On this day in...

On this day in...
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1863 – United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1898 – President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 – Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1958 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people, including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

Births
1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater

Good list of birthdays with a Negro League superstar, the least talented member of The Beatles, the former star of 'Cheers,' a pale comedian, and two female athletes. But the highlight birthday today goes to yours truly and on a day when sliced bread was introduced - I am the greatest thing since sliced bread or at least this chick thinks so.