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1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.

1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length.

1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario.

1945 ~ The Yamato, a 72,000-ton Japanese battleship was sunk off Okinawa due in large part to SIGINT tipoffs.

1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General.

1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360.

1967 ~ Birthday of Runa Akasaka (赤坂ルナ), Japanese Porn actress.

1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver.

1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of First Request for Comment (RFC).

1978 ~ Development of the neutron bomb was canceled by President Carter.