On this day in...

On this day in...
1513 – Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain.
1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1974 – Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record. The record-breaking shot is hit off of Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers into the left field bullpen at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
2004 – U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission.

Births
1946 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1947 – Tom DeLay, American politician
1964 – Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster
1964 – Biz Markie, American rapper/disc jockey
1981 – Lito Sheppard, American football cornerback
1984 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor

Pretty skimpy day in the birthday section today. We've got a dead baseball player, a former House Majority Leader, a sports hottie, a former Gator corner and the youngest kid from 'Home Improvement.' But I'll go with Biz Markie for lack of a better video.