On this day in...

1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1872 – Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1937 – World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President of the United States.
1968 – United States presidential election, 1968: Republican Richard Nixon wins the American presidency, in what turned out to be a decades-long realignment election.
2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

Births
1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player

Johnny Damon must be having a Happy Birthday as he got his first World Series ring as a Jankee. Pretty good birthday date all things considered.

Also, how about the craziest euphamism of all time being created on this day. I've heard the Holocaust be referred to as the "final solution" but calling it "creating space for the German people" is like calling rape "extreme intimacy."