ALMANAC CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Actor Robert Wagner is 93. Singer Roberta Flack is 86. Singer Jimmy Merchant of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers is 81.Actor Kathleen Beller (“Dynasty”) is 67. Country singer Lionel Cartwright is 63. “Good Morning America” co-host George Stephanopoulos is 62. Actor Laura Dern is 56. Actor Elizabeth Banks is 49. Reggaeton singer Don Omar is 45. Actor Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) is 42. Actor Stephanie Beatriz (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) is 42. Actor Barry Sloane (“Revenge”) is 42. Singer Eric Dill (The Click Five) is 41. Keyboardist Ben Romans of The Click Five is 41. Actor Emma Roberts (“American Horror Story”) is 32. Actor Makenzie Vega (“The Good Wife”) is 29. Actor Chloe Grace Moretz is 26. Actor Yara Shahidi (“black-ish”) is 23.

TODAY IN HISTORY

1763: Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War.

1936: Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.

1959: A major tornado tore through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.

1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified.

1989: Ron Brown was elected the first Black chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

1996: World chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue.”

2015: NBC announced it was suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War.

2020: U.S. health officials confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus among the hundreds of people who’d been evacuated from China to military bases in the United States.