1204 ~ Baldwin, Count of Flanders crowned first Latin Emperor of Byzantium.

1532 ~ Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England.

1568 ~ Mary Queen of Scots fled to England.

1718 ~ Birthday of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician.

1866 ~ Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.

1905 ~ Birthday of Henry Fonda, Actor.

1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, Pianist.

1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Entertainer.

1969 ~ Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, landed on Venus.

1975 ~ India annexed Sikkim.

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