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January 6th - Happy Birthday Norman Reedus
Today is Friday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2012. There are 360 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.
On this date:
In 1412, tradition holds that Joan of Arc was born this day in Domremy.
In 1540, England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)
In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County, Va.
In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.
In 1912, entertainer and philanthropist Danny Thomas was born in Deerfield, Mich.
In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
In 1929, King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
In 1929, Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
In 1930, The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City.
In 1931, Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms": Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
In 1942, the Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper, a flying boat built by Boeing, arrived in New York more than a month after leaving California and following a westward route.
In 1950, Britain recognized the Communist government of China.
In 1951, Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
In 1953, The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
In 1960, National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
In 1974, In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
In 1978, The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the "Freeway Killer" slayings of young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four other killings; he was executed in 1996.)
In 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit's Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding, who denied knowing about plans for the attack, received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.)
In 1995, A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
In 2005, American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Ten years ago: Argentina announced the devaluation of its peso, ending a decade-long policy pegging the currency one-to-one with the U.S. dollar. (In the year that followed, the peso lost 70 percent of its value against the dollar.)
Five years ago: At a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, the Denver Broncos filed past the open casket of Darrent Williams, the promising cornerback who had been gunned down in a drive-by shooting on New Year's Day. A large avalanche pushed two cars off the heavily traveled road at Berthoud Pass in Colorado, but no deaths resulted.
One year ago: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he would cut $78 billion from the Defense Department budget over the next five years, an effort to trim fat in light of the nation's ballooning deficit. Vang Pao, a revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who'd led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army in the Vietnam War, died in Clovis, Calif., at age 81.
Today's Birthdays: Don Edwards (former Congressman from California) is 97. Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon is 92. Pollster Louis Harris is 91. Bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs is 88. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 86. Author E.L. Doctorow is 81. Former MLB and Mexican baseball player Ruben Amaro Sr. is 76. Hall of Fame football coach Lou Holtz is 75. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 68. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 63. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 62. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 61. Former MLB pitcher Don Gullett is 61. Singer Jett Williams is 59. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 59. Actress/producer Trudie Styler (Sting's wife) is 58. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 57. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 55. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 53. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 52. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 52. NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long (Oakland Raiders) is 52. Actress Andrea Thompson is 52. Retired MLB pitcher Norm Charlton is 49. NFL Hall of Famer Charles Haley is 48. Movie composer A.R. Rahman (Film: "Slumdog Millionaire") is 46. Movie director John Singleton is 44. TV personality Julie Chen is 42. Volleyball player/model Gabrielle Reece is 42. NFL linebacker James Farrior (Pittsburgh Steelers) is 37. Actor Danny Pintauro ("Who's the Boss?") is 36. Actor Johnny Yong Bosch (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) is 36. Retired NFL player Bubba Franks is 34. MLB pitcher Casey Fossum is 34. Actress Rinko Kikuchi (Film: "Babel") is 31. MLB player Brian Bass is 30. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 30. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 26.
Born on this day, passed away, Jan. 6:
1367 – King Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
1880 – Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 – Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
1912 – Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1925 – John DeLorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
1926 – Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
1930 – Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
1937 – Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
1940 – Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
1946 – Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
1947 – Sandy Denny, English singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
1954 – Anthony Minghella, British film director (d. 2008)
1962 – Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
1975 – Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005)
Notable Deaths, Jan. 6:
1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
1884 – Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
1945 – Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
1949 – Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
1984 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
1990 – Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
1994 – Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton's mother (b. 1923)
1995 – Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
1997 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2006 – Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
2009 – Ron Asheton, American guitarist (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
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Re: January 6th
Today is Sunday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2013. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1963, "Oliver!," Lionel Bart's musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist," opened on Broadway.
One year ago: A bomb exploded at a busy Damascus intersection, killing 25 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the Syrian capital in as many weeks. The Obama administration expanded the FBI's more than eight-decades-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims physically resisted their attackers. New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien agreed to become Penn State's new football coach.
Today's Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 92. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 87. Author E.L. Doctorow is 82. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 69. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 64. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 63. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 62. Singer Jett Williams is 60. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 60. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 58. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 54. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 53. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 53. Movie composer A.R. Rahman (Film: "Slumdog Millionaire") is 47. Movie director John Singleton is 45. TV personality Julie Chen is 43. Actor Danny Pintauro ("Who's the Boss?") is 37. Actress Rinko Kikuchi (Film: "Babel") is 32. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 31. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 27.
