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[edit] Events

• 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.
• 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
• 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
• 1820 - 86 former slaves sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
• 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
• 1936 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
• 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• 2006 - Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.

[edit] Births

• 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
• 1756 - Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
• 1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)

[edit] Deaths

• 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
• 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)