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Events
- 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
- 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and ]Moravia.
- 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
Births
- 1854 - Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, Jewish physicist, (d. 1955)
- 1912 - John Amery, British volunteer for National Socialist Germany (d. 1945)
Deaths
- 968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen
- 1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- 1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
- 1883 - Karl Marx, Jewish communist (b. 1818)
- 1946 - Werner von Blomberg,German field marshal (b. 1878)
