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1515 – Anne of Cleves (d. 1557)
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1586 Battle of Stephen– B: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
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1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter
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1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution
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1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
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1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
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1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
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1862 – Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released
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1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer
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1995 – Nagerkovi school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
