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Events
- 1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
- 1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- 1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
- 1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
Births
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
- 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- 1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
- 1960 - Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah
- 1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB officer (d. 2006)
Deaths
- 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
- 1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
