1844
\nChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill.<\/p>\n
1898
\nJoshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip.<\/p>\n
1922
\nThe Newbery Medal for children\u2019s literature was first awarded.<\/p>\n
1950
\nPresident Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War.<\/p>\n
1954
\nThe world’s first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.<\/p>\n
1969
\nPolice and gays clashed at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, fostering the gay rights movement.<\/p>\n
1985
\nThe legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.<\/p>\n
2003
\nThe national do-not-call registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.<\/p>\n
Helen Keller<\/p>\n
1880\u20131968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from the age of two, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.<\/p>\n
Charles Stewart Parnell<\/p>\n
statesman (1846)<\/p>\n
Frank Rattray Lillie<\/p>\n
zoologist and educator (1870)<\/p>\n
Bob Keeshan<\/p>\n
Captain Kangaroo (1927)<\/p>\n
H. Ross Perot<\/p>\n
business executive (1930)<\/p>\n
Vera Wang<\/p>\n
fashion designer (1949)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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