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[edit] Events
- 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey).
- 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- 1924 - The United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
- 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the German occupiers.
- 1943 - The German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad.
- 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- 1960 - Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- 1979 - Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
[edit] Births
- 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada(d. 1973)
- 1902 - Therese Brandl, German labour camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
- 1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian leader (d. 2007)
[edit] Deaths
- 1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
- 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670)
- 1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
- 1957 - Friedrich Paulus, German general who surrendered at Stalingrad (b. 1890)
- 1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
- 2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (executed) (b. 1963)
