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"BORN TODAY" Abigail Breslin (1996) - Actress ("Little Miss Sunshine") Nick Krause (1992) - Actor ("White Rabbit") Chris Wood (1988) - Actor ("The Vampire Diaries") Win Butler (1980) - Musician, "Arcade Fire" Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) - Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") Rob McElhenney (1977) American Actor, Director, Producer, & Screenwriter ("Always Sunny In Philadelphia") Georgina Chapman (1976) - English Designer & Actress Amy Dumas (1975) - Retired Professional Wrestler Antwon Tanner (1975) - Actor ("Moesha" & "One Tree Hill") Da Brat (1974) - Rapper Adrien Brody (1973) - Award Winning Actor ("The Pianist", "Midnight In Paris") Faith Salie (1971) - American Journalist, Writer, Actor, Comedian & TV and Radio Host Anthony Michael Hall (1968) - Actor (Movies:"Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", TV:"The Dead Zone") Robert Carlyle (1961) - Scottish Actor Brad Garrett ((born Brad H. Gerstenfeld) (1960) - Actor ("Everybody Loves Raymond") Peter Capaldi (1958) - Scottish Actor Lothaire Bluteau (1957) - Canadian Actor Bobbi Brown (1957) - Professional Makeup Artist John Shea (1949) - Actor ("Lois & Clark", "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid") Larry Ferguson (1948 - RIP 2015) - Musician (Hot Chocolate) Ritchie Blackmore (1945) - Musician (Deep Purple) Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) - Nicknamed "Charlie Hustle" (1941) - Baseball player Julie Christie (1940) - (Featured Above) Award Winning Actress ("Dr. Zhivago", "Shampoo") Joan Darling (1935) - Actress & Director Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico (1936) - Retired NYPD ("Serpico" was based on his character) Loretta Lynn (1932) - Country Music Singer/Songwriter Bradford Dillman (1930) - Actor & Auther ("Compulsion", "Falcon Crest") Jay Robinson (1930 – RIP 2013) - Character Actor Gloria Jean (Schoonover) - (1926) - Actress & Singer ("Copacabana", "The Ladies Man") Rod Steiger (Rodney Stephen Steiger) - (1925 - RIP 2002) Actor ("Dr. Zhivago", "The Longest Day") Anne Mansfield Sullivan (1866 - RIP 1936) - "The Miracle Worker", best known for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak "DIED TODAY" Fredric March (August 31, 1897 - April 14, 1975) Burl Ives (June 14, 1909 - April 14, 1995) Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) Anthony Newley (September 24, 1931 - April 14, 1999) Percy Sledge (November 25, 1940 - April 14, 2015) "MOVIES TODAY" Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer. 1989 - Disorganized Crime 1989 - Say Anything… 1989 - She’s Out of Control 1989 - Winter People "MUSIC TODAY" 1958 - Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky piano competition. https://youtu.be/f7MAriotZyE 1958 - Van Cliburn appeared on national TV for the first time. He was on NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jack Paar. 1960 - The musical "Bye Bye Birdie" opened in New York City. 1963 - The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England. 1967 - The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was "New York Mining Disaster 1941." https://youtu.be/KMPD6Iqc1Cs 1970 - Stephen Stills broke his wrist in an auto accident. 1970 - The 5th Academy of Country Music Awards was hosted. Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette won. 1976 - Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a "$13 million-plus" contract with the label. https://youtu.be/JLIy7fYEvKo 1976 - Bay City Rollers singer Eric Faulkner almost died after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets. 1980 - A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song. Springsteen also decided if this song wasn’t going to be a hit, he would quit his musical career forever. https://youtu.be/IxuThNgl3YA 1980 - Iron Maiden's self-titled debut album was released. 1983 - Pete Farndon died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem. 1989 - Tom Petty released his first solo album "Full Moon Fever." https://youtu.be/iFFlTsYFxak 1999 - It was reported that Prince intended to re-record the entire catalog of his music and re-release it. "TV/RADIO TODAY" 1953 - WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins 1955 - WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1959 - KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 - 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union 1969 - 41st Academy Awards is hosted. 1969 - KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting "OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS..." 1910 - U.S. President William Howard Taft threw out the first ball for the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics. 1939 - John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published. 1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. 1959 - The Taft Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated in Washington, DC. 1969 - For the first time, a major league baseball game was played in Montreal, Canada. 1981 - America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission. 1984 - The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state's public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as "theory rather than fact". 1986 - U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya. 2008 - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were merging.