1764
\nSt. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.<\/p>\n
1879
\nPresident Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
1898
\nUSS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n
1913
\nThe New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.<\/p>\n
1933
\nChicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.<\/p>\n
1965
\nThe Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.<\/p>\n
1989
\nMore than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.<\/p>\n
2002
\nOlympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.<\/p>\n
2003
\nMillions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.<\/p>\n
2012
\nA prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.<\/p>\n
Galileo Galilei
\n1564\u20131642, Italian Astronomer.<\/p>\n
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
\ncolonizer (1519)<\/p>\n
John Sutter
\npioneer (1803)<\/p>\n
Cyrus McCormick
\ninventor (1809)<\/p>\n
Charles Lewis Tiffany
\nmerchant (1812)<\/p>\n
Susan B. Anthony
\nreformer (1820)<\/p>\n
Elihu Root
\ncabinet member and diplomat (1845)<\/p>\n
Alfred North Whitehead
\nmathematician and philosopher (1861)<\/p>\n
Ernest Henry Shackleton
\nantarctic explorer (1874)<\/p>\n
John Barrymore
\nactor (1882)<\/p>\n
Jane Seymour
\nactress (1951)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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