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Events

• 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
• 1931 - "Two Gun" Francis Crowley manhunt concluded in New York City
• 1945 - Nazi Germany surrenders unconditionally
• 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960.

Births

• 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
• 1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1820)
• 1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
• 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
• 1841 - Gustave Le Bon, French social psychologist, sociologist, and crowd behaviour specialist (b. 1931)
• 1870 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods (b. 1956)
• 1882 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
• 1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1904 – Val Lewton, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
• 1923 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1931 – Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian film director, actor and screen writer (d. 2022)
• 1940 – Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
• 1946 – Thelma Houston, American singer
• 1954 – Amy Heckerling, American director
• 1956 – Anne Dudley, British composer
• 1972 – Felix Da Housecat, American House music DJ and record producer

Deaths

• 1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
• 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
• 1994 - Clement Greenberg, American art critic