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1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina. 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City. 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII. 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later. 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France. 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies. 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. 1947 – Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders. 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. 1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. 1984 – Kenyan soldiers commit the worst ever human rights violation in the country by slaughtering an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in Wagalla in N.E.-Kenya. 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. 2007 – Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win. 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. 2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. |
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1486 – George of the Palatinate, German bishop (d. 1529) 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582) 1514 – Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (d. 1579) 1606 – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663) 1609 – John Suckling, English poet and playwright (d. 1642) 1627 – Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet ann jurist (d. 1715) 1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750) 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765) 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819) 1766 – Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (d. 1815) 1775 – Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (d. 1834) 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) 1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (d. 1858) 1797 – George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (d. 1883) 1821 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1908) 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (d. 1898) 1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907) 1843 – Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (d. 1919) 1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919) 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927) 1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909) 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943) 1867 – Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (d. 1957) 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879) 1868 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (d. 1944) 1869 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (d. 1948) 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932) 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954) 1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959) 1883 – H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (d. 1938) 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (d. 1970) 1889 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982) 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist (d. 1918) 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) 1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director (d. 1950) 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 1980) 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (d. 1953) 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986) 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992) 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (d. 1956) 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (d. 1979) 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress and educator (d. 1992) 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948) 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939) 1904 – John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963) 1905 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (d. 1964) 1905 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939) 1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973) 1907 – Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988) 1909 – Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (d. 2004) 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001) 1915 – Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (d. 2016) 1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2014) 1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000) 1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010) 1920 – José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001) 1922 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (d. 2015) 1923 – Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (d. 2015) 1924 – Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (d. 2013) 1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005) 1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012) 1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (d. 2013) 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (d. 1993) 1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004) 1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer 1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer 1930 – E. 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Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (d. 2013) 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor and producer 1931 – James Edward Maceo West, American inventor and acoustician 1932 – Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (d. 2015) 1933 – Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic 1933 – Faramarz Payvar, Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009) 1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor 1937 – Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (d. 1983) 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada 1939 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist 1940 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Saudi Arabian scholar and academic, 4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1940 – Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper 1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009) 1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992) 1944 – Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma 1944 – Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist 1944 – Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer 1945 – Delma S. Arrigoitia, Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer 1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist 1947 – Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013) 1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (d. 1994) 1949 – Nigel Olsson, English rock drummer and singer-songwriter 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer 1951 – Bob Iger, American media executive 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore 1955 – Jim Cramer, American television personality, pundit, and author 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster 1956 – Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1957 – Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist and academic 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball player and coach 1960 – Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist 1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1962 – Cliff Burton, American heavy metal bassist (d. 1986) 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author 1966 – Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician 1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer 1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster 1967 – Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut 1969 – Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor 1969 – James Small, South African rugby player 1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager 1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author 1971 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (d. 2015) 1972 – Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer 1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress 1974 – Ty Law, American football player 1974 – Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach 1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress 1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer 1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver 1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player 1981 – Uzo Aduba, American actress 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer 1981 – Holly Willoughby, English model and television host 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer 1982 – Hamad Al-Tayyar, Kuwaiti footballer 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player 1983 – Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Greg Bird, Australian rugby league player 1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player 1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress 1985 – Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer 1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player 1986 – Josh Akognon, American basketball player 1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer 1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player 1987 – Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player 1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentinian footballer 1988 – Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer 1989 – Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player 1990 – Barbara Guarischi, Italian cyclist 1990 – Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress 1992 – Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress 1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer 1993 – Max Kepler, German baseball player 1993 – Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer 1993 – Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer 1996 – Emanuel Mammana, Argentinian footballer 1997 – Lilly King, American swimmer 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress 1997 – Nadia Podoroska, Argentinian tennis player 2000 – Yara Shahidi, American actress and model |
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547 – Scholastica, Christian nun 1127 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071) 1163 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130) 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231) 1242 – Saint Verdiana, Italian recluse (b. 1182) 1280 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202) 1306 – John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman 1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265) 1346 – Blessed Clare of Rimini (b. 1282)[1] 1471 – Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1413) 1524 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468) 1526 – John V, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (b. 1460) 1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1545) 1576 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532) 1686 – William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (b. 1605) 1755 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689) 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702) 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760) 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799) 1857 – David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770) 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804) 1879 – Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (b. 1808) 1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814) 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) 1904 – John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844) 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827) 1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827) 1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888) 1917 – John William Waterhouse, English soldier and painter (b. 1849) 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842) 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833) 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) 1928 – José Sánchez del Río Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913) 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875) 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857) 1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870) 1945 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878) 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872) 1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872) 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882) 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867) 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898) 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899) 1967 – Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884) 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910) 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910) 1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921) 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929) 1995 – Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (b. 1945) 1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish musician, lead singer The Sweet (b. 1945)[2] 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1949) 2001 – Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (b. 1906) 2001 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913) 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936) 2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910) 2003 – Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908) 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939) 2005 – Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1915) 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932) 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925) 2010 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933) 2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1923) 2012 – Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (b. 1957) 2012 – Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958) 2013 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927) 2013 – David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931) 2014 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932) 2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928) 2015 – Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934) 2015 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928) 2015 – Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915) 2016 – Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930) 2017 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman (b. 1929) |
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