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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.

August 16 2011

Happy Birthday Frank Gifford-81 Eydie Gorme-80 Julie Newmar-78 Lesley Ann Warren-65 James Cameron-57 Laura Innes-54 Angela Bassett-53 Madonna Ciccone-53 Steve Carell-49 ; 1977, Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42

August 15 2011

Happy Birthday Rose Marie-88 Mike Connors-86 Pat Priest-75 Linda Ellerbee-67 Debra Messing-43 Ben Affleck-39 ; 1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.

August 14 2011

Happy Birthday David Crosby-70 Steve Martin-66 Susan Saint James-65 Danielle Steel-64 Magic Johnson-52 Susan Olsen-50 Halle Berry-45 ; 1947 Pakistan became independent of British rulership

August 13 2011

Happy Birthday Pat Harrington-82 Kevin Tighe-67 John Stocker-64 Danny Bonaduce-52 John Slattery-49 1942 Walt Disney’s animated feature “Bambi” premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

August 12 2011

Happy Birthday George Hamilton-72 Pat Metheny-57 Peter Krause-46 Rebecca Gayheart-39 Casey Affleck-36 ; 1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.

August 11 2011

Happy Birthday Brian De Palma-71 Eric Carmen-62 Hulk Hogan-58 Joe Jackson-57 Viola Davis-46 Ashley Jensen-43 Tyler Hoechlin-24 ; 1965, deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.