Happy Birthday RIP Queen Victoria(Alexandrina Hanover 1819–1901) ; “Bob Dylan”(Robert Zimmerman)–83 Gary Burghoff–81 Patricia “Patti” LaBelle (Holte-Edwards)–80 Priscilla Presley–Wagner–79 James “Jim” Broadbent–75 Alfred Molina–71 Kristin Scott Thomas–64 John C. Reilly–59 Eric Close–57 ; 1844 –Sam Morse sends the words, “What hath God wrought,” from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to the B&O’s Mount Clare Station in Baltimore in first test of Morse code.Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible(Numbers 23:23). The telegraph machine could transmit thirty characters per minute ; 1883 –the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction