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Events

• 1496 - England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
• 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans are killed by British troops.
• 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
• 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
• 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
• 1933 - In Germany, the NSDAP win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
• 1940 - Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
• 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

Births

• 1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
• 1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
• 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary Marxist (d. 1919)
• 1923 - Laurence Tisch, Jewish media mogul
• 1937 - Daniel Burros, Jewish member of the American Nazi Party (d. 1965)

Deaths

• 1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
• 1980 - Winifred Wagner, Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, close friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1897)