1824
\nThe presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.<\/p>\n
1887
\nSir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story “A Study in Scarlet.”<\/p>\n
1955
\nRosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.<\/p>\n
1959
\nTwelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.<\/p>\n
1997
\nRepresentatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.<\/p>\n
1998
\nExxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world’s largest corporation.<\/p>\n
Samuel Kirkland<\/p>\n
1741\u20131808, American missionary, born Norwich, Conn..<\/p>\n
Martin Klaproth<\/p>\n
chemist (1743)<\/p>\n
Marie Tussaud<\/p>\n
modeler in wax (1761)<\/p>\n
Walter Alston<\/p>\n
baseball manager (1911)<\/p>\n
Minoru Yamasaki<\/p>\n
architect (1912)<\/p>\n
Mary Martin<\/p>\n
singer, actress (1913)<\/p>\n
Woody Allen<\/p>\n
actor, writer, and director (1935)<\/p>\n
Lee Trevino<\/p>\n
golfer (1939)<\/p>\n
Richard Pryor<\/p>\n
comedian, actor (1940)<\/p>\n
Bette Midler<\/p>\n
singer, actress (1945)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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