1784
\nJohn Wesley issues \u201cDeed of Declaration\u201d formally establishing the Methodist Church.<\/p>\n
1849
\nThe steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush.<\/p>\n
1916
\nHenry James, American novelist and critic, died.<\/p>\n
1948
\nThe last British troops left India.<\/p>\n
1953
\nJames Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.<\/p>\n
1983
\nThe final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history.<\/p>\n
1986
\nSwedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.<\/p>\n
1993
\nFour federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.<\/p>\n
Linus Pauling
\n1901\u20131994, American Chemist.<\/p>\n
Michel de Montaigne
\nessayist (1533)<\/p>\n
Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
\nphysicist and naturalist (1683)<\/p>\n
Mary Lyon
\neducator (1797)<\/p>\n
Ben Hecht
\nwriter (1894)<\/p>\n
Bugsy Siegel
\nmobster (1906)<\/p>\n
Zero Mostel
\nactor (1915)<\/p>\n
Mario Andretti
\nauto racing driver (1940)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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