962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist 1688 King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange 1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress 1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping 1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland 1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts | 
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