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775 years ago today, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, died. During the Great Interregnum after his death, no claimant was able to secure the imperial crown until 1312.

195 years ago today, Emily Dickinson, an American poet, was born. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

75 years ago today, Joan Armatrading, an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born.

100 years ago today, Sammy Davis Jr., an American singer, actor, comedian, dancer, and musician, was born.

50 years ago today, Indonesian military forces invaded East Timor.

80 years ago today, Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.

70 years ago today, E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks led the Montgomery bus boycott.

180 years ago today, Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and con man, died.

125 years ago today, Oscar Wilde, an Irish author, poet and playwright, died. He became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

85 years ago today, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, an American activist, was born. She was the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine group.

25 years ago today, in a long-term experiment, the eighth drop of pitch fell, allowing experimenters to calculate the pitch as having a viscosity of approximately 230 billion times that of water.

25 years ago today, Since I Left You, the debut studio album by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches, was released by Modular Recordings.

85 years ago today, Bruce Lee, a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker, was born. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy.

905 years ago today, the White Ship sank in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.

60 years ago today, the actor Mads Mikkelsen was born

85 years ago today, Terry Gilliam, an American-British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator, and actor, was born. He gained stardom as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

30 years ago today, the Dayton Agreement was initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

205 years ago today, the American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale.

30 years ago today, an interview was broadcast in which Diana, Princess of Wales, discussed her own and her husband's extramarital affairs.

220 years ago today, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French Orientalist diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, was born. In 1869, it joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas.