On this day in...

On this day in...
1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

Births
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. (d. 632)
1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1980 – Jordana Brewster, American actress
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor

Pretty skimpy list of bdays today with a Roman emperor, an old singer, a fat comedian, the lead lady from TLC and two young actors I don't know. But let's feature the birthday boy Muhammed (maybe) and his recent appearance on South Park which created quite a controversy.