1735 - First opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, South Carolina
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1900 - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1970 - US President Richard Nixon launches the "Nixon doctrine"
2019 - Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says "There's no way the US can crush us" in interview with BBC, saying his daughter's arrest politically motivated

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1836 - Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic and yogi (preached unity of religions), born in Kamarpukur, British India (d. 1886)
1884 - Burton "Burt" Mustin, American actor (All in the Family, The Andy Griffith Show), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1977)
1929 - Len Deighton, British spy novelist (The IPCRESS File; An Expensive Place to Die), cookbook writer, and illustrator, born in Marylebone, London
1939 - Maxine Clair, American poet and novelist (Rattlebone, October Suite), born in Kansas City, Kansas (d. 2025)
1957 - Vanna Marie White, American television host (Wheel of Fortune), born in Conway, South Carolina

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1861 - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 74
1915