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==Events== |
==Events== |
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*[[46 BC]] - [[Julius Caesar]] defeats the combined army of [[Pompey|Pompeian]] followers and [[Numidia]]ns under [[Metellus Scipio]] and [[Juba I of Numidia|Juba]] at [[Battle of Thapsus|Thapsus]]. |
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*[[1685]] - [[James II of England and VII of Scotland]] becomes [[British monarchy|King]] upon the death of his brother [[Charles II of England|Charles II]]. |
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*[[1807]] - [[Robert Fulton]]'s first [[United States|American]] [[steamboat]] leaves [[New York City]] for [[Albany, New York]] on the [[Hudson River]], inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. |
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*[[1778]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: In [[Paris]] the [[Treaty of Alliance]] and the [[Treaty of Amity and Commerce (USA-France)|Treaty of Amity and Commerce]] are signed by the [[United States]] and [[France]] signaling official recognition of the new republic. |
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*[[1862]] - [[Indian Wars]]: The [[Lakota people|Lakota]] ([[Sioux]]) [[Dakota War of 1862]] begins in [[Minnesota]] as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the [[Minnesota River]]. |
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*[[1788]] - [[Massachusetts]] becomes the sixth state to ratify the [[United States Constitution]]. |
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* 1862 - [[American Civil War]]: Major General [[JEB Stuart]] is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. |
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*[[1815]] - [[New Jersey]] grants the first [[United States|American]] [[railroad]] charter to a [[John Stevens (inventor)|John Stevens]]. |
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*[[1817]] - The [[Argentina|Argentinian]] [[José de San Martín|San Martín]] [[Crossing of the Andes|crosses the Andes]] with an army in order to liberate [[Chile]] from Spanish rule. |
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*[[1864]] - American Civil War: [[Battle of Gainesville]] - Confederate forces defeat Union troops near [[Gainesville, Florida]]. |
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*[[1819]] - Sir [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]] founds [[Singapore]]. |
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*[[1883]] - The first public performance of the [[Dominican Republic]]'s [[national anthem]], ''[[Himno Nacional]]''. |
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*[[1820]] - The first 86 [[African American]] [[immigrant]]s sponsored by the [[American Colonization Society]] started a [[colonization|settlement]] in present-day [[History of Liberia|Liberia]]. |
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*[[1907]] - [[Pike Place Market]], the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in [[Seattle]]. |
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*[[1840]] - Signing of the [[Treaty of Waitangi]], founding document of [[New Zealand]]. |
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*[[1843]] - The first [[minstrel]] show in the [[United States]] The [[Virginia Minstrels]] opens ([[Bowery Amphitheatre]] in [[New York City]]). |
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*[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Stalluponen]] - The [[Germany|German]] army of [[General]] [[Hermann von François]] defeats the [[Russia]]n force commanded by [[Pavel Rennenkampf]] near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. |
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*[[1862]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Ulysses S. Grant]] gives the [[United States]] its first victory of the war, by capturing [[Fort Henry, Tennessee]], known as the [[Battle of Fort Henry]]. |
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*[[1915]] - [[Jew]]ish [[United States|American]] [[Leo Frank]] is [[lynching|lynched]] for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in [[Marietta, Georgia]]. |
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*[[1899]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: The [[Treaty of Paris (1898)]], a [[peace treaty]] between the [[United States]] and [[Spain]] is ratified by the [[United States Senate]]. |
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*[[1918]] - [[Bolshevik]] revolutionary leader [[Moisei Uritsky]] is [[assassination|assassinated]]. |
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*[[1900]] - The international arbitration court at [[The Hague]] is created when the [[Netherlands]]' [[Senate]] ratifies an [[1899]] [[peace conference]] decree. wow |
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*[[1942]] - [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] [[Makin Raid|raid]] the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]]-held [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] island of Makin ([[Butaritari]]). |
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*[[1922]] - Achille Ratti becomes [[Pope Pius XI]]. |
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*[[1943]] - [[World War II]]: The [[U.S.]] [[Eighth Air Force]] suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the [[Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission]]. |
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* 1922 - The [[Washington Naval Treaty]] was signed in [[Washington, DC]], limiting the [[navy|naval armaments]] of [[United States]], [[British Empire|Britain]], [[Japan]], [[France]], and [[Italy]]. |
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*[[1933]] - The [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th Amendment to the United States Constitution]] goes into effect. |
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* 1943 - World War II: [[Quebec Conference, 1943|First Québec Conference]] of [[Winston Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] begins. |
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*[[1934]] - [[Far right]] leagues rally in front of the [[Palais Bourbon]] in an attempted [[coup d'état|coup]] against the [[French Third Republic]], creating a [[6 February 1934 crisis|political crisis in France]]. |
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*[[1945]] - [[Indonesian Declaration of Independence]]. |
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*[[1936]] - [[Olympic Games]]: [[Winter Olympic Games]] - [[1936 Winter Olympics|IV Olympic Winter Games]] open in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], [[Germany]]. |
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*[[1945]] - [[Animal Farm]] by [[George Orwell]] is first published by [[Fredric Warburg]] |
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*[[1951]] - ''The Broker'', a [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] passenger train derails near [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey]]. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. |
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*[[1947]] - The [[Radcliffe Line]], the border between [[Union of India]] and [[Dominion of Pakistan]] is revealed. |
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*[[1952]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] becomes [[Queen regnant|Queen]] upon the death of her father [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]]. At the exact moment of [[succession]], she was in a [[treehouse]] at the [[Treetops Hotel]] in [[Kenya]]. |
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*[[1953]] - [[Addiction]]: First meeting of [[Narcotics Anonymous]] in [[Southern California]]. |
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*[[1958]] - Eight [[Manchester United]] players are killed in the [[Munich air disaster]]. |
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*[[1959]] - [[Quake Lake]]: [[Quake Lake]] was formed by the magnitude 7.5 [[1959 Yellowstone earthquake]] near [[Hebgen Lake]] in [[Montana]]. |
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*[[1959]] - [[Jack Kilby]] of [[Texas Instruments]] filed the first [[patent]] for an [[integrated circuit]]. |
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* 1959 - At [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished. |
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*[[1962]] - [[East Germany|East German]] border guards kill 18-year-old [[Peter Fechter]] as he attempts to cross the [[Berlin Wall]] into [[West Berlin]] becoming one of the first victims of the wall. |
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*[[1978]] - The [[Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978|Blizzard of 1978]], one of the worst [[Nor'easter]]s in [[New England]] history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour. |
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*[[1969]] - Category 5 [[Hurricane Camille]] hits the [[Mississippi]] coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage. |
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*[[1987]] - Justice [[Mary Gaudron]] is appointed to the [[High Court of Australia]], the first [[woman]] to be appointed. |
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*[[1970]] - [[Venera program|Venera Program]]: [[Venera 7]] launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another [[planet]] ([[Venus (planet)|Venus]]). |
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*[[1992]] - The [[Sami people|Saami]] people of the [[Nordic countries]] have an official day celebrating their existence. |
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*[[1978]] - ''[[Double Eagle II]]'' becomes first [[balloon (aircraft)|balloon]] to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean]] when it lands in [[Miserey]] near [[Paris]], 137 hours after leaving [[Presque Isle, Maine]]. |
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*[[1998]] - Washington National Airport is renamed [[Ronald Reagan National Airport]]. |
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*[[1979]] - Two [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Aeroflot]] jetliners collide in mid-air over [[Ukraine]], killing 156 |
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* 1998 - In [[Corsica]], the prefect [[Claude Erignac]] is assassinated in [[Ajaccio]], presumably by [[Yvan Colonna]]. |
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*[[1980]] - [[Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|Azaria Chamberlain disappears]], likely taken by a [[dingo]], leading to what was then the most [[trial by media|publicised trial]] in [[Australian history]]. |
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*[[1982]] - The first [[Compact Disc]]s ([[CD]]s) were released to the public in [[Germany]]. |
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*[[1988]] - [[Pakistan]]i [[President]] [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] and [[Ambassadors from the United States|U.S. Ambassador]] [[Arnold Raphel]] are killed in a plane crash. |
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*[[1998]] - [[Monica Lewinsky scandal]]: [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with [[White House]] intern [[Monica Lewinsky]]. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship. |
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*[[1999]] - A 7.4-magnitude [[1999 İzmit earthquake|earthquake]] strikes [[İzmit]], [[Turkey]], killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. |
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*[[2004]] - [[MD5]] collision found by [[China|Chinese]] researchers. |
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* 2004 - The [[National Assembly of Serbia]] unanimously adopts new state symbols for [[Serbia]]: [[Boze Pravde]] becomes the new anthem and the [[Serbian coat of arms|coat of arms]] is adopted for the whole country. |
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*[[2005]] - The first forced [[evacuation (Israeli politics)|evacuation]] of [[settlers]], as part of the [[Israel unilateral disengagement plan]], starts. |
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* [[2008]] - By winning the [[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay|Men's 4x100m medley relay]], [[Michael Phelps]] becomes the first Olympian to win eight gold medals in the same Olympics. |
