1725 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Casanova, Libertine

1800 ~ Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 first performed for Baron von Swieten.

1805 ~ Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Author.

1875 ~ Birthday of Walter Chrysler, Industrialist (Chrysler Corp.).

1905 ~ The Simplon rail tunnel officially opened. The tunnel went under the Alps and linked Switzerland and Italy.

1914 ~ Birthday of Alec Guinness, Actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi).

1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson described a double helix structure for DNA in the journal “Nature”.

1964 ~ The Beach Boys recorded "I Get Around."

1998 ~ Former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon been found guilty of war crimes for his part in deporting Jews from France during World War II.

1982 ~ Argentina invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.

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