1775
\nU.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
1927
\nThe world’s first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
1940
\nWalt Disney’s Fantasia debuted.<\/p>\n
1942
\nThe minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.<\/p>\n
1946
\nVincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
1956
\nThe Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.<\/p>\n
1982
\nThe Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
2001
\nThe Taliban abandoned Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.<\/p>\n
Justice Louis Brandeis<\/p>\n
1856\u20131941, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Saint Augustine<\/p>\n
theologian (354)<\/p>\n
Johann Eck<\/p>\n
theologian (1486)<\/p>\n
Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n
poet, novelist (1850)<\/p>\n
Mary Wigman<\/p>\n
dancer, choreographer (1886)<\/p>\n
Whoopi Goldberg<\/p>\n
comedienne, actress (1955)<\/p>\n
Gerard Butler<\/p>\n
actor (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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