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1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.

1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director.

1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Heisenberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932.

1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.

1909 ~ Foundation of les Canadiens de Montréal.

1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted.

1933 ~ Prohibition ended: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol.

1995 ~ The Sri Lankan armed forces took Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers.

2005 ~ The Civil Partnership Act came into effect in the UK.

2006 ~ Death of David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster.