1861
\nThe Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.<\/p>\n
1862
\nJames J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive “The General,” inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.<\/p>\n
1945
\nPresident Franklin Roosevelt died.<\/p>\n
1955
\nThe polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called “safe, effective, and potent.”<\/p>\n
1961
\nSoviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.<\/p>\n
1981
\nThe first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.<\/p>\n
1983
\nHarold Washington was elected Chicago\u2019s first African-American mayor.<\/p>\n
1999
\nArkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.<\/p>\n
Henry Clay
\n1777\u20131852, American statesman, born in Hanover co., Va.<\/p>\n
William Martin Conway
\nEnglish explorer, art historian (1856)<\/p>\n
Otto Meyerhof
\nphysiologist (1884)<\/p>\n
Montserrat Caball
\nchemist (1899)<\/p>\n
Lily Pons
\ncoloratura soprano (1904)<\/p>\n
Herbie Hancock
\njazz musician (1940)<\/p>\n
Tom Clancy
\nnovelist (1947)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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