1536 – France and Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel
1865 – Evacuation of Charleston, SC
1900 – Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1977 – George Harrison releases “True Love”
1979 – Snow falls in Sahara Desert
2014 – Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand
1559 – Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
1775 – Thomas Girtin, artist/watercolorist, born in London, England
1838 – Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist
1924 – Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1972 – Marc Lillibridge, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1743 – Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
1830 – Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67
1899 – M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56
1987 – Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
1995 – Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
1995 – John Rhea “Yank” Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83