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==Births== |
==Births== |
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*[[1577]] - [[Beatrice Cenci]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1599]]) |
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*[[1608]] - [[Antonio Vieira]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1697]]) |
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*[[1611]] - [[Chongzhen Emperor]], Emperor of China (d. [[1644]]) |
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*[[1639]] - [[Daniel Georg Morhof]], German writer and scholar (d. [[1691]]) |
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*[[1664]] - [[Mustafa II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d, [[1703]]) |
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*[[1665]] - [[Anne of Great Britain]] (d. [[1714]]) |
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*[[1695]] - [[Nicolaus II Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (d. [[1726]]) |
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*[[1732]] - [[Charles Lee (general)|Charles Lee]], General in the American Revolution (d. [[1782]]) |
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*[[1744]] - [[Pierre-Joseph Desault]], French anatomist and surgeon (d. [[1795]]) |
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*[[1748]] - [[Adam Weishaupt]], founder of the [[Bavarian Illuminati]] (d. [[1811]]) |
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*[[1756]] - [[Aaron Burr]], 3rd [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1836]]) |
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*[[1757]] - [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]], [[Poland|Polish]] scholar and statesman. (d. [[1841]]) |
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*[[1811]] - [[Henry George Liddell]], father of the [[Alice Liddell|Alice]] in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' (d. [[1898]]) |
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*[[1832]] - [[John Brown Gordon]], general, [[U.S. Senator]], and [[Governor of Georgia]] |
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*[[1833]] - [[James Ewell Brown Stuart]], American [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[cavalry]] general (d. [[1864]]) |
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* 1866 - [[Julia Marlowe]], English actress (d. [[1950]]) |
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* 1833 - [[José María de Pereda]], Spanish novelist (d. [[1906]]) |
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*[[1834]] - [[Ema Puksec]], Croatian singer (d. [[1889]]) |
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*[[ |
*[[1838]] - [[Sir Henry Irving]], British actor (d. [[1905]]) |
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* 1838 - [[Yisrael Meir Kagan]], Chofetz Chayim (d. [[1933]]) |
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*[[1853]] - [[Ignacij Klemenčič]], Slovenian physicist (d. [[1901]]) |
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*[[1887]] - [[Josef Frings]], German Archbishop of Cologne (d. [[1978]]) |
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*[[1875]] - [[Leonid Gobyato]], Russian general (d. [[1915]]) |
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*[[1892]] - [[William Murphy (scientist)|William Parry Murphy]], American physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1987]]) |
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*[[1894]] - [[Eric Partridge]], New Zealand lexicographer (d. [[1979]]) |
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*[[1895]] - [[Babe Ruth]], American baseball player (d. [[1948]]) |
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*[[1897]] - [[Louis Buchalter]], Jewish American mobster (d. [[1944]]) |
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*[[1899]] - [[Ramón Novarro]], Mexican actor (d. [[1968]]) |
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*[[1901]] - [[Ben Lyon]], American actor (d. [[1979]]) |
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*[[1902]] - [[George Brunies]], American musician (d. [[1974]]) |
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*[[1903]] - [[Claudio Arrau]], Chilean-born pianist (d. [[1991]]) |
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*[[1905]] - [[Władysław Gomułka]], Polish leader (d. [[1982]]) |
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*[[1908]] - [[Amintore Fanfani]], Italian politician (d. [[1999]]) |
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*[[1910]] - [[Irmgard Keun]], German author (d. [[1982]]) |
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* 1910 - [[Carlos Marcello]], Tunisian-born gangster (d. [[1993]]) |
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*[[1911]] - [[Ronald Reagan]], 40th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[2004]]) |
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*[[1912]] - [[Eva Braun]], German mistress and wife of [[Adolf Hitler]] (d. [[1945]]) |
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*[[1913]] - [[Mary Leakey]], British anthropologist (d. [[1996]]) |
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*[[ |
*[[1914]] - [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], American voice actor (d. [[2005]]) |
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*[[1916]] - [[John Crank]], British mathematician (d. [[2006]]) |
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*[[1917]] - [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]], Hungarian-born actress |
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*[[1918]] - [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]], German author (d. [[2007]]) |
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*[[1922]] - [[Bill Johnston (cricketer)|Bill Johnston]], Australian cricketer |
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* 1926 - [[Jean Poiret]], French actor, director and screenwriter (d. [[1992]]) |
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* 1922 - [[Patrick Macnee]], British actor |
