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Events
- 1536 - King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
- 1865 - Ku Klux Klan founded in Pulaski, Tennessee
- 1882 - The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- 1910 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- 1923 - British Fascisti is founded by Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman
- 1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
- 1983 - The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax when experts examine the books and conclude that they are fake.
- 1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens, after seven years of work and enables travel between England and France.
Births
- 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1809 - Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 1853)
- 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1880 - William Joseph Simmons, founder of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1945)
- 1895 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National Socialist (d. 1946)
Deaths
- 1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1979 - James Madole, American leader of the National Renaissance Party (b. 1927)
- 2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
