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116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War. 1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania. 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War. 1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded. 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States. 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. 1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. 1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city. 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. 1985 – Hezbollah is founded. 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. 1996 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs. 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
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1032 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (d. 1067) 1222 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282) 1304 – Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Chinese emperor (d. 1332) 1331 – Coluccio Salutati, Florentine political leader (d. 1406) 1419 – John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1481) 1470 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (d. 1540) 1471 – Krishnadevaraya, Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (d. 1529) 1497 – Philip Melanchthon, German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560) 1514 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574) 1519 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572) 1543 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590) 1620 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1688) 1643 – John Sharp, English archbishop (d. 1714) 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758) 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817) 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813) 1761 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804) 1774 – Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830) 1786 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859) 1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866) 1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (d. 1885) 1812 – Henry Wilson, American colonel and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875) 1821 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (d. 1865) 1822 – Francis Galton, English biologist and statistician (d. 1911) 1824 – Peter Kosler, Slovenian lawyer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1879) 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and author (d. 1886) 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1895) 1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1919) 1838 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (d. 1918) 1841 – Armand Guillaumin, French painter (d. 1927) 1843 – Henry M. Leland, American engineer and businessman, founded Cadillac and Lincoln (d. 1932) 1845 – George Kennan, American journalist and explorer (d. 1924) 1848 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic (d. 1935) 1848 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1917) 1856 – Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (d. 1920) 1866 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (d. 1940) 1873 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author (d. 1908) 1868 – Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer (d. 1952) 1876 – G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic (d. 1962) 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951) 1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920) 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer (d. 1951) 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962) 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1967) 1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010) 1898 – Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer (d. 1974) 1901 – Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985) 1901 – Chester Morris, American actor (d. 1970) 1902 – Cyril Vincent, South African cricketer (d. 1968) 1903 – Edgar Bergen, Swedish-American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978) 1904 – James Baskett, African-American actor and singer (d. 1948) 1904 – George F. Kennan, Scotch-Irish American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005) 1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944) 1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director (d. 1982) 1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995) 1909 – Richard McDonald, Irish-American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1998) 1914 – Jimmy Wakely, American country music singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1982) 1916 – Bill Doggett, African-American pianist and composer (d. 1996) 1919 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989) 1920 – Anna Mae Hays, American general (d. 2018) 1921 – Vera-Ellen, German-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981) 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959) 1921 – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013) 1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot (d. 1950) 1923 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2016) 1926 – Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim (d. 1945) 1926 – John Schlesinger, English actor and director (d. 2003) 1927 – June Brown, English actress 1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980) 1929 – Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010) 1931 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2002) 1931 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2014) 1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014) 1932 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2007) 1934 – August Coppola, American author and academic (d. 2009) 1934 – Marlene Hagge, American golfer 1935 – Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (d. 2016) 1935 – Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, and politician (d. 1998) 1935 – Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm (d. 2014) 1935 – Bradford Parkinson, American colonel and engineer 1935 – Kenneth Price, American painter and sculptor (d. 2012) 1937 – Paul Bailey, British novelist, critic, and biographer 1937 – Yuri Manin, Russian-German mathematician and academic 1938 – John Corigliano, American composer and academic 1939 – Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge 1940 – Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (d. 1979) 1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 2011) 1942 – Richard Williams, American tennis player and coach 1944 – Glyn Davies, Welsh farmer and politician 1944 – Richard Ford, American novelist and short story writer 1944 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cape Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (d. 2016) 1948 – Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (d. 2014) 1949 – Bob O'Reilly, Australian rugby league player 1950 – Peter Hain, Kenyan-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales 1951 – Barry Foote, American baseball player and coach 1952 – William Katt, American actor, director, and screenwriter 1952 – James Ingram, American singer-songwriter and producer 1953 – John Bradbury, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015) 1953 – Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1953 – Roberta Williams, American video game designer, co-founded Sierra Entertainment 1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author and playwright (d. 2013) 1954 – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (d. 1996) 1954 – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster 1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter 1957 – LeVar Burton, German-American actor, director, and producer 1958 – Natalie Angier, American author 1958 – Ice-T, American rapper and actor 1958 – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player 1958 – Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach 1959 – John McEnroe, German-American tennis player and sportscaster 1959 – Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player and sportscaster 1960 – Pete Willis, English guitarist and songwriter 1961 – Des Hasler, Australian rugby league player and coach 1961 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2013) 1961 – Andy Taylor, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1962 – John Balance, English singer-songwriter (d. 2004) 1964 – Bebeto, Brazilian footballer and manager 1964 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor 1965 – Dave Lombardo, Cuban American drummer 1967 – Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1968 – Warren Ellis, English author and screenwriter 1970 – Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer and manager 1971 – Craig Laundy, Australian politician 1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player and sportscaster 1972 – Zoran Čampara, Bosnian football player 1972 – Sarah Clarke, American actress 1972 – Naomi Nishida, Japanese actress 1972 – Darrell Trindall, Australian rugby league player 1973 – Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter 1974 – Mahershala Ali, actor 1976 – Eric Byrnes, American baseball player and sportscaster 1976 – Kyo, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer 1977 – Ian Clarke, Irish-American computer scientist, founded Freenet 1977 – Ahman Green, American football player 1978 – Tia Hellebaut, Belgian high jumper and chemist 1978 – Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer 1978 – John Tartaglia, American actor, singer, and puppeteer 1979 – Eric Mun, American-South Korean singer and actor 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer 1980 – Longineu W. Parsons III, French-American drummer 1981 – Jay Howard, English race car driver 1981 – Jerry Owens, American baseball player 1981 – Qyntel Woods, American basketball player 1982 – Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian footballer 1982 – Rickie Lambert, English footballer 1982 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper 1983 – Agyness Deyn, English model, actress, and singer 1984 – Sofia Arvidsson, Swedish tennis player 1984 – Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer 1985 – Simon Francis, English footballer 1985 – Stacy Lewis, American golfer 1985 – Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer 1986 – Diego Godín, Uruguayan footballer 1987 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008) 1987 – Theresa Goh, Singaporean swimmer 1987 – Hasheem Thabeet, Tanzanian basketball player 1988 – Diego Capel, Spanish footballer 1988 – Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player 1988 – Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer 1988 – Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer 1988 – Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer 1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress 1990 – Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player 1990 – The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer 1991 – Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer 1992 – Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer 1992 – Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player 1994 – Annika Beck, German tennis player 1994 – Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer 1995 – Katy Dunne, English tennis player 1995 – Carina Witthöft, German tennis player 1997 – Pardeep Narwal, Indian Kabaddi athlete |
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549 – Zhu Yi, Chinese general (b. 483) 902 – Mary the Younger, Byzantine saint (b. 875) 1184 – Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury 1247 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204) 1279 – Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210) 1281 – Gertrude of Hohenburg, queen consort of Germany (b. c.1225) 1390 – Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309) 1391 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332) 1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) 1560 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493) 1579 – Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish explorer (b. 1509) 1645 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585) 1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632) 1721 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686) 1754 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673) 1820 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758) 1862 – William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796) 1898 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843) 1899 – Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841) 1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) 1912 – Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836) 1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848) 1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893) 1928 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856) 1932 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841) 1932 – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862) 1944 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870) 1957 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876) 1961 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891) 1967 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1911) 1974 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand Rifle(b. 1888) 1975 – Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (b. 1903) 1977 – Janani Luwum, bishop, Church of Uganda, martyr (b. c.1922) 1977 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905) 1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) 1984 – M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918) 1990 – Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958) 1991 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932) 1992 – Angela Carter, English novelist, short story writer (b. 1940) 1992 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917) 1992 – Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908) 1996 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922) 1996 – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932) 1996 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905) 1996 – Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915) 1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912) 1998 – Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (b. 1908) 2000 – Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908) 2000 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer 2000 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911) 2001 – Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916) 2001 – William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915) 2002 – Walter Winterbottom, English footballer and manager (b. 1913) 2003 – Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (b. 1955) 2004 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937) 2006 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (b. 1966) 2006 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (b. 1925) 2009 – Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, South Korean cardinal (b. 1921) 2011 – Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922) 2011 – Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930) 2012 – Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954) 2012 – Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917) 2012 – John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916) 2012 – Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968) 2013 – Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991) 2013 – Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918) 2013 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) 2014 – Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) 2014 – Gert Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947) 2014 – Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946) 2015 – Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) 2015 – Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) 2015 – R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957) 2015 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971) 2016 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922) |
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