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Events

• 1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded.
• 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
• 1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
• 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
• 1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.
• 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division move into the Belgian city of Antwerp.
• 1949 - The anti-communist Peekskill Riot erupts after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
• 1957 - Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent Negro students from enrolling in Central High School.

Births

• 1891 - Fritz Todt, German engineer and senior NSDAP official (d. 1942)
• 1925 - Asa Earl Carter, author and segregationist (d. 1979)
• 1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)

Deaths

• 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
• 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and communist activist (b. 1919)