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A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
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Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi (79), Italian architect, composer, died.
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Some 200 French and Indian troops burned Schenectady, NY, and massacred about 60 people to avenge Iraquois raids on Canada.
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Isaac Newton read his 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London.
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King James I disbanded the English parliament.
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Samuel Butler (d.1680), England, poet, satirist (Hudibras) was baptized.
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The armies of Earl Robert Devereux of Essex drew into London.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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412 –
roclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1995 –
Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
1989 –
Danielle Harmer, English actress
1988 –
Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
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Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
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Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1983 –
Jim Verraros, American singer
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Danny Tamberelli, American actor
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Eric Alexander, American football player
1982 –
Satomi Korogi, Japanese voice actress
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February, 8
- Births
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2009,
Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2008,
Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2007,
Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967)
2007,
Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2006,
Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006,
Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2005,
Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005,
Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2004,
Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2002,
Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
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February, 8
- Deaths
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