On this date in history: In 1789, James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights, which led to the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In 1869, Ives McGaffney of Chicago obtained a patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner. In 1949, an FBI report identified several Hollywood figures -- including Frederic March, Dalton Trumbo, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson -- as members of the Communist Party. The document's release came amid a so-called Red Scare in the