1772
\nConstruction of the first schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains was started in Schoenbrunn, Ohio, by Moravian missionaries.<\/p>\n
1807
\nThe U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act.<\/p>\n
1864
\nDuring the Civil War, Union general William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln saying, “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”<\/p>\n
1894
\nFrench army officer Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial.<\/p>\n
1989
\nRomanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown.<\/p>\n
2001
\nHamid Karzai sworn in as president of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
2010
\nPresident Obama officially repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy.<\/p>\n
Lady Bird Johnson
\n1912\u20132007, Businessperson, Wife of Lyndon Johnson.<\/p>\n
James Oglethorpe<\/p>\n
founder of the American colony of Georgia (1696)<\/p>\n
Thomas Wentworth Higginson<\/p>\n
abolitionist (1823)<\/p>\n
Giacomo Puccini<\/p>\n
composer of operas (1858)<\/p>\n
Connie Mack<\/p>\n
baseball player and manager (1862)<\/p>\n
Edwin Arlington Robinson<\/p>\n
poet (1869)<\/p>\n
Dame Peggy Ashcroft<\/p>\n
actress (1907)<\/p>\n
Diane Sawyer<\/p>\n
television journalist (1945)<\/p>\n
Ralph Fiennes<\/p>\n
actor (1962)<\/p>\n
Jordin Sparks<\/p>\n
singer (1989)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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