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Re: January 6th
Today is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2014. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1994, in an incident that shook the world of figure skating, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit's Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding, who denied knowing about plans for the attack, received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.)
Ten years ago: Thirteen children and two adults were killed in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province by a time-bomb concealed in an apple cart on a street regularly used by U.S. military patrols. A design consisting of two reflecting pools and a paved stone field was chosen for the World Trade Center memorial in New York. Mijailo Mijailovic (mee-EYE'-loh mee-EYE'-luh-vich) confessed to the fatal stabbing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in Sept. 2003. Hitting star Paul Molitor and reliever Dennis Eckersley were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
Five years ago: Congress opened for business at the dawn of a new Democratic era with vows to fix the crisis-ridden economy; Republicans pledged cooperation in Congress as well as with President-elect Barack Obama — to a point. Obama vowed to "bring a long-overdue sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington" and called the need for budget reform "an absolute necessity." Cheryl Holdridge, one of the original Mouseketeers on "The Mickey Mouse Club," died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 64.
One year ago: President Barack Obama returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interrupted by the "fiscal cliff" crisis. In his first public speech in six months, a defiant Syrian President Bashar Assad rallied a cheering crowd to fight the uprising against his authoritarian rule, dismissing any chance of dialogue with what he called "murderous criminals." The NHL and the players' association agreed on a tentative pact to end a 113-day lockout.
Today's Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 93. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 88. Author E.L. Doctorow is 83. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 65. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 64. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 63. Singer Jett Williams is 61. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 61. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 59. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 57. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 55. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 54. Movie composer A.R. Rahman is 48. Movie director John Singleton is 46. Actor Norman Reedus (TV: "The Walking Dead") is 45. TV personality Julie Chen is 44. Actor Danny Pintauro (TV: "Who's the Boss?") is 38. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 33. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 32. Actress-comedian Kat McKinnon (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 30. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 28.
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Re: January 6th
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2015. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1540, England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)
Ten years ago: Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism at his Senate confirmation hearing, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. Congress certified President George W. Bush's re-election. Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested on murder charges 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.) Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by a Texas appeals court. (Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a retrial.)
Five years ago: James von Brunn, a 89-year-old white supremacist charged in a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum, died in North Carolina, where he was being held while awaiting trial. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown fended off a challenge to his leadership from within his own ruling Labour Party just months before general elections.
One year ago: The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a decision by a federal judge striking down Utah's ban on same-sex marriage so that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver could decide the issue. (In June 2014, the Court of Appeals overturned the ban; in October, the U.S Supreme Court turned away appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, including Utah.) By a vote of 56-26, the U.S. Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve. Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband, Thomas Henry Berry, were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter wounded after they'd resisted robbers by locking the doors of their broken-down car. No. 1 Florida State beat No. 2 Auburn 34-31 in the BCS National Championship Game.
Today's Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 94. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 89. Author E.L. Doctorow is 84. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 66. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 65. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 64. Singer Jett Williams is 62. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 62. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 60. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 58. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 56. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 55. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 55. Movie composer A.R. Rahman is 49. Movie director John Singleton is 47. Actor Norman Reedus is 46. TV personality Julie Chen is 45. Actor Danny Pintauro (TV: "Who's the Boss?") is 39. Actress Cristela Alonzo (TV: "Cristela") is 36. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 34. Actor Eddie Redmayne (Film: "The Theory of Everything") is 33. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 33. Actress-comedian Kate McKinnon (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 31. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 29.
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Re: January 6th - Happy Birthday Norman Reedus
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2016. There are 360 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms": Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
Ten years ago: Al-Qaida's No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahri (AY'-muhn ahl-ZWAH'-ree), said in a videotape that a recent U.S. decision to withdraw some troops from Iraq represented "the victory of Islam." Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died in Alexandria, La., at age 62. The 115-year-old Pilgrim Baptist Church of Chicago was gutted by fire. Velvet-voiced singer Lou Rawls died in Los Angeles at age 72.
Five years ago: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he would cut $78 billion from the Defense Department budget over the next five years, an effort to trim fat in light of the nation's ballooning deficit. Vang Pao, a revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who'd led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army in the Vietnam War, died in Clovis, Calif., at age 81.
One year ago: In a blend of pageantry and politics, Republicans took complete control of Congress for the first time in eight years, then ran straight into a White House veto threat against their top-priority legislation to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline. President Barack Obama pledged to stand with Mexico against "the scourge of violence and the drug cartels" as he met at the White House with President Enrique Pena Nieto. Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, a trio of star pitchers who dominated in an era of offense, were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame along with Craig Biggio.
