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Facts
534 Second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus published
1532 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca
1776 British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution
1945 Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
1948 Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
Deaths
1271 Henry III, King of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
1885 Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", hanged for treason at 41
1950 Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1960 Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59
1966 Cluny MacPherson, Canadian inventor of the gas mask, dies at 87
1994 John Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 8
2006 Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Economics 1976, dies at 94
2008 Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2009 Edward Woodward, British actor (The Equalizer) (b. 1930)
Born on this day
1961 Frank Bruno, English boxer, born in Hammersmith, England
1963 Zina Garrison Jackson, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon), born in Houston, Texas
Milton Friedman
Reg Varney
Edward Woodward