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Events
307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree , ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1717 – A sermon on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.
1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Oita Nakatsu rebels.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
1942 -World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then of British possession.
1942 – Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organize the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
1946 – The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – The first commercial United States made computer, the UNIVAC I, is delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
1965 – Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth s atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 – 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement – Hadas in Kuwait.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country s independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active United States Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 – In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
1998 – Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
2004 – In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
2007 – In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
2008 – Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service

Births
250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1360 – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
1499 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
1504 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 644)
1596 – René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
1651 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
1718 – Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
1723 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
1809 – Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian writer and satirist (d. 1852)
1811 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
1819 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1871 – Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
1872 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d. 1952)
1872 – Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
1876 – Borisav Bora Stankovic, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
1893 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
1906 – Shin ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1907 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1915 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1916 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
1919 – Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English Duchess, now Dowager Duchess
1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
1925 – Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 – John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
1927 – César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
1927 – William Daniels, American actor
1928 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1928 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
1929 – Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1931 – Miller Barber, American golfer
1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
1933 – Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor
1934 – Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate
1934 – John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
1935 – Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
1935 – Judith Rossner, American author
1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Marge Piercy, American writer
1936 – Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
1938 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1938 – Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
1938 – David Steel, Scottish politician
1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
1940 – Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
1940 – Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont
1942 – Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
1942 – Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
1944 – Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 – Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 – Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
1946 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 – César Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
1948 – Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress
1948 – Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
1950 – Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
1950 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
1955 – Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1957 – Marc McClure, American actor
1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician
1958 – Tony Cox, American actor
1959 – Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1962 – John Taylor, American football player
1962 – Mark Begich, American politician
1963 – Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
1964 – Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1965 – Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 – Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
1966 – Roger Black, English athlete
1968 – Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Celine Dion, French Canadien singer
1969 – Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 – Steve Smith, American basketball player
1969 – Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1971 – Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
1972 – Andrew Bowen, American actor
1972 – Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 – Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
1974 – Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1974 – Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
1975 – Adam Green, American film director
1976 – Josh Saviano, American actor
1976 – Ashton Moore, American porn actress
1977 – Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1977 – Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
1978 – Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 – Tony Yayo, American rapper
1979 – Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1979 – Amey Date, Indian playback singer
1980 – Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1980 – Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
1982 – Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1982 – Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 – Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1984 – James Jones, American football player
1984 – David Clarkson (ice hockey), Canadian Ice Hockey Player
1986 – Cveta Majtanovic, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1988 – Hogan Ephraim, English Footballer

Deaths
1074 – Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1204 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
1340 – Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
1547 – Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1567 – Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
1621 – Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
1631 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
1671 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
1727 – Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
1741 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
1850 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
1885 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
1913 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
1917 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1927 – Borisav Bora Stankovic, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
1931 – Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Perfumer (b. 1885)
1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1945 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
1978 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1980 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
1981 – Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1983 – Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1984 – Ronald Clark O Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1985 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
1986 – O Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
1988 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
1993 – Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1993 – Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
1995 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971)
1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
1998 – Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2002 – Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2003 – H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2003 – Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005 – Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2006 – Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist
2006 – Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)
2008 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
2008 – Bill Keightley, Mr. Wildcat. University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008 (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
New Jersey – Thomas Mundy Peterson Day
Freedom Day (Malta)
Abdas of Susa
Anesius and companions
César Chávez Day

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Events
240 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley s Comet.
1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 – Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States.
1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – Border Ruffians from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1858 – Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward s Folly.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1870 – Florida territorial government established.
1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
1910 – Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1939 – First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdansk.
1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1949 – Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 – Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1979 – Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1997 – Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK
2006 – Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
2006 – UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

