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Events
- 1565 - St. Augustine (now Florida), first permanent European settlement in North America founded
- 1664 - Dutch surrenders New Amsterdam (later New York City) to 300 English soldiers
- 1900 - 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
- 1926 - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
- 1930 - New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew
- 1935 - Huey Long is shot at Baton Rouge Capitol building and dies two days later
- 1939 - General Von Reichenaus panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
- 1941 - Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins
- 1943 - General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II
- 1944 - Soviet army invades Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
- 1944 - First V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
- 1945 - U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea
- 1946 - Bulgaria ends monarchy
- 1975 - Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools to achieve racial integration
- 1991 - Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
Births
- 1157 - Richard I, (Richard the Lion Hearted), King of England, (d. 1199)
- 1889 - Robert A. Taft, American politician
- 1901 - Hendrik F. Verwoerd, premier South Africa (d. 1966)
- 1919 - Richard Cotten, conservative commentator (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate
- 1938 - Sam Nunn, American politician
- 1942 - Bernard Sanders, American politician
Deaths
- 1895 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer
- 1935 - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Senator Huey Long, shot down (b. 1906)
- 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer
- 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will
- 2004 - Pastor Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations (b. 1918)
