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Events
- 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
- 1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1861 - Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
- 1867 - The United States Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act.
- 1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- 1939 - Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII
- 1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- 1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
- 1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 1970 - Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
- 1974 - National Socialist Liberation Front is founded in El Monte, California by Joseph Tommasi.
- 1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
Births
- 1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
- 1793 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
- 1876 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
- 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union.
- 1931 - Tom Wolfe, American author
- 1953 - Russ Feingold, American politician
Deaths
- 855 - Lothair,Frankish Emperor King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
- 1791 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
- 1939 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
- 1946 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National Socialist (b. 1895)
