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May 7

Happy Birthday RIP Robert Hegyes(1951-2012) ; Thelma Jackson-Houston-66 Traci Lords(Nora Kuzma)-44 Ivan Sergei Gaudio-41 ; 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts

May 6

Happy Birthday RIP Rudolph Valentino(Rodolfo d’Antonguolla) (1895–1926) and George Orson Welles(1915-1985) ; Willie Mays-81 Bob Seger-67 Tony Blair-59 Tom Bergeron-57  George Clooney-51 Gabourey Sidibe-29 ; 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

May 5

Happy Birthday Michael Palin-69 John Rhys-Davies-68 Kurt Loder-67 Brian Williams-53 Kristina Yothers-39 ; 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act ; Happy Cinqo De Mayo!

May 4

Happy Birthday RIP Audrey Ruston Hepburn (1929–1993)  Richard Jenkins-67 Pia Zadora Schipani-58 Randy Travis(Traywick)-53 Mary McDonough-51 Ana Gasteyer-45 Will Arnett-42 James Lance Bass-33 ; 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held at Beverly Hilton Hotel at Santa Monica and Wilshire.

May 3

Happy Birthday Ann B. Davis-86 Frankie Valli(Francis Castelluccio)-78 Christopher Cross Geppert-61 ; 1802 Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city. ; 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

May 2

Happy Birthday Engelbert Humperdinck(Arnold Dorsey)-76 Louis Grammatico(Foreigner singer)-62 Bianca  Macias-Jagger-67 Christine Baranski-60 Donatella Versace-57 Dwayne Johnson-40 David Beckham-37 ; 1932 Jack Benny’s first radio show debuted on the NBC Blue Network.

May 1

Happy Birthday Judith Collins-73 Rita Coolidge-67 Joanna Lumley-66 Ray Parker Jr.-58 Samuel Tim McGraw-45 Wes Anderson-43 ; 1707 The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

April 30

Happy Birthday Cloris Leachman-86 Willie Nelson-79 Gary Collins-74 Adrian Pasdar-47 Johnny Galecki-37 Kirsten Dunst-30 ; 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

April 29

Happy Birthday Richard Klein-68 Jerry Seinfeld-58 Kate Mulgrew-57 Leslie Jordan-57 Daniel Day-Lewis-55 Michelle Pfeiffer-54 Eve Plumb-54 Uma Thurman-42 ; 1996 The musical “Rent” opened on Broadway.