Today's Birthdays:

Amber Tamblyn

1983

The daughter of actor Russ Tamblyn recently starred in the T-V series Joan of Arcadia. (Age: 25)

Roy Halladay

1977

The Toronto Blue Jays pitcher was 2003's Cy Young Award winner.

Sofia Coppola

1971

The director won a screenwriting Oscar in 2004 for Lost In Translation. (Age: 37)

Cate Blanchett

1969

She was nominated for Best Actress Oscars for both Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. She won Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator and was also nominated in that category for Notes on a Scandal and I'm Not There. (Age: 39)

Fabrice "Fab" Morvan

1966

Ex-Milli Vanilli "singer" (Age: 42)

Dennis Martinez

1955

The first native of Nicaragua to play in the major leagues won 245 games in 23 seasons with the Orioles and Expos -- the most by any Latin American pitcher.

Robert Zemeckis

1952

He won the Best Director Oscar for Forrest Gump and also helmed Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Age: 56)

George Lucas

1944

The Star Wars creator, director and producer was nominated for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Oscars for both that film and American Graffiti, but the only award he's ever received from the Academy was the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 1992. (Age: 64)

Richard Deacon

1920 -
1984

The tall bald-headed actor had two memorable roles on TV: he played producer "Mel Cooley" on The **** Van **** Show and "Lumpy"'s father "Fred Rutherford" on Leave It to Beaver.

This Day In History:

2005

Bluegr**** pioneer Jimmy Martin dies at the age of 77 after a battle with cancer.

2004

Phil Spector, who is facing murder charges over the shooting death of an actress, is arrested after what police describe as a "physical altercation" with his chauffeur "over their business relationship."

2002

Trisha Yearwood makes her fourth guest appearance playing a forensic pathologist on the CBS show JAG.

2001

The trial of Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, which stemmed from a scuffle backstage at the George Strait Country Music Festival in Buffalo a year earlier (June 3rd, 2000), begins in upstate New York.

2000

Wynonna appears on CBS's Touched by an Angel for the first time. She'll go on to reprise the character two more times in the course of the series' run.

2000

Hundreds of thousands of mothers rally in Washington and several other cities to demand stricter gun laws.

2000

The six cast members of Friends sign two-year contracts that guarantees each actor $750,000 per episode, up from $125,000.

1999

Clay Walker's wife Lori gives birth to their second daughter, Skylor ClayAnne.

1998

Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack. Both George Strait and Lorrie Morgan had recorded duets with him.

1998

The final episode of Seinfeld airs after nine years on N-B-C.

1996

Actress Melanie Griffith marries actor-director Antonio Bander****trong>.

1996

Garth Brooks' Fresh Horses album is certified four-times platinum.

1996

Magic Johnson retires from the Los Angeles Lakers for the second and final time.

1994

Shenandoah tops the Billboard country chart with "If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)."

1991

Alan Jackson releases his second album, Don't Rock the Jukebox.

1990

The Very Best of Conway Twitty is certified platinum.

1989

The final episodes of Moonlighting and Family Ties are broadcast.

1985

The first McDonald's restaurant becomes a fast food museum.

1983

B.J. Thom****trong> tops the Billboard country chart with "Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love."

1973

The United States launches Skylab, the manned space station.

1972

In his first game as a Met, Willie Mays hits a game-winning home run against his old team, the Giants.

1967

Mickey Mantle hits the 500th home run of his career, off Baltimore's Stu Miller.

1960

The birth control pill is introduced in the U-S.

1948

The Nation of Israel is proclaimed; Arab armies attack.

1913

Industrialist John D. Rockefeller establishes the Rockerfeller Foundation with an initial endowment of $100 million

A New York City man is suing Jet Blue for more than two-million dollars because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Gokhan Mutlu says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was ****igned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said. Mutlu was traveling on a "buddy p****," a standby travel voucher that Jet Blue employees give to friends. Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said. The pilot told him and-hour-and-a-half into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only Jet Blue employees were permitted to sit there. When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named in the lawsuit, told him that "he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command, that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board."--Originally reported by The ****ociated Press.

A worker at the U-S Postal Service in Apex, North Carolina has resigned after more than 100-thousand pieces of undelivered mail were discovered at the employee's home, according to authorities. Evidence has been submitted to the U-S Attorney's Office in Raleigh, which intends to prosecute the case. The name of the employee, who lives in Raleigh, has not been released. Special agents from the Inspector General's Office searched the employee's home last week and found the undelivered mail, some of which is five or six years old. First-cl**** mail will be delivered to the intended addresses after consultation with the U-S Attorney's Office. Some of the undelivered mail consists of fliers and coupons. Postal inspectors were tipped off last Tuesday by a meter reader who became suspicious after discovering a lot of undelivered mail on the back deck of the employee's residence.--Originally reported by The Raleigh News and Observer.

A 20-year old man was arrested early Sunday morning after he threw candy at a Des Moines, Iowa police officer. Sean McGuire, a Drake student living in Des Moines, was arrested at about 2:30 a-m at the ****-and-Go after he allegedly threw several M-and-M candies at Officer Theodore Lister Stroope, according to a police report. McGuire was charged with ****aulting a police officer. Stroope was conducting an investigation with an intoxicated hit-and-run suspect at the convenience store when the incident occurred. The report said Drake security guards on the scene noticed multiple M-and-Ms falling on the ground near Stroope. Stroope then turned around as one candy hit him on the left shoulder. McGuire told officers he threw the candy because he was "sticking up for his friend," the man suspected of the hit and run. Stroope took McGuire to the Polk County Jail, but not before McGuire urinated all over the back seat of Stroope's squad car.--Originally reported by The Des Moines Register.

A Malaysian woman woke up to a real-life nightmare, discovering that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The 36-year-old housewife was asleep when the thief, noticing that her husband was fast asleep on the couch, quietly stripped off and lay down beside her. The dozing woman's suspicions were raised when she spoke to him and his voice sounded strange, the paper said. She then went to another room and found her husband fast asleep on the couch. That's when she screamed, causing the thief to flee by leaping out the window with the stolen items.--Originally reported by The Malaysia Star