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Events

★ 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the ''de facto'' ruler of England.

★ 1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").

★ 1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.

★ 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

★ 1608 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.

★ 1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

★ 1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

★ 1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.

★ 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.

★ 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.

★ 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

★ 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.

★ 1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.

★ 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson (MS).

★ 1868 - Japanese Boshin War: End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

★ 1870 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

★ 1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.

★ 1889 - Club Nacional de Futbol, a football club in Uruguay, is founded.

★ 1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.

★ 1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

★ 1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

★ 1927 - University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.

★ 1929 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.

★ 1931 - Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

★ 1935 - The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.

★ 1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until ''29 May, 1939''.

★ 1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

★ 1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

★ 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.

★ 1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

★ 1948 - Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states.

★ 1955 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

★ 1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

★ 1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

★ 1970 - Mississippi state police kill two black students at Jackson State University.

★ 1973 - Human Space Flight: ''Skylab'', the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.


★ 1977 - In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture [1] of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.

★ 1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.

★ 1986 - Formula One Italian driver Elio De Angelis has a terrible crash with his Brabham at the Paul Ricard circuit in France during a test session. He will die the next day at the Marseille hospital.

★ 1988 - Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.

★ 1995 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

★ 2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.

★ 2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

★ 2004 - The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.

★ 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.

★ 2005 - Ex-''America'' (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

Births

★ 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)

★ 1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)

★ 1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)

★ 1679 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)

★ 1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)

★ 1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)

★ 1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)

★ 1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)

★ 1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)

★ 1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)

★ 1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)

★ 1752 - Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)

★ 1752 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)

★ 1771 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)

★ 1781 - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)

★ 1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)

★ 1817 - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)

★ 1832 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)

★ 1867 - Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)

★ 1872 - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)

★ 1878 - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)

★ 1880 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)

★ 1881 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)

★ 1881 - Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)

★ 1885 - Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)

★ 1890 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)

★ 1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)

★ 1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)

★ 1899 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)

★ 1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)

★ 1900 - Hal Borland, Writer (d. 1978)

★ 1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)

★ 1900 - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)

★ 1901 - Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)

★ 1903 - Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)

★ 1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)

★ 1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)

★ 1905 - Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)

★ 1905 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (d. 1989)

★ 1907 - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)

★ 1907 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)

★ 1907 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)

★ 1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)

★ 1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)

★ 1916 - Marco Zanuso, Italian architect

★ 1917 - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)

★ 1919 - Solange Chaput-Rolland, French Canadian journalist, author and politician (d. 2001)

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

★ 1921 - Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)

★ 1921 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)

★ 1922 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)

★ 1923 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician

★ 1923 - Mrinal Sen, Indian film director

★ 1925 - Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano

★ 1926 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)

★ 1927 - Herbert W. Franke,Austrian writer

★ 1929 - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)

★ 1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

★ 1931 - Alvin Lucier, American composer

★ 1933 - Michael Chevalier, German voice actor

★ 1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress

★ 1936 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)

★ 1936 - Charlie Gracie, American singer

★ 1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress

★ 1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer

★ 1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)

★ 1942 - Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator

★ 1942 - Prentis Hancock, British actor

★ 1942 - Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player

★ 1942 - Rüdiger Vogler, German actor

★ 1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)

★ 1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland

★ 1943 - Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)

★ 1943 - Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure

★ 1944 - George Lucas, American film director

★ 1945 - Francesca Annis, British actress

★ 1945 - Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association

★ 1946 - Eric Peterson, Canadian actor

★ 1947 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)

★ 1948 - Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)

★ 1949 - Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist

★ 1950 - Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer

★ 1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)

★ 1952 - Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)

★ 1952 - Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut

★ 1952 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director

★ 1953 - Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)

★ 1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia

★ 1954 - Jens Sparschuh, German writer

★ 1955 - Dennis Martinez, Nicaraguan baseball player

★ 1957 - Leon White, American professional wrestler

★ 1959 - Patrick Bruel, French singer

★ 1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)

★ 1959 - Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1960 - Anne Clark, English female singer

★ 1960 - Steve Williams, American wrestler

★ 1961 - Ulrike Folkerts, German actress

★ 1961 - Jean Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter

★ 1961 - Tim Roth, English actor

★ 1961 - Alain Vigneault, French Canadian ice hockey head coach

★ 1962 - Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)

★ 1962 - C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)

★ 1963 - Pat Borders, American baseball player

★ 1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut

★ 1964 - Eric Peterson, American guitarist (Testament)

★ 1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer

★ 1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress

★ 1966 - Mike Inez, American bassist

★ 1966 - Fabrice Morvan, French music artist

★ 1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American music artist

★ 1967 - Tony Siragusa, American football player

★ 1969 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress

★ 1969 - Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)

★ 1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director

★ 1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician

★ 1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer

★ 1973 - Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director

★ 1973 - Julian White, English rugby union footballer

★ 1975 - Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer

★ 1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer

★ 1974 - Jennifer Allan, American model

★ 1976 - Martine McCutcheon, British actress

★ 1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)

★ 1976 - Brian Lawrence, American baseball player

★ 1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player

★ 1977 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress

★ 1978 - Henry Garza, American singer and guitarist (Los Lonely Boys)

★ 1978 - André Macanga, Angolan footballer

★ 1978 - Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer

★ 1979 - Clinton Morrison, England-born Irish footballer

★ 1979 - Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer

★ 1980 - Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer

★ 1980 - Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete

★ 1980 - Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater

★ 1980 - Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer

★ 1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer

★ 1982 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer

★ 1982 - BeardyMan, English beatboxer

★ 1983 - Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player

★ 1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress

★ 1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)

★ 1984 - Michael Rensing, German footballer

★ 1984 - Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer

★ 1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, founder & CEO of Facebook

★ 1985 - Sally Martin, American actress

★ 1986 - Camila Sodi, Mexican actress

★ 1987 - Franck Songo'o, Cameroon footballer

★ 1987 - Francois Steyn, South African rugby player

★ 1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer

★ 1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress

Deaths

★ 964 - Pope John XII

★ 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)

★ 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)

★ 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)

★ 1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553)

★ 1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)

★ 1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)

★ 1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)

★ 1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)

★ 1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)

★ 1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)

★ 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)

★ 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)

★ 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)

★ 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)

★ 1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)

★ 1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)

★ 1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)

★ 1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)

★ 1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)

★ 1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

★ 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)

★ 1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)

★ 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)

★ 1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)

★ 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)

★ 1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)

★ 1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)

★ 1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)

★ 1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)

★ 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)

★ 1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)

★ 1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)

★ 1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)

★ 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)

★ 1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)

★ 1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)

★ 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)

★ 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)

★ 1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)

★ 1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)

★ 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)

★ 1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)

★ 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)

★ 1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)

★ 1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)

★ 1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)

★ 1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)

★ 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)

★ 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)

★ 1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)

★ 1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)

★ 1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)

★ 1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)

★ 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)

★ 1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)

★ 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)

★ 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

★ 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)

★ 2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)

★ 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)

★ 2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)

★ 2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)

★ 2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)

★ 2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)

★ 2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)

★ 2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)

★ 2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

★ Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

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★ St. Matthias (Apostle)

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★ St. Michael Garicoits

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★ St. Boniface of Tarsus

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★ St. Victor and Corona

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★ St. Vincent of Lerins

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★ St. Carthach the Younger

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★ St. Engelmer

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★ St. Engelmund

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★ St. Just

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★ St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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