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69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
366 The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
533 Mercurius becomes Pope John II, begins his reign as Catholic Pope, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy
1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day), The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 - Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale, Battle at Kinsale, Ireland
1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
1744 Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.'
1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
1776 Austria ends interrogation torture
1777 American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey
1788 Georgia became the 4th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War
1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery
1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)
1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
1818 The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1833 Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
1837 Composer Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev was born.
1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in  Fairmount, Pennsylvania
1843 Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden
1859 Erastus Beadle published "The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette."
1860 The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris
1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
1870 Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25, becomes King of Spain
1872 Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
1879 Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1879 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford IL
1881 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1893 The first commemorative postage stamps were issued.
1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
1893 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1900 The Chicago Canal opened.
1900 U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy to prompt trade with China.
1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montréal)
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1905 Composer Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was born.
1905 The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1905 The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China in the Russo-Japanese War:
1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1909 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13 50)
1909 Future Foursquare Gospel church founder Aimee Elizabeth [n‚e Kennedy] Semple [later McPherson], 19, along with her husband Robert Semple, was ordained to the ministry in Chicago by evangelist William H. Durham.
1910 The first junior high school in the United States opened. McKinley School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students. In a separate building students were housed who attended grades 9-12.
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
1913 National Woman's Party forms
1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Québec Bank
1918 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pittsburgh for Grimes & Mamaux
1918 NHL Montréal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919 Lithuania gains independence
1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1920 The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1921 The first religious broadcast on radio was heard on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA, as Dr. E.J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached.
1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1921 The first religious program heard over the radio was broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh over local radio station KDKA. (The first licensed radio station in the US, KDKA had been on the air only two months.)
1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1929 The United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1932 Freddy Martin formed a new band and was hired to play the Roosevelt Grill in New York City. Merv Griffin later became Martin’s lead vocalist.
1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
1933 Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
1933 Bruins beat Rangers in New York 13-3
1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
1933 US troops leave Nicaragua
1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1934 Bradman scores 253 New South Wales vs Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes
1935 - Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
1935 Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO
1936 Bradman scores 357 for South Africa vs Victoria, 424 minutes, 40 fours
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1939 Bradman scores 107 South Africa vs Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
1941 The Andrews Sisters recorded "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
1941 German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
1941 The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
1942 The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.
1942 The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
1942 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring
1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
1945 Nuremberg (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949: Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
1951 Philip Barry's "Second Threshold" premieres in New York City NY
1952 "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 542 performances
1953 "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny" premieres in New York City NY
1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1955 Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated
1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
1957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merged.
1958 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1959 CBS Radio ended four soap operas. "Our Gal Sunday", "This is Nora Drake", "Backstage Wife" and "Road of Life" all aired for the last time.
1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
1960 U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres
1961 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat Los Angeles Chargers 24-16
1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale
1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1964 Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
1964 Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana
1965 "Broadway" Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football.
1965 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters
1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict the Queen with a slightly more mature look
1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
1968 "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 49 performances
1968 Fidel Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in Cuba.
1968 Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins". The album featured a nude cover.
1968 Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
1968 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco CA, (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.'
1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 4 performances
1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
1969 Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
1969 Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
1969 Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black" premieres in New York City NY
1970 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
1970 US population is 205,052,174; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1971 In the U.S., a federally imposed ban on television cigarette advertisements went into effect.
1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1971 A team of Israeli scholars announced the discovery in Jerusalem of a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a crucified male. Found in a cave-tomb, it was the first direct physical evidence of the well-documented Roman method of execution.
1971 The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match
1972 "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 505 performances
1972 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1972 Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
1974 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries (OPEC). Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 The Allman Brothers Band were named "Outstanding Community Organization" by the Georgia Department of Corrections.
1975 U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen ruled in New York, that John Lennon and his lawyers will have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
1978 Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
1979 The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York City. Vicious died of a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the verdict.
1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
1979 Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v West Indies)
1980 Larry Williams was found dead in his home in Los Angeles, CA. The gunshot wound to the head was never confirmed as the result of a murder or suicide.
1980 68th Australian Men Tennis Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)
1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan
1982 "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 48 performances
1982 70th Australian Mens Tennis Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1982 San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13 52 of OT
1983 "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 767 performances
1983 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
1983 The final edition of Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, "Doonesbury", appeared in 726 newspapers. "Doonesbury" began running again in September 1984 after a 20-month break.
