On this day in...

On this day in...
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1932 – Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1944 – World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.
1995 – Computer software developer Microsoft releases their Windows 95 operating system.

Births
1929 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
1962 – Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
1962 – David Koechner, American actor
1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player
1973 – Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player
1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1987 – Jon Scheyer, American basketball player

I could have easily gone with Dave Chappelle here but I think I get a little Chappelle overload sometime so here is David Koechner as his alter ego Champ Kind trying to profess his love for Ron Burgandy.