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1718
The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

1812
Poet Robert Browning born in Camberwell, England.

1824
World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria.

1840
Composer Peter Tchaikovsky born in Votkinsk, Russia.

1892
Poet Archibald MacLeish born in Glencoe, Illinois.

1901
Film star Gary Cooper born in Helena, Montana.

1915
British ocean liner Lusitania torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland.
1,198 lives were lost.

Babe Ruth hit the first of his 714 major league home runs for the Boston Red Sox in a 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.

1919

Eva (Evita) Peron Argentina's spiritual leader and wife of Argentina President Juan Peron born in Los Toldos, Argentina.

1954
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu.