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| + | *[[46 BC]] - [[Julius Caesar]] defeats the combined army of [[Pompey|Pompeian]] followers and [[Numidian]]s under [[Metellus Scipio]] and [[Juba I of Numidia|Juba]] at [[Battle of Thapsus|Thapsus]]. | ||
| + | * [[337]] - [[Pope Julius I|Julius I]] is elected [[pope]]. | ||
| + | *[[1685]] - [[James II of England and VII of Scotland]] becomes [[British monarchy|King]] upon the death of his brother [[Charles II of England|Charles II]]. | ||
| + | *[[1778]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: In [[Paris]] the [[Treaty of Alliance]] and the [[Treaty of Amity and Commerce (USA-France)|Treaty of Amity and Commerce]] are signed by the [[United States]] and [[France]] signaling official recognition of the new republic. | ||
| + | *[[1788]] - [[Massachusetts]] becomes the sixth state to ratify the [[United States Constitution]]. | ||
| + | *[[1815]] - [[New Jersey]] grants the first [[United States|American]] [[railroad]] charter to a [[John Stevens (inventor)|John Stevens]]. | ||
| + | *[[1817]] - The [[Argentina|Argentinian]] [[José de San Martín|San Martín]] [[Crossing of the Andes|crosses the Andes]] with an army in order to liberate [[Chile]] from Spanish rule. | ||
| + | *[[1819]] - Sir [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]] founds [[Singapore]]. | ||
| + | *[[1820]] - The first 86 [[African American]] [[immigrant]]s sponsored by the [[American Colonization Society]] started a [[colonization|settlement]] in present-day [[History of Liberia|Liberia]]. | ||
| + | *[[1840]] - Signing of the [[Treaty of Waitangi]], founding document of [[New Zealand]]. | ||
| + | *[[1843]] - The first [[minstrel]] show in the [[United States]] The [[Virginia Minstrels]] opens ([[Bowery Amphitheatre]] in [[New York City]]). | ||
| + | *[[1862]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Ulysses S. Grant]] gives the [[United States]] its first victory of the war, by capturing [[Fort Henry, Tennessee]], known as the [[Battle of Fort Henry]]. | ||
| + | *[[1899]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[Treaty of Paris (1898)]], a [[peace treaty]] between the [[United States]] and [[Spain]] is ratified by the [[United States Senate]]. | ||
| + | *[[1900]] - The international arbitration court at [[The Hague]] is created when the [[Netherlands]]' [[Senate]] ratifies an [[1899]] [[peace conference]] decree. | ||
| + | *[[1922]] - [[Achille Ratti]] becomes [[Pope Pius XI]]. | ||
| + | * 1922 - The [[Washington Naval Treaty]] was signed in [[Washington, DC]], limiting the [[navy|naval armaments]] of [[United States]], [[British Empire|Britain]], [[Japan]], [[France]], and [[Italy]]. | ||
| + | *[[1933]] - The [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th Amendment to the United States Constitution]] goes into effect. | ||
| + | *[[1934]] - [[February 6, 1934 crisis|February 6, 1934 political crisis in France]]. The [[far right]] leagues rally in front of the [[Palais Bourbon]], an attempted [[coup d'état|coup]] against the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]. | ||
| + | *[[1936]] - [[Olympic Games]]: [[Winter Olympic Games]] - [[1936 Winter Olympics|IV Olympic Winter Games]] open in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], [[Germany]]. | ||
| + | *[[1951]] - ''The Broker'', a [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] passenger train derails near [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey]]. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] becomes [[Queen regnant|Queen]] upon the death of her father [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]]. At the exact moment of [[succession]], she was in a [[treehouse]] at the [[Treetops Hotel]] in [[Kenya]]. | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] [[Proclamation of accession of Elizabeth II|is proclaimed]] [[Canadian monarchy|Queen of Canada]] at [[Rideau Hall]], [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]]. | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - Eight players of Manchester United were killed in the [[Munich air disaster]]. | ||
| + | *[[1959]] - [[Jack Kilby]] of [[Texas Instruments]] filed the first [[patent]] for an [[integrated circuit]]. | ||
| + | * 1959 - At [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished. | ||
| + | *[[1971]] - [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 14]] Mission - [[Alan Shepard]] becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon. | ||
