On this day in...

On this day in...
1609 – Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.

Births
1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
1944 – Joe Cocker, British singer
1946 – Cher, American singer
1954 – David Paterson, American politician
1959 – Bronson Pinchot, American actor
1963 – David Wells, American baseball player
1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper and actor
1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player

Good list of birthdays today with the star of 'It's A Wonderful Life,' a couple old songbirds, a blind mayor, a fat, drunk pitcher, a race car driver, a rapper and a young baller. But today I'm highlighting the former star of 'Perfect Strangers,' Balki. Seriously, how did we ever watch this crap?