79
\nMount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.<\/p>\n
1572
\n70,000 French Protestants, or Huguenots, were killed in the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.<\/p>\n
1814
\nThe British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
1821
\nMexico gained its independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba.<\/p>\n
1949
\nThe North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.<\/p>\n
1968
\nFrance became the world’s fifth nuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n
1989
\nPete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling.<\/p>\n
1991
\nMikhail Gorbachev resigned as the general secretary of the Communist Party after a failed coup attempt against him.<\/p>\n
1992
\nHurricane Andrew hit Florida, causing record damage.<\/p>\n
Louis XVI<\/p>\n
1754\u201393, king of France (1774\u201392).<\/p>\n
Arnold Toynbee<\/p>\n
economist (1852)<\/p>\n
Edgar Lee Masters<\/p>\n
writer (1868)<\/p>\n
Gene Kelly<\/p>\n
dancer (1912)<\/p>\n
Shelley Long<\/p>\n
actress (1949)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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