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Events
- 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
- 1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
- 1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
- 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- 1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
- 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States and German Emperor Wilhelm II and US President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
- 1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are put to death at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
Births
- 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
- 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
- 1910 - Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
- 1914 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
- 1923 - Colin Jordan, British National Socialist leader (d. 2009)
- 1945 - Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb politician
- 1951 - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian al-Qaeda leader
Deaths
- 1867 - Maximilian I, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832), Executed
- 1902 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
- 1953
- Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918)
- Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915)
- 1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
- 1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
- 1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