1983 The musical "Annie" closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.
1984 Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor
1985 The Rebels of UNLV beat Utah State in three overtime periods. The final score of 142-140 set a new NCAA record for total points in a basketball game (282). The game took over three hours to play.
1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
1985 Australia beat West Indies by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wickets
1985 Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1985 Undefeated Brigham Young University becomes college football champion
1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1987 Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania
1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC. She was the first black woman to head a city of that size and prominence.
1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, vs India at Sydney
1993 "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City NY after 55 performances
1994 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont New York City NY after 40 performances
1994 "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City NY after 266 performances
1994 Battles between army & rebellious Indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
1995 Carquest Bowl 5 South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
1996 AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 jobs over three years.
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
1998 Russia began circulating new rubles in effort to keep inflation in check and promote confidence.
1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
1999 A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported
2001 Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico
2002 Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly
2004 Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
2006 An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition
2006 #4 Ohio State beats #5 Notre Dame, 34-20 in the 35th Fiesta Bowl
2007 #5 Louisville beats #15 Wake Forest, 24-13 in the 73rd Orange Bowl
2008 #11 West Virginia beats #3 Oklahoma, 48-28 in the 37th Fiesta Bowl
2009 #6 Utah beats #4 Alabama, 31-17 in the 75th Sugar Bowl
2012 #6 Oregon beats #9 Wisconsin, 45-38 in the 98th Rose Bowl
2012 #3 Oklahoma State beats #4 Stanford, 41-38 (OT) in the 41st Fiesta Bowl
2013 Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs
2013 #21 Louisville beats #3 Florida, 33-23 in the 79th Sugar Bowl
2014 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
2014 Raul Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking" entering the country
2014 #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31 in the 80th Sugar Bowl
2016 Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr

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1642 Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (Turkey)(d. 1693)
1647 Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist , leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
1699: Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (Turkey)(d. 1757)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1713 Mademoiselle Dumesnil Paris, tragic actress (Racine's Phadre, Hermione)
1713: Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Québec)
1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium
1732 Franz Xaver Brixi, Composer.
1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1777 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
1803 Gugliemo Libri [della Somaia], Italian/French mathematician/book collector
1807 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki composer
1809 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns composer
1822 Rudolph J E Clausius Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)(d. 1888)
1827 Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1830 Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer
1831 Justin Winston historian/librarian (Harvard)
1833 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1836 Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1836 Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1837 Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury French reformed theologist
1846 Sandor Erkel composer
1857 Frederick Opper cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse & Gaston)
1857 Martha Carey Thomas educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
1860 William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-13)
1861 Wilhelm Bölsche writer
1863 Lucia Zarate became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1866: Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870: Ernst Barlach, German Sculptor, Writer (d. 1938)
1873 Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1873: Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
1879 Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces)
1879 Pieter Tesch Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
1880 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer
1884 Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1884 Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973)
1885 Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes)
1885 Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1886 Moyshe Leyb Halpern Galican/US poet (In New-York)
1886 Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1886 Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1888 Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965)
1889 Tito Schipa Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
1889 Walter Baldwin Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
1889 Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 (d. 1973)
1892 Lura Anson Nebraska, entertainer
1892 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1894 Robert Nathan New York City NY, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
1895 Count Folke Bernadotte Sweden, statesman,  diplomat (Red Cross, UN)(d. 1948)
1896 Dziga Vertiv [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)(d. 1954)
1896 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr composer
1896 Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer
1899 Paul-Henri Spaak Belgium, Premier/Secretary-General of NATO (1957-61)
19-- John Bedford-Lloyd New Haven CT, actor (Peter-Hometown)
19-- Ron Hale actor (Michael Corbin-General Hospital, Dr Roger Coleridge-Ryan's Hope)
1901 Rex O'Malley London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
1901 Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society)
1901 Torsten Ralf Swedish tenor (Daphne)
