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682 - Saint Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

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1512 - French army burns Smolensk, Russia.

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1601 - Birth of Pierre de Fermat mathematician who needed wider margins.

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1717 - Pioneer Daniel Boone's grandfather George sets sail from England to America.

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1786 - Birth of Davy Crockett in USA; frontiersman/adventurer/politician.

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1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups.

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1807 - Robert Fulton's American steamboat Clermont leaves New York City, inaugurating the world's first commercial steamboat service.

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1840 - Birth of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt England, writer (Irish Land League).

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1844 - Birth of Menelik II King of Ethiopia (1896-1913).

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1846 - US takes Los Angeles.

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