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January 15

Happy Birthday Lisa Lisa Velez-45 Charles ”Chad” Lowe-44 , RIP Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998) ; 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL ; 2001 Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut.

January 14

Happy Birthday Jack Jones-74 Faye Dunaway-71 Steven Soderbergh-49 Emily Watson-44 Jason Bateman-43 ; 1952 NBC’s “Today” show premiered.

January 13

Happy Birthday Frances Sternhagen-82 Rip Taylor-78 Richard Moll-69 Julia Louis-Dreyfus-51 Patrick Dempsey-46 Orlando Bloom-35 ; 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

January 12

Happy Birthday Kirstie Alley-61 Howard Stern-58 Oliver Platt-52 Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com is 48 Andrew Lawrence-24 ; 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal

January 11

Happy Birthday Felix Silla-75 Naomi Judd-66 Lee Ritenour-60 Vicki Peterson-54 Mary J. Blige-41 Amanda Peet-40  ; 1805 The Michigan Territory was created.

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking. While not the first such declaration by an official of the United States of America, it is notable for being arguably the most famous, and certainly had lasting and widespread effects on the tobacco industry and on the worldwide perception of smoking.

January 10

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra Jr-68 Rod Stewart-67 Donald Fagen-64 William Sanderson-64 George Foreman-63 Pat Benatar-59 ; 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

January 9

Happy Birthday Judith Krantz-84 Joan Baez-71 Crystal Gayle-61 J. K. Simmons-57 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge-30 ; 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

January 8

Happy Birthday Charles Osgood-79 Bob Eubanks-74 Stephen Hawking-70 David Bowie-65 Michelle Forbes-47 Sean Paul-39 Sarah Polley-33 ; 1982 AT&T settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

January 7

Happy Birthday William Peter Blatty-84 Kenny Loggins-64 Erin Gray-62 David Caruso-56 Katie Couric-55 Nicolas Cage-48 Dustin Diamond-35

January 6

Happy Birthday Bonnie Franklin-68 Rowan Atkinson-57 Scott Bryce-54  Danny Pintauro-36 Eddie Redmayne-30  RIP Danny Thomas (1914,1991) ; 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state.