On this day in 2005, with great "courage", Gunga Dan Rather signed off as anchor of the CBS Evening News. In 1964 the first Mustang rolled off The Ford Motor Company's assembly line. In 1862, the ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a standoff near Hampton Roads, Virginia, and in 1796 Napoleon married Josephine. Happy Birthday David Pogue (1963), Danny Sullivan (1950), Mickey Spillane (1918) and Amerigo Vespucci (1454). RIP Geir Ivarsoy (d.2006), The Notorious B.I.G. (d.1997), George Burns (d.1996), Menachem Begin (d.1992) and Robert Mapplethorpe (d.1989). "Close only counts with hand grenades and horseshoes." - Dan Rather