January 22

Happy Birthday RIP David Llewelyn Wark "DW" Griffith(1875–1948) Samuel Cooke(1931–1964) Wilfred "Bill" Bixby III(1934–1993) ; "Piper Laurie"(Rosetta Jacobs)–85 Seymour Cassel–82 John Hurt–77 Stephen "Steve" Perry–68 Linda Blair–58 Diane Lane–52 Gabriel Macht–45 Paul Balthazar Getty–42 Nicholas Simmons–28 ; 1968 – "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC. ; 1973 – the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion.