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(4000 BC) Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
794 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
987 Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
1252 Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian, Bull market
1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden, Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1562 Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels
1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1746 French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed
1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars, English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French.
1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1808 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
1812 U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom, War of 1812.
1813 James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order, Navy motto "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1831 James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 6th national black convention (Phila)
1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1843 Summer snow in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1857 Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory, American Civil War Peninsula Campaign.
1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
1872 6th Belmont, James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
1877 Society of American Artists forms
1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1880 1st pay telephone installed
1880 US census at 50,155,783
1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1886 The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 US census at 62,622,250, The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
1910 SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1918 Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, World War I Western Front.
1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1920 RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1921 Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1922 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1923 NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)
1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1929 The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1930 6th French Mens Tennis, Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 6th French Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1933 Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard
1934 AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1935 The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
1935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1939 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane
1939 Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1940 The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business, giving the City of New York full control of the subway system in the city.
1940 The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 Germany occupies Kreta
1941 NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1941 The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1941 Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany, World War II.
1942 The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps, World War II.
1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian flight Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, all die, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1943 Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 78th Belmont, Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed.
1946 Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 Photosensitive glass developed
1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered
1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 International Cheese treaty signed
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile, (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1956 First international flight (to Montreal YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France, comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1962 Adolf Eichmann becomes only person ever to receive a death penalty in Israel
1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1963 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 100th Belmont, Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1974 "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK
1974 Flixborough disaster, an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1975 "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1975 California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 33rd NBA Championship, Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1980 Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 40th Tony Awards, I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 "Morton Downey Jr Show," debuts in TV syndication
1988 The 4th Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 62nd National Spelling Bee, Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.
1989 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1991 Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 Snowfall in Colorado
1992 Stanley Cup, Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 Dobrinja mortar attack, 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 68th National Spell Bee, Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 MTV Movie Awards
1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 51st Tony Awards, Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
1997 LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1999 American Airlines Flight 1420 slid and crashed while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2000 The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 Dolphinarium massacre, an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2001 Nepalese royal massacre,  the Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya during dinner.
2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2005 The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
2007 Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
2009 General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history
2012 New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
2013 Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal to become the first German treble-winning team
2014 Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League cricket championship
2014 Los Angeles Kings beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 in the NHL Western Conference Finals
2015 Cruise ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River, less than 50 survive
2016 Switzerland’s Gotthard base tunnel opens - world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn

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719 Yang Yuhuan (d. 756)
1076 Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
1300 Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1480 Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
1503 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
1549 Allesandre Spontone, composer
1563 Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612) and spymaster (d. 1612)
1611 Felician Schwab, composer
1633 Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
1637 Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1653 Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
1675 Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
1679 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1755 Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist, composer
1757 Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (Piano method)
1762 Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
1763 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
1765 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
1765 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
1769 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1771 Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
1776 John George Schetky, composer
1780 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1790 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1790 Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1832)
1800 Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
1801 Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (Mormon church), polygamist (d. 1877)
1804 Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Russian composer (Jota Aragonesa) (d. 1857)
1806 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union) (d. 1863)
1815 Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1815 Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander) (d. 1864)
1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1826 Hermann Zopff, composer
1831 John Bell Hood, American general (Confederate Army) (d. 1879)
1833 John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1916)
1844 John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
