On this day in...

On this day in...
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
1964 – A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt; all 3 crew men are killed.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.

Births
1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1974 – Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 – Rick Ross (rapper), Rapper
1977 – Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1980 – Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor
1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player

Long list of marginal birthdays today with a MASH star, a Miami rapper, a Backstreet Boy and a hobbit. Plus you get two great twofers with two decent baseball players in '74 and two fat guys in '77. But I'll go with goofy former Laker Mark Madsen busting a move at one of the Lakers' parades.