Happy Birthday RIP Jane Austen(1775–1817) Patricia Deutsch(1943–2017) Harry “Ben” Cross(1947–2020) John Decoste(“Terry Carter” (1928–2024) ; Joyce Boulifant–87 William “Billy” Gibbons–75 Sam Robards–63 Benjamin Bratt–61 Jonathan Scarfe–49 Scott Bailey–46 Theodore James Taptiklis–40 Anna Popplewell–36 ; 1773 – The Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes

Happy Birthday RIP Jean Paul Getty(1892–1976) Ira Grossel(“Jeff Chandler” 1918–1961) Marta DuBois(1952–2018) Thomas “Tim” Conway(1933–2019) ; Donnie Johnson–75 Garrett Wang–56 Michael Shanks–54 Stuart Townsend–52 Geoffrey Stults–47 Adam Brody–45 Charlie Cox–42 Camilla Luddington–41 ; 1939 – “Gone with the Wind” receives its premiere at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia

Happy Birthday RIP Castello “Lillian” Randolph(1898–1980) Frances Bavier(1902–1989) Lee Remick(1935–1991) Anna Marie “Patty” Duke(1935–2016) ; Joyce Vincent Wilson(“Dawn”)–78 Dee Wallace (Deanna Bowers)–76 Theodore “Ted” Raimi–59 Matthew McNulty–42; 2000 – The FTC unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner ; 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Happy Birthday RIP Arthur “Christopher” Plummer 1929–2021);Richard “Dick” Van Dyke–99 John Davidson–83 Morris Day–67 Steven Buscemi–67 “NeNe Leakes”(Linnethia Johnson)–57 “Jamie Foxx”(Eric Bishop)–57 Barton Johnson–54 Taylor Swift–35 ; 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem

Happy Birthday RIP “Buck Jones”(Charles Gebhart 1891–1942) Francis “Frank” Sinatra(1915–1998) Edward “Ed” Koch(1924–2013) Robert “Bob” Barker(1923–2023) Brandon Teena(1972–1993) http://bit.ly/5GJXp2 ; “Connie Francis”(Concetta Franconero)–86 “Dionne Warwick”(Marie Warrick)–84 William “Bill” Nighy–75 Cathleen “Cathy” Rigby–72 Sheila “E” Escovedo–67 Jennifer Connelly–54 Shelton Hank Williams III–52 Mayim Bialik–49 ; 1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first

Happy Birthday RIP “Ron Carey”(Ronald Cicenia 1935–2007) Maila Syrjäniemi(“Vampira” 1922–2008) ; “Rita Moreno”(Rosita Alverio)–93 Donna Mills(Miller)–84 John Kerry–81 Lynda Day George–80 Terry “Teri” Garr–80 Robert “Ben” Browder–62 Monica “Monique” Imes–57 Jason “Rusty” Joiner–52 ; 1946 – UNICEF (the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was established

Happy Birthday RIP “Dorothy Lamour”(Mary Slaton 1914–1996) Harold Gould(Goldstein 1923–2010) Makoto Iwamatsu(“Mako” 1933–2006) Michael Clarke Duncan(1957–2012) ; Fionnghuala Flanagan–83 Gloria Goff(“Loring ”)–78 Susan Dey(Smith)–72 Paul Hardcastle–67 Kenneth Branagh–64 Virenia “Nia” Peeples–63 Patrick Flueger–41 Raven-Symoné Pearman–39 ; 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps

Happy Birthday RIP Emmett Kelly(1898–1979) Margaret Hamilton(1902–1985) “Redd Foxx”(John Sanford 1922–1991) Douglas Fairbanks Jr.(1909–2000) Richard “Dick” Van Patten(1928–2015)“Kirk Douglas”(Issur Demsky 1916–2020) Buck Henry Zuckerman 1930–2020) Richard “Dick” Butkus(1942–2023); Dame Judith Dench–90 Lloyd “Beau” Bridges III–83 Michael Dorn–72 John Malkovich–71 Donald “Donny” Osmond–67 Mario Cantone–65 Felicity Huffman–62 Lori Greiner–55 Jesse Metcalfe–46 Simon Helberg–44 ; 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal ; 1960 – The first episode of “Coronation Street”, the world’s longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom(still in production today)

Happy Birthday RIP Samuel “Sammy” Davis(1925–1990) Clerow “Flip” Wilson(1933–1998) John “David” Carradine(1936–2009) James Morrison(1943–1971) Samuel Kinison(1953–1992) Gregory Allman(1947–2017) Sinéad O’Connor(1966–2023); Kimila “Kim” Basinger–71 Teri Hatcher–60 Dominic Monaghan–48 Ian Somerhalder–46 “Nicki Minaj”(Onika Maraj)–42 ; 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. He is still in prison in Green Haven Correctional Facility in NY

Happy Birthday RIP Tadeus Konopka(“Ted Knight” 19231–1986) ; “Ellen Burstyn”(Edna Gillooly)–92 Thomas Waits–75 Priscilla Barnes–71 Larry Bird–68 Christopher Thomas Howell–58 Shiri Appleby–46 Emily Browning–36 Nicholas Hoult–35 ; 1941 – Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed ; 1963 – Instant replay (video/television) makes its debut during an American Army–Navy football game