1788
\nVirginia became the 10th state in the Union.<\/p>\n
1876
\nLt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.<\/p>\n
1950
\nCommunist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.<\/p>\n
1951
\nThe first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
1991
\nCroatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.<\/p>\n
1997
\nOceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.<\/p>\n
2009
\nMichael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.<\/p>\n
George Orwell
\npseud. of Eric Arthur Blair
\n1903\u201350, British novelist and essayist, born in India.<\/p>\n
Antonio Gaud\u00ed
\narchitect (1852)<\/p>\n
Robert Henri
\npainter (1865)<\/p>\n
George Abbott
\ntheatrical producer (1887)<\/p>\n
James Meredith,
\ncivil-rights leader (1933)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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