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Events
1303
- The
University of Rome La Sapienza
is instituted by
Pope Boniface VIII
.
1534
-
Jacques Cartier
begins his voyage, in which he will discover
Canada
and
Labrador
.
1653
-
Oliver Cromwell
dissolves the
Rump Parliament
.
1657
-
Admiral Robert Blake
destroys a
Spanish
silver fleet under heavy fire at
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
.
1657 -
Freedom of religion
is granted to the
Jews
of
New Amsterdam
(later
New York City
).
1689
- The former
King
James II of England
, now deposed, lays siege to
Derry
.
1775
-
American Revolutionary War
: the
siege of Boston
begins, which followed the first battles at
Lexington and Concord
.
1792
-
France
declares war on
Austria
, the beginning of
French Revolutionary Wars
.
1810
- The Governors of
Caracas
declares the national sovereignty from
Spain
.
1828
-
René Caillié
is first non-Muslim to enter
Timbouctou
.
1836
-
U.S. Congress
passes an act creating the
Wisconsin Territory
.
1861
-
American Civil War
:
Robert E. Lee
resigns his commission in the
United States Army
in order to command the forces of the state of
Virginia
.
1862
- The first
pasteurization
test completed by
Louis Pasteur
and
Claude Bernard
.
1871
-
Civil Rights Act of 1871
1884
-
Pope Leo XIII
publishes the
encyclical
,
Humanum Genus
.
1902
-
Pierre
and
Marie Curie
refine
radium
chloride
.
1908
- Opening day of competition of the
New South Wales Rugby League
.
1912
- Opening day for
baseball
stadiums
Tiger Stadium
in
Detroit
,
Michigan
, and
Fenway Park
in
Boston
,
Massachusetts
.
1914
- Forty-five men, women, and children die in the
Ludlow Massacre
during a
Colorado
coal-miner's strike.
1916
-
Chicago Cubs
played their first game at Weeghman Park (currently
Wrigley Field
), defeating the
Cincinnati Reds
7-6 in 11 innings
1918
-
Manfred von Richthofen
, aka
The Red Baron
, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1926
-
Western Electric
and
Warner Bros.
announce
Vitaphone
, a process to add sound to film.
1945
-
World War II
:
US
troops capture
Leipzig
,
Germany
, only to later cede the city to the
Soviet Union
.
1945 - World War II:
Fuehrerbunker
:
Adolf Hitler
makes his last trip to the surface to award
Iron Crosses
to boy soldiers of the
Hitler Youth
.
1961
- Failure of the
Bay of Pigs Invasion
of US troops against
Cuba
.
1964
-
BBC Two
launches with the
power cut
because of the fire at
Battersea Power Station
.
1967
- A Globe Air
Bristol Britannia
turboprop crashes at
Nicosia
,
Cyprus
, killing 126.
1968
- A
South African Airways
Boeing
707 crashes during takeoff at
Windhoek
,
South-West Africa
, killing 122.
1968 -
English
politician
Enoch Powell
makes his controversial
Rivers of Blood speech
.
1972
-
Apollo 16
lands on the
Moon
.
1978
-
Korean Air Flight 902
shot down by
Soviets
.
1980
- Climax of
Berber Spring
in
Algeria
as hundreds of
Berber
political activists are arrested.
1985
-
ATF
raid on
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
compound in northern
Arkansas
.
1986
- Pianist
Vladimir Horowitz
performed in his native
Russia
for the first time in 61 years.
1986 - Professional basketball player
Michael Jordan
sets all-time record for points in an NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
1998
-
TAME
Boeing 727
-200 chartered by
Air France
crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from
Bogotá
,
Colombia
, killing 53.
1998 -
German
terrorist group
Red Army Faction
announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999
-
Columbine High School massacre
:
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at
Columbine High School
located in
Jefferson County, Colorado
.
2004
- In
Iraq
, 12 mortars are fired on
Abu Ghraib Prison
by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
2007
-
Johnson Space Center Shooting
: A man with a
handgun
barricades himself in
NASA
's
Johnson Space Center
in
Houston
,
Texas
before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008
-
Danica Patrick
wins the
Indy Japan 300
becoming the first female driver in history to win an
Indy car
race.
Births
570
- possible date of
Muhammad
, Islamic prophet (d.
632
)
702
-
Jafar Sadiq
, Muslim scholar (d.
765
)
1494
-
Johannes Agricola
, German Protestant reformer (d.
1566
)
1586
-
Saint Rose of Lima
, Peruvian saint (d.
1617
)
1633
-
Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan
(d.
1654
)
1646
-
Charles Plumier
, French botanist (d.
1704
)
1650
-
William Bedloe
, English informer (d.
1680
)
1668
-
Yuri Troubetzkoy
, Governor of Belgorod (d.
1739
)
1718
-
David Brainerd
, American missionary (d.
1747
)
1723
-
Cornelius Harnett
, American Continental Congress delegate (d.
1781
)
1727
-
Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d.
1794
)
1745
-
Philippe Pinel
, French physician (d.
1826
)
1808
-
Napoleon III
, Emperor of the French (d.
