On this day in...

On this day in...
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

Births
1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1923 – Henry Kissinger, 56th United States Secretary of State
1935 – Lee Meriwether, Miss America (1955) and actress
1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1954 – Jackie Slater, American football player
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1973 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1975 – André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 – Jadakiss, American rapper (D-Block)

Great list of birthdays today with a creepy old actor, a Noble Peace Prize recepient, a Catwoman, an old, black actor, a member of the Ram's "Fearsome Foursome," the co-founder of the NWO, Willis from 'Diff'rent Strokes,' a steroid using baseball player, the page from '30 Rock,' a former Gator QB, and a rapper. But I'm highlighting one half of Outkast and a song that I thought would be #1 forever back in 2003. If only I had a video of Plain Brown Wrapper playing it.