Happy Birthday Lesley Stahl-70 Billy Gibbons-62 Benjamin Bratt-48 Anna Popplewell-23 ; 1773 Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.

Happy Birthday Tim Conway-78 Don Johnson-62 Garrett Wang-43 Stuart Townsend-39 Adam Brody-32 ; 1892, J. Paul Getty was born.

Happy Birthday Patty Duke-65 Ted Raimi-46 Natascha McElhone-42 Marty Lindsey-41 ; 2000 The FTC unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner.

Happy Birthday Dick Van Dyke-86 Christopher Plummer-82 John Davidson-70 Ted Nugent-63 Morris Day-55 Steve Buscemi-54 Jamie Foxx-44 Taylor Swift-22

Happy Birthday Bob Barker-88 Ed Koch-87 Connie Francis-74 Dionne Warwick-71 Cathy Rigby-59 Sheila Escovedo-54 Jennifer Connelly-41 Hank Williams III-39 ; RIP Brandon Teena http://bit.ly/5GJXp2

Happy Birthday Rita Moreno-80 Donna Mills-69 John Kerry-68 Lynda Day George-67 Teri Garr-64 Ben Browder-49 Monica Imes-44 ; 1946 UNICEF (the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was established.

Happy Birthday Susan Dey-59 Michael Clarke Duncan-54 Paul Hardcastle-54 Raven-Symone-26 ; 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

Happy Birthday Kirk Douglas-95 Buck Henry-81 Judi Dench-77 Beau Bridges-70 Dick Butkus-69 Michael Dorn-59 John Malkovich-58 Donny Osmond-54 Felicity Huffman-49 Jesse Metcalfe-33 

Happy Birthday Gregg Allman -64 Kim Basinger-58 Teri Hatcher-47 Sinead O’Connor-45 Ian Somerhalder-33 ; 1993 President Bill Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Happy Birthday Ellen Burstyn-79 Tom Waits-62 Larry Bird-55 Priscilla Barnes-55 C. Thomas Howell-45 Shiri Appleby-33 ; 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II.