1796 – English physician Edward Jenner (portrait shown) inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps, testing his hypothesis that cowpox infection would protect a patient from smallpox.
1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
1940 – World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
Hans Joachim von Zieten (b. 1699)Magnus Hirschfeld (b. 1868; d. 1935)Cate Blanchett (b. 1969
Hans Joachim von Zieten (b. 1699)Magnus Hirschfeld (b. 1868; d. 1935)Cate Blanchett (b. 1969
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