| + | *[[1978]] - The [[Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978|Blizzard of 1978]], one of the worst [[Nor'easter]]s in [[New England]] history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour. | ||
| + | *[[1992]] - The [[Sami people|Saami]] people of the [[Nordic countries]] have an official day celebrating their existence. | ||
| + | *[[1996]] - A Birgen Air [[Boeing 757]] crashes into the [[Atlantic Ocean]], off the coast of [[Dominican Republic]] killing 189. | ||
| + | *[[1998]] - [[Washington National Airport]] is renamed [[Ronald Reagan National Airport]]. | ||
| + | *[[1998]] - In [[Corsica]], the prefect [[Claude Erignac]] is assassinated in [[Ajaccio]], presumably by [[Yvan Colonna]]. | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - In [[Russia]], a suicide-attack in a [[Moscow]] metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on [[Chechen people|Chechen]] separatist groups. | ||
| + | *[[2006]] - [[Stephen Harper]] becomes the 22nd [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. | ||
| + | *[[2007]] - [[DNS Backbone DDoS Attacks|A denial-of-service attack]] is mounted against the Internet's DNS root servers. | ||
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| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| + | *[[1577]] - [[Beatrice Cenci]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1599]]) | ||
| + | *[[1608]] - [[Antonio Vieira]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1697]]) | ||
| + | *[[1611]] - [[Chongzhen Emperor]], Emperor of China (d. [[1644]]) | ||
| + | *[[1639]] - [[Daniel Georg Morhof]], German writer and scholar (d. [[1691]]) | ||
| + | *[[1664]] - [[Mustafa II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d, [[1703]]) | ||
| + | *[[1665]] - [[Queen Anne of England]] (d. [[1714]]) | ||
| + | *[[1695]] - [[Nicolaus II Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (d. [[1726]]) | ||
| + | *[[1732]] - [[Charles Lee (general)|Charles Lee]], General in the American Revolution (d. [[1782]]) | ||
| + | *[[1744]] - [[Pierre-Joseph Desault]], French anatomist and surgeon (d. [[1795]]) | ||
| + | *[[1748]] - [[Adam Weishaupt]], founder of the [[Bavarian Illuminati]] (d. [[1811]]) | ||
| + | *[[1756]] - [[Aaron Burr]], 3rd [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1836]]) | ||
| + | *[[1757]] - [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]], [[Poland|Polish]] scholar and statesman. (d. [[1841]]) | ||
| + | *[[1811]] - [[Henry George Liddell]], father of the [[Alice Liddell|Alice]] in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' (d. [[1898]]) | ||
| + | *[[1833]] - [[James Ewell Brown Stuart]], American [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[cavalry]] general (d. [[1864]]) | ||
| + | * 1833 - [[José María de Pereda]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1906]]) | ||
| + | *[[1834]] - [[Ema Puksec]], Croatian singer (d. [[1889]]) | ||
| + | *[[1838]] - [[Sir Henry Irving]], British actor (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| + | * 1838 - [[Yisrael Meir Kagan]], Chofetz Chayim (d. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | *[[1853]] - [[Ignacij Klemenčič]], Slovenian physicist (d. [[1901]]) | ||
| + | *[[1887]] - [[Josef Frings]], German Archbishop of Cologne (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| + | *[[1875]] - [[Leonid Gobyato]], Russian general (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| + | *[[1892]] - [[William Murphy (scientist)|William Parry Murphy]], American physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| + | *[[1894]] - [[Eric Partridge]], New Zealand lexicographer (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| + | *[[1895]] - [[Babe Ruth]], American baseball player (d. [[1948]]) | ||
| + | *[[1897]] - [[Louis Buchalter]], Jewish American mobster (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| + | *[[1899]] - [[Ramón Novarro]], Mexican actor (d. [[1968]]) | ||
| + | *[[1901]] - [[Ben Lyon]], American actor (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| + | *[[1902]] - [[George Brunies]], American musician (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| + | *[[1903]] - [[Claudio Arrau]], Chilean-born pianist (d. [[1991]]) | ||
