Happy Birthday Dame Joan Plowright–88 Charles Daniels–81 Jane Alexander(Quigley)–78 Telma Hopkins–69 Annie Potts–65 William Gates(Henry) III–62 Julia Roberts–50 Bradley Paisley–45 Joaquin Phoenix(Bottom)–43 Peter “Finn” Wittrock–33 ; 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become later known as Harvard University ; 1886 – the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland with the first ticker tape parade (office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets)

​Happy Birthday RIP Theodore Roosevelt Jr(1858–1919) Caroline “Carrie” Snodgress(1945–2004) Ruby “Dee” Wallace(1922–2014) ; Ruby “Nanette” Fabares–97 John Cleese–78 Robert Picardo–64 Simon LeBon–59 Marla Maples–54 Patrick Fugit–35 Kelly Osbourne–33 Troy Gentile–24 ; 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded ; 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway (IRT) line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States

Happy Birthday RIP Pablo Picasso y Lopez(1881–1973) Sarah Colley(“Minnie Pearl” 1912–1996) William Bertanzetti(“Billy Barty” 1924–2000) Wilma Jeanne Cooper(1928–2013) ; Marian Ross–89 Helen Reddy–76 John “Jon” Anderson–73 Nancy Cartwright–60 Samantha Bee–48 Joshua Henderson–36 “Katy Perry”(Katheryn Hudson)–33 Ciara Harris–32 ; 1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies

Happy Birthday RIP “Bob Kane”(Robert Kahn 1915–1998) ; Frederick Murray Abraham–78 Kevin Kline–70 John Kassir–60 Casey Wilson–37 Oliver Jackson-Cohen–31 ; 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel ; 1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan

Happy Birthday RIP William “Hayden” Rorke(1910–1987) Johnny Carson(1925–2005) John Michael Crichton(1942–2008) ; Ang Lee( 李安 )–63 Weird Alfred Yankovic–58 Samuel Raimi–58 Ryan Reynolds–41 Emilia Clarke–31 ; 1915 – Women’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote ; 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine

Happy Birthday RIP “Curly Howard”(Jerome Horwitz 1903–1952) Joan Fontaine(Beauvoir de Havilland 1917–2013) Annette Funicello(1942–2013) ; Sir Derek Jacobi–79 Christopher Lloyd–79 David “Tony” Roberts–78 Catherine Deneuve(Dorléac)–74 Deepak Chopra–71 Jeffrey Goldblum–65 Brian Boitano–54 Ned “Carlos” Mencia–50 “Spike Jonze”(Adam Spiegel)–48 Michael Fishman–36 Zachary Hanson–32 Kyle Gallner–31 ; 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. ; 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust

Happy Birthday RIP John “Dizzy” Gillespie(1917–1993) Carrie Fisher(1956–2016) ; Joyce Randolph(Sirola)–93 Manfred Mann(Lubowitz)–77 Judith “Judy” Sheindlin(Blum)–75 Kensaku Watanabe–58 Jade Jagger–46 Sasha Roiz–44 Jeremy Miller–41 William Estes Nipper–39 Aaron Tveit–34 Matthew Dallas–35 ; 1879 – Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be the start of the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light. Popular belief is that he invented the light bulb, which he did not. He invented the first that for which use was practical.

​Happy Birthday RIP Bela Lugosi(Blaskó 1882–1956) John Dewey(1859–1952) Jerome Orbach(1935–2004) Dr. Joyce Brothers(Bauer 1927–2013) William Christopher(1932–2016) Thomas Petty(1950–2017) ; Thomas Newman–62 Viggo Mortensen Jr–59 Calvin Broadus(“Snoop Dogg”)–46 Samuel Witwer–40 John Krasinski–38 Adam Butcher–29 ; 1803 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

Happy Birthday RIP “LaWanda Page”(Alberta Peal 1920–2002) “Robert Reed”(John Rietz Jr 1932–1992) Harris Glenn Milstead(“Divine” 1945–1988) ; David Cornwell(“John Le Carré”)–86 Sir Michael Gambon–77 John Lithgow–72 Patricia Ireland–72 Jennifer Holliday–57 Amy Carter–50 Randolph “Trey” Parker III–48 Christopher Kattan–47 Desmond Harrington–41 ; 1987 – “Black Monday” the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or -22.6 percent in value, the largest one-day percentage drop (worse than 1929 at -12.82%)

Happy Birthday RIP George Campbell Scott(1927–1999) Peter Boyle Jr(1935–2006) Erin Moran(1960–2017) Charles “Chuck” Berry(1926–2017) ; Dawn Wells–79 Michael Ditka(Dyczko)–78 Pamela Dawber–66 Martina Navratilova–61 Jean-Claude Van Damme(Varenberg)–57 Zachary Efron–30 ; 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day ; 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service