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656 ~ Death of Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.

1790 ~ Death of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.

1794 ~ The execution of the sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne.

1899 ~ Birthday of James Cagney, Actor.

1947 ~ Birthday of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles.

1961 ~ Death of Baseball hall-of-famer Ty Cobb.

1962 ~ Tha nuclear test shot Little Feller I became the last American atmospheric detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

1975 ~ An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

1979 ~ Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami.

2003 ~ Death of Dr. David Kelly, U.N. Weapons Inspector.