Saturday, September 30, 2017

October 1

Happy Birthday RIP George Peppard Jr(1928–1994) Walter Matthow(1920–2000) Thomas Bosley(1927–2010) ; James "Jimmy" Earl Carter Jr.–93 Julie Andrews(Julia Wells)–82 Randall Quaid–67 Elizabeth Dennehy–57 Mark McGwire–54 Theodore King–52 Cindy Margolis–52 Zacharius Galifianakis–48 Rupert Friend–36 ; 1908 – Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825 ; 1963 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show starting Johnny Carson aired on NBC

September 30

Happy Birthday RIP Truman Capote(Persons 1924–1984) ; Angie Dickinson(Angeline Brown)–86 Johnny "John" Mathis–82 Marilyn McCoo–74 Countess Roza-Marie Lubienska("Rula Lenska")–70 Barbara "Basia" Trzetrzelewska–63 Barry Williams(Blenkhorn)–63 Patrice Rushen–63 Francine Drescher–60 Eric Stoltz–56 Silas Weir Mitchell Neilson–48 Marion Cotillard–42 ; 1960 – The Flintstones premieres on ABC TV (Originally called "Flagstones" in 1959 pilot)  

Thursday, September 28, 2017

September 29

Happy Birthday RIP Orvon "Gene" Autry(1907–1998) Madeline Kahn(Wolfson 1942–1999) Larry Linville(1939–2000) ; Jerry Lee Lewis–82 Ian McShane–75 Bryant Gumbel–69 Andrew "Dice" Clay Silverstein–60 Roger Bart–55 Jill Whelan–51 Luke Goss–49 Zachary Levi Pugh–37 ; 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

September 28

Happy Birthday RIP Seymour Cray(1925–1996) Edward "Ed" Sullivan(1901–1974) James "J.T." Walsh(1943–1998) ; Brigitte Bardot–83 Jeffrey Jones–71 Jane "Janeane" Garofalo–53 Leilani Sarelle Figalan–51 Mira Sorvino–50 Naomi Watts–49 Lucas Bryant–39 Hilary Duff–30 ; 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. Only 200 units were produced. NBC made the first coast-to-coast color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954,  the first production receiver using NTSC color offered to the public (the NTSC standard still used in most of the world, as well as PAL standard, adding digital broadcasting in the US approx 2011)

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

September 27

Happy Birthday RIP Will Sampson(1933–1987) Donald Cornelius(1936–2012) "William Conrad"(John Cann 1920–1994) Francis Gregory "Greg" Morris(1933–1996) "Jayne Meadows"(Jane Cotter 1919–2015) ; Anthony Wilford Brimley–83 Marvin Aday("Meatloaf")–70 Elizabeth "Liz" Torres–70 Shaun Cassidy–59 Scott Lawrence–54 Phoebe Price–45 Gwyneth Paltrow–45 Avril Lavigne–33 ; 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

September 26

Happy Birthday RIP Francois "Jack" LaLanne(1914–2011) Patrick O'Neal(1927–1994) Joyce Jameson(1932–1987) "Donna Douglas"(Dorothy Smith 1932–2015) ; Anne Robinson–73 Olivia Newton-John–69 Linda Hamilton–61 Melissa Sue Anderson–55 James Caviezel–49 Mark Famiglietti–38 Jessie Pavelka–35 ; 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General. ‪#‎YouAreTheWeakestLink‬

Monday, September 25, 2017

September 25

Happy Birthday RIP Christopher Reeve(1952–2004) Juliet Prowse(1936–1996) William Faulkner(1897–1962) ; Barbara Walters–88 Michael Douglas–73 Cheryl Tiegs–70 Anson William Heimlich–68 Mark Hamill–66 Michael Madsen–60 Heather Locklear–56 Tate Donovan–54 Willard "Will" Smith Jr–49 Catherine Jones(Douglas)–48 Hal Harry Sparks III–48 ; 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas is integrated by the use of US Army troops

Sunday, September 24, 2017

September 24

Happy Birthday RIP Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald(1896–1940) Audra Lindley(1918–1997) Phillip Hartmann(1948–1998) James Henson(1936–1990) ; Kevin Sorbo–59 Antonia "Nia" Vardalos–55 Ryan Paevey–43 Andrew Leeds–39 Justin Bruening–38 Grey Damon–30 ; 1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS ; 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service("email")     

Saturday, September 23, 2017

September 23

Happy Birthday RIP Raymond Charles Robinson(1930–2004) "Mickey Rooney"(Joseph Yule Jr 1920–2014) ; Julio Iglesias de la Cueva–74 Mary Kay Place–70 Bruce Springsteen–68 "Rosalind" Chao( 赵家玲)–60 Jason Alexander(Greenspan)–58 Kenneth "Chi" McBride–56 Alexander Proyas–54 Anthony Mackie–39 ; 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune ; 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released which was based on Gecko and HTML4 and successor to Netscape Navigator

Friday, September 22, 2017

September 22

Happy Birthday RIP Erich von Stroheim(1885–1957) John Houseman(Jacques Haussmann 1902–1988) ; Thomas "Tommy" Lasorda–90 Antonia Basilotta("Toni Basil")–74 David Coverdale–66 Shari Belafonte–63 Deborah "Debby" Boone–61 Joan Jett(Larkin)–59 Bonnie Hunt–56 Laura Vandervoort–33 ; 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

September 20

Happy Birthday RIP Upton Sinclair(1878–1968) Jonathan Hardy(1940–2012) Anne Meara(1929–2015) ; "Sophia Loren"(Sofia Scicolone)–83 Karen Sharpe–83 Carole "Candy" Spelling–72 George Raymond Martin–69 Gary Cole–61 Robert Rusler52 Kristen Johnston50 Michelle Visage(Shupack)–49 Bradford Beyer Jr–44 Jon Bernthal–41 ; 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother Frank road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts ; 2011 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time

