1790
\nThe District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.<\/p>\n
1918
\nRussia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n
1935
\nThe first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
1945
\nThe first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.<\/p>\n
1951
\nJ. D. Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye was published.<\/p>\n
1969
\nApollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.<\/p>\n
1979
\nSaddam Hussein became president of Iraq.<\/p>\n
1999
\nJohn F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Ginger Rogers
\n1911\u20131995; Singer actress born in Independence, Missouri.<\/p>\n
Andrea del Sarto
\npainter (1486)<\/p>\n
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
\npainter (1796)<\/p>\n
Mary Baker Eddy
\nfounder, Christian Science Church (1821)<\/p>\n
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
\njournalist, activist (1862)<\/p>\n
Roald Amundsen
\nNorwegian polar explorer (1872)<\/p>\n
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson
\nbaseball player (1887)<\/p>\n
Trygve Lie
\nfirst secretary-general of the United Nations (1896)<\/p>\n
Pinchas Zukerman
\nviolinist and conductor (1948)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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