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August 30 2011

Happy Birthday Bill Daily-84 Timothy Bottoms-60 Cameron Diaz-39 Lisa Ling-38 Eldon Henson-34 Andy Roddick-29 ; 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.

August 29 2011

Happy Birthday William Friedkin-76 Elliott Gould-73 Robin Leach-70 Rebecca DeMornay­-52 Lea Michele-25 ; 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

August 28 2011

Happy Birthday David Soul-68 Luis Guzmán-55 Jennifer Coolidge-50 David Fincher-49 Shania Twain-46 Jason Priestley-42 Jack Black-42 ; 1922 first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City.

August 25 2011

Happy Birthday Monty Hall-90 Sean Connery-81 Regis Philbin-80 Tom Skerritt-78 Elvis Costello-57 Tim Burton-53 Billy Ray Cyrus-50 Blair Underwood-47 Rachael Ray-43

August 24 2011

Happy Birthday Steve Guttenberg-53 Craig Kilborn-49 Marlee Matlin-46 Dave Chappelle-38 James D’Arcy-36 Chad Murray-30 Rupert Grint-23 ; 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours

August 23 2011

Happy Birthday Vera Miles-81 Barbara Eden-77 Richard Sanders-71 Shelley Long-62 Rick Springfield-62 Chris Potter-51 Jay Mohr-41 Scott Caan-35 Kobe Bryant-33

August 22 2011

Happy Birthday Ray Bradbury-91 Valerie Harper-72 Cindy Williams-64 Tori Amos-48 Kristen Wiig-38 ; 1902, Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States chief executive to ride in an automobile in public.

August 21 2011

Happy Birthday Kenny Rogers-73 Kim Cattrall-55 Carrie-Anne Moss-41 Alicia Witt-36 Hayden Panettiere-22 ; 1959, President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

August 20 2011

Happy Birthday Connie Chung-65 Robert Plant-63 Al Roker-57 Joan Allen-55 James Marsters-49 Amy Adams-37 ; 1920 NFL is founded in USA ; 1920 First commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

August 19 2011

Happy Birthday Bill Clinton-65 Tipper Gore-63 Jonathan Frakes-59 Peter Gallagher-56 John Stamos-48 Kevin Dillon-46 Matthew Perry-42 ; 2004 Internet search engine Google went public.