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Events
313 – Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1006 – Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1483 – Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune s orbit until July 23, 1503.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1774 – Yellow Creek massacre, British settlers (soon to be American settlers) massacre family members of Chief Logan and spark off the conflict known as Lord Dunmore s War
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1794 – The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1856 – Battle of Rivas, Nicaragua, against North American mercenaries.
1863 – Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1894 – Coxey s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women s federal prison in the United States.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit.
1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
1939 – The 1939 New York World s Fair opens.
1939 – RCA owned NBC begins regularly scheduled television service from its New York station with the opening ceremonies of the 1939 New York World s Fair broadcast.
1939 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. President to appear on television during the World Fair s opening ceremonies broadcast.
1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag building.
1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapsed after proclaiming I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo 88, Brisbane, Australia.
1993 – The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
2001 – The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
2002 – A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2008 – New York City s Mayor Bloomberg declared April 30 as Tyra Banks day, in celebration of The Tyra Banks Show 500th episode.

Births
1245 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1553 – Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1623 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
1651 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer, Catholic saint (d. 1719)
1662 – Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1664 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
1710 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman (d. 1793)
1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1770 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855)
1803 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
1812 – Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (d. 1833)
1829 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884)
1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
1864 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (d. 1949)
1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1908 – Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
1909 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1909 – F. E. McWilliam,Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001)
1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
1920 – Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (d. 1994)
1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005)
1923 – Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (d. 2008)
1925 – Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
1925 – Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress
1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000)
1930 – Felix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist, (d. 1992)
1933 – Dickie Davies, British television presenter
1933 – Willie Nelson, American musician
1934 – Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d. 1995)
1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
1938 – Gary Collins, American actor
1938 – Larry Niven, American author
1940 – Burt Young, American actor
1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1943 – Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer
1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress
1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer
1945 – Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1946 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer
1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator
1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor
1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer
1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician
1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer
1948 – Perry King, American actor
1949 – Phil Garner, baseball manager
1949 – António Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal
1952 – Jacques Audiard, French film director
1953 – Merrill Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds)
1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
1956 – Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish film director
1957 – Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky
1958 – Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter
1959 – Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1959 – Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist
1960 – Kerry Healey, American politician
1960 – David Miscavige, American cult leader
1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver
1964 – Ian Healy, Australian cricketer
1964 – Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor
1966 – Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Steven Mackintosh, British actor
1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura)
1969 – Warren Defever, American musician, composer
1970 – Ken Stanton, American Radio Personality
1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist
1971 – Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld)
1973 – Akon, American R&B Singer
1975 – Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
1975 – Mike Chat, American actor
1975 – Johnny Galecki, American actor
1976 – Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
1977 – Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
1977 – Pell James, American actress
1979 – Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
1981 – John O Shea, Irish footballer
1981 – Emma Pierson, British actress
1982 – Lloyd Banks, American rapper
1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress
1982 – Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
1982 – Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
1983 – Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player
1983 – Yamini, Tamil Singer
1984 – Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager
1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
1987 – Alipate Carlile, Australian rules footballer
1987 – Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
1987 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer
1991 – John Colgan, Irish Footballer

Deaths
65 – Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
1063 – Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
1131 – Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
1341 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
1439 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
1524 – Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
1544 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1555 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
1632 – King Sigismund I of Sweden (b. 1561)
1632 – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
1642 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
1660 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)
1655 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
1696 – Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
1712 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)
1736 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
1758 – François d Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
1792 – John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)
1795 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1841 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1847 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)
1863 – Jean Danjou, French foreign legion captain (b. 1828)
1865 – Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
1875 – Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1883 – Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
1900 – Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
1903 – Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b. 1831)
1936 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
1943 – Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
1943 – Beatrice Webb, British economist (b. 1858)
1945 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler s new wife (b. 1912)
1945 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
1956 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
1970 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934)
1973 – Václav Renc, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
1974 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
1980 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1982 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
1983 – George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
1983 – Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)
1985 – George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1918)
1989 – Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
1989 – Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
1993 – Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1994 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
1995 – Maung Maung Kha, Prime minister of Burma (b. 1920)
1996 – David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
2002 – Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
2003 – Peter Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
2003 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
2003 – Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2005 – Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 – 1992) (b. 1927)
2006 – Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
2006 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
2007 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
2007 – Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007 – Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2007 – Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2008 – John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Walpurgis Night – Celebrated in Germany, central, and western Europe
Scandinavia – The arrival of spring.
Sweden – Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav, an official flag day.
Finland – Mayday s eve. Most celebrations take place day prior to the first of May. Euromayday in Finland.
The Netherlands – Queen s Day, the largest one-day holiday in the Netherlands.
Roman Empire – third day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.
Bealtaine Eve (From either Irish Bealtaine or Scottish Gaelic). Originally a Celtic Druid holiday.
Vietnam – Liberation Day.
Mexico – Children s Day.
Czech Republic and Slovakia – Carodejnice – witches night

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Events
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1832 – Évariste Galois released from prison.
1861 – American Civil War: Maryland s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1864 – The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
1882 – The Elektromote – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at Kut. One of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1945 – World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 – World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day.
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
1951 – A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government is presented with a draft treaty regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1965 – Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in their Rehber series.
1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 – The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1980 – Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
1986 – Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1991 – 1991 Bangladesh cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
1999 – Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2002 – The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2005 – New Zealand s first civil union takes place.
2007 – Republic Protests in Turkey.

