Events
In 1649 Charles I was brought before a high court of justice at Westminster Hall on charges of treason after the Civil War against Parliamentarian forces.
Births
Andr?-Marie Ampère, French physicist, 1775.
Deaths
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David Garrick, wine trader and the actor-manager of The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1779; Jean-François Millet, painter, 1875; John Ruskin, critic and writer, 1900; Edmund Blunden, author and Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1966-68), 1974; Audrey Hepburn, actress, 1993.