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Events
- 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
- 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
- 1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
- 1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
- 1916 - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
- 1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia.
- 1922 - Establishment of the Irish Free State.
- 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
- 1971 - Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1998 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
- 2001 - The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
- 2006 - Jena Six incident: Justin Barker, a White student, is attacked and beaten at Jena High School in Louisiana. Blacks protest the arrest of the attackers.
Births
- 1833 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916)
- 1906 - Carl Austin Weiss, assassin of U.S. Senator Huey Long (d. 1935)
- 1938 - Martin Peretz, American journalist, publisher, and Zionist.
Deaths
- 1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
- 1961 - Frantz Fanon, Black radical philosopher (b. 1925)