Births
1665 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
1686 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (d. 1810)
1745 – Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
1758 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820).
1762 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1780 – Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1784 – Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1837 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 – Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
1863 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 – Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1872 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1875 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
1882 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
1885 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)
1893 – Harold Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1895 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
1899 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1907 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
1907 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)
1908 – Jack Williamson, American writer (d. 2006)
1909 – Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
1911 – Shri Gurudev Mahendranath, British writer (d. 1991)
1912 – Richard Carlson, American actor (d. 1977)
1915 – Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
1917 – Celeste Holm, American actress
1918 – George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
1919 – Gérard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006)
1920 – Harold Shapero, American composer
1922 – Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1922 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player
1924 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
1924 – Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and actress
1925 – Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1925 – John Compton, Saint Lucian Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1925 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and film director (d. 2007)
1928 – Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters)
1929 – Ray Baretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
1929 – Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007)
1929 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1929 – Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
1930 – Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 – Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1931 – Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
1933 – Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1933 – Rod McKuen, American poet and composer
1934 – Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
1934 – Pedro Pires, 3rd President of Cape Verde
1934 – Otis Rush, American musician
1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
1936 – April Stevens, American singer
1936 – Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
1937 – Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1938 – Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1938 – Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1942 – Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier
1944 – Princess Benedikte of Denmark
1944 – Richard Kline, American actor and director
1944 – Francis Lee, English International Footballer and philantropist
1945 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
1947 – Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 – Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1947 – Tommy James, American musician
1947 – Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
1948 – Bruce Cutler, American attorney
1948 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and violinist (Can) (d. 2001)
1950 – Phillip Noyce, Australian film director
1950 – Debbie Stabenow, American politician
1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
1952 – Nora Dunn, American actress
1952 – David Icke, English writer
1952 – Bob McClure, American baseball player
1954 – Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder
1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1955 – Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1955 – Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
1956 – Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower and politician
1956 – Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor
1957 – Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1957 – Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1958 – Eve Plumb, American actress
1958 – Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster
1960 – Phil King, English bassist
1960 – Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
1960 – Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1961 – Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyu
1963 – Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
1964 – Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1966 – Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
1967 – Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Master P, American rapper
1968 – Carnie Wilson, American singer
1969 – Paul Adelstein, American actor
1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 – China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
1971 – Sam Michael, Australian engineer
1972 – Dustin McDaniel, American politician
1973 – David Belle, French physical educator
1973 – Johan Hegg, Swedish heavy metal vocalist
1974 – Anggun, Indonesian singer
1974 – Pascal Cygan, French footballer
1974 – Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
1974 – Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1975 – Béres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ
1975 – Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 – Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1977 – Rocío Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite
1977 – Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
1978 – Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players
1979 – Ryan Sharp, Scottish racing driver
1979 – Jo O Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 – Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer
1979 – Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1980 – Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 – Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
1981 – George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 – Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006)
1981 – Alex Vincent, American actor
1983 – Jay Cutler, American football player
1983 – Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1983 – David Lee, American basketball player
1983 – Sam Jones III, American Actor
1984 – Taylor Cole, American actress
1984 – Firass Dirani, Lebanese-Australian actor
1984 – Ph?m Van Quy?n, Vietnamese footballer
1986 – Renee Alway, American Model
1987 – Alicia Morton, American actress
1988 – Younha, Korean pop singer
2003 – Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2007)
2003 – Maud Behn, Princess of Norway
2007 – Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain

Deaths
926 – Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1594 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 – Agrippa d Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
1688 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
1698 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1707 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1743 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 – Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1782 – Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
1793 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 – John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1854 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1903 – Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1920 – William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 – Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1937 – William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
1961 – Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1966 – William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
1967 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
1967 – J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1979 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
1988 – James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
1993 – Mick Ronson, English musician (b. 1946)
1993 – Michael Gordon, American film director (b. 1909)
1997 – Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
1998 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 – Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 – Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 – William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 – Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 – Ivica Racan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
2007 – Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)

Holidays and observances
International Dance Day
Japan (public holiday since 1927, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period)
Roman Empire – second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora
Bahá í Faith – The ninth day of the Festival of Ridván
Netherlands – Queen s Day, only when 30 April is a Sunday

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Events
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1862 – American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
1902 – Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1949 – Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1965 – United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1967 – Expo 67 opens to the public in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1969 – Terence O Neill announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1973 – Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over the course of 18 hours in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures are damaged, and the town of Antelope, California ceases to exist, with every building being reduced to the foundation. This accident leads to the passing of the Transportation Safety Act of 1974 which makes the NTSB an independent agency.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1981 – Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea, on station across the Line of Death in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle C.B. Lansing is blown out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former C.I.A. official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
1997 – The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who have not ratified the treaty.
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world s first space tourist.
2005 – The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

