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Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical Feast days

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Events

★ 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.

★ 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.

★ 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.

★ 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.

★ 1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

★ 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.

★ 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).

★ 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

★ 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.

★ 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.

★ 1819 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.

★ 1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.

★ 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.

★ 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).

★ 1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.

★ 1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.

★ 1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.

★ 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

★ 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.

★ 1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

★ 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

★ 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

★ 1928 - First color television broadcast in London.

★ 1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the ''Mallard'', which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)

★ 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.

★ 1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.

★ 1962 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.

★ 1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.

★ 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.

★ 1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.

★ 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

★ 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.

★ 1988 - United States Navy warship USS ''Vincennes'' shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

★ 1988 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.

★ 1989 - Fitzgerald Inquiry released in Queensland.

★ 1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.

★ 2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

★ 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.

★ 2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.

★ 2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.

★ 2007 - Ghana introduces new Ghanaian cedi currency.

Births

★ 1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)

★ 1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)

★ 1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)

★ 1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)

★ 1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)

★ 1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)

★ 1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)

★ 1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)

★ 1851 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)

★ 1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)

★ 1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)

★ 1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)

★ 1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942)

★ 1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)

★ 1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)

★ 1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)

★ 1903 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)

★ 1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)

★ 1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)

★ 1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)

★ 1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)

★ 1917 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)

★ 1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Versatile Telugu Cinema Actor (d. 1974)

★ 1920 - Paul O'Dea, Baseball player (d. 1978)

★ 1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)

★ 1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore

★ 1927 - Ken Russell, British director

★ 1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)

★ 1930 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)

★ 1930 - Pete Fountain, American clarinetist

★ 1935 - Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician

★ 1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright

★ 1938 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor

★ 1939 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat

★ 1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)

★ 1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician

★ 1940 - Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland

★ 1940 - Fontella Bass, American soul singer

★ 1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor

★ 1942 - Paco Stanley, a Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)

★ 1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor

★ 1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter

★ 1945 - Michael Cole, American TV actor

★ 1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland

★ 1947 - Dave Barry, American writer

★ 1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress

★ 1948 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist

★ 1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress

★ 1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)

★ 1950 - Sandra Lee, American writer and TV presenter

★ 1950 - James Hahn, American politician

★ 1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer

★ 1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician

★ 1952 - Alan Autry, American football player and politician

★ 1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer

★ 1956 - Don Vito, American ''Viva La Bam'' castmember

★ 1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)

★ 1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist

★ 1958 - Aaron Tippin, American singer

★ 1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author

★ 1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)

★ 1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)

★ 1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer

★ 1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)

★ 1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor

★ 1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress

★ 1962 - Thomas Gibson, American actor

★ 1964 - Joanne Harris, British author

★ 1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress

★ 1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)

★ 1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress

★ 1966 - Moises Alou, Dominican baseball player

★ 1966 - Sandra Lee (author), American television host and cookbook author

★ 1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)

★ 1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player

★ 1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress

★ 1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist

★ 1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director

★ 1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor

★ 1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress

★ 1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist

★ 1976 - Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress

★ 1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer

★ 1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer

★ 1982 - Kanika, Indian actress

★ 1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor

★ 1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

★ 1988 - James Troisi, Australian footballer

Deaths

★ 683 - Pope Leo II

★ 1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist

★ 1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)

★ 1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)

★ 1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)

★ 1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)

★ 1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)

★ 1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)

★ 1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)

★ 1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)

★ 1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b. 1746)

★ 1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)

★ 1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)

★ 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)

★ 1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)

★ 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)

★ 1916 - Hetty Green, American Businesswoman (b. 1834)

★ 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)

★ 1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)

★ 1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)

★ 1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)

★ 1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)

★ 1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)

★ 1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)

★ 1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)

★ 1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)

★ 1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)

★ 1981 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)

★ 1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)

★ 1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)

★ 1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)

★ 1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)

★ 1993 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)

★ 1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)

★ 1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)

★ 1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)

★ 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)

★ 1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)

★ 2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)

★ 2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)

★ 2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)

★ 2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)

★ 2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)

★ 2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)

★ 2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)

★ 2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)

★ 2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)

★ 2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)

★ 2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

★ Start of the Dog Days

★ Independence Day in Belarus (when German forces lost Belarus to the Red Army in 1944)

Liturgical Feast days

★ Aaron and JuliusSaint Anatolus

★ Saint Appolin

★ Saint Bertran, bishop of Le Mans

★ Saint Gunthiern, abbot

★ Saint Guthagon, recluse

★ Saint Leo II (died 683)

★ Saint Marinus, bishop, martyr [Sleswig, Scandinavia]

★ Saint Mucian

★ Saint Phocas, martyr

★ Saint Raymond, confessor at Toulouse

★ Saint Sidronius, martyr [Sens]

★ Translation of Saint Thomas

★ [St. Thomas Day of Kerala Syrian Catholics]

★ Saint Tryphon

References

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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