253 - St. Pope Cornelius is beheaded at Centumcellae.
1533 - Mary Tudor, Queen consort of France dies
1658 - Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1741 - Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the First President of Ireland.
1940 - World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
1943 - The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1947 - The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1950 - The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1975 - Mozambique achieves independence.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
2012 - The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony.
Famous Birthdays
1242 - Princess Beatrice of England
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, architect
1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, statesman and naval officer
1931 - V. P. Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India
1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist and writer
1947 - Jimmie Walker, actor
1956 - Boris Trajkovski, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia
1963 - George Michael, singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor
1979 - Busy Philipps, actress
1987 - Scott Terra, actor
1991 - Anna Zaja, tennis player
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