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Events
- 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
- 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
- 1945 - World War II - Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
- 1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of negro Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
- 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
- 2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon
Births
- 534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet.
- 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
- 1938 - Bernard L. Madoff, Former fund manager charged with securities fraud.
- 1947 - Samuel Francis, conservative newspaper columnist (d. 2005)
- 1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian intellectual
Deaths
- 1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
