1783
\nEngland proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.<\/p>\n
1787
\nShays’s Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.<\/p>\n
1789
\nGeorge Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.<\/p>\n
1861
\nDelegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n
1945
\nRoosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.<\/p>\n
1948
\nCeylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
1969
\nThe Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n
1974
\nPatricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.<\/p>\n
1976
\nBenjamin Britten, British composer, died.<\/p>\n
2003
\nThe country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.<\/p>\n
2004
\nThe Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.<\/p>\n
Charles Lindbergh
\n1902\u20131974, American Aviator.<\/p>\n
Tadeusz Kosciusko<\/p>\n
general (1746)<\/p>\n
Fernand L\u00e9ger<\/p>\n
painter (1881)<\/p>\n
Clyde William Tombaugh<\/p>\n
astronomer (1906)<\/p>\n
Rosa Parks<\/p>\n
civil rights activist (1913)<\/p>\n
Betty Friedan<\/p>\n
feminist (1921)<\/p>\n
George Romero<\/p>\n
filmmaker (1939)<\/p>\n
Dan Quayle<\/p>\n
vice president (1947)<\/p>\n
Oscar De La Hoya<\/p>\n
boxer (1973)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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