Historical Events
1538 - King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
1631 - Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, burying many villages under lava flows and killing around 3,000 people
1968 - Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain at Second Vatican Council
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1997 - US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever "Buddy"
2019 - Drew Brees breaks Peyton Manning's NFL record (539) for career touchdown passes as New Orleans Saints rout Indianapolis Colts, 34-7; Brees 29 of 30 for 307 yards and 4 TDs for record 96.7% pass completion
Famous Birthdays
1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
1775 - Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice), born in Steventon, England (d. 1817)
1904 - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist
1918 - Pierre Delanoë [Leroyer], French songwriter and lyricist, born in Paris (d. 2006)
1938 - Jimmie Lee Jackson, American civil rights protester and church deacon, shot and killed by an Alabama State Trooper in 1965, born in Marion, Alabama (d. 1965)
1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
Famous Deaths
1774 - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80
1920 - Ma Yuanzhang, Chinese Muslim rebel and Sufi master, crushed to death during the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake at an unknown age
1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
1993 - Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American rocker (Same Old Lang Syne), dies at 56
2012 - Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator, dies at 83
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