Happy Birthday Merle Haggard-75 Billy December Williams Jr.-75 John Ratzenberger-65 Patricka Davidson Darbo-64 Mary Lucy Henner-60 Paul Rudd-43 Zach Braff-37 ; 1896 The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece.

Happy Birthday RIP Spencer Tracy(1900-1967) Gregory Peck(1916-2003) Bette Davis(1908-1989 ) ; Colin Powell-75 Maxwell Gail-69 Agnetha Fältskog-62 Thea Gill-42 Jason Done-39 ; Dancing Queen

Happy Birthday RIP Heath Andrew Ledger(1979-2008)  Estelle Nussbaum Harris-83 Craig T. Nelson-68 Hugo Weaving-52 Graham Norton Walker-48 Robert Downey Jr.-47 Nancy McKeon-46 ; 1850 The city of Los Angeles was incorporated. ; 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Happy Birthday  RIP Marlon Brando(1924-2004)  Doris Day-89 Jane Goodall-78 Marsha Mason-70 Wayne Newton-70 Tony Orlando-68 Alec Baldwin-54 Eddie Murphy-51 ; 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

Happy Birthday Emmylou Harris-65 Ron Palillo-63 Chris Meloni-51 Aiden Turner-35 ; 1956 As The World Turns debuts on CBS

Happy Birthday Debbie Reynolds-80 Ali MacGraw-74 David Eisenhower-65 Barry Sonnenfeld-59 Matt Lanter-29 ; 1970 President Richard Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.

Happy Birthday RIP Cesar Chavez(1927-1993) ; Richard Chamberlain-78 Shirley Jones-78 Herb Alpert-77 Christopher Walken-69 Gabe Kaplan-67 Al Gore-64 Rhea Perlman-64 Ewan McGregor-41 ; 1917 The United States took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.

Happy Birthday Peter Marshall-86 John Astin-82 Warren Beatty-75 Eric Clapton-67 Paul Reiser-55 Tracy Chapman-48 Celine Dion-44 Norah Jones-33 ; 1964 The TV game show “Jeopardy!” premiered on NBC.

Happy Birthday RIP Pearl Bailey(1918-1990)  Judith Guest-76 Eric Idle-69 Evangelos Papathanassiou-69 Marina Sirtis-57 Elle Macpherson-49 Amy Sedaris-51 Lucy Ryan Lawless-44 ; 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Happy Birthday Dianne Wiest-64 Reba McEntire-57 Vince Vaughn-43 Julia Stiles-31 Stefani Germanotta(Lady GaGa)-26 ; 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.