Births
1442 – King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1545 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1630 – Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
1686 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 – Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
1758 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)
1819 – Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1838 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
1868 – Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
1868 – Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1874 – Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
1897 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
1900 – Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
1902 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
1906 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1906 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1908 – Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)
1910 – Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
1911 – Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
1912 – Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d. 1995)
1914 – Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)
1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1921 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
1922 – William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
1922 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
1924 – Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
1924 – Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
1925 – T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
1926 – Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
1926 – Harper Lee, American author
1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
1928 – Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1930 – James Baker, American politician
1930 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
1934 – Lois Duncan, American novelist
1937 – Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
1938 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
1941 – Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
1941 – K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
1941 – Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
1942 – Mike Brearley, English cricketer
1943 – Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director
1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
1944 – Alice Waters, American chef
1946 – Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1948 – Terry Pratchett, English author
1948 – Marcia Strassman, American actress
1948 – Dorothée Berryman, French Canadian actress and singer
1949 – Indian Larry, American stuntsman (d. 2004)
1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
1950 – Willie Colón , Puerto Rican salsa musician
1952 – Mary McDonnell, American actress
1953 – Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1953 – Roberto Bolano, Latin American author and poet
1954 – Ron Zook, American Football Coach
1955 – Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
1955 – Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
1956 – Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
1957 – Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
1958 – Hal Sutton, American golfer
1960 – John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
1960 – Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist
1960 – Joel H. Rosenthal American political scientist
1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
1960 – Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
1961 – Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
1963 – Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater
1964 – Barry Larkin, American baseball player
1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
1965 – Steven Blum, American voice actor
1966 – John Daly, American golfer
1966 – Too Short, American rapper
1967 – Kari Wührer, American actress
1968 – Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1968 – Howard Donald, British musician
1968 – Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
1970 – Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player
1970 – Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
1971 – Bridget Moynahan, American actress
1972 – Joseph Bruce, American musician
1973 – Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
1973 – Jorge Garcia, American actor
1973 – Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer
1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
1974 – Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
1974 – Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter
1977 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (d. 2006)
1978 – Lauren Laverne, Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer
1979 – Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
1980 – Josh Howard, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
1981 – Jessica Alba, American actress
1982 – Nikki Grahame, Big Brother 7 Star
1983 – Roger Johnson, English footballer
1986 – George Nozuka, Canadian Singer/Songwriter
1986 – Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player
1986 – Jennifer Palm Lundberg, reigning Miss World Sweden

Deaths
1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem
1498 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1695 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
1710 – Thomas Betterton, English actor
1716 – Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
1726 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1781 – Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1813 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1841 – Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1905 – Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1926 – Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1936 – King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
1944 – Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
1945 – Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912)
1945 – Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
1949 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
1957 – Heinz Pritzl Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
1964 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
1973 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1975 – Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (b. 1928)
1978 – Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
1988 – B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949)
1991 – Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
1992 – Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
1992 – Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
1993 – Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
1998 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
1999 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
2000 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
2002 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
2002 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
2005 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
2005 – Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
2005 – Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
2007 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 – Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.
Bahá í Faith – Feast of Jamál (Beauty) – First day of the third month of the Bahá í calendar.
National Day of Mourning in Canada to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents.
National Heroes Day – Barbados.
Workers Memorial Day – International Workers Memorial Day
Feast day, in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, of
Saint Peter Chanel and of
Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
but, in the General Roman Calendar as in 1954, of
Saint Paul of the Cross

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Events
1124 – David I becomes King of Scotland.
1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1749 – First performance of Handel s Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1777 – The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engaged and defeated Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The shores of Tripoli part of the Marines hymn).
1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada).
1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1861 – President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state s land grant institution.
1865 – The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1909 – Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
1933 – Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership s first shop outside London.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1945 – World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland).
1945 – World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication.
1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People s Republic of China.
1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1972 – Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
1974 – 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1987 – The U.S. Justice Department bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics win entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
1996 – The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2005 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

