History Blog

April 29

Happy Birthday RIP Edward “Duke” Ellington(1899–1974) Leslie Jordan(1955–2023); Richard Kline–80 Nora Dunn–72 Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld–70 Katherine “Kate” Mulgrew–69 Daniel Day-Lewis–67 Michelle Pfeiffer–66 Eve Plumb–66 Uma Thurman–54 Andre Agassi–54 ; 1968 – The controversial musical “Hair”, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement