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Claude Debussy, French composer, born (1862)

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Dorothy Parker, American short story writer/poet/critic (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born (1893)

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Norman Schwartzkopf, US General during Gulf War, born (1934)

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, born (1908)

Leni Riefenstahl, German film-maker, born (1902)

The Geneva Convention for the protection of the wounded during times of active warfare was signed by 12 nations leading to the formation of the Red Cross. (1864)

First female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury (1762)

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John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests (1787)

First America's Cup race held (1851)

The painting “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris (1911)

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Haitian slave uprising led to revolution (1791)

Vietnam conflict between France and Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces began (1945)