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Events
1495
– King
Charles VIII of France
enters
Naples
to claim the city's throne.
1632
–
Galileo
's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
is published.
1744
–
War of the Austrian Succession
: The
Battle of Toulon
begins.
1797
– The
Last Invasion of Britain
begins near
Fishguard
,
Wales
.
1819
– By the
Adams-Onís Treaty
,
Spain
sells
Florida
to the
United States
for five million
U.S. dollars
.
1847
–
Mexican-American War
: The
Battle of Buena Vista
– 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000
Mexicans
.
1856
– The
Republican Party
opens its first national meeting in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
.
1862
–
Jefferson Davis
is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the
President of the Confederate States of America
in
Richmond, Virginia
.
He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on
February 18
,
1861
.
1879
– In
Utica, New York
,
Frank Woolworth
opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent
Woolworth
stores.
1882
– The
Serbian kingdom
is refounded.
1889
–
President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting
North Dakota
,
South Dakota
,
Montana
and
Washington
as
U.S. states
.
1904
– The
United Kingdom
sells a meteorological station on the
South Orkney Islands
to
Argentina
, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in
1908
.
1915
–
World War I
:
Germany
institutes
unrestricted submarine warfare
.
1922
– The
British
unilaterally declare the independence of
Egypt
.
1924
– U.S.
President
Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President to deliver a
radio
broadcast from the
White House
.
1942
–
World War II
: President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
orders
General
Douglas MacArthur
out of the
Philippines
as American defenses collapses.
1943
– World War II: Members of
White Rose
are executed in
Nazi
Germany
.
1944
– World War II: American aircraft bombard the
Dutch
towns of
Nijmegen
,
Arnhem
,
Enschede
and
Deventer
by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in
Nijmegen
alone.
1948
–
Communist
coup in
Czechoslovakia
.
1958
–
Egypt
and
Syria
join to form the
United Arab Republic
.
1959
–
Lee Petty
wins the first
Daytona 500
.
1972
– An
Official Irish Republican Army
car bomb
is detonated at
Aldershot
barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973
–
Cold War
: Following United States President
Richard Nixon
's
visit
to the
People's Republic of China
, the two countries agree to establish
liaison
offices.
1974
–
Organisation of the Islamic Conference
(
OIC
) summit conference starts in
Lahore, Pakistan
.
Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
It also recognized
Bangladesh
.
1974 –
Samuel Byck
tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979
– Independence of
Saint Lucia
from the United Kingdom.
1980
–
Miracle on Ice
: In
Lake Placid, New York
, the United States hockey team defeats the
Soviet Union
hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1983
– The notorious
Broadway
flop
Moose Murders
opens and closes on the same night at the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
.
1986
– Start of the
People Power Revolution
in the
Philippines
.
1994
–
Aldrich Ames
and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice
with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995
– The
Corona
reconnaissance satellite
program, in existence from
1959
to
1972
, is declassified.
1997
– In
Roslin, Scotland
, scientists announce that an adult
sheep
named
Dolly
had been successfully
cloned
.
2002
–
Angolan
political and rebel leader
Jonas Savimbi
is killed in a military ambush.
2006
– At least six men stage
Britain
's
biggest robbery ever
, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in
Tonbridge
,
Kent
.
Births
1040
–
Rashi
, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403
–
Charles VII of France
(d. 1461)
1440
–
Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary
(d. 1457)
1500
–
Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1612
–
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
, English statesman (d. 1677)
1705
–
Peter Artedi
, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
1714
–
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny
, French historian (d. 1795)
1732
–
George Washington
, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
1756
–
Georg Friedrich von Martens
, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1778
–
Rembrandt Peale
, American artist (d. 1860)
1788
–
Arthur Schopenhauer
, German philosopher (d. 1860)
1796
–
Alexis Bachelot
, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796 –
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
1806
–
Józef Kremer
, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1817
–
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819
–
James Russell Lowell
, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
1824
–
Pierre Janssen
, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825
–
Jean Baptiste Salpointe
, second
Archbishop of Santa Fe
(d. 1898)
1839
–
Francis Pharcellus Church
, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840
–
August Bebel
, German politician (d. 1913)
1849
–
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1857
–
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
, English founder of the
Scout movement
(d. 1941)
1857 –
Heinrich Hertz
, German physicist (d. 1894)
1864
–
Jules Renard
, French author (d. 1910)
1874
–
Bill Klem
, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1878
–
Walter Ritz
, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1879
–
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
1880
–
Frigyes Riesz
, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881
–
Joseph B.
