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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Art and culture
- 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse and is trampled and dies a few days later.
- 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests was violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with armed soliders and tanks.
Births
- 1936 - Bruce Dern, American actor
Deaths
- 1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover and writer (b. 1725)