1821
John Keats, English Romantic poet, died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1836
\nMexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1896
\nThe Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1898
French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his “J’accuse” letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1942
\nThe first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1945
\nU.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1997
\nScottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2011
The Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George Frideric Handel
1685\u20131759, German-English Composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samuel Pepys
diarist (1633) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
W. E. B. DuBois
author (1868)
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter Fonda
actor (1939)
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viktor Yushchenko
politician, president (1954)
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crown Prince Naruhito
heir to the Japanese throne (1960)
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Dell
entrepreneur (1965)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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