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Events
- 1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
- 1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
- 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish an article on their discovery DNA.
- 1974 - Carnation Revolution: Leftist military coup in Portugal.
- 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1988 - In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for accused war crimes committed in World War II. He is later freed by the Israelis.
- 1990 – The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed.
Births
- 1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
- 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
- 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1916 - Rousas John Rushdoony, Christian theologian (d. 2001)
- 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
Deaths
- 68 – Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
- 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
