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Birthdays
1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise (French soldier)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière (French painter)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud (French poet)
1963 - Julie Payette (Canadian astronaut)
1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle (French soccer player)
Deaths
1949 - Jacques Copeau (French theater director)
Milestones/Events
1740 - War of the Austrian Succession: France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refused to honor the Pragmatic Sanction
1827 - Greek Liberation War: Battle of Navarino
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