1517
\nMartin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.<\/p>\n
1846
\nA heavy snowfall trapped the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada mountains.<\/p>\n
1864
\nNevada became the 36th state.<\/p>\n
1941
\nWork on the Mount Rushmore monument was completed.<\/p>\n
1956
\nRear Admiral G. J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.<\/p>\n
1984
\nIndian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.<\/p>\n
1992
\nPope John Paul II admitted that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in convicting Galileo of heresy 350 years earlier.<\/p>\n
Chiang Kai-shek
\n1887\u20131975, Chinese Nationalist leader. He was also called Chiang Chung-cheng.<\/p>\n
Jan Vermeer
\npainter (1632)<\/p>\n
John Keats
\npoet (1795)<\/p>\n
Juliette Gordon Low
\nfounder of the Girl Scouts of America (1860)<\/p>\n
Dale Evans
\nactor and singer (1912)<\/p>\n
Barbara Bel Geddes
\nactress (1922)<\/p>\n
Michael Collins
\nastronaut (1930)<\/p>\n
Dan Rather
\ntelevision journalist, writer (1931)<\/p>\n
Michael Landon
\nactor (1936)<\/p>\n
Jane Pauley
\nTV journalist (1950)<\/p>\n
Peter Jackson
\ndirector (1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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