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*[[1929]] - [[Francis Gary Powers]], American U-2 pilot (d. [[1977]]) |
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* 1922 - [[Denis Norden]], British television personality |
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*[[1924]] - [[Billy Wright (footballer)|Billy Wright]], English former footballer (d. [[1994]]) |
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*[[1925]] - [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]], Indonesian author (d. [[2006]]) |
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*[[1926]] - [[Haskell Wexler]], American cinematographer |
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* 1926 - [[Walker Edmiston]], American actor (d. [[2007]]) |
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*[[1927]] - [[Gerard K. O'Neill]], American physicist (d. [[1992]]) |
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*[[1929]] - [[Pierre Brice]], French actor |
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* 1929 - [[Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta]], Venezuelan writer |
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*[[1938]] - [[Abu Bakar Bashir]], Indonesian Muslim cleric |
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*[[1931]] - [[Rip Torn]], American actor |
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* 1938 - [[Theodoros Pangalos]], Greek politician |
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* 1931 - [[Mamie Van Doren]], American actress |
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*[[1932]] - [[Camilo Cienfuegos]], Cuban revolutionary (d. [[1959]]) |
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* 1939 - [[Anthony Valentine]], British actor |
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* 1932 - [[François Truffaut]], French film director (d. [[1984]]) |
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*[[1933]] - [[Leslie Crowther]], British comedian (d. [[1996]]) |
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*[[1934]] - [[Bernard Erhard]], American voice actor (d. [[2000]]) |
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*[[1936]] - [[Kent Douglas]], Canadian ice hockey player |
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* 1936 - [[J. Howard Marshall III]], American businessman |
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*[[1939]] - [[Mike Farrell]], American actor |
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* 1939 - [[Orlando Parga]], Vice President of the [[Senate of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico Senate]] |
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*[[1946]] - [[Martha Coolidge]], American film director |
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*[[1940]] - [[Tom Brokaw]], American news anchorman |
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* 1940 - [[Jimmy Tarbuck]], British comedian |
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*[[1941]] - [[Gigi Perreau]], American actress |
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*[[1942]] - [[Sarah Brady]], American gun-control activist |
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* 1942 - [[James Loewen]], American sociologist and historian |
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*[[ |
*[[1943]] - [[Fabian (entertainer)|Fabian]], American singer |
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* 1943 - [[Gayle Hunnicutt]], American actress |
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*[[1944]] - [[Christine Boutin]], French politician |
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* 1944 - [[Willie Tee]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[2007]])) |
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* 1944 - [[Michael Tucker (actor)|Michael Tucker]], American actor |
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* 1952 - [[Guillermo Vilas]], Argentinian tennis player |
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*[[1945]] - [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican musician (d. [[1981]]) |
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*[[1946]] - [[Jim Turner (Congressman)|Jim Turner]], American politician |
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* 1953 - [[Kevin Rowland]], English musician ([[Dexys Midnight Runners]]) |
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* 1946 - [[Kate McGarrigle]], Canadian singer and songwriter |
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*[[1954]] - [[Eric Johnson]], American guitarist |
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*[[1949]] - [[Jim Sheridan]], Irish film director |
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*[[1950]] - [[Natalie Cole]], American singer |
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*[[1951]] - [[Marco Antônio]], Brazilian footballer |
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*[[ |
*[[1951]] - [[Margo (music)|Margo]], Irish singer |
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* 1951 - [[Jacques Villeret]], French film actor (d. [[2005]]) |
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*[[1958]] - [[Belinda Carlisle]], American singer |
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*[[1952]] - [[Ricardo Lavolpe]], Argentine football coach |
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*[[1955]] - [[Michael Pollan]], American journalist |
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*[[1957]] - [[Kathy Najimy]], American actress and comedienne |
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* 1957 - [[Simon Phillips]]. Drummer of [[Toto (band)]] |
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*[[1960]] - [[Stephan Eicher]], Swiss singer |
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* 1957 - [[Robert Townsend]], American actor |
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*[[1958]] - [[Cecily Adams]], American actress (d. [[2004]]) |
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* 1958 - [[Barry Miller (actor)|Barry Miller]], American actor |
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*[[1959]] - [[Ken Nelson (British record producer)|Ken Nelson]], English record producer |
