1995 On the Myanmar-China Border Region a 7.2 quake resulted in 6 people killed, 99 injured, more than 100,000 houses destroyed and 42,000 damaged

1999 In the Honduras a 7.0 quake resulted in 1 person killed and another person died from a heart attack; at least 40 people injured

1533 King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.

1804 American VP Aaron Burr kills US treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel.

1895 First motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.

1960 Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta and Dahomey all become independent

1975 Army of life-size terracotta soldiers discovered in China

1979 Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia

1995 U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam

1274 The birth of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland

1656 The birth of First Quaker colonists land at Boston

1754 The birth of Thomas Bowdler, British censor.

1767 The birth of John Quincy Adams, Former (6th) American President

1899 The birth of E. B. White, American writer

2007 The ninth All Africa Games kick off in Algiers, Algeria

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