1605
\nThe Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.<\/p>\n
1872
\nSusan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).<\/p>\n
1895
\nGeorge B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.<\/p>\n
1940
\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.<\/p>\n
1968
\nThe first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.<\/p>\n
1974
\nElla T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.<\/p>\n
1989
\nPianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.<\/p>\n
1994
\nAt 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
2011
\nFormer Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.<\/p>\n
Eugene V. Debs<\/p>\n
1855\u20131926, American Socialist Leader<\/p>\n
Ida Tarbell<\/p>\n
author, biographer (1857)<\/p>\n
William Durant<\/p>\n
historian and essayist (1885)<\/p>\n
J. B. S. Haldane<\/p>\n
scientist (1892)<\/p>\n
Fred Lawrence Whipple<\/p>\n
astronomer (1906)<\/p>\n
Roy Rogers<\/p>\n
film star (1911)<\/p>\n
Vivien Leigh<\/p>\n
actress (1913)<\/p>\n
Art Garfunkel<\/p>\n
songwriter (1941)<\/p>\n
Sam Shephard<\/p>\n
playwright (1943)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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