1566
\nFrench astrologer, physician, and prophet Nostradamus died.<\/p>\n
1881
\nPresident James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
1890
\nCongress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.<\/p>\n
1937
\nAmelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.<\/p>\n
1964
\nPresident Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.<\/p>\n
1976
\nIn Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.<\/p>\n
1997
\nActor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.<\/p>\n
2002
\nSteve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.<\/p>\n
Thurgood Marshall<\/p>\n
1908\u201393, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967\u201391), born in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
Thomas Cranmer<\/p>\n
archbishop of Canterbury (1489)<\/p>\n
Hermann Hesse<\/p>\n
novelist and poet (1877)<\/p>\n
Tyrone Guthrie<\/p>\n
stage director, playwright (1900)<\/p>\n
Hans Bethe<\/p>\n
physicist (1906)<\/p>\n
Medgar Evers<\/p>\n
civil rights leader (1925)<\/p>\n
Richard Petty<\/p>\n
auto racing driver (1937)<\/p>\n
Vicente Fox<\/p>\n
president of Mexico (1942)<\/p>\n
Ron Silver<\/p>\n
actor (1946)<\/p>\n
Jose Canseco<\/p>\n
baseball player (1964)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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