Births
1135 – Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 – John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1746 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
1750 – John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)
1820 – Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1844 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1857 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1879 – Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 – Sean O Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
1882 – Melanie Klein, British Psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
1892 – Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
1895 – Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
1899 – Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 – Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 – Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 – Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
1903 – Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1904 – Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 – Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1907 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1910 – Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1913 – Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 – Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
1913 – Censu Tabone, President of Malta
1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1919 – McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1922 – Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
1926 – Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (d. 1992)
1927 – Peter Marshall, American game show host
1928 – Robert Badinter, French politician
1928 – Tom Sharpe, English satirical author
1929 – Richard Dysart, American actor
1930 – John Astin, American actor
1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1932 – Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1933 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
1935 – Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1935 – Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1940 – Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1941 – Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
1941 – Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1941 – Bob Smith, former American politician
1942 – Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru
1943 – Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
1945 – Eric Clapton, British guitarist
1945 – Johnnie Walker, British DJ
1947 – Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist
1948 – Mervyn King, British economist
1948 – Eddie Jordan Former owner of Jordan Grand Prix
1949 – Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
1949 – Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1951 – Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
1952 – Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1953 – Cydney Bernard, American film producer
1955 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1956 – Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1957 – Paul Reiser, American actor
1958 – Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 – Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, New Zealander convicted child abuser
1959 – Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist
1961 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1962 – MC Hammer, American rap musician
1962 – Bil Dwyer, American actor
1963 – Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer
1964 – Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer
1964 – Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
1964 – Ian Ziering, American actor
1965 – Piers Morgan, British journalist
1966 – Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1966 – Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
1967 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
1967 – Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 – Donna D Errico, American actress and model
1968 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer
1970 – Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1971 – Mark Consuelos, American actor
1971 – Mari Holden, American cycle racer
1972 – Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress
1973 – Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1973 – Matthew Pritchard, Welsh Stuntman
1975 – Bahar Soomekh, American actress
1976 – Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi)
1976 – Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1976 – Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1978 – Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1979 – Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1979 – Simon Webbe, English singer
1980 – Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1980 – Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1982 – Jason Dohring, American actor
1983 – Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1983 – Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1983 – Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
1983 – Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
1983 – Hebe Tian, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1984 – Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1984 – Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
1984 – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
1986 – Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
1986 – Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1982 – Samuel William Norton, English footballer

Deaths
1486 – Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 – Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 – Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 – Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1806 – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, English duchess(b. 1757)
1840 – Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1842 – Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1879 – Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1886 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 – Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1912 – Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
1936 – Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1943 – Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 – Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1950 – Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
1959 – Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 – Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 – Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1966 – Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 – Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1972 – Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1981 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
1984 – Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 – Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)
1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1988 – Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1992 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)
1999 – Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 – Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 – Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 – Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 – Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 – Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 – Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2005 – Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 – Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 – Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 – O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 – Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2006 – Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2008 – Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
2008 – David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
2008 – Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – Festival devoted to Salus.
Land Day.
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day – Public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago.
Saint John Climacus (d. 649)
Saint Quirinus (d. 117)
Tola of Clonard
Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy

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Events
1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1799 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland s four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Appomattox Court House begins.
1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
1882 – The Knights of Columbus are established.
1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
1971 – My Lai massacre: Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1974 – NASA s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1987 – WrestleMania III sets a world indoor attendance record at the Pontiac Silverdome with 93,173 fans.
1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and Canada s first female to be elected in a general election as a premier.
2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

Births
1553 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet
1584 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
1602 – John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
1668 – Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
1713 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
1769 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
1790 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
1869 – Aleš Hrdlicka, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
1870 – Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1874 – Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
1888 – Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
1889 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
1891 – Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)
1891 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
1892 – József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
1895 – Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1899 – Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
1900 – John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1900 – Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1901 – Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
1902 – Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1902 – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
1905 – Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 – E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)
1907 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
1908 – Arthur O Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
1908 – Dennis O Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
1911 – Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
1912 – Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1913 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1914 – Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
1917 – Man o War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
1918 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1919 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 – John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
1927 – John McLaughlin, American political commentator
1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1928 – Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
1929 – Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
1929 – Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist.
1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist
1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1931 – Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
1931 – Norman Tebbit, British politician
1933 – Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
1934 – Paul Crouch, American televangelist
1936 – Judith Guest, American author
1936 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician
1937 – Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
1939 – Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008).
1940 – Ray Davis, American musician (d. 2005)
1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Eden Kane, British singer
1943 – Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
1943 – Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1943 – Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
1944 – Denny McLain, American baseball player
1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
1946 – Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
1947 – Bobby Kimball, American singer
1948 – Bud Cort, American actor
1949 – Keith Simpson, British politician
1949 – Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)
1949 – John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
1949 – Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist of The Stranglers
1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
1954 – Dianne Kay, American actress
1954 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player
1955 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
1955 – Christopher Lawford, Irish actor
1955 – Marina Sirtis, English actress
1956 – Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)
1956 – Stephen Cole, English journalist
1956 – Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
1958 – Victor Salva, American film director
1959 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
1959 – Perry Farrell, American musician
1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Mike Kingery, American baseball player
1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
1961 – Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
1964 – Michael A. Jackson, Maryland politician
1964 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model
1965 – William Oefelein, American Astronaut
1965 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
1967 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
1967 – John Popper, American musician
1968 – Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1971 – Lara Logan, South-African born journalist and reporter
1972 – Michel Ancel, French game designer
1972 – Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
1972 – Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
1973 – Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
1974 – Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
1974 – Rachel Jones, Radio Producer
1976 – Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
1978 – Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor
1980 – Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
1980 – Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1980 – Amy Mathews, Australian actress
1981 – Megan Hilty, American actress
1981 – Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer
1982 – Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist
1983 – Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician
1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
1985 – Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer

