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Events
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* 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
* 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
* 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
* 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States..
* 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
* 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
* 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
* 1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
* 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
* 1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
* 1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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Holidays
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* Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
* Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
* Peru - Independence Day
* San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government
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Borned this day
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1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter
1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician (come on , you gotta know this guy :), cool stand up comedian also)
1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
