1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, Graphic Artist.

1844 ~ Birthday of Henri Rousseau, Artist.

1856 ~ Lawrence, Kansas captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.

1881 ~ The American Red Cross established by Clara Barton.

1898 ~ Birthday of Armand Hammer, physician, Entrepreneur

1945 ~ Humphrey Bogart married actress Lauren Bacall.

1916 ~ Birthday of Harold Robbins, Novelist.

1956 ~ Bikini Atoll nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

1930 ~ Birthday of Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second Prime Minister of Australia.

1991 ~ Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by a terrorist female suicide bomber near Madras.

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