Births
1495 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
1623 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
1650 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)
1701 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1718 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1724 – Col. Thomas Gardner, a heroic political figure and soldier (d. 1775)
1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
1748 – Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)
1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (d. 1797)
1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1812 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
1812 – William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (d. 1911)
1848 – King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1850 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
1853 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1878 – Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
1888 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
1893 – Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (d. 1946)
1893 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1894 – George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
1894 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995)
1896 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1899 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
1903 – Horace Stoneham, American Major league baseball owner (d. 1990)
1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1906 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
1913 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
1916 – Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 – Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
1920 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
1920 – Mark Krasnosel skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1921 – John Stott, British theologian and clergyman
1922 – Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor
1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor
1927 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
1927 – Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
1932 – Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician
1932 – Casey Kasem, American disc jockey
1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1936 – Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
1937 – Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
1938 – Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)
1938 – Alain Caron, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1939 – Judy Carne, British actress and comedian
1939 – Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal
1941 – Jennings Michael Burch, American author
1941 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1941 – Pat Choate, American economist
1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer
1943 – Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver
1944 – Michael Fish, British former weather forecaster
1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient)
1945 – August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
1947 – Ann Peebles, American singer
1947 – George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
1947 – Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
1947 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1948 – Frank William Abagnale, Jr., con artist turned security consultant.
1948 – Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52 s)
1948 – Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician
1951 – Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss)
1952 – George Gervin, American basketball player
1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1952 – Larry Elder, American political commentator
1953 – Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
1956 – Douglas P., English musician (Death in June, Crisis)
1956 – Bryan Harvey, American musician
1957 – Eric Bristow, English darts player
1957 – Rosanna Scotto, American news anchor
1957 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
1959 – Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
1962 – Ángel Comizzo, Argentine footballer
1962 – James LeGros, American actor
1963 – Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
1964 – Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
1964 – Lisa Wilcox, American actress
1967 – Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 – Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer
1967 – Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
1967 – Erik Thomson, Australian actor
1967 – Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter
1969 – Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1969 – Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
1969 – Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
1969 – Mica Paris, British singer and presenter
1970 – Kylie Travis, English actress and model
1971 – Tess Daly, British television presenter
1972 – David Lascher, American actor
1973 – Sébastien Lareau, French Canadian professional tennis player
1974 – Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
1974 – Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
1975 – Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player
1975 – Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
1975 – Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
1976 – Sally Hawkins, English film actress
1976 – Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1977 – Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
1977 – Jerry Trainor, American actor
1978 – Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
1979 – Will Boyd, American musician
1979 – Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
1980 – Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1980 – Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
1981 – Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
1981 – Joey Gathright, American baseball player
1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1982 – Katrina Johnson, American actress
1983 – Ari Graynor, American actress
1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 – Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
1984 – Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 – William Moseley, British actor
1987 – Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
1987 – Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
1989 – Emily Rios, American actress

Deaths
630 – King Ardashir III of Persia
1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
1599 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 – Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
1625 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1695 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
1813 – Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 – Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
1932 – Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1936 – Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1941 – Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1967 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
1969 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana (b. 1909)
1973 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
1977 – Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 – David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1989 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
1992 – Gerard K. O Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
1995 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1996 – William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
1998 – Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
2002 – Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
2006 – Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
Pascha (Easter): Eastern Orthodox Church
Catalonia: Montserrat s Day.
Finland: National Veterans Day.
World graphic design day.
Sierra Leone: Republic Day.
Slovenia: Day of Uprising Against Occupation.
South Africa: Freedom day.
South Africa: UnFreedom day.
Saint Liberalis
Saint Zita

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Events
1467 – The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy.
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 – United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O Bannon.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln s assassin, in Virginia.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1962 – NASA s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
1986 – In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world s worst nuclear disaster.
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year s only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 – A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing everyone on board, with a death toll amounting to 264.
1994 – Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
2007 – Queen s Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong s Central district

Births
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
1573 – Marie de Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1662 – Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1718 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
1782 – Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (d. 1866)
1785 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
1798 – James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1804 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
1856 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1878 – Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1886 – Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
1893 – Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
1896 – Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
1897 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1898 – John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
1911 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
1914 – James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
1916 – Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1917 – I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1926 – David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor
1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
1932 – Francis Lai, French film music composer
1932 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian
1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
1938 – Duane Eddy, American musician
1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer
1941 – Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
1941 – John Mitchell, American composer
1942 – Claudine Auger, French actress
1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
1943 – Gary Wright, American singer
1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
1945 – Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor
1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 – Dominic Sena, American film director
1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 – Koo Stark, American actress
1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
1959 – John Corabi, American Musician
1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
1960 – Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1961 – Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist
1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
1967 – Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model
1970 – Tionne T-Boz Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
1972 – Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
1974 – Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
1974 – Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
1975 – Nathan Joey Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer
1976 – Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
1978 – Avant, American singer
1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1980 – Jordana Brewster, American actress
1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English musician
1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 – Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
1982 – Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end
1983 – José María López, Argentine racing driver
1983 – Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
1984 – Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
1985 – John Isner, American Tennis player
1985 – Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya
1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15

Deaths
1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
1478 – Giuliano di Piero de Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
1789 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 – Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
1938 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1944 – Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
1945 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
1970 – Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
1976 – Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1984 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
1987 – John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
1987 – Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
1999 – Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b. 1983)
2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
2003 – Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances
Tanzania – Union Day.
Florida and Georgia, USA – Confederate Memorial Day.
World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

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Events
1607 – Eighty Years War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks Mills.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

Births
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declareProxy-Connection: keep-alive

