On this day in...

On this day in...
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend more than 20 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Births
1943 – Newt Gingrich, American politician
1943 – Barry Manilow, American musician
1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
1951 – Joe Piscopo, American actor
1963 – Greg Kinnear, American actor
1975 – Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
1981 – Kyle Boller, American football player

Pretty decent list of birthdays today with an old Republican, the King of Funk, a weightlifting actor, the star of many films, a tennis champion and a terrible quarterback. But I do wish Kyle Boller a Happy B-Day as he celebrates with my conservative Queen Carrie Prejean. Also, Chloe Jones is an interesting case. Even for a porn actress she may be the worse I've ever seen. One time a buddy bought her interactive porno and it's more of a comedy than a porn. She also met her early demise doing blow with Charlie Sheen. But today I'm highlighting Barry Manilow and his involvement in the teen comedy 'Can't Hardly Wait.'