Historical Events
1536 - France and Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel
1865 - Evacuation of Charleston, SC
1900 - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1977 - George Harrison releases "True Love"
1979 - Snow falls in Sahara Desert
2014 - Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand
Famous Birthdays
1559 - Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
1775 - Thomas Girtin, artist/watercolorist, born in London, England
1838 - Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist
1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
1949 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1972 - Marc Lillibridge, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
Famous Deaths
1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
1830 - Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67
1899 - M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56
1987 - Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
1995 - Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
1995 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83
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