Today's Birthdays: Pollster Louis Harris is 95. Retired MLB All-Star Ralph Branca is 90. Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 67. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 66. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 65. Singer Jett Williams is 63. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 63. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 61. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 59. Actor Scott Bryce is 58. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 57. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 56. Movie composer A.R. Rahman is 50. Movie director John Singleton is 48. Actor Norman Reedus is 47. TV personality Julie Chen is 46. Actor Danny Pintauro (TV: "Who's the Boss?") is 40. Actress Cristela Alonzo (TV: "Cristela") is 37. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 35. Actor Eddie Redmayne (Film: "The Danish Girl") is 34. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 34. Actress-comedian Kate McKinnon (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 32. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 30.
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Today is Friday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2017. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta. The 10-day operation reportedly claimed the lives of 21 Viet Cong fighters along with seven Americans.
Ten years ago: At a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, the Denver Broncos filed past the open casket of Darrent Williams, the promising cornerback who had been gunned down in a drive-by shooting on New Year's Day. A large avalanche pushed two cars off the heavily traveled road at Berthoud Pass in Colorado, but no deaths resulted.
Five years ago: A bomb exploded at a busy Damascus intersection, killing 25 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the Syrian capital in as many weeks. The Obama administration expanded the FBI's more than eight-decades-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims physically resisted their attackers. Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who had repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded in 1986, died in Nephi, Utah, at age 73. New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien agreed to become Penn State's new football coach. (O'Brien held the position for two seasons.)
One year ago: North Korea said that it had conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test, a claim greeted with widespread skepticism. Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Actor-comedian Pat Harrington Jr., 86, died in Los Angeles.
Today's Birthdays — Jan. 6: Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 68. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 67. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 66. Singer Jett Williams is 64. Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC) is 64. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 62. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 60. Actor Scott Bryce is 59. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 58. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 57. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 57. Movie director John Singleton is 49. Actor Aron Eisenberg is 48. Actor Norman Reedus is 48. TV personality Julie Chen is 47. Actor Danny Pintauro (TV: "Who's the Boss?") is 41. Actress Cristela Alonzo is 38. Actress Rinko Kikuchi is 36. Actor Eddie Redmayne is 35. NBA player Gilbert Arenas is 35. Actress-comedian Kate McKinnon (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 33. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 31.
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Today is Saturday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2018. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., led by Dr. Norman Shumway performed the first U.S. adult heart transplant, placing the heart of a 43-year-old man in a 54-year-old patient (the recipient died 15 days later).
Ten years ago: In a video posted on the Internet, al-Qaida's American-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn (ah-DAHM' guh-DAHN'), urged fighters to meet President George W. Bush with bombs during his upcoming Mideast visit. Mikhail Saakashvili (sah-kahsh-VIH'-leh) was declared winner of a second term as Georgia's president.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interrupted by the "fiscal cliff" crisis. In his first public speech in six months, a defiant Syrian President Bashar Assad rallied a cheering crowd to fight the uprising against his authoritarian rule, dismissing any chance of dialogue with what he called "murderous criminals." The NHL and the players' association agreed on a tentative pact to end a 113-day lockout.
One year ago: Congress certified Donald Trump's presidential victory over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden pronouncing, "It is over." An arriving airline passenger pulled a gun from his luggage and opened fire in the baggage claim area at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, killing five people and wounding eight. (A suspect is in custody.) Actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were laid to rest together at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. Tilikum the orca died after more than two decades at SeaWorld Orlando, where he gained notoriety for killing a trainer.
Today's Birthdays — Jan. 6: Country musician Joey, the CowPolka King (Riders in the Sky) is 69. Former FBI director Louis Freeh is 68. Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) is 67. Singer Jett Williams is 65. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 63. World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez is 61. Actor Scott Bryce is 60. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kathy Sledge is 59. TV chef Nigella Lawson is 58. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) is 58. Movie director John Singleton is 50. Actor Aron Eisenberg is 49. Actor Norman Reedus is 49. TV personality Julie Chen is 48. Actor Danny Pintauro (TV: "Who's the Boss?") is 42. Actress Cristela Alonzo is 39. Actress Rinko Kikuchi (RINK'-oh kih-KOO'chee) is 37. Actor Eddie Redmayne is 36. Retired NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas is 36. Actress-comedian Kate McKinnon is 34. Rock singer Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) is 32.
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1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
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In 1957 - Elvis Presley made his last appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York City.
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In 1968 - The 100th episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" was aired.
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