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*[[1963]] - [[S. Shankar]], Indian film director. |
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*[[1960]] - [[Megan Gallagher]], American actress |
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*[[1961]] - [[Bill Lester]], American racecar driver |
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*[[1962]] - [[Axl Rose]], American singer ([[Guns N' Roses]]) |
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*[[1963]] - [[Kevin Trudeau]], American entrepreneur |
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* 1966 - [[Don Sweeney]], Canadian ice hockey player |
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*[[1966]] - [[Rick Astley]], British singer |
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*[[1967]] - [[Anita Cochran]], American singer |
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* 1967 - [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer ([[Zard]]) (d. [[2007]]) |
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*[[1968]] - [[Adolfo Valencia]], Colombian footballer |
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* 1968 - [[Akira Yamaoka]], Japanese composer |
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*[[1969]] - [[Donnie Wahlberg]], American actor and singer ([[New Kids On The Block]]) |
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*[[1969]] - [[David Hayter]], American Voice of Solid Snake |
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*[[1970]] - [[Per Frandsen]], Danish footballer |
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*[[1971]] - [[Dana Eskelson]], American actress |
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* 1971 - [[Brad Hogg]], Australian cricket player |
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* 1971 - [[Brian Stepanek]], American actor |
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*[[1972]] - [[David Binn]], American football player |
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*[[1975]] - [[Brett Hawke]], Australian swimmer |
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* 1975 - [[Tomoko Kawase]], Japanese singer |
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* 1975 - [[Svend-Allan Sørensen]], Danish artist |
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*[[1974]] - [[Tony Hajjar]], Lebanese musician ([[At the Drive-In]], [[Sparta (band)|Sparta]]) |
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*[[1976]] - [[Tanja Frieden]], Swiss snowboarder |
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* 1976 - [[Colin Teo]], Singaporean Grand Prix driver |
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*[[1975]] - [[Giuliana DePandi]], Italian-born American television personality |
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* 1976 - [[Kim Zmeskal]], American gymnast |
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*[[1977]] - [[Jason Euell]], English-born footballer |
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*[[1979]] - [[Dan Bălan]], Moldovan singer and former member of the band [[O-Zone]] |
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*[[1977]] - [[Nathan Deakes]], Australian race walker |
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*[[1980]] - [[Mamiko Noto]], Japanese [[seiyu]] |
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* 1980 - [[Kim Poirier]], Canadian actress |
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* 1980 - [[Luke Ravenstahl]], American politician |
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*[[1981]] - [[Calum Best]], American model |
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* 1981 - [[Jens Lekman]], Swedish musician |
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* 1978 - [[Vibeke Stene]], Norwegian singer ([[Tristania (band)|Tristania]]) |
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* 1981 - [[Ty Warren]], National Football League defensive lineman |
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*[[1979]] - [[Antwaan Randle El]], American football player |
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*[[1982]] - [[Alice Eve]], English actress |
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* 1982 - [[Tank (Taiwanese singer)|Tank]], [[Mandopop]] singer. |
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*[[1980]] - [[Keith Dabengwa]], Zimbabwean cricketer |
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*[[1983]] - [[Brodie Croyle]], American football player |
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* 1980 - [[Jan Kromkamp]], Dutch footballer |
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* 1983 - [[Sreesanth|S Sreesanth]], Indian cricketer |
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* 1983 - [[Jamie Whincup]], Australian racing driver |
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* 1983 - [[Myron Wolf Child]], Canadian politician |
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*[[1981]] - [[Kristin Holt]], American television personality |
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* 1983 - [[Melrose Bickerstaff]], American fashion model |
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*[[1984]] - [[Darren Bent]], English footballer |
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* 1984 - [[Piret Järvis]], Estonian singer |
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* 1985 - [[John Brocklebank]], Fanous Irish twin |
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*[[1984]] - [[Dee Brown (Illinois)|Dee Brown]], American basketball player |
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*[[1985]] - [[Kris Humphries]], American basketball player |
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* 1985 - [[Yang Yu]], Chinese swimmer |
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* 1985 - [[Joji Kato]], Japanese speedskater |
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*[[1986]] - [[Rudy Gay]], American basketball player |
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*[[1986]] - [[Alice Greczyn]], American actress |
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* 1986 - [[Brendan Taylor]], Zimbabwean cricketer |
