• 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and more than forty Spanish soldiers at the Battle of Mactan.
• 1667 – John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the
copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his "Bagatelle No.
25 in A minor", better known as "Für Elise", one
of his most popular compositions.
• 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the
Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil
resistance and political organization.
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