In 1626, dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island, later buying it from Indians for $24 dollars' worth of trinkets.
In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour work day turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of antiwar protesters at Kent State University, killing four students - Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer - and wounding nine others.
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The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak (1928)
Jazz musician Maynard Ferguson (1928)
Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929)
Opera singer Roberta Peters (1940)
Singer Jackie Jackson (1951)
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"Whether women are better than men, I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."