1863
\nAbraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n
1908
\nThe ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.<\/p>\n
1914
\nThe world’s first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n
1959
\nFidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista’s regime.<\/p>\n
1975
\nJohn Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.<\/p>\n
1993
\nCzechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.<\/p>\n
1994
\nThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.<\/p>\n
2002
\nEuro coins and notes went into circulation in twelve European nations.<\/p>\n
Paul Revere
\n1735\u20131818, American patriot<\/p>\n
Lorenzo de’ Medici
\nmerchant prince (1449)<\/p>\n
Huldreich Zwingli
\nProtestant reformer (1484)<\/p>\n
Anthony Wayne
\ngeneral (1745)<\/p>\n
Betsy Ross
\nseamstress (1752)<\/p>\n
Pierre de Coubertin
\nfather of the Modern Olympic Games (1863)<\/p>\n
Alfred Stieglitz
\nphotographer (1864)<\/p>\n
J. Edgar Hoover
\ndirector of FBI (1895)<\/p>\n
J. D. Salinger
\nwriter (1919)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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