1633: The world's more remarkable diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
1874: Lawn Tennis, alternatively called sphairistike or sticky, was patented by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of Pimlico.
1922: Henri "Bluebeard" Landru was executed in France for killing ten of his 13 fiancees.
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