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Georgi Dimitrov 6/18/1882 Birth Bulgarian Communist leader
Bartholomew I 2/29/1940
0.0 Hunab Ku Birth Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Edward Brooker 1/4/1891 Birth Premier of Tasmania
Jerome Bonaparte 11/15/1784 Birth King of Westphalia
Margaret of Valois 5/14/1553 Birth wife of Henry IV
Charlie Norwood 2/13/2007 Death US politician
Rudy Perpich 9/21/1995 Death US politician
William O. Douglas 1/19/1980 Death U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Edmund Dudley 8/17/1510 Death English statesman
Edward of Middleham 4/9/1484 Death Prince of Wales
George Neville 6/8/1476 Death English archbishop and statesman
Henri Philippe Pétain 7/23/1951 Death leader of Vichy France
Philips van Marnix, lord of Si... 12/15/1598 Death Dutch writer and statesman
E. Herbert Norman 4/4/1957 Death Canadian diplomat
Sir Edward McTiernan 1/9/1990 Death Australian jurist, lawyer and politician
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* 2/3/1809 — The Illinois Territory is created.
* 2/3/1913 — The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government...
* 8/7/1988 — Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
* 2/8/1960 — Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council stating that she and her family woul...
* 5/4/1979 — Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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* 12/30/1947 — King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet-backed Communist government of Romania.
* 6/8/1996 — Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 4/29/1672 — Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
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* 12/5/1920 — Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
* 6/23/1305 — The Flemish-French peace treaty is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
* 10/6/1928 — Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
* 10/16/1970 — In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes t...
* 4/9/1952 — Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrar...
* 7/8/1966 — King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
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* 5/29/1954 — First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
* 9/1/1807 — Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.