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This American actress, known for playing Princess Leia in the ‘Star Wars’ series, is born.1956
Carrie Fisher
96.6%
Meg Ryan
0.6%
Annette Bening
0.6%
Helen Hunt
0.5%
In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by this well-known American architect, opens to the public.1959
Frank Lloyd Wright
87.4%
Le Corbusier
3.9%
Louis Sullivan
4.2%
Alvar Aalto
2.5%
This woman and a staff of 38 nurses depart for the Crimean war front.1854
Florence Nightingale
84.6%
Virginia Henderson
1.3%
Clara Barton
12%
Elizabeth Blackwell
2%
Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of ______, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.1981
Greece
84%
Turkey
7%
Austria
4.7%
Sweden
2%
A coup d'état in this East African nation brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic.1969
Somalia
64%
Senegal
17.7%
Namibia
8.8%
Egypt
7.2%
Women in this European country are allowed to vote in a parliamentary election for the first time.1945
France
44.7%
Sweden
25.1%
Denmark
18%
Portugal
10.7%
President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting US President against ______ in the deep South.1921
Lynching
33.5%
Segregation
61.7%
Rebel Flags
2.1%
Sharecropping
1.9%
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