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Events
- 1775 - American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begin; riders warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
- 1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
- 1906 - The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.
- 1942 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1946 - The League of Nations is dissolved.
- 1954 - Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1958 - A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
- 1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1996 - In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defence Forces shell the UN compound at Quana.
- 2007 - Nordisk.nu, a Nordic web site launched
Births
- 1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
- 1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
- 1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
- 1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
- 1927 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist
- 1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Deaths
- 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
- 1947 – Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887),
- 1955 - Albert Einstein, physicist (b. 1879)
- 1964 – Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
- 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
