


Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)
The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua (1979)
b: Herbert Marcuse (1898), George McGovern (1922); d: Sarah Good, Susannah Martin (1692), Maurice J. Tobin (1953)

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