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I'd like to wish a very Happy 24th Birthday to Ms. Katherine Noelle Holmes :) All your friends and fans here at KatieHolmesPictures hope you have a wonderful day. If you would like to post a birthday greeting to Katie on the message board (hey..you never know), click here Thanks to Nike and Riss for the banners :D  Here are some other lesser-knowns who share their birthday with our gal: Today's Birthdays: Actor Ossie Davis is 85. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is 75. Actor Roger Smith is 70. Blues musician Lonnie Brooks is 69. Rock singer-musician Keith Richards is 59. Writer/director Alan Rudolph is 59. Movie producer-director Steven Spielberg is 56. Blues artist Ron Piazza is 55. Movie director Gillian Armstrong is 52. Movie reviewer Leonard Maltin is 52. Actor Ray Liotta is 47. Actor Brad Pitt is 39. Country singer Tracy Byrd is 36. Rapper DMX is 32. Tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is 31. DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit) is 30. Actress Katie Holmes is 24. Singer Christina Aguilera is 22. ------------------------ This date in history: Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect. On this date: In 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1892, Tchaikovsky's ``The Nutcracker Suite'' publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1915, President Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington home. In 1940, Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.) In 1944, in a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained. In 1956, Japan was admitted to the United Nations. In 1969, Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. In 1971, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). In 1972, the United States began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam at that time during the Vietnam War. (The bombardment ended 12 days later.) In 1978: Duh! In 1980, former Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin died at age 76. Ten years ago: The U.N. Security Council unanimously denounced Israel's deportation of more than 400 Palestinians and demanded their immediate return. Kim Young-sam was elected South Korea's first civilian president in three decades. Five years ago: President Clinton extended indefinitely the deadline for withdrawal of U-S troops helping with the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia. Onetime dissident Kim Dae-jung of South Korea was elected the country's president. Fired California highway employee Arturo Reyes Torres shot and killed four people at a maintenance yard before being killed by police. Comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his Chicago apartment; he was 33. One year ago: A federal judge in Philadelphia threw out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence and ordered a new sentencing hearing for the former Black Panther alternately portrayed as a vicious cop-killer and a victim of a racist frame-up.
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