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On This Day March 14
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History Highlights
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1732 – First U.S. President George Washington (d. 1799)
1907 – Actor Robert Young (“Father Knows Best,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.”) (d. 1998)
1932 – Massachusetts Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy (d. 2009)
1950 – Retired NBA legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving
1966 – Comedian and “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) alum Rachel Dratch
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1959 – “Stagger Lee,” by Lloyd Price, is in the middle of a four-week run at No. 1 on the pop chart.
1980 – “Do That to Me One More Time” becomes the Captain & Tennille’s second No. 1 single.
2002 – Usher begins his fifth and final week atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “U Got It Bad.”
2008 – “Low,” by Flo-Rida featuring T-Pain, is in the middle of 10 weeks as a No. 1 single.
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1818 – Former slave-turned-civil rights activist Frederick Douglass (d. 1895)
1894 – Legendary comedian Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky (d. 1974)
1921 – Retired Emmy-winning TV anchor-host Hugh Downs (“Today” show, “20/20”)
1942 – Businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
1960 – Golden Globe-winning actress Meg Tilly (“The Big Chill,” “Agnes of God”)
1972 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas
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1923 – Retired U.S. Air Force General Chuck Yaeger, the first pilot to break the sound barrier
1933 – Actress Kim Novak (“Vertigo,” “The Man With the Golden Arm,” “Bell, Book and Candle”)
1944 – Talk show host and former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer
1979 – Actress Mena Suvari (“American Beauty,” “American Pie,” “Six Feet Under”)
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1927 – Grammy-winning jazz vocalist and actress Cleo Laine
1944 – Actor Dennis Franz (“Die Hard 2,” “NYPD Blue,” “City of Angels”)
1949 – U.S. Olympic decathlon gold medalist and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, born Bruce Jenner
1952 – Actress Annie Potts (“Ghostbusters,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2”)
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1924 – Actress Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton in the 1950s sitcom “The Honeymooners”
1928 – Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Ford, who was a star pitcher for the New York Yankees
1942 – Judith Sheindlin, better known as TV’s “Judge Judy”
1959 – Actor Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai,” “Batman Begins,” “Inception,” “Godzilla”)
1980 – Socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian (“Keeping Up With The Kardashians”)