Wake Up, Crystal Lake - April 17 (Happy Birthday, William Holden)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1974 Victoria "Posh" Addams (singer - spice girls)
• 1972 Jennifer Garner (actress)
• 1967 Leslie Bega (actress)
• 1961 Boomer Esiason (NFL QB)
• 1951 Olivia Hussey (actress)
• 1923 Harry Reasoner (reporter - formerly of 60 Minutes)
• 1918 William Holden (actor)
• 1916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike (world's first woman prime minister)
• 1911 Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR (world chess champion)
• 1894 Nikita S Khrushchev (Soviet leader)