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*[[1988]] - [[Allison Holker]], American dancer |
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*[[1988]] - [[Bailey Hanks]], American actress |
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*[[1989]] - [[Craig Cathcart]], Irish footballer |
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*[[2004]] - [[Princess Louise of Belgium]] |
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* 1990 - [[Rachel Hurd-Wood]], British actress |
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*[[1996]] - [[Ella Cruz]], Filipina actress |
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*[[1945]] - [[Muhammed Ali]] |
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*[[1964]] - [[Michael Jordan]] |
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*[[1821]] -[[Abraham Lincoln]] |
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==Deaths== |
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* [[891]] - [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]], Patriarch of [[Constantinople]] |
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*[[1378]] - [[Jeanne de Bourbon]], wife of [[Charles V of France]] (b. [[1338]]) |
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*[[1497]] - [[Johannes Ockeghem]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1410]]) |
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*[[1515]] - [[Aldus Manutius]], Italian printer |
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*[[1657]] - [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]], British admiral (b. [[1599]]) |
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*[[1585]] - [[Edmund Plowden]], English legal scholar (b. [[1518]]) |
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*[[1593]] - [[Jacques Amyot]], French writer (b. [[1513]]) |
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* 1593 - [[Emperor Ogimachi of Japan]] (b. [[1517]]) |
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*[[1617]] - [[Prospero Alpini]], Italian scientist (b. [[1553]]) |
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*[[1783]] - [[Capability Brown]], English landscape gardener (b. [[1716]]) |
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*[[1793]] - [[Carlo Goldoni]], Italian playwright (b. [[1707]]) |
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*[[1807]] - [[John Reid (soldier)|John Reid]], British army general and composer (b. [[1721]]) |
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*[[1816]] - [[Maria Ludwika Rzewuska]], Polish szlachcianka (b. [[1744]]) |
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*[[1833]] - [[Pierre André Latreille]], French entomologist (b. [[1762]]) |
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*[[1927]] - [[Sam Maguire]], Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. [[1879]]) |
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*[[1938]] - [[Marianne von Werefkin]], Russian-Swiss painter (b. [[1860]]) |
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*[[1979]] - [[Vivian Vance]], American actress (b. [[1909]]) |
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*[[1964]] - [[Emilio Aguinaldo]], Filipino general and President (b. [[1869]]) |
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*[[1966]] - [[Narcisa de Leon]], Filipino film mogul (b. [[1877]]) |
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*[[1967]] - [[Martine Carol]], French film actress (b. [[1920]]) |
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* 1988 - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.]], son of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] (b. [[1914]]) |
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* 1989 - [[Osbourne Ruddock]], Jamaican [[Dub music|Dub]] music performer (b. [[1941]]) |
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*[[1991]] - [[Salvador Luria]], Italian biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1912]]) |
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* 1998 - [[Tadeusz Slusarski]], Polish track and field athlete (b. [[1950]]) |
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*[[1998]] - [[Falco (musician)|Falco]], Austrian singer (b. [[1957]]) |
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* 1998 - [[Carl Wilson]], American musician ([[The Beach Boys]]) (b. [[1946]]) |
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* 1998 - [[Haroun Tazieff]], French vulcanologist and geologist (b. [[1914]]) |
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*[[2001]] - [[Filemon Lagman]], Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. [[1953]]) |
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* 2001 - [[Fulgence Charpentier]], Quebec journalist (b. [[1897]]) |
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*[[2002]] - [[Max Perutz]], Austrian molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1914]]) |
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*[[2005]] - [[Lazar Berman]], Russian pianist (b. [[1930]]) |
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* 2005 - [[Karl Haas]], American radio presenter (b. [[1913]]) |
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*[[2007]] - [[Lew Burdette]], American baseball player (b. [[1926]]) |
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* 2007 - [[Lee Hoffman]], American author (b. [[1932]]) |
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* 2007 - [[Len Hopkins]], Canadian politician (b. [[1930]]) |
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* 2007 - [[Frankie Laine]], American singer (b. [[1913]]) |
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* 2007 - [[Willye White]], American athlete (b. [[1939]]) |
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*[[2008]] - [[John McWethy]], American journalist (b. [[1947]]) |
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* 2008 - [[Tony Rolt]], English racing driver (b. [[1918]]) |
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Revision as of 18:30, 13 October 2008
February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 328 days remain until the end of the year (329 in leap years).
