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5 Oct, 1986

Zema Ion born in Los Angeles, Calif.

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Ion (Michael Paris) is born in Los Angeles, California. He becomes a fan of professional wrestling and electronic music at a young age.

My initial introduction to dance music came at the age of 11 from a Gap commercial. There was a song in the commercial and I thought it was amazing. Turns out it was “Busy Child” by the Crystal Method. I heard this electronic beat, and when I found out what it was, I went out and bought [1997 album] Vegas by the Crystal Method. [Intriguingly enough] it was one of the first albums I ever owned.

1986

Enters Marquette University

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Walker enrolls at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During his freshman year he becomes a student senator tasked to investigate a scandal where members of student government has a homecoming dinner at the Pfister hotel charged to student government accounts. Walker’s committee recommends impeachment and the student body president and vice-president resign. There is a full trial in the student senate and the accused are acquitted. Glen Barry, who is caught up in the scandal, calls it a “McCarthyite investigation” saying that:

no criminal charges of any kind, and no hard evidence of wrong-doing by anyone [was found] – Walker grandstands and leads a student government trial of myself and others, that could have been avoided if he so chose. Walker lost on all counts, but not before destroying a few people’s reputations, and amassing personal power.

2 Jul, 1986

Lindsay Lohan born in New York City

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lindsay-lohan-story-02Lindsay Morgan Lohan is born in New York City to singer Dina Lohan and Wall Street trader Michael Lohan. She has two younger brothers and a younger sister. She attends Cold Spring Harbor High School.

A lot of stuff went on with my family when I was young and I grew up in a very chaotic home and then there were moments of everything being wonderful and perfect and then things being so uncontrollable and chaotic that—it’s something people go through and unfortunately I waited too long to face it.

20 Jun, 1986

HAVOK born in Massillon, Oh.

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HAVOK (Jessica Cricks) is born in Massillon, Ohio. She begins watching WWE wrestling as a young girl.

I’ve watched WWE (when it was WWF) ever since I was about 9. Stone Cold Steve Austin and HHH caught my eye one night and I was sucked in immediately, and fell in love with it. When I was about 16, I decided I wanted to be a pro wrestler.

11 Jun, 1986

Shia LeBeouf born in Los Angeles

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shia-labeouf-as-a-childShia Saide LaBeouf is born in Los Angeles, California to parents Jeffery and Shayna LeBeouf.  LaBeouf grew up an only child in the poor Echo Park district, in one of the few white families living in a largely Latino area.  When he was two his father began dressing him up as a clown and putting him to work shilling for the family’s hot dog cart business.

My embarrassment factor didn’t exist. I had fun, because I knew that in the middle of a performance my parents couldn’t fight. So, for sure, every day, there had to be some peaceful time for us, or we weren’t going to make it through the week financially.

Young LeBeouf was subjected to verbal and mental abuse from his drug-addicted father who reportedly pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam flashback.  His parents got divorced when he was 10.

LeBeouf turned to stand-up comedy as a way to make money, talking his way into gigs at local L.A. comedy clubs.  At age 11 he found an agent, Teresa Dahlquist, in the phone book and called her pretending to be the British manager of a young actor named Shia LaBeouf. Dahlquist was impressed with his resourcefulness and signed him as a client.

29 May, 1986

Hornswoggle born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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Hornswoggle is born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man and begins training as a young adult. He begins training and wrestling in NWA Wisconsin.

28 May, 1986

Seth Rollins born in Buffalo, Iowa

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Rollins is born in Buffalo, Iowa. He develops an early interest in the world of professional wrestling and decides to pursue it as a career. He trains with Scott Country Wrestling and makes his professional debut at the age of 18.

24 May, 1986

Brooks, Mahl marry

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garth-brooks-ex-wifeBrooks marries Sandy Mahl, his college sweetheart and songwriter. They meet when Garth is a bouncer at a bar.

So you being married, it’s got to be right.

