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Events
- 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.
- 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Hermann Göring to re-establish the Luftwaffe.
- 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
- 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
- 1993 - Terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
Births
- 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
- 1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
- 1925 - Robert F. Williams, radical Black activist (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister
- 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
Deaths
- 1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
- 1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
- 1943 - Theodor Eicke, German military official (b. 1892)
- 1947 - Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist (b. 1897)
