On this day in...
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
Births
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
1940 – John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
1941 – Dick Trickle, American auto racer
1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer
1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
A pretty nice batch of of birthdays with Brady Quinn, the singer of 'God Bless the USA' and the man with quite possibly the best name ever, Dick Trickle.
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