On this day in...

On this day in...
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

Births
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
1935 – Alex Karras, American football player and actor
1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey coach and commentator
1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian