In 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
In 1770, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded a British ship in Boston Harbor and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard in a protest against taxes.
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Author Victor S. Pritchett (1900)
Aluthor Arthur C. Clarke (1917)
Actress Liv Ullmann (1949)
CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl (1941)
Football player William "The Refrigerator" Perry (1962)
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"Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences."