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2006 Calendar

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

[edit] Events

323 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
533 - Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754 - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1863 - The final and bloodiest day of the battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to U.S. Grant.
1866 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1938 - World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1970 - A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain killing 112
1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
2001 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145
2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.

[edit] Births

1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924)
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos, ship owner (d. 1996)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
1927 - Ken Russell, English director
1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 - Dave Barry, American writer
1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress
1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress
1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1953 - Linda Greenlese, American nurse
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
1964 - Joanne Harris, English author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, American actress
1966 - Moises Alou, Major League Baseball player
1969 - Kevin Hearn, keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress