• 1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
• 1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh (pictured) was executed
by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treating ceding much of
remaining Creek lands to the United States.
• 1870 – Dadasaheb Phalke's Birth day, Indian director, producer, and
screenwriter (Death on 1944)
• 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph
began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of
Sicily.
• 1916 – Claude Shannon's Birth Day, American mathematician and engineer
(Death on 2001)
• 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
