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Events
- 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna
- 1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo
- 1945 - World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the NSDAP, ceases publication.
- 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom
- 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
- 1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
Births
- 1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
- 1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
- 1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and social theorist (d. 1903)
- 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
- 1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician
Deaths
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
- 1813 – Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
- 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
- 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
- 1996 – William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
