On this day in...

On this day in...
1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA's team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.

Births
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1941 – Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress
1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
1962 – Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player

Pretty historic day. Kind of bittersweet for Jewish folks. On one hand a bunch of the Nazis were executed but its also the same day many were herded into the ghetto. Its alaso the same day an anti-Semite started one of the most profitable companies ever.

Also, remember the Killeen massacre? That was crazy. I used to work with a guy at the liquor store from Killeen. Never asked him about it though.