On this day in...

On this day in...
1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey in Harper's Weekly
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. Green Bay Packers defeat Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.

Births
1622 – Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader
1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1953 – Randy White, American football player
1957 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor
1979 – Drew Brees, American football player
1980 – Matt Holliday, American baseball player
1987 – Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva

Another big day for birthdays with a great quarterback, a good baseball player, a dead musician and quite possibly the most influential man of the 20th Century. But its also a huge day for history. Lots of headlines there including the one year anniversary of Sully landing in the Hudson. I can still remember watching the footage from my desk at the Alamo Bowl. So here's a photo from that day and one of Kelly Kelly. The only thing better than hero pilots is hot chicks.