Happy Birthday Arnold Palmer(1929–2016) ; Karl Lagerfeldt–85 Jose Feliciano Garcia–73 Anthony Joseph Pereira(“Joe Perry”)–68 Harold “Harry” Groener–67 Amy Irving–65 Colin Firth–58 Guy Ritchie–50 James Duval–46 Matthew Ryan Phillippe–44 ; 1955 – “Gunsmoke” premiered on CBS (the second of the Western genre for Television, first being the “Lone Ranger”)

Happy Birthday RIP Otis Redding, Jr(1941–1967) Clifford Robertson III(1923–2011) ; Chaim Topol–83 Joseph Theismann–69 Thomas Wopat–67 Hugh Grant–58 Adam Sandler–52 Goran Višnjić–46 Michael Bublé–43 ; 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington ; 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph ; 1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Happy Birthday RIP May McAvoy(1899–1984) Richard “Peter” Sellers(1925–1980) Virginia Hensley(“Patsy Cline” 1932–1963) Isaac “Sid” Caesar(1922–2014) ; Bernard “Bernie” Sanders–77 Julian Richings–63 Aimee Mann–58 David Lee Smith–55 Kimberly Peirce–51 Martin Freeman–47 David Arquette–47 Alecia “Pink” Moore–39 Jonathan Taylor Thomas(Weiss)–37 Steven “Jake” Sandvig–32 ; 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape ; 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC television

Happy Birthday RIP John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan, Jr.(1867–1943) Charles Holley(“Buddy Holly” 1936–1959) William Jermaine Stewart(1957–1997) ; Gloria Gaynor(Fowles)–69 Julie Kavner–68 Christine “Chrissie” Hynde–67 Michael Emerson–64 Corbin Bernsen–64 Diane Farr–49 Thomas Everett Scott–48 Oliver Hudson–42 Devon Sawa–40 ; 1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)

Happy Birthday RIP “Freddie Mercury”(Farrokh Bulsara 1946–1991) ; George Robert Newhart–89 William Devane–79 Raquel Welch(Tejada)–78 Michael Keaton(Douglas)–67 Peter Wingfield–56 Rose McGowan–45 ; 1957 – “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published

Happy Birthday RIP Henry Ford II(1917–1987) Richard “Dick” York(1928–1992) ; “Mitzi Gaynor”(Francesca von Gerber)–87 Dr. David Drew Pinsky–60 Damon Wayans–58 Wesley Bentley–40 Max Greenfield–38 Beyoncé Knowles–37 ; 1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers ; 1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age ; 1957 – Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line

Happy Birthday RIP Alan Ladd(1913–1964) Verla Eileen Brennan(1932–2013) “Kitty Carlisle”(Catherine Conn 1910–2007) Anna “Anne” Jackson(1925–2016) ; Valerie Perrine–75 Adam Curry–54 “Charlie Sheen”(Carlos Estevez)–52 Trevor St John–47 Samuel “Nick” Wechsler–40 David Moretti–37 Garrett Hedlund–34 ; 1951 – The first long-running American soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow”, airs its first episode on the CBS television network 

Happy Birthday RIP Meinhardt Raabe(“Munchkin Coroner” 1915–2010) Christa McAuliffe(1948–1986) ; Mary Jo Catlett–80 Terry Bradshaw–70 Thomas Mark Harmon–66 James “Jimmy” Connors–66 Keanu Reeves–54 Salma Hayek Jiménez–52 Charles “Tuc” Watkins III–52 Salvatore “Vincent DePaul” Zannino–50 ; 1789 – The U.S. Treasury Department was established ; 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes

Happy Birthday RIP “Yvonne De Carlo”(Margaret Middleton 1922–2007) Richard Farnsworth(1920–2000) Conway Twitty(Harold Jenkins 1933–1993) ; George Maharias–90 Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin–79 Barry Gibb–72 Dr. Phillip McGraw–68 Gloria Estefan(Garcia)–61 Burn Gorman–44 Robert Scott Speedman–43 Robert Boyd Holbrook–37 ; 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company ; 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America