1629 - Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (only 70 survive after three months due to mutiny and murders)
1832 - 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
1972 - Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1985 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
2023 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel's musical "Bad Cinderella" closes at Imperial Theatre, NYC, after 85 performances; 1st time in 43 years that Webber is without a show on Broadway

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1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet, born in Moscow, Imperial Russia (d. 1897)
1930 - Bill Treacher, British actor (EastEnders, 1985-96 - "Arthur Fowler"), born in London, England (d. 2022)
1971 - James Callis, British actor (Battlestar Galactica), born in London, England