Milestones: Apr. 8, 1985

BORN. To Shelley Long, 35, actress who stars as a bar waitress in the Emmy Award-winning series Cheers; and her husband Bruce Tyson, 32, Santa Monica, Calif., money manager: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera angles and the bar, did not.

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