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Events
- 1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- 1836 - Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
- 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
- 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
- 1945 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1970 - Weatherman bombing in Greenwich Village apartment. Three members of the terrorist organization are killed.
- 1978 - American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The shooter is believed to be racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
- 1988 - Three unarmed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are killed by the SAS on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
Births
- 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
- 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
- 1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
Deaths
- 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
- 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
- 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
- 1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
- 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
- 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
- 1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
- 1952 - Jürgen Stroop, SS Officer (b. 1895)
- 1970 - Ted Gold, member of the terrorist group Weathermen (b. 1947)
- 1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
