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Events

498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the battle of Ballon near Redon.
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invaded Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1935 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa.
1940 - Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich Paulus sent Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded.
1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1943 - Lebanon gained independence from France.
1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
1965 D.N. Aidit, head of the Communist Party of Indonesia is captured and killed by the Indonesian military in the aftermath of the G30S coup attempt.
1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births

1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1856 - Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian constructor of Mil helicopters and founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
1914 - Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
1918 - Claiborne Pell, American politician
1919 - Máire Drumm, Irish Civil Rights leader (Murdered 1976)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1923 - Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
1925 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
1926 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 - Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian theatre writer (d. 1996)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1938 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese American criminologist
1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
1940 - Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
1941 - Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1941 - Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1942 - Guion Bluford, First African American in space
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis
1943 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Tom Freston, American television executive
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1947 - Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
1947 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
1948 - Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
1949 - Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1950 - Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1950 - Steven Van Zandt, American musician
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 - Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1958 - Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
1958 - Horse McDonald, Scottish singer/songwriter
1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 - Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1960 - Bruce Payne, English actor
1960 - Léos Carax, French film director
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
1964 - Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1966 - Richard Stanley, South African film director
1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch speed skater
1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist (The Complete Persepolis)
1970 - Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricket player
1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1972 - Jay Payton, American baseball player
1974 - Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
1975 - Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 - Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 - Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
1980 - Shawn Fanning, American creator of Napster
1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 - Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 - Ben Adams, English Singer/Songwriter
1982 - Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 - Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 - Peter Ramage, English footballer
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
1984 - Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model
1985 - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 - Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1988 - Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, twins, British and Indian novelists

Deaths

950 - King Lothair II of Italy
1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1893 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1926 - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1941 - Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 - J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1980 - Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 - Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
1989 - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1992 - Sterling Holloway, American voice actor (b. 1905)
1993 - Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 - María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
1998 - Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 - Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 - Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
2007 - Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

R.C. Saints - Feast of Saint Cecilia
Lebanon - Independence Day (from France, 1943)
Astrology: usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius or the last day of Scorpio

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