On this day:
1918: Czechoslovakia Gains Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1938: Germany expelled about 17000 Polish Jews and sent them to Poland which refused to take them in.
Born on this day:
1914: Jonas Salk, American biologist, physician
1955: Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
Gone on this day:
1704: John Locke, English philosopher, physician
1900: Friedrich Max Müller, German philologist, orientalist
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