Deaths
1916 – Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 – The Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state.
1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto s orbit.
1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1990 – The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 – 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin s funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Holidays and observances
32 – Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 – King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1287 – Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1775 – Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape designer (d. 1903)
1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
1851 – Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. Clarín, Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
1868 – John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (d. 1910)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
1898 – Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1905 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1906 – William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1909 – William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1918 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
1923 – Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
1923 – Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1925 – Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
1925 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1926 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1929 – Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to Olympics
1930 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1932 – William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer
1934 – Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1935 – April Ashley, English model
1938 – Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
1939 – Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
1942 – Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
1942 – Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 – Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
1948 – Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
1949 – Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1949 – James Fenton, British poet
1950 – Steve Ferrone, British drummer
1951 – Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1952 – Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
1953 – Ron Clements, American animation director
1955 – Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1955 – Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
1958 – Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
1959 – Dominique Blanc, French actress
1960 – Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
1961 – Dinesh D Souza, American author
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor
1964 – Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
1964 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1965 – Eric Avery, American musician (Jane s Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1965 – Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
1966 – James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
1969 – Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer
1971 – Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
1972 – Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
1973 – Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1974 – Dean Phoenix American Gay Pornographic Actor
1975 – Emily Bergl, English-American actress
1975 – Jacque Jones, American baseball player
1975 – Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1976 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 – Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress
1977 – Matthew West, American Christian singer
1977 – Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
1977 – Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1978 – Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
1978 – Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 – Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 – Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 – Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
1981 – Dwone Hicks, American football player
1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 – John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
1981 – Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1982 – Brian Barton, American baseball player
1983 – DeAngelo Williams, American football player
1983 – J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1983 – Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
1984 – Robert Andino, American baseball player
1984 – Melonie Diaz, American Actress
1984 – Andre Woodson, American football player
1985 – Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
1987 – Johann Smith, American soccer player
1988 – Sara Paxton, American actress
1988 – James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 – Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 April 24th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/april-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today April 24th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC – Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional).
1558 – Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published.
1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.
1862 – American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
1877 – Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declare war on Spain.
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1913 – The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
1915 – The Armenian Genocide begins with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
1916 – Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin under which Germany and the Soviet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1961 – The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
1963 – Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1964 – Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that was in power since the coup d état against Juan Bosch.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1975 – The Baader-Meinhof Gang takes 13 hostages at theWest German embassy in Stockholm.
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Births
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1991 – Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
1993 – The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act comes into force establishing Panchayati Raj system in India.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.

Deaths
1533 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1620 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography (d. 1674)
1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
1718 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1743 – Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
1845 – Carl Spitteler, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1876 – Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1882 – Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
1889 – Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1896 – Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
1906 – William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
1908 – Marceline Day, American actor (d. 2000)
1914 – William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
1914 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (d. 2001)
1916 – Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1922 – J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 – Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
1926 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
1929 – Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
1930 – Jerome Callet, American musician
1930 – Richard Donner, American film director and producer
1933 – Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer
1933 – Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
1933 – Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
1933 – Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
1933 – Freddie Scott, American singer (d. 2007)
1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author
1936 – Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
1937 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1940 – Sue Grafton, American author
1941 – John Williams, Australian guitarist
1942 – Richard M. Daley, American politician
1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor
1943 – Richard Sterban, American singer
1945 – Doug Clifford, American drummer
1945 – Robert Knight, American singer
1945 – Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
1945 – Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
1947 – Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
1947 – Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament
1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
1948 – Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to Canada
1949 – Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
1954 – Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
1954 – Captain Sensible, British guitarist
1955 – John de Mol, Dutch media businessman
1957 – David J, British musician
1957 – Boris Williams, British musician
1958 – Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
1958 – Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer
1959 – Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
1959 – Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player
1960 – Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
1962 – Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
1962 – Steve Roach, Australian rugby league footballer
1963 – Paula Frazer, American singer/songwriter
1963 – Billy Gould, American musician
1963 – Mano Solo, French singer
1963 – Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician
1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
1964 – Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor
1965 – Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
1966 – Pierre Brassard, Quebec humorist and actor
1966 – Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
1967 – Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 – Stacy Haiduk, American actress
1968 – Todd Jones, American baseball player
1968 – Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
1969 – Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
1969 – Melinda Clarke, American actress
1969 – Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
1970 – Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer
1971 – Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer
1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
1972 – Nicolas Gill, Canadian judoka
1972 – Chipper Jones, American baseball player
1972 – Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
1973 – Eric Snow, American basketball player
1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
1973 – Gabby Logan, British television presenter
1974 – Kristie Krabe, American stage actress
1974 – Derek Luke, American actor
1974 – Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer
1974 – Brian Marshall, American bassist
1974 – Dave Vitty, British radio personality
1975 – Sam Doumit, American actress
1976 – Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
1977 – Siarhey Balakhonau, Belarusian writer
1977 – Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 – Eric Balfour, American actor
1978 – Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
1978 – Stella Damasus Aboderin, Nigerian actress
1979 – Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
1980 – Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
1980 – Austin Nichols, American actor
1981 – Taylor Dent, American tennis player
1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer
1983 – Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1984 – Tyson Ritter, American musician
1987 – Kristopher Letang, Canadian hockey player
1987 – Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
1994 – Austin Rogers, American actor
1998 – Ryan Newman, American actress

