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Events

455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
1848 - Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
1955 - USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1990 - Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 9. Petersburg, Indiana was the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

Births

926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1838 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1863 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
1865 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
1869 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
1899 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
1904 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1907 - Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1913 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
1915 - Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker
1919 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1920 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1924 - June Callwood, Canadian jounalist, author & social activist (d. 2007)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
1929 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
1929 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
1935 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist, professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa
1936 - Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 - Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
1938 - Kevin Brownlow, English filmmaker, film historian, and author
1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
1941 - Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1941 - William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1943 - Charles Haid, American actor
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
1945 - Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer
1946 - Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
1947 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor
1949 - Heather Couper, British astronomer
1949 - Frank Rich, American theater critic and political columnist
1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
1952 - Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
1953 - Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
1953 - Craig Stadler, American golfer
1954 - Dennis Haysbert, American actor
1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1955 - Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
1956 - Mani Ratnam, Indian director
1956 - Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
1957 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
1958 - Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1961 - Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
1964 - Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
1965 - Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
1965 - Mark and Steve Waugh, Australian cricketers
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
1967 - Mike Stanton, baseball player
1968 - Beetlejuice, member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack
1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian
1969 - Cy Chadwick, English actor
1970 - Andy McCollum, National Football League offensive lineman
1970 - B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1971 - Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
1972 - Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 - Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 - Martin Čech, International ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1976 - Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho
1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 - Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 - Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 - Justin Long, American actor
1978 - A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)
1981 - Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player
1981 - Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1988 - Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
1988 - Patrik Berglund, Swedish hockey player
1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
1990 - Brittany Curran, American Actress

Deaths

829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1974 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1976 - Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1989 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
1990 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2004 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (b. 1909)
2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
Xenia name day in Slovakia.
Shavuoth (Judaism) (2006).
The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria.
Independence day Samoa 1962

Liturgical feasts

The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death - see also March 13.

The following Catholic saints:

External links

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