1873
)
1818
-
Heinrich Göbel
, German-born inventor (d.
1893
)
1826
-
Dinah Craik
, English author (d.
1887
)
1850
-
Daniel Chester French
, American sculptor (d.
1931
)
1851
-
Young Tom Morris
, Scottish golfer (d.
1875
)
1870
-
Maulvi Abdul Haq
,
Pakistani
scholar (d.
1961
)
1879
-
Paul Poiret
, French couturier (d.
1944
)
1882
-
Holland Smith
, U.S. General (d.
1967
)
1884
-
Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(d.
1966
)
1889
-
Adolf Hitler
, leader of
Nazi Germany
(d.
1945
)
1889 -
Albert Jean Amateau
, Turkish-born businessman and activist (d.
1996
)
1890
-
Maurice Duplessis
,
premier
of
Québec
(d.
1959
)
1893
-
Harold Lloyd
, American actor (d.
1971
)
1893 -
Edna Parker
, American
supercentenarian
1893 -
Joan Miró
, Spanish painter (d.
1983
)
1895
-
Emile Christian
, American musician (d.
1973
)
1896
-
Wop May
, Canadian aviator (d.
1952
)
1896 -
Henry de Montherlant
, French writer (d.
1972
)
1904
-
Bruce Cabot
, American actor (d.
1972
)
1904 -
George Stibitz
, American scientist (d.
1995
)
1908
-
Lionel Hampton
, American musician (d.
2002
)
1914
-
Betty Lou Gerson
, American actress (d.
1999
)
1915
-
Joseph Wolpe
, South African-born psychotherapist (d.
1997
)
1918
-
Edward L. Beach, Jr.
, American naval officer, author (d.
2002
)
1918 -
Kai Siegbahn
, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2007
)
1919
-
Richard Hillary
, Australian pilot and author (d.
1943
)
1920
-
John Paul Stevens
, American jurist
1920 -
Ronald Speirs
, WWII Veteran (d.
2007
)
1921
-
Janine Sutto
, French-Canadian actress
1923
-
Mother Angelica
, American nun and broadcaster
1923 -
Tito Puente
, American musician (d.
2000
)
1924
-
Leslie Phillips
, English actor
1925
-
Ernie Stautner
, German-born American football player (d.
2006
)
1927
-
Phil Hill
, American race car driver (d.
2008
)
1927 -
Karl Alexander Müller
, Swiss physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate
1928
-
Johnny Gavin
, Irish footballer (d.
2007
)
1928 -
Gerald S. Hawkins
, English astronomer (d.
2003
)
1936
-
Pat Roberts
, American politician
1937
-
George Takei
, American actor
1939
-
Peter S. Beagle
, American author
1939 -
Gro Harlem Brundtland
, former
Prime Minister of Norway
1939 -
Johnny Tillotson
, American singer
1941
-
Ryan O'Neal
, American actor
1943
-
John Eliot Gardiner
, English conductor
1943 -
Edie Sedgwick
, American actress (d.
1971
)
1945
-
Michael Brandon
, American actor
1945 -
Steve Spurrier
, American football player and coach
1946
-
Julien Poulin
, French Canadian actor
1946 -
Gordon Smiley
, American racecar driver (d.
1982
)
1946 -
Mel Winkler
, American voice actor
1947
-
Björn Skifs
, Swedish singer (
Blue Swede
)
1947 -
Andrew Tobias
, American journalist and author
1947 -
David Leland
, British actor, director and screenwriter
1948
-
Craig Frost
, American musician (
Grand Funk
&
Bob Seger
)
1948 -
Gregory Itzin
, American actor
1948 -
Rémy Trudel
, French Canadian politician
1949
-
Massimo D'Alema
,
Prime Minister of Italy
1949 -
Veronica Cartwright
, American actress
1949 -
Toller Cranston
, Canadian figure skater and artist
1949 -
Jessica Lange
, American actress
1950
-
Steve Erickson
, American novelist
1950 -
Aleksandr Lebed
, Russian general and politician (d.
2002
)
1950 -
Chandra Babu Naidu
, Indian politician
1951
-
Luther Vandross
, American singer (d.
