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1792 – The French parliament emerging from the French Revolution passed a verdict of executing King Louis XVI and his family on charges of high treason.
1883 – Thomas Edison puts the first lighting system in service.
1899 – Britain separates Sudan from Egypt.
1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
1977 – Snowfall for the first time above the city of Miami in Florida.
2007 – Assassination of the Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in front of the headquarters of his newspaper for his constant demanding to condemn the genocide of Armenians committed by the Turks during World War I.
Born Today:
1813 – Henry Bessemer, the British inventor of the Bessemer process for making steel.
Passes away:
2002- Yahia al-Alami, an Egyptian director.