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Learn Who The Famous People Born On February 13Th Are –Sgt. York! And More!!!
Learn Who The Famous People Born on February 13th Are –Sgt. York! And More!!!
ALVIN CULLUM YORK was born in Pall Mall, Tennessee in 1887. was awarded a Medal of Honor, for his actions in leading an attack on a German machine gun nest that took 32 machine guns, killed 28 German soldiers and captured another 132. This action took place during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, during World War I. In addition to the Medal of Honor he has a Distinguished Service Cross, World War I Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, French Legion d’honneur, French Croix de guerre with Palm, Italian Croce di Guerra, and Montenegrin War Medal. Alvin C. York Veterans Hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is named for him as is Alvin C. York Institute – a private agricultural high school. In 1941 the film Sergeant York was released. Gary Cooper won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in this film. It was the highest-grossing movie in 1941. (d. 1964)
ERNEST JENNINGS FORD better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was born in Bristol, Tennessee in 1919. He was a recording artist and TV host. He was successful in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres. He started out as an announcer on WOPI-AM Radio. In l939 we left to attend the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio to major in classical music and voice. He served in World War II as a bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in missions over Japan. Following his service he worked in radio in San Bernardino and Pasadena, California. It was during his time at the San Bernardino station that he picked up his nickname of “Tennessee Ernie.” In the forties Ford did musical tours. During this time a talent scout for Capitol Records brought him to their attention, and Ford ended up signing a contract with them. In the 1950s he released 50 country singles. Some of these early recordins included “Shotgun Boogie, and “Blackberry Boogie.” His rendition of “Sixteen Tons” was a big hit in 1955. From 1956-1961 he had his own prime-time NBC television show, The Ford Show. From 1962-1965 he hosted The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. He has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And in 1984 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame came in 1990. (d. 1991)
CHARLES ELWOOD “CHUCK” YEAGER was born in 1923, in Lincoln County, West Virginia. He is a retired Major General in the U.S. Air Force and a veteran of both World War II and Vietnam. After World War II, he became a test pilot of many kinds of aircraft and rocket planes. He was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. His flying career spans more than six decades and he’s traveled to most parts of the globe. Yeager broke many other speed and altitude records. He was the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School that produced astronauts for NASA and the Air Force. Among the many medals he has been awarded is the Congressional Silver medal (1976) for being first to break the sound barrier, and the collier Trophy and Mackay Trophy. Though he is now fully retired from the military, he kept busy by serving on the Rogers Commission that investigated the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
MARILYN PAULINE “KIM” NOVAK was born in 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. She is an actress who’s won two Golden Globe Awards and is best known for her performance in the film Vertigo (1958). She also co-starred in the 1958 film, Bell, Book and Candle. In 1962, she did Boys’ Night Out with James Garner and Tony Randal. In 1960 she worked with Kirk Douglas in Strangers When We Meet. There are some 30 plus more films she’s appeared in the years spanning 1954-1991. Since 1991 Novak has been retired, and is an accomplished artist living in Eagle Point, Oregon, with her husband who is a veterinarian.
GERALD NORMAN “JERRY” SPRINGER was born in Highgate, London, England in the year 1944. He is a television presenter best known as the host of The Jerry Springer Show since 1991. He is also a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1977-1979). He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in 1965, majoring in political science. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at Northwestern University in 1968. His broadcast career started with Cincinnati radio station WEBN FM. The NBC affiliate WLWT TV then hired him as a political reporter and commentator. The Jerry Springer Show debuted in 1991. In recent years he has made some appearances acting on television series such as Roseanne and The X-Files. He made cameo appearances on Austin Powers; The Spy Who Shagged Me . Springer also appeared in an episode of Married. . . With Children and also in the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
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