1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, dies at 78.
1870 – Italian troops occupied Rome, leading to the eventual incorporation of Rome into the Kingdom of Italy and the limiting of papal governing authority to the Vatican itself and a small district around it.
1932 – Gandhi beings hunger strike against the treatment of untouchables.
1946 – Churchill argues for a ‘United States of Europe’.
1948 – George R.R. Martin, American fantasy and sci-fi author, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the much-publicized “Battle of the Sexes”.
2018 EU leaders, including Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron, criticize Theresa May’s Brexit plan at a summit in Salzburg, Austria.
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