1793: Mathematician Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, is guillotined during the Terror phase of the French Revolution.
1928: More than 110 passengers, mostly women and children, die when the SS Vestris sinks off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1999: More than 800 people die in an earthquake in northwestern Turkey.
2013: English composer John Taverner dies.
1928: More than 110 passengers, mostly women and children, die when the SS Vestris sinks off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1999: More than 800 people die in an earthquake in northwestern Turkey.
2013: English composer John Taverner dies.
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