Other Events
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1905 – The world’s largest diamond ever is found.
1907 – The oldest military rifle still in oficial use is introduced
into the British Military Service.
1911 – The first successful American seaplane is flown.
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon.
Births
1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
1722 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)
1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
