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Events
- 1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
- 1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 1878 - Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire
- 1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
- 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
- 1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
- 1923 - The first issue of Time is published
- 1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1942 - World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
- 1945 - NS Germany conducts a successful experimental nuclear explosion four months before the American nuclear test at the Trinity site in New Mexico.
- 1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
- 1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established.
Births
- 1805 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
- 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
- 1930 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
Deaths
- 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
- 1707 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (b. 1618)
- 1983 - Arthur Koestler, Jewish writer (b. 1905)
- 2002 - H. Keith Thompson, American fascist and New York executive (b. 1922)