1652 – Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1936 – Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1942 – North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1944 – 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1953 – WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1960 – Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
1966 – Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
2013 – Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company
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