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Events

764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an , the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1439 – Plymouth , England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan – the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica .
1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1922 – The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in .
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union .
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1936 – In California , the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually is first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 – World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol .
1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal . The battle lasts for three days.
1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz , with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø , Norway .
1948 – In Tokyo , an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1956 – Morocco , Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley .
1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam .
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1978 – As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran .
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran , US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran .
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
1982 – In the Soviet Union , Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili , East Timor .
1993 – Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued.
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi , killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing .
1998 – Vice President Al Gore signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1998 – Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 – In New York City , American Airlines Flight 587 , an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic , crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport , killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan , ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 – Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq , at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record ( ) for commercial railway systems.
2006 – The region of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia .

Births

1493 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1547 – Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)
1606 – Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican mystic and author (d. 1695)
1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
1795 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)
1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1848 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1866 – Sun Yat-sen 孫中山, the Father of China; 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1881 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1881 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 – Günther Dyhrenfurth, German born geologist, geographer and Himalayan explorer (d. 1975)
1886 – Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 – DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
1890 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1892 – Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958)
1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897 – Karl Marx, German composer (d. 1985)
1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1908 – Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
1910 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1981)
1911 – Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1915 – Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1916 – Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
1916 – Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
1920 – Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1924 – Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1928 – Bob Holness, English presenter and actor
1929 – Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
1929 – Princess Grace of Monaco, American Actress, Royalty (d. 1982)
1930 – Ann Flood, American actress
1931 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
1933 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader
1936 – Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1936 – Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1938 – Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 – Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 – Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1943 – Brian Hyland, American singer
1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
1943 – Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver
1943 – Julie Ege, Norwegian/British actress (d. 2008)
1944 – Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1944 – Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
1945 – Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
1946 – Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
1947 – Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1947 – Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter
1947 – Buck Dharma, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
1948 – Errol Brown, English singer (Hot Chocolate)
1948 – Cliff Harris, American football player
1949 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992)
1949 – Sinyan Shen (沈星扬 or 沈星揚), American physicist and classical composer.
1952 – Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
1953 – Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1955 – Katharine Weber, American novelist
1958 – Nick Stellino, Italian-American television chef
1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor
1960 – Ismo Alanko, Finnish musician
1960 – Maurane, Belgian singer
1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 – Jonathan Nossiter, American film director
1961 – Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author
1962 – Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall, The Adult Net)
1962 – Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian born journalist and television presenter
1963 – Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
1963 – Sam Lloyd, Actor and A Capella singer (Scrubs)
1964 – David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth)
1965 – Lex Lang, American voice actor
1967 – Michael Moorer, American boxer
1967 – Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder)
1968 – Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1968 – Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 – Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 – Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster
1969 – Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
1970 – Donna Adamo, American professional wrestler
1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
1970 – Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
1970 – Harvey Stephens, British actor
1972 – Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 – Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1973 – Ethan Zohn, United Soccer Leagues star, winner of Survivor: Africa
1974 – Tamala Jones, American actress
1975 – Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
1975 – Angela Watson, American actress
1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
1976 – Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1976 – Richelle Mead, American author
1976 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1977 – Dalene Kurtis, American model
1977 – Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist
1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 – Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian/German actress
1978 – Ashley Williams, American actress
1978 – Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer, and professional wrestler
1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player
1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean/American actress
1979 – Crown J, South Korean hip hop singer and rapper
1980 – Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
1981 – DJ Campbell, English footballer
1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
1982 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
1983 – Charlie Morton , American baseball player
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
1984 – Omarion, American R&B musician
1984 – Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver
1986 – Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
1987 – Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player

Deaths

607 – Pope Boniface III
1035 – Canute the Great
1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1434 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English statesman (b. 1497)
1567 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1606 – St. Nicholas Owens (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1933 – F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1941 – Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
1944 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of operettas (b. 1879)
1976 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1976 – Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 – Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1993 – H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 – Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2005 – William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's , Newfoundland , Canada (b. 1923)
2006 – General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 – Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)
2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)