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1. 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
2. 1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
3. 1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
4. 1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
5. 1814 - Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
6. 1887 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
7. 1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
8. 1945 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on Germany.
9. 2001 - BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the RIRA.

[edit] Births

1. 1394 - Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)

1. 1889 - Georges Dumézil, French scholar (d. 1986)

[edit] Deaths

1. 1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)