1945: Colonel Juan Perón is brought to power by a coup d'état in Argentina.
1933: Fleeing Nazi Germany, the physicist Albert Einstein takes refuge in the United States.
1854: Franco-British troops lay siege to Sebastopol, in Crimea.
1797: France and Austria sign the Peace of Campo-Formio.
1793: French Revolution: defeat of the Catholic and royal army in the Vendée at Cholet.
1705: Death of Anne Lenclos, known as Ninon de Lenclos.
1662: King Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France.