Deaths
1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. c. 1020)
1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1461 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1578 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1628 – Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)

Holidays and observances
1751 – Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
1788 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)
1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
1803 – Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)
1826 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
1848 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1763)
1855 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
1906 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1883)
1912 – Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1868)
1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)
1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (b. 1852)
1934 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)
1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
1957 – Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
1959 – Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
1970 – Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1971 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
1972 – Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)
1980 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
1981 – Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1911)
1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
1982 – Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
1985 – Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
1985 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, The Singing Nun (b. 1933)
1986 – Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
1988 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
1991 – Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
1992 – Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
1994 – Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)
1995 – Jimmy McShane, Irish frontman, of the group, Baltimora (b. 1957)
1995 – Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)
1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)
1996 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
1999 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
2001 – John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)
2002 – Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
2002 – Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
2005 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2005 – Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
2006 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
2007 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (b. 1934)

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Events
37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
1834 – The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in de-funding the Second Bank of the United States.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
1940 – Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
1942 – World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal s history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill s Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 – In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved to make way for a General Election.
1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
1994 – BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
2000 – A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard s 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
2005 – The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
2006 – At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government s proposed First Employment Contract law.

Births
1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
1515 – Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582)
1522 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1592 – Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
1609 – King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1613 – Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
1652 – Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
1773 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1806 – Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
1818 – Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
1819 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
1836 – Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1840 – Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
1842 – William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
1849 – James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1890 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1895 – Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899 – Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
1899 – Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
1902 – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
1905 – Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
1907 – Swifty Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
1909 – Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
1910 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1911 – J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
1912 – A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin
1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor
1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1929 – Paul England, Australian racing driver
1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer
1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician
1935 – Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
1940 – Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1941 – Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor
1941 – Jim Turner, American football player
1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician
1942 – Mike Newell, English film director
1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
1944 – Ken Howard, American actor
1945 – Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
1946 – Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
1946 – Henry Paulson Jr., Current U.S. Treasury Secretary
1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 – John Landecker, American disk jockey
1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1948 – Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores (d. 2006)
1948 – Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
1952 – Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
1954 – Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
1955 – John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
1956 – April Margera, Bam Margera s mother
1958 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer.
1959 – Chris Myers, American sportscaster
1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor
1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player
1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
1962 – Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer
1967 – John Ziegler, American talkshow host
1968 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
1968 – Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1968 – Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
1968 – Max Perlich, American actor
1969 – Brett Ratner, American film director
1969 – Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
1972 – Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
1974 – Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
1975 – Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
1975 – Richard Kelly, American film director
1975 – Derek Hill, American racing driver
1976 – David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
1979 – Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
1979 – Crystal Cox, American Olympian/reality television contestant
1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
1981 – Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American model
1982 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
1984 – Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
1984 – Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
1986 – Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1988 – Lacey Turner, British soap actress
1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
1989 – Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress

Deaths
193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 – Pope Martin IV
1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1910 – David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 – Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 – Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 – Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1958 – W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
1976 – Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
1995 – Hugh O Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
1999 – Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 – Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 – Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances
Slovakia, Czech Republic – Teachers Day.
Saint Castor
Saint Gontram (d. 592)
Saint Priscus
Saint Sixtus III

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Events
196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1642 – The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1836 – Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 – First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1868 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1906 – Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1910 – Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1938 – The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan s ports and waterways begins.
1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 – Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom s rail network.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
1970 – The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am) and 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People s Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1994 – TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi s right-wing coalition wins the general elections in Italy.
1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
1994 – The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1999 – An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
2000 – Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2006 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

