1773
\nThe first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n
1896
\nH. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.<\/p>\n
1915
\nThe U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.<\/p>\n
1932
\nHattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
1964
\nOne month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.<\/p>\n
1991
\nA divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.<\/p>\n
1998
\nNineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.<\/p>\n
2010
\nHaiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. It is the region’s worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities was between 46,000 and 85,000 people.<\/p>\n
John Hancock
\n1737\u201393, political leader in the American Revolution and signer of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n
Charles Perrault
\npoet (1628)<\/p>\n
Edmund Burke
\npolitical writer and statesman (1729)<\/p>\n
John Singer Sargent
\npainter (1856)<\/p>\n
Jack London
\nnovelist (1876)<\/p>\n
P. W. Botha
\npolitical leader (1916)<\/p>\n
James Farmer
\ncivil rights leader (1920)<\/p>\n
Joe Frazier
\nboxer (1944)<\/p>\n
Rush Limbaugh
\nradio personality (1951)<\/p>\n
Howard Stern
\nradio personality (1954)<\/p>\n
Jeff Bezos
\nentrepreneur (1964)<\/p>\n
Rob Zombie
\nrock musician, filmmaker (1966)<\/p>\n
Vendela
\nmodel (1967)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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