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Events

138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 – Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 – U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Qu?ng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
2011 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.

Births

1398 – Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435)
1591 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
1651 – Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque composer and organist (d. 1725)
1663 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
1692 – Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
1708 – Felix Benda, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1768)
1714 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
1714 – Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
1725 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
1727 – Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 1789)
1752 – John Graves Simcoe, British territorial lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1778 – Don José de San Martín, Argentine military commander (d. 1850)
1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
1842 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
1845 – George Reid, Australian politician (d. 1918)
1855 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912)
1855 – Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
1860 – Sir William Ashley, British economic historian (d. 1927)
1861 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925)
1865 – Zoravar Andranik Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter (d. 1927)
1866 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (d. 1952)
1871 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (d.1913)
1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
1877 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
1883 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
1885 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969)
1885 – Sylvia Brett, British socialite and wife of Charles Vyner Brooke (d. 1971)
1888 – John Foster Dulles, American politician, former United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
1889 – Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (d. 1982)
1890 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
1894 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969)
1895 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
1897 – Peter Llewelyn Davies, British namesake of Peter Pan (d. 1960)
1901 – Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
1903 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1906 – Boris Papandopulo, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1991)
1908 – Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)
1910 – Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)
1912 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009)
1913 – Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
1914 – John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991)
1916 – Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
1917 – Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
1918 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
1918 – Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
1918 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1919 – Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
1919 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player
1920 – Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
1921 – Andy Pafko, American baseball player
1923 – Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (d. 2009)
1927 – Dickie Jones, American actor
1927 – Ralph Stanley, American musician
1928 – Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer (d. 2009)
1929 – Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
1929 – Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
1930 – Sister Wendy Beckett, South African-born British art connoisseur
1932 – Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1932 – Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
1934 – Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
1935 – Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
1936 – Jirí Cerný, Czech music critic
1937 – Tom Courtenay, English actor
1937 – Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
1937 – Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
1938 – Diane Baker, American actress
1938 – Herb Elliott, Australian runner
1940 – Danny Cater, American baseball player
1940 – Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
1940 – Monica Proietti, Canadian bank robber (d. 1967)
1940 – Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
1942 – Karen Grassle, American actress
1942 – John Saul, American author
1943 – George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
1943 – Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1944 – Matt Guokas, American basketball player & head coach
1945 – Elkie Brooks, English singer
1945 – Herbert Léonard, French singer
1946 – Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
1946 – Jean Todt, French Formula One executive
1947 – Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence
1947 – Lee Evans, American athlete
1947 – Marc Sautet, French writer, teacher and philosopher (d. 1998)
1947 – Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
1948 – Aldo Busi, Italian writer
1948 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
1949 – Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
1949 – Jack Handey, American humorist
1949 – Amin Maalouf, Lebanese writer
1950 – Neil Jordan, Irish director
1950 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (d. 2010)
1950 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1950 – Emitt Rhodes, American singer/songwriter
1951 – James Brown, American sportscaster
1951 – César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1951 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1952 – Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
1952 – Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1952 – Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
1953 – José María Aznar, Spanish politician
1953 – Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 – John Doe, American musician
1954 – Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager
1955 – Camille Thériault, Canadian politician, 29th Premier of New Brunswick
1957 – Sérgio Marques, Portuguese politician
1957 – Chuck Strahl, Canadian politician
1958 – Panagiotis Beglitis, Greek politician
1958 – Jeff Fisher, American football coach
1958 – Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach
1959 – Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
1959 – Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)
1960 – Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
1961 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 – Todd Blackledge, American football player and television color commontator
1961 – Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
1962 – Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
1962 – Faron Moller, Canadian-born British computer scientist
1963 – Joseph E. Duncan III, American convicted serial killer and sex offender
1963 – Paul O'Neill, American baseball player
1964 – Lee Evans, English comedian
1964 – Don Majkowski, American football player
1964 – Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player
1965 – Brian Baker, American guitarist
1965 – Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
1965 – Carrot Top, American comedian
1966 – Alexis Denisof, American actor
1966 – Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
1966 – Téa Leoni, American actress
1966 – Nancy O'Dell, American television personality
1966 – Samantha Phillips, American actress
1968 – Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
1968 – Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
1969 – Paul Trimboli, Australian soccer player
1970 – Julie Hesmondhalgh, English actress
1971 – Sean Astin, American actor
1971 – Dave Harris, American disc jockey
1971 – Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
1973 – Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer
1973 – Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
1973 – Anson Mount, American actor
1973 – Normann Stadler, German triathlete
1974 – Divya Bharti, Indian Actress
1975 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
1976 – Rashida Jones, American actress and musician
1976 – Samaki Walker, American basketball player
1977 – Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
1977 – Horace Mui, Chinese vocalist
1977 – Josh Wolff, American footballer
1979 – Jennifer Ferrin, American actress
1979 – David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor
1980 – Antonio Burks, American basketball player
1980 – Christy Knowings, American actress
1981 – Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
1981 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
1982 – Jamie Lynn, American pornographic actress
1982 – Chris Baird, Irish footballer
1982 – Kimberly Caldwell, American reality television personality
1982 – Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
1982 – Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
1982 – Flavia Pennetta, Italian professional tennis player
1982 – Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 – Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
1983 – Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
1984 – Logan Leistikow, American documentary filmmaker and comedian
1984 – Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
1984 – Dane Swan, Australian rules footballer
1985 – Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league footballer
1985 – Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1986 – Justin Berfield, American actor
1986 – James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
1986 – Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1986 – James Starks, American football player
1987 – Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player
1987 – Kwaku Afriyie, Ghanaian footballer
1987 – Eva Avila, Canadian singer
1987 – Mevlüt Erdinç, Turkish footballer
1987 – Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater
1988 – Jimmy Monaghan, Irish musician
1989 – Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player
1989 – E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player
1990 – Alejandra Andreu, Spanish pageant contestant
1990 – Jefferson Alves Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
1991 – Tony Oller, American actor
1993 – Christina Kirkman, American actress
1994 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
1998 – Brendon Baerg, American actor

