1821
\nSpain ceded Florida to the United States.<\/p>\n
1898
\nSpain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n
1917
\nThe British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.<\/p>\n
1938
\n“Wrong Way Corrigan” took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.<\/p>\n
1945
\nPresident Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.<\/p>\n
1955
\nDisneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n
1975
\nThe American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.<\/p>\n
1998
\nThe last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n
Elbridge Gerry
\nPronunciation: [ger\u00b4E]\n1744\u20131814, American statesman, Vice President of the United States, born in Marblehead, Mass.<\/p>\n
John Jacob Astor
\nmerchant (1763)<\/p>\n
Erle Stanley Gardner
\ndetective-story writer (1889)<\/p>\n
Berenice Abbott
\nphotographer (1898)<\/p>\n
Donald Sutherland
\nactor (1934)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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