1793
\nFrench queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.<\/p>\n
1859
\nAbolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.<\/p>\n
1916
\nMargaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.<\/p>\n
1962
\nThe Cuban Missile Crisis began.<\/p>\n
1964
\nChina detonated its first atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
1978
\nJohn Paul II was elected pope.<\/p>\n
1995
\nHundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the “Million Man March” led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.<\/p>\n
2001
\nTwelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.<\/p>\n
2002
\nThe White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n
Noah Webster<\/p>\n
1758\u20131843, American lexicographer and philologist, born in West Hartford, Conn., graduated Yale, 1778.<\/p>\n
Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
author (1854)<\/p>\n
David Ben-Gurion<\/p>\n
statesman (1886)<\/p>\n
Eugene O’Neill<\/p>\n
playwright (1888)<\/p>\n
Paul Strand<\/p>\n
photographer (1890)<\/p>\n
William O. Douglas<\/p>\n
jurist (1898)<\/p>\n
Angela Lansbury<\/p>\n
actor (1925)<\/p>\n
Suzanne Somers<\/p>\n
actor (1946)<\/p>\n
Tim Robbins<\/p>\n
actor (1958)<\/p>\n
John Mayer<\/p>\n
singer, songwriter (1977)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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