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Events
- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover, Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
- 1833 - Chicago was founded.
- 1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
- 1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
- 1952 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
- 1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
- 1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
- 1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released.
- 1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Births
- 1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
- 1918 - Guy Gibson, British pilot (d. 1944)
- 1930 - George Soros, American financial speculator
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