Ely
, American politician (d. 1956)
1881 –
Albin Prepeluh
, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937)
1882
–
Eric Gill
, British sculptor (d. 1940)
1883
–
Marguerite Clark
, American actress (d. 1940)
1886
–
Hugo Ball
, German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887
–
Ksawery Tartakower
, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1888
–
Owen Brewster
, American politician (d. 1961)
1889
–
Olave Baden-Powell
, English founder of the
Girl Guide
(d. 1977)
1890
–
Beatriz Michelena
, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942)
1891
–
Vlas Chubar
, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892
–
Edna St. Vincent Millay
, American writer (d. 1950)
1895
–
Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre
, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897
–
Karol Świerczewski
, Polish general (d. 1947)
1899
–
Dwight Frye
, American actor (d. 1943)
1899 –
George O'Hara
, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 –
Dechko Uzunov
, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900
–
Luis Buñuel
, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
1900
–
Seán Ó Faoláin
, Irish author (d. 1991)
1902
–
Fritz Strassmann
, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903
–
Morley Callaghan
, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
1903 –
Ain-Ervin Mere
, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 –
Robert Weede
, American baritone (d. 1972)
1906
–
Humayun Kabir
, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
1907
–
Sheldon Leonard
, American actor (d. 1997)
1907 –
Robert Young
, American actor (d. 1998)
1908
– Sir
John Mills
, English actor (d. 2005)
1911
–
Bill Baker
, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1913
–
Buddy Tate
, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
1914
–
Renato Dulbecco
,
Nobel laureate
1917
–
Jane Bowles
, American playwright (d. 1973)
1918
–
Sid Abel
, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 –
Charlie Finley
, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1918 –
Don Pardo
, American announcer
1918 –
Robert Wadlow
, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
1921
–
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
1921 –
Wayne Booth
, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 –
David Greene
, British director (d. 2003)
1921 –
Giulietta Masina
, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1922
–
Jesús Iglesias
, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1923
–
Bleddyn Williams
, British rugby player (d. 2009)
1925
–
Edward Gorey
, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1926
–
Kenneth Williams
, English actor (d. 1988)
1926 –
Bud Yorkin
, American film director
1928
–
Paul Dooley
, American actor
1928 –
Bruce Forsyth
, British entertainer
1928 –
Clarence 13X
, American religious leader (d. 1969)
1928 –
Axel Strøbye
, Danish actor (d. 2005)
1929
–
James Hong
, American actor
1929 –
Rebecca Schull
, American actress
1930
–
Marni Nixon
, American singer
1930 –
James McGarrell
, American painter
1932
–
Ted Kennedy
, American politician (d. 2009)
1933
–
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 –
Bobby Smith
, English footballer
1934
–
Sparky Anderson
, American baseball manager
1935
–
Sven Inge
, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1936
–
J.
Michael Bishop
,
Nobel laureate
1936 –
Ernie K-Doe
, American singer (d. 2001)
1938
–
Steve Barber
, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 –
Ishmael Reed
, American writer
1938 –
Pierre Vallières
, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1940
–
Johnson Mlambo
, South African politician
1940 –
Billy Name
, American photographer
1941
–
Hipólito Mejía
, Dominican politician
1941 –
Giorgos Arvanitis
, Greek cinematographer
1942
–
Christine Keeler
, English model and showgirl
1943
–
Terry Eagleton
, British theorist
1943 –
Horst Köhler
, President of Germany
1944
–
Jonathan Demme
, American director
1944 –
Robert Kardashian
, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 –
Tom Okker
, Dutch tennis player
1945
–
Leslie Charleson
, American actress
1945 –
Oliver
, American singer (d. 2000)
1947
–
Carol Burns
, Australian actress
1947 –
Harvey Mason
, Jazz drummer
1947 –
Frank P.
