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632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1874 ~ Death of Cochise, Apache leader.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962.

1910 ~ Death of George Mallory, English mountain climber.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

1968 ~ James Earl Ray was arrested in London in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King.

1982 ~ An Argentine air attack sank the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram supply ships in the Falklands.

1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.