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1469 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English Impresario.

1898 ~ Birthday of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel.

1937 ~ Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1945 ~ Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.

1978 ~ The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail ( spam ) is sent by Digital Equipment Corporation to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the US.

1971 ~ Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations intended to shutting down Washington, D.C.

1990 ~ The Latvian parliament met to declare independence from the USSR.

2002 ~ Death of Barbara Castle, British politician.

2006 ~ Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison.