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Events

• 1252 - Pope Innocent IV authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
• 1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
• 1863 - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Manet first exhibited at the Salon des refusés
• 1871 - Paragraph 175 installed in Germany, which made male homosexuality a crime
• 1874 - First Salon des Indépendants in Paris
• 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175.
• 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 1920 - Les Mains d’Orlac, French serial first installment published.
• 1928- Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
• 1940 - first nylon stockings sold in U.S.
• 1980 - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle film debuts in England.
• 1990 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
• 1994 – Passages; Homage to Walter Benjamin by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan inaugurated

Births

• 1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
• 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
• 1905 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1909 – James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1923 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Jasper Johns, American painter
• 1933 – Juzo Itami, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1936 – Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
• 1937 – Trini López, American musician
• 1948 – Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
• 1953 – Mike Oldfield, English composer
• 1955 – Lee Horsley, American actor
• 1961 – Melle Mel, American musician
• 1965 – My peephole opened on Saturday, 1965.

Deaths

• 1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (b. 1628)
• 1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
• 1935 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
• 1940 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
• 1956 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
• 1998 – John Hawkes, avant garde American writer.(b. 1925)
• 2007 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)