1944 - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 - Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1946 - Don Chaney, NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)
1946 - Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1949 - Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1949 - Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 - Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1923 - Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1952 - Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1924 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1953 - Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1926 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1956 - Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1927 - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1927 - Viscount Bolingbroke
1958 - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1928 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1959 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1928 - Ed Macauley, NBAer (Boston Celtics)
1959 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1962 - Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1962 - Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star
1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer
1963 - Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 - Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 - Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1932 - Richard Thomas, admiral
1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1966 - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1966 - Yahya Ayyash, militant
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1936 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1970 - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1972 - Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1940 - William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1973 - Joe Nedney, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1941 - Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1974 - Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)
1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer
1975 - Jiri Novak, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1944 - Jeremy Clyde, rocker
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
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 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1829 - The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, 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 - In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 - First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1920 - Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the 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 and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
1972 - The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 - Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1982 - NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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.
1992 - USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
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 to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 - ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
1945 - Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1946 - Don Chaney, NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)
1946 - Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1949 - Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1949 - Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 - Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1923 - Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1952 - Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1924 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1953 - Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1926 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1956 - Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1927 - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1927 - Viscount Bolingbroke
1958 - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1928 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1959 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1928 - Ed Macauley, NBAer (Boston Celtics)
1959 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1962 - Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1962 - Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star
1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer
1963 - Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 - Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 - Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1932 - Richard Thomas, admiral
1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1966 - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1966 - Yahya Ayyash, militant
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1936 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1970 - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1972 - Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1940 - William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1973 - Joe Nedney, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1941 - Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1974 - Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)
1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer
1975 - Jiri Novak, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1944 - Jeremy Clyde, rocker
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
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 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1829 - The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, 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 - In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 - First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1920 - Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the 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 and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
1972 - The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 - Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1982 - NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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.
1992 - USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
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 to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 - ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
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