1607
\nColonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.<\/p>\n
1865
\nJohn Wilkes Booth, Lincoln\u2019s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.<\/p>\n
1937
\nThe German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.<\/p>\n
1964
\nTanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form Tanzania.<\/p>\n
1986
\nThe worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n
1994
\nThe first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.<\/p>\n
2000
\nVermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.<\/p>\n
John James Audubon
\nPronunciation: [\u00f4\u00b4dubon]\n1785\u20131851, American ornithologist, b. Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti).<\/p>\n
Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix
\npainter (1798)<\/p>\n
Frederick Law Olmsted
\nlandscape architect (1822)<\/p>\n
Ma Rainey
\nblues musician (1886)<\/p>\n
I. M. Pei
\narchitect (1917)<\/p>\n
Carol Burnett
\ncomedienne (1936)<\/p>\n
Channing Tatum
\nactor, model, dancer (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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