1647
\nThe first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.<\/p>\n
1703
\nSt. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.<\/p>\n
1936
\nThe Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.<\/p>\n
1937
\nGolden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.<\/p>\n
1941
\nBritish ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.<\/p>\n
1994
\nNobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.<\/p>\n
1996
\nAfter a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.<\/p>\n
1999
\nSlobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n
Henry Kissinger
\nPronunciation: [kis\u00b4unjur]\n1923\u2013, American political scientist and U.S. Secretary of State (1973\u201377), born in F\u00fcrth, Germany.<\/p>\n
Cornelius Vanderbilt<\/p>\n
industrialist, financier (1794)<\/p>\n
Julia Ward Howe<\/p>\n
author and social reformer (1819)<\/p>\n
Wild Bill Hickok<\/p>\n
frontier marshal (1837)<\/p>\n
Dashiell Hammett<\/p>\n
writer (1894)<\/p>\n
Rachel Louise Carson<\/p>\n
biologist, author (1907)<\/p>\n
John Cheever<\/p>\n
novelist (1912)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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