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Art and culture

Events

• 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
• 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
• 1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

• 1787 - The Misfortunes of Virtue Generally taken as Sade's first novel. Sade completed the work, writing 138 manuscript pages, in two weeks during his time in the Bastille, finishing on 8 July. Sade reworked the novel in later versions; it was not published until 1930.

Births

• 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
• 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
• 1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
• 1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
• 1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
• 1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
• 1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)

Deaths

• 1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
• 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
• 1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)

Notes

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