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 * 1692: at the Battle of Steenkerque in the War of the Grand Alliance, the French army defeated the combined armies of England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark
 * 1790: birth of John Cockerill, British entrepreneur and the founder of Cockerill-Sambre
 * 1975: death of Karel Bossart, rocket designer, creator of the Atlas ICBM