1769
\nOttawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered.<\/p>\n
1841
\nThe first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.<\/p>\n
1902
\nMarie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.<\/p>\n
1912
\nThe Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.<\/p>\n
1971
\nThe U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.<\/p>\n
1999
\n14 students (including killers) and 1 teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in the nation’s deadliest school shooting.<\/p>\n
2008
\nDanica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.<\/p>\n
2010
\nAn explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Adolf Hitler
\nPronunciation: [\u00e4\u00b4d\u00f4lf hit\u00b4lur]\n1889\u20131945, founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazis), and German dictator; born in Braunau in Upper Austria.<\/p>\n
Daniel Chester French
\nsculptor (1850)<\/p>\n
Joan Mir\u00f3
\nartist (1893)<\/p>\n
Lionel Hampton
\nvibraphonist and bandleader, (1908)<\/p>\n
Tito Puente
\nmusician, jazz percussionist (1923)<\/p>\n
Jessica Lange
\nactress (1949)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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