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Events

1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam .
1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 – York , Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto .
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice .
1857 – Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania .
1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana .
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece .
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States .
1975 – for the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 – The British ferry capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius .
1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Births

1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1405 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1459 – Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1663 – Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
1706 – George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1761 – Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 – William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1831 – Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
1834 – George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
1893 – Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1900 – Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 – Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1905 – Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
1906 – Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)
1914 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
1915 – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1915 – Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
1919 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
1925 – Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist
1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
1927 – Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
1931 – Hal Needham, American stuntman
1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 – John Noakes, British television presenter
1935 – Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1936 – Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
1936 – Marion Barry Jr., American politician
1936 – Jean Boht, English actress
1937 – Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
1939 – Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
1939 – Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1939 – Cookie Rojas, baseball player
1939 – Kit Bond, American politician, senior senator from Missouri
1940 – Joanna Miles, American actress
1940 – Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor
1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand singer
1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 – David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1947 – Kiki Dee, British singer
1947 – Dick Fosbury, American athlete
1947 – Martin Kove, American actor
1947 – Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006)
1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
1953 – Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1953 – Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
1957 – Dick Rambone, American porn Star
1958 – Eddie Deezen, American actor
1959 – Saul Anuzis, American politician
1959 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player
1963 – D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1964 – Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1965 – Tom Chase, American gay porn star
1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
1967 – Connie Britton, American actress
1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer
1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress
1968 – Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1969 – Andrea Elson, American actress
1969 – Tari Phillips, American basketball player
1969 – Amy Pietz, American actress
1969 – Greg Scott, British TV personality
1970 – Chris Broderick, American musician (Megadeth)
1971 – Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player
1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
1972 – Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup)
1973 – Terry Adams, American baseball player
1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player
1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
1973 – Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
1974 – Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
1975 – Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1976 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player
1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
1978 – Lara Cox, Australian Actress
1979 – David Flair, American professional wrestler
1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
1979 – Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player
1980 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor
1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
1984 – Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 – Albert Reed, American model
1986 – Eli Marienthal, American actor
1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
1990 – Patricia Rodríguez, Spanish model
2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian child actress

Deaths

766 – Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
1252 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. 1140)
1627 – Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 – James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 – Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1836 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
1836 – William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809)
1842 – Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1854 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (b. 1794)
1867 – Artemus Ward, American comic writer (b. 1834)
1881 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
1933 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 – Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
1961 – George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
1964 – King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
1967 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
1971 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 – Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
1981 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 – Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 – Seán Savage, Irish Republican (b. 1965)
1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (b. 1920)
1997 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
1997 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
1998 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
1999 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 – John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 – Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 – Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 – Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2005 – Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2006 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 – King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2006 – Dana Reeve, wife of Christopher Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
2007 – Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
2007 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)