On this day in...

On this day in...
622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1789 – The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department, are established.
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

Births
1725 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1755 – John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S.(d. 1835)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist and television anchor
1946 – "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
1973 – Eddie George, American football player
1975 – Kyle Turley, American football player
1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player

Another huge birthday day. This has to have something to do with astrology or something. If I have any crazy hippies reading the blog, explain to me the cosmic forces behind so many talented people being born this week. We have lots of legends born today and a man that died before his time, Phil Hartman. Also, on his birthday I'd like to make an empassioned appeal to Eddie George to hand his Heisman tropy over to Tommie Frazier. Don't cheat the sport like Steve McNair cheated on his wife. What? Too soon?