| + | *[[1905]] - [[Władysław Gomułka]], Polish leader (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| + | *[[1908]] - [[Amintore Fanfani]], Italian politician (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| + | *[[1910]] - [[Irmgard Keun]], German author (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| + | * 1910 - [[Carlos Marcello]], Tunisian-born gangster (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| + | *[[1911]] - [[Ronald Reagan]], American radio broadcaster, film actor, governor of [[California]] and 40th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | *[[1912]] - [[Eva Braun]], German mistress and wife of [[Adolf Hitler]] (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| + | *[[1913]] - [[Mary Leakey]], British anthropologist (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| + | *[[1914]] - [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], American voice actor (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| + | *[[1916]] - [[John Crank]], British mathematician (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| + | *[[1917]] - [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]], Hungarian-born actress | ||
| + | *[[1918]] - [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]], German author (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| + | *[[1922]] - [[Bill Johnston (cricketer)|Bill Johnston]], Australian cricketer | ||
| + | * 1922 - [[Patrick Macnee]], British actor | ||
| + | * 1922 - [[Denis Norden]], British television personality | ||
| + | *[[1924]] - [[Billy Wright (footballer)|Billy Wright]], English former footballer (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| + | *[[1925]] - [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]], Indonesian author (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| + | *[[1926]] - [[Haskell Wexler]], American cinematographer | ||
| + | * 1926 - [[Walker Edmiston]], American actor (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| + | *[[1929]] - [[Pierre Brice]], French actor | ||
| + | *[[1931]] - [[Rip Torn]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1931 - [[Mamie Van Doren]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1932]] - [[Camilo Cienfuegos]], Cuban revolutionary (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| + | * 1932 - [[François Truffaut]], French film director (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| + | *[[1933]] - [[Leslie Crowther]], British comedian (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| + | *[[1934]] - [[Bernard Erhard]], American voice actor (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| + | *[[1936]] - [[Kent Douglas]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| + | * 1936 - [[J. Howard Marshall III]], American businessman | ||
| + | *[[1939]] - [[Mike Farrell]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1939 - [[Orlando Parga]], Vice President of the [[Senate of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico Senate]] | ||
| + | *[[1940]] - [[Tom Brokaw]], American news anchorman | ||
| + | * 1940 - [[Jimmy Tarbuck]], British comedian | ||
| + | *[[1941]] - [[Gigi Perreau]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1942]] - [[Sarah Brady]], American gun-control activist | ||
| + | *[[1943]] - [[Fabian (entertainer)|Fabian]], American singer | ||
| + | * 1943 - [[Gayle Hunnicutt]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1944]] - [[Christine Boutin]], French politician | ||
| + | * 1944 - [[Willie Tee]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[2007]])) | ||
| + | * 1944 - [[Michael Tucker (actor)|Michael Tucker]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican musician (d. [[1981]]) | ||
| + | *[[1946]] - [[Jim Turner (Congressman)|Jim Turner]], American politician | ||
| + | * 1946 - [[Kate McGarrigle]], Canadian singer and songwriter | ||
| + | *[[1949]] - [[Jim Sheridan]], Irish film director | ||
| + | *[[1950]] - [[Natalie Cole]], American singer | ||
| + | *[[1951]] - [[Marco Antônio]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| + | * 1951 - [[Jacques Villeret]], French film actor (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[Ricardo Lavolpe]], Argentine football coach | ||
| + | *[[1955]] - [[Michael Pollan]], American journalist | ||
| + | *[[1957]] - [[Kathy Najimy]], American actress and comedienne | ||
| + | * 1957 - [[Robert Townsend]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - [[Cecily Adams]], American actress (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Barry Miller (actor)|Barry Miller]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1959]] - [[Ken Nelson]], English record producer | ||
| + | *[[1960]] - [[Megan Gallagher]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1961]] - [[Bill Lester]], American racecar driver | ||
