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844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba. 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne. 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War. 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place. 1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London. 1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.[1] 1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state. 1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. 1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. 1844 – Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day. 1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States. 1863 – The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. 1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863. 1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated. 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London. 1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later. 1934 – Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 1934 – The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. 1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day. 1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody. 1945 – World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces. 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel. 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed. 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China. 1960 – A tsunami killed 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii. 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. 1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released. 1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes. 2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. 2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts. 2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. 2013 – The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. 2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. 2015 – At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma. 2016 – Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen. 2016 – Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured. 2017 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi. |
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635 – K'inich Kan Bahlam II, Mayan king (d. 702) 1052 – Philip I of France (d. 1108) 1100 – Emperor Qinzong of Song (d. 1161) 1127 – Uijong of Goryeo, Korean monarch of the Goryeo dynasty (d. 1173) 1330 – Gongmin of Goryeo, Korean ruler (d. 1374) 1586 – Paul Siefert, German composer and organist (d. 1666) 1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1682) 1614 – Bertholet Flemalle, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1675) 1617 – Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (d. 1692) 1629 – William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, noble of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1663) 1707 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (d. 1778) 1718 – William Hunter, Scottish-English anatomist and physician (d. 1783) 1729 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and educator (d. 1799) 1730 – Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussian prince and general (d. 1813) 1734 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (d. 1815) 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1801) 1789 – Franz Schlik, Austrian earl and general (d. 1862) 1790 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer (d. 1842) 1790 – James Pradier, French neoclassical sculptor (d. 1852) 1794 – Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1870) 1795 – Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall (d. 1860) 1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (d. 1850) 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (d. 1887) 1820 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 1891) 1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1881) 1834 – Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (d. 1891) 1834 – Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (d. 1890) 1837 – Anatole Mallet, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1919) 1837 – Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1912) 1838 – Amaldus Nielsen, Norwegian painter (d. 1932) 1840 – George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910) 1844 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Iranian religious leader (d. 1921) 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (d. 1896) 1855 – Isabella Ford, English author and activist (d. 1924) 1861 – József Rippl-Rónai, Hungarian painter (d. 1927) 1863 – Władysław Horodecki, Polish architect (d. 1930) 1864 – William O'Connor, American fencer (d. 1939) 1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian jurist and politician, 11th President of Brazil (d. 1942) 1875 – Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1966) 1882 – William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1960) 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939) 1884 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer (d. 1965) 1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1963) 1887 – Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain (d. 1951) 1888 – Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer (d. 1976) 1888 – Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer (d. 1972) 1889 – Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician (d. 1967) 1890 – Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (d. 1966) 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) 1892 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer (d. 1975) 1896 – Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (d. 1966) 1897 – Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (d. 1937) 1898 – Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1989) 1898 – Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician (d. 1945) 1899 – Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian (d. 2015) 1900 – Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (d. 1946) 1900 – Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954) 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) 1908 – Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934) 1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator (d. 1952) 1910 – Hugh Casson, English architect and academic (d. 1999) 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (d. 1986) 1910 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2004) 1910 – Franz Kline, American painter and academic (d. 1962) 1911 – Lou Brouillard, Canadian boxer (d. 1984) 1911 – Paul Augustin Mayer, German cardinal (d. 2010) 1911 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (d. 1983) 1912 – Jean Françaix, French pianist and composer (d. 1997) 1912 – John Payne, American actor (d. 1989) 1914 – Harold Hitchcock, English visionary landscape artist (d. 2009) 1914 – Celestine Sibley, American journalist and author (d. 1999) 1914 – Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (d. 1981) 1915 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (d. 2014) 1917 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) 1918 – Denis Compton, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1997) 1918 – Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican contralto and a member of the Puerto Rican Senate (d. 2012) 1919 – Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (d. 1988) 1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2011) 1920 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993) 1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan-Spanish pianist (d. 2009) 1923 – Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist (d. 2012) 1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (d. 2014) 1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) 1926 – Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (d. 1996) 1926 – Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-born South African activist and politician (d. 1995) 1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002) 1928 – Nigel Davenport, English actor (d. 2013) 1928 – Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (d. 2015) 1929 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish-Austrian actress (d. 1982) 1930 – Friedrich Achleitner, German poet and critic 1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress 1932 – Kevork Ajemian, Syrian-French journalist and author (d. 1998) 1933 – Joan Collins, English actress 1933 – Ove Fundin, Swedish motorcycle racer 1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005) 1935 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish author (d. 2009) 1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress 1936 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor 1939 – Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (d. 2004) 1939 – Reinhard Hauff, German director and screenwriter 1940 – Gérard Larrousse, French race car driver 1940 – Bjørn Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist (d. 2002) 1940 – Cora Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (d. 2010) 1941 – Zalman King, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012) 1942 – Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher, author, and academic 1942 – Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao, Indian director, screenwriter, and choreographer 1943 – Peter Kenilorea, Solomon Islands politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (d. 2016) 1944 – John Newcombe, Australian tennis player and sportscaster 1945 – Padmarajan, Indian director, screenwriter, and author (d. 1991) 1947 – Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (d. 1995) 1948 – Myriam Boyer, French actress, director, and