1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1536 - George Boleyn,2nd Viscount Rochford (brother of Anne Boleyn)and four other men are executed for treason.
1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1808 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1814 - The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1865 - The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
1900 - Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1940 - World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1967 - Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1973 - Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
1983 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1990 - The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
1994 - Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2011 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh begin a state visit to the Republic of Ireland at the invitation of the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. It was the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland since the 1911 tour by King George V, when the entire island of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.
Famous Birthdays
1443 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
1628 - Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria
1768 - Caroline of Brunswick, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover
1891 - Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
1941 - Grace Zabriskie, actress
1945 - Tony Roche, tennis player
1955 - David Townsend, singer-songwriter and musician
1964 - David Eigenberg, actor
1967 - Mohamed Nasheed, 4th President of the Maldives
1971 - Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Queen consort of the Netherlands
1974 - Andrea Corr, singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1985 - Teófilo Gutiérrez, footballer
1990 - Leven Rambin, actress
1991 - Daniel Curtis Lee, actor
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