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May 1

Happy Birthday Judith Collins-73 Rita Coolidge-67 Joanna Lumley-66 Ray Parker Jr.-58 Samuel Tim McGraw-45 Wes Anderson-43 ; 1707 The Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

April 30

Happy Birthday Cloris Leachman-86 Willie Nelson-79 Gary Collins-74 Adrian Pasdar-47 Johnny Galecki-37 Kirsten Dunst-30 ; 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

April 29

Happy Birthday Richard Klein-68 Jerry Seinfeld-58 Kate Mulgrew-57 Leslie Jordan-57 Daniel Day-Lewis-55 Michelle Pfeiffer-54 Eve Plumb-54 Uma Thurman-42 ; 1996 The musical “Rent” opened on Broadway.

April 28

Happy Birthday RIP Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954) Ann-Margret Olsson-71 Jay Leno-62 Mary McDonnell-60 Jorge Garcia-39 Penélope Cruz Sánchez-38 Jessica Alba-31 Michael Carbonaro-30 ; 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

April 27

Happy Birthday Jack Klugman-90 Kermal “Casey” Kasem-80 Kate Pierson-64 Sheena Easton Orr-53 ; 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

April 26

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett-79 Jet Li Lian Jie-49 Kevin James Knipfing-47 Tom Welling-35 Channing Tatum-32 ; 1928 Los Angeles City Hall dedicated ; 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

April 25

Happy Birthday RIP Ella Fitzgerald(1917-1996) George “Meadowlark” Lemon-80 Alfredo Pacino-72 Björn Ulvaeus-67 Herny “Hank” Azaria-48 Andy Bell-48 Renee Zellweger-43 ; 1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.

April 24

Happy Birthday Shirley MacLaine-78 Barbara Streisand-70 Djimon Hounsou-48 Kelly Clarkson-30 ; 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

April 23

Happy Birthday Shirley Temple Black-84 Alan Oppenheimer-82 Harvey Lee Yeary(Lee Majors)-73  Joyce DeWitt-63 Michael Moore-58 Valerie Bertinelli-52 Jacob Taio Cruz-29 ; 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.