1821
\nJohn Keats, English Romantic poet, died.<\/p>\n
1836
\nMexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo.<\/p>\n
1896
\nThe Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.<\/p>\n
1898
\n1898 French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his “J’accuse” letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus.<\/p>\n
1942
\nThe first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif.<\/p>\n
1945
\nU.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n
1997
\nScottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly.<\/p>\n
2011
\nThe Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
George Frideric Handel
\n1685\u20131759, German-English Composer.
\nBorn in Halle, Germany. Handel was one of the greatest masters of baroque music, most widely celebrated for his majestic oratorio The Messiah. Of German descent, he was originally named Georg Friedrich Handel.<\/p>\n
Samuel Pepys
\ndiarist (1633)<\/p>\n
W. E. B. DuBois
\nauthor (1868)<\/p>\n
Peter Fonda
\nactor (1939)<\/p>\n
Viktor Yushchenko
\npolitician, president (1954)<\/p>\n
Crown Prince Naruhito
\nheir to the Japanese throne (1960)<\/p>\n
Michael Dell
\nentrepreneur (1965)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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