1789
\nCongress established the U.S. War Department.<\/p>\n
1947
\nThe wooden raft Kon-Tiki, which carried Thor Heyerdahl and five companions more than 4,000 miles, crashed into a reef in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
1959
\nThe United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of Earth.<\/p>\n
1964
\nCongress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which expanded President Johnson’s use of military powers in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
1987
\nLynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, making the 2.7-mile trip through the frigid waters of the Bering Strait.<\/p>\n
1998
\nU.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, by terrorists. Some 224 were killed and more than 5,500 injured.<\/p>\n
2000
\nSen. Joseph Lieberman of Conn., was selected by Al Gore to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.<\/p>\n
2007
\nBarry Bonds passes Hank Aaron on baseball\u2019s all-time home run list. The record, however, is discredited by many because of Bond\u2019s alleged steroid use.<\/p>\n
Ralph Johnson Bunche
\n1904\u201371, U.S. government official and UN diplomat, b. Detroit, Ph.D., Harvard, 1934.<\/p>\n
Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga
\npoet (1533)<\/p>\n
Nathanael Greene
\ngeneral (1742)<\/p>\n
Paulina Wright Davis
\nsuffragist (1813)<\/p>\n
Mata Hari
\nspy (1876)<\/p>\n
Louis Leakey
\nanthropologist (1903)<\/p>\n
Don Larsen
\nbaseball player (1929)<\/p>\n
Charlize Theron
\nactress (1975)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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