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- 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (names America and Americas are derived from his name) died at 60.
- 1732 - Birthday: George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-97) born in Westmoreland, Virginia.
- 1746 - French troops conquered Brussels.
- 1775 - Poland: Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw.
- 1825 - Russia & Britain established Alaska-Canada boundary.
- 1917 - German Navy torpedoed 7 Dutch ships.
- 1918 - Birthday: Alfred J. Gross (inventor of the walkie-talkie) born in Toronto, Ontario.
- 1935 - USA: Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House (Washington D.C.).
- 1944 - World War II: Operation Wikinger - US Air Force accidentally bombed Dutch town of Nijmegen, 800+ people died.
- 1948 - Arab bomb attacks in Jerusalem killed 50+ people.
- 1962 - Birthday: Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist & TV personality born in Melbourne, Victoria.
- 1980 - Afghanistan declared martial law
- 1983 - India: Nellie Massacre - Hindu extremists killed 3000+ Muslims in Assam.
- 1997 - Dolly the Sheep (world's first cloned mammal from an adult cell) introduced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
- 2006 - England: 6 men robbed £53m from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011 - New Zealand: An earthquake (6.3 in magnitude) killed 181 people in Christchurch.
- 2012 - Argentina: A train crash in Buenos Aires killed 50+ people.
- 2013 - Syria: 30+ people killed by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo.
- 2013 - Mali: 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents killed in a conflict in Northern Mali.
- 2021 - COVID19: US death toll reached 500,000 (higher than the death toll of WWI, WWII and Vietnam War combined).