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Events
- 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
- 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
- 1868 - American President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
- 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
- 1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
- 1974 - Josip Broz Tito was re-elected as president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he was elected for life.
- 2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France.
Births
- 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1929 – John Conyers, American politician
Deaths
- 583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
- 1960 - Nesta Webster, British historian (b. 1876)
- 1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
