1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1916 - George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist
1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1685 - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1920 - Paul Grin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
1923 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1925 - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)
1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1963 - Bobby Bonilla, NYC, outfielder (NY Mets, Balt Orioles, Marlins)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
1963 - Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish politician
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist
1929 - Richard Moryl, composer
1964 - John Norum, rocker
1850 - Csar Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1868 - W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 - Konstantin Pts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1967 - Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)
1969 - Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker (Minn Vikings)
1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)
1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
1972 - Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Jamie Watson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1972 - Ryan Grigson, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Steve Papin, WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1973 - Jack Case, American artist
1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)
1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1944 - John Sandford, American novelist
1975 - Bohdan Utihrach, Czech, tennis star
1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef
1975 - Pat Barnes, quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer
1976 - Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 - Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)
1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP
1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 - Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 - The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 - The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 - World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 - Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 - The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983 - The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1916 - George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist
1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1685 - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1920 - Paul Grin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
1923 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1925 - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)
1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1963 - Bobby Bonilla, NYC, outfielder (NY Mets, Balt Orioles, Marlins)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
1963 - Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish politician
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist
1929 - Richard Moryl, composer
1964 - John Norum, rocker
1850 - Csar Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1868 - W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 - Konstantin Pts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1967 - Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)
1969 - Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker (Minn Vikings)
1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)
1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
1972 - Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Jamie Watson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1972 - Ryan Grigson, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Steve Papin, WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1973 - Jack Case, American artist
1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)
1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1944 - John Sandford, American novelist
1975 - Bohdan Utihrach, Czech, tennis star
1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef
1975 - Pat Barnes, quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer
1976 - Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