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762 – Baghdad is founded. 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1626 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people. 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw. 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. 1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland. 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts. 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico. 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron. 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps. 1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time. 1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100. 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto. 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened. 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. 1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time. 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162. 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence. 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. 1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland. 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. 2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grand-daughter Zara Phillips to former rugby player Mike Tindall. 2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India. 2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. 2014 – One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed. |
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1470 – Hongzhi, emperor of the Ming dynasty (d. 1505) 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574) 1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609) 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673) 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (d. 1829) 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet and art collector (d. 1855) 1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Canadian-American priest and theologian (d. 1899) 1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (d. 1848) 1818 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, 16th and 19th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897) 1825 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian engineer and author (d. 1893) 1832 – George Lemuel Woods, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (d. 1890) 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German-Swiss businessman (d. 1919) 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (d. 1929) 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939) 1862 – Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933) 1863 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947) 1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955) 1881 – Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1940) 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (d. 1975) 1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (d. 1967) 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986) 1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987) 1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955) 1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974) 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (d. 1993) 1910 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003) 1913 – Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987) 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999) 1920 – Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015) 1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (d. 2005) 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block 1925 – Stan Stennett, Welsh actor and trumpet player (d. 2013) 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author and poet (d. 1984) 1927 – Richard Johnson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1927 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004) 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001) 1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007) 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer 1931 – Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author 1934 – Bud Selig, 9th Major League Baseball Commissioner 1936 – Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1936 – Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs 1938 – Terry O'Neill, English photographer 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation 1940 – Patricia Schroeder, American lawyer and politician 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor 1942 – Pollyanna Pickering, English environmentalist and painter (d. 2018) 1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Canadian physicist and politician 1944 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (d. 1973) 1944 – Peter Bottomley, English politician 1944 – Frances de la Tour, English actress 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate 1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer 1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1994) 1946 – Jeffrey Hammond, English bass player 1947 – William Atherton, American actor and producer 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1947 – Jonathan Mann, American physician and author (d. 1998) 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California 1948 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014) 1948 – Billy Paultz, American basketball player 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor 1948 – Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1948 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 2010) 1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist 1949 – Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge 1950 – Harriet Harman, English lawyer and politician 1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter and actor 1950 – Mike Starr, American character actor 1951 – Alan Kourie, South African cricketer 1951 – Gerry Judah, Indian-English painter and sculptor 1952 – Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor, director, and producer 1955 – Rat Scabies, English drummer and producer 1955 – Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor 1956 – Delta Burke, American actress 1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player 1956 – Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic 1956 – Soraida Martinez, American painter and educator 1957 – Antonio Adamo, Italian director and cinematographer 1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player and coach 1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager 1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager 1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer 1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer 1960 – Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic 1960 – Richard Linklater, American director and screenwriter 1960 – Brillante Mendoza, Filipino independent film director 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer 1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer 1962 – Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager 1962 – Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015) 1963 – Peter Bowler, English-Australian cricketer 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress and producer 1963 – Antoni Martí, Andorran architect and politician 1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player and manager 1964 – Ron Block, American singer-songwriter and banjo player 1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress 1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager 1964 – Laine Randjärv, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Culture 1965 – Tim Munton, English cricketer 1966 – Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress and screenwriter 1966 – Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter 1966 – Allan Langer, Australian rugby league player and coach 1966 – Louise Wener, English author and singer-songwriter 1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor 1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker and coach 1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer and songwriter 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor, director, and producer 1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer 1970 – Alun Cairns, Welsh businessman and politician 1970 – Dean Edwards, American comedian, actor, and singer 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1971 – Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer 1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor 1972 – Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player and sportscaster 1973 – Kenton Cool, English mountaineer 1973 – Ümit Davala, Turkish footballer and manager 1973 – Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer 1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player and manager 