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Charge of the Light Brigade
- 1616 – Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence.
- 1854 – Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade (pictured) was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava.
- 1950 – The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War.
- 2001 – Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
- 2022 – At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- Catherine of Bosnia (d. 1478)
- Évariste Galois (b. 1811)
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (b. 1900)
- Katy Perry (b. 1984)
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