producer 1949 – Daniel DiNardo, American cardinal 1949 – Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 93rd President of Peru 1950 – Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2017) 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player 1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek economist and politician, 185th Prime Minister of Greece 1952 – Martin Parr, English photographer and journalist 1954 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer and actor 1956 – Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria 1956 – Buck Showalter, American baseball player, coach, and manager 1956 – Andrea Pazienza, Italian illustrator and painter (d. 1988) 1958 – Mitch Albom, American journalist, author, and screenwriter 1958 – Drew Carey, American actor, game show host, and entrepreneur 1958 – Lea DeLaria, American actress and singer 1959 – Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player and sportscaster 1961 – Daniele Massaro, Italian footballer and manager 1961 – Norrie May-Welby, Scottish Austrialian gender activist[2] 1962 – Karen Duffy, American actress 1963 – Viviane Baladi, Swiss mathematician 1964 – Ruth Metzler, Swiss lawyer and politician 1965 – Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer 1965 – Tom Tykwer, German director, producer, screenwriter, and composer 1965 – Melissa McBride, American actress 1966 – Graeme Hick, Zimbabwean-English cricketer and coach 1966 – Gary Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1967 – Luis Roberto Alves, Mexican footballer 1967 – Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician 1968 – Guinevere Turner, American actress and screenwriter 1969 – Mindi Abair, American saxophonist and composer 1970 – Matt Flynn, American drummer and producer 1970 – Bryan Herta, American race car driver and businessman, co-founded Bryan Herta Autosport 1971 – George Osborne, English journalist and politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer 1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver 1973 – Maxwell, American singer-songwriter and producer 1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet 1974 – Manuela Schwesig, German politician, German Federal Minister of Family Affairs 1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer and manager 1978 – Scott Raynor, American drummer 1979 – Rasual Butler, American basketball player (d. 2018) 1979 – Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player 1983 – Silvio Proto, Belgian-Italian footballer 1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer 1985 – Sebastián Fernández, Uruguayan footballer 1985 – Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russian tennis player 1985 – Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist 1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer 1986 – Ryan Coogler, American film director and screenwriter 1986 – Alexei Sitnikov, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater 1986 – Alice Tait, Australian swimmer 1986 – Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer 1987 – Gracie Otto, Australian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter 1987 – Bray Wyatt, American wrestler 1988 – Rosanna Crawford, Canadian biathlete 1988 – Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer 1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer 1989 – Ezequiel Schelotto, Italian footballer 1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter 1991 – Aaron Donald, American football player 1991 – César Pinares, Chilean footballer 1996 – Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper 1996 – Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian footballer 1997 – Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer 1997 – Joe Gomez, English footballer 1997 – Gustaf Nilsson, Swedish footballer 1998 – Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian racing driver 1998 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter 1998 – Luca De La Torre, American footballer 2000 – Evan Bird, Canadian actor 2000 – Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian racing driver |
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230 – Urban I, pope of the Catholic Church 922 – Li Sizhao, Chinese general and governor 962 – Guibert of Gembloux, Frankish abbot (b. 892) 1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081) 1304 – Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer 1338 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287) 1370 – Toghon Temür, Mongol emperor (b. 1320) 1423 – Antipope Benedict XIII (b. 1328) 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian friar and preacher (b. 1452) 1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466) 1524 – Ismail I, First Emperor of Safavid Empire (b. 1487) 1591 – John Blitheman, English organist and composer (b. 1525) 1662 – John Gauden, English bishop (b. 1605) 1670 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610) 1691 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1622) 1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645) 1749 – Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700) 1752 – William Bradford, English-American printer (b. 1663) 1754 – John Wood, the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (b. 1704) 1783 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1725) 1813 – Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (b. 1772) 1815 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753) 1841 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765) 1855 – Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797) 1857 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789) 1868 – Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809) 1886 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795) 1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805) 1895 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798) 1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828) 1908 – François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842) 1920 – Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856) 1921 – August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872) 1934 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909) 1934 – Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860) 1934 – Bonnie Parker, American criminal (b. 1910) 1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839) 1938 – Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (b. 1871) 1942 – Panagiotis Toundas, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1886) 1945 – Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician, Reich Minister of the Interior (b. 1900) 1947 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet (b. 1878) 1949 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (b. 1872) 1956 – Gustav Suits, Latvian-Estonian poet and politician (b. 1883) 1960 – Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870) 1962 – Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879) 1963 – August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (b. 1904) 1965 – Earl Webb, American baseball player and coach (b. 1897) 1975 – Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894) 1979 – S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932) 1981 – Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933) 1981 – Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911) 1981 – George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1898) 1981 – David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1909) 1986 – Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916) 1989 – Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director and producer (b. 1915) 1989 – Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965) 1991 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895) 1991 – Jean Van Houtte, Belgian academic and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907) 1991 – Fletcher Markle, Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1921) 1992 – Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (b. 1948) 1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1939) 1994 – Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet (b. 1908) 1996 – Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1934) 1998 – Telford Taylor, American general and lawyer (b. 1908) 1999 – Owen Hart, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1965) 2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (b. 1912) 2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921) 2006 – Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921) 2008 – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (b. 1967) 2008 – Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1935) 2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (b. 1946) 2010 – José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1972) 2010 – Simon Monjack, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1970) 2011 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978) 2012 – Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924) 2013 – Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942) 2013 – Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938) 2013 – Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) 2013 – Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941) 2014 – Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949) 2014 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer (b. 1921) 2015 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (b. 1929) 2015 – Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian sergeant (b. 1975) 2015 – Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (b. 1933) 2015 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928) 2017 – Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927) |
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