44 BC - Casca, Cicero and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 - Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state
1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1939 - Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1943 - World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
2006 - Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
2008 - A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
Famous Birthdays
1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway
1820 - Victor Emanuel II, First king of united Italy
1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil
1844 - King Umberto I of Italy
1868 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, first female magistrate in the British Empire
1914 - Bill Owen, actor
1932 - Naina Yeltsina, First Lady of Russia
1951 - Jerry Greenfield, businessman, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1958 - HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1967 - Melissa Reeves, actress
1979 - Chris Klein, actor
1987 - Robert Clark, actor
1991 - Steven Zellner, footballer
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