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253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
524 – The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1906 – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television programme: Our World
1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes into the village of Cove Neck, New York after running out of fuel, killing 73 people.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
[edit]Births
1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American General of the Army and of the Air Force (d. 1950)
1887 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
1901 – Harold Roe Bartle, American lawyer, and politician, mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
1902 – Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Sh?wa) (d. 1953)
1903 – George Orwell, British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer
1923 – Sam Francis, America painter (d. 1994)
1924 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
1927 – Chuck Smith, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Michel Brault, Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
1928 – Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1929 – Eric Carle, American author
1930 – George Murdock, American actor
1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American singer
1932 – Peter Blake, British pop artist
1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
1934 – Jack W. Hayford, fourth president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
1935 – Eddie Floyd, American soul singer
1936 – Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Indonesian politician, President (1998-1999)
1939 – Allen Fox, American tennis player
1939 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1940 – A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
1940 – Clint Warwick, English bassist (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
1942 – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and European Ombudsman
1942 – Willis Reed, American basketball player
1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1945 – Carly Simon, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-born Canadian senator
1946 – Ian McDonald, English saxophonist (King Crimson, Foreigner)
1947 – Jimmie Walker, American actor
1950 – Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
1952 – Tim Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
1952 – Alan Green, Northern Irish BBC Sport broadcaster and commentator
1954 – David Paich, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Toto)
1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, President (1999-death) (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1960 – Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor and writer
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-born Canadian novelist
1963 – George Michael, British singer and songwriter
1964 – Dell Curry, American basketball player
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
1964 – Greg Raymer, American professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Democratic Republic of the Congo basketball player
1968 – Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
1969 – Matt Gallant, American television host
1969 – Zim Zum, American guitarist (Marilyn Manson)
1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1970 – Ariel Gore, American journalist and novelist
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
1971 – Angela Kinsey, American actress
1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
1971 – Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
1971 – Michael Tucker, American baseball player
1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian bassist (Nickelback)
1973 – Milan Hnili?ka, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 – Chenoa, Argentine-born Spanish singer
1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 – Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1975 – Michele Merkin, American model
1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Carlos Nieto, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
1978 – Layla El, British dancer, model and professional wrestler
1978 – Aramis Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
1978 – Luke Scott, American baseball player
1978 – Aftab Shivdasani, Indian Bollywood actor
1978 – Marcus Stroud, American football player
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1979 – Busy Philipps, American actress
1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
1979 – La La, American actress and television personality
1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981 – Sheridan Smith, English actress
1981 – Pooja Umashanker, Indian actress
1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 – Rain, Korean singer and actor
1983 – Todd Cooper, English swimmer
1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
1984 – Indigo, American actress
1985 – Daniel Bard, American baseball player
1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian soccer player
1986 – Megan Burns, English actress and singer
1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1993 – Barney Clark, English actor
2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
[edit]Deaths
253 – Pope Cornelius
635 – Emperor G?oz?, first Emperor of the Chinese Táng Dynasty (b. 566)
1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1064)
1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
1533 – Mary Tudor, English-born Queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers of the Guard under Louis XIV of France (b. c. 1611)
1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792 – Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone (b. 1738)
1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1870 – David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (b. 1823)
1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American Army officer (b. 1839)
1876 – Thomas Custer, American Army officer, two-time Medal of Honor recipient, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1848)
1876 – James C. Calhoun, American Army Lieutenant, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier of fortune, veteran of the American Civil War (b. 1840)
1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (b. 1906)
1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. Army general, known as the "father of the U.S. Airborne" (b. 1895)
1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (Anthym, What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (b. 1940)
1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1996 – Sir Arthur Snelling, British ambassador (b. 1914)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
2007 – Jeeva, Indian film director (b. 1963)
2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b. 1939)
2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer and pop icon (b. 1958)
2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)