1902 Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1902 Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1903 Anton van Duinkerken [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
1904 James Melton Moultrie GA, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
1904 Sally Rand Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
1905 Michael Kemp Tippett English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) (d. 1998)
1905 Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1905 Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1907 Edward Albert Radice economist
1907 Salvador Ley composer
1908 Ben Grauer New York City NY, newscaster (Big Story)
1908 Janis Kepitis composer
1909 Rene Etiemble French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
1909 Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1910 Ulrich Becher writer
1910: Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1912 Andre Ameller composer
1912 Anna Lee Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
1912 Barbara Pentland Winnipeg Canada, composer
1912 Renato Guttuso Italian painter (The Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
1913 Ernest Sidey British air marshal
1913 Gardner Read Evanston, Illinois, composer
1913 Juanita E Jackson Mitchell US head (NAACP)
1913 Léon P Teisserenc de Bort France, meteorologist
1913 Anna Lee, English actress (The Sound of Music) (d. 2004)
1914 Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann, British writer (d. 1986)
1915 John Hope Franklin historian
1916 Zypora Spaisman, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actress and producer (d. 2002)
1917 Vera Zorina, German dancer (Eva Hartwig)(d. 2003)
1918 Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1920 Duke of Devonshire English large landowner/art collector
1920 Isaac Asimov, Russia, author and biochemistry professor (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)(d. 1992)
1920 Penelope Jessel politcal activist
1920 Peter Harrison Swan bomber pilot/stockbroker
1921 Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1922 Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano
1922 Jason Evers New York City NY, actor (Wrangler, Channing)
1922 Nico Schuyt composer
1923 Anna Lee
1925 Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich composer
1925 Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1925 William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador, chairman joint chief of staff (d. 2007)
1927 David Herbert publisher
1927 Gino Marchetti NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
1927 Jason Evers
1927 Richard Belmont Ray (Representative-D-GA)
1927 Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician
1928 Tiberiu Olah, composer
1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Representative-D-IL, -94), House Ways & Means Committee chair
1928 Gerhard Amanshauser writer
1928 Harry Hyams English immovable goods owner (Center Point)
1928 Howard Caine Nashville TN, actor (Brushfire)
1928 Vaughn Beals Cambridge MA, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1928 Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1928 Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1928 Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
1929 Art Prysock jazz musician
1930 Julius LaRosa Brooklyn NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
1931 Toshiki Kaifu premier of Japan (1989-91)
1932 Dabney Coleman Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1932 Peter Redgrove, British poet (d. 2003)
1933 Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1933 Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
1936 Roger Miller Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)(d. 1992)
1937 Marianne McDonald classicist/philanthropist
1938 John Considine actor (Reginald Love-Another World)
1938 Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
1938 Ian Brady, British serial killer
1939 Jim Bakker televangelist (PTL Club)/philanderer (Jessica Hahn)
1940 S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1941 Donald B. Keck
1942 Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 Baris Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
1944 Peter Eotvos composer
1944 Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1946 Richard Cole, American tour manager
1947 Calvin Hill, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1947 Aleksandr Tikhonova USSR, biathalon relay (Olympics-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80)
1947 Calvin Hill NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1947 Lanny Bassham US, rifle-3 position (Olympics-gold-1976)
1947 David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian
1947 Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1949 - Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)
1949 Chick Churchill Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)
1949 Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, American playwright/actor (Sister Mary)
1950 Lou Gramm rocker (Foreigner-Midnight Blue, Ready Or Not)
1950 David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1950 Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
1951 Nadia Cassini [Gianna Lou Muller], Woodstock NY, model (Oui)
1951 Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Grit VA, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
1952 Wendy Phillips Brooklyn NY, actress (Stacey-Executive Suite, Promised Land)
1952 Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
1952 Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and writer
1953 Vincent Racaniello American Viroligist
1954 Ludmila Borozna USSR, volleyball player (Olympics-gold-1972)
1954 Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1954 Henry Bonilla, American politician
1955 Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1955 Vivien Savage, French singer
1956 Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
1957 - Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress (Gorky Park, Kiss)
1958 Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
1959 Kirti Azad cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83)
1960 Raman Lamba cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87)
1960 Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1961 Gabrielle Carteris, American actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210, Raising Cain)
1961 Todd Haynes, American film director
1963 David Cone, Kansas City MO, baseball pitcher (New York Mets/Toronto Blue Jays/New York Yankees)
1963 Edgar Martinez New York City, NY, baseball 1st baseman (Seattle Mariners)
1964 Christopher John Gray priest
1964 Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (Olympics-gold)
1964 Rumesh Ratnayake cricketer (Sri Lankan pacer in 23 Tests 1983-92)
