Carlos Montoya 1903-1993
Events
1545 - Council of Trent begins
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, on his round-the-world voyage
1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand
1862 - The Confederates win the Battle of Fredericksburg in the American Civil War
1937 - Battle of Nanjing concludes with the Japanese victory and the fall of the city which became the site of the Nanjing Massacre
1938 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen built the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg
1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem
1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus
1972 - A chartered Spanish airliner crashes on takeoff from the Canary Islands, killing 155
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1977 - A United States government DC-3 crashes after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team
1978 - First Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation
1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland
1996 - Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations
2000 - The so-called "Texas 7" escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.
2001 - Parliament of India attacked by armed militants. Attempt foiled.
2002 - The European Union announces the addition of ten new members in Copenhagen: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The countries' membership will be effective May 1, 2004
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
Births
1521 - Pope Sixtus V, religious leader (d. 1590)
1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, poet (d. 1856)
1798 - Joseph Walker, explorer
1816 - Werner von Siemens, engineer, inventor and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen, physicist (d. 1902)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, painter (d. 1904)
1854 - Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer
1864 - Emil Seidel, politician, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist vice-presidential candidate (d. 1947)
1874 - Josef Lhvinne, pianist (d. 1944)
1887 - George Polya, mathematician (d. 1985)
1897 - Drew Pearson, journalist, political columnist (d. 1969)
1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (d. 1993)
1910 - Van Heflin, actor (d. 1971)
1913 - Archie Moore, world champion boxer (d. 1998)
1915 - Curd Jrgens, actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Ross Macdonald, author (d. 1983)
1923 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian
1927 - Christopher Plummer, actor
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer
1948 - Ted Nugent, musician
1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa
1957 - Steve Buscemi, actor
1981 - Amy Lee, Evanescence frontwoman
Deaths
1124 - Pope Callixtus II
1204 - Maimonides, sephardi philosopher (b. 1135)
1565 - Konrad von Gesner, naturalist (b. 1516)
1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, artist (b. 1866)
1961 - Grandma Moses, artist (b. 1860)
2001 - Leonardo Mondadori, publisher
2003 - Keiko, orca that starred in the Free Willy movies. (b. c.1976)
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