Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer
- 1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
- 1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
- 1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
- 1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
- 2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.
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