1584
\nRussian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan \u201cThe Terrible,\u201d died at age 53.<\/p>\n
1766
\nAfter months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.<\/p>\n
1925
\nThe most violent single tornado in U.S. history, the \u201cTri-State Tornado,\u201d hit Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring 13,000 others.<\/p>\n
1963
\nThe Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.<\/p>\n
1965
\nSoviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.<\/p>\n
1967
\nThe oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea.<\/p>\n
1990
\nThe biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.<\/p>\n
2004
\nA small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.<\/p>\n
2005
\nAfter a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.<\/p>\n
Grover Cleveland
\n1837\u20131908, American President, born in Caldwell, NJ.<\/p>\n
Rudolf Diesel
\nengineer and inventor (1858)<\/p>\n
Neville Chamberlain
\nstatesman (1869)<\/p>\n
George Plimpton
\nwriter, editor, actor (1927)<\/p>\n
John Updike
\nwriter (1932)<\/p>\n
F.W. de Klerk
\npolitical leader (1936)<\/p>\n
Bonnie Blair
\nspeed skater (1964)<\/p>\n
Queen Latifah
\nrap musician, actress (1970)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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