On this day...

1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."
1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.
1861 - In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1924 - R. Taylor patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
1972 - Smokey Robinson left The Miracles.
1975 - I was born
1982 - Prince and the Revolution appeared on TV's "Solid Gold."
1989 - Billy Joel sang the U.S. national anthem at Super Bowl XXIII.
1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

Looks like I'm the best thing to happen on this day.... :)