Happy Birthday RIP Bruce Lee(李小龍 1940–1973) Edward “Eddie” Rabbitt(1941–1998) Johnny “Jimi” Hendrix(1942–1970) James Avery(1945–2013) ; Heidemarie Jiline “Jil” Sander–81 William “Bill” Nye–69 William Fichtner–68 Caroline Kennedy–67 Robin Givens–60 Michael Vartan–56 Elizabeth Marvel–55 Jaleel White–48 ; 1910 – New York’s Penn Station opened ; 1924 – the first Macys Thanksgiving Parade is held in NYC (but not televised until 1948) ; 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White #HarveyMilk

Happy Birthday RIP Adele Jurgenson(1917–2002) Monroe Schulz(1922–2000) Robert Goulet(1933–2007) Marian Mercer(1935–2011) “Tina Turner”(Anna Mae Bullock 1939–2023) Mark Margolis(1939–2023) ; Richard “Rich” Little–86 Daniel Davis–79 Garcelle Beauvais–58 Ryan Robbins(Currier)–52 Adam J Harrington–52 Peter Facinelli–51 Natasha Bedingfield–43 Arturo Castro–39 ; 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded ; 1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York

Happy Birthday RIP John Kennedy Jr(1960–1999) Ricardo Montalbán y Merino(1920–2009) Giuseppe “Joe” DiMaggio Jr(1914–1999) ; Benjamin Stein–80 John Larroquette Jr–77 Amy Grant–64 William “Billy” Burke–58 Stacy Lattisaw–58 Jillian Hennessy–56 Christina Applegate–53 Jerry Ferrara–45 ; 1952 – Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play “The Mousetrap” opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history. It is still playing at St Martin’s Theatre in London.

Happy Birthday RIP Geraldine Fitzgerald(1913–2005) William Frank Buckley, Jr(1925–2008) ; William “Billy” Connolly–82 William Dwight Schultz–77 Denise Crosby–67 Amanda Wyss–64 Garret Dillahunt–60 Colin Hanks(Dillingham)–47 Katherine Heigl–46 ; 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”, which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology ; 1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters

Happy Birthday RIP “Boris Karloff”(William Pratt 1887–1969) Adolph “Harpo” Marx(1888–1964) Francis Michael Gough(1916–2011) Steven Landesberg(1936–2010) ; Bruce Vilanch–76 Bruce Hornsby–70 Robin Roberts–64 Vincent Cassel(Crochon)–58 Christopher Hardwick–53 Destiny “Miley” Cyrus–32 ; 1889 – The first jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco California

Happy Birthday RIP “Rodney Dangerfield”(Jacob Cohen 1921–2004) Robert Vaughn(1932–2016) ; Billie Jean King(Moffit)–81 Jamie Leigh Curtis–66 Mariel Hemingway–63 Stephen Geoffreys(Miller)–60 Boris Becker–57 Mark Ruffalo–57 Scarlett Johansson–40 ; 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested that same day.

Happy Birthday RIP François-Marie Arouet(“Voltaire” 1694–1778) Corinne Griffith(Griffin 1894–1979) Stan Musial(1920–2013) Harold Ramis(1944–2014) ; Margaret “Marlo” Thomas–87 Goldie Hawn–79 Lorna Luft–72 Brian McNamara–64 Colette “Nicollette” Sheridan–61 Björk Guðmundsdóttir–59 Alexander Siddig–59 Robert “Rib” Hillis–54 Jena Malone–40 ; 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sounds ; 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI Intl (Stanford Research Institute. This was infancy of Internet which started in military as DARPA) ARPANET = was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet

Happy Birthday RIP Robert F. Kennedy(1925–1968) Franklin Cover(1928–2006 , iconic white actor who is one half of the first televised interracial marriages. On the series “The Jeffersons” he is married to a black female actress, Roxie Roker, real life mother of Lenny Kravitz) “Richard Dawson” on Family Feud , birth name Colin Emm 1932–2012) Catherine Balotta(“Kaye Ballard” 1925–2019) ; Richard “Dick” Smothers–86 Joseph R Biden Jr–82 Veronica Hamel–81 Joseph Walsh–77 “Bo Derek”(Mary Collins)–68 Joel McHale–53 David O’Donnell–50 ; 1947– The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London (later she becomes Queen Elizabeth II and when she dies he becomes King Charles III ; 1966 – The musical “Cabaret,” with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway (later made into movie with lead by Liza Minnelli) ; 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System

1991) Thomas Dorsey(1905–1956) “Larry King”(Lawrence Zeiger 1933–2021) ; Richard “Dick” Cavett–88 Robert “Ted” Turner III–86 Richard “Calvin” Klein–82 Robert Beltran–71 Ann Curry–68 Allison Janney–65 Margaret “Meg” Ryan(Hyra)–63 Alicia “Jodie” Foster–62 Theresa “Terry” Farrell–61 Jack Dorsey–48 ; 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania

Happy Birthday RIP Louis Daguerre(1787–1851) George Gallup(1901–1984) Imogene Fernandez de Coca(1908–2001) ; Brenda Vaccaro–85 Linda Evans(Evanstad)–82 John Parr–72 Kevin Nealon–71 Elizabeth Perkins–64 Kim Wilde(Smith)–64 Owen Wilson–56 Chloë Sevigny–50 Damon Wayans Jr–42 ; 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday , D28 ; 1963 – The first push-button touch tone telephone goes into service!