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Today's Birthdays:

Chelsea Clinton

1980

Former first daughter (Age: 29)

Bobby Valentino (Wilson)

1980

Solo/ex-Mista (as Bobby Wilson) (Age: 29)

Duce Staley

1975

The former star running back with the Philadelphia Eagles is now a radio sports host and announcer in South Carolina. (Age: 34)

Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas

1971

TLC (Age: 38)

Adam Baldwin

1962

The actor -- not one of the famous Baldwin brothers -- has appeared in My Bodyguard, D-C Cab, Full Metal Jacket and Independence Day, as well as T-V's Firefly. (Age: 47)

James Worthy

1961

Basketball Hall of Famer (Age: 48)

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

1942

The first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia became an award-winning journalist with P-B-S's MacNeil-Lehrer Report (later The News Hour). She moved to Johannesburg, South Africa in 1997. (Age: 67)

Howard Hesseman

1940

He starred as D-J "Dr. Johnny Fever" on W-K-R-P in Cincinnati. (Age: 69)

Ralph Nader

1934

Consumer advocate and presidential candidate (Age: 75)

Elizabeth Taylor

1932

She's won two of the five Best Actress Oscars for which she's been nominated, taking home the statue for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Butterfield 8. The others were for Suddenly, Last Summer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Raintree County. The Academy also awarded her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. (Age: 77)

Marian Anderson

1897 -
1993

Opera singer


This Day In History:

2007

Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago is elected to his sixth term. If he completes it, he will have served 22 years, eclipsing his father as the longest serving mayor of the Windy City.

2006

Master P and his brother Silkk the Shocker are ordered by to stand trial on gun charges stemming from a January 2005 incident where they were stopped on the U-C-L-A campus and police found both to have loaded handguns under their car seats.

2005

Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is the big winner at the Oscars, hosted (for the first time) by Chris Rock.

2002

20 people working at Boston's Logan International Airport are charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.

2002

Alicia Keys is the big winner at the 44th annual Grammy Awards, holding off India Arie (who is shut out, despite seven nominations) to win in five categories and tie a record held by Lauryn Hill for most wins in a night by a female artist. OutKast wins two.

1999

Jay-Z kicks off his Hard Knock Life Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1998

Erykah Badu, Heavy D and Patti Labelle cohost the 12th annual Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. Badu, Ronnie Isley, Monica and Kenny Lattimore do a musical tribute to Whitney Houston. Badu collects four awards. Puff Daddy gets the Sammy Davis Junior Award for Entertainer of the Year and the Michael Jackson Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Video, for "I'll Be Missing You." Dru Hill also gets two. Winners include Usher, Biggie and God's Property.

1997

Divorce is legalized in Ireland.

1997

Don Cornelius, host of Soul Train, receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1997

Death Row Records CEO Marion "Suge" Knight is sentenced to jail.

1997

SWV, Dru Hill, Case, Total, Curtis Mayfield, Montell Jordan, Malik Yoba, Gerald Levert, Monica, Faith Evans, Joe, Monifah, Tony Rich, 112, Zhane, Lauryn Hill, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and R. Kelly gather at the Record Plant in New York to record Kelly's "Every Nation" for the fundraising Red, Hot & R&B album.

1991

The Gulf War ends as President Bush declares that "Kuwait is liberated" and "Iraq's army is defeated."

1990

The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

1988

Figure skater Debi Thomas takes the bronze in Calgary, Canada becoming the first African-American medal-winner at a Winter Olympics.

1986

The Senate approves the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.

1982

Ending a case that terrorized Atlanta's black community, Wayne Williams is found guilty of murdering two of the 28 black youngsters found dead over a 22-month period.

1980

At the 22nd annual Grammy Awards, The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" wins both Record and Song of the Year. Billy Joel's 52nd Street wins both Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Earth, Wind and Fire pick up two awards. Michael Jackson gets one for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and Donna Summer wins for "Hot Stuff," but Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" is named Best Disco Recording.

1974

The first issue of People magazine is published.

1963

The New York Yankees Mickey Mantle to a baseball contract for a then-staggering $100,000 a year.

1922

The Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote.