1993
Los Angeles police announced that they were investigating allegations of child abuse made against singer Michael Jackson.

1968
France exploded its first hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.

1959
British newspaper The Manchester Guardian was renamed The Guardian

1949
The North Atlantic Treaty came into effect
1929
Turkey and Persia signed a friendship treaty
1909
The first concrete was poured for the Panama Canal

1858
The Richmond (Virginia) Daily Dispatch reported that 90 blacks had been arrested for ‘learning’, (although we have been unable to find a copy of this article to verify the facts).

1759
Death of Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyrical poet

1759
Birth of William Wilberforce, British politician and philanthropist, a prominent anti-slavery campaigner

1707
Birth of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.

1662
Act of Uniformity forced the acceptance of the Book of Common Prayer. About 2,000 vicars and rectors were driven from their parishes as nonconformists.

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