1576 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1597 A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society
1835 Twelve American Congregationalist missionaries first see Africa from the deck of a ship through a mist. Among them is Daniel Lindley who will win renown educating Africans and pleading with the Dutch-descended Boers to ease their inflexible racism.
1885 News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London
1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession
1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
1969 United States population reaches 200 million
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1936 “Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
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1887 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Otello” premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi’s first new opera for over 15 years
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1972 Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
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1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
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1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
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