1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian playback singer and actor 1973 – Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (d. 2015) 1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer and manager 1974 – Jason Robinson, English rugby player and coach 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer 1975 – Graham Nicholls, English author and activist 1975 – Kate Starbird, American basketball player and computer scientist 1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist; 1977 – Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach 1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress 1977 – Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer-songwriter and child abuse convict 1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player and singer 1979 – Chad Keegan, South African cricketer and coach 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer 1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012) 1980 – Seth Avett, American folk-rock singer-songwriter and musician 1980 – Justin Rose, South African-English golfer 1981 – Chandra Prakash Gharti, Nepalese politician 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (d. 2017) 1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player 1981 – Hope Solo, American soccer player 1981 – Indrek Turi, Estonian decathlete 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer 1982 – James Anderson, English cricketer 1982 – Martin Starr, American actor and comedian 1983 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer 1984 – Marko Asmer, Estonian race car driver 1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress and singer 1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player 1985 – Chris Guccione, Australian tennis player 1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer 1985 – Luca Lanotte, Italian ice dancer 1985 – Matthew Scott, Australian rugby league player 1986 – Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer 1986 – William Zillman, Australian rugby league player 1987 – Anton Fink, German footballer 1987 – Sam Saunders, American golfer 1989 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer 1989 – Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer 1990 – Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer 1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter 1992 – Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer 1993 – Jacob Faria, American baseball player 1993 – André Gomes, Portuguese footballer 1993 – Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player 1994 – Nelydia Senrose,Malaysian actress 1996 – Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player |
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578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Greek bishop 579 – Pope Benedict I 734 – Tatwine, English archbishop (b. 670) 829 – Shi Xiancheng, general of the Tang Dynasty 1286 – Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226) 1393 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (b. 1347) 1516 – Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz (b. 1455) 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497) 1540 – Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495) 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1505) 1566 – Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507) 1608 – Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, last King of Tyrconnell (b. 1575) 1624 – Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, British nobleman (b. 1579) 1652 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (b. 1624) 1680 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, Irish admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1634) 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain (b. 1638) 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German scholar and academic (b. 1639) 1700 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, English royal (b. 1689) 1718 – William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644) 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet (b. 1716) 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier (b. 1753) 1832 – Lê Văn Duyệt, Vietnamese general, mandarin (b. 1763-4)[1] 1870 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (b. 1818) [2] 1875 – George Pickett, American general (b. 1825) 1889 – Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846) 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815) 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844) 1912 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852) 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, journalist, and poet (b. 1886) 1920 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848) 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877) 1938 – John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878) 1941 – Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877) 1947 – Joseph Cook, English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860) 1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author and playwright (b. 1886) 1970 – Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874) 1970 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897) 1971 – Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (b. 1906) 1975 – James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921) 1977 – Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (b. 1885) 1983 – Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896) 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887) 1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919) 1992 – Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915) 1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914) 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903) 1996 – Arihiro Hase, Japanese actor and voice actor 1997 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913) 1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917) 2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924) 2003 – Steve Hislop, Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1962) 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (b. 1923) 2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905) 2005 – John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (b. 1945) 2006 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and author(b. 1946) 2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924) 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American philosopher and author (b. 1921) 2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (b. 1904) 2006 – Akbar Mohammadi, Iranian activist (b. 1972) 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1912) 2007 – Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (b. 1915) 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918) 2007 – Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (b. 1931) 2008 – Anne Armstrong, American businesswoman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1927) 2009 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (b. 1970) 2009 – Peter Zadek, German director and screenwriter (b. 1926) 2011 – Bob Peterson, American basketball player (b. 1932) 2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1939) 2012 – Bill Doss, American singer and guitarist (b. 1968) 2012 – Stig Ossian Ericson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923) 2012 – Les Green, English footballer and manager (b. 1941) 2012 – Jonathan Hardy, New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1940) 2012 – Bill Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960) 2012 – Mary Louise Rasmuson, American colonel (b. 1911) 2013 – Cecil Alexander, American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (b. 1918) 2013 – Berthold Beitz, German businessman (b. 1913) 2013 – Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist and author (b. 1927) 2013 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (b. 1914) 2013 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1924) 2013 – Ossie Schectman, American basketball player (b. 1919) 2013 – Benjamin Walker, Indian-English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913) 2014 – Robert Drew, American director and producer (b. 1924) 2014 – Harun Farocki, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944) 2014 – Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (b. 1931) 2014 – Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (b. 1932) 2014 – Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922) 2014 – Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) 2015 – Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947) 2015 – Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist (b. 1930) 2015 – Francis Paul Prucha, American historian and academic (b. 1921) 2015 – Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931) 2016 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925) |
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