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[edit] Births

  • 1222 - Nichiren, monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism
  • 1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
  • 1519 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
  • 1620 - Friedrich Wilhelm, called "Great Elector" of Brandenburg-Ducal Prussia (d. 1688)
  • 1822 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (d. 1911)
  • 1824 - Peter Kozler, cartographer, geographer (d. 1879)
  • 1826 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, poet (d. 1886)
  • 1826 - Julia Grant, First Lady, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902)
  • 1834 - Ernst Haeckel, zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
  • 1838 - Henry Adams, historian and novelist (d. 1918)
  • 1876 - George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian (d. 1962)
  • 1884 - Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker (d. 1951)
  • 1886 - Van Wyck Brooks, American historian, critic (d. 1963)
  • 1901 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King")
  • 1903 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (d. 1978)
  • 1904 - George F. Kennan, architect of Cold War policy of containment, centenarian
  • 1909 - Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995)
  • 1909 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982)
  • 1921 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981)
  • 1926 - John Schlesinger, film director (d. 2003)
  • 1927 - June Brown, British actress
  • 1927 - Tom Kennedy, game show host
  • 1931 - Otis Blackwell, songwriter, singer (d. 2002)
  • 1932 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish matador (d. 1998)
  • 1932 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
  • 1935 - Sonny Bono, singer, music producer, television producer, Congressman (d. 1998)
  • 1936 - Jill Kinmont, American skier
  • 1938 - John Corigliano, American Composer, wrote Academy award winning score for The Red Violin
  • 1942 - Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader
  • 1944 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
  • 1945 - Jeremy Bulloch, actor
  • 1950 - Peter Hain, British politician
  • 1951 - William Katt, American actor
  • 1954 - Iain Banks, author
  • 1955 - Margaux Hemingway, American actress, model (d. 1996)
  • 1957 - LeVar Burton, actor
  • 1957 - James Ingram, singer
  • 1958 - Ice-T, singer, songwriter, actor
  • 1958 - Lisa Loring, American actress
  • 1959 - John McEnroe, tennis player
  • 1960 - Pete Willis, ex-Def Leppard guitarist
  • 1961 - Andy Taylor, musician, Duran Duran
  • 1964 - Christopher Eccleston, actor (Our Friends in the North, Doctor Who)
  • 1967 - John Valentin, baseball player
  • 1972 - Jerome Bettis, American football player
  • 1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
  • 1973 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
  • 1975 - Aikawa Nanase, Japanese Musician
  • 1977 - Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet
  • 1978 - Sam Salter, American singer
  • 1980 - Ashley Lelie, American football player

[edit] Deaths

  • 1247 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
  • 1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
  • 1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
  • 1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
  • 1560 - Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
  • 1710 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
  • 1721 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
  • 1754 - Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1763)
  • 1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
  • 1907 - Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
  • 1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
  • 1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
  • 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1841)
  • 1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (b. 1887)
  • 1974 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
  • 1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
  • 1978 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b. 1895)
  • 1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
  • 1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
  • 1992 - Angela Carter, English writer (b. 1940)
  • 1992 - Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (b. 1908)
  • 1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
  • 1996 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
  • 1996 - Brownie McGhee, American singer (b. 1915)
  • 1996 - Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 2000 - Karsten Solheim, engineer, inventor
  • 2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
  • 2001 - William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist
  • 2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
  • 2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
  • 2004 - Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
  • 2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1974)

[edit] Events

  • 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
  • 1279 - Afonso III of Portugal dies. His son Denis succeeds the Portuguese throne.
  • 1742 - Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
  • 1804 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.
  • 1838 - Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus.
  • 1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
  • 1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established. in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
  • 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
  • 1866 - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War
  • 1868 - In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
  • 1883 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.
  • 1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
  • 1918 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany.
  • 1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
  • 1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund
  • 1936 - Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
  • 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
  • 1940 - Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, was boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.
  • 1943 - World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkov.
  • 1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.
  • 1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.
  • 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
  • 1961 - Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)
  • 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
  • 1970 - Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.
  • 1972 - NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.
  • 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
  • 1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
  • 1986 - The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
  • 1987 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
  • 1989 - Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
  • 1991 - Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
  • 1998 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.
  • 1999 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
  • 1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
  • 1999 - In Jasper, Texas, the trial begins of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime.
  • 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
  • 2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.
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