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April 28

Happy Birthday RIP Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954) Ann-Margret Olsson-71 Jay Leno-62 Mary McDonnell-60 Jorge Garcia-39 Penélope Cruz Sánchez-38 Jessica Alba-31 Michael Carbonaro-30 ; 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

April 27

Happy Birthday Jack Klugman-90 Kermal “Casey” Kasem-80 Kate Pierson-64 Sheena Easton Orr-53 ; 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

April 26

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett-79 Jet Li Lian Jie-49 Kevin James Knipfing-47 Tom Welling-35 Channing Tatum-32 ; 1928 Los Angeles City Hall dedicated ; 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

April 25

Happy Birthday RIP Ella Fitzgerald(1917-1996) George “Meadowlark” Lemon-80 Alfredo Pacino-72 Björn Ulvaeus-67 Herny “Hank” Azaria-48 Andy Bell-48 Renee Zellweger-43 ; 1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.

April 24

Happy Birthday Shirley MacLaine-78 Barbara Streisand-70 Djimon Hounsou-48 Kelly Clarkson-30 ; 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

April 23

Happy Birthday Shirley Temple Black-84 Alan Oppenheimer-82 Harvey Lee Yeary(Lee Majors)-73  Joyce DeWitt-63 Michael Moore-58 Valerie Bertinelli-52 Jacob Taio Cruz-29 ; 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

April 22

Happy Birthday RIP Eddie Albert Heimberger(1906-2005)  Charlotte Rae Lubotsky-86 John “Jack” Nicholson-75 John Waters-66 Peter Frampton-62 Ryan Stiles-53 Byron Allen Folks-51 Jeffrey Dean Morgan-46 ; 1864 Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.

April 21

Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth Windsor-86 Iggy Pop(James Ostenberg)-65 Patti LuPone-63 Tony Iadanza-61 Rosalie Andie MacDowell-54 Robert Smith-53 John Cameron Mitchell-49 James McAvoy-33 ; 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang

April 20

Happy Birthday George Takei-75 Ryan O’Neal-71 Jessica Lange-63 Carmen Electra-40 Joey Lawrence Mignogna-36 ; 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.

April 19

Happy Birthday Tim Curry-66 Ashley Judd Ciminella-44 James Franco-34 Kate Hudson-33 Hayden Christensen-31  ; 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500. (Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.)