1943
\nChiang Kai-Shek became president of China.<\/p>\n
1948
\nRepublican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to have served in both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n
1971
\nThe four-day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New York, ended when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility. Forty-two people died.<\/p>\n
1993
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.<\/p>\n
Walter Reed<\/p>\n
1851\u20131902, American army surgeon, born in Gloucester co., Va.<\/p>\n
Milton Hershey<\/p>\n
chocolatier, philanthropist (1857)<\/p>\n
John J. Pershing<\/p>\n
army officer (1860)<\/p>\n
Arnold Schoenberg<\/p>\n
composer (1874)<\/p>\n
Sherwood Anderson<\/p>\n
novelist (1876)<\/p>\n
J. B. Priestley<\/p>\n
author (1894)<\/p>\n
Claudette Colbert<\/p>\n
movie actress (1903)<\/p>\n
Bill Monroe<\/p>\n
bluegrass musician (1911)<\/p>\n
Roald Dahl<\/p>\n
writer (1916)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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