On St. Patrick's Day in...

On this day in...
180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
1756 – Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1901 – An exhibition of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1910 – Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker," commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
2008 – Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.

St. Patrick's Day births
1902 – Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
1914 – Sammy Baugh, American football player (d. 2008)
1919 – Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
1942 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1949 – Patrick Duffy, American actor
1951 – Kurt Russell, American actor
1959 – Danny Ainge, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Rob Lowe, American actor
1967 – Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1972 – Mia Hamm, American soccer player
1976 – Brittany Daniel, American actress
1979 – Samoa Joe, Samoan wrestler
1981 – Kyle Korver, American basketball player

Look at St. Patrick's Day bringing it with the birthdays. We've got one of the greatest golfers of all time, a great soul singer, a notorious serial killer, a couple of actors, some athletes and hottie Brittany Daniels. I've decided to highlight Billy Corgan as an excuse to play my favorite 'Smashing Pumpkins' tune "1979."