1901
\nQueen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).<\/p>\n
1905
\n500 workers were killed by the Czar’s troops in “Bloody Sunday” in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
1938
\nThornton Wilder’s play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n
1973
\nThe Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n
1997
\nThe U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.<\/p>\n
George Balanchine
\n1904\u201383, American choreographer and ballet dancer,<\/p>\n
Francis Bacon<\/p>\n
philosopher (1561)<\/p>\n
John Winthrop<\/p>\n
colonial governor (1588)<\/p>\n
Andre Marie Ampere<\/p>\n
physicist (1775)<\/p>\n
George Gordon Noel Byron<\/p>\n
poet (1788)<\/p>\n
August Strindberg<\/p>\n
dramatist (1849)<\/p>\n
Beatrice Potter Webb<\/p>\n
socialist economist (1858)<\/p>\n
D.W. Griffith<\/p>\n
filmmaker (1880)<\/p>\n
U Thant<\/p>\n
U.N. statesman (1909)<\/p>\n
Bill Bixby<\/p>\n
actor, TV director (1934)<\/p>\n
Diane Lane<\/p>\n
actor (1965)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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