By Marisol Nicholson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Shad Gregory Moss (born March 9, 1987), better known by his stage name Bow Wow (formerly Lil’ Bow Wow), is an American rapper and actor. His career began upon being discovered by rapper Snoop Dogg in the late 1990s, where he was then brought to record producer Jermaine Dupri and signed to his label So So Def Recordings, an imprint of Columbia Records. As Lil’ Bow Wow, he released his debut studio album, Beware of Dog (2000) at age 13, followed by his second album, Doggy Bag (2001) a year later. The albums were met with critical and commercial success, peaking at numbers ten and 11 respectively on the Billboard 200.
Moss’ third album, Unleashed (2003) was his first release after dropping the “Lil'” from his stage name, as well as the first following his departure from So So Def. His fourth album, Wanted (2005) spawned the singles “Let Me Hold You” (featuring Omarion) and “Like You” (featuring Ciara), which peaked at numbers four and three respectively on the Billboard Hot 100 and remain his highest-charting songs. His 2006 single, “Shortie Like Mine” (featuring Chris Brown and Johntá Austin) peaked within the top ten of the chart and preceded the release of his fifth album, The Price of Fame (2006). His sixth album, New Jack City II (2009) was met with trailing critical and commercial response, serving as his final album on a major label. He briefly signed with Birdman‘s Cash Money Records in 2009 to release a series of promotional singles—including “Ain’t Thinkin’ ‘Bout You” (featuring Chris Brown) and “Sweat” (featuring Lil Wayne)—leading up to his seventh album Underrated, which remains unreleased. He then signed with Puff Daddy‘s Bad Boy Records in 2015, and likewise released no albums with the label.
Moss first acted in the 2002 film All About the Benjamins as a cameo. That same year, Moss starred as lead actor in the sports comedy film Like Mike. He was further cast in lead roles for the films Johnson Family Vacation in 2004 and Roll Bounce in 2005. He played a supporting role in the film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006, a character he reprised in F9 (2021). Moss appeared in five episodes of the television series Entourage, and starred as Brody Nelson in CSI: Cyber until the show’s 2016 cancellation.
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Born
- Amerigo Vespucci (merchant & navigator) –
- Edwin Forrest (Shakespearean actor) –
- Will Geer (actor) –
- Samuel Barber (composer) –
- Mickey Spillane (author) –
- Yuri Gagarin (first human to travel in space) –
- Raul Julia (actor) –
- Mark Lindsay (musician; member of Paul Revere & the Raiders ) –
- Bobby Fischer (champion chess player) –
- Charles Gibson (journalist) –
- David Hume Kennerly (photographer) –
- Juliette Binoche (actress) –
- Emmanuel Lewis (actor) –
- Lil’ Bow Wow (rapper, actor) –
- Sunisa “Suni” Lee (Olympic gymnast) –
Died
- Charles Bukowski (poet) –
- Fernando Rey (actor) –
- George Burns (comedian & actor) –
- Chris LeDoux (country musician) –
- Brad Delp (musician) –
- Doris “Granny D” Haddock (political activist) –
Events
- Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris—he arrived two hours late for the wedding–
- President James Monroe’s daughter, Maria, became the first daughter of a president to be married in the White House–
- A patent for artificial teeth was granted to Charles Graham of New York–
- Abraham Lincoln announced he was running for his first political office. He failed for his bid for a seat in the Illinois legislature–
- First Japanese Ambassador to U.S. arrived in San Francisco, CA–
- Battle of U.S.S. Monitor and U.S.S. Merrimack (renamed C.S.S. Virginia) ended in a draw–
- First V-8 Ford was built by Ford Motor Company–
- The Hundred Days began. President FDR pushed sweeping social and economic reforms of the New Deal through Congress within the next 100 days–
- Journalist Edward R. Murrow accused Sen. McCarthy of misleading the U.S. public and persecuting Congressional witnesses–
- Celebrity premiere of East of Eden, the film version of John Stienbeck’s novel–
- Barbie doll debuted–
- The first animal to return from space was a dog whose Russian name translated as Blackie, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9–
- The Smothers Brothers’ television show was cancelled after they refused to censor a comment made by Joan Baez. She wanted to dedicate her song to her husband, David, who was about to go to jail for objecting to the draft–
- Work began on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline, the largest private construction project in U.S. history–
- Health and Welfare Canada banned saccharin as a food additive–
- Anne M. Burford was forced to resign as head of the EPA following a dispute with Congress over the agency’s enforcement of toxic waste regulations–
- Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Carole Bayer Sager were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame–
- President George H. W. Bush’s nominee for defense secratary, John Tower, lost Senate ratification vote–
- Chris Bertish, a South African surfer, paddleboarded across the Atlantic solo. The 4,050 trek took him 93 days.–
Weather
- Twelve-inch snowstorm in narrow band from Louisville, Kentucky, into Virginia and North Carolina’s mountains–
- Southern Indiana received up to 9 inches of snow–
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