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Events
- 1199 - Richard the Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow bolt during a siege in France, he dies eleven days later. The marksman, a French noble named Pierre Basile, is executed.
- 1812 - An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1913 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.
- 1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
- 1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
- 1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
Births
- 1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
- 1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Franz Stangl, German military officer (d. 1971)
- 1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)
- 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian leader
- 1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician
- 1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
- 1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
Deaths
- 1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)
- 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
- 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician, founder of Rhodesia (b. 1853)
- 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
- 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
- 1983 - Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Soviet spy (b. 1907)
- 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
