1540
\nKing Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.<\/p>\n
1759
\nGeorge Washington married Martha Custis.<\/p>\n
1838
\nSamuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.<\/p>\n
1912
\nNew Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1919
\nFormer president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y.<\/p>\n
1987
\nUniversity of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.<\/p>\n
1994
\nFigure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.<\/p>\n
Carl Sandburg
\n1878\u20131967, American poet and biographer<\/p>\n
Heinrich Schliemann
\narchaeologist (1822)<\/p>\n
Tom Mix
\nactor (1880)<\/p>\n
Khalil Gibran
\npoet and novelist (1883)<\/p>\n
Abram Nicholas Pritzker
\nentrepreneur (1896)<\/p>\n
Loretta Young
\nactor (1913)<\/p>\n
Danny Thomas
\nactor, singer, dancer (1914)<\/p>\n
E L Doctorow
\nnovelist (1931)<\/p>\n
Rowan Atkinson
\nactor (1955)<\/p>\n
Nancy Lopez
\ngolfer (1957)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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