1814
\nNapoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.<\/p>\n
1899
\nThe treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect.<\/p>\n
1921
\nIowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.<\/p>\n
1945
\nAllies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.<\/p>\n
1951
\nPresident Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur.<\/p>\n
1968
\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n
1979
\nUgandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown.<\/p>\n
1981
\nPresident Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n
2007
\nScience-fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.<\/p>\n
Charles Evans Hughes
\n1862\u20131948, American statesman and jurist. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910\u201316), U.S. Secretary of State (1921\u201325), and eleventh Chief Justice of the United States (1930\u201341), b. Glens Falls, N.Y.<\/p>\n
Dean Acheson
\nstatesman (1893)<\/p>\n
Percy Lavon Julian
\nchemist (1899)<\/p>\n
Oleg Cassini
\nfashion designer (1913)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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