Births
972 – King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1785 – King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
1809 – Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1845 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1851 – Vincent d Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 – Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 – Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
1892 – Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
1901 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1909 – Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
1909 – Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
1912 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1913 – Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
1917 – Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
1920 – Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 – Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 – Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1931 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 – Julian Glover, British actor
1935 – Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor
1941 – Ivan Gašparovic, President of Slovakia
1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 – Michael York, English actor
1942 – Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 – Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 – Brian Jones, British balloonist
1947 – Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1950 – Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1950 – Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress
1952 – Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
1956 – Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
1957 – Nick Hawkins, British politician
1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B z)
1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian musician
1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
1963 – Randall Cunningham American football player
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1970 – Mariah Carey, American soul/dance-pop singer
1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman)
1970 – Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 – Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1971 – Thom Barron, German porn star
1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 – Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1974 – Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 – Stacy Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1975 – Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
1976 – Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
1977 – Violetta Blue, American porn star
1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1979 – Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 – Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
1981 – Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 – Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
1984 – Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1986 – Valerie So Cal Val Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
1986 – Ramani, Indian Girl
1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1995 – Taylor Atelian, American actress

Deaths
710 – Rupert of Salzburg
973 – Herman, Duke of Saxony
1191 – Pope Clement III
1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 – Pope Gregory XI
1462 – Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1482 – Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 – James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1889 – John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1918 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1923 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 – Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1934 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1967 – Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
1977 – A. P. Hamann, American politician
1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 – Easley Blackwood, American bridgeplayer (b. 1903)
1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
1998 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
2000 – Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 – Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 – Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 – Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
2003 – Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2004 – Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 – Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 – Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport s FIA (b. 1921)
2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances
Angolan Victory Day
Osweiler in Luxembourg

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Events
1026 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1484 – William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop s Fables.
1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 – Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.
1808 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1852 – Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1913 – Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.
1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1934 – Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
1945 – World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima secure.
1953 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1965 – A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, 30,000 Pounds of Bananas.
1967 – Ten thousand people gather for the Central Park Be-In.
1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People s Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 – Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 – Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
1988 – Gokul Chandar born at Coimbatore in India.
1995 – The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 – The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 – Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven s Gate cult suicides.
1998 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 – The Melissa worm infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 – The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People s Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 – In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 – The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation s capital.

Births
603 – Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1516 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1698 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1749 – William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838)
1794 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1859 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1868 – King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1871 – Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana‘ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1874 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
1875 – Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
1875 – Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
1876 – Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1882 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
1886 – Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1894 – Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 – Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1888 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1893 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
1904 – Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)
1904 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1986)
1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

Deaths
1905 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
1905 – Monty Berman, British film and television producer (d. 2006)
1906 – Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1908 – Franz Stangl, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1971)
1908 – Henry_(Hank)_Sylvern, U.S. radio personality (d. 1964)
1911 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
1911 – Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
1911 – T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
1913 – Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
1914 – Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1914 – William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)
1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
1916 – Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)
1916 – Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)
1917 – Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)
1919 – Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
1919 – Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980)
1922 – Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 – Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1923 – Bob Elliott, American comedian
1925 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1925 – James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor
1929 – Edwin Turney, American businessman
1929 – Tom Foley, American politician, former Speaker of the House
1930 – Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
1930 – Sandra Day O Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1931 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
1934 – Alan Arkin, American actor
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1937 – Wayne Embry, American basketball player
1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 – James Caan, American actor
1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American politician and 60th Speaker of the House
1941 – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1941 – Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
1942 – Erica Jong, American author
1943 – Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 – Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1945 – Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
1946 – Johnny Crawford, American actor
1946 – Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 – Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
1948 – Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra)
1948 – Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
1949 – Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
1949 – Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
1950 – Martin Short, Canadian comedian
1950 – Ernest Thomas, American actor
1950 – Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1951 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 – Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 – Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 – Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1953 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
1954 – Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1954 – Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels
1955 – Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Charly McClain, American singer
1957 – Leeza Gibbons, American television host
1957 – Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician
1958 – Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
1958 – Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)
1959 – Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
1960 – Marcus Allen, American football player
1960 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
1961 – Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (d. 1994)
1961 – William Hague, British politician
1962 – John Stockton, American basketball player
1962 – Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host
1963 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
1963 – Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
1963 – Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter
1964 – Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 – Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1964 – Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
1966 – Nick Wirth, British engineer
1966 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
1967 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 – Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 – James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1968 – Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
1970 – Paul Bosvelt, Dutch football player
1970 – Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
1971 – Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1972 – Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
1972 – Jason Maxwell, Retired American Baseball Player
1973 – Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
1973 – Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1973 – T.R. Knight, American actor
1973 – Matt Burke, Australian rugby player
1974 – Mike Peca, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Joachim Alcine, Haitian-born Quebec boxer
1976 – Amy Smart, American actress
1976 – Natalia Livingston, American actress
1976 – Nurgül Yesilçay, Turkish actress
1976 – Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
1977 – Kevin Davies, English footballer
1977 – Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 – Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
1979 – Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1979 – Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
1979 – Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
1980 – Son Ho Young, Korean singer
1981 – Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
1981 – Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1981 – Josh Wilson, American baseball player
1982 – Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 – David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
1983 – Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
1984 – Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
1984 – Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
1984 – Sara Jean Underwood, American model
1985 – Keira Knightley, English actress
1985 – Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
1985 – Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
1987 – Yui, Japanese musician
1988 – Gokul Chandar, Indian IT Professional
1988 – Suvi Koponen, Finnish supermodel
1990 – Yuya Takaki, Japanese Actor and Singer
1993 – Simran Gill – Eldest daughter of Barinder Gill. The eldest third-generation heiress to the Gill Family business & estates.

