1521
\nAfter a three-month siege, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitl\u00e1n fell to the Spanish conquistadors, marking the end of one empire and the rise of another.<\/p>\n
1868
\nA series of earthquakes killed 25,000 in Peru and Ecuador.<\/p>\n
1906
\nAn all-black army unit was accused of a shooting rampage that left 1 civilian dead at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. In 1972 they were all exonerated.<\/p>\n
1942
\nDisney’s Bambi opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.<\/p>\n
1961
\nThe border between East and West Berlin was closed and marked with a barbed wire fence.<\/p>\n
1995
\nBaseball great Mickey Mantle died of cancer.<\/p>\n
2008
\nU.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to do so.<\/p>\n
Fidel Castro<\/p>\n
1926\u2014, Cuban revolutionary, premier of Cuba (1959\u201376), president of the Council of State and Council of Ministers (1976-).<\/p>\n
Anders J\u00f6ns \u00c5ngstr\u00f6m<\/p>\n
physicist (1814)<\/p>\n
Lucy Stone<\/p>\n
reformer (1818)<\/p>\n
Annie Oakley<\/p>\n
sharpshooter (1860)<\/p>\n
Alfred Hitchcock<\/p>\n
filmmaker (1899)<\/p>\n
Ben Hogan<\/p>\n
golfer (1912)<\/p>\n
Don Ho<\/p>\n
entertainer (1930)<\/p>\n
Midori Ito<\/p>\n
figure skater (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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