On this day in...

On this day in...
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1966 – National Organization For Women is founded.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

Births
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
1942 – Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress
1978 – Travis Henry, American football player
1983 – Maurice Clarett, American football player


A good birthday for troubled running backs with both Travis Henry and Maurice Clarett. Plus, who would have thought Bob Ross had been dead 14 years? You can still see his show on PBS. I thought he was still alive. We'll probably be saying the same thing about Billy Mays in a few years.