1577 – Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1783 – Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1938 – Instant coffee invented
1944 – Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1953 – KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1978 – Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1987 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2001 – An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan
2002 – On 200th anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas’ (‘The Three Musketeers’) ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony.
2012 – John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
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