After 13 days of fighting, the siege of this Texas mission and fortress ends when the remaining Texan soldiers surrender to Mexican general Santa Anna. 1836
Alamo
94.7%
San Jacinto
2.3%
Goliad
1.1%
Refugio
1.1%
Dmitri Mendeleev presents this scientific chart in public for the first time to the Russian Chemical Society. 1869
The periodic table of elements
87.4%
The structure of an atom
5.6%
Map of the solar system
1.5%
The structure of an animal cell
3.4%
This medicine is patented by Felix Hoffmann, who worked at the Germany company Bayer. 1899
Aspirin
84.6%
Penicillin
6.1%
Morphine
5.1%
Ritalin
1.6%
This controversial publisher and First Amendment defender is shot and paralyzed by a sniper outside of a courthouse in Georgia. 1978
Larry Flynt
79.1%
Hugh Hefner
3.6%
David Eisenbach
5.9%
Henry L. Jackson
8%
This journalist ends his tenure as the primary news presenter on 'CBS Evening News.' 1981
Walter Cronkite
77.4%
Dan Rather
11.4%
Chet Huntley
3.4%
Howard Cosell
4.4%
Robert Fulton, engineer and inventor of the first commercially-available vehicle of this kind, dies. 1815
Steamboat
74%
Automobile
6.5%
Submarine
4.4%
Bicycle
15%
This famous L.A. Lakers player is born. 1972
Shaquille O'Neal
71.3%
Michael Jordan
10.6%
Larry Bird
7.1%
LeBron James
8.1%
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