#OnThisDayInHistory, Yankee Stadium, the "House that Ruth Built," opens in 1923. Babe Ruth marks the occasion with a three-run homer. Well, that's thoughtful of him.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Ellis Island has its busiest day ever, processing 11,747 people, more than twice its usual average, in 1907. Quick, rush the gate!!!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Cleveland becomes the first MLB team to debut jerseys with numbers on the back in 1929. The Yankees were also supposed to debut numbered jerseys this day, but they got rained out. Oops!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's, with burgers costing 15 cents, in 1955. What a Kroc!

#OnThisDayInHistory, American pilots engage in their first dogfight of World War I over the western front in 1918. Must have been hard to pilot that doghouse.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the $2 bill is reintroduced to commemorate the bicentennial in 1976. This is how you party?

#OnThisDayInHistory, Drew Barrymore flashes David Letterman from atop his desk for his birthday in 1995. No one has ever flashed ME on national TV for MY birthday.

#OnThisDayInHistory, The Beatles release "Get Back," including the work of Billy Preston, the only other artist to ever be credited on a song, in 1969. Preston becomes known as The Fifth Beatle, but he doesn't get his picture on the CD cover.

#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published in 1925. Its reviews and sales are mixed at the time. And now it's in the public domain.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the Houston Astrodome opens, the first enclosed domed stadium, in 1965. It'll make history again the next year when it's the first arena to get Astroturf. Mm, scenic.