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In 1648 – The Holy Roman Empire signs peace treaties with France and Sweden, ending the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years war. Negotiations were long and convulted, beginning in 1836 and involving as many as 109 delegations represented by kings, dukes, counts, and other diplomats. History refers to the treaties collectively as the Peace of Westphalia and both wars resulted in the deaths of an estimated 8 million people. The treaties would be rejected by Pope Innocent X, who declared them to be, among other things, “null, void..empty of meaning and effect for all time.
In 1968 – Debbie Myer of the US becomes the first swimmer to win three individual gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics. Myer won the gold in the inaugural 800-meter race defeating Pam Krause (US) by eleven seconds and Maria Teresa Ramirez (Mexico). Previously, Myer had won the 200- and 400-meter races and later in the year won the Sullivan Award, given to the nation’s top amateur athlete and remains her only Olympic appearance.
In 1992 – Boyz II Men is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for a record-breaking eleventh of the 13 consecutive weeks with End of the Road. The broke the Hot 100 record of ten weeks at the top established by Debby Boone with You Light Up y Life in 1977 and Physical by Olivia Newton-John in 1982. The record is now 19 weeks by Old Town Road by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus in 2019. It was the first of five #1 songs for the group, and the first of two times they would hold the record most weeks at #1 (One Sweet Day, with Mariah Carey, 15 weeks, 1995
