1870
\nManitoba became a province of Canada.<\/p>\n
1932
\nThe body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found.<\/p>\n
1937
\nBritain\u2019s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.<\/p>\n
1943
\nAxis forces in North Africa surrendered.<\/p>\n
1949
\nThe Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended.<\/p>\n
1970
\nMr. Cub, Ernie Banks, swatted his 500th home run.<\/p>\n
2002
\nFormer president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro’s Cuba.<\/p>\n
2008
\nTens of thousands killed and thousands injured when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China.<\/p>\n
2012
\nThe 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.<\/p>\n
Birthdays
\nFlorence Nightingale
\nEnglish nurse, the founder of modern nursing (1820)<\/p>\n
Henry Cabot Lodge
\nU.S. Senator (1850)<\/p>\n
Katharine Hepburn
\nactress (1907)<\/p>\n
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
\nchemist, Nobel laureate (1910)<\/p>\n
Yogi Berra
\nbaseball player (1925)<\/p>\n
Burt Bacharach
\ncomposer (1929)<\/p>\n
George Carlin
\ncomedian (1937)<\/p>\n
Emilio Estevez
\nactor (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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