1889 - Filipino reformist and patriot Jose Rizal writes his close friend Ferdinand Blumentritt about the latter's appointment as president of the recently formed Association Internationale des Philippinistes; in the letter, Rizal also mentions the plan of the group to hold a conference at the Paris Exposition.
1776 - Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, author, lawyer and conductor known for his mastery of the macabre and weird, is born in Germany; his work is the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera, the "Tales of Hoffmann."
1986 - The Rossiya, the fourth atomic icebreaker of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, takes its maiden voyage.
1994 - Duchess of Kent converts to Catholic Christianity to become the first member of the British Royal Family to embrace the faith after a 1701 act of parliament banned those in line to the throne from converting or marrying into Roman Catholicism.
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