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Cardinal Armand de Richelieu

554 – As a reward for over 60 years of service to the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian I granted Liberius extensive estates in Italy.
1624 – Cardinal Richelieu (pictured) became the chief minister to King Louis XIII, and transformed France's feudal political structure into one with a powerful central government.
1868 – A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project.
1954 – The complete version of "Qaumi Taranah", the national anthem of Pakistan, was broadcast for the first time on Radio Pakistan.

Maximus the Confessor (d. 662) · George Grove (b. 1820) · Tigran Petrosian (d. 1984)

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