Tomasulo
, American film professor and critic
1947 –
Maurizio De Angelis
, Italian musician
1948
–
John Ashton
, American actor
1949
–
Niki Lauda
, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
1949 –
Olga Morozova
, Russian tennis player
1950
–
Julius Erving
, American basketball player
1950 –
Ellen Greene
, American actress
1950 –
Lenny Kuhr
, Dutch singer
1950 –
Miou-Miou
, French actress
1950 –
Genesis P-Orridge
, English musician and performer
1950 –
Julie Walters
, English actress
1952
–
Cyrinda Foxe
, American model (d. 2002)
1952 –
Bill Frist
, American politician
1953
–
Graham Lewis
, English musician (
Wire
)
1953 –
Nigel Planer
, British actor
1955
–
David Axelrod
, American political consultant
1955 –
Tim Young
, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 –
Gordon Banks
, American guitarist
1959
–
Jiří Čunek
, Czech politician
1959 –
Kyle MacLachlan
, American actor
1961
–
Akira Takasaki
, Japanese guitarist
1962
–
Steve Irwin
, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
1962 –
Lenda Murray
, American bodybuilder
1962 –
Les Wallace
, Scottish darts player
1963
–
Devon Malcolm
, English Cricketer
1963 –
Vijay Singh
, Fijian golfer
1964
–
Gigi Fernandez
, Puerto Rican tennis player
1965
–
Chris Dudley
, American basketball player
1965 –
Dean Karr
, American director and photographer
1965 –
Pat LaFontaine
, American ice hockey player
1966
–
Rachel Dratch
, American actress and comedienne
1966 –
Brian Greig
, Australian politician
1966 –
Thorsten Kaye
, German actor
1966 –
Aiden Shaw
, English pornographic actor
1967
–
Alf Poier
, Austrian comedian
1968
–
Shawn Graham
, Canadian politician
1968 –
Bradley Nowell
, American musician (d. 1996)
1968 –
Elna Reinach
, South African tennis player
1968 –
Jeri Ryan
, American actress
1968 –
Jayson Williams
, American basketball player
1969
–
Joaquín Cortés
, Spanish dancer
1969 –
Thomas Jane
, American actor
1969 –
Clinton Kelly
, American TV personality
1969 –
Hans Klok
, Dutch illusionist
1969 –
Brian Laudrup
, Danish footballer
1970
–
Dominic Roussel
, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 –
Ravi Vakil
, Canadian-American mathematician
1971
–
Lea Salonga
, Filipina actress and singer
1972
–
Michael Chang
, American tennis player
1972 –
Claudia Pechstein
, German speed skater
1973
–
Claus Lundekvam
, Norwegian footballer
1973 –
Juninho Paulista
, Brazilian footballer
1973 –
Einar Kristian Tveitå
, Norwegian athlete
1974
–
James Blunt
, English musician
1974 –
Chris Moyles
, English DJ
1975
–
Drew Barrymore
, American actress
1976
–
Faan Rautenbach
, South African rugby player
1977
–
Timo Rose
, German filmmaker
1977 –
Hakan Yakin
, Swiss footballer
1978
–
Jenny Frost
, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (
Atomic Kitten
)
1978
–
Peter Madsen
, Danish football player
1979
–
Brett Emerton
, Australian footballer
1979 –
Lee Na-young
, South Korean actress
1981
–
Fredson Camara
, Brazilian footballer
1982
–
Jenna Haze
, American pornographic actress
1982 –
Robert Weiner, Jr.
