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• 27BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
• 550 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
• 1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
• 1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
• 1456 - Painter Filippo Lippi elopes with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.
• 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1581 - The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
• 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker,Führerbunker.

[edit] Births

• 1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
• 1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
• 1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
• 1933 - Susan Sontag, Jewish writer and activist (d. 2004)
• 1948 - Gregor Gysi, German politician
• 1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, (d. 1984)

[edit] Deaths

• 960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
• 1950 - Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, German arms manufacturer (b. 1870)
• 1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)