1534 - New pursuit of French protestants 1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants 1941 - Soviet spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus 1967 - AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC and Seattle teams 1989 - Hungary revises its constitution after the fall of its Communist regime
1668 - Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94) 1891 - 1891 Václav Kálik, Czech composer, born in Opava; (d. 1951) 1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980) 1925 - Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels) 1956 - Craig Bartlett, American animator 1966 - Angela Visser, Neth, Miss Universe (1989)
1876 - Francis Preston Blair, American journalist and newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85 1893 - Lucy Stone, American abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association), dies at 75 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845) 1955 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher and author (The Revolt of the Masses), dies at 72 1982 - Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe), dies at 74 2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