13 May, 1986

Lena Dunham born in New York City

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Lena Dunham Birthday GirlLena Dunham is born in New York City to artist parents Carroll Dunham, painter, and Laurie Simmons, photographer and painter. She has one sister, Grace. She attends St. Ann School in Brooklyn, and divides her time between New York and her family’s home in Salisbury, Connecticut. Dunham writes about her life at age eight:

My name is Lena Dunham. I am eight almost nine. I was born May 13 1986. My grate grandmother who I never met was named Lena. My papa is namd Carroll dunham. My mama is Laurie Simmons.

1 Mar, 1986

Big E Langston born in Tampa, FL

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Langston is born in Tampa, Florida. Langston develops an early interest in sports including football and wrestling and pursues them through high school, being named  Hillsborough County’s “Ironman of the Year”.

22 Feb, 1986

Rajon Rondo born in Louisville, KY

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Rajon Pierre Rondo is born in Louisville, Kentucky to William Sr. and Amber Rondo.  He has 3 siblings.  He attends Eastern High School and Oak Hill Academy. In high school, Rondo tells his coach that he wants to be a head coach after his playing career is over.

5 Feb, 1986

Madison Rayne born in Columbus, Oh.

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Rayne (Ashley Cabot) is born in Columbus, Ohio. She develops an interest in sports and fitness as a young girl.

I’ve been an avid fitness buff since I was 14. My older brothers used to take me to the gym and teach me how to work out and explain that the gym was way more important than shopping and makeup!

1 Feb, 1986

Lauren Conrad born in Laguna Beach, California

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Lauren Katherine Conrad is born in Laguna Beach, California to architects Kathy Conrad and Jim Conrad. Conrad has one younger sister Brenna Conrad and one younger brother Brandon Conrad.

Conrad began her interest in fashion throughout her childhood. Conrad’s father says that Conrad wasn’t the best student, but that he could see that she had an interest in fashion early in her life.

Lauren wasn’t a great student—she wasn’t that interested. We figured out along the way that she was an artist and her real love was fashion.

Conrad agrees:

I think that I get bored easily with things.

1 Jan, 1986

Starts Grace relationship

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Robert starts a relationship with Grace, who is a secretary in his office and is 40 years his junior. Mugabe claims that Sally was aware of the relationship and “accepted it”.

I did tell her and she just kept quiet and said fine but she did ask, ‘Do you still love me?’ I said yes. And she said, ‘Oh, fine’. Even as Sally was still going through her last few days, although it might have appeared to some as cruel, I said to myself well, it’s not just myself needing children, my mother has all the time said, ah, am I going to die without seeing grandchildren?

1986

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

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Miyazaki’s first Studio Ghibli film. Laputa: Castle in the Sky is set in a steampunk version of 19th century England and follows the adventures of Pazu, a young boy from a mining village.

I wanted to make an adventure story with the kind of boy hero who starts out fighting and has a lot of dreams. And I was able to confirm that people don’t come to see that kind of film! After time, a lot of people started saying, “I love Laputa,” but at the theatrical release it didn’t attract much of an audience.

25 Dec, 1985

Rusev born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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Rusev is born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria despite being billed from Russia during his WWE career. Rusev develops an early interest in sports and attends a sporting school where he pursues interest in rowing and power lifting.

18 Dec, 1985

The Color Purple

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Spielberg directs this film based on the novel by Alice Walker. The story details the trials and tribulations of an African American woman from Georgia trying to make it in the difficult world of the early 1900s. It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey.

There were certain things in the [lesbian] relationship between Shug Avery and Celie that were very finely detailed in Alice’s book, that I didn’t feel we could get a [PG-13] rating… And I was shy about it.

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7 Dec, 1985

Dean Ambrose born in Cincinnati, OH

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Ambrose is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling and begins working for Heartland Wrestling Association selling popcorn and setting up the ring before beginning his training to become a wrestler there.