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Events
- 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
- 1815 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- 1894 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins.
- 1918 - Adolf Hitler is temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in World War I
- 1928 - The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
- 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party takes power in Hungary.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
- 1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt
- 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
Births
- 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
- 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
- 1893 - Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
- 1983 - Daniel Wretström, nationalist martyr and Swedish murder victim (d. 2000)
Deaths
- 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
- 1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (b. 1893)
- 1996 - Robert F. Williams, radical Black activist (b. 1925)
