1227
\nMongol conqueror Genghis Khan died in China.<\/p>\n
1587
\nVirginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America.<\/p>\n
1894
\nCongress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.<\/p>\n
1920
\nWhen Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.<\/p>\n
1936
\nSpanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco’s soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .<\/p>\n
1958
\nVladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published.<\/p>\n
1963
\nJames Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n
Virginia Dare
\n1587, first white child of English parents to be born in America.<\/p>\n
Meriwether Lewis
\nexplorer (1774)<\/p>\n
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
\ndiplomat (1900)<\/p>\n
Shelley Winters
\nactress (1920)<\/p>\n
Rosalynn Smith Carter
\nfirst lady (1927)<\/p>\n
Roman Polanski
\nfilm director (1933)<\/p>\n
Roberto Clemente
\nbaseball player (1934)<\/p>\n
Robert Redford
\nactor and director (1937)<\/p>\n
Patrick Swayze
\nactor (1952)<\/p>\n
Christian Slater
\nactor (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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