| + | *[[1962]] - [[Axl Rose]], American singer ([[Guns N' Roses]]) | ||
| + | *[[1963]] - [[Kevin Trudeau]], American entrepreneur | ||
| + | *[[1966]] - [[Rick Astley]], British singer | ||
| + | *[[1967]] - [[Anita Cochran]], American singer | ||
| + | * 1967 - [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer ([[Zard]]) (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| + | *[[1968]] - [[Adolfo Valencia]], Colombian footballer | ||
| + | * 1968 - [[Akira Yamaoka]], Japanese composer | ||
| + | *[[1970]] - [[Per Frandsen]], Danish footballer | ||
| + | * 1970 - [[Kitty Yung]], American pornographic actress | ||
| + | *[[1971]] - [[Dana Eskelson]], American actress | ||
| + | * 1971 - [[Brad Hogg]], Australian cricket player | ||
| + | * 1971 - [[Brian Stepanek]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1972]] - [[David Binn]], American football player | ||
| + | *[[1975]] - [[Brett Hawke]], Australian swimmer | ||
| + | * 1975 - [[Tomoko Kawase]], Japanese singer | ||
| + | * 1975 - [[Svend-Allan Sørensen]], Danish artist | ||
| + | *[[1976]] - [[Tanja Frieden]], Swiss snowboarder | ||
| + | * 1976 - [[Colin Teo]], Singaporean Grand Prix driver | ||
| + | * 1976 - [[Kim Zmeskal]], American gymnast | ||
| + | *[[1977]] - [[Jason Euell]], English-born footballer | ||
| + | *[[1979]] - [[Dan Bălan]], Moldovan singer and musician [[O-Zone]] | ||
| + | *[[1980]] - [[Mamiko Noto]], Japanese [[seiyu]] | ||
| + | * 1980 - [[Kim Poirier]], Canadian actress | ||
| + | * 1980 - [[Luke Ravenstahl]], American politician | ||
| + | *[[1981]] - [[Calum Best]], American model | ||
| + | * 1981 - [[Jens Lekman]], Swedish musician | ||
| + | * 1981 - [[Ty Warren]], defensive lineman for the [[New England Patriots]] | ||
| + | *[[1982]] - [[Alice Eve]], English actress | ||
| + | * 1982 - [[Tank (Taiwanese singer)|Tank]], [[Mandopop]] singer. | ||
| + | *[[1983]] - [[Brodie Croyle]], American football player | ||
| + | * 1983 - [[Sreesanth|S Sreesanth]], Indian cricketer | ||
| + | * 1983 - [[Jamie Whincup]], Australian racing driver | ||
| + | * 1983 - [[Myron Wolf Child]], Canadian politician | ||
| + | *[[1984]] - [[Darren Bent]], English footballer | ||
| + | * 1984 - [[Piret Järvis]], Estonian singer | ||
| + | * 1984 - [[Daisy Marie]], American pornographic actress | ||
| + | *[[1985]] - [[Kris Humphries]], American basketball player | ||
| + | * 1985 - [[Yang Yu]], Chinese swimmer | ||
| + | *[[1986]] - [[Alice Greczyn]], American actress | ||
| + | * 1986 - [[Brendan Taylor]], Zimbabwean cricketer | ||
| + | *[[1988]] - [[Allison Holker]], American dancer | ||
| + | *[[1989]] - [[Craig Cathcart]], Irish football | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - [[Princess Louise of Belgium]] | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| + | * [[891]] - [[Photius]], Patriarch of Constantinople | ||
| + | *[[1378]] - [[Jeanne de Bourbon]], wife of [[Charles V of France]] (b. [[1338]]) | ||
| + | *[[1497]] - [[Johannes Ockeghem]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1410]]) | ||
| + | *[[1515]] - [[Aldus Manutius]], Italian printer | ||
| + | *[[1585]] - [[Edmund Plowden]], English legal scholar (b. [[1518]]) | ||
| + | *[[1593]] - [[Jacques Amyot]], French writer (b. [[1513]]) | ||
| + | * 1593 - [[Emperor Ogimachi of Japan]] (b. [[1517]]) | ||
| + | *[[1617]] - [[Prospero Alpini]], Italian scientist (b. [[1553]]) | ||
| + | *[[1685]] - King [[Charles II of England]] (b. [[1630]]) | ||
| + | *[[1740]] - [[Pope Clement XII]] (b. [[1652]]) | ||
| + | *[[1775]] - [[William Dowdeswell]], English politician (b. [[1721]]) | ||
| + | *[[1783]] - [[Capability Brown]], English landscape gardener (b. [[1716]]) | ||
| + | *[[1793]] - [[Carlo Goldoni]], Italian playwright (b. [[1707]]) | ||
| + | *[[1807]] - [[John Reid (soldier)|John Reid]], British army general and composer (b. [[1721]]) | ||
| + | *[[1816]] - [[Maria Ludwika Rzewuska]], Polish szlachcianka (b. [[1744]]) | ||
| + | *[[1833]] - [[Pierre André Latreille]], French entomologist (b. [[1762]]) | ||
| + | *[[1834]] - [[Richard Lemon Lander]], British explorer (b. [[1804]]) | ||
| + | *[[1855]] - [[Josef Munzinger]], Swiss Federal Councilor (b. [[1791]]) | ||
| + | *[[1899]] - [[Leo von Caprivi]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| + | * 1899 - Prince [[Prince Alfred of Edinburgh|Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]] (b. [[1874]]) | ||
