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Andrew Watson

1537 – Croatian–Ottoman wars: After the execution of feudal lord Petar Kružić, Croatian forces at Klis surrendered to the Ottoman forces in exchange for their safe passage to northern locations.
1881 – Andrew Watson (pictured) captained the Scotland national football team against England, becoming the world's first black international footballer.
1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
1952 – British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
2006 – U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family members.

William Henry Perkin (b. 1838)
Gemma Galgani (b. 1878)
Zhao Wei (b. 1976)
Arina Tanemura (b. 1978)

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Richard Sutton

Intuitive Machines' Athena lands on the Moon at an incorrect angle and is unable to complete its mission.
In computing, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton (pictured) are awarded the Turing Award for their work on reinforcement learning.
A wildfire in Japan's Iwate Prefecture is the largest in the country in at least five decades.
Chinese architect Liu Jiakun is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?

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