1965 Diane Lane New York City, NY, actress (Streets of Fire, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove)
1965 Greg Swindell Fort Worth TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians)
1965 Russ Courtnall Duncan, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1967 Harlon Barnett NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1967 James Marshall, Actor (A Few Good Men)
1967 Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1967 Tia Carrere (Althea Janairo), Hawiian actress (Wayne's World, True Lies )
1968 Cuba Gooding Jr actor (Jerry McGuire, As Good As It Gets, Boyz N the Hood, A Few Good Men)
1968 Scott Mitchell NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1968 Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
1968 Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
1968 Goichi Suda, Japanese video game developer
1969 Christy Turlington, San Francisco CA, American model (Calvin Klein Eternity)
1969 Rick Tabaracci Toronto, NHL goalie (Calgary Flames)
1969 Robert Svehla Martin Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers, Slovakia)
1969 Stephen Davies Australian field hockey forward/vice captain (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1969 Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1969 Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
1969 Robby Gordon, American racing driver
1969 Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
1969 Tommy Morrison, American boxer, Actor (Rocky V)
1970 Royce Clayton, Burbank CA, American infielder (SF Giants, St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Aleksandr Shimin hockey goaltender (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1970 Anthony Stuart cricketer (Australian ODI pace bowler, hat trick 1997)
1970 Glenn Cadrez NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl XXXII)
1970 Royce Clayton Burbank CA, infielder (San Francisco Giants, St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Eric Whitacre, American composer
1970 Sanda Ladosi, Romanian singer
1971 Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 Aamer Nazir cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler 1993- )
1971 Aaron Williams NBA center (Seattle Supersonics)
1971 Brad Parpan WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 Horace Copeland NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Robert O'Neal WLAF DB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1971 Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
1971 Taye Diggs, Actor (Chicago)
1972 Jeff Jackson US baseball outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 Lake Dawson NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs)
1972 Mattias Norstrom Mora Sweden, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, Los Angeles Kings)
1972 Adam Elliot, Australian animator
1972 Christopher Lennertz, American composer
1972 Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
1973 Abu Wilson running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 Chris Woodruff Knoxville TN, tennis star (1993 NCAA Division I)
1973 Fredric Ford WLAF CB (Scotland Claymores)/NFL cornerback (Eagles)
1973 Kate Bosworth
1973 Sarah Schwald Bellingham Wash, 1.5k runner
1973 Lucy Davis, British actress (Shaun of the Dead)
1973 Will Kirby, American actor
1974 Juha Lind NHL forward (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Dallas)
1975 Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 Dax Shepard, American actor (Parenthood, Idiocracy)
1975 Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1976 Cletidus Hunt, American football player
1976 Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
1976 Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
1976 Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
1976 Paz Vega, Spanish actress (Sex and Lucia)
1977 Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 Scott Proctor, American baseball player
1978 Devin Doherty actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
1978: Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 Suranne Jones, British actress
1979 Jonathan Greening, British footballer
1980 Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
1980 Stephanie Stiegler Santa Monica CA, pairs skater (& Zimmerman)
1980 Annie Bellemare, Canadian Figure Skater
1981 Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1981 Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
1981 Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1982 Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1982 Dustin Clare, Actor (Past Transgressions)
1983 Andrew Ebbett, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 Kate Bosworth, American actress (Superman Returns)
1984 Colleen Taylor, American journalist
1984 Kristen Hager, Actress (Wanted)
1985 Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1985 Luis Beza, American musician
1986 Asa Akira, Actress (Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2)
1987 Loui Batley, British actress
1987 Syesha Mercado, American singer
1987 Shelley Hennig, American actress (Days of our Lives)
1988 Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
1990 Erin Mullally, Actor (Neighbors)
1991 Davide Santon, Italian footballer
1993 Maximilian Schneider, Actor (The Visitors)
1994 Felix Martinsson, Actor (Lockerhole)
1995 Renata Notni, Actress (El juramento)
1997 Kate Emerick, Actress (The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause)
1998 Kaley Bowler, Actress (2 Dudes and a Dream)
2001 Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)

HIDE

17 Publius Ovidius Naso Roman poet,
1512 Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. c1460)
1557 Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1740 Johann Georg Weichenberger composer, at 63
1763 John Casteret Earl Granville English premier, at 72
1780 Johann Ludwig Krebs composer, at 66
1789 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee composer, at 68
1790 Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer) German rococo sculptor,
1801 Johann C Lavater Swiss vicar/philosopher, at 59
1803 Ignaz Franz von Beecke composer, at 69
1861 Frederik Willem IV king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), at 65 (b. 1795)
1863 Roger Weightman Hanson Confederate Brigadier General, in battle at 35
1892 George B Airy English astronomer/writer, at 90 (b. 1801)
1893 John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 James Longstreet, American Confederate General, at 82 (b. 1821)
1908 Dom Joâo G da Câmara Portuguese journalist/playwright, at 55
1913 Léon P Teisserenc de Bort French meteorologist (stratosphere), at 57 (b. 1855)
1915 Karl Goldmark Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), at 84 (b. 1830)
