1920
\nJudge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.<\/p>\n
1927
\nLeon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
1942
\nThe World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.<\/p>\n
1954
\nEllis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.<\/p>\n
1970
\nA cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.<\/p>\n
1981
\nThe space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.<\/p>\n
1990
\nAkihito becomes emperor of Japan.<\/p>\n
1997
\nRamzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Stanton<\/p>\n
1815\u20131902, American reformer<\/p>\n
Auguste Rodin<\/p>\n
sculptor (1840)<\/p>\n
Sun Yat-Sen<\/p>\n
founder of modern China (1866)<\/p>\n
Harry Blackmun<\/p>\n
Associate Justice (1908)<\/p>\n
Grace Kelly<\/p>\n
actress, Princess of Monaco (1929)<\/p>\n
Neil Young<\/p>\n
singer; songwriter; guitarist (1945)<\/p>\n
Nadia Comaneci<\/p>\n
gymnast (1961)<\/p>\n
Sammy Sosa<\/p>\n
baseball outfielder (1968)<\/p>\n
Ryan Gosling<\/p>\n
actor (1980)<\/p>\n
Anne Hathaway<\/p>\n
actor (1982)<\/p>\n
Omarion<\/p>\n
singer (1984)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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