| + | *[[1916]] - [[Rubén Darío]], Nicaraguan writer (b. [[1867]]) | ||
| + | *[[1918]] - [[Gustav Klimt]], Austrian painter (b. [[1862]]) | ||
| + | *[[1927]] - [[Sam Maguire]], Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. [[1879]]) | ||
| + | *[[1938]] - [[Marianne von Werefkin]], Russian-Swiss painter (b. [[1860]]) | ||
| + | *[[1950]] - [[Georges Imbert]], Alsatian chemist (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[George VI of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - [[Duncan Edwards]], English footballer (b. [[1936]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[David Pegg]], English footballer (b. [[1935]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Tommy Taylor]], English footballer (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Geoff Bent]], English footballer (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Roger Byrne]], English footballer (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Eddie Colman]], English footballer (b. [[1936]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Mark Jones (footballer)|Mark Jones]], English footballer (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Frank Swift]], English footballer and journalist (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| + | * 1958 - [[Walter Crickmer]], Manchester United club secretary | ||
| + | *[[1963]] - [[Abd el-Krim]], Moroccan politician | ||
| + | *[[1964]] - [[Emilio Aguinaldo]], First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| + | *[[1967]] - [[Martine Carol]], French film actress (b. [[1920]]) | ||
| + | *[[1976]] - [[Vince Guaraldi]], American musician (b. [[1928]]) | ||
| + | *[[1981]] - [[Hugo Montenegro]], American film music composer and orchestra leader (b. [[1925]]) | ||
| + | * 1981 - [[Frederika of Hanover]], Queen Consort of Greece (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | *[[1985]] - [[James Hadley Chase]], English writer (b. [[1906]]) | ||
| + | *[[1986]] - [[Frederick Coutts]], Salvation Army general (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| + | * 1986 - [[Minoru Yamasaki]], American architect (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| + | *[[1989]] - [[Chris Gueffroy]], last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. [[1968]]) | ||
| + | * 1989 - [[Barbara Tuchman]], American historian (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| + | * 1989 - [[Osbourne Ruddock]], AKA "King Tubby", Dub pioneer (b. [[1941]]) | ||
| + | * 1989 - [[André Cayatte]], French filmmaker (b. [[1909]]) | ||
| + | *[[1991]] - [[Salvador Luria]], Italian-born biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| + | * 1991 - [[Danny Thomas]], American singer, comedian, and actor (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| + | *[[1993]] - [[Arthur Ashe]], American tennis player (b. [[1943]]) | ||
| + | *[[1994]] - [[Joseph Cotten]], American actor (b. [[1905]]) | ||
| + | * 1994 - [[Jack Kirby]], American comic book writer (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | *[[1995]] - [[James Merrill]], American poet (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| + | *[[1996]] - [[Guy Madison]], American actor (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| + | *[[1997]] - [[Roger Laurent]], Belgian racing driver (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| + | *[[1998]] - [[Falco (musician)|Falco]], Austrian singer (b. [[1957]]) | ||
| + | * 1998 - [[Carl Wilson]], American musician ([[The Beach Boys]]) (b. [[1946]]) | ||
| + | * 1998 - [[Haroun Tazieff]], French vulcanologist and geologist (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| + | *[[2001]] - [[Filemon Lagman]], Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. [[1953]]) | ||
| + | * 2001 - [[Fulgence Charpentier]], Quebec journalist, editor and publisher (b. [[1897]]) | ||
| + | *[[2002]] - [[Max Perutz]], Austrian-born molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| + | *[[2005]] - [[Lazar Berman]], Russian pianist (b. [[1930]]) | ||
| + | * 2005 - [[Karl Haas]], American radio presenter (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| + | *[[2007]] - [[Lew Burdette]], American baseball player (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| + | * 2007 - [[Len Hopkins]], Canadian politician (b. [[1930]]) | ||
| + | * 2007 - [[Frankie Laine]], American singer (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| + | * 2007 - [[Willye White]], American athlete (b. [[1939]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.
