Your Day in Pop Culture (Wednesday, May 1, 2013)

This Day in Pop Culture History
1751: The first (and last?) cricket match is played in America.
1930: The planet-formerly-known-as Pluto gets named. Someday we'll return you to your rightful place, Pluto.
1931: The Empire State Bulding is dedicated. King Kong was not on the guest list, but then again, that never stopped him in the past.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1918: Jack Paar, comedian (The Tonight Show)
1919: Dan O'Herlihy, actor (RoboCop, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Fail-Safe)
1923: Joseph Heller, author (Catch-22)
1924: Terry Southern, screenwriter (Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove)
1925: Scott Carpenter, astronaut (Project Mercury)
1946: Joanna Lumley, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Absolutely Fabulous)
1946: John Woo, director (Face/Off, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Mission: Impossible II)
1950: Dann Florek, actor (Law and Order)
1955: Nick Feldman, singer (Wang Chung)
1967: Tim McGraw, singer and actor (Friday Night Lights)
1969: Wes Anderson, director (The Royal Tennenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox)

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV
CONAN: Comedian Bo Burnham
LETTERMAN: The Great Gatsby's Tobey Maguire, singer Tom Odell
KIMMEL: GoldenEye's Pierce Brosnan, To Rome With Love's Greta Gerwig, singer Alice Russell
LENO: D-lister Kathy Griffin, Hemlock Grove director Eli Roth, music group Cheap Trick
FALLON: Iron Man 3's Ben Kingsley, The Big Brain Theory's Kal Penn, singer Johnny Marr
FERGUSON: Ed's Michael Ian Black