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1521
- Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1792
- King Louis XVI is arrested by the French Revolution.
1871
- Marxist revolutionary and co-leader of the KPD Karl Liebknecht is born in Leipzig.
1926
- Anti-imperialist revolutionary and later Marxist-Leninist Fidel Castro is born in Birán, Cuba.
1960
- The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961
- The construction of the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart begins in Berlin.