On This Day in...

I decided the other day to try out a few different regular segments on the Blog. If any of you are friends with me on the Facebook you'll notice that I post 'On this day in' on people's pages on their birthday. I don't know if people like it but I think it's interesting.

So enjoy the new segment. It's happening whether you like it or not.

On this day in...
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
1881 – Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota
1903 – Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1921 – Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party nomination for the fourth and final time at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
1968 – Special Olympics founded.
2000 – The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.
2005 – Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.

Birthdays
356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian-Greek king and military leader
1822 – Gregor Mendel, German scientist, father of modern genetics
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author
1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist
1953 – Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1958 – Billy Mays, American pitchman (d. 2009)
1964 – Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1973 – Omar Epps, American actor
1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model