On this day in...

On this day in...
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 – Tehran releases United States hostages after 444 days.
1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.

Births
1824 – Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1924 – Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1932 – John Chaney, American basketball coach
1938 – Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1940 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1942 – Mac Davis, American musician
1953 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 – Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1977 – Rick Ross, American rapper

Great, big list of birthdays today with Kojak, a British funny man, a famous DJ, the opera man, a Miami rapper, Hakeem "The Dream," and the greatest golfer of all time Jack Nicklaus. Jack must be having a great month now that Tiger is off the course and at sex rehab in Mississippi. Those 18 majors are starting to look tougher to beat. But today I'm highlighting John Chaney, a kindrid soul to me because we've both been known to chew on a towell or two. Here he is almost bashing John Calipari's brains in.