1533
\nPope Clement VII excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII.<\/p>\n
1804
\nFormer vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.<\/p>\n
1864
\nConfederate General Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.<\/p>\n
1914
\nBabe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n
1977
\nThe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.<\/p>\n
1989
\nActor Laurence Olivier died.<\/p>\n
1995
\nThe United States and Vietnam established full diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n
2011
\nThe News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper’s journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
John Quincy Adams<\/p>\n
1767\u20131848, American president, born in Braintree, Mass.<\/p>\n
Robert the Bruce<\/p>\n
Scottish King (1274)<\/p>\n
Thomas Bowdler<\/p>\n
editor (1754)<\/p>\n
E. B. White<\/p>\n
writer (1899)<\/p>\n
Yul Brynner<\/p>\n
actor (1920)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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