1850
\nDaniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.<\/p>\n
1876
\nAlexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.<\/p>\n
1936
\nAdolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.<\/p>\n
1945
\nDuring World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.<\/p>\n
1965
\nPeaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called \u201cBloody Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
1989
\nIran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie’s novel Satanic Verses.<\/p>\n
2004
\nV. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.<\/p>\n
2005
\nJohn R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.<\/p>\n
Luther Burbank
\n1849\u20131926, American Horticulturist.<\/p>\n
Sir John Herschel
\nmathematician (1792)<\/p>\n
Piet Mondrian
\nartist (1872)<\/p>\n
Maurice Ravel
\ncomposer (1875)<\/p>\n
Janet Guthrie
\nauto racer (1938)<\/p>\n
Michael Eisner
\nbusinessman (1942)<\/p>\n
Bryan Cranston
\nactor (1956)<\/p>\n
Ivan Lendl
\ntennis player (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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