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Events
- 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
- 1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- 1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
- 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Hellfire missiles.
- 2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
Births
- 1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
- 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- 1908 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- 1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
- 1934 - Orrin Hatch, American politician
- 1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
- 1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
Deaths
- 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
- 1832 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
- 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. c. 1937)
