TV actress Madison McLaughlin

Events in 1995 and 5-11

Events in US in the birth year of Madison McLaughlin

• Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California (Jan. 24).
• Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building (April 19); Timothy McVeigh, 27, arrested as suspect (April 21); authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing (April 22).
• Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges (Oct. 3).
• Pope John Paul II visits US on whirlwind tour (Oct. 4-8).
• Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital (Oct. 16).

Birthday Madison McLaughlin (5-11) in history

• Day 5-11 year 1605: The "Gunpowder plot" of a group of Catholics to assassinate King James I by blowing up the British Parliament has failed.
• Day 5-11 year 1872: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).
• Day 5-11 year 1895: George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• Day 5-11 year 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.
• Day 5-11 year 1968: The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
• Day 5-11 year 1974: Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
• Day 5-11 year 1989: Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.
• Day 5-11 year 1994: At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
• Day 5-11 year 2011: Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.