History Blog

September 3

Happy Birthday Anna Jackson-86 Eileen Brennan-80 Valerie Perrine-69 Adam Curry-48 Charlie Sheen(Carlos Estevez)-47 Trevor St. John-41 Samuel “Nick” Wechsler-34 David Moretti-31 ; 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow”, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

September 2

Happy Birthday RIP Christa McAuliffe(1948–1986) ; Mary Jo Catlett-74 Terry Bradshaw-64 Thomas Mark Harmon-61 Jimmy Connors-60 Keanu Reeves-48 Salma Hayek Jiménez-46 Charles “Tuc” Watkins-46 ; 1789 The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

September 1

Happy Birthday RIP Margaret Middleton(Yvonne DeCarlo 1922–2007) ; Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin-73 Barry Gibb-66 Phil McGraw-62 Gloria Garcia(Estefan)-55  Robert “Scott” Speedman-37 ; 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

August 31

Happy Birthday George Ivan Morrison-67 Itzhak Perlman-67 Richard Gere-63 Julie Brown-58 Debbie Gibson-42 Chris Tucker-40 ; 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan

August 30

Happy Birthday Bill Daily-85 Timothy Bottoms-61 Michael Chiklis-49 Cameron Diaz-40 Lisa Ling-39 Andy Roddick-30 ; 1835 Melbourne Australia is founded.

August 29

Happy Birthday RIP Ingrid Bergman(1915–1982) Eloise “Isabel” Sanford(1917–2004) Michael Jackson(1958-2009) ; Elliott Gould(Goldstein)-74 Robin Leach-71 Rebecca DeMornay(Pearch)-53 Carla Gugino-41 William Levy-32 ; 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

August 28

Happy Birthday David Soul(Solberg)-69 Luis Guzmán-56 Scott Hamilton-54 Jennifer Coolidge-51 David Fincher-50 Shania Twain(Eilleen Edwards)-47 Jason Priestley-43 Thomas “Jack” Black-43 Armond Douglas Hammer-26 ; 1922 first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City.

August 27

Happy Birthday Barbara Bach(Barbara Goldbach)-65 Paul Reubens(Paul Rubenfeld)-60 Diana Scarwid-57 Chandra Wilson-43 Sarah Chalke-36 Aaron Paul Sturtevant-33

August 26

Happy Birthday Valerie Simpson-66 Zemfira Ramazanova-36 Chris Pine-32 Macaulay Culkin-32 Cassie(Casandra Ventura)-26 ; 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect. ; 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st state in the union of the United States.

August 25

Happy Birthday Monty Hall(Monte Halperin)-91 Thomas Sean Connery-82 Regis Philbin-81 Tom Skerritt-79 Mink Stole(Nancy Stoll)-65 Gene Simmons(Chaim Weitz)-63 Elvis Costello(Declan  MacManus)-58 Tim Burton-54 Billy Ray Cyrus-51 Blair Underwood-48 Rachael Ray-44 Claudia Schiffer-42 ; 1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil. ; 1916 – The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.