780 BC ~ The earliest solar eclipse was recorded in China.

1738 ~ Birthday of King George III of Great Britain.

1792 ~ Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain.

1878 ~ The Ottoman Empire ceded Cyprus to the United Kingdom.

1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sex Therapist & Author.

1929 ~ Birthday of John Drew Barrymore, Actor.

1940 ~ German forces entered Paris.

1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, Actress & Singer.

1965 ~ Birthday of Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer.

1989 ~ Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparked off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.

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