1851
\nHerman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was published.<\/p>\n
1889
\nNellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg’s time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.<\/p>\n
1922
\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.<\/p>\n
1969
\nApollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched.<\/p>\n
1995
\nThe U.S. federal government began a partial shut down of government services after the U.S. Congress could not pass a budget.<\/p>\n
2002
\nNancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress.<\/p>\n
2003
\nThe most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.<\/p>\n
Hussein I<\/p>\n
1935\u20131999, King of Jordan.<\/p>\n
Robert Fulton<\/p>\n
inventor, engineer, and painter (1765)<\/p>\n
Claude Monet<\/p>\n
painter (1840)<\/p>\n
Jawaharlal Nehru<\/p>\n
first Prime Minister of India (1889)<\/p>\n
Mamie Eisenhower<\/p>\n
First Lady (1896)<\/p>\n
Aaron Copland<\/p>\n
composer (1900)<\/p>\n
Astrid Lindgren<\/p>\n
writer (1907)<\/p>\n
Boutros Boutros-Ghali<\/p>\n
ex-Secretary General of the U.N. (1922)<\/p>\n
McLean Stevenson<\/p>\n
actor (1929)<\/p>\n
Wendy Carlos<\/p>\n
composer and musician (1939)<\/p>\n
Charles, Prince of Wales<\/p>\n
heir to the British throne (1948)<\/p>\n
Condoleezza Rice<\/p>\n
government official (1954)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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