1917 Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1918 Sijbe K Bakker vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), at 42
1920 Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
1921 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg German chancellor/PM (Prussia); referred to the international treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality as "a scrap of paper", at 64
1923 Sam Carter black resident of Rosewood FL, lynched by KKK
1924 Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1929 Erich Wichman[n] Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, at 38
1936 Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1937 Ross Alexander actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), at 29
1939 Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist and composer,(b. 1898)
1945 Betram Home Ramsay English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), at 61(b. 1883)
1946 Joe Darling cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4) (b. 1870)
1948 Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
1950 Emil Jannings actor (The Way of All Flesh), at 65
1950 James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1951 Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1955 José Antonio Remon President of Panamá (1952-55), assassinated
1959 Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-born writer and novelist (b. 1880)
1960 Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur Dutch actor/director (Hague Comedy), at 60
1960 Chris van Abkoude author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), at about 79
1960 Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist , world record 45,798 km, at 40 (b. 1919)
1960 Friedrich Adler Austria social-democrat, assasinated PM Stürgkh, in Zürich at 80
1960 Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1961 Bob Catterall cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for South Africa 1922-31),
1963 Dick Powell actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), at 58 (b. 1904)
1963 Jack Carson actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), at 52 (b. 1910)
1965 Staf Gustaf Frans Nees composer, at 63
1968 Sanoesi Pane Indonesian writer,
1969 Georges Renevant actor (Cornered), after long illness at 74
1970 Piotr Rytel composer, at 85
1971 Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1971 E. V. Knox, English poet and satirist (b. 1881)
1974 Tex Ritter, American actor and country singer (5 Star Jubilee), at 67 (b. 1905)
1977 Erroll Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty), at 53 (b. 1921)
1980 Larry Williams rocker, at 44
1981 David Lynch singer (Platters-My Prayer), at 51
1983 Bernard George Stevens composer, at 66
1983 Dick Emery, English comedian/actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), at 65 (b. 1915)
1983 Harriet Parsons actress/producer (Susan Slept Here), at 76 of cancer
1986 Una Merkel, American actress (Abraham Lincoln), at 82 (b. 1903)
1986 Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986 Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
1990 Alan Hale Jr, American actor (Skipper Jonas Grumby-Gilligan's Island), of cancer at 71 (b. 1921)
1990 Belcampo [Herman Schönfeld Wichers], Dutch lawyer/writer, at 87
1990 Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky Manchuria composer (Creation), at 78
1991 Edmond Jabés writer,
1991 Renato Rascel actor (7 Hills of Rome), of heart failure at 78
1992 Virginia Field actress (Dream Girl), of cancer at 74
1994 Caesar Romero actor (Joker-Batman), at 86
1994 Dixy Lee Ray, American politician/chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), at 79 (b. 1914)
1994 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer French director of IMF  at 81
1994 Sammy Taft Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), at 81
1994 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1963-73) (b. 1915)
1995 Graham Sharp ice skater, at 77
1995 Manuel Rivera Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), at 67
1995 Mohammed Siyad Barre President of Somalia (1969-91),
1995 Nancy Kelly US actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), at 73 (b. 1921)
1995 Siad Barre General/President of Somalia (1969-91), at 84 (b. 1919)
1996 Sydney Thompson rock Climber, at 81
1996 Thornton Page astrophysicist, at 82
1996 Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 Jim Rodger sports writer, at 75
1997 Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
1998 Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., American admiral (b. 1920)
2000 Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2000 Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2001 Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2001 William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2002 Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2005 Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2006 Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007 Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2007 Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2007 Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2008 Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Princessof Thiland (b. 1923)
2008 George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2008 Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)
2009 Inger Christensen, Danish poet (b. 1935)
2009 Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2011 Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
2011 Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
2011 Richard D. Winters, American Army officer (b.1918)
2011 Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician and educationalist (b. 1931)
2012 David Barron, British physicist and computer scientist (b.1935)
2012 Gordon Hirabayashi, civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent
2012 Ian Bargh, Canadian jazz pianist and composer
2012 Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990
2012 William Carey, American businessman and philanthropist
2013 Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan football player
2013 Ned Wertimer, American actor
2013 Margaret A. Brewer, American soldier and first female general officer in US Marine Corps
2014 Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist
2014 Jay Traynor, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
2015 [Little] Jimmy Dickens, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
2016 Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Shiite religious leader and non-violent critic of the Saudi Arabian government, executed by the Saudi authorities

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