Happy Birthday RIP Heath Andrew Ledger(1979-2008)  Estelle Nussbaum Harris-83 Craig T. Nelson-68 Hugo Weaving-52 Graham Norton Walker-48 Robert Downey Jr.-47 Nancy McKeon-46 ; 1850 The city of Los Angeles was incorporated. ; 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.