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Facts
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris
1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West
1929 First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
Deaths
1348 Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1547 Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico)
1814 Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and writer (Justine), dies at 74. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.
1859 John Brown, American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
1888 Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54
1963 Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1982 Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
1986 Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of lung cancer
1990 Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1993 Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, shot to death by Colombian Police at 44
1997 Shirley Crabtree (Big Daddy), British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
2014 Jean Marc Beliveau, Canadian NHL player NHL, dies at 83
2015 Anthony Valentine, British actor (Colditz), dies at 76
Born on this day
1973 Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-American tennis star (US Open 1992), born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1981 Britney Spears, American popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again")
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Marty Feldman
Shirley Crabtree