1818
\nCongress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.<\/p>\n
1841
\nPresident William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.<\/p>\n
1905
\nEarthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.<\/p>\n
1945
\nThe Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.<\/p>\n
1949
\nThe treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.<\/p>\n
1968
\nMartin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.<\/p>\n
1973
\nThe ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.<\/p>\n
1979
\nPakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.<\/p>\n
1981
\nHenry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.<\/p>\n
1983
\nSally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.<\/p>\n
Maya Angelou
\nPronunciation: [m\u00e4\u00b4y\u00e4 an\u00b4julOO]\n1928\u2014, American writer and performer, born in St. Louis, Mo.<\/p>\n
Edward Hicks
\npainter and preacher (1780)<\/p>\n
Dorothea Dix
\nsocial reformer (1802)<\/p>\n
William H. Jackson
\npainter artist and pioneer photographer (1843)<\/p>\n
Maurice de Vlaminck
\npainter (1876)<\/p>\n
Robert Sherwood
\ndramatist (1896)<\/p>\n
Muddy Waters
\nmusician (1915)<\/p>\n
Heath Ledger
\nactor (1979)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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