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Events

★ 1525 - Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.

★ 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon

★ 1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

★ 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.

★ 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.

★ 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

★ 1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.

★ 1881 - The USS ''Jeannette'' is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

★ 1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

★ 1893 - Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

★ 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.

★ 1913 - Great Gorge and International Railway trolley passes under garbage chute in Niagara Falls, New York when it breaks, covering the passenger-loaded car in garbage.

★ 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.

★ 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.

★ 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".

★ 1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.

★ 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.

★ 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.

★ 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

★ 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

★ 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy

★ 1955 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered.

★ 1956 - Real Madrid win the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.

★ 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in ''Miranda v. Arizona'' that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

★ 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

★ 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.

★ 1971 - Vietnam War: ''The New York Times'' begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.

★ 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

★ 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

★ 1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

★ 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

★ 1983 - ''Pioneer 10'' becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.

★ 1992 - The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the San Antonio Force, 50-0.

★ 1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the ''Exxon Valdez'' disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

★ 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

★ 1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

★ 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

★ 2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

★ 2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

★ 2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

★ 2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

★ 2007 - Al Askari Mosque bombed again.

Births

★ 823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)

★ 1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)

★ 1752 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)

★ 1763 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)

★ 1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)

★ 1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)

★ 1786 - Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)

★ 1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)

★ 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)

★ 1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)

★ 1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)

★ 1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)

★ 1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1939)

★ 1870 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)

★ 1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist (d. 1937)

★ 1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)

★ 1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)

★ 1887 - Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)

★ 1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)

★ 1892 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)

★ 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)

★ 1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)

★ 1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)

★ 1899 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)

★ 1901 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)

★ 1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)

★ 1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)

★ 1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)

★ 1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)

★ 1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)

★ 1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)

★ 1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)

★ 1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)

★ 1915 - Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)

★ 1918 - Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)

★ 1926 - Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)

★ 1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate

★ 1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)

★ 1933 - Tom King, British politician

★ 1933 - Erich Ribbeck, German football soccer trainer

★ 1935 - Christo, Bulgarian artist

★ 1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist

★ 1939 - Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)

★ 1940 - Bobby Freeman, American soul singer

★ 1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer

★ 1941 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player

★ 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor

★ 1944 - Ban Ki-moon, the current U.N. Secretary General

★ 1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author

★ 1947 - A. G. Lafley, American executive director

★ 1948 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)

★ 1949 - Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)

★ 1950 - Michael Stark, Australian actor

★ 1950 - Gerd Zewe, German footballer

★ 1951 - Richard Thomas, American actor

★ 1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

★ 1952 - Tony Bruno, American talkshow host

★ 1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor

★ 1954 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician

★ 1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit

★ 1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician

★ 1959 - Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor

★ 1961 - Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player

★ 1962 - Ally Sheedy, American actress

★ 1962 - Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player

★ 1963 - Bettina Bunge, German tennis player

★ 1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)

★ 1964 - Kathy Burke, English actress

★ 1965 - Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer

★ 1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca

★ 1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

★ 1968 - David Gray, British musician

★ 1968 - Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)

★ 1968 - Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist

★ 1969 - Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete

★ 1970 - Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer

★ 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)

★ 1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)

★ 1972 - Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician

★ 1973 - Sam Adams, American football player

★ 1973 - Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)

★ 1973 - Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer

★ 1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer

★ 1974 - Steve-O, American television personality

★ 1974 - Brande Roderick, American actress

★ 1974 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor

★ 1974 - Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player

★ 1975 - Ante Covic, Australian footballer

★ 1975 - Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director

★ 1976 - Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter

★ 1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor

★ 1978 - Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor

★ 1978 - Jason Michael Carroll, Country musician

★ 1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player

★ 1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer

★ 1980 - Florent Malouda, French footballer

★ 1980 - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver

★ 1980 - Sarah Connor, German singer

★ 1981 - Chris Evans, American actor

★ 1981 - Shanna Ferrigno, American reality television star

★ 1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete

★ 1983 - Matt Allison, British racing driver

★ 1984 - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer

★ 1985 - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)

★ 1985 - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress

★ 1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses

Deaths

★ 1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)

★ 1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)

★ 1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)

★ 1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)

★ 1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman

★ 1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)

★ 1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)

★ 1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)

★ 1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)

★ 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)

★ 1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)

★ 1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)

★ 1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)

★ 1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)

★ 1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

★ 1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)

★ 1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)

★ 1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)

★ 1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)

★ 1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

★ 1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)

★ 1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)

★ 1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)

★ 1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)

★ 1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)

★ 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)

★ 1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)

★ 1982 - Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)

★ 1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)

★ 1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)

★ 1989 - Fran Allison, American, early television personality (''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'') (b. 1907)

★ 1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)

★ 1993 - Gérard Côté, French Canadian runner (b. 1913)

★ 1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)

★ 2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)

★ 2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)

★ 2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)

★ 2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)

★ 2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)

★ 2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)

★ 2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)

★ 2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)

★ 2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

★ Roman Empire – Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva

★ Roman Empire – seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta

Liturgical Feasts

★ Saint Anthony of Padua, priest, confessor, Doctor of the Church [common; GTZ: Franciscans]

★ Saint Agricius, bishop of Sens, confessor [GTZ: Sens]

★ Saint Landoald, bishop, confessor [GTZ: Bruges]

★ Saint Leo III, pope [PCP (Paris)]

★ Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor [GTZ: Constance, Mainz]

★ Saint Ragnobert, martyr [GTZ: Lyon]

★ Saint Rambert

★ Saint Valerian, bishop [WTS (Bruges)]

★ Saint Valericus, bishop [WTS (Bruges)]

★ Blessed Odwin

★ Blessed Thomas Woodhouse, martyr

★ Blessed Damhnade, virgin [ Fermanagh]

★ Saint Felicola, virgin, martyr [GTZ: Cologne, Trier, Worms, France]

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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