On this day in...
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
Births
1734 – Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter (d. 1820)
1936 – Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
1967 – Carlos Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian
1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican musician
1969 – Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
I don't have many editorial comments today aside from the fact that my life has been considerably better since Comedy Central dropped 'Mind of Mencia.'
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