1848 Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1858 William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1862 Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
1878 John Masefield, English novelist and poet, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) (d. 1967)
1881 Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1886 Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887 Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
1890 Frank Morgan (Francis P Wupperman), American actor (Wizard of Oz) (d. 1949)
1892 Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
1892 Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1898 Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1898 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1898 Lieb Glantz, composer
1898 Molly Picon, American Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) (d. 1992)
1899 Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
1899 Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1901 Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
1901 John Van Druten, English screen writer (I Remember Mama) (d. 1957)
1903 Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
1903 Percy William Whitlock, composer
1905 Dinora de Carvalho, composer
1905 Robert Newton, England, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days)
1907 Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine) (d. 1996)
1908 Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1909 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
1909 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch)
1911 Gertrude Michael, AL, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana)
1913 Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 John Randolph, American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie) (d. 2004)
1917 William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
1919 Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
1921 Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (Batman, Frank Sinatra) (d. 1985)
1922 Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1922 Joan Caulfield, American actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband) (d. 1991)
1922 Joan Copeland (Miller), American actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
1922 Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1924 Paula Hinton, dancer
1924 William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
1925 Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
1925 Marie Knight, American gospel singer (d. 2009)
1925 Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
1926 Andy Griffith, American actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), (d. 2012)
1926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson), American actress (Some Like It Hot) (d. 1962)
1928 Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (Bonkers) (d. 2003)
1928 Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11) (d. 1971)
1929 James Billington American librarian
1929 Yehudi Wyner, composer
1930 Edward Woodward, English actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman) (d. 2009)
1930 John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
1930 Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1930 Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1932 Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (d. 1994)
1932 Francis Cameron, cricketer (NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65)
1932 Philo (Rolf) Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan)
1933 Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
1933 Charles Wilson, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1973)
1933 Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
1933 Ian Sinclair, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00)
1934 Pat Boone, American singer (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
1934 Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934 Sylvia Syms, London, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine)
1934 Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
1935 James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
1935 John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980)
1935 Reverend Ike, American televangelist minister (Joy of Living) (d. 2009)
1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro)
1936 Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
1936 Joe Doyle, Irish politician
1937 Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds, Tim, Indecent Obsession)
1937 Morgan Freeman, American actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1937 Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
1939 Cleavon Little, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers) (d. 1992)
1940 Kip Thorne, American physicist
1940 René Auberjonois, American actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1941 Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
1942 Tom Mankiewicz, LA California, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1943 Ely van Tongeren, Dutch guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
1943 Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
1944 Robert Powell, English actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
1945 Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
1945 Linda Scott, American singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
1946 Brian Cox, Scottish actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1946 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
1947 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis)
1947 Ron Dennis, F1 team principal (McLaren)
1947 Ron(nie) Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones, Faces, Jeff Beck Group)
1948 Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1948 Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner (1983)
1948 Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
1949 Mike Levine, rock keyboardist/bassist (Triumph)
1950 Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic (VVD)
1950 Charlene (D'Angelo), singer (I've Never Been To Me)
1950 Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
1950 Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, TM-16)
1950 Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
1953 David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1953 Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
1953 Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
1955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
1955 Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1955 Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1955 Tony Snow, News Anchor, Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008)
1956 Lisa Hartman, American actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
1956 Robin Mattson, LA California, actress (Janet Green-All My Children)
1957 Dorota Kedzierzawska, Polish film director
1958 Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1958 Cathy Hearn, Wash DC, slalom kayak (Olympics-7th-96)
1959 Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode, Recoil)
1959 Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
1960 Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician
1960 Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
1961 Johnny Ray Huston, Mt Vernon IL, PGA golfer (1990 Honda Classic)
1961 Mark Rodenhauser, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1961 Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)
1961 Peter Machajdik, Slovakian composer
1962 Jesse Johnson, rocker (Time)
1962 Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
1964 Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
1964 Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident)
1964 Tribhuvan, Indian Poet and journalist
1965 Dan Quinn, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1965 India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1965 Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
1965 Nigel Short, English chess player
1966 Greg Schiano, American football coach
1967 Carlos van Wanrooy, soccer player (NEC)
1967 Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles)
1967 Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
1967 Vernon Turner, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer (Neighbors)
1968 Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1968 Jerry Crafts, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1968 Larry Centers, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 Ari Sulander, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1969 Erin Hartwell, Phila, time trial cyclist (Olymp-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1969 Mark Gonzalez, the "Gonz", a professional skateboarder and artist
1969 René Liu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1969 Teri Polo, American actress
1970 Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 Joshua Compston, art impressario
1970 Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1970 R. Madhavan, Indian actor
1970 Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1971 Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
