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| *[[1966]] - The [[Beatles]] landmark album ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' is released in the United States. | *[[1966]] - The [[Beatles]] landmark album ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' is released in the United States. | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - The [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN) is founded. | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - Jurō Wada successfully performs [[Japan|Japan's]] first [[Organ transplant|heart transplant]]. | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Richard Nixon]] accepts the nomination as candidate for the [[President of the United States|presidency]]. | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - U.S. Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]] goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken [[kickbacks]] while governor of [[Maryland]]. | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Kim Dae-Jung]], a [[South Korea]]n politician and later president of South Korea, is [[1973 Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung|kidnapped]]. | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] announces his resignation, effective the next day. | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Boston (album)|Boston]], by the rock band [[Boston (band)|Boston]] is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history. | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - The [[Buttevant Rail Disaster|Buttevant railway accident]] in Ireland occurred. | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Altaf Hussain]]'s address at [[Nishtar Park]] [[Karachi]], announcement of establishing political movement [[MQM]]. | ||
| - | *[[1988]] - The "[[8888 Uprising]]" occurs in [[Myanmar]]. | ||
| - | * 1988 - The lights are turned on at [[Wrigley Field]] for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-28]] Mission - [[Space Shuttle Columbia]] takes off on a secret five-day military mission. | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Iraq]] occupies [[Kuwait]] and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the [[Gulf War]] shortly afterward. | ||
| - | *[[1991]] - Collapse of [[Warsaw radio mast]], the tallest construction ever built | ||
| - | * 1991 - [[John McCarthy (journalist)|John McCarthy]], British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by [[Islamic Jihad]], is released. | ||
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] submarine ''[[H.L. Hunley]]'' is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. | ||
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Births
- 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- 1605 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
- 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
- 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
- 1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
- 1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
- 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
- 1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
- 1814 - Esther Morris, first U. S. female judge (d. 1902)
- 1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
- 1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
- 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
- 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1880 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
- 1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
- 1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish stop-motion animation filmmaker (d. 1965)
- 1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
- 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
- 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
- 1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
- 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
- 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
- 1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
- 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1980)
- 1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1915 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
- 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1920 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
- 1921 - William Asher, American film producer
- 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
- 1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
- 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
- 1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
- 1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
- 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Richard Anderson, American actor
- 1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
- 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
- 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
- 1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
- 1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
- 1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
- 1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
- 1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
- 1936 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
- 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- 1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
- 1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
- 1940 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist
- 1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
- 1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
- 1947 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
- 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
- 1949 - Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
- 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
- 1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
- 1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
- 1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
- 1953 - Don Most, American actor
- 1953 - Nigel Mansell, English one-time Formula One World Champion
- 1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
- 1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
- 1958 - Deborah Norville, American television host
- 1960 - Ulrich Maly, Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
- 1961 - Daniel House, Owner C/Z Records
- 1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
- 1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
- 1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
- 1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
- 1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
- 1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
- 1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
- 1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
- 1969 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1970 - Trev Alberts, American football player
- 1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
- 1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
- 1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
- 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
- 1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
- 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
- 1974 - Scott D'Amore, professional wrestler and manager
- 1974 - Andy Priaulx, British racing driver
- 1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
- 1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
- 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
- 1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
- 1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
- 1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
- 1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
- 1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
- 1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
- 1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
- 1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
- 1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
- 1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
- 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
- 1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
- 1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
- 1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
- 1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
- 1986 - Peyton List, American actress
- 1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
- 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
- 1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
- 1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Deaths
- 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
- 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
- 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- 1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
- 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
- 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
- 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
- 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
- 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
- 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
- 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
- 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
- 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
- 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
- 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
- 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
- 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
- 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
- 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1944 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)
- 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
- 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
- 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. 1896)
- 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
- 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
- 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
- 1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
- 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Ramón Valdés, Brazilian actor (b. 1923)
- 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
- 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
- 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
- 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
Notes
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