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Events

1543 - Henry VIII o Ingland marries Catherine Parr.
1561 - Saunt Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is consecratit.^[1]
1636 - 35 Icelanders are taen bi Barbary pirates.
1690 - Battle o the Boyne: The Protestant Keeng William III o England defeats the Catholic James VII, Keeng o Scots in eastren Ireland.^[2]
1776 - James Cook stairts his third voyage.^[3]
1917 - Warld War I: German forces uise mustard gas for the first time.^[4]
1920 - Soviet Roushie kens the unthirldom o Lithuanie.
1932 - Lambeth Brig in Lunnon appens.^[5]
1961 - Heavy rain causes twa reservoirs in Maharashtra, Indie, tae break. 1,000 tae 2,000 fowk are kilt in the ceety o Pune as a result.
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl's raft Ra II arrives in Barbados, haein crossit the Atlantic Ocean frae Morocco.^[6]
1971 - The Australie Aboriginal Banner flies for the first time.
1974 - Scots manager Bill Shankly propales his retirement frae Liverpool F.C..
1975 - Sao Tome an Principe is granted unthirldom by Portugal.
1979 - Unthirldom o Kiribati.
1998 - Host naition Fraunce wins the FIFA Warld Cup, defeatin Brazil 3-0 in the final.
2006 - War erupts atweesh Israel an Lebanon.
2012 - A tank truck explosion in Okogie, Nigerie, kills ower 100 fowk.
2016 - A train crash in sooth-eastren Italy kills at least 27 fowk.
2017 - A massive iceberg, at size 5,800 square kilometre (2,200 square mile), breaks away frae the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarcticae.^[7]
2017 - Maltae's pairlament votes for the legalisation o Same-sex marriage.
2019 - Gunmen storm the Asasey hottle in Kismayo, Somalie, killin 26 fowk.
2020 - Conservative incumbent Preses o Poland Andrzej Duda very nairraely wins re-election agin Mayor o Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski.

Births

100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman general an statesman (d. 44 BC)
1784 - John Brown, Scots meenister an theologian (d. 1858)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer an philosopher (d. 1862)
1856 - Airchduchess Gisella o Austrick (d. 1932)
1864 - George Washington Carver, American botanist an inventor (d. 1943)^[8]
1870 - Louis II, Prince o Monaco (d. 1949)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian penter an sculptor (d. 1920)
1895 - Buckminster Fuller, American airchitect, designer an inventor (d. 1983)^[9]
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (d. 1973)^[10]
1913 - Willis Lamb, American pheesicist (d. 2008)
1927 - Charlie Fleming, Scots fitbawer (d. 1997)
1928 - Elias James Corey, American organic chemist
1937 - Bill Cosby, American enterteener
1937 - Lionel Jospin, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
1947 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
1947 - Wilko Johnson, Inglis muisicker
1948 - Richard Simmons, American actor, comedian, producer an fitness personality
1952 - Irina Bokova, Bulgarie politeecian
1959 - Tupou VI, King o Tonga
1969 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (d. 2006)
1976 - Anna Friel, Inglis actress
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1985 - Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norse biathlete
1991 - James Rodríguez, Colombie fitbawer
1992 - Ross Laidlaw, Scots fitbawer
1995 - Luke Shaw, Inglis fitbawer
1997 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist

Daiths

1536 - Erasmus o Rotterdam, Dutch philosopher (b. 1466)
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, American politeecian (b. 1757)
1834 - David Douglas, Scots botanist (b. 1799)
1838 - John Jamieson, Scots meenister (b. 1759)
1850 - Robert Stevenson, Scots ceevil ingineer (b. 1772)
1855 - Pavel Nakhimov, Roushie admiral (b. 1802)
1907 - David Farquharson, Scots penter (b. 1839)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French militar officer (b. 1859)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, 1st Preses o Ireland (b. 1860)
2013 - Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)

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