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Events
- 1519 - Panama City, Panama, is founded.
- 1824 - Freed American slaves form Liberia.
- 1914 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
- 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat the Red Army.
- 1944 - World War II: Operation Dragoon - Allied forces land in southern France.
- 1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day - Japan surrenders.
- 1947 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom
- 1948 - The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- 1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France
Births
- 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
- 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
- 1886 - Karl Korsch, German Marxist theorist (d. 1961)
- 1924 - Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist
- 1935 - Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor
- 1938 - Stephen Breyer Jewish Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Deaths
- 1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)
- 1975 - Joseph Tommasi, founded the National Socialist Liberation Front (b. 1951)
