1815
\nThe Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.<\/p>\n
1918
\nWoodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.<\/p>\n
1958
\nBobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.<\/p>\n
1959
\nCharles de Gaulle became the first president of France’s Fifth Republic.<\/p>\n
1964
\nPresident Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.<\/p>\n
1982
\nThe AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven “Baby Bells.”<\/p>\n
1998
\nThe mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n
2011
\nArizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.<\/p>\n
Stephen William Hawking
\n1942, British theoretical physicist.<\/p>\n
John Carroll
\nchurchman (1735)<\/p>\n
Edmond Charles Gen\u00eat
\ndiplomat (1763)<\/p>\n
Nicholas Biddle
\nfinancier (1786)<\/p>\n
Wilkie Collins
\nauthor (1824)<\/p>\n
Emily Greene Balch
\neconomist and sociologist (1867)<\/p>\n
William Piper
\nairplane manufacturer (1881)<\/p>\n
Carl Rogers
\npsychologist (1902)<\/p>\n
Jose Ferrer
\nactor (1912)<\/p>\n
Elvis Presley
\nsinger, actor (1935)<\/p>\n
David Bowie
\nmusician, actor (1947)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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