Holidays and observances
624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1342 – Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (b. 1577)
1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (b. 1719)
1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
1944 – William Stephens, American political figure (b. 1859)
1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
1947 – Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1947 – Hans Biebow, German WWII figure (b. 1902)
1957 – Harry McClintock, American country singer and hobo
1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
2001 – Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-24th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 April 23rd this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-23rd-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-23rd-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/april-23rd-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today April 23rd 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1229 – Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres.
1343 – St. George s Night Uprising.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George s Day.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1597 – William Shakespeare s The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
1635 – First public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising (1815-1817) was a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded in Ankara.
1923 – Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers shelter.
1932 – The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
1935 – Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the attacking Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. see main article Columbia University protests of 1968.
1979 – Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police s Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach.
1982 – Conch Republic is established.
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
1987 – 28 construction workers die when the L Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1988 – Pink Floyd s album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

Births
1170 – Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 – King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 – Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, queen of France (d. 1505)
1484 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (d. 1558)
1500 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 – Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1598 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
1621 – William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1628 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1676 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1720 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 – Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1746 – Félix Vicq-d Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1775 – J. M. W. Turner, English painter (d. 1851)
1791 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
1792 – John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 – Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1805 – Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1813 – Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861)
1813 – Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1823 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1834 – Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
1853 – Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
1858 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1858 – Ethel Mary Smyth, English composer (d. 1944)
1861 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936)
1865 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)
1872 – Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1880 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942)
1882 – Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953)
1888 – Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
1893 – Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952)
1894 – Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1897 – Lucius Clay, American general (d. 1978)
1897 – Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972)
1899 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979)
1899 – Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (d. 1982)
1900 – Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996)
1900 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 – E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 – Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d. 1974)
1904 – Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985)
1907 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
1907 – Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977)
1908 – Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1910 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
1917 – Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
1918 – Maurice Druon, French author
1919 – Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent
1921 – Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
1921 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1923 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1923 – Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993)
1923 – Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler
1924 – Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1924 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
1926 – J. P. Donleavy, Irish American author
1928 – Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
1932 – Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984)
1932 – Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
1934 – George Canseco, Filipino music composer (d. 2004)
1935 – Bunky Green, American musician
1936 – Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
1939 – Jorge Fons, Mexican film director
1939 – Lee Majors, American actor
1939 – Ray Peterson, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 – Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
1941 – Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1941 – Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
1941 – Michael Lynne, American film executive
1942 – Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
1943 – Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
1943 – Tony Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 – Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
1943 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
1947 – Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 – Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician
1948 – Pascal Quignard, French author
1948 – Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor
1949 – David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson)
1949 – Joyce DeWitt, American actress
1952 – Narada Michael Walden, American musician and producer
1954 – Michael Moore, American filmmaker
1955 – Judy Davis, Australian actress
1955 – Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
1957 – Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1957 – Neville Brody, English graphic designer, typographer and art director
1958 – Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1958 – Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
1960 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
1960 – Claude Julien, French-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 – Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (d. 2001)
1961 – George Lopez, American actor and comedian
1962 – Hillel Slovak Former guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers (d. 1988)
1962 – John Hannah, Scottish actor
1963 – Paul Belmondo, French actor and racing driver
1963 – Magnús Ver Magnússon, Icelandic powerlifter
1967 – Rheal Cormier, Canadian baseball player
1967 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
1968 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
1968 – Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1968 – Princess Zein bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1969 – Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast
1969 – Byron Thames, American actor
1969 – Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker
1969 – Martin López-Zubero, Spanish swimmer
1970 – Scott Bairstow, American actor
1970 – Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 – Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1970 – Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
1971 – Charmaine Sinclair, English model
1972 – Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet
1972 – Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1972 – Sonya Smith, American actress
1973 – Patrick Poulin, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1974 – Barry Watson, American actor
1975 – Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1975 – Bobby Shaw, American football wide receiver for the NFL
1977 – John Cena, American professional wrestler
1977 – Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
1977 – Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Kal Penn, American actor
1977 – Lee Young-Pyo, Korean footballer
1979 – Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis)
1979 – Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model
1979 – Jaime King, American actress
1979 – Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
1981 – Sean Henn, American baseball player
1981 – Joanna Krupa, Supermodel/actress
1981 – Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer
1982 – Taio Cruz, London/English R&B, Pop, Hip Hop singer
1983 – Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
1983 – Jennifer Heil, Canadian free style skier
1984 – Alexandra Kosteniuk, Chess Woman World Champion
1985 – Angel Locsin, Filipina TV and movie actress
1986 – Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater
1986 – Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel
1987 – Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion
1988 – Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer
1989 – Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
1990 – Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor

