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Born
35 Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (96-98)
1572 Duke Johan Sigismund of Prussia
1622 King Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1654-1660)
1817 Claudius Wistar Sears, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1891
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892
1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Maj Gen, U.S., historian, d. 1909
1900 Margaret Mitchell, novelist("GWTW"), who had a grandfather at Gettysburg

Died
1226 King Louis VIII "the Lion" of France (1223-26)
1555 Gian Giacomo Medici “Il Medeghino” – condottiero, poisoned at c. 60
1653 Tideo Marescotti, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated
1933 Shah Mohammed Nadir of Afghanistan, assassinated
1945 FM August von Mackensen, Conqueror of Romania in 1916, Nazi stooge
1986 Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the Oldest Old Bohlshevik, at 96

Event
392 Emperor Theodosius bans pagan worship and ends the Olympic Games
641 The Arabs capture Alexandria
1443 Battle of Monteluro: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the League of the Porta Giovia
1519 Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and meets Motecuhzoma
1620 Battle of White Mountain: Bohemians defeated by the Imperialists
1789 Elijah Craig brews something interesting, Bourbon County, Ky
1805 Battle of Maria Zell: French defeat the Austrians
1805 The Lewis & Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean
1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, Ky
1861 Capt Charles Wilkes removes Confederate agents from British steamer Trent
1923 Hitler’s “Munich Beer Hall Putsch"
1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after an assassination attempt
1939 Hitler escapes assassination at the Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1940 The RAF bombs Munich
1942 Hitler proclaims the fall of Stalingrad, somewhat permaturely
1942 Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in northwestern Africa
1944 Hungary "lends" 25,000 Jews to the Germans for forced labor
1950 Lt. Russell J. Brown's F-86 scores a North Korean MiG-15 in history’s first jet-on-jet combat
1956 The UN demands the USSR leave Hungary, and is ignored
1990 President GHW Bush orders 100,000 additional US troops to the Persian Gulf
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