1795
\nThe 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.<\/p>\n
1904
\nA disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.<\/p>\n
1926
\nCarter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.<\/p>\n
1964
\nThe Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.<\/p>\n
1971
\nWomen in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.<\/p>\n
1974
\nThe island of Grenada won its independence from Britain<\/p>\n
1986
\nPresident Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier fled Haiti.<\/p>\n
1990
\nThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power.<\/p>\n
1991
\nJean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti.<\/p>\n
Frederick Douglass
\n1817\u20131895, American Abolitionist.<\/p>\n
Sir Thomas More<\/p>\n
statesman (1478)<\/p>\n
John Deere<\/p>\n
industrialist and manufacturer (1804)<\/p>\n
Charles Dickens<\/p>\n
novelist (1812)<\/p>\n
Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/p>\n
author (1867)<\/p>\n
Eubie Blake<\/p>\n
pianist and composer (1883)<\/p>\n
Sinclair Lewis<\/p>\n
novelist (1885)<\/p>\n
An Wang<\/p>\n
computer entrepreneur (1920)<\/p>\n
James Spader<\/p>\n
actor (1960)<\/p>\n
Garth Brooks<\/p>\n
country singer (1962)<\/p>\n
Chris Rock<\/p>\n
comedian (1966)<\/p>\n
Ashton Kutcher<\/p>\n
actor (1978)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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