Happy Birthday RIP Laurence Olivier(1907-1989) Harvey Milk(1930-1978) ; T. Boone Pickens-84 Bernard Shaw-72 Barbara Parkins-70 Bernie Taupin-62 Steven Morrissey-53 Brooke Smith-45 Naomi Campbell-42 Chris Salvatore-27 ; 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened ; 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
May 20
Happy Birthday John “Joe” Cocker-68 Cherilyn Sarkisian-66 Ron Reagan-54 Bronson Pinchot-53 Tony Goldwyn-52 Mindy Cohn-46 Timothy Olyphant-44 ; 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
May 19
Happy Birthday Pete Townshend-67 Joseph “Dusty” Hill-63 Grace Jones-60 ; 1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. ; 2001 – The first two Apple Stores opened in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California at Glendale Galleria.
May 18
Happy Birthday RIP Francesco “Frank” Capra(1897-1991) Pernell Roberts(1928–2010) ; Bill Macy(Wolf Garber)-90 Robert Morse-81 Chow Yun-fat-57 Reggie Jackson-66 George Strait-60 Elizabeth “Tina” Fey-42 Marta “Martika” Marrero-43 ; 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
May 17
Happy Birthday Kathleen Sullivan-59 Bill Paxton-57 Bob Saget-56 Sugar Ray Leonard-56 Enya Bhraonáin-51 Craig Ferguson-50 Sendhil Ramamurthy-38 ; 1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street ; 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
May 16
Happy Birthday Danny Trejo-68 Pierce Brosnan-59 Debra Winger-57 Kevin McDonald-51 Janet Jackson-46 Tracey Fisher(Gold)-43 David Boreanaz-43 Victoria “Tori” Spelling-39 ; 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
May 14
Happy Birthday George Lucas Jr.-68 Robert Zemeckis-61 David Byrne-60 Catherine Blanchett-43 Sofia Coppola-41 Mark Zuckerberg-28 ; 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.