Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, critic, women's rights activist
- 1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
- 1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.
- 1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
- 1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
- 1879 - The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
- 1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
- 1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
- 1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.
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