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Events
- 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine
Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is
executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
- 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
- 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai:
French forces led by Gaston de Foix was
victorious in the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession
(Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.
- 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca
- 1849 - The safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt
- 1856 - In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where
William Walker's filibusters are
holed up.
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public
speech.
- 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
- 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks is organized.
- 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto
Rico to the United States.
- 1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity (special relativity).
- 1919 - International Labour
Organization founded.
- 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
- 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
- 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
- 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald
concentration camp.
- 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves
General Douglas MacArthur of overall command
in Korea.
- 1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally
crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by
Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.
- 1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes
place.
- 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou
Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256
people.
- 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of
housing.
- 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in
Berlin.
- 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi
Amin is deposed.
- 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65
serious civilian injuries.
- 1981 - President Ronald Reagan returns to the White
House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
- 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly
signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon
Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough,
United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun
on a ship bound for Iraq.
- 1996 - Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win
the European Championships (now Euroleague) in Paris, beating FC Barcelona by 67-66.
- 2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
- 2001 - The detained crew of a United States
EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.
- 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World
Cup qualifying game, an international record in which
Archie Thompson scored 13 goals
- 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by
Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo
Chávez began.
- 2003 - U.S. troops take the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without
a fight.
- 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- 2007 - The "forever" stamp goes on sale in the United States for 41 cents.
- 2007 - Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further
222 others. 2007 Algiers bombings.
Births
- 146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)
- 1357 - John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of
March (d. 1398)
- 1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of
Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
- 1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d.
1632)
- 1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d.
1780)
- 1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d.
1808)
- 1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet (d.
1771)
- 1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d.
1824)
- 1769 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
- 1770 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
- 1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d.
1854)
- 1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English
scholar (d. 1895)
- 1819 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d.
1895)
- 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d.
1864)
- 1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d.
1922)
- 1862 - Charles Evans Hughes, 11th
Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)
- 1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los
Angeles County (d. 1928)
- 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d.
1943)
- 1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria
Cross (d. 1955)
- 1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d.
1958)
- 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d.
1951)
- 1889 - Nick LaRocca, American musician (d.
1961)
- 1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of
Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
- 1893 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1971)
- 1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d.
1967)
- 1899 - Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d.
1975)
- 1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d.
1989)
- 1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d.
2005)
- 1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer,
entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
- 1908 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (d.
2007)
- 1908 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (d.
1997)
- 1908 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (d. 1992)
- 1908 - Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
- 1910 - António de Spínola, Portuguese general and
politician (d. 1996)
- 1911 - Stanisława Walasiewicz aka Stella Walsh,
Polish-born runner (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d.
2006)
- 1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and
director (d. 1987)
- 1914 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- 1916 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d.
1983)
- 1916 - Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)
- 1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television
sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
- 1918 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (d.
2003)
- 1921 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d.
1998)
- 1925 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and
newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
- 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of
Satan (d. 1997)
- 1931 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
- 1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
- 1932 - Joel Grey, American singer and actor
- 1933 - Tony Brown, American journalist
- 1934 - Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
- 1935 - Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d.
1997)
- 1935 - Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
- 1938 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration
Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
- 1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
- 1939 - Louise Lasser, American actress
- 1941 - Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
- 1944 - John Milius, American director and writer
- 1946 - Bob Harris, British disc jockey and
presenter
- 1947 - Peter Riegert, American actor
- 1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
- 1948 - Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
- 1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
- 1949 - Carl Franklin, American actor
- 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite
(d. 1997)
- 1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
- 1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
- 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime
Minister of Belgium
- 1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1955 - Michael Callen, American singer, songwriter and AIDS activist (d.
1993)
- 1958 - Stuart Adamson, British musician
(Big Country) (d. 2001)
- 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
- 1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
- 1962 - Vincent Gallo, American actor
- 1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
- 1963 - Billy Bowden, test cricket umpire from New Zealand
- 1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American
cellist
- 1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
- 1966 - Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler
- 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English singer
- 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
- 1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer (Catatonia)
- 1969 - Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
- 1970 - Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 - Johnny Messner, American actor
- 1970 - Virgil Runnels III, American professional wrestler (Dustin Rhodes;
Goldust)
- 1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
- 1972 - Jason Varitek, American baseball player
- 1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
- 1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
- 1974 - Trot Nixon, American baseball player
- 1974 - Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor
- 1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress
- 1974 - Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
- 1974 - Zoe Lucker, British Television Actress
- 1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
- 1978 - Brett Claywell, American actor
- 1978 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
- 1979 - Chris Gaylor, American drummer
- 1979 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1979 - Josh Server, American actor
- 1979 - Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
- 1980 - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
- 1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
- 1981 - Efisia Fele, South African-Australian actress
- 1981 - Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer
- 1983 - Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
- 1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress
- 1985 - Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
- 1987 - Joss Stone, English singer
- 1994 - Dakota Blue Richards, English child
actress
- 2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich, American child
actress
Deaths
- 1034 - Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 1028)
- 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English
rebel (b. 1521)
- 1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b.
1535)
- 1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
- 1626 - Marino Ghetaldi, Croatian mathematician (b.
1568)
- 1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b.
1638)
- 1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b.
1650)
- 1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b.
1725)
- 1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica
(b. 1831)
- 1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra,
Mexican poet (b. 1824)
- 1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
- 1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b.
1862)
- 1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b.
1832)
- 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus
impresario (b. 1847)
- 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b.
1839)
- 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author
(b. 1864)
- 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b.
1849)
- 1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b.
1880)
- 1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b.
1869)
- 1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b.
1875)
- 1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b.
1911)
- 1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b.
1923)
- 1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
- 1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter
(b. 1900)
- 1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b.
1905)
- 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)
- 1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
- 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b.
1903)
- 1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
- 1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner
and executive (b. 1903)
- 1991 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b.
1915)
- 1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b.
1920)
- 1994 - Blake Wilkes, Famous failier
- 1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b.
1988)
- 2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer
(b. 1945)
- 2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
- 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
- 2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and
businessman (b. 1900)
- 2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b.
1915)
- 2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
- 2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
- 2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
- 2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b.
1925)
- 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
- 2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
- 2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
Holidays and observances
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