1775
\nEthan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.<\/p>\n
1863
\nConfederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.<\/p>\n
1869
\nThe United States\u2019 first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah.<\/p>\n
1924
\nJ. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.<\/p>\n
1940
\nWinston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.<\/p>\n
1994
\nNelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
John Wilkes Booth
\nAmerican actor, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln (1838)<\/p>\n
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton
\nmerchant (1850)<\/p>\n
Fred Astaire
\ndancer (1899)<\/p>\n
David O. Selznick
\nfilm producer (1902)<\/p>\n
Milton Babbitt
\ncomposer (1916)<\/p>\n
Bono
\nsinger (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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