1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock 1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants 1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million 1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion 1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA | 
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