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Events
- 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
- 1675 - Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of Capital punishment used for regicides.
- 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- 1919 - Free Committee for a German Workers Peace founded, which would become the NSDAP.
- 1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
Births
- 1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
- 1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
- 1893 - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian National Socialist politician (d. unknown)
Deaths
- 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
- 1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (bc. 1350)
- 1589 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
- 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
- 1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
- 1975 - Gottlob Berger, German general (b. 1896)
