1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.
1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.
1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.
1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."
1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
Famous Birthdays:
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman emperor
1672 - Peter the Great (Peter I of Russia)
1791 - John Howard Payne, Actor, poet, playwright
1908 - Louis Kutner, Human rights activist, lawyer, helped to found Amnesty International
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Actor
1981 - Natalie Portman, Actres
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