Deaths

1246 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1522 – William Lilye, English classical scholar
1536 – Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1553 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
1634 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
1643 – Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1655 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
1713 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
1715 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1723 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
1756 – Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
1798 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
1805 – Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1831 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
1850 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
1860 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1899 – Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
1912 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1919 – Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
1922 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
1928 – William O'Brien, Irish author, journalist and politician (M.P.) (b. 1852)
1934 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
1945 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
1950 – George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1953 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
1957 – George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
1964 – Alexander Archipenko, a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1887)
1964 – Johnny Burke (lyricist), (b. 1908)
1964 – Mariano Jesús Cuenco, a Filipino Cebuano politician and writer (b. 1888)
1964 – Maurice Farman, French Grand Prix motor racing champion (b. 1877)
1964 – David Logan (politician), a British Labour Party politician (b. 1871)
1964 – Hinrich Lohse, a Nazi German politician (b. 1896)
1964 – Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1964 – Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (b. 1913)
1966 – James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
1970 – Walter Koch, German astrologer (b. 1895)
1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (b. 1903)
1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1975 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
1978 – Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (b. 1920)
1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
1987 – James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
1991 – André Turp, Canadian tenor (b. 1925)
1993 – Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
1993 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
1994 – Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b. 1956)
1994 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
1996 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
1997 – Cal Abrams, American major league baseball outfielder (b. 1924)
1998 – Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer. (b. 1956)
1999 – Margaret Meagher, Canadian diplomat (b. 1911)
2000 – Luce Maced Martinique supercentenarian
1999 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2001 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
2003 – Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
2003 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
2004 – Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
2005 – Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
2005 – Ben Bowen, Brain Cancer victim (b. 2002)
2005 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2005 – Edward Patten, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) (b. 1939)
2006 – Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (b. 1944)
2006 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
2006 – Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2007 – William R. Anderson, American Naval Officer and Congressman (b. 1921)
2007 – Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2008 – Charles Chan, father of Jackie Chan (b. 1914)
2008 – Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008 – Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
2008 – Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2009 – Philip José Farmer, American novelist (b. 1918)
2010 – Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish academic and the founder of YÖK (b. 1915)