1556
\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.<\/p>\n
1804
\nThe French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.<\/p>\n
1871
\nJournalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.<\/p>\n
1960
\nPolice fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.<\/p>\n
1963
\nAlcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.<\/p>\n
1965
\nMartin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n
2010
\nThe House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be sent to President Obama to sign into law.<\/p>\n
Johann S. Bach
\nPronunciation: [sAb\u00e4s\u00b4ty\u00e4n b\u00e4kh]\n1685\u20131750, German composer and organist, born in Eisenach; one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world.<\/p>\n
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
\nmathematician and physicist (1768)<\/p>\n
Benito Juarez
\nstatesman (1806)<\/p>\n
Modest Mussorgsky
\ncomposer (1839)<\/p>\n
Florenz Ziegfeld
\ntheatrical producer (1869)<\/p>\n
Phyllis McGinley
\npoet (1905)<\/p>\n
Matthew Broderick
\nactor (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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