Happy Birthday Tom Smothers-75  Graham Nash-70 RIP Farrah Fawcett(1947-2009) Brent Spiner-63 Shakira Ripoll-35 ; 1653 New Amsterdam – now New York City – was incorporated.

Happy Birthday Garrett Morris-75 Sherman Hemsley-74 Lisa Marie Presley-44 Michael C. Hall-41 ; 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.

Happy Birthday Carol Channing-91 Philip Glass-75 Harry Casey(KC)-61 John Lydon-56 Anthony LaPaglia-53 Minnie Driver-42 Justin Timberlake-31 Joel Courtney-16 , RIP Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) ; 1949 The first TV daytime soap opera, “These Are My Children,” was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

Happy Birthday Gene Hackman-82 Vanessa Redgrave-75 Phil Collins-61 Charles S. Dutton-61 Jody Watley-53 Christian Bale-38 ; 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

Happy Birthday Tom Selleck-67 Ann Jillian-62 Oprah Winfrey-58 Greg Louganis-52 Nicholas Turturro-50 Heather Graham-42 Sara Gilbert-37 ; 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.

Happy Birthday James Cromwell-72 Nick Mason-67 Mikhail Baryshnikov-64 Mimi Rogers-56 Keith Olbermann-53 Bridget Fonda-48 Alan Cumming-47 ; 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (lightbulb)
USA Patent Document

Happy Birthday James Cromwell-72 Nick Mason-67 Mikhail Baryshnikov-64 Mimi Rogers-56 Keith Olbermann-53 Bridget Fonda-48 Alan Cumming-47 ; 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (lightbulb)
http://www.google.com/patents/US223898?printsec=description#v=onepage&q&f=false

Happy Birthday  Bob Uecker-77 Scott Glenn-73 Eddie Van Halen-57 Ellen DeGeneres-54 Wayne Gretzky-51 ; 1788 The first European settlers in Australia landed in present-day Sydney.

Happy Birthday Dinah Manoff-54 Alicia Keys-31 , RIP Etta James (1938–2012) ; 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

Happy Birthday Ernest Borgnine-95 Neil Diamond-71 Yakov Smirnoff-61 Nastassja Kinski-53 Mary Lou Retton-44 Matthew Lillard-42 ; 1908 The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.