Holidays and observances
304 – Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
922 – Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer
1130 – King Sigurd I of Norway (b. c. 1090)
1212 – King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
1517 – Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1535 – Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
1546 – Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
1566 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510)
1649 – John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1679 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
1697 – Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
1726 – Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664)
1772 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
1776 – Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
1780 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
1793 – John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
1814 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1827 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1858 – John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
1881 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
1885 – Anson Stager, American telegraphist (b. 1825)
1888 – Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
1892 – Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1902 – Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)
1905 – Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
1910 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
1920 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1923 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
1926 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
1929 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1933 – Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1940 – Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
1942 – Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1945 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
1951 – James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
1957 – Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
1958 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
1959 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
1969 – John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
1973 – Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
1973 – Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1973 – Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
1973 – George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1976 – Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
1976 – Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1978 – Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (b. 1904)
1983 – Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy (b. 1907)
1984 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
1987 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1990 – Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)
1992 – Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
1995 – Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A) (b. 1963)
1996 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
1996 – David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)
1997 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
2000 – Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)
2002 – Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
2003 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
2004 – Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2004 – Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
2005 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
2005 – Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)
2005 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005 – Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2006 – Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
2006 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
2006 – Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
2008 – Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 – Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
2008 – Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
2008 – Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/march-history/march-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 March 25th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/march-history/march-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/march-history/march-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/march-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today March 25th 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
1199 – Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 – The Council of Pisa opens.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia.
1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 – Saturn s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a Definitive Treaty of Peace between France and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – (Julian Calendar) Greeks revolt against the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.
1894 – Coxey s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
1903 – Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
1908 – Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People s Republic is established.
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947 – An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
1955 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg s poem Howl as obscene.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1958 – Canada s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, The Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1990 – In The Bronx, a fire at an illegal social club called Happy Land kills 87 people.
1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
1996 – The European Union s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 – Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

