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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

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Events

★ 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.

★ 1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

★ 1638 - Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.

★ 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.

★ 1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.

★ 1806 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

★ 1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

★ 1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.

★ 1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

★ 1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

★ 1857 - Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

★ 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Appomattox Court House begins.

★ 1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

★ 1871 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

★ 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

★ 1882 - The Knights of Columbus are established.

★ 1886 - Dr John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

★ 1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

★ 1936 - In Germany, dictator Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. In 1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished.

★ 1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian ''Regia Marina'' off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

★ 1941 - 80% of American AM radio stations change frequencies under the terms of NARBA.

★ 1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major succes for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

★ 1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

★ 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

★ 1961 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.

★ 1971 - My Lai massacre: Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

★ 1971 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.

★ 1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam.

★ 1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.

★ 1982 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982

★ 1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and Canada's first female to be elected in a general election as a premier.

★ 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.

★ 2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

★ 2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

Births

★ 1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613/1614)

★ 1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)

★ 1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)

★ 1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)

★ 1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)

★ 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)

★ 1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

★ 1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)

★ 1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

★ 1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)

★ 1869 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)

★ 1870 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)

★ 1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)

★ 1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

★ 1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)

★ 1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)

★ 1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)

★ 1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)

★ 1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)

★ 1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

★ 1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)

★ 1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

★ 1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)

★ 1902 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

★ 1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)

★ 1906 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)

★ 1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)

★ 1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

★ 1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)

★ 1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)

★ 1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d. 1979)

★ 1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

★ 1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)

★ 1914 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985}

★ 1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)

★ 1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)

★ 1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)

★ 1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)

★ 1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

★ 1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator

★ 1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)

★ 1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)

★ 1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)

★ 1929 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist

★ 1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut

★ 1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet

★ 1936 - Judith Guest, American author

★ 1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician

★ 1937 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)

★ 1939 - Terence Hill, Italian actor

★ 1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)

★ 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer

★ 1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

★ 1941 - Eden Kane, British singer

★ 1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

★ 1943 - John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

★ 1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer

★ 1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist

★ 1944 - Denny McLain, American baseball player

★ 1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player

★ 1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)

★ 1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)

★ 1948 - Bud Cort, American actor

★ 1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician

★ 1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)

★ 1949 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)

★ 1952 - Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer

★ 1954 - Dianne Kay, American actress

★ 1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

★ 1955 - Earl Campbell, American football player

★ 1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor

★ 1955 - Christopher Lawford, Irish actor

★ 1955 - Marina Sirtis, English actress

★ 1956 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (d. 1996)

★ 1956 - Stephen Cole, English journalist

★ 1956 - Kurt Thomas, American gymnast

★ 1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor

★ 1958 - Victor Salva, American film director

★ 1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer

★ 1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros)

★ 1959 - Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1961 - Mike Kingery, American baseball player

★ 1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian

★ 1961 - Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver

★ 1964 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model

★ 1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete

★ 1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)

★ 1967 - Brian Jordan, American baseball player

★ 1967 - John Popper, American musician (Blues Traveler)

★ 1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer

★ 1968 - Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist

★ 1971 - Aaron Lawrence, American porn actor

★ 1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal footballer

★ 1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor

★ 1973 - Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer

★ 1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver

★ 1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

★ 1976 - Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist

★ 1978 - Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor

★ 1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress

★ 1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan

★ 1980 - Amy Mathews, Australian actress

★ 1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress

★ 1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer

Deaths

★ 1058 - Pope Stephen IX

★ 1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)

★ 1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)

★ 1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)

★ 1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)

★ 1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

★ 1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)

★ 1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)

★ 1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)

★ 1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist

★ 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)

★ 1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)

★ 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)

★ 1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)

★ 1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)

★ 1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)

★ 1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)

★ 1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)

★ 1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)

★ 1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)

★ 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:

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★ Henry Robinson Bowers (b. 1883)

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★ Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)

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★ Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)

★ 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)

★ 1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)

★ 1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)

★ 1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)

★ 1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)

★ 1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)

★ 1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)

★ 1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)

★ 1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)

★ 1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)

★ 1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)

★ 1986 - Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)

★ 1989 - Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)

★ 1991 - Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)

★ 1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)

★ 1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1912)

★ 1994 - Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)

★ 1995 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)

★ 1995 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)

★ 1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)

★ 1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)

★ 2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)

★ 2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)

★ 2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)

★ 2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)

★ 2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)

★ 2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)

★ 2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

★ Festival of Ishtar.

★ Youth Day in Taiwan

★ Memorial day and commemoration of the 1947 revolt against French colonization in Madagascar

Liturgical feasts

★ Saint Armosgastes (Archmimus, died after 460)

★ Saint Barachasius (Berikjesu)

★ St. Bertold (d. 1179)

★ St. Eustace

★ Firminus

★ Gwynllyw (Woollos; Gundleus)

★ St. Jonas (d. 327)

★ St. Ludolf of Ratzeburg (d. 1250)

★ Blessed Hugo (d. 1239)

★ Hugh of Vaucelles (Dean of the church in Cambrai. Cistercian monk at Vaucelles. Died 1239 of natural causes)

★ Lasar

★ Ludolph

★ Saint Mark of Arethusa bishop, martyred in 362 during the persecution of Julian the Apostate

★ Pastor

★ Saint Saturus

★ Secundus

★ Saint Gladys (Gwladys)

★ Blessed Jeanne Marie de Maille

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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