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| 0193 | - | Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated |
| 1592 | - | Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer |
| 1797 | - | Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine |
| 1802 | - | Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas |
| 1807 | - | Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta) |
| 1834 | - | Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US |
| 1871 | - | SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine |
| 1930 | - | Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara |
| 1939 | - | Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco |
| 1941 | - | Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies |
| 1942 | - | British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire |
| 1943 | - | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies |
| 1953 | - | Athlete Jim Thorpe dies |
| 1969 | - | Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78 |
| 1979 | - | Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa |
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