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Events
- 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem
- 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.
- 1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
- 1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, as 11,000 die.
- 1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
- 1978 - Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists and is later killed by his captors.
- 1988 - Milltown Massacre: attack on Provisional IRA supports during a burial.
Births
- 1751 - James Madison, President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1883 - Rudolf John Gorsleben, German occultist (d. 1930)
- 1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
- 1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German doctor (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
- 1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Dorothea Binz, female SS guard (d. 1947)
Deaths
- 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
- 2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
- 2004 - Kriss Donald, Scottish murder victim (b. 1988)
