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1608 ~ Birthday of John Milton, Poet & Writer.

1868 ~ Birthday of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.

1906 ~ Birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer.

1937 ~ Battle of Nanjing began. The Rape of Nanjing followed.

1968 ~ First demonstration of the computer mouse.

1992 ~ Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.

1993 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was repaired by astronauts of STS-61.

1996 ~ Death of Mary Leakey, Archeologist & Anthropologist.

2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the sixth Florida recount.

2004 ~ Canada's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage was constitutional.