On this day in...
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
Births
1868 – Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
1940 – Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
1945 – Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
1949 – Linda Tripp, American political figure
1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
Now that's a bit more like it. Some big time birthdays today with a great NFL commish, an NBA legend, a big time gangster and the true American psycho (Bundy, not Katherine Heigl). Plus we've got the lady who cock blocked Bill Clinton on the Lewinsky ordeal. That was a sticky situation. Do you know what I mean?
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