Happy Birthday RIP Dixie Carter(1939–2010) ; Ian McKellen-73 Leslie Uggams-69 Frank Oznowicz-68 Karen Valentine-65 Connie Sellecca(Concetta Sellecchia)-57 Michael “Mike” Myers-49 James “Jamie” Kennedy-42 Octavia Spencer-42 Lauryn Hill-37 Cillian Murphy-36 ; 1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri was dedicated.
May 24
Happy Birthday Bob Dylan Zimmerman-71 Gary Burghoff-69 Patti LaBelle Holte-68 Priscilla Presley-67 Jim Broadbent-63 John C. Reilly-47 ; 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
May 23
Happy Birthday Joan Collins-79 Charles Kimbrough-76 Lauren Chapin-67 Drew Carey-54 Clarence “Linden” Ashby-52 Gerald “Maxwell” Rivera-39 Jewel Kilcher-38 ; 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
May 22
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 21
Happy Birthday RIP Raymond Burr(1917-1993) ;Gerard ” Leo” Sayer-64 Al Franken-61 Lawrence Tureaud(“Mr. T)-60 Edward “Judge” Reinhold-55 Brett Tucker-40 Morgan Benoit-32 ; 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
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.