Happy Birthday Ian Holm-80 Linda Gray-71 Joe Pantoliano-60 Peter Scolari-56 Paul Walker-36 Jennifer Hudson-30 ; 1954 “Lassie” made its TV debut on CBS.

Happy Birthday Earl Holliman-83 Brian De Palma-71 Amy Madigan-61 Kristy McNichol-49 Moby-46 Harry Connick Jr.-44 ; 2001, suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse.

Happy Birthday Arnold Palmer-82 Jose Feliciano-66 Bill O’Reilly-62 Harry Groener-60 Amy Irving-58 Colin Firth-51 Guy Ritchie-43 Ryan Phillippe-37 ; 1955 “Gunsmoke” premiered on CBS.

Happy Birthday Cliff Robertson-88 Joe Theismann-62 Tom Wopat-60 Hugh Grant-51 Adam Sandler-45 Goran Visnjic-39 Michael Bublé-36 ; 1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America

Happy Birthday Sid Caesar-89 Kimberly Peirce-44 David Arquette-40 Alecia (Pink) Moore-32 Jonathan Taylor Thomas-30 ; 1966 TV series “Star Trek” premiered on NBC.

Happy birthday JoAnne Worley-74 Swoosie Kurtz-67 Jane Curtin-64 Jeff Foxworthy-53 CeCe Peniston-42 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

Happy Birthday Bob Newhart-82 Raquel Welch-71 Michael Keaton-60 Rose McGowan-38 (RIP Freddie Mercury 1946-1991) ; 1957 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.

Happy Birthday Eileen Brennan-79 Valerie Perrine-68 Holt McCallany-48 Adam Curry-47 Charlie Sheen-46 Nick Wechsler-33 ; 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

Happy Birthday Terry Bradshaw-63 Mark Harmon-60 Jimmy Connors-59 Keanu Reeves-47 Salma Hayek-45 ; 1789 The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

Happy Birthday Lily Tomlin-72 Barry Gibb-65 Phil McGraw-61 Gloria Estefan-54 RIP Yvonne DeCarlo (1922-2007) ; 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.