2005
)
1952
-
Božidar Maljković
, Serbian basketball coach
1953
-
Sebastian Faulks
, British novelist
1954
-
Gilles Lupien
, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1956
-
Beatrice Ask
, Swedish politician
1957
-
Geraint Wyn Davies
, Welsh-born Canadian actor
1958
-
Viacheslav Fetisov
, Russian ice hockey player
1959
-
Clint Howard
, American actor
1961
-
Don Mattingly
, American baseball player
1961 -
Konstantin Lavronenko
, Russian actor
1963
-
Mauricio Gugelmin
, Brazilian racing driver
1963 -
Aubrey de Grey
, British biomedical gerontologist
1964
-
Crispin Glover
, American actor
1964 -
Andy Serkis
, English actor
1964 -
Rosalynn Sumners
, American figure skater
1965
-
Ralph Cirella
, American radio personality
1965 -
Kostas Hatzidakis
, Greek politician
1965 -
Adrian Fernández
, Mexican racing driver
1966
-
David Chalmers
, Australian philosopher
1967
-
Raymond van Barneveld
, Dutch darts player
1967 -
Mike Portnoy
, American drummer (
Dream Theater
)
1967 -
Lara Jill Miller
, American actress
1968
-
J. D. Roth
, American game show host and television personality
1969
-
Chris Jarvis
, English TV personality
1970
-
Shemar Moore
, American actor
1970 -
Adriano Moraes
, Brazilian rodeo performer
1971
-
Carla Geurts
, Dutch swimmer
1971 -
Allan Houston
, American basketball player
1971 -
Tina Cousins
, English singer
1972
-
Carmen Electra
, American actress
1972 -
Le Huynh Đuc
, Vietnamese footballer
1972 -
Stephen Marley
, Jamaican musician
1973
-
Geoff Lloyd
, British radio presenter
1976
-
Joey Lawrence
, American actor
1976 -
Shay Given
, Irish footballer
1977
-
Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli
, professional wrestler
1978
-
Mirei Kuroda
, Japanese gravure idol
1980
-
Jasmin Wagner
, German singer
1981
-
Matus Valent
, male fitness model
1983
-
Terrence J
, American television host
1983 -
Miranda Kerr
, Australian supermodel
1984
-
Tyson Griffin
, American mixed martial artist
1986
-
Cameron Duncan
, New Zealand director (d.
2003
)
1987
-
John Patrick Amedori
, American actor
Deaths
1176
-
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
, English soldier (b.
1130
)
1314
-
Pope Clement V
(b.
1264
)
1521
-
Zhengde
, Emperor of China (b.
1491
)
1534
-
Elizabeth Barton
, English nun (executed)
1558
-
Johannes Bugenhagen
, German reformer (b.
1485
)
1643
-
Christoph Demantius
, German composer (b.
1567
)
1703
-
Lancelot Addison
, English royal chaplain (b.
1632
)
1765
-
Abigail Williams
, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b.
1674
)
1769
-
Pontiac
, Chief of the Ottawa
1831
-
John Abernethy
, English surgeon (b.
1764
)
1873
-
William Tite
, English architect (b.
1798
)
1874
-
Alexander H. Bailey
, American politician (b.
1817
)
1887
-
Muhammad Sharif Pasha
, Egyptian statesman (b.
1826
)
1899
-
Joseph Wolf
, German artist (b.
1820
)
1912
-
Bram Stoker
, Irish author (b.
1847
)
1918
-
Karl Ferdinand Braun
, German physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1850
)
1932
-
Giuseppe Peano
, Italian mathematician (b.
1858
)
1945
-
Erwin Bumke
, German jurist (b.
1874
)
1947
- King
Christian X of Denmark
(b.
1870
)
1951
-
Ivanoe Bonomi
,
Prime Minister of Italy
(b.
1873
)
1964
-
Eddie Dyer
, baseball player (b.
1899
)
1977
-
Sepp Herberger
, German football coach (b.
1897
)
1982
-
Archibald MacLeish
, American poet and
Librarian of Congress
(b.
1892
)
1984
-
Hristo Prodanov
, Bulgarian mountaineer (b.
1943
)
1986
-
Sibte Hassan
, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b.
1916
)
1989
-
Doru Davidovici
, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b.
1945
)
1991
-
Steve Marriott
, British singer and songwriter (
Humble Pie
) (b.
1947
)
1991 -
Don Siegel
, American film director (b.
1912
)
1993
-
Cantinflas
, Mexican comedian and actor (b.
1911
)
1994
-
Jean Carmet
, French actor (b.
1920
)
1996
-
Christopher Robin Milne
, son of
A.A. Milne
(b.
1920
)
1999
-
Victims
and
shooters
of the
Columbine High School massacre
1999 -
Rick Rude
, American professional wrestler (b.
1958
)
1999 -
Señor Wences
, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b.
1896
)
2001
-
Giuseppe Sinopoli
, Italian conductor and composer (b.
1946
)
2002
-
Layne Staley
, American grunge singer of Alice in Chains
2002
-
Alan Dale
, American singer (b.
1925
)
2003
-
Ruth Hale
, American playwright and actress (b.
1908
)
2003 -
Daijiro Kato
, Japanese motorcycle racer (b.
1976
)
2003 -
Bernard Katz
, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b.
1911
)
2005
-
Fumio Niwa
, Japanese novelist (b.
1904
)
2005 -
Zygfryd Blaut
, Polish football player (b.
1943
)
2006
-
Anna Svidersky
(b.
1988
)
2007
-
Andrew Hill
, American jazz composer and pianist (b.
1931
)
2007 -
Michael Fu Tieshan
, Chinese bishop (b.
1931
).
2008
-
VL Mike
, American Rapper (b.
1976
)
2008 -
Monica Lovinescu
, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b.
1923
)
Holidays and observances
Ridván
begins at sunset (
Bahá'í Faith
).
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
Saint Theotimus
(d.
407
)
Blessed Oda
(d.
1158
)
420 (cannabis culture)
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