Juan Antonio Lavalleja
- 1248 – Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.
- 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals, a revolutionary group led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja (pictured), declared Uruguayan independence from the Empire of Brazil.
- 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
- 1967 – Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group.
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