On this day in...

On this day in...
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease.

Births
1911 – Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1918 – Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
1932 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer
1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
1958 – John Ensign, American politician
1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
1974 – Lark Voorhies, American actress
1976 – Juvenile, American rapper
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1982 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver

Great day for birthdays today with an assassin's assassin, a legendary sports boradcaster, a film critic, the queen of soul, a horse faced lady, Lisa Turtle, a rapper, a boxer and a hot race car driver. But I'm going with the diva Elton John who will be playing in Lubbock soon. Here's the "Tiny Dancer" scene from 'Almost Famous.'