1527
\nItalian statesman, diplomat, and author of \u201cThe Prince,\u201d Niccolo Machiavelli died.<\/p>\n
1788
\nThe U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify it.<\/p>\n
1834
\nCyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper was patented.<\/p>\n
1964
\nThree civil rights workers\u2014James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24\u2014disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. In 2005, 41 years after the disappearance, Edgar Killen was convicted of their murders.<\/p>\n
1982
\nJohn Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
1989
\nThe U.S. Supreme Court decided that burning the U.S. flag was protected under the First Amendment.<\/p>\n
1997
\nThe WNBA made its debut.<\/p>\n
2004
\nMichael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft,SpaceShipOne, into space.<\/p>\n
Jean-Paul Sartre
\n1905\u201380, French existential philosopher, playwright, and novelist.<\/p>\n
Reinhold Niebuhr
\nreligious and social thinker (1892)<\/p>\n
Al Hirschfeld
\ncartoonist (1903)<\/p>\n
Mary McCarthy
\nnovelist (1912)<\/p>\n
Benazir Bhutto
\nprime minister (1953)<\/p>\n
Prince William
\nprince (1982)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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