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[edit] Events
- 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols
- 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds Clan at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany to destroy the city by massive aerial bombardment.
- 1945 - World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
- 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
- 1981 - Rupert Murdoch buys The Times and The Sunday Times for £12 million.
[edit] Births
- 1721 - John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807)
- 1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus, English demographer and political economist (d. 1834)
- 1910 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
[edit] Deaths
- 858 - Kenneth I of Scotland
- 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
- 1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
- 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1963 - Robert R. Reynolds, American patriot and US Senator from North Carolina (b. 1884)