Births
1252 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 – Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 – Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1404 (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
1479 – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
1539 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 – Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1643 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
1767 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
1800 – Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)
1824 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 – Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 – Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
1868 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
1877 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
1881 – Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1884 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1886 – Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1892 – Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967)
1895 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 – John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
1899 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 – Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
1906 – A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d. 1990)
1906 – Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
1908 – Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
1908 – David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 – Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 – Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 – Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1918 – Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1921 – Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 – Eileen Ford, American model agency executive
1923 – Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1925 – Flannery O Connor, American author (d. 1964)
1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
1926 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
1928 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
1929 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1931 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1932 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
1934 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
1935 – Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
1937 – Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 – Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1938 – Fritz d Orey, Brazilian racing driver
1939 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995)
1940 – Anita Bryant, American singer
1941 – Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer
1942 – Richard O Brien, English actor and writer
1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television personality
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1946 – Cliff Balsam, English footballer
1946 – Stephen Hunter, American author
1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1948 – Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
1950 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
1952 – Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
1954 – Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
1954 – Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
1955 – Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
1956 – Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
1957 – Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
1958 – Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
1958 – James McDaniel, American actor
1958 – Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach
1958 – Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
1960 – Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1960 – Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
1960 – Peter O Brien, Australian actor
1960 – Haywood Nelson, American actor
1960 – Brenda Strong, American actress
1961 – Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
1964 – Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
1964 – Kate DiCamillo, American children s author
1964 – Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey
1964 – Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
1965 – Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
1966 – Tom Glavine, American baseball player
1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
1966 – Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel
1966 – Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
1967 – Matthew Barney, American media artist
1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
1967 – Doug Stanhope, American comedian
1969 – Dale Davis, American basketball player
1969 – Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1969 – Jeffrey Walker, British Musician
1970 – Kari Matchett, Canadian actress,
1971 – Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
1971 – Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
1973 – Anthony Barness, English footballer
1973 – Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1974 – Lark Voorhies, American actress
1975 – Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
1975 – Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 – Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
1976 – Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
1976 – Juvenile, American rapper
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1976 – Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress
1976 – Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1978 – Teanna Kai, American porn star
1979 – Lee Pace, American actor
1979 – Natasha Yi, American supermodel
1980 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1982 – Sean Faris, American actor and model
1982 – Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
1986 – Kyle Lowry, American basketball player
1986 – Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
1987 – Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handballer
1989 – Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer

Deaths
752 – Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
1223 – Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 – Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
1558 – Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 – Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 – Turlough O Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
1801 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
1818 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1857 – Matthew Carlton, english astronomer(b.1782)
1860 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1908 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1914 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
1917 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
1931 – Ida Wells, American civil rights activist (b. 1862)
1951 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1957 – Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 – Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1967 – Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1969 – Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
1969 – Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1980 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 – Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 – James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1988 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
1995 – James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1995 – Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1995 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914)
1996 – John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
1998 – Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 – Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 – Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924)
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 – Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 – Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 – Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008 – Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances
In Christianity, March 25 is typically celebrated as the day of the Annunciation so long as it does not fall on a Sunday or during Holy Week or Easter Week.
Hilaria, day of resurrection of Attis, a Phrygian deity
Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.)
Maryland Day;
Greek Independence Day;
Freedom Day in Belarus;
Mother s Day in Slovenia.
One of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England.
Saint Dysmas, the Good Thief
Saint Humbert

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Events
1401 – Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England.
1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 – Canada gives African men the right to vote.
1868 – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).
1900 – New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground Rapid Transit Railroad that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
1934 – U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
1936 – The longest game in NHL history was played between Detroit and Montreal. Detroit scored at 16:30 of the sixth overtime and won the game 1-0.
1944 – Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1958 – Elvis Presley is officially inducted into the U.S.Army.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 – The United Kingdom imposes Direct Rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 – Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 – Argentina s military forces depose president Isabel Perón and start the National Reorganization Process.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by right-wing terrorists while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2003 – The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006 – Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006 – Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
2007 – The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

Births
1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
1607 – Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 – John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1725 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1755 – Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827)
1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
1820 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 – Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1828 – Horace Gray, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1902)
1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
1834 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
1835 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)
1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 – Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 – Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)
1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920)
1874 – Harry Houdini, (Weisz Erik), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1884 – Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 – Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
1901 – Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 – Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 – Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
1910 – Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1915 – Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917 – Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)
1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player
1922 – Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 – Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
1926 – Desmond Cardinal Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin
1927 – Martin Walser, German author
1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist
1930 – David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
1930 – Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1934 – William Smith, American actor
1935 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
1936 – David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)
1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938 – David Irving, British historian
1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
1940 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945 – Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk)
1947 – Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1947 – Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer, second person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (d. 1989)
1949 – Nick Lowe, British musician
1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer
1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
1951 – Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp)
1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor
1954 – Donna Pescow, American actress
1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach
1960 – Kelly LeBrock, American actress
1960 – Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 – Nena, German pop singer
1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver
1961 – Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
1962 – Star Jones Reynolds, American television personality
1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1964 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress
1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 – Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 – The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1969 – Houston, American pornographic actress
1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player
1971 – Megyn Price, American actress
1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 – Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Steve Corica, Australian soccer player
1974 – Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 – Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1976 – Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 – Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 – Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1979 – Lake Bell, American actress
1979 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 – Nivea, American singer
1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1984 – Adrian D Souza, Indian Field Hockey player
1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986 – Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 – Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress

