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January 11

Happy Birthday Felix Silla-75 Naomi Judd-66 Lee Ritenour-60 Vicki Peterson-54 Mary J. Blige-41 Amanda Peet-40  ; 1805 The Michigan Territory was created.

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking. While not the first such declaration by an official of the United States of America, it is notable for being arguably the most famous, and certainly had lasting and widespread effects on the tobacco industry and on the worldwide perception of smoking.

January 10

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra Jr-68 Rod Stewart-67 Donald Fagen-64 William Sanderson-64 George Foreman-63 Pat Benatar-59 ; 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

January 9

Happy Birthday Judith Krantz-84 Joan Baez-71 Crystal Gayle-61 J. K. Simmons-57 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge-30 ; 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

January 8

Happy Birthday Charles Osgood-79 Bob Eubanks-74 Stephen Hawking-70 David Bowie-65 Michelle Forbes-47 Sean Paul-39 Sarah Polley-33 ; 1982 AT&T settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

January 7

Happy Birthday William Peter Blatty-84 Kenny Loggins-64 Erin Gray-62 David Caruso-56 Katie Couric-55 Nicolas Cage-48 Dustin Diamond-35

January 6

Happy Birthday Bonnie Franklin-68 Rowan Atkinson-57 Scott Bryce-54  Danny Pintauro-36 Eddie Redmayne-30  RIP Danny Thomas (1914,1991) ; 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state.

January 5

Happy Birthday Walter Mondale-84 Robert Duvall-81 Diane Keaton-66 Ted Lange-64 Pamela Sue Martin-59 Marilyn Manson-43 ; 1914, Henry Ford, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.

January 4

Happy Birthday Barbara Rush-85 Dyan Cannon-75 Bernard Sumner-58 Ann Magnuson-55 Matt Frewer-53 Michael Stipe-52 Dave Foley-49 Julia Ormond-47 August Diehl-36 Aaron Schwartz-31

January 3

Happy Birthday Robert Loggia-82 Dabney Coleman-80 Stephen Stills-66 Victoria Principal-62 Mel Gibson-56 ; 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.

January 02

Happy Birthday Cuba Gooding Jr.-44 Patrick Huard-43 Dax Shepard-37 Kate Bosworth-29 ; 1974 President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph.