On this day in...

On this day in...
1881 – Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota.
1903 – Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1921 – Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the 20 July plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party nomination for the fourth and final time at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
1968 – Special Olympics founded.
1976 – Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
1984 – Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse publishes nude photos of her.
2000 – The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.

Births
1919 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
1930 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (d. 2009)
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author
1938 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1945 – Larry Craig, American politician
1958 – Billy Mays, American pitchman (d. 2009)
1973 – Omar Epps, American actor
1975 – Ray Allen, American basketball player

Good list of birthdays today with the first dude to climb Everest, an old b-ball coach, the author of 'Lonesome Dove,' a classy actress, a dead pitch man and a three point artist. But today I'll go with Omar Epps aka Mr. Jefferson from 'The Program.' Here's his TD catch.