – Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (d. 1775)
1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749)
1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1818 – George S. Boutwell, American politician, 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 – Charles George Gordon, English general and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1853 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)
1853 – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1857 – William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor and businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898)
1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)
1861 – Julián Felipe, Filipino composer (d. 1944)
1863 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 – Charles Williams Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948)
1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor, invented the Hot bulb engine and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine (d. 1927)
1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish politician, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952)
1873 – Colette, French author (d. 1954)
1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian director (d. 1940)
1875 – Julián Carrillo, Mexican composer, conductor, violinist, and theorist (d. 1965)
1880 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1885 – Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author (d. 1973)
1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1976)
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (d. 1982)
1890 – Robert Stroud, American criminal and ornithologist (d. 1963)
1891 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer (d. 1947)
1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)
1899 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman (d. 1940)
1900 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)
1903 – Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician (d. 1979)
1908 – Paul Misraki, French composer (d. 1998)
1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician
1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1913 – Maurice Gosfield, American actor (d. 1964)
1915 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009)
1918 – Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (d. 1989)
1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1919 – Francis Gabreski, American pilot (d. 2002)
1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1924 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
1925 – Scotty Bloch, American actress
1927 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
1927 – Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (d. 1996)
1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1929 – Acker Bilk, English clarinet player
1929 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor
1930 – Jasraj, Indian singer
1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
1933 – Jack Hill, American director
1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 – David Lodge, English author
1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, screenwriter, and director
1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian author
1937 – Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (d. 2013)
1938 – Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1939 – John M. Fabian, American pilot and astronaut
1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman, founded Grupo Carso
1941 – Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1941 – King Tubby, Jamaican DJ, producer, and engineer (d. 1989)
1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
1943 – John Beck, American actor
1943 – Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 – Dick Taylor, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, and The Mekons)
1944 – Susan Howard, American actress
1944 – John Tavener, English composer
1945 – Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress
1945 – Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
1945 – José Luis Perales, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist
1945 – Robert Wyatt, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Soft Machine, The Wilde Flowers, and Matching Mole)
1947 – Jeanne Shaheen, American politician, 78th Governor of New Hampshire
1948 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
1949 – Thomas Downey, American politician
1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
1950 – Barbi Benton, American model, actress, and singer
1950 – Bob Hay, American singer-songwriter and musician (Supercluster)
1950 – David C. Hilmers, American astronaut and engineer
1951 – Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian astronaut
1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Chris Carter, English DJ and producer (Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey)
1954 – Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, French politician, 23rd President of France
1957 – Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Nick Price, Zimbabwean golfer
1957 – Frank Skinner, English comedian and actor
1959 – Frank Darabont, American director and producer
1959 – Megan McDonald, American author
1959 – Randi Rhodes, American radio host
1959 – Dave Sharp, English guitarist (The Alarm and AOR – Spirit of The Alarm)
1960 – Robert von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American historian and film producer
1961 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author
1961 – Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962 – Creflo Dollar, American pastor
1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Dan Spitz, American guitarist (Anthrax and Overkill)
1965 – Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress
1967 – Jan Lamb, Chinese singer and actor (Softhard)
1967 – Marvin Sapp, American singer-songwriter (Commissioned)
1968 – Rakim, American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim)
1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1968 – DJ Muggs, American DJ and producer (Cypress Hill and The 7A3)
1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 – Mo Rocca, American comedian, actor, and journalist
1969 – Linda Sánchez, American politician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Nicky Southall, English footballer
1972 – Léon van Bon, Dutch cyclist
1974 – Tony Delk, American basketball player
1974 – Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1974 – Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Shark Boy, American wrestler
1975 – Terri Colombino, American actress
1975 – Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter
1975 – Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Steps and Upper Street)
1975 – Anne Montminy, Canadian diver
1975 – Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1976 – Lee Ingleby, English actor
1976 – Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 – Rick Ross, American rapper and producer (Triple C's)
1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1977 – Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 – Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira, Ringworm, Six Feet Under, and Fear Factory)
1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and actor (*NSYNC)
1977 – Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver
1978 – Sheamus, Irish wrestler and actor
1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 – Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
1980 – Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
1980 – Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gaslight Anthem and The Horrible Crowes)
1980 – Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and criminal
1981 – Shuji Kondo, Japanese wrestler
1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor
1982 – Annie Social, American wrestler
1984 – Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1985 – Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – J. Cole, American rapper and producer
1985 – Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 – Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
1986 – Jessica Ennis, English hepathlete
1986 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and singer
1986 – Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
1986 – Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer
1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
1987 – Chelsea Brummet, American actress and singer
1988 – Paul Henry, English footballer
1988 – Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
1989 – Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
1989 – Ronny Philp, German footballer
1990 – Kalifa Faifai Loa, New Zealand rugby player
1991 – Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor
1992 – Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
1992 – Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer
1993 – Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer
1993 – Will Poulter, English actor
1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress

 

May 9

I was born the exact same day as Tony Gwynn, probably less than 50 miles apart.

Also sharing my birthday are/were Mike Wallace, Pancho Gonzales, Candice Bergen, Billy Joel, Calvin Murphy, Steve Yzerman, Lane Kiffin, Rosario Dawson and Prince Fielder.

Deaths include C.W. Post, Dan Devine, Alan King, Chuck Daly and Vidal Sassoon.

And I don't know if it's a coincidence, but on the day I was born, the Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first oral contraceptive pill.

 

April 28

Birth:
Saddam Hussein.
John Daly.
And, embarrassingly, Jay Leno.


Events:
1789- Mutiny On the Bounty
1930- First night baseball game takes place, in Independence, Ks.

 

Methinks Norrin needs an editor!

Anyway, my list was somewhat impressive, but it tailed off in a hurry:

April 22 (Earth Day):

Births:
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1923 – Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress
1936 – Glen Campbell, American singer, musician, and actor
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor, film director, producer and writer
1944 – Steve Fossett, American businessman, aviator, and sailor (d. 2007)
1950 – Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Herd and Humble Pie)
1950 – Zygi Wilf, German-American businessman
1951 – Paul Carrack, English singer-songwriter and musician (Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music)
1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American porn actress (d. 2009)
1959 – Terry Francona, American baseball manager
1959 – Ryan Stiles, American actor
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1982 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Sarah French, American model and reporter, Miss America 2007
1986 – Marshawn Lynch, American football player
1987 – Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer

Deaths:
Nixon, Ansel Adams, Erma Bombeck, Linda Lovelace, Pat Tillman

Events:
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.

 

July 15

I was born. That's all that matters.

 

Alpha Dog!!!

Great movie.

 

Ben Foster was great in Alpha Dog.

He needs to be in more movies.

 

March 27th

Births
Louis XVII of France (The Lost Dauphin)
Miller Huggins
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gloria Swanson
James Callaghan
Sarah Vaughan
David Janssen
Cale Yarborough
Tony Banks from Genesis
Randall Cunningham
Quentin Tarantino
Mariah Carey
David Coulthard
Fergie

Deaths
James I of England/James VI of Scotland
Georges Vezina
Yuri Gagarin
M.C. Escher
Ferry Porsche
Milton Berle
Dudley Moore
Billy Wilder

Events
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.

 

July 29
- Chuck and Di got hitched, 1981
- Hitler takes over the Nazi party, 1921
- First Olympic Games since the World War II suspension, London, 1948
- Ike signs NASA bill, 1958


Shared birthdays
Allison Mack of "Smallville" ... yum
Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahli murder victim
Capt. Lou Albano, WWF wrestler, Super Mario
Peter Jennings, ABC news anchor
Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, Baseball
Scott Steiner, wrestler
Martina McBride, country music singer

Deaths
Pope Urban II
Pope Urban VIII
Vincent van Gogh
Mama Cass
David Niven
Tom Snyder

 

July 12

Birthdays:
Julius Caesar, Henry David Thoreau, Milton Berle (born on my birthday, died on my brother's, apparently), Bill Cosby, Christine McVie, Richard Fucking Simmons, Cheryl Ladd, Mario Soto, Charlie Murphy, Kristi Yamaguchi and Loni Love! (on the same day I was born).

For the longest time as a kid, I searched baseball cards for birthdays. For years, I was convinced Tony Armas was the only MLB'er born on my birthday. Turns out, his card was a misprint. Way to fuck up my childhood memories, Topps! (Apparently I didn't get any Mario Soto cards)

Deaths:
Alexander Hamilton, John Chancellor and a bunch of schleps.

Events:
1550 -- Nostradamus predicts the wisest man ever will be born on July 12 in the Year Of The Bucks. The quatrain bizarrely mentions "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" -- the only Muslim name in the seer's predictions -- as being related to a mysterious Lou Elcindore.
1551-1811 -- Scholars fearfully ponder that shit.
1812 -- U.S. invades Canada. Take that, bitches! Later, I was deported from Canada as a form of reprisal.
1813-1942 -- A bunch of bullshit.
1943 -- The Battle of Prokhorovka -- the largest tank battle ever.
1944-1961 -- More crap.
1962 -- The Rolling Stones have their first concert. Fucking A.
1963-1970 -- Mostly horseshit.
1971 -- The Australian Aboriginal Flag was first flow-- I WAS BORN!
1972-2013 -- I get presents and get one year closer to death! That ... and at one of my birthdays, I got one of these ...

 

LOL. You'll never ever ever ever ever guess who shares my birthday.

 

May 17

Birthdays
-Tony Parker
-Matt Ryan
-Bob Saget
-Carlos Pena
-Craig Ferguson
-Ayatollah Khomeini
-Sugar Ray Leonard
-Dennis Hopper
-Trent Reznor
-Bill Paxton
-Enya
-Cool Papa Bell
-Matt Cassel
-Taj Mahal
-Norv Turner
-Jose Guillen
-Jim Nantz

Day I was born
-1984 - Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning