Happy Birthday RIP Robert Lansing(Brown 1928–1994) “Peggy Stewart”(Margaret O’Rourke 1923–2019) ; Susan “Suze” Orman–72 Kenneth Gorelick(“Kenny G”)–67 Richard Butler–67 Ronald Livingston–56 Susan Lynch–52 Mark Wahlberg–52 Chad Allen Lazzari–49 Peter Wentz III–44 ; 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. ; 1968 – Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Wilshire corridor, present day Koreatown. Palestinian gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. The hotel was demolished end of 2005 and high school erected on the grounds September 2010. It’s called Robert F Kennedy community schools

Happy Birthday RIP Catherine Rosalind Russell(1907–1976) William Dennis Weaver(1924–2006) John Sidney Blythe Barrymore Jr.(1932–2004) ; Bruce Dern–87 Michelle Phillips(Holly Gilliam)–79 Richard Stevenson Parker Jr–71 Keith David Williams–67 Eldra “El” DeBarge–62 Albert Brown III(“Al B Sure”)–55 Scott Wolf–55 Noah Wyle–52 Angelina Jolie Voight–48 Russell Brand–48 Todd “T.J.” Miller–42 ; 1919 – Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. Women are now allowed to vote.

Happy Birthday RIP “Josephine Baker”(Freda McDonald 1906–1975) Maurice Evans(1901–1989) Ellen Corby(Hansen 1911–1999) “Tony Curtis”(Bernard Schwartz 1925–2010) Chuck Barris(1929–2017) ; “Deniece Williams”(June Chandler)–73 Susan “Suzie” Plakson–65 Anderson Cooper–56 Jason Jones–56 ; 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon

Happy Birthday RIP Marvin Hamlisch(1944–2012) Sally Kellerman (1937–2022) ; Walter Stacy Keach Jr–82 Charles Haid III–80 Lars “Lasse” Hallström–7 Gerald “Jerry” Mathers–75 Joanna Gleason(Hall)–73 Dana Carvey–68 Liam Cunningham–62 Wentworth Miller III–51 Zachary Quinto–4 Justin Long–45 Dominic Cooper–45 ; 1924 – Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians

Happy Birthday RIP “Frank Morgan”(Francis Wuppermann 1890–1949) “Marilyn Monroe”(Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926–1962) Cleavon Little(1939–1992) Andy Griffith(1926–2012) Rene Auberjonois(1940– 2019); Charles “Pat” Boone–89 Morgan Freeman–86 Brian Cox–77 Jonathan Pryce–76 Lisa Hartman Black–67 Heidi Klum–50 Alanis Morissette–49 Amy Schumer–42 ; 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns ; 1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released ; 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting

Happy Birthday RIP Walter “Walt” Whitman(1819–1892) Denholm Elliott(1922–1992) Dominic “Don” Ameche(Amici 1908–1993) ; Clinton Eastwood Jr–93 Sharon Gless–80 Joseph “Joe” Namath–80 Thomas Berenger(Moore)–73 Christopher Elliott–63 Lea Thompson–62 Corey Hart–61 Brooke Shields–58 Colin Farrell–47 Johnathan Tucker–41 ; 1921 – The Tulsa race massacre took place where mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa. This is also called the massacre of Black Wall Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre ; 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, the Watergate scandal’s whistleblower

Happy Birthday RIP Mel Blanc(Melvin Blank 1908–1989) Benjamin “Benny” Goodman(1909–1986) ; Ruta Kilmonis(“Lee”)–87 Stephen Tobolowsky–72 Colm Meaney–70 Theodore “Ted” McGinley–65 Ralph Carter–62 Mark Sheppard–59 “Wynonna Judd”(Christina Ciminella)–59 Idina Menzel–52 Omri Katz–47 ; 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race

Happy Birthday RIP John Fitzgerald Kennedy(1917–1963) Leslie “Bob” Hope(1903–2003) George Clifton James(1920–2017) ; Anthony Geary–76 Daniel “Danny” Elfman–70 LaToya Jackson–67 Frank “Ted” Levine–66 Annette Bening-Beaty–65 Rupert Everett–64 Adrian Paul Hewett–64 Melissa Etheridge–62 Lisa Whelchel–60 Laverne Cox–51 David Burtka–48 Daniel Tosh–48 ; 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history

Happy Birthday RIP Ian Fleming(1908–1964) Zelda Rubinstein(1933–2010) Elizabeth Howland(1941–2015) ; Gladys Knight–79 John Fogerty–78 Brandon Cruz(Williams)–61 Kylie Minogue–55 Justin Kirk–54 Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger–45 Jesse Bradford Watrouse–44 Carey Mulligan–38 Joseph Cross–37 ; 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club ; 1936 – Alan Turing submits “On Computable Numbers” for publication

Happy Birthday RIP Hubert Humphrey Jr(1911–1978) Vincent Price Jr(1911–1993) Christopher Lee(1922–2015) ; Heinz “Henry” Kissinger–100 Lee Meriwether–88 Louis Gossett Jr–87 Bruce Weitz–80 “Siouxsie Sioux”(Susan Ballion)–66 Peri Gilpin(Oldham)–62 Adam Carolla–59 Todd Bridges–58 Edward McClintock–56 Joseph Fiennes–53 Paul Bettany–52 Christopher Colfer–33 ; 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage ; 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A