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BORN
| 1923 | | James Arness, Anzio veteran, actor ("The Thing", "Gunsmoke"), d. 2011 |
| 1478 | | Giulio de' Medici - Pope Clement VII (1523-34) |
| 1566 | | Ottoman Sultan Mohammed III (1595-1603) |
| 1799 | | Alexander Pushkin, Russian author & poet, k in a duel, 1837 |
| 1806 | | Henry Knox Thatcher, naval officer, U.S., d. 1880 |
| 1835 | | Edward Porter Alexander, Brig Gen, C.S.A., artilleryman, d. 1910 |
| 1877 | | Sadao Araki, Japanese Minister of War (1931-34), militaristic ultra-nationalist, d. 1966 |
| 1895 | | Paul Lukas, actor ("Watch on the Rhine"), d. 1971 |
| 1907 | | John Wayne, IV-F actor ("Sands of Iwo Jima"), d. 1979 |
| 1912 | | Janos Kadar, Communist premier of Hungary (1956-58), d 1989 |
| 1941 | | Aldrich Hazen Ames, CIA officer convicted of spying for the USSR in 1994 |
| 1968 | | Prince Frederik of Denmark |
DIED
| 946 | | King Edmund I "the Elder" (939-946), c. 24, in hand-to-hand combat with a party crasher |
| 946 | | Leofa, bandit chief, in hand-to-hand combat while crashing Edmund's party |
| 1402 | | Giovanni I Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, kia at Casalecchio |
| 1421 | | Ottoman Sultan Mehmet I "The Gentleman" (1413-21), c. 37, of apoplexy |
| 1512 | | Ottoman Sultan Bajezid II (1481-1512), 65, shortly after abdicating in favor of his son |
| 1703 | | Samuel Pepys, 70, sometime secretary of the Admiralty, bon vivant, diarist |
| 1755 | | Louis Mandrin, 30, French bandit chieftain, broken on the wheel |
| 1818 | | Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal, 57 |
| 1840 | | Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, G.C.B., who bested Napoleon repeatedly, 75 |
EVENT
| 1864 | | Battle of Dallas, GA |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo |
| 17 | | Triumph of Germanicus for his victories in Germany |
| 107 | | Triumph of Trajan for his conquest of Dacia |
| 946 | | Edred succeeds his brother Edmund I as King of England (946-955) |
| 1249 | | Battle of Fossalta: The Bolognese capture Enzio, son of HRE Frederick II, and lock him up for 25 years |
| 1402 | | Battle of Casalecchio: the Visconti defeat the Bentivogli of Bologna |
| 1532 | | France, Bavaria, Saxony, & Hesse form an alliance against Ferdinand of Hapsburg |
| 1538 | | John Calvin is expelled from Geneva |
| 1642 | | Battle of Honnecourt: Spanish defeat the French |
| 1647 | | Massachusetts bars Catholic priests, on penalty of death |
| 1694 | | Battle of Ter: The Spanish defeat the French |
| 1736 | | Battle of Ackia, La: British & Chickasaw defeat French |
| 1789 | | The Duke of York, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, refuses to return fire though slightly wounded in a duel with LtCol Charles Lenox, of the same regiment |
| 1805 | | Napoleon crowns himself King of Italy |
| 1824 | | Mexico's Constituent Congress declares Chiapas free to choose its own future |
| 1861 | | Union begins blockade of Confederate Gulf ports |
| 1896 | | Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, deposed 1917, shot 1918 |
| 1905 | | Pogrom against Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| 1922 | | Lenin suffers a stroke, which unfortunately isn't fatal |
| 1938 | | House Un-American Activities Comm begins investigating fascistic groups |
| 1940 | | The Crown detains British Fascist Oswald Moseley |
| 1941 | | HMS 'Ark Royal' a/c damage battleship 'Bismarck' |
| 1941 | | Netherlands: Germans begin conscripting young men for labor |
| 1942 | | Belgium: Nazis require Jews to wear a Star of David |
| 1942 | | North Africa: Rommel attacks the Gazala Line. |
| 1945 | | Chinese reoccupy Nanning, cut off 200,000 Japanese troops in Indochina |
| 1945 | | US fire bomb raid on Tokyo |
| 1946 | | US Patent filed for the H-Bomb |
| 1954 | | Explosion & fire in 'Bennington" (CV-co), 103 die, over 200 injured |
| 1961 | | USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over three hours |
| 1972 | | US-USSR sign SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) |
| 1981 | | USMC jet crashes on flight deck of USS 'Nimitz' (CVN-68), 14 die |
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