1371 ~ Birthday of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.

1588 ~ The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, began to set sail from Lisbon.

1759 ~ Birthday of William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1892 ~ John Muir organized the Sierra Club.

1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.

1934 ~ The Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone.

1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted “On Computable Numbers” for publishing. This is an article with considerably greater impact than "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in which he proposed the famous “Turing Test”.

1944 ~ Birthday of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City.

1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.

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