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Facts
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1792 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state
1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1997 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases
Deaths
711 Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1582 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead invading Norway at Fortress of Fredriksten
1840 Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1975 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (Night in Manhattan), dies at 67
1992 Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62
2008 Bettie Page, American Playboy pin-up model, dies at 85
2012 Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, dies at 92
Born on this day
1943 John Kerry, US Secretary of State (2013-17) and 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, born in Aurora, Colorado
1984 Leighton Baines, English footballer
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Lee Wiley
Bettie Page