On This Day In...

On this day in...
1613 – Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Births
1936 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
1946 – Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
1955 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor
1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
1977 – Steve Francis, American basketball player
1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
1983 – Braylon Edwards, American football player
1987 – Ellen Page, Canadian actress

I'm so glad it's Kelsey Grammar's birthday so I can play his song from 30 Rock a few weeks ago. I've been sending this to my buddy Kelsey once a week ever since.