1971 Roldán González, Cuban singer
1972 Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1972 Daniel Casey, English actor
1972 Jon Witman, fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Leta Lindley, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1995 State Farm Rail-3rd)
1972 Mike Dunham, American hockey player
1972 Nicholas Porzig, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Scott Greene, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
1973 Heidi Klum, German supermodel
1973 Jeffrey Schiebler, New Westminster BC, 10k/steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1973 Ray Carey, US, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1974 Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
1974 Alanis (Nadine) Morisette, Canadian singer-songwriter (Jagged Little Pill)
1974 Ashok Jadeja, Indian self-proclaimed Godman
1974 Melissa Sagemiller, American actress
1974 Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
1975 James Storm, American professional wrestler
1975 Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 Camille Martens, Vancouver BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1977 Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1977 Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 Richard Williams, British racing driver
1977 Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1978 Karen Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1979 Santana Moss, American football player
1980 Oliver James, British actor
1981 Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
1981 Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1981 Smush Parker, American basketball player
1982 Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
1983 Jake Silbermann, American actor
1984 Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
1984 Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
1985 Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 Nick Young, American basketball player
1985 Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian Athlete
1986 Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan beauty queen (Miss Universe 2008)
1987 Jerel McNeal, American basketball player
1987 Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1989 Ariana Kukors, American swimmer
1992 Felix Drake, English child actor

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(195 BC) Gaozu of Han of China
193 Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (193), ship owner, murdered (b. 133)
1191 Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen
1340 Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40)
1434 Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland
1434 Wladislaus II of Poland (b. 1362)
1568 Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded
1568 Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1571 John Story, English Catholic (b. 1504)
1616 Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 Melchior Franck, German composer (b. 1579)
1660 Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) (b. 1611)
1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1710 David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1729 Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29)
1740 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1763 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
1769 Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1810 Johann Paul Wessely, composer
1815 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1753)
1823 Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
1826 Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
1841 David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 Gregory XVI (Bartolomeo A Cappellari), Pope (b. 1765)
1861 John Q Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war
1864 Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, build Taiping Rebellion (b. 1812)
1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1868 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-61) (b. 1791)
1872 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
1873 Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 Christo Botew, writer
1876 Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1879 Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
1909 Giuseppe Martucci, composer
1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
1918 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer
1918 Jaroslav Novotny, composer
1922 Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5)
1926 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1927 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1935 Alberto Cametti, composer
1941 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
1941 Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain)
1942 Ernest Pingoud, composer
1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed
1943 Leslie Howard, English actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane (b. 1893)
1943 Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania, fascist, executed (b. 1882)
1948 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1948 Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee), American blues musician (b. 1914)
1951 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1952 John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist (Common Faith) (b. 1859)
1954 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1955 F Melius Christiansen, composer
1955 Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1959 Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player, NHL coach/star (b. 1883)
1960 Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (b. 1896)
1964 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
1965 Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
1966 Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 André Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912)
1968 Helen Keller, American humanitarian, blind & deaf author (Let us Have Faith) (b. 1880)
1968 (Johan) Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter
1969 Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
1970 G Ungaretti, writer
1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) (b. 1892)
1973 Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer
1973 Mary Kornman, American actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor) (b. 1915)
1973 Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men)
1975 Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972)
1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter
1979 Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom)
1979 Werner Forssman, German physician, urologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956) (b. 1904)
1980 Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1980 (Richard) Rube Marquard, American baseball pitcher (b. 1886)
1981 Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64) (b. 1883)
1981 Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP)
1983 Anna Seghers, writer
1983 Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1983 Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
1985 Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
1985 Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1986 Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1958)
1986 Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack (b. 1921)
1989 Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari (b. 1917)
1990 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates)
1991 David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations), dies of drug overdose (b. 1941)
1992 Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana)
1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer
1992 Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave)
1994 Frances Heflin, American actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children) (b. 1923)
1994 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician
1995 Prudence Hyman, dancer
1995 Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader
1996 Don Grolnick, jazz musician
1996 Fernand Schokweiler, judge
1996 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913)
1996 Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide
1996 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon
1996 Stephen Jones, art historian
1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85)
1998 Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2001 King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2002 Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2003 Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2007 Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
2009 Thomas Berry, American theologian, deep ecologist (b. 1914)
2009 Vincent O'Brien Irish Horse Trainer Best In The (b.1917)
2010 Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)
2014 Ann B. Davis, American actress
2015 Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006)
2015 Jean Ritchie, American folk singer

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