1869
\nMargarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.<\/p>\n
1870
\nGeorgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.<\/p>\n
1918
\nThe Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.<\/p>\n
1940
\nThe world’s tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.<\/p>\n
1948
\nJohn J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
1975
\nThe Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.<\/p>\n
2010
\nAfter 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.<\/p>\n
Rembrandt
\n1606\u201369, Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman, born in Leiden.<\/p>\n
Clement Moore
\npoet (1779)<\/p>\n
Mother Cabrini
\nnun (1850)<\/p>\n
Iris Murdoch
\nwriter (1919)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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