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Events

• 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.
• 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
• 1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• 1958 - The John Birch Society was founded in the United States.
• 1961 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann ends in Israel.
• 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• 1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
• 1990 - Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.

Births

• 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
• 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
• 1917 - James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
• 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
• 1956 - Baruch Goldstein, Israeli terrorist (d. 1994)

Deaths

• 1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
• 1996 - Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 2000 - Daniel Wretström, nationalist martyr and Swedish murder victim (b. 1983)
• 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)