On this day in...

On this day in...
1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

Births
1918 – Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
1932 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player
1955 – David Axelrod, American political consultant
1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor
1974 – James Blunt, English musician
1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player

Pretty good day for birthdays in the BYB today with a Kennedy who lived to a ripe old age, the tallest man ever, Dr. J, a great golfer, a child star turned adult star and a good point guard. But I'm going to have to showlight 'Hung' star Thomas Jane and his best work ever, the drug deal scene from 'Boogie Nights.'