• 1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
• 1484 – William Caxton printed the first English translation
of Aesop's Fables.
• 1773 – Birth Day of Nathaniel Bowditch, American
mathematician and navigator (Death on 1838).
• 1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the
Latter Day Saint movement, was first published.
• 1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's
Narita International Airport, a group of protesters destroyed much of the
equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
• 1999 – The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word
processing and e-mail systems around the world.
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