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| - | * [[694]] - [[Egica]], a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses [[Jew]]s of aiding [[Muslim]]s, sentencing all Jews to slavery. | ||
| - | *[[1282]] - [[Pope Martin IV]] excommunicated King [[Peter III of Aragon]]. | ||
| - | *[[1313]] - [[Louis the Bavarian]] defeats his cousin [[Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg)|Frederick I of Austria]] at the [[Battle of Gamelsdorf]]. | ||
| - | *[[1492]] - [[Peace of Etaples]] between [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]]. | ||
| - | *[[1494]] - [[Family de' Medici]] become rulers of [[Florence]]. | ||
| - | *[[1688]] - The [[Glorious Revolution]]: [[William of Orange]] captures [[Exeter]]. | ||
| - | *[[1697]] - [[Pope Innocent XII]] founds the city of [[Cervia]]. | ||
| - | *[[1729]] - Spain, France & England sign the [[Treaty of Seville]]. | ||
| - | *[[1764]] - [[Mary Campbell]], a captive of the [[Lenape]] during the [[French and Indian War]], is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel [[Henry Bouquet]]. | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] leads the [[Coup d'état]] of [[18 Brumaire]] ending the [[French Directory|Directory]] government, and becoming one of its three Consuls ([[French Consulate|Consulate Government]]). | ||
| - | *[[1848]] - [[Robert Blum]], [[Germany|German]] revolutionary, executed in [[Vienna]] | ||
| - | *[[1851]] - [[Kentucky]] marshals abduct abolitionist minister [[Calvin Fairbank]] from [[Jeffersonville, Indiana]], and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a [[slave]] escape. | ||
| - | *[[1861]] - The first documented [[Canadian Football|football]] match in Canada was played at [[University College, University of Toronto]]. | ||
| - | *[[1862]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[United States|Union]] General [[Ambrose Burnside]] assumes command of the [[Army of the Potomac]], after [[George B. McClellan]] was removed. | ||
| - | *[[1872]] - The [[Great Boston Fire of 1872]]. | ||
| - | *[[1887]] - The [[United States]] receives rights to [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]]. | ||
| *[[1888]] - [[Jack the Ripper]] kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. | *[[1888]] - [[Jack the Ripper]] kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. | ||
| *[[1906]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is the first sitting [[President of the United States]] to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the [[Panama Canal]]). | *[[1906]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is the first sitting [[President of the United States]] to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the [[Panama Canal]]). | ||
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- 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
- 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1917 - Stalin enters the provisional government of USSR.
- 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
- 1923 - In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
- 1935 - The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
- 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1960 - Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1963 - At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. A three-train disaster in Yokohama, also in Japan, kills more than 160 people.
- 1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
- 1965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
- 1967 - French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline make their debut in the pages of Pilote magazine.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1971 - John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
- 1985 - Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest world chess champion by beating Anatoly Karpov
- 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
- 1990 - New democratic constitution issued in Nepal.
- 1990 - Mary Robinson elected Ireland's first woman President and the first from the Labour Party.
- 1993 - Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
- 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
- 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 1999 - TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident
- 2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
- 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people.
- 2005 - Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq.
Births
- 200v. Chr. - Undertaker,Hundesohn,WWE´s Deadman(d. 111114415548
- 1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
- 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
- 1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
- 1717 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist (d. 1768)
- 1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
- 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
- 1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
- 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
- 1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
- 1818 (N.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
- 1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
- 1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
- 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
- 1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
- 1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
- 1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
- 1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
- 1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
- 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
- 1877 - Allama Iqbal, Indian National poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
- 1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
- 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designer of the red telephone box (d. 1960)
- 1883 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1885 (N.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
- 1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
- 1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
- 1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
- 1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
- 1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
- 1895 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
- 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
- 1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
- 1905 - Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
- 1906 - Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
- 1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
- 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- 1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1915 - Sargent Shriver, American politician
- 1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
- 1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
- 1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
- 1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
- 1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete
- 1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
- 1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1929 - Marc Favreau, Quebec humorist (d. 2005)
- 1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
- 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
- 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
- 1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
- 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
- 1936 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
- 1936 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
- 1937 - Roger McGough, English poet
- 1937 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
- 1939 - Paul Cameron, American psychologist
- 1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
- 1942 - Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
- 1947 - Robert David Hall, American actor
- 1948 - Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
- 1948 - Bille August, Danish film and television director
- 1948 - Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
- 1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
- 1953 - Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
- 1954 - Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
- 1955 - Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
- 1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress
- 1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
- 1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
- 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
- 1959 - Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
- 1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
- 1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
- 1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
- 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
- 1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
- 1965 - Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
- 1967 - Ricky Otto, English footballer
- 1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
- 1969 - Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
- 1969 - Sandy Denton, American musician ("Pepa" of Salt-N-Pepa)
- 1970 - Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler
- 1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
- 1970 - Scarface, American rapper
- 1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
- 1971 - David Duval, American golfer
- 1971 - Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
- 1971 - Big Punisher, real name Christopher Rios, American rapper (d. 2000)
- 1972 - Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
- 1972 - Doug Russell, American radio personality
- 1972 - Eric Dane, American actor
- 1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
- 1973 - Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
- 1973 - Alyson Court, Canadian actress
- 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
- 1974 - Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
- 1974 - Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
- 1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
- 1978 - Todd Self, American baseball player
- 1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
- 1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
- 1979 - Caroline Flack, British television presenter
- 1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
- 1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
- 1980 - James Harper, English footballer
- 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
- 1984 - Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
- 1984 - Chris Wright, co-founder of Snap Family Skateboard Company
- 1984 - SE7EN, South Korean singer
- 1984 - Roldán Rodríguez, Spanish racing driver
- 1986 - Eleni Andriola, Greek gymnast
- 1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress
- 1993 - Maya Ritter, Canadian actress
Notes
- Holger Meins
- Jacques Rigaut
- Armand Rosenthal
- Roger McGough
- Irving Klaw
- Ivan Turgenev
- André François
- Yves Montand
- Toyen
- Hedy Lamarr
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Vicente Aranda
- Dylan Thomas
- Curate's egg
- Mezz Mezzrow
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