1521
\nMartin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.<\/p>\n
1777
\nGeorge Washington defeated Cornwallis’s forces at the Battle of Princeton.<\/p>\n
1833
\nBritain seized control of the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n
1870
\nConstruction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.<\/p>\n
1920
\nThe New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the “curse of the Bambino” that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.<\/p>\n
1947
\nCongressional proceedings were televised for the first time.<\/p>\n
1958
\nSir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.<\/p>\n
1959
\nAlaska became the 49th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1962
\nPope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n
1967
\nJack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.<\/p>\n
1987
\nAretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
1990
\nManuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.<\/p>\n
Lucretia Mott
\n1793\u20131880, American feminist.<\/p>\n
Cicero<\/p>\n
orator (106)<\/p>\n
Anne Ayres<\/p>\n
nun (1816)<\/p>\n
Father Damien<\/p>\n
missionary (1840)<\/p>\n
J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n
author (1892)<\/p>\n
ZaSu Pitts<\/p>\n
actor (1894)<\/p>\n
Victor Borge<\/p>\n
pianist, comedian (1909)<\/p>\n
Sergio Leone<\/p>\n
filmmaker (1929)<\/p>\n
Mel Gibson<\/p>\n
actor, director, producer (1956)<\/p>\n
Michael Schumacher<\/p>\n
auto racer (1969)<\/p>\n
Danica McKellar<\/p>\n
actor (1975)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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