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Events

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350 – Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
474 – Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
1520 – King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 – Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1913 – A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 – Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
1955 – Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1969 – Brahma Baba, founder father of Brahma Kumaris left his mortal coil.
1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1978 – The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
1994 – The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1997 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 – Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

Births

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885 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1519 – Isabella Jagiello, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1543 – (baptised) Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian composer (d. 1588)
1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
1659 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (d. 1708)
1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 – Montesquieu, French satirist and philosopher (d. 1755)
1743 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
1779 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
1782 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
1795 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
1813 – Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
1815 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
1842 – A. A. Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1850 – Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
1854 – Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
1856 – Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1877 – Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d. 1961)
1879 – Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1879 – Tane Ikai, Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 1995)
1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1933)
1881 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
1882 – A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
1886 – Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
1888 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1896 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
1901 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1904 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
1908 – Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
1910 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1993)
1911 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969).
1913 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
1913 – Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and musician (d. 1972)
1914 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
1914 – Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (d. 1987)
1915 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1917 – Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2008)
1918 – Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1921 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1922 – Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
1927 – Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
1933 – John Boorman, Irish film director
1933 – Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
1934 – Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
1935 – Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
1935 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1937 – Dick Durock, American actor d.2009
1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1938 – Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
1940 – Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 – Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
1941 – Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
1943 – Paul Freeman, British actor
1943 – Kay Granger, American politician
1944 – Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1945 – José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 – Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 – Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1949 – Philippe Starck, French designer
1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1951 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1951 – Bob Latchford, English footballer
1952 – Michael Angelis, British actor
1952 – Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design
1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1953 – Brett Hudson, American musician
1954 – Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor
1955 – Fergus Martin, Irish artist
1956 – Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
1961 – Peter Beardsley, English footballer
1961 – Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 – Alison Arngrim, American actress
1962 – David O'Connor, American equestrian rider
1963 – Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician
1963 – Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1963 – Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter
1964 – Brady Anderson, American baseball player
1964 – Jane Horrocks, British actress
1964 – Andrea Leand, American tennis player
1964 – Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
1965 – Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 – Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 – André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 – Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1967 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 – Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 – Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
1969 – John Eder, American politician
1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 – Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
1970 – DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 – Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 – Jonathan Davis, American singer (Ko?n)
1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 – Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1971 – Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician
1971 – Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist
1972 – Vinod Kambli, Indian cricket player
1972 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1973 – Burnie Burns, director, voice actor, producer, screenwriter, co-founder of Rooster Teeth Productions
1973 – Ben Jealous, African-American leader, president of the NAACP
1973 – Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer and Gladiator
1973 – Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
1974 – Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 – Princess Claire of Belgium
1974 – Devon Odessa, American actress
1974 – Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1974 – Michael Tunn, Australian television presenter and radio announcer
1976 – Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player
1976 – Damien Leith, Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006
1976 – Subhrajit Mitra, Indian filmmaker
1977 – Richard Archer, British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi)
1977 – Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 – Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
1977 – Richard Wall, Irish actor
1978 – Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1978 – Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
1978 – Bogdan Lobont, Romanian football player
1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, producer, actor and director
1979 – Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 – Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1979 – Kenyatta Jones, American football player
1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player
1980 – Jason Segel, American actor
1980 – Estelle Swaray, English singer
1981 – Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
1981 – Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
1981 – Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1982 – Quinn Allman, American Guitarist, The Used
1982 – Joanna Newsom, American harpist
1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 – Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (d. 2007)
1984 – Kristy Lee Cook, American singer
1984 – Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer
1984 – Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
1984 – Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
1984 – Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1985 – Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier
1985 – Minissha Lamba, Indian actress and model
1985 – Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
1986 – Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer
1986 – Marya Roxx, Estonian singer
1987 – Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
1987 – Christopher Liebig, German rugby player
1988 – Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
1988 – Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
1991 – Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
1993 – Morgan York, American actress
1994 – Gong Min-ji, South Korean pop singer, rapper, and dancer of 2NE1
1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
1999 – Karan Brar, American actor

Deaths

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52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher (b. 93 BC)
474 – Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1213 – Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
1367 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1586 – Margaret of Parma, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious figure (b. 1819)
1896 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
1936 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
1940 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
1966 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 – David O. McKay, American religious figure (b. 1873)
1971 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and writer (b. 1919)
1978 – Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective (b. 1890)
1980 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (b. 1923)
1997 – Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 – Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2003 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 – Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 – John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
2009 – Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
2009 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (b. 1931)
2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)