1770
\nThe Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.<\/p>\n
1933
\nIn the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.<\/p>\n
1946
\nWinston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.”<\/p>\n
1953
\nSoviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.<\/p>\n
1963
\nPatsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.<\/p>\n
1997
\nNorth and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.<\/p>\n
Gerardus Mercator
\n1512\u20131594, Flemish Cartographer.<\/p>\n
Gerardus Mercator: Latin form of his real name, Gerhard Kremer. Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain, where he had a geographical establishment (1534).<\/p>\n
Antoine Cadillac
\nfounder of Detroit (1658)<\/p>\n
Charles Goodnight
\ncattleman (1836)<\/p>\n
Lady Augusta Gregory
\ndramatist (1859)<\/p>\n
Rosa Luxemburg
\nrevolutionary (1871)<\/p>\n
Rex Harrison
\nactor (1908)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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