1542
\nCatherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.<\/p>\n
1866
\nThe gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.<\/p>\n
1867
\nJohann Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.<\/p>\n
1935
\nBruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.<\/p>\n
1960
\nFrance exploded its first atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
1974
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
2002
\nThe French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Chuck Yeager
\n1923\u2013, American Aviator.<\/p>\n
Sir Joseph Banks
\nnaturalist (1743)<\/p>\n
Elizabeth “Bess” Truman
\nFirst Lady (1885)<\/p>\n
Grant Wood
\npainter (1891)<\/p>\n
Georges Simenon
\nmystery writer (1903)<\/p>\n
William Shockley
\nphysicist (1910)<\/p>\n
Kim Novak
\nactress (1933)<\/p>\n
Stockard Channing
\nactress (1944)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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