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Events
- 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
- 1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
- 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1870 - Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870 - The Kingdom of Prussia and the Second French Empire commence the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1870 - Manitoba becomes a Canadian province
- 1918 - World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
Births
- 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
- 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
- 1885 - Alexander Rud Mills, Australian Odinist (d.1964)
- 1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
- 1951 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
- 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
- 1961 - Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
Deaths
- 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
- 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- 1970 - Lesley Fry, researcher and authenticator of the Protocols (b. 1882)
