1916 - Belgian troops march into Kigali, German East Africa
1945 - General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1987 - American televangelist Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God after revelations of an alleged rape of a church secretary
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1947 - Ronald Rivest, American computer scientist (RSA cryptography), born in Schenectady, New York
1953 - Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician and former President of the Treasury Board, born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec

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