Events
- 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.
- 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
- 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
- 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
- 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. wow
- 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
- 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
- 1934 - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
- 1936 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
- 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1958 - Eight Manchester United players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
- 1987 - Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
- 1992 - The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
- 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
Births
- 1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
- 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- 1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
- 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
- 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
- 1665 - Anne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
- 1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
- 1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
- 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
- 1756 - Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
- 1811 - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
- 1832 - John Brown Gordon, general, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia
- 1833 - James Ewell Brown Stuart, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
- 1833 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
- 1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
- 1838 - Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
- 1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
- 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- 1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
- 1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
- 1895 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
- 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
- 1903 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
- 1908 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
- 1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
- 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
- 1916 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress
- 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
- 1922 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
- 1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
- 1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality
- 1924 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- 1926 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1927 - Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
- 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor
- 1929 - Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
- 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor
- 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
- 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
- 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- 1933 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
- 1934 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1936 - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
- 1939 - Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1939 - Orlando Parga, Vice President of the Puerto Rico Senate
- 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
- 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
- 1941 - Gigi Perreau, American actress
- 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
- 1942 - James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
- 1943 - Fabian, American singer
- 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
- 1944 - Christine Boutin, French politician
- 1944 - Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007))
- 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
- 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
- 1946 - Jim Turner, American politician
- 1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1949 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
- 1950 - Natalie Cole, American singer
- 1951 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
- 1951 - Margo, Irish singer
- 1951 - Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
- 1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
- 1955 - Michael Pollan, American journalist
- 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne
- 1957 - Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto (band)
- 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor
- 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1958 - Barry Miller, American actor
- 1959 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
- 1960 - Megan Gallagher, American actress
- 1961 - Bill Lester, American racecar driver
- 1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
- 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer
- 1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
- 1967 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- 1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
- 1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
- 1969 - David Hayter, American Voice of Solid Snake
- 1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
- 1971 - Dana Eskelson, American actress
- 1971 - Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
- 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
- 1972 - David Binn, American football player
- 1975 - Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
- 1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
- 1976 - Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
- 1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
- 1976 - Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
- 1977 - Jason Euell, English-born footballer
- 1979 - Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer and former member of the band O-Zone
- 1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
- 1980 - Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
- 1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
- 1981 - Calum Best, American model
- 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
- 1981 - Ty Warren, National Football League defensive lineman
- 1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
- 1982 - Tank, Mandopop singer.
- 1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player
- 1983 - S Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
- 1983 - Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
- 1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician
- 1983 - Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
- 1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer
- 1984 - Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
- 1985 - John Brocklebank, Fanous Irish twin
- 1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- 1985 - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
- 1985 - Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
- 1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress
- 1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
- 1988 - Bailey Hanks, American actress
- 1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
- 2004 - Princess Louise of Belgium
Deaths
- 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
- 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- 1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
- 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
- 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
- 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
- 1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
- 1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
- 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
- 1807 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
- 1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
- 1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
- 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
- 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
- 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1899 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
- 1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
- 1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
- 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- 1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
- 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
- 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
- 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
- 1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
- 1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 1958 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
- 1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
- 1958 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
- 1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
- 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
- 1966 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
- 1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
- 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
- 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
- 1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
- 1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
- 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
- 1988 - Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
- 1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
- 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
- 1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
- 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
- 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
- 1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
- 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
- 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- 1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
- 2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
- 2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
- 2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
- 2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
- 2008 - John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
- 2008 - Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
Holidays and observances
- International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
- Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)
- Waitangi Day (National Holiday) in New Zealand
- Sami National Day (in Finland and Scandinavia)
- Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church (per the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints):
- Saint Amand, Apostle of the Franks
- Saint Vedastus
- Saint Dorothea, patron saint of florists
- Saint Paul Miki
- Saint Titus
- February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)