On this day in...

On this day in...
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions are, however, later overturned on appeal.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

Births
1941 – George Will, American writer
1959 – Randy Travis, American musician
1967 – Ana Gasteyer, American actress
1978 – Erin Andrews, ESPN sideline reporter
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1986 – George Hill, American Basketball player
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer

Pretty small list of birthdays today with an old writer, a former SNL lady, a sexy sideline reporter, a gay boy bander, a point guard and a golfer who just won a PGA event. But today we're highlighting Randy Travis because I feel like listening to some country.