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Events
- 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
- 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
- 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
- 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1936 - President Franklin Roosevelt campaigning for reelection is forced to denounce Communism in a speech delivered in Syracuse, New York.
- 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1991 - Military coup in Haiti.
Births
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
- 1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
- 1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
- 1921 - James Richard Cross, British diplomat
- 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
- 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Deaths
- 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1952 - Major C. H. Douglas, British engineer and Social Credit economist (b. 1879)
- 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
- 2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
