1348 ~ King Edward the Third of England established the Order of the Garter.

1564 ~ Traditional birthday of William Shakespeare, Playwright.

1772 ~ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise".

1858 ~ Birthday of Max Planck, Physicist. (1918 Nobel Prize)

1891 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Composer.

1933 ~ The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) established.

1936 ~ Birthday of Roy Orbison, Musician.

1948 ~ Birthday of Bernadette Devlin, MP.

1954 ~ Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run.

2003 ~ Beijing closed all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.

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