On this day in...

On this day in...
1178 BC: The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.
1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1917 – Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1943 – Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.

Births
1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
1927 – Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger.
1928 – "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999)
1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
1952 – Bill Belichick, American football coach
1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor
1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
1971 – Selena Quintanilla, Mexican American singer (d. 1995)
1982 – Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982 – Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1983 – Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
1985 – Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player

Pretty good list of birthdays today with a smattering of great athletes, most notably Abdul-Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcinder). We also have one of the first flyers, the current pope, the king of the hoodie, a black comedian and a Mexican singer. But I'm highlighting the co-star of a show I don't watch (Two and Half Men) Jon Cryer who you might also remember as Ducky from 'Pretty In Pink.'