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-*[[1717]] - [[George Boone]], the grandfather of [[Settler|pioneer]] and American [[folk hero]] [[Daniel Boone]] sails to [[British North America|America]] from [[Bradninch]], [[England]] 
-*[[1807]] - [[Robert Fulton]]'s first [[United States|American]] [[steamboat]] leaves [[New York City]] for [[Albany, New York]] on the [[Hudson River]], inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 
-*[[1862]] - [[Indian Wars]]: The [[Lakota people|Lakota]] ([[Sioux]]) [[Dakota War of 1862]] begins in [[Minnesota]] as vicious Lakota attack white settlements along the [[Minnesota River]].  
-*[[1863]] - [[American Civil War]]: In [[Charleston, South Carolina]], [[United States|Union]] batteries and ships bombard [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]]-held [[Fort Sumter]].  
-*[[1864]] - American Civil War: [[Battle of Gainesville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces defeat [[United States|Union]] troops near Gainesville, Florida.  
-*[[1883]] - The first public performance of the [[Dominican Republic]]'s [[national anthem]], ''[[Quisqueyanos valientes]]''. 
-*[[1907]] - [[Pike Place Market]], the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in [[Seattle]]. 
-*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Stalluponen]] - The [[Germany|German]] army of [[General]] [[Hermann von François]] defeats the [[Russia]]n force commanded by [[Pavel Rennenkampf]] near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.  
-*[[1915]] - [[Jew]]ish [[United States|American]] [[Leo Frank]] is [[lynching|lynched]] for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in [[Marietta, Georgia]].  
-*[[1918]] - [[Bolshevik]] revolutionary leader [[Moisei Uritsky]] is [[assassination|assassinated]]. 
-*[[1933]] - [[New York Yankees]] first baseman [[Lou Gehrig]] played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking [[Everett Scott]]'s record. He would continue the streak until [[1939]]. 
-*[[1942]] - [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] [[Makin Raid|raid]] the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]]-held [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] island of Makin ([[Butaritari]]). 
-*[[1943]] - [[World War II]]: The [[U.S.]] [[Eighth Air Force]] suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the [[Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission]]. 
-*1943 - World War II: The [[U.S. Seventh Army]] under [[General]] [[George S. Patton]] arrive in [[Messina, Italy]], followed several hours later by the [[Briton|British]] 8th Army under [[Field Marshal]] [[Bernard L. Montgomery]], thus completing the [[Allies|Allied]] conquest of [[Sicily]]. 
-*1943 - World War II: [[Quebec Conference, 1943|First Québec Conference]] of [[Winston Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] begins.  
-*[[1945]] - [[Indonesian Declaration of Independence]].  
-*[[1953]] - [[Addiction]]: First meeting of [[Narcotics Anonymous]] in [[Southern California]]. 
-*[[1959]] - [[Quake Lake]]: [[Quake Lake]] was formed by a 7.5 rated [[earthquake]] in [[Montana]]. 
-*[[1960]] - [[Decolonization]]: [[Gabon]] gains independence from [[France]].  
-*[[1962]] - [[East Germany|East German]] border guards kill 18-year-old [[Peter Fechter]] as he attempts to cross the [[Berlin Wall]] into [[West Berlin]] becoming the first victim of the wall.  
-*[[1963]] - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]] sinks, killing 112. 
-*[[1969]] - Category 5 [[Hurricane Camille]] hits the [[Mississippi]] coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.  
-*[[1970]] - [[Venera program|Venera Program]]: [[Venera 7]] launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another [[planet]] ([[Venus (planet)|Venus]]).  
-*[[1978]] - ''[[Double Eagle II]]'' becomes first [[balloon (aircraft)|balloon]] to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean]] when it lands in [[Miserey]] near [[Paris]], 137 hours after leaving [[Presque Isle, Maine]].  
-*[[1979]] - Two [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Aeroflot]] jetliners collide in mid-air over [[Ukraine]], killing 156 
-*[[1980]] - [[Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|Azaria Chamberlain disappears]], likely taken by a [[dingo]], leading to what was then the most [[trial by media|publicised trial]] in [[Australian history]]. 
-*[[1982]] - The first [[Compact Disc]]s ([[CD]]'s) were released to the public in [[Germany]]. 
-*[[1988]] - [[Pakistan]]i [[President]] [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] and [[Ambassadors from the United States|U.S. Ambassador]] [[Arnold Raphel]] are killed in a plane crash.  
-*[[1991]] - [[Wade Frankum]] starts his killing spree in [[Strathfield, Australia]], an event that was later dubbed the [[Strathfield Massacre]]. 
-*[[1998]] - [[Monica Lewinsky scandal]]: [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with [[White House]] intern [[Monica Lewinsky]]. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.  
-*[[1999]] - A 7.4-magnitude [[1999 İzmit earthquake|earthquake]] strikes [[İzmit]], [[Turkey]], killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. 
-*[[2002]] - [[Soham murders]]: The bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are found 13 days after their disappearance at the perimeter fence of [[RAF Lakenheath]] in [[Suffolk]].  
-*[[2004]] - [[MD5]] collision found by [[China|Chinese]] researchers. 
-* 2004 - The [[National Assembly of Serbia]] unanimously adopts new state symbols for [[Serbia]]: [[Boze Pravde]] becomes the new anthem and the [[Serbian coat of arms|coat of arms]] is adopted for the whole country. 
-*[[2005]] - The first forced [[evacuation (Israeli politics)|evacuation]] of [[settlers]], as part of the [[Israel unilateral disengagement plan]], starts. 
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  1. Mae West
  2. Christian Heinrich Spiess
  3. John Hawkes
  4. Michèle Bernstein
  5. Fernand Léger
  6. Johannes Theodor Baargeld
  7. Barbara Rosenthal
  8. Marcus Garvey
  9. Conrad Aiken
  10. Yves Tanguy
  11. Émile Cohl
  12. Fantasmagorie
  13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  14. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
  15. Anthony Earnshaw
  16. Sean Penn
  17. Jean-Jacques Sempé
  18. Jonathan Franzen


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