Deaths
303 – Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
725 – Wihtred, King of Kent
871 – Ethelred of Wessex
997 – Saint Adalbert of Prague, bishop (b. c. 956)
1014 – Brian Boru, High King of Ireland (killed in battle)
1016 – Ethelred II of England
1124 – King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078)
1151 – Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103)
1217 – King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
1407 – Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326)
1605 – Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. c. 1550)
1616 – Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
1616 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (Julian calendar)
1616 – El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1625 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)
1702 – Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)
1740 – Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685)
1781 – James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
1792 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
1794 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1827 – Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek hero of the Greek War of Independence
1839 – Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1850 – William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
1889 – Jules Barbey d Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1895 – Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
1905 – Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
1907 – Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
1915 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887).
1936 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
1951 – Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1952 – Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1975 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
1979 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1981 – Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (b. 1897)
1983 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
1984 – Red Garland, American jazz pianist (b. 1923)
1985 – Sam Ervin, American politician (b. 1896)
1986 – Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
1986 – Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922)
1986 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b. 1906)
1990 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1911)
1991 – Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1992 – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
1993 – César Chávez, American labor activist (b. 1927)
1995 – Howard Cosell, American sports journalist (b. 1918)
1995 – John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi (b. 1904)
1996 – Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (b. 1913)
1996 – P. L. Travers, Australian author (b. 1899)
1997 – Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
1998 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
2003 – James H. Critchfield, American Central Intelligence agent (b. 1917)
2003 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
2005 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
2005 – Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (b. 1928)
2005 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2005 – Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (b. 1927)
2005 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2006 – Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
2007 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932)
2007 – David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
2007 – Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances
UNESCO International Day of the Book in honor of the death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes on April 23, 1616.
Turkey – National Sovereignty and Children s Day (1920)
Feast Day of Saint George:
Patron saint and National Day of England
Patron saint of Catalonia
Castile and León – Castile and León Day
Saint Adalbert of Prague
Saint Gerard (d. 1138)
World Book and Copyright Day

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-23rd-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 April 22nd this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-22nd-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/april-history/april-22nd-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/april-22nd-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today April 22nd 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
1509 – Henry VIII accedes to the throne of England after the death of his father.
1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – American Civil War: Grierson s Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1912 – Pravda, the voice of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
1954 – Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World s Fair opens for its first season.
1970 – First Earth Day celebrated.
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
1983 – The German magazine, Der Stern claims that Adolf Hitler s diaries were found in wreckage in East Germany.
1991 – The Social Democratic Party of Albania is founded.
1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
1993 – The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.
1993 – The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1994 – Kansas reinstates the death penalty
1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
1997 – The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 – Disney s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives home in Miami, Florida.
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass, Tamil Tigers launched this attack to capture this strategic Sri Lankan Army base, captured it and held it for 8 years, biggest military debacle in the history of the Sri Lankan military.
2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2006 – 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
2006 – Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.

Births
1451 – Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1658 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
1692 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
1707 – Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
1711 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 – Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
1832 – Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902)
1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)
1860 – Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
1876 – Robert Bárány, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1876 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1889 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 – Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 – Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1904 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
1905 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 – Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate
1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)
1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
1914 – Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1918 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
1923 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1923 – Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
1925 – George Cole, English actor
1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress
1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
1927 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1935 – Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician
1936 – Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
1938 – Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1939 – Mel Carter, American singer
1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
1939 – Theodor Waigel, German politician and finance minister
1943 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
1944 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
1946 – John Waters, American film writer
1946 – Louise Harel, Quebec politician
1946 – Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
1946 – Steven L. Bennett, USAF Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1972)
1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
1950 – Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
1951 – Paul Carrack, English musician
1951 – Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress
1952 – François Berléand, French actor
1953 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1955 – Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer
1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1958 – Ken Olandt, American actor
1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor
1960 – Mart Laar, Estonian statesman
1960 – Gary Rhodes, English chef
1960 – Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1961 – Dewey Nicks, American photographer and film director
1962 – Jeff Minter, English video game programmer
1965 – Lauri Hendler, actress
1965 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)
1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
1967 – Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress
1967 – Harvey Williams, American football player
1968 – Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
1970 – Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player
1970 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1971 – Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese people space tourist
1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
1972 – Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
1972 – Owen Finegan, Australian rugby union footballer
1973 – Adem Poric, Australian former footballer
1973 – Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer
1974 – Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
1975 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
1975 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
1976 – Michal Zewlakow, Polish footballer
1976 – Paul Henderson, Australian soccer player
1976 – Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 – Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 – Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1978 – Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver
1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1979 – Zoltan Gera, Hungarian footballer
1980 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
1980 – Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour
1980 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
1981 – Ken Dorsey, American football player
1982 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Tim Hamilton, Slovak adult movie actor
1983 – Matt Jones, American football player
1983 – Jos Hooiveld, Dutch football player
1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
1984 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
1985 – Matt Ballinger, American singer (Dream Street)
1986 – Dusan Sakota, Serbian-Greek basketball player
1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
1986 – Marshawn Lynch, American Football player

