On this day in...
1098 – First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
1800 – U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed).
1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
Births
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor
1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer
1956 – Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
1967 – Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor
1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
Good list of birthdays today with an old actor, a dead musician, an 80's songbird, the voice of NCAA football video game, a Vanderbilt journalist, a baseball player and one of the best tennis players on the globe. But today I'm highlighting 'Daily Show' correspondent Jason Jones. Here's one of his reports on religion.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| God Smacked | ||||
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