1787
\nThe Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
1862
\nThe bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam when more than 23,000 were killed or wounded.<\/p>\n
1908
\nLt. Thomas Selfridge, a passenger in a plane piloted by Orville Wright, became the first airplane fatality when the craft crashed.<\/p>\n
1920
\nThe American Professional Football Association\u2014a precursor of the NFL\u2014was formed in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n
1980
\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua, was assassinated in Paraguay.<\/p>\n
1994
\nHeather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf Miss America.<\/p>\n
2004
\nBarry Bonds became the third baseball player to hit 700 career home runs, joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.<\/p>\n
David H. Souter<\/p>\n
1939\u2014, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990\u20142009), born in Melrose, Mass.<\/p>\n
Christian Louis Lange<\/p>\n
pacifist (1869)<\/p>\n
William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n
poet and physician (1883)<\/p>\n
Warren Earl Burger<\/p>\n
fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1907)<\/p>\n
Hank Williams<\/p>\n
country singer (1923)<\/p>\n
Anne Bancroft<\/p>\n
actress (1931)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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