1803
\nThe Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.<\/p>\n
1944
\nGen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he said “I shall return.”<\/p>\n
1947
\nThe U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee opened meetings about alleged Communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry.<\/p>\n
1964
\nThe 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, died in New York at age 90.<\/p>\n
1968
\nJacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.<\/p>\n
1973
\nDuring the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned and special prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed by President Nixon in what came to be known as the “Saturday Night Massacre.”<\/p>\n
2011
\nCol. Muammar el-Qaddafi is killed by rebel troops in Surt, Libya, his hometown.<\/p>\n
Sir Christopher Wren<\/p>\n
1632\u20131723, English architect.<\/p>\n
Arthur Rimbaud<\/p>\n
poet (1854)<\/p>\n
John Dewey<\/p>\n
philosopher, educator (1859)<\/p>\n
Charles Ives<\/p>\n
composer (1874)<\/p>\n
Bela Lugosi<\/p>\n
actor (1882)<\/p>\n
Jelly Roll Morton<\/p>\n
musician (1890)<\/p>\n
Arlene Francis<\/p>\n
actor, TV personality (1907)<\/p>\n
Art Buchwald<\/p>\n
humorist (1925)<\/p>\n
Mickey Mantle<\/p>\n
baseball player (1931)<\/p>\n
Elfriede Jelinek<\/p>\n
novelist and playwright (1946)<\/p>\n
Tom Petty<\/p>\n
musician (1950)<\/p>\n
Viggo Mortensen<\/p>\n
actor (1958)<\/p>\n
Snoop Doggy Dogg<\/p>\n
rap artist (1972)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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