1812
\nThe U.S. frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
1934
\nGermans voted to make Adolf Hitler Fuhrer.<\/p>\n
1936
\nSpanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot by Franco’s soldiers during the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n
1960
\nAmerican U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage in Moscow.<\/p>\n
1977
\nComedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.<\/p>\n
2003
\nU.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of 22 killed when a suicide car bomb struck the UN’s Baghdad headquarters.<\/p>\n
William Jefferson Clinton
\nWilliam Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Ark., on August 19, 1946.<\/p>\n
John Dryden
\npoet, dramatist, and critic (1631)<\/p>\n
Orville Wright
\naviation pioneer (1871)<\/p>\n
Coco Chanel
\nfashion designer (1883)<\/p>\n
Ogden Nash
\npoet (1902)<\/p>\n
Malcolm Forbes
\npublisher\/multimillionaire (1919)<\/p>\n
Willie Shoemaker
\njockey (1931)<\/p>\n
Matthew Perry
\nactor (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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