, American water polo player
1982 –
Shawntae Spencer
, American football player
1983
–
Penny Flame
, American pornographic actress
1983 –
Shaun Tait
, Australian cricketer
1984
–
Venetian Princess
(Jodie-Amy Rivera), YouTube celebrity
1984 –
Giorgos Printezis
, Greek basketball player
1985
–
Hameur Bouazza
, Algerian footballer
1985 –
Sean Garballey
, American politician
1986
–
Miko Hughes
, American actor
1986 –
Rajon Rondo
, American basketball player
1987
–
Han Hyo-joo
, South Korean actress and model
1988
–
Kevin Borlée
, Belgian athlete
1988 –
Przemysław Kazimierczak
, Polish footballer
1989
–
Alia Sabur
, American college educator
1992
–
Amir Ali
, ILL Nigga
Deaths
965
–
Otto, Duke of Burgundy
(b. 944)
1071
–
Arnulf III, Count of Flanders
(killed in battle) (b. c. 1055)
1111
–
Roger Borsa
, King of Sicily
1371
– King
David II of Scotland
(b. 1324)
1512
–
Amerigo Vespucci
, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
1627
–
Olivier van Noort
, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674
–
Jean Chapelain
, French writer (b. 1595)
1680
–
Catherine Monvoisin
, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
1690
–
Charles Le Brun
, French artist (b. 1619)
1727
–
Francesco Gasparini
, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731
–
Frederik Ruysch
, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732
–
Francis Atterbury
, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742
–
Charles Rivington
, English publisher (b. 1688)
1797
–
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen
, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799
–
Heshen
, infamous
Qing Dynasty
Chinese official at court (b.
1750)
1816
–
Adam Ferguson
, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
1875
–
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
, French painter (b. 1796)
1875 – Sir
Charles Lyell
, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
1890
–
John Jacob Astor III
, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 –
Carl Heinrich Bloch
, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892
–
Herman Koeckemann
, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1903
–
Hugo Wolf
, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904
–
Leslie Stephen
, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1913
–
Ferdinand de Saussure
, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
1921
–
Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923
–
Théophile Delcassé
, French statesman (b. 1852)
1934
–
Willem Kes
, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939
–
Antonio Machado
, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942
–
Stefan Zweig
, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943
–
Hans Scholl
, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
1943 –
Christoph Probst
, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
1943 –
Sophie Scholl
, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
1944
–
Kasturba Gandhi
, wife of
Mohandas Gandhi
(b. 1869)
1945
–
Osip Brik
, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1958
–
Abul Kalam Azad
, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
1960
–
Paul-Émile Borduas
, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961
–
Nick LaRocca
, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1965
–
Felix Frankfurter
, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1968
–
Peter Arno
, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1973
–
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
, Quebec politician,
Premier of Quebec
(b. 1916)
1973 –
Katina Paxinou
, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1974
–
Samuel Byck
, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976
–
Angela Baddeley
, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 –
Florence Ballard
, American singer (
The Supremes
) (b. 1943)
1980
–
Oskar Kokoschka
, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1982
–
Josh Malihabadi
,
Urdu
poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983
– Sir
Adrian Boult
, English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 –
Romain Maes
, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1985
–
Salvador Espriu
, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 –
Alexander Scourby
, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 –
Efrem Zimbalist
, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1987
–
Andy Warhol
, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989
–
Moisés da Costa Amaral
, East Timorese leader,
UDT
President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1994
–
Papa John Creach
, American musician (b. 1917)
1995
–
Ed Flanders
, American actor (b. 1934)
1997
–
Joseph Aiuppa
, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998
–
Abraham Ribicoff
, American politician (b. 1910)
1999
–
Menno Oosting
, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000
–
Fernando Buesa
, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002
–
Chuck Jones
, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 –
Jonas Savimbi
, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
2002 –
Roden Cutler
, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 –
Daniel Pearl
, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003
–
Daniel Taradash
, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004
–
Roque Máspoli
, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 –
Andy Seminick
, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005
–
Zdzisław Beksiński
, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 –
Simone Simon
, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 –
Lee Eun Ju
, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006
–
Anthony Burger
, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007
–
Dennis Johnson
, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 –
Howard Verne Ramsey
, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 –
Samuel Hinga Norman
, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 –
George Jellicoe
, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords &
Special Boat Service
veteran (b.
1918)
Holidays and observances
United States
—
Washington's Birthday
.
Saint Lucia
— independence (1979).
The
Scouting
movement and the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
celebrate this day as "
World Thinking Day
", "B.-P. day", or "Founder's Day", as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder
Sir
Robert Baden-Powell
and his wife,
Lady
Olave Baden-Powell
, the World Chief Guide.
Roman Catholic Church
—
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter
.
Blessed
Saint Isabel of France
(died 1270)
External links
BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada
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