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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
*[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered. *[[1911]] - Theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is discovered.
-*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Briton|British]] and [[Germany|German]] troops clash for the first time in the war. 
-*[[1922]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[Irish Free State]] Army is shot dead during an [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|Anti-Treaty]] ambush at [[Beal na mBlath]], [[County Cork]], during the [[Irish Civil War]]. 
-*[[1926]] - [[Gold]] discovered in [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]]. 
-*[[1932]] - The [[BBC]] first experiments with television broadcasting. See also [[Timeline of the BBC#1930s|Timeline of the BBC]]  
-*[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany|German]] [[troop]]s reach [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], leading to the [[siege of Leningrad]]. 
-*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Brazil]] declares [[war]] on the [[Axis powers of World War II|Axis]] powers ([[Germany]], [[Italy]] and [[Japan]]). 
-* 1944 - [[World War II]]: Thirty-two [[Spaniards]] & four [[French people|French]] [[Maquis (World War II)|Maquis]] tackle a [[Germany|German]] column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at [[La Madeiline]], [[France]]. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 [[Germans]] killed and 200 wounded. 
-* 1944 - [[World War II]]: [[Romania]] captured by the [[Soviet Union]]. 
-*[[1950]] - [[Althea Gibson]] becomes the first black [[Competition|competitor]] in international [[tennis]]. 
-*[[1952]] - The [[penal colony]] on [[Devil's Island]] is permanently closed. 
-*[[1955]] - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in [[Spring City, Tennessee]]. 
-*[[1962]] - An attempt to assassinate [[France|French]] [[president]] [[Charles de Gaulle]] fails. 
-* 1962 - The [[NS Savannah|NS ''Savannah'']], the world's first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] cargo ship, completes its [[maiden voyage]]. 
-*[[1963]] - [[Joseph A. Walker|Joe Walker]] in [[X-15]] test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles). 
-*[[1964]] - [[Match Of The Day]] hits the air on [[BBC Two]]. 
-*[[1966]] - Labor movements [[NFWA]] and [[AWOC]] merge to become the [[United Farm Workers Organizing Committee]] ([[UFWOC]]), predecessor of the [[United Farm Workers]]. 
-*[[1968]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] arrives in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]. It is the first visit of a [[pope]] to [[Latin America]]. 
-*[[1971]] - [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and [[John Mitchell]] announce the arrest of 20 of the [[Camden 28]]. 
-*[[1972]] - [[Rhodesia]] is expelled by the [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] for its racist policies. 
-*[[1973]] - [[U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]] names [[Henry Kissinger]] as [[Secretary of State]].  
-*[[1978]] - The ''[[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Frente Sandinista de Liberacion]]'' or [[FSLN]] occupies national palace in [[Nicaragua]]. 
-*[[1988]] - The [[Perth Mint]] issues the first [[platinum]] coin, the ''koala''. 
-*[[1989]] - The first [[planetary ring|ring]] of [[Neptune]] is discovered. 
-* 1989 - [[Nolan Ryan]] strikes out [[Rickey Henderson]] to become the first [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]] to record 5,000 [[strikeout]]s. 
-*[[1992]] - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] [[Hostage Rescue Team|HRT]] [[sniper]] [[Lon Horiuchi]] shoots and kills [[Vicki Weaver]] during an 11-day siege at her home at [[Ruby Ridge]], [[Idaho]]. 
-*[[2003]] - [[Alabama]] [[Chief Justice]] [[Roy Moore]] was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the [[Ten Commandments]] from the lobby of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]] building. 
*[[2004]] - A version of ''[[The Scream]]'' and ''[[Madonna (Edvard Munch)|Madonna]]'', two paintings by [[Edvard Munch]], are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]. *[[2004]] - A version of ''[[The Scream]]'' and ''[[Madonna (Edvard Munch)|Madonna]]'', two paintings by [[Edvard Munch]], are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]].
-*[[2006]] - [[Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612]] crashes, killing 170 people. 
-*[[2007]] - The [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] rout the [[Baltimore Orioles]] 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. 
==Births== ==Births==

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  1. David Reimer
  2. Kate Chopin
  3. Karlheinz Stockhausen
  4. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
  5. Claude Debussy
  6. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  7. Henri Cartier-Bresson
  8. Glauber Rocha
  9. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Vladimir Propp
  1. René Wellek
  2. Huey P. Newton
  3. Nikolaus Lenau
  4. Anders Zorn
  5. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps


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