1788
\nConnecticut became the 5th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1861
\nMississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.<\/p>\n
1905
\nThe Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked by troops firing on petitioners to Czar Nicholas in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
1964
\nAnti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.<\/p>\n
1968
\nSurveyor 7, the last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.<\/p>\n
Richard Nixon
\n1913\u20131994, 37th United States President.<\/p>\n
Carrie Chapman Catt
\nsuffragist (1859)<\/p>\n
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
\npoet, publisher (1873)<\/p>\n
John B. Watson
\npsychologist (1878)<\/p>\n
Karel Capek
\nauthor (1890)<\/p>\n
Simone de Beauvoir
\nauthor (1908)<\/p>\n
Har Gobind Khorana
\nbiochemist (1922)<\/p>\n
Bob Denver
\nactor (1935)<\/p>\n
Joan Baez
\nfolk singer and political activist (1941)<\/p>\n
Jimmy Page
\nmusician (1944)<\/p>\n
Imelda Staunton
\nactor (1956)<\/p>\n
Kate Middleton
\nDuchess of Cambridge (1982)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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