1568
\nMary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.<\/p>\n
1846
\nThe United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.<\/p>\n
1938
\nLouis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans’s jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.<\/p>\n
1940
\nWinston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”<\/p>\n
1973
\nTennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a worldwide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.<\/p>\n
1981
\nPope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.<\/p>\n
Joe Louis
\n1914\u201381, American boxer, born in Lafayette, Alabama<\/p>\n
Maria Theresa
\nqueen of Bohemia and Hungary (1717)<\/p>\n
Henry William Stiegel
\niron and glass manufacturer (1729)<\/p>\n
Sir Arthur Sullivan
\ncomposer (1842)<\/p>\n
Georges Braque
\npainter (1882)<\/p>\n
Harvey Keitel
\nactor (1939)<\/p>\n
Stevie Wonder
\nsinger, composer, producer (1950)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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