Interesting tidbits: 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival. 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California. 1894 – First ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films. 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm (sinks morning of April 15th). 1914 - Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern. Todays birthday crew: 1924 – Joseph Ruskin, American actor who in an episode of The Outer Limits, called Production and Decay of Strange Particles. He also appeared in “The Time Tunnel” episode “Revenge of the Gods,” as well as two separate two-part Mission: Impossible episodes Old Man Out and The Slave. He had an uncredited voice role of the Kanamits from The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man, a season after playing the Genie in another episode, The Man in the Bottle. Ruskin is one of the actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (1966) and then in every spin off. Along with Majel Barrett, Clint Howard, and Jack Donner, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He played a Vulcan Master in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. 1936 – Arlene Martel, American actress who appeared in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode Amok Time (as TPring) and the original The Outer Limits episode Demon with a Glass Hand (1964) written by Harlan Ellison. She was also the woman who repeatedly utters the sinister phrase Room for one more, honey! at the entrance to a hospital morgue and an airplane door in the Twilight Zone episode Twenty-Two. She also appeared in the season-one episode of The Twilight Zone What You Need. She appeared in the Star Trek webisode Of Gods and Men in the final scene as a Vulcan priestess initiating a marriage ceremony between Uhura and Vulcan native Stonn (a character from the episode Amok Time, played by original actor Lawrence Montaigne). 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress who is perhaps best know by this group as Madam Rosmerta. 1949 – John Shea, American actor best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He also starred on the series Mutant X as Adam Kane. 1954 – Bruce Sterling, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner, and Pat Cadigan, is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He won Hugo Awards for his novelettes Bicycle Repairman and Taklamakan. 1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. He was decorated a member of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013. Otomo later received the Winsor McCay Award at the 41st Annie Awards in 2014. 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director, who portrayed the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who. 1975 – Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress. She has done many voiceovers for English versions of anime, including Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Sonic X (including many of the recent video games), Magical DoReMi, and G.I. Joe: Sigma 6. In particular, Birnbaum voiced Téa Gardner in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Charmy Bee from the Sonic the Hedgehog games, and Max of the Pokémon anime. 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar came to prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in 1997s successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2. But she is perhaps best know as Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Happy birthday guys!
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