Deaths
296 – Pope Caius
455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
536 – Pope Agapetus I
1592 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect (b. 1511)
1616 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (b. 1547)
1672 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman (b. 1646)
1758 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
1778 – James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)
1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
1833 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
1839 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1854 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)
1877 – James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
1892 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
1893 – Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
1896 – Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
1925 – André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
1929 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
1930 – Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
1933 – Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
1945 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)
1946 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
1946 – Lionel Atwill, English Actor (b. 1885)
1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1968 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1978 – Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
1980 – Jane Froman, American actress (b. 1907)
1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
1983 – Earl Fatha Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
1983 – John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1950)
1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
1985 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
1985 – Jacques Ferron, French Canadian physician, author and politician (b. 1921)
1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (b. 1907)
1988 – Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
1990 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
1995 – Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)
1996 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927)
1996 – Harold Jug McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
1998 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
1999 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
1999 – Chan Canasta, magician and mindreader (b. 1920)
2002 – Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
2003 – Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
2003 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
2003 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2004 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2004 – Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2005 – Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)
2005 – Robert Farnon, Canadian-born composer and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 – Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
2006 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
2007 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, congresswoman from southern California (b. 1938)
2008 – Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances
Earth Day
Brazil – Discovery Day
Abel McAedh
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions
April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
753 BC – Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date).
43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Although Antony fails to capture Mutina, Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly afterwards.
1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England (unofficially) at the death of his father, Henry VII.
1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – Bahá u lláh, considered the founder of the Bahá í Faith, declares his mission as He whom God shall make manifest.
1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as The Red Baron, is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year.
1942 – World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Aggies who were under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.
1944 – Women in France receive the right to vote.
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1952 – Secretary s Day (now Administrative Professionals Day) is first celebrated.
1960 – Brasília, Brazil s capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Bahá í Faith in Washington, D.C.
1962 – The Seattle World s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World s Fair in the United States since World War II.
1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá í Faith is elected for the first time.
1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World s Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1982 – Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
2008 – The United States Air Force retires the F-117 Nighthawk.

Births
1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1651 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
1671 – John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
1767 – Elisabeth of Württemberg, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1790)
1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862)
1775 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
1810 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
1811 – Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
1814 – Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
1838 – John Muir, American environmentalist (d. 1914)
1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
1854 – William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
1870 – Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
1905 – Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
1911 – Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
1912 – Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
1914 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
1915 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (d. 2003)
1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1920 – Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007)
1923 – John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009)
1925 – Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of Australia
1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
1926 – Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
1932 – Elaine May, American comedian
1935 – Charles Grodin, American actor
1935 – Thomas Kean, American politician
1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist
1938 – Ernie Maresca, American singer and record executive
1939 – Helen Prejean, American writer
1944 – Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
1947 – John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family)
1948 – Gary Condit, American politician
1948 – Paul Davis, American singer
1949 – Patti LuPone, American singer and actress
1951 – Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
1951 – Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
1951 – Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
1951 – Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – James Morrison, American actor
1954 – Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
1956 – Phillip Longman, American demographer
1957 – Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
1958 – Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
1959 – Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
1959 – Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
1959 – Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
1959 – Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps)
1960 – Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Les Lancaster, American baseball player
1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
1963 – John Cameron Mitchell, American film director
1964 – Alex Baumann, Canadian Olympic swimmer
1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
1965 – Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Karen Foster, American model (Playboy)
1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
1966 – Michael Franti, American musician
1969 – Robin Meade, American reporter
1970 – Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
1970 – Rob Riggle, American comedian
1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
1971 – Alexander Kravchenko, Russian professional poker player
1971 – Hasan Akbar, American convicted murderer
1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist
1972 – Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1972 – Severina Vuckovic, Croatian singer
1973 – Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete
1976 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
1977 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
1977 – Doseone, American rapper
1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
1978 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
1978 – Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
1980 – Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
1981 – Stephanie Larimore, American model
1982 – Carnell Cadillac Williams, American football player
1983 – Pawel Brozek, Polish footballer
1984 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
1986 – Audra Cohen, American tennis player
1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player
1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
1988 – Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark

Deaths
1073 – Pope Alexander II
1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
1551 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 – Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 – John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 – Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
1825 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1868 – Henry James O Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
1938 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1971 – François Papa Doc Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
1973 – Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1974 – Charles Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
1978 – Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
1980 – Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
1985 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
1985 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
1985 – Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
1986 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b. 1930)
1989 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
1990 – Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
1991 – Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
1998 – Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
1996 – Jimmy The Greek Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
1999 – Charles Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
2003 – Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2006 – T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
2006 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (b. 1931)
2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith – First day of the festival of Ridván.
Roman Empire – the Parilia was held in honor of Pales.
Rome – city birthday.
Tiradentes – Brazil.
Grounation Day in Rastafari movement.
San Jacinto Day – Texas state holiday.
Aggie Muster at Texas A&M University.
Holy Infant of Good Health
Saint Abdecalas
Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury
Saint Anastasius I
Saint Konrad von Parzham
Saint Wolbodo

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