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Events

1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 - King Charles I marries French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1871 - In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1893 - Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1935 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.
1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 - Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
1955 - Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
1956 - Real Madrid wins the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1981 - At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.

Births

823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1752 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
1763 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
1786 - Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1827 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1884 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1887 - Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894 - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
1899 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
1901 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1913 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1915 - Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
1917 - Teddy Turner, comedian (d. 1992)
1918 - Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
1918 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1924 - Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
1926 - Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1930 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1934 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 - Christo, Bulgarian artist
1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
1935 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)
1937 - Erich Ribbeck, German football player/manager
1939 - Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1940 - Bobby Freeman, American soul singer
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1944 - Ban Ki-moon, the current U.N. Secretary General
1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author
1947 - A. G. Lafley, American executive director
1948 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948 - Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
1950 - Michael Stark, Australian actor
1950 - Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1951 - Richard Thomas, American actor
1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1952 - Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
1952 - Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
1954 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
1954 - Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician
1959 - Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
1961 - Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
1962 - Ally Sheedy, American actress
1962 - Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player
1962 - Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
1963 - Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1964 - Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke, English actress
1964 - Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
1965 - Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
1965 - Lisa Vidal, American actress
1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 - Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1968 - David Gray, British musician
1968 - Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
1968 - Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist
1969 - Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1969 - Søren Nystrøm Rasted
1970 - Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1972 - Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1973 - Sam Adams, American football player
1973 - Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1973 - Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
1973 - Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974 - Steve-O, American television personality
1974 - Brande Roderick, American actress
1974 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
1974 - Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1975 - Ante Covic, Australian footballer
1975 - Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
1975 - Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
1976 - Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter
1976 - Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
1977 - Alaura Eden, American porn actress
1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor
1978 - Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
1978 - Jason Michael Carroll, Country musician
1978 - Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 - Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
1980 - Sarah Connor, German singer
1981 - Chris Evans, American actor
1981 - David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
1983 - Matt Allison, British racing driver
1983 - Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
1985 - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress
1986 - Ashley Olsen, American actress
1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress
1989 - Lisa Tucker, American singer
1990 - Aaron Johnson, British actor