1799: Napoleon I captures Jaffa in Palestine. His troops proceed to massacre 2000 Albanian captives.1814: Napoleon I wins the Battle Craonne.
1815: Napoleon I meets troops of the Fifth Regiment and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
1934: Willard Scott is born. In addition to being the world's most irritating weatherman, he was also the first Ronald McDonald.
1936: Violating the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1942: Tammy Faye Bakker is born.
1945: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, establishing a bridgehead to German soil.1945: John Heard is born. He played George Cooper in C.H.U.D. but he's been in a ton of other stuff too.
1947: The Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists resume a full scale civil war.1958: Rik Mayall is born. He played the trust-fund anarchist Rik in the classic British sitcom The Young Ones.
1965: In Selma, AL, state troopers forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. This event was televised and was later known as "Bloody Sunday." This is not to be confused with the nine other Bloody Sundays throughout history.
1970: Rachel Weisz is born. She was very attractive in the recent Mummy movies, but also proved her chops as an actor in Enemy at the Gates.
1980: Laura Prepon is born. She was the hot girlfriend on That 70's Show.
1994: The Supreme Court rules in Campbell v Acuff-Rose Music, Inc that parodies of original works are covered by the doctrine of fair use.2006: Apple is granted a patent for the iPod. As anyone who watches Doctor Who can tell you, this is how we all get converted to Cybermen.
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.
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