Deaths
809 – Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
1284 – King Hugh III of Cyprus
1381 – Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic
1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1558 – Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
1773 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1881 – Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1905 – Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1944 – Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 – Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1962 – Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1976 – Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
1990 – An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer (b. 1920)
1991 – Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1993 – John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
1995 – Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
1997 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1997 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women s activist (b. 1902)
1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 – Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 – Chalmers Spanky Alford?, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2008 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia – Kazimiras Diena observed.
World Tuberculosis Day.
Labour Day Melbourne, Australia
Saint Macartan
Saint Simeon (d. 1475)
Saint Catharine of Sweden (d. 1381)
Day of Memory for Truth and Justice in Argentina
Dyngus Day in Poland

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Events
1174 – Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow.
1568 – Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -give me liberty or give me death at St. John s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael s Castle.
1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery begin their arduous journey home.
1821 – Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence.
1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 – Elisha Otis s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 – War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.
1889 – Land Run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.
1889 – The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1896 – The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
1903 – The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1962 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower s Atoms for Peace initiative.
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 – Guatemala s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot s fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing 75.
1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing a group of 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground later to become known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay s Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
2004 – Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.
2005 – The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo s feeding tube.
2005 – A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers.
2006 – The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
2007 – Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia.
2007 – Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters.

Births
1429 – Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)
1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701)
1699 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
1723 – Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1732 – Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)
1749 – Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1754 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1823 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1826 – Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
1831 – Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
1834 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)
1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)
1868 – Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler s Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German American Illustrator (d. 1951)
1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1882 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)
1887 – Josef Capek, Czech writer (d. 1945)
1887 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1893 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
1900 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)
1904 – H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964)
1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
1915 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
1919 – Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect
1920 – Neal Smith, former United States Congressman
1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1921 – Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)
1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
1929 – Sir Roger Bannister, English runner
1931 – Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1934 – Mark Rydell, American film and television director
1937 – Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder
1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician
1938 – Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
1938 – Dave Pike, American jazz musician
1939 – Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1941 – Jim Trelease, American educator and children s literature author
1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1943 – Lee May, former Major League Baseball player
1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)
1944 – Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs)
1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
1945 – David Grisman, American bluegrass musician
1948 – David Olney, American musician
1949 – Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)
1949 – Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
1950 – Anthony De Longis, American actor
1950 – Corinne Clery, French actress
1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst
1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1953 – Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer
1954 – Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
1955 – Petrea Burchard, American actress
1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission
1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress
1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)
1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1958 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1960 – Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1962 – Steve Redgrave, British rower, 5 Olympic Gold Medals
1963 – Míchel (José Miguel González Martín), Spanish footballer
1964 – Hope Davis, American actress
1964 – John Pinette, American comedian
1965 – Sarah Buxton, American actress
1965 – Richard Grieco, American actor and singer
1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer
1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet
1967 – David Ford, Canadian kayaker
1968 – Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
1968 – Mitch Cullin, American novelist
1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1968 – Michael Atherton, English cricketer
1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel
1971 – Karen McDougal, American model
1971 – Gail Porter, British television presenter
1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese professional wrestler
1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver
1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player
1975 – Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)
1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider
1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player
1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Keri Russell, American actress
1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing car driver
1977 – Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner
1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
1978 – Nicholle Tom, American actress
1978 – Perez Hilton, American television personality and blogger
1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
1979 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 – Misty Hyman, American swimmer
1979 – Donncha O Callaghan, Irish International rugby player
1979 – Natalya Baranovskaya, Olympic swimmer
1980 – Russell Howard, British Comedian
1981 – Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
1981 – Erin Crocker, American NASCAR driver
1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1982 – José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer
1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer
1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
1986 – Farren Ray, Australian Rules Football
1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 – Steven Strait, American actor
1990 – Princess Eugenie of York
1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
1999 – Prince Beltran of Bulgaria

