Historical Events
1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1897 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1952 - US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
1982 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1996 - "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1830 - Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
1954 - Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1970 - Todd Burger, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
Famous Deaths
687 - St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).
1757 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1951 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
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