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In 269 Saint Valentine is put to death, because he contrary to the Emperor's orders married young couples. In 869 Slav spreader of enlightenment Ciril dies.
In 1883 German composer Richard Wagner, master of the romantic operas including The Flying Dutchman, Tristan and Izolda, Tannhauser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle, dies.
In 1804 the German philosopher Immanuel Kant dies. He was the founder of German classic philosophy. In 1809 English naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin is born.
In 1650, French philosopher Rene Descartes dies in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1847, the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison is born.
In 1837 at the age of 37 Russian writer Aleksander Sergejevič Puškin, author of the drama Boris Godunov and the novel in verse Eugine Onegin, dies in a duel.
In 1881 in St Petersburg the Russian novelist, and representative of realism, Fjodor Mihajlovič Dostojevski dies. His best known novels are Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot.
In 1587 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded as a result of involvement in a conspiracy planned by the English Roman Catholic nobility, who wanted to kill Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1812 writer Charles Dickens is born. In his novels Oliver Twist, David Copperfild, Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities he described the weaknesses of British society during the Victorian era.
In 1900 the international arbitration court is established in The Hague. In 1917 actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is born. In 1952 after the death of King George VI the British crown passes to Elizabeth II.
In 1840 the Scottish veterinary surgeon and inventor John Boyd Dunlop is born. He later made the first inflatable tyre. In 1852 the State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is opened.
In 1789 George Washington is elected as the first president of the United States of America.
In 1468 the German inventor of moveable type printing Johannes Gutenberg dies. His first typographic work was the Gutenberg Bible on 1282 pages.
In 1461 the Welsh soldier and courtier Sir Owen Tudor dies. He was the founder of England's Tudor dynasty.
In 1851 British writer Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein, dies. In 1901 American actor Clark Gable is born.
In 1797 in Vienna the Austrian romantic composer Franz Schubert is born. In 1893 the trademark Coca-Cola was first registered in the United States Patent Office.
In 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born. Roosevelt was the only politician who was elected four times as President. In 1929 the Slovene film director Boštjan Hladnik is born.
In 1860, Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born. His most famous plays are The Duel, Vanka, Three Sisters, The Seagull.
In 814 the Holy Roman emperor Charles the Great dies. In 1884 the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard is born. In 1931 he was the first to reach a record altitude of 15. 781 metres in a balloon.
In 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg the master of Viennese classics Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born. Among his best known works are The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.
In 1797 the Slovene critic and historian Matija Čop is born. In 1921 an unknown soldier is buried beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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