1913 - President Francisco Madero of Mexico is overthrown
1928 - Sonja Henie of Norway wins the women’s figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympic Games; her first of 3 consecutive titles in the event
1962 - France and Algerian Muslims negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1973 - 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
2013 - $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
2019 - 25-year old murder of a woman solved when police in Minnesota run DNA though a genealogy site and find suspect

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1781 - Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary
1907 - Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (Good Morning World), born in Quincy, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
1932 - Duane Michals, American photographer (Sequences, The journey of the spirit after death), born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania
1953 - Derek Pellicci, English-born Australian rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way), born in London, United Kingdom
1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player and 1st soviet to defect to NHL (Sabres), born in Khabarovsk, Russia
1980 - Alison Rachel Fitch, New Zealand swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Hamilton, New Zealand

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