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Georgia O'Keefe, American artist (Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, Black Iris) born (1887)

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Erwin Rommel, German field marshall “The Desert Fox” (WW II-African campaign), born (1891)

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Johann Kepler, German astronomer, died at 58 (1630)

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Margaret Mead, American anthropologist, died in New York at 76 (1978)

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Georgetown, first Catholic college in US, opened in Washington, D.C. (1791)

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Zebulon Pike, U.S. Army officer leading a surveying expedition discovered the mountain peak that now bears his name (1806)

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Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress (1777)

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Union troops under General William Sherman burned Atlanta during the Civil War (1864)

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American Federation of Labor founded in Pittsburgh (1881)

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Walt Disney Art School created (1932)

250,000 protestors peacefully demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam War (1969)

Cornerstone laid for the Jefferson Memorial (1939)

League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland (1920)