1629
\nCharles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.<\/p>\n
1785
\nThomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.<\/p>\n
1848
\nCongress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.<\/p>\n
1864
\nU. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.<\/p>\n
1876
\nThe first telephone call (“Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”) was made by Alexander Graham Bell.<\/p>\n
1948
\nThe body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’s anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.<\/p>\n
1969
\nJames Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.<\/p>\n
Bix Beiderbecke
\n(Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke)
\n1903\u20131931, American Jazz Musician.<\/p>\n
Pablo de Sarasate
\nviolin virtuoso (1844)<\/p>\n
Lillian Wald
\nsocial worker (1867)<\/p>\n
Clare Boothe Luce
\nplaywright and diplomat (1903)<\/p>\n
Sharon Stone
\nactress (1958)<\/p>\n
Shannon Miller
\ngymnast (1977)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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