On this day in...

On this day in...
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.

Births
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player

Pretty weak day for birthdays. You knows its unexceptional when I throw a Patriot in there. Aside from him we just have a failed actress, a quasi famous boxer and a Mike Vick apologist. Of course today is the anniversary of the Curse of the Billy Goat. Somewhere Lil' Terry is crying into his giant pillow.