1806 - British forces lay siege to the French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bavaria and Austria
1973 - Spyros Markezinis forms a government in Greece
1988 - Fire in the Space Needle causes evacuation and results in damages of $2,000 in Seattle, Washington
1990 - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian protesters

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