On this day in...

On this day in...
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second and third degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

Births
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1940 – James Cromwell, American actor
1952 – "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1959 – Cris Collinsworth, American football player
1971 – Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
1976 – Fred Taylor, American football player

Some pretty decent birthdays today including a famous composer, a white receivers, Lewis Skolnik's dad on 'Revenge of the Nerds,' and the bain of my fantasy football existence, Fred Taylor. But I'm going with rap producer and hype man Lil' John and his apperance on Chappelle's Show.