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Events
- 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of
Carthage and Hannibal.
- 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North
Africa.
- 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
- 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the
Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
- 1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the
Second Treaty of Toruń. Gdansk Pomerania
and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the
Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
- 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries
Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of
Aragon and Castile into a single country,
Spain.
- 1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology
(Doctor in Biblia).
- 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord
Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force
led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the
American Revolutionary War.
- 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first
Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from
Moscow.
- 1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving
Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
- 1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de
Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
- 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under
Jubal Early.
- 1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
- 1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American
football rules.
- 1904 - Polytechnic University of
the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
- 1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman
Empire.
- 1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- 1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and
other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 1935 - The League of Nations places economic
sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
- 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at
Rutgers University.
- 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
- 1950 - The military of the People's Republic of
China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
- 1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
- 1960 - The United States
government places an embargo on Communist Cuba.
- 1969 - The first Prime Minister of Tunisia
in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President
Habib Bourguiba.
- 1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court
demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
- 1974 - Niue becomes self-govering colony of New
Zealand
- 1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on
the List of Endangered Species.
- 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and
executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard
Coard.
- 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their
Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo
Mountains.
- 1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the
Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of
Iran's offshore oil platforms.
- 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a
Stock Market Crash.
- 1989 - Guildford Four convictions are
quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
- 1991 - 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead
- 1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to
the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
- 2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian
fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
- 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2004 - Myanmar prime minister Khin
Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of
corruption.
- 2004 - Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
- 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for
crimes against humanity.
- 2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense
Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
- 2005 - The last Major League Baseball game is
played at Busch Memorial Stadium.
- 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average
closes above the 12,000 mark for the first
time.
- 2007 - Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies
hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 9 and injured more than 100 people.
Births
- 1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d.
1328)
- 1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d.
1499)
- 1562 - Archbishop George Abbot,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
- 1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (d.
1591)
- 1605 - Thomas Browne, English writer (d.
1682)
- 1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of
Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
- 1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
- 1680 - John Abernethy, Irish
Protestant minister (d. 1740)
- 1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and
anatomist (d. 1752)
- 1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de
Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
- 1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and
abolitionist (d. 1772)
- 1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d.
1800)
- 1784 - John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d.
1857)
- 1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American
abolitionist (d. 1903)
- 1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d.
1895)
- 1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian
naturalist (d. 1937)
- 1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d.
1954)
- 1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d.
1925)
- 1873 - John Barton King, American cricketer (d.
1965)
- 1876 - Mordecai Brown, baseball player (d.
1945)
- 1882 - Umberto Boccioni, futurist painter
- 1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker
(d. 1956)
- 1895 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d.
1990)
- 1895 - Frank Durbin Last U.S veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
- 1896 - Bob O'Farrell, baseball player (d.
1988)
- 1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani
scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1900 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d.
1991)
- 1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
- 1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
- 1901 - Arleigh Burke, Naval commander (d.
1996)
- 1903 - Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d.
1971)
- 1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d.
1962)
- 1908 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d.
1981)
- 1909 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
- 1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,
Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and
publisher (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and
songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1916 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1916 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
- 1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian
philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (d.
2005)
- 1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d.
2004)
- 1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
- 1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
- 1932 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1936 - Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
- 1937 - Peter Max, American artist
- 1937 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian long distance swimmer
- 1940 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor
- 1941 - Simon Ward, British actor
- 1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
- 1943 - Robin Holloway, British composer
- 1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist
(d. 1987)
- 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
- 1945 - Harris Glen Milstead, American actor and singer
best known for his drag persona, Divine. (d. 1988)
- 1945 - Patricia Ireland, President of the NOW
- 1945 - John Lithgow, American actor
- 1945 - Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
- 1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
- 1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and
illustrator
- 1948 - Patrick Simmons, American musician
(The Doobie Brothers)
- 1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
- 1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek
mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
- 1952 - Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and
singer
- 1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
- 1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
- 1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d.
1993)
- 1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
- 1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
- 1957 - Ray Richmond, entertainment/media columnist
- 1957 - Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician (The
Waterboys, World Party)
- 1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
- 1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician, writer and
artist
- 1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
- 1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
- 1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium
- 1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American
boxer
- 1965 - Brad Daugherty, American basketball
player
- 1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
- 1966 - Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
- 1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
- 1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
- 1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer,
and actor
- 1969 - Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
- 1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
- 1972 - Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
- 1972 - Pras, American musician
- 1973 - Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
- 1973 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 - Joy Bryant, American actress
- 1976 - Omar Gooding, American actor
- 1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
- 1976 - Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
- 1977 - Louis-José Houde, Québec stand-up comic
- 1977 - Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
- 1977 - Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
- 1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
- 1979 - Brian Robertson, American
trombonist (Suburban Legends)
- 1979 - José Luis "Parejita" López, Mexican footballer
- 1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
- 1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish Formula One driver
- 1982 - Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
Deaths
- 727 - Saint Frideswide
- 1187 - Pope Urban III
- 1216 - King John
- 1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of
Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
- 1587 - Francesco I de' Medici,
Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- 1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist
(b. 1551)
- 1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
- 1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b.
1605)
- 1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b.
1646)
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b.
1667)
- 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of
Independence (b. 1724)
- 1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish
prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
- 1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b.
1808)
- 1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b.
1778)
- 1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
- 1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and
industrialist (b. 1831)
- 1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier
and industrialist (b. 1829)
- 1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b.
1887)
- 1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
- 1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of
Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(b. 1871)
- 1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b.
1864)
- 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet
(b. 1892)
- 1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
- 1960 - George Wallace, Australian
vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
- 1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
- 1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b.
1915)
- 1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
- 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b.
1933)
- 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b.
1945)
- 1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b.
1916)
- 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b.
1936)
- 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b.
1947)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer
(b. 1900)
- 1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of
Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
- 2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
- 2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer
scientist (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
- 2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
- 2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b.
1942)
- 2007 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
- 2007 - Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
Holidays and observances
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