On this day in 1997, the principality of Monaco began a yearlong celebration in honour of the 700th anniversary of the rule of the Grimaldi family, who seized power in 1297 and gained firm possession of Monaco in 1419.
| 1959: | | | Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic. |
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| 1942: | | English theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking was born. |
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| 1918: | | | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points, an outline for peace following World War I. |
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| 1862: | | American publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday was born. |
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| 1815: | | U.S. General Andrew Jackson defeated Great Britain in the Battle of New Orleans, the final engagement in the War of 1812. |
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