- 337 - Julius I is elected pope.
- 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
- 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
- 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
- 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
- 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
- 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
- 1934 - February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
- 1936 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
- 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of Canada at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
- 1958 - Eight players of Manchester United were killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
- 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
- 1992 - The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
- 1996 - A Birgen Air Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.
- 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
- 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.
- 2006 - Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.
- 2007 - A denial-of-service attack is mounted against the Internet's DNS root servers.
Births
- 1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
- 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- 1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
- 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
- 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
- 1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714)
- 1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
- 1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
- 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
- 1756 - Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
- 1811 - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
- 1833 - James Ewell Brown Stuart, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
- 1833 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
- 1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
- 1838 - Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
- 1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
- 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- 1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
- 1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
- 1895 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
- 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
- 1903 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
- 1908 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
- 1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
- 1911 - Ronald Reagan, American radio broadcaster, film actor, governor of California and 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
- 1916 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress
- 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
- 1922 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
- 1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
- 1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality
- 1924 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- 1926 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor
- 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor
- 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
- 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
- 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- 1933 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
- 1934 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1936 - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
- 1939 - Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1939 - Orlando Parga, Vice President of the Puerto Rico Senate
- 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
- 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
- 1941 - Gigi Perreau, American actress
- 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
- 1943 - Fabian, American singer
- 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
- 1944 - Christine Boutin, French politician
- 1944 - Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007))
- 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
- 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
- 1946 - Jim Turner, American politician
- 1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1949 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
- 1950 - Natalie Cole, American singer
- 1951 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
- 1951 - Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
- 1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
- 1955 - Michael Pollan, American journalist
- 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne
- 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor
- 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1958 - Barry Miller, American actor
- 1959 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
- 1960 - Megan Gallagher, American actress
- 1961 - Bill Lester, American racecar driver
- 1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
- 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer
- 1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
- 1967 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- 1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
- 1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
- 1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
- 1970 - Kitty Yung, American pornographic actress
- 1971 - Dana Eskelson, American actress
- 1971 - Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
- 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
- 1972 - David Binn, American football player
- 1975 - Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
- 1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
- 1976 - Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
- 1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
- 1976 - Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
- 1977 - Jason Euell, English-born footballer
- 1979 - Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer and musician O-Zone
- 1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
- 1980 - Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
- 1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
- 1981 - Calum Best, American model
- 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
- 1981 - Ty Warren, defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
- 1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
- 1982 - Tank, Mandopop singer.
- 1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player
- 1983 - S Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
- 1983 - Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
- 1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician
- 1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer
- 1984 - Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
- 1984 - Daisy Marie, American pornographic actress
- 1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- 1985 - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
- 1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress
- 1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
- 1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish football
- 2004 - Princess Louise of Belgium
Deaths
- 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
- 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- 1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
- 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
- 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
- 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
- 1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
- 1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
- 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
- 1807 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
- 1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
- 1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
- 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
- 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
- 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874)
- 1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
- 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- 1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
- 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
- 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
- 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
- 1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
- 1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
- 1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 1958 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
- 1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
- 1958 - Walter Crickmer, Manchester United club secretary
- 1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
- 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (b. 1869)
- 1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
- 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
- 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer and orchestra leader (b. 1925)
- 1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
- 1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
- 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)
- 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, AKA "King Tubby", Dub pioneer (b. 1941)
- 1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
- 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
- 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
- 1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
- 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
- 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- 1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
- 2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist, editor and publisher (b. 1897)
- 2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
- 2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
notes
François Truffaut
Ugo Foscolo
James Hadley Chase
Gustav Klimt
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Piero Manzoni
Summer with Monika
Rip Torn
Jack Kirby
Haskell Wexler
Charles II of England
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