On this day in...

On this day in...
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philidelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1924 – Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

Births
1956 – Sinbad, American actor
1959 – Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
1960 – Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1964 – Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
1970 – Warren G, American rapper
1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
1980 – Donté Stallworth, American football player
1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer

A pretty decent day of birthdays headed up by the legendary 80s comedian and actor Sinbad. Known for still being pretty funny despite being pretty squeaky clean and making movies like "Houseguest" and "First Kid," Sinbad showed some real acting chops in this gem from "Sunny" last season.