William Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies) Nobel 1983, born (1911)

Continental soldiers fighting under American General Horatio Gates defeated the British at Saratoga, New York (1777)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.
• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

U.S. Congress cut funding for National Endowment for the Arts by 40% (1995)

• The Arts Center

Iceman, ancient human being discovered in ice in the Alps on the Italian-Austrian border (1991)

George Washington gave his farewell address in which he warned against public debt, large military developments, and permanent alliances with foreign powers (1796)

James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin (1881)

• Presidential Sites Resources
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Confederates force the Union forces to retreat at the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn. (1863)

• Great Sites about the Civil War
  
• Civil War Lesson Plans and Activities
  
• Valley of Shadow: Two Communities in American Civil War
  The Valley of the Shadow Project looks at two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the lens of the American Civil War. The project is an extensive archive of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, and maps, plus church, census and military records.
• American Civil War Home Page
  This is a simple, one page site that has a VERY comprehensive set of links to Civil War Resources on the internet.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert in Central Park to benefit New York City parks (1981)

New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote (1893)

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The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert (1957)