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587 BC – Babylon's siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon's Temple. 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots. 1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines. 1573 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months. 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller. 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery. 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction. 1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria. 1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established. 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India. 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon. 1863 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire. 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight. 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is dedicated in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland," but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). 1956 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence. 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics. 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in. 1977 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War. 1977 – New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting. 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney. 1985 – Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press. 2008 – Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001. 2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130. 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations. 2013 – Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan. 2016 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May. |
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100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman (d. 44 BC) 1426 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492) 1478 – Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (d. 1561) 1470 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Catholic cardinal (d. 1528) 1527 – John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (d. 1609) 1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (d. 1651) 1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676) 1606 – Roland Fréart de Chambray (d. 1676) 1607 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (d. 1677) 1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657) 1745 – Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1818) 1756 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (d. 1827) 1760 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1829) 1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (d. 1837) 1793 – John Clare, English poet and author (d. 1864) 1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877) 1831 – Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (d. 1889) 1841 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918) 1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (d. 1929) 1859 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1947) 1863 – Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (d. 1963) 1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (d. 1912) 1877 – Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (d. 1970) 1884 – Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (d. 1951) 1889 – Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1965) 1889 – Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (d. 1984) 1892 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1941) 1892 – Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (d. 1955) 1894 – Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (d. 1940) 1895 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973) 1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (d. 1992) 1898 – Julius Schreck, German commander (d. 1936) 1898 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (d. 1980) 1900 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969) 1901 – Eric Portman, English actor (d. 1969) 1903 – Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (d. 1983) 1905 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (d. 1990) 1905 – Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete (d. 1993)[1] 1905 – Magda Foy, American child actress (d. 2000) 1907 – George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002) 1908 – Dorothy Round, English tennis player (d. 1982) 1908 – Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1974) 1910 – Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper (d. 1993) 1910 – Loren Pope, American journalist and author (d. 2008) 1913 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (d. 1982) 1913 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (d. 2012) 1913 – Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter (d. 2008) 1915 – Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1989) 1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955) 1918 – Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (d. 1988) 1918 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (d. 2015) 1919 – Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China 1919 – William F. Quinn, American lawyer (d. 2006) 1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999) 1922 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (d. 2011) 1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2016) 1922 – Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander 1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) 1923 – Ashley Bryan, American children's book writer & illustrator 1924 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer 1925 – Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist 1925 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer 1926 – Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (d. 2008) 1926 – T. Loren Christianson, American politician 1926 – Thomas Clark, American politician 1927 – Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of the European Parliament (d. 2017) 1927 – Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower 1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978) 1928 – Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (d. 2008) 1928 – Al Rex, American musician 1929 – Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (d. 2006) 1929 – Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist 1930 – Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (d. 2014) 1930 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004) 1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach 1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author 1933 – David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2017) 1933 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (d. 1963) 1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002) 1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager 1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut 1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (d. 2009) 1935 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright 1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist 1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1970) 1937 – Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist 1939 – Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (d. 2013) 1940 – Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (d. 2013) 1940 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (d. 2015) 1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer 1941 – Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer 1941 – Robert Forster, American actor and producer 1941 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (d. 2005) 1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer 1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor and producer 1942 – Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 – Chris Serle, English journalist and actor 1944 – Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer 1944 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (d. 1991) 1944 – Erno Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube 1945 – Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author 1946 – Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015) 1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian 1948 – Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter 1950 – George Nelson, American astronomer and astronaut 1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China 1950 – Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2015) 1951 – Rob Bishop, American educator and politician 1951 – Didi Conn, American actress and singer 1954 – Ray Bright, Australian cricketer 1954 – Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress 1955 – Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter 1956 – Michael Spinks, American boxer 1957 – Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman 1957 – Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1959 – Richard Leman, English field hockey player 1959 – Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician 1960 – Robert Abraham, American football player 1960 – Ian Hislop, Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter 1960 – Curtis Rouse, American football player (d. 2013) 1961 – Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (d. 2014) 1961 – Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player 1961 – Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician 1961 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager 1961 – Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist 1962 – Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter 1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player 1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster 1963 – Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model 1964 – Charlie Hides, American drag queen and comedian 1964 – Paul Thorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1965 – Eileen Ivers, American fiddler 1965 – Colin van der Voort, Australian rugby league player 1966 – Gerald Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006) 1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator 1967 – Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment 1967 – Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia 1969 – Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player 1969 – Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician 1969 – Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician 1970 – Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer 1971 – Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach 1972 – Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler 1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress 1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver 1975 – Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor 1975 – Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter 1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player 1977 – Chris Horn, American football player 1978 – Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player 1978 – Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player 1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer 1979 – Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer 1979 – Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player 1979 – Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach 1981 – Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer 1981 – Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist 1982 – Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player 1982 – Simon Clist, English footballer 1982 – Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer 1982 – Nick Kenny, Australian rugby league player 1982 – Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player 1983 – Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter 1983 – Marco Pomante, Italian footballer 1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler 1984 – Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1985 – Trell Kimmons, American sprinter 1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer 1985 – Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian 1988 – Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer 1988 – Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer 1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor and model 1988 – Raúl Spank, German high jumper 1989 – Justin Chua, Filipino basketball player 1989 – Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player 1990 – Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player 1990 – Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer 1992 – Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer 1993 – Daniel Bentley, English footballer 1995 – Cody Bellinger, American baseball player 1995 – Dante Exum, Australian basketball player 2003 – Wyatt Oleff, American child actor 2005 – Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Canadian child actor |
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574 – John III, pope of the Catholic Church 716 – Rui Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 662) 815 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese poet and politician (b. 758) 884 – Huang Chao, Chinese rebel leader (b. 835) 939 – Leo VII, pope of the Catholic Church 982 – Pandulf II, Lombard prince 982 – Landulf IV, Lombard prince 1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973) 1105 – Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040) 1205 – Hubert Walter, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (b. 1160) 1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian academic and jurist (b. 1313) 1380 – Bertrand du Guesclin, French nobleman and knight (b. 1320) 1399 – Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (b. 1330) 1399 – Jadwiga, queen of Poland (b. 1399) 1402 – Jianwen, Chinese emperor (b. 1377) 1491 – Afonso, Portuguese prince (b. 1475) 1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490) 1617 – Adam Wenceslaus, duke of Cieszyn (b. 1574) 1621 – Albert VII, archduke of Austria (b. 1559) 1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1563) 1628 – Robert Shirley, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1581) 1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585) 1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1631) 1755 – Edward Braddock, Scottish general (b. 1695) 1762 – James Bradley, English priest and astronomer (b. 1693) 1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and academic (b. 1715) 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French physician and theorist (b. 1743) 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal (b. 1725) 1881 – John C. Pemberton, American general (b. 1814) 1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1830) 1890 – John C. Frémont, American general and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (b. 1813) 1890 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (b. 1819) 1893 – Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836) 1896 – August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829) 1907 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866) 1911 – Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840) 1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) 1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870) 1927 – Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870) 1934 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849) 1936 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887) 1941 – Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913) 1945 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879) 1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864) 1949 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877) 1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874) 1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907) 1960 – Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915) 1965 – Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895) 1967 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937) 1970 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896) 1970 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895) 1973 – Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901) 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884) 1976 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915) 1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913) 1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921) 1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (b. 1909) 1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961) 1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1920) 1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (b. 1905) 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968) 1999 – Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1901) 2000 – Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (b. 1914) 2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907) 2005 – Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (b. 1922) 2006 – Red Buttons, American actor (b. 1919) 2007 – Michael Reardon, American mountaineer (b. 1965) 2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1932) 2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1931) 2010 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930) 2011 – Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933) 2012 – Warren Jabali, American basketball player (b. 1946) 2012 – Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940) 2012 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934) 2013 – Leonard Garment, American lawyer and public servant, 14th White House Counsel (b. 1924) 2013 – Henri Julien, French race car driver (b. 1927) 2013 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1982) 2013 – Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman (b. 1938) 2013 – Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (b. 1924) 2013 – Marc Simont, French-American author and illustrator (b. 1915) 2014 – Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924) 2014 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919) 2014 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) 2014 – Jeff Leiding, American football player (b. 1961) 2014 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1930) 2015 – Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979) 2015 – Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927) 2017 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955) |
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