1845
\nFlorida became the 27th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1875
\nGeorges Bizet’s opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics.<\/p>\n
1879
\nBelva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n
1918
\nGermany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.<\/p>\n
1931
\nThe “Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem.<\/p>\n
1991
\nRodney King’s vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.<\/p>\n
2000
\nFormer dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.<\/p>\n
2003
\nNew embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.<\/p>\n
Alexander Bell
\n1847\u20131922, American Inventor.<\/p>\n
George M. Pullman
\nindustrialist (1831)<\/p>\n
Matthew Ridgway
\nU.S. general (1895)<\/p>\n
Jean Harlow
\nactress (1911)<\/p>\n
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
\nathlete (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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