Deaths
1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c. 1310)
1369 – King Pedro of Castile (b. 1334)
1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
1559 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat
1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1653 – Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1619)
1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
1783 – Charles Caroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1801 – Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)
1842 – Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
1914 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
1927 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
1935 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
1947 – Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)
1964 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
1965 – Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889)
1968 – Edwin O Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b. 1918)
1970 – Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
1982 – Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient (b. 1921)
1985 – Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1985 – Ben Hardwick Britains first child to have a transplant (b. [1982] )
1990 – John Dexter, English stage and film director
1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
1994 – Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (b. 1923)
1995 – Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (b. 1953)
1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
1998 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
2002 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 – David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
2007 – Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007 – Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – The fifth and final day of Quinquatria, held in honor of Minerva.
Roman Empire – Tubilustrium was held in honor of Mars.
Ancient Latvia – Lieldienas held in honor of Mara and other pagan goddesses.
Pakistan – National Day (Republic Day).
Hungary, Poland – Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship.
Feast day of the following Roman Catholic saints:
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Events
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.
1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony s population.
1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1809 – Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1829 – The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
1888 – The Football League is formed.
1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1895 – First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1933 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1941 – Washington s Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain s Royal Navy confronts Italy s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
1978 – Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women s world figure skating competition.
1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 – ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
2006 – BC Ferries M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2008 – The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.

Births
841 – Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1503 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
1609 – King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
1663 – August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1712 – Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 – Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1759 – Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1797 – King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
1812 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1817 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
1818 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1857 – Paul Doumer, French President (d. 1932)
1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1866 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1868 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1878 – Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 – Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1885 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1887 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1896 – He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 – Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
1907 – James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d. 1990)
1907 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
1908 – Louis L Amour, American author (d. 1988)
1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d. 1979)
1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
1912 – Karl Malden, American actor
1913 – Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1913 – Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1915 – Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
1918 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
1920 – Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000)
1920 – Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
1921 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1923 – Marcel Marceau, world renown French Mime (d. 2007)
1924 – Allen Neuharth, American businessman
1924 – Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
1928 – Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 – E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1928 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player
1930 – Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
1930 – Pat Robertson, American televangelist
1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
1933 – May Britt, Swedish actress
1934 – Orrin Hatch, American politician
1934 – Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
1936 – Ron Carey, American labor leader
1936 – Roger Whittaker, British singer
1937 – Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1937 – Armin Hary, German athlete
1940 – Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1940 – Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
1941 – Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy)
1941 – Billy Collins, American poet
1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
1942 – Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
1942 – Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
1943 – George Benson, American musician
1943 – Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
1946 – Rudy Rucker, American author
1946 – Don Chaney, American basketball player and head coach
1947 – James Patterson, American author
1948 – Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress
1950 – Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
1952 – Bob Costas, American sports commentator
1952 – Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
1955 – Pete Sessions, American politician
1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1955 – Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
1956 – Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
1958 – Laurie David, American political activist
1958 – Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter
1959 – Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 – Matthew Modine, American actor
1959 – Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1965 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1965 – Emma Wray, English actress
1966 – Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1966 – Brian Shaw, American basketball player
1967 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 – Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1970 – Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 – Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1971 – Will Yun Lee, American actor
1972 – Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
1972 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1973 – Beverley Knight, English singer
1973 – Joe Nedney, American football player
1974 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 – Kidada Jones, American actress
1975 – Cole Hauser, American actor
1975 – Jirí Novák, Czech tennis player
1976 – Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 – Joey Porter, American football player
1978 – Tom Poti, professional hockey player
1979 – Aaron North, American musician
1979 – Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1980 – Pamela O Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1981 – Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star
1981 – MIMS, American rapper
1983 – Dagoberto, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Mike Jenkins, American football player
1988 – Tania Raymonde, American actress
1992 – Luke Freeman, English footballer
1993 – Mick Hazen, American actor

Deaths
1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1544 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 – Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
1758 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
1758 – Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1820 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1896 – Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
1934 – Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1945 – John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
1951 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
1952 – Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1955 – Ivan Šubašic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1974 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b. 1939)
1977 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
1981 – James Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1986 – Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 – Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 – Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1991 – Gloria Holden, American film actress (b. 1908)
1994 – Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1996 – Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 – William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
2003 – Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. c. 1937)
2005 – Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2006 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
2007 – Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 – Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances
The fourth day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
World Water Day.
In the Gregorian Calendar 22 March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25 April is the latest).

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