1853
\nDuring the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T’en-ching (Heavenly Capital).<\/p>\n
1920
\nThe United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.<\/p>\n
1931
\nNevada state legislature legalized gambling.<\/p>\n
1953
\nThe Academy Awards were first televised.<\/p>\n
1996
\nSarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.<\/p>\n
2003
\nOperation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, the beginning of the war with Iraq (March 20 in Iraq).<\/p>\n
William Jennings Bryan
\n1860\u20131925, American political leader, born in Salem, Illinois.<\/p>\n
David Livingstone
\nmissionary and explorer (1813)<\/p>\n
Richard Francis Burton
\nexplorer (1821)<\/p>\n
Wyatt Earp
\nlaw officer (1848)<\/p>\n
Earl Warren
\njurist (1891)<\/p>\n
Philip Roth
\nauthor (1933)<\/p>\n
Glenn Close
\nactress (1947)<\/p>\n
Bruce Willis
\nactor (1955)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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