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 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 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.)