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Events

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379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Lódz ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1986 – The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006 – A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.

Births

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399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
1544 – King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
1813 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1848 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883)
1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
1876 – Wakashima Gonshiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
1878 – Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (d. 1986)
1905 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
1917 – John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress
1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
1925 – Nina Bawden, English author
1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
1932 – Richard Lester, British director
1932 – Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
1933 – George Coyne, American theologian
1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
1939 – Phil Everly, American musician
1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
1941 – Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
1941 – Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
1942 – Thom Mayne, American Architect
1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
1944 – Laurie London, English singer
1944 – Peter Lynch, American investor
1944 – Dan Reeves, American football coach
1945 – Trevor Williams, English Bass Guitarist
1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
1950 – Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican/American actor and comedian
1956 – Carman Licciardello, American singer
1957 – Ottis Anderson, former American football player
1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass guitarist
1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
1963 – Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
1963 – Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
1968 – Whitfield Crane, American musician (Ugly Kid Joe)
1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author
1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
1969 – Predrag Mijatovic, Yugoslavian footballer
1969 – Junior Seau, American football player
1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
1971 – John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
1972 – Jon Fisher, American entrepreneur
1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
1972 – Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
1973 – Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian
1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1975 – Noah Georgeson, American musician
1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer
1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer
1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
1979 – Wiley, English rapper
1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
1980 – Kotoko, Japanese singer
1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor
1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
1981 – Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer
1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
1983 – Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and songwriter
1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1984 – Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian league footballer
1988 – JaVale McGee, American Basketball Player
1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper
1993 – Gus Lewis, English actor

Deaths

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639 – Dagobert I, King of the Franks (b. c. 603)
1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
1576 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
1661 – Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1599)
1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
1785 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
1833 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated) (b. 1799)
1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, president of the country (b. 1821)
1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
1925 – Queen Maria Sophia of Two Sicilies (b.1841)
1927 – Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1939 – Branislav Nušic, Serbian novelist, playwright, satirist, essayist and journalist (b. 1864)
1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
1957 – József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (b. 1905)
1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
1971 – Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1973 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
1980 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1983 – Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
1990 – Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
1991 – Marcel Chaput, French-Canadian politician (b. 1918)
1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
1996 – Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
1997 – James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
1998 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (b. 1913)
2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2006 – Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
2007 – Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)
2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian stem cell research pioneer (b. 1926)