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 20
Happy Birthday John “Joe” Cocker-68 Cherilyn Sarkisian-66 Ron Reagan-54 Bronson Pinchot-53 Tony Goldwyn-52 Mindy Cohn-46 Timothy Olyphant-44 ; 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
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.
May 15
Happy Birthday Madeleine Albright-75 Calogero “Chazz” Palminteri-60 Michael Oldfield-59 ; 1862 Lincoln signs bill into law US Bureau of Agriculture is created (later renamed to USDA)
May 14
Happy Birthday George Lucas Jr.-68 Robert Zemeckis-61 David Byrne-60 Catherine Blanchett-43 Sofia Coppola-41 Mark Zuckerberg-28 ; 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.