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1718 ~ English pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed in battle off the coast of Virginia.

1890 ~ Birthday of Charles de Gaulle, General, President of France.

1963 ~ Death of C. S. Lewis, Author.

1963 ~ Death of Aldous Huxley, Author. (Brave New World)

1963 ~ President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

1968 ~ The Beatles released The White Album.

1977 ~ British Airways began London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1981 ~ Death of Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, awarded one half The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.

1990 ~ UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned.

2005 ~ Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.