1885
\nGood Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.<\/p>\n
1939
\nLou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.<\/p>\n
1945
\nThe Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.<\/p>\n
1955
\nTennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.<\/p>\n
1969
\nThe British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.<\/p>\n
1994
\nNelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa\u2019s first multiracial election.<\/p>\n
1997
\nThe Labour Party\u2019s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.<\/p>\n
2011
\nU.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n
2012
\nA pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.<\/p>\n
Catherine the Great
\n1729\u201396, czarina of Russia (1762\u201396)<\/p>\n
Alessandro Scarlatti
\ncomposer (1660)<\/p>\n
Elijah J. McCoy
\ninventor (1843)<\/p>\n
Theodor Herzl
\nZionist (1860)<\/p>\n
Manfred von Richthofen
\naviator (1892)<\/p>\n
Benjamin Spock
\npediatrician (1903)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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