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Events
- 1615 - A new edict in France prevents Christians from sheltering Jews or conversing with them.
- 1912 - Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
- 1920 - The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded in Ankara.
- 1942 - World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- 1944 - The Ku Klux Klan as a single national organization disbands. Splinter groups would soon follow.
- 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa is captured from Arab forces.
- 1961 - Algiers putsch by French generals.
- 1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.
Births
- 1791 - James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States (d. 1868)
- 1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
- 1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German philosopher (d. 1925)
- 1954 - Michael Moore, left-wing American filmmaker
- 1968 - Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber (d. 2001)
Deaths
- 455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
- 1991 - John Roy Carlson, anti-fascist author and investigator (b. 1909)
- 1998 - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928)
- 2005 - J. B. Stoner, American White activist and chairman of the National States Rights Party (b. 1924)
- 2007 - George P. Dietz, first White nationalist publisher on the Internet (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian leader (b. 1931)
