1802
\nJohn Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress. He was paid $2 a day.<\/p>\n
1845
\nEdgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was published.<\/p>\n
1850
\nHenry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to the Senate.<\/p>\n
1861
\nKansas became the 34th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1886
\nKarl Benz received a patent for the first successful gasoline-driven car.<\/p>\n
1936
\nTy Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson were the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.<\/p>\n
1963
\nPoet Robert Frost died in Boston.<\/p>\n
2002
\nIn his State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an “axis of evil.”<\/p>\n
William McKinley
\n1843\u20131901, American President.<\/p>\n
Emanuel Swedenborg<\/p>\n
scientist, religious teacher (1688)<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Amherst<\/p>\n
army officer (1717)<\/p>\n
Thomas Paine<\/p>\n
political theorist and writer (1737)<\/p>\n
Anton Chekhov<\/p>\n
writer (1860)<\/p>\n
Frederick Delius<\/p>\n
composer (1862)<\/p>\n
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.<\/p>\n
philanthropist (1874)<\/p>\n
W. C. Fields<\/p>\n
actor (1880)<\/p>\n
Edward Abbey<\/p>\n
writer (1927)<\/p>\n
Tom Selleck<\/p>\n
actor (1945)<\/p>\n
Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n
T.V. personality (1954)<\/p>\n
Greg Louganis<\/p>\n
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