1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
1925 - John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1937 - Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1944 - World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1958 - Guinea declares its independence from France.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Famous Birthdays:
1452 - King Richard III of England
1470 - Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia
1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, field marshal and 2nd President of Germany
1904 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, former Prime Minister of India
1948 - Siim Kallas, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 - Lew Temple, actor
1968 - Jana Novotná, tennis player
1984 - Marion Bartoli, tennis player
1986 - Camilla Belle, actress
1993 - Tara Lynne Barr, actress
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