1542
\nCatherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.<\/p>\n
1866
\nThe gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.<\/p>\n
1867
\nJohann Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.<\/p>\n
1935
\nBruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.<\/p>\n
1960
\nFrance exploded its first atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
1974
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
2002
\nThe French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Chuck Yeager
\n1923\u2013, American Aviator.<\/p>\n
Sir Joseph Banks<\/p>\n
naturalist (1743)<\/p>\n
Elizabeth “Bess” Truman<\/p>\n
First Lady (1885)<\/p>\n
Grant Wood<\/p>\n
painter (1891)<\/p>\n
Georges Simenon<\/p>\n
mystery writer (1903)<\/p>\n
William Shockley<\/p>\n
physicist (1910)<\/p>\n
Kim Novak<\/p>\n
actress (1933)<\/p>\n
Stockard Channing<\/p>\n
actress (1944)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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