Saturday, September 16, 2017

September 17

Happy Birthday RIP Dolores Costello(1903–1979) Hiram "Hank" Williams(1923–1953) Roderick "Roddy" McDowall(1928–1998) Anne Bancroft(Anna Italiano 1931–2005) Paul Benedict(1938–2008) "Lupe Ontiveros"(Guadalupe Moreno 1942–2012) Johnathan Ritter(1948–2003) ; John "Fee" Waybill–67 Cassandra Peterson("Elvira")–66 Rita Rudner–64 Wendy Worthington–63 Bryan Singer–52 Kyle Chandler–52 Jeffrey Matthew Settle–48 Nathan "Nate" Berkus–46 Griffith Feuerstein("Griff Furst")–36 ; 1972 – The comedy series "M.A.S.H." standing for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" premiered on CBS ; 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Friday, September 15, 2017

September 15

Happy Birthday RIP Agatha Christie(Miller 1890–1976) Vina Fay Wray(1907–2004) Julius “Nipsey” Russell(1918–2005) John “Jackie” Cooper Jr(1922–2011) Roy Brocksmith(1945–2001) Wendie Jo Sperber(1958–2005) ; Norman Crosby–90 Tommy Lee Jones–71 Daniel Marino Jr–56 Joshua Charles–46 Edward Thomas Hardy–40 Tammie Brown(Keith Schubert)–37 Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor–33 Heidi Montag–31 ; 1963 – four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era  

Thursday, September 14, 2017

September 14

Happy Birthday RIP Amy Winehouse(1983–2011) ; Walter Koenig–81 Davenie "Joey" Heatherton–73 Jon "Bowzer" Bauman–70 Nigel "Sam" Neill–70 Alexis "Faith" Ford–53 Kimberly Payne Williams–46 Andrew Lincoln(Clutterbuck)–44 Jesse James–87 ; 1985 – The Golden Girls, a television sitcom, premieres on NBC 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

September 13

Happy Birthday RIP Reta Shaw(1912–1982) Emilie Claudette Chauchoin("Colbert" 1903–1996) Melvin Tormé (1925–1999) Nell Carter(Hardy 1948–2003) Richard Kiel(1939–2014) ; "Barbara Bain"(Millicent Fogel)–86 "Eileen Fulton"(Margaret McLarty)–84 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset–73 Peter Cetera–73 Jean Smart–66 Geraldine "Geri" Jewell–61 Dominic Fumusa–48 Fiona Apple Maggart–40 Bennett "Ben" Savage–37 Jason Cook–37 ; 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage (not only RAM memory)

Monday, September 11, 2017

September 12

Happy Birthday RIP Maurice Chevalier(1888–1972) James "Jesse" Owens(1913–1980) "Barry White"(Barrence Carter 1944–2003) Paul Walker IV(1973–2013) ; Ian Holm Cuthbert–86 Linda Gray–77 Joseph Pantoliano–66 Peter Scolari–62 Louis Szekely("CK")–50 William Joshua Hopkins–47 Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan–39 Jennifer Hudson–36 Alfie Allen–31 ; 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit

September 11

Happy Birthday RIP Herbert Lom(Schluderpacheru 1917–2012) ; Henry Earl Holliman–89 Brian De Palma–77 Amy Madigan–67 Roxann Dawson(Caballero)–59 John Hawkes(Perkins)–58 Virginia Madsen–56 Christina "Kristy" McNichol–55 Richard "Moby" Hall–52 Joseph Harry Connick Jr.–50 Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges–40 ; 2001 – Al Qaida suicide hijackers crashed two jet airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City causing both 110-story twin towers to collapse killing nearly 3,000 people. #NeverForget

Saturday, September 09, 2017

September 9

Happy Birthday RIP Otis Redding, Jr(1941–1967) Clifford Robertson III(1923–2011) ; Chaim Topol–82 Joseph Theismann–68 Thomas Wopat–66 Hugh Grant–57 Adam Sandler–51 Goran Višnjić–45 Michael Bublé–42 ; 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington ; 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph ; 1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

September 7

Happy Birthday RIP John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr.(1867–1943) Charles Holley("Buddy Holly" 1936–1959) William Jermaine Stewart(1957–1997) ; Gloria Gaynor(Fowles)–68 Julie Kavner–67 Christine "Chrissie" Hynde–66 Michael Emerson–63 Corbin Bernsen–63 Diane Farr–48 Thomas Everett Scott–47 Oliver Hudson–41 Devon Sawa–39 ; 1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751) 

September 6

Happy Birthday Jo Anne Worley–80 George Roger Waters–64 Swoosie Kurtz–73 Jane Curtin–70 Patricia "Patti" Yasutake–64 Anne Lockhart(Maloney)–64 Jeffrey Foxworthy–59 Rosa "Rosie" Perez–53 Natalie McIntyre("Macy Gray")–50 Cecilia "CeCe" Peniston–48 Idrissa Elba–45 ; 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders

Friday, September 01, 2017

September 1

Happy Birthday RIP "Yvonne De Carlo"(Margaret Middleton 1922–2007) Richard Farnsworth(1920–2000) Conway Twitty(Harold Jenkins 1933–1993) ; George Maharias–89 Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin–78 Barry Gibb–71 Dr. Phillip McGraw–67 Gloria Estefan(Garcia)–60 Burn Gorman–43 Robert Scott Speedman–42 Robert Boyd Holbrook–36 ; 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company ; 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America