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1066 - William the Conqueror lands in England.

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1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.

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1573 - Birth of Caravaggio Italy, painter.

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1781 - American and French forces complete the encirclement of Yorktown.

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1785 - Birth of David Walker Wilmington North Carolina, a black born free.

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1787 - US Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.

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1824 - Birth of Francis Turner Palgrave England, poet (Golden Treasury)/professor (Oxford).

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1829 - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston.

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1833 - Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at age 88.

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1839 - Birth of Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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