1035 - Death of Canute II, Danish King of England.
1859 - French trapeze artist Jules Leotard makes his debut at the Cirque d'Eté in Paris.
1865 - Death of Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer whose works include the novel Cranford and a biography of her friend Charlotte Bronte.
1901 - Gales sweep Britain, killing 200 and capsizing many ships.
1903 - Death of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.
1905 - The Russian occupation imposes martial law on Poland.
1918 - The House of Commons votes for a war loan of £7OO million (1,295 million), bringing British war debts to £7,1OO million ($13,135 million).
1974 - Karen Silkwood, who worked at the Kerr McGee nuclear fuel plant and was investigating irregularities there, dies in a mysterious car crash.
1988 - In Sydney, West Indies cricket captain Viv Richards scores his looth century.
1990 - British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1990 - A demonstration in Paris by over 2,00,OOO French schoolchildren demanding better education turns into a riot.
2001 - 260 people die in a passenger plane crash in New York.
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