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Events
- 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- 1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
- 1809 - The Illinois Territory is created.
- 1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
- 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
- 1958 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
- 1989 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, leader of Paraguay since 1954.
Births
- 1807 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)
- 1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
- 1887 - Georg Trakl, pre-eminent Austrian poet. (d. 1914)
- 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)
Deaths
- 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
- 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
- 1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
- 1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
