1862 - American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1959 - Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1960 - Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
Famous Birthdays:
1556 - Alexander Briant, English Jesuit and martyr
1786 - Princess Marie Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Leiningen, Duchess of Kent, Mother of Queen Victoria
1844 - Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia
1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria
1928 - T. J. Anderson, composer
1943 - Robert De Niro, actor
1951 - Robert Joy, actor
1968 - Helen McCrory, actress
1980 - Lene Marlin, singer
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