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Events
- 330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
- 1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
- 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
- 1792 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
- 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
- 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
- 1910 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- 1949 - Israel joins the United Nations.
- 1960 - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture Adolf Eichmann.
- 1987 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for alleged war crimes committed during World War II.
Births
- 1752 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
- 1852 - Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Vice President (d. 1918)
- 1891 - Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and advocate for the Morgenthau Plan (d. 1967)
- 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
- 1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
Deaths
- 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
- 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
- 1988 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)