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[edit] Events

• 38BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla.
• 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
• 1377 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
• 1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
• 1562 - France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
• 1595 - Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
• 1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session at Church House, London.
• 2007 - Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.

[edit] Births

• 1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
• 1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
• 1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• 1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American author, printer, inventor, statesman, diplomat and Founding Father of the United States of America (d. 1790)
• 1897 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
• 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
• 1964 - Michelle Obama, wife of Senator Barack Obama

[edit] Deaths

• 395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
• 1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
• 1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
• 1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
• 1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
• 1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
• 1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
• 1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
• 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1911 - Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (b. 1822)
• 1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)