- 1546 Isabel de Valois (Élisabeth de France) is born.
- 1919 Thousands of unarmed men, women, and children are killed by the British Army during the Amristar massacre.
- 1923 Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish philologist, professor, and director of the Royal Spanish Academy, was born in Zaragoza, Spain.
- 1943 The Katyn mass grave is discovered in Poland.
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