1775
\nPatrick Henry declared “Give me liberty, or give me death.”<\/p>\n
1806
\nLewis and Clark began their return journey east.<\/p>\n
1877
\nThe first Easter egg roll was held on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n
1919
\nBenito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento.<\/p>\n
1983
\nU.S. President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative or \u201cStar Wars.\u201d<\/p>\n
1998
\nThe motion picture epic \u201cTitanic\u201d won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with \u201cBen-Hur\u201d for the most ever.<\/p>\n
2001
\nRussia’s Mir space station ended its 15-year orbit of the Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n
2003
\nA U.S. Army convoy was ambushed in Iraq with 11 killed and seven captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch.<\/p>\n
2010
\nPresident Barack Obama signed a health-care overhaul bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law.<\/p>\n
Akira Kurosawa
\nPronunciation: [\u00e4kE\u00b4r\u00e4 kOOrO\u00b4s\u00e4w\u00e4]\n1910\u20131998, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, born in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
John Bartram
\nbotanist (1699)<\/p>\n
Pierre Simon Laplace
\nastronomer and mathematician (1749)<\/p>\n
William Smith
\ngeologist (1769)<\/p>\n
Juan Gris
\nartist (1887)<\/p>\n
Erich Fromm
\npsychoanalyst and author (1900)<\/p>\n
Joan Crawford
\nactress (1908)<\/p>\n
Wernher von Braun
\nscientist (1912)<\/p>\n
Donald Malcolm Campbell
\nautomobile and boat racer (1921)<\/p>\n
Roger Bannister
\nphysician, athlete (1929)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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