1814
\nFrancis Scott Key composed the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner.<\/p>\n
1901
\nPresident McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.<\/p>\n
1927
\nModern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France.<\/p>\n
1940
\nCongress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.<\/p>\n
1959
\nThe Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.<\/p>\n
1982
\nPrincess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day.<\/p>\n
1994
\nActing commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.<\/p>\n
Alexander von Humboldt<\/p>\n
1769\u20131859, German naturalist and explorer.<\/p>\n
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov<\/p>\n
physiologist (1849)<\/p>\n
Alice Stone Blackwell<\/p>\n
feminist (1857)<\/p>\n
Charles Dana Gibson<\/p>\n
illustrator (1867)<\/p>\n
Margaret Sanger<\/p>\n
feminist (1879)<\/p>\n
Constance Baker Motley<\/p>\n
lawyer and jurist (1921)<\/p>\n
Amy Winehouse<\/p>\n
singer, songwriter (1983)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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