On this day in...

On this day in...
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.

Births
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1897 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player

Lots of good birthdays today with a dead writer, a dead boxer, a dead Designing Woman, a goofy actor, a songbird, an actor that lost a lot of weight and two toughguy football players. But today I'm highlighting old country singer Tom T. Hall. He likes beer.