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Jesse Williams - 31 (Dr. Jackson Avery on "Grey's Anatomy".)
Kaylani Lei - 32 (Asiatic mattress actress who's starred in 181 films, including . . . "White on Rice", "China Vagina", "Missionary Impossible", and "XXX Avengers"
Jewel De'Nyle - 36 (Mattress actress who tugged at our heart strings in 271 films, including . . . "Shagnet", "Four Finger Club", "Amish Daughters" and "The Sopornos 2".)Terri Clark - 44 (tought country singer)
Jonathan Silverman - 46 ("The Jewish Single Guy" THE star of "Weekend at Bernie's", "Weekend at Bernie's 2" and "Beethoven's Big Break)
"Patrick Ewing - 50 (Former NBA legend.)
Tawny Kitaen - 51 (Psychotic with "the fire down below".)
Pat Smear - 53 (Ex-Foo Fighter and ex-guitarist for Nirvana.)
Maureen McCormick - 56 (Marcia on "The Brady Bunch". She lost 34 pounds on "Celebrity Fit Club".)
Rick Derringer - 65 ("Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" . . . AND the subject of the Steely Dan smash "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".)
Loni Anderson - 67 (wkrp)
Ja'net Dubois - 67 ( Willona Woods on "Good Times", Grandma Ellington on "The Wayans Brothers" AND the voice of Mrs. Avery on "The PJs".)
Neil Armstrong - 82 (First Man on the Moon.)
John Huston 8/5/1906 - 8/28/1987 American film director.
1861 The federal government levied an income tax for the first time.
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1924 The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray made its debut.
1957 "American Bandstand," hosted by the late Dick Clark, made its network TV debut on ABC.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home at age 36. (Her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills.)
1966 The album "Revolver" by the Beatles was released.
1969 The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data.
1981 The federal government began firing striking air traffic controllers.
2001 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity.
2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president ( yesterday someone tried to kill his ass)
2010 The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as the Supreme Court's 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history. The vote was 63-37.
2010 Thirty-three workers were trapped in a copper mine in northern Chile after a tunnel caved in. (They were rescued after being entombed for 69 days)
2011 Standard & Poor's lowered the United States' AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus. THANKY YOU GOP!
