1789
\nCongress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
1957
\nThe Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.<\/p>\n
1960
\nThe Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.<\/p>\n
1969
\nThe trial of the “Chicago Eight,” radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.<\/p>\n
1991
\nChildren’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.<\/p>\n
1996
\nThe United States and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
John Marshall
\n1755\u20131835, American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801\u20131835), born in Virginia.<\/p>\n
Mark Hanna
\ncapitalist and politician (1837)<\/p>\n
F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nwriter (1896)<\/p>\n
Jim Henson
\npuppeteer (1936)<\/p>\n
Phil Hartman
\nactor (1948)<\/p>\n
Paul and Morgan Hamm
\ngymnasts (1982)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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