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Events
- 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
- 1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
- 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1904 - Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur
- 1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
- 1950 - Red Menace: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
- 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
- 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
- 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
Births
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States (d. 1841)
- 1834 - Julius Sophus Felix Dahn, German historian
- 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, NSDAP women's leader (d. 1999)
- 1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban member
Deaths
- 1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
- 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
- 1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
