1626 ~ Peter Minuit bought Manhattan.

1689 ~ The Act of Toleration passed the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics were intentionally excluded).

1743 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Marat, Revolutionary.

1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.

1844 ~ First electrical telegram sent by Samuel F. B. Morse from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".

1870 ~ Birthday of Jan Christiaan Smuts, Statesman and soldier.

1893 ~ Birthday of Walter Baade, Astronomer.

1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde convicted on a morals charge in London and is sentenced to prison.

1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan.

1993 ~ Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.

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