On this day in...

On this day in...
44 BC – Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1776 – South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

Births
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist
1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
1935 – Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
1972 – Mike Tomlin, American football coach
1946 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1955 – Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister)
1961 – Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
1968 – Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress
1978 – Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
1979 – Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
1981 – Young Buck, American rapper

Pretty decent list of birthdays today with a disgraced evangelist, an up-and-coming coach, a couple singers, some baseball players and Tony Parker's wife. But for lack of a better candidate I'll go with competitive eating champ Kobayashi. You better get ready dude. Joey Chesnut is coming for you again this year.