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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Running of the First Chicago Marathon (1977)
The largest marathon in the world at that time, the first running of the Mayor Daley Marathon—now the Bank of America Chicago Marathon—drew 4,200 participants. Since then it has grown both in size and prestige. The race is now capped at 45,000 runners and is considered one of the world's most renowned marathons. The 30th anniversary running of the race was unique in several respects. For one thing, it featured a special CEO challenge, and for another, it was halted after just 3 ½ hours.

Birthdays
1722 Samuel Adams, Founding Father and Statesman,makes a hell of a Beer too
1827 Hiram R. Revels,  First person of color to serve in the United States Senate, and in the whole U.S. Congress.
1840 Thomas Nast, known as the "Father of the American Cartoon." He created enduring images of Santa Claus as well as various political symbols that are still recognized today.
1947 Meat Loaf
1949 Mike Schmidt
1984 Avril Lavigne,Canadian Singer/Songwriter

Events
1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to invade England(The Norman Invasion)

1590 Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history

1717 French founder of Detroit Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac is imprisoned in the Bastille for speaking “against the government of the state and the colonies ” (freed 1718)

1779 John Adams is appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

1821 Mexican revolutionary forces led by Agustín de Iturbide occupy Mexico City as the Spanish withdraw, bringing an end to the Mexican War of Independence

1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone

1854 French fishing vessel SS Vesta collides with American passenger paddle-wheel ship SS Arctic off Newfoundland in heavy fog, sinking the larger passenger ship and killing 322; most of the survivors are crew members

1864 Centralia Massacre: Pro-Confederate guerrillas led by William T. Anderson, with Jesse James, loot Centralia and attack a train on the North Missouri Railroad, executing 24 Union soldiers. Later the same day, the guerrillas defeat the newly formed 39th Missouri Infantry Regiment, killing 123 of its 147 soldiers

1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before a record small "crowd" of 12

1892 Book matches are patented by the Diamond Match Company

1908 Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan

1909 US President William Howard Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes

1912 W. C. Handy publishes "Memphis Blues," considered on of the first blues songs

1914 Cleveland second baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit

1916 First Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians

1935 Chicago Cubs win their 21st consecutive game and clinch the NL pennant

1936 Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers play one of only four penalty-free games in NFL history; Boston wins 14-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

1937 First Santa Claus Training School opens in Albion, New York

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry

1945 WWII: US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time

1954 Late night talk show "The Tonight Show," hosted by Steve Allen, premieres on NBC-TV

1962 Rachel Carson publishes "Silent Spring" about the harmful impacts of pesticide use in the US on the environment

1964 Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are released, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Sure he did,of course

1973 Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings for a record 383 in the season

1987 Atlanta Braves' Phil Niekro makes his final MLB appearance, surrendering 5 runs in 3 innings against the San Francisco Giants

1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert, part of the Cold War defense against Russian nuclear attacks

1996 Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck

1996 Oil tanker Julie N. crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine, spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the Fore River

2008 Greg Maddux wins the 355th and final start of his career

2020 Houston officials confirm the water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, is contaminated with a brain-eating amoeba following the death of a six-year-old boy

2022 Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe receives a state funeral at Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo, after he is assassinated in July

2023 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returns to Earth with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, setting an American record of 371 days in space

2023 Parker Solar Probe breaks its own record for the fastest human-made object, traveling at 394,736 mph towards the sun, equivalent to traveling between LA and NYC in 20 seconds(that might make you hurl)

Idk where else to put this.
So Florida's new coach has the program performing very differently than the previous one, albeit only 4 games in.  Believe me, I'm not jumping up and down on the hype machine, but there is a marked difference between the outcomes this year compared to last.

What's interesting, though, is that with a 'defensive' coach, the offense has scored 50+ in every game so far.  That's obviously in thanks to the new OC, Faulkner, and the talent on that side of the ball.  An all-conference RB, very skilled 'potential-rich' WRs, and a QB who knows the system.  Cool.
Sumrall kind of lucked into a talented offense that is performing from the start of his tenure.

It reminds me of Spurrier coming to Florida, but in reverse (off/def).  He was the ole ball coach, drawing up plays in the dirt, hanging half-a-hundred on folks, etc - but lucked into a very talented defense in 1990.  Spurrier's interest in his defense is about the same as a teenage boy's at a game with no cheerleaders.  
But when he came to Florida, the defense was stingy - 7 starters were 1st or 2nd-team All-SEC.  12th in scoring defense.  For a new HC who was busy worrying about scoring as m any points as he could, and did (averaged 11 more ppg than the year before, without Emmitt Smith returning).  

Anyway, that's all a longwinded way of saying if you have more talent on one side of the ball and hire a new HC who focuses on the 'lesser-talented' side of the ball, that might be a good recipe.  At least it was for Florida in 1990.  We'll see if it is again.

Birthdays
551BC Confucius
1836 Thomas Crapper, He was a successful English sanitary engineer and didn't invent the toilet. When U.S. soldiers were based in England in 1917 they probably saw cisterns stamped with ‘T Crapper’ in some public toilets, and may have taken the word ‘crapper’ home with them.
1901 Ed Sullivan
1905 Max Schmeling, world heavyweight champion 1930
1919 Tom Harmon,Michigan half back Heisman Trophy 194
1934 Brigitte Bardot, And God Created Woman
1941 Charley Taylor, American Pro Football HOF wide receiver
1962 Grant Fuhr Canadian Hockey HOF goalie (Stanley Cup 1984, 85, 87, 88, 90 Edmonton Oilers

Events
1781 An estimated 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the Siege of Yorktown

1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris, ranking a lowly 42nd in a class of 51

1850 The US Navy abolishes flogging as a punishment - nice guys

1887 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history

1892 First night football game played in Mansfield, Pennsylvania

1889 First General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar made of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice

1901 American businessman King C. Gillette establishes the American Safety Razor Company

1904 Woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City - Bitches

1924 Two US Army planes complete an around-the-world flight from Seattle to Seattle with 57 stops and Lindbergh gets credit for seemingly a puddle jump by comparison

1928 Prussia lifts its ban on Adolf Hitler speaking in public - Ruh-Roh

1928 UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act, outlawing cannabis - and Hitler didn't smoke it - the possibilities

1928 US recognizes the Chinese nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek

1930 Lou Gehrig's Major League Baseball record streak of 885 consecutive errorless games at first base ends

1939 German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR

1951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for an NFL record 554 yards

1956 RCA Records reports that Elvis Presley has sold more than 10 million records

1967 Walter Washington is elected as the first mayor of Washington, D.C. And that office has worked out splendidly

1968 The Beatles' single "Hey Jude" hits #1 and stays at #1 for nine weeks

1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws his third no-hitter, defeating the Minnesota Twins 4-0

2008 SpaceX launches the first privately developed spacecraft, Falcon 1, into orbit