Happy Birthday RIP Harry “Bing” Crosby Jr(1903–1977) “Hedda Hopper”(Elda Furry 1885–1966) ; “Engelbert Humperdinck”(Arnold Dorsey)–88 Bianca Macias(“Jagger”)–79 Louis Grammatico(“Lou Gramm”)–74 Christine Baranski–72 Donatella Versace–69 Dwayne Johnson–52 David Beckham–49 ; 1932 – Jack Benny’s first radio show debuted on the NBC Blue Network ; 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“

Happy Birthday RIP Louis Nye(Niestat 1913–2005) Gwyllyn Samuel “Glenn” Ford(1916–2006) Jack Paar(1918–2004) Richard J. Riordan(1930–2023) ; Judith Collins–85 Rita Coolidge–79 Joanna Lumley–78 Ray Parker Jr.–70 Samuel “Tim” McGraw(Smith)–57 Wesley Anderson–55 Becky Baeling Lythgoe–47 ; 1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business ; 1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City ; 1941 – The Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane” premiered in New York City ; 1987 – APA removed homosexuality as mental disorder from the DSM III. Ego-dystonic homosexuality is removed and replaced by “sexual disorder not otherwise specified,” which can include “persistent and marked distress about one’s sexual orientation.”

Happy Birthday RIP “Eve Arden”(Eunice Quedens 1908–1990) “Al Lewis”(Alexander Meister 1923–2006) Gary Collins(1938–2012) Cloris Leachman(1926–2021) Gerald Delouise(“Burt Young” 1940–2013) ; Adrian Pasdar–59 Jeffrey Timmons–51 Johnny Galecki–49 Kunal Nayyar–43 Kirsten Dunst–42 Dianna Agron–38 ; 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor ; 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. It is credited with the waffle-style ice cream cone invention/creation and first mass sales of it in the USA. It was a result of not having enough clean dishes to serve the ice cream so they create the sugar cones as holders to serve the Ice Cream scoops. Those locale became home to Forest Park which is still the location of the region’s major cultural institutions—the Saint Louis Zoo, Art Museum, History Museum, Science Center and the Muny Opera.

Happy Birthday RIP Edward “Duke” Ellington(1899–1974) Leslie Jordan(1955–2023); Richard Kline–80 Nora Dunn–72 Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld–70 Katherine “Kate” Mulgrew–69 Daniel Day-Lewis–67 Michelle Pfeiffer–66 Eve Plumb–66 Uma Thurman–54 Andre Agassi–54 ; 1968 – The controversial musical “Hair”, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement

Happy Birthday RIP James Monroe(1758–1831) Nelle Harper Lee(1926–2016) Carolyn Jones(1930–1983) Lionel Barrymore(1878–1954) ; Ann-Margret Olsson–83 James “Jay” Leno–74 Mary McDonnell–72 Jorge Garcia–51 Penélope Cruz Sánchez–50 Jessica Alba–43 ; 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans

Happy Birthday RIP Hiram Ulysses Grant(1822–1885) Walter Lantz(1899–1994) Coretta Scott King(1927–2006) Jacob “Jack” Klugman(1922–2012) Robert Donner(Morris 1931–2006) Kemal “Casey” Kasem(1932–2014) ; Katherine “Kate” Pierson–76 Eric Schmidt–69 Kevin McNally–68 Sheena Easton(Orr)–65 Cory Booker–55 Sally Hawkins–48 William Mosley–37 James Duke Mason–32 ; 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett–91 Jet Li Lian Jie( 李連杰)–61 Kevin “James” Knipfing–59 Thomas “Tom” Welling–47 Channing Tatum–44 ; 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. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 people died immediately

Happy Birthday RIP Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) George “Meadowlark” Lemon III(1932–2015) ; Alzenia Lynn Hamilton–94 Alfredo “Al” Pacino–84 Henry “Hank” Azaria–60 Andrew “Andy” Bell–60 Renée Zellweger–55 Jason Wiles–54 ; 1901 New York State becomes the first state to require automobile license plates ; 1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Labs ; 1972 – Polaroid Corp. introduced its SX-70 folding camera, which ejected self-developing photographs, the first of it’s kind.

Happy Birthday RIP Harry “Michael” Parks(1940–2017) ; Shirley Beaty MacLean–90 Barbra Joan Streisand–82 Richard M. Daley–82 Jean-Paul Gaultier–72 Djimon Hounsou–60 Aidan Gillen(Murphy)–56 Rory McCann–55 Eric Balfour–47 Kelly Clarkson–42 ; 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”

Happy Birthday RIP William Shakespeare(1564–1616) Roy Orbison(1936–1988) Hervé Villechaize(1943–1993) Shirley Temple Black(1928–2014) “Sandra Dee”(Alexandra Zuck 1942–2005) ; Alan Oppenheimer–94 Harvey Lee Yeary(“Lee Majors”)–85 Joyce DeWitt–75 Michael Moore–70 Valerie Bertinelli–64 George Lopez–63 John Hannah–62 Daniel “DB” Weiss–53 John Cena–47 John Oliver–47 Jacob Taio Cruz(Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere)–44 Dev Patel–34 ; 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts ; 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled “Me at the zoo” by co-founder Jawed Karim