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Events
- 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
- 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the
Wampanoags.
- 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around
Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
- 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the
possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from
Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a
tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony
to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
- 1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
- 1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
- 1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a
U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
- 1888 - The Football League is formed.
- 1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup
starts.
- 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by
Auguste and Louis Lumière.
- 1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by
Foster Hewitt.
- 1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
- 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
- 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy confronts Italy's
Regia Marina in the Second Battle of
Sirte.
- 1943 - World War II: the entire population of
Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is
adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow &
Charles Townes receive the first patent for a
laser.
- 1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry
nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water
levels.
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an
Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the
Labour government of James Callaghan.
- 1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in
Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely
unfounded.
- 1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat in one of
the most grusome sports injuries of all time.
- 1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock
speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri
Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
- 1996 - Göran Persson succeeds Ingvar Carlsson as Swedish prime minister.
- 1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months,
becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
- 1997 - The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the
Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group
Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by
Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired
Hellfire missiles.
- 2006 - ETA, armed Basque
separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
- 2006 - BC Ferries' Queen of the
North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
- 2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British
forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American
Tom Fox.
Births
- 841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d.
885)
- 1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d.
1235)
- 1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of
Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
- 1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman
Emperor (d. 1519)
- 1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian
writer (d. 1583)
- 1599 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d.
1641)
- 1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d.
1672)
- 1663 - August Hermann Francke, German
Protestant minister (d. 1727)
- 1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
- 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d.
1799)
- 1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman
(d. 1783)
- 1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d.
1888)
- 1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American
abolitionist (d. 1886)
- 1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian prophet of the Bahá'í Faith
(d. 1892)
- 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- 1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born
explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
- 1857 - Paul Doumer, French President (d. 1932)
- 1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d.
1940)
- 1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d.
1913)
- 1868 - Robert Millikan, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- 1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the
Philippines Republic (d. 1964)
- 1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d.
1919)
- 1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official
(d. 1960)
- 1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d.
1961)
- 1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
- 1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d.
1991)
- 1907 - James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d.
1990)
- 1907 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player
(d. 1991)
- 1908 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- 1909 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d.
1983)
- 1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d.
1979)
- 1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d.
1985)
- 1912 - Karl Malden, American actor
- 1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
- 1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
- 1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d.
2005)
- 1917 - Virginia Grey, American actress (d.
2004)
- 1918 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
- 1920 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d.
2000)
- 1920 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
- 1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Marcel Marceau, world renown French
Mime (d. 2007)
- 1924 - Allen Neuharth, American businessman
- 1924 - Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
- 1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d.
2001)
- 1928 - Ed Macauley, American basketball player
- 1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
- 1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
- 1930 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
- 1931 - Burton Richter, American physicist,
Nobel laureate
- 1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former
President of Iran
- 1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress
- 1934 - Orrin Hatch, American politician
- 1934 - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (d. 1994)
- 1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
- 1936 - Ron Carey, American labor leader
- 1936 - Roger Whittaker, British singer
- 1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
- 1940 - Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
- 1941 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor
- 1941 - Billy Collins, American poet
- 1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
- 1942 - Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
- 1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
- 1943 - George Benson, American musician
- 1943 - Keith Relf, English musician (The
Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
- 1944 - Jeremy Clyde, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
- 1946 - Rudy Rucker, American author
- 1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
- 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
- 1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
- 1950 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
- 1952 - Bob Costas, American sports commentator
- 1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
- 1955 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- 1955 - Valdis Zatlers, 7th President
of Latvia
- 1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
- 1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress and
singer
- 1958 - Laurie David, American political activist
- 1958 - Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter
- 1959 - Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and
executive
- 1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
- 1965 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1992)
- 1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
- 1966 - Song Kwang Sik, Korean singer
- 1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- 1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
- 1968 - David Macmillan, Materials Engineer
- 1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
- 1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
- 1972 - Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
- 1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
- 1973 - Joe Nedney, American football player
- 1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- 1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
- 1975 - Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player
- 1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
- 1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
- 1977 - Joey Porter, American football player
- 1978 - Tom Poti, Professional Hockey Player
- 1979 - Aaron North, American musician
- 1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
- 1981 - Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star
- 1981 - MIMS, American rapper
- 1982 - Pete Bennett, British musician and winner of Big
Brother 2006
- 1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
Deaths
- 1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of
Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
- 1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
- 1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st
Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b.
1388)
- 1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of
Sweden (b. 1488)
- 1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b.
1557)
- 1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
- 1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French
composer (b. 1632)
- 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister
(b. 1703)
- 1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
- 1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
- 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b.
1779)
- 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German
writer (b. 1749)
- 1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b.
1798)
- 1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b.
1822)
- 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b.
1882)
- 1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b.
1848)
- 1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice (b. 1857)
- 1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b.
1871)
- 1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b.
1870)
- 1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b.
1909)
- 1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque
politician (b. 1904)
- 1974 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver
(b.1939)
- 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b.
1904)
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b.
1905)
- 1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b.
1915)
- 1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor (b.
1903)
- 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
- 1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
- 1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and
record producer (b. 1950)
- 1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
- 1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b.
1969)
- 2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio
founder (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b.
ca. 1937)
- 2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b.
1913)
- 2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II
pilot (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
- 2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian thinker
(b. 1918)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
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