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[edit] Births

• 1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• 1509 - John Calvin, Swiss reformer (d. 1564)
• 1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
• 1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
• 1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
• 1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• 1842 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
• 1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian physicist (d. 1943)
• 1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
• 1888 - Giorgio Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
• 1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• 1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
• 1914 - Joseph 'Joe' Schuster, cartoonist
• 1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Milt Buckner, musician
• 1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
• 1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
• 1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
• 1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
• 1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
• 1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1931 - Alice Munro, American writer
• 1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
• 1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
• 1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
• 1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
• 1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
• 1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
• 1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
• 1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician
• 1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
• 1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
• 1989 - Maxine Ackrill

[edit] Deaths

• 138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
• 1559 - Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1584 - William I of Orange, Dutch leader (b. 1533)
• 1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
• 1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
• 1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
• 1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
• 1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1987 - John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• 1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 2003 - Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)

[edit] Events

• 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in Delft by Balthasar Gérard.
• 1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
• 1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
• 1832 - US President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.
• 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).
• 1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
• 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
• 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
• 1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
• 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
• 1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
• 1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
• 1985 - In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces its old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see New Coke).
• 1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
• 1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
• 1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• 1998 - The remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie are returned to his family in St. Louis, Missouri from the Tomb of the Unknowns upon identification through DNA analysis. The remains had been in the first tomb since 1984.
• 1998 - Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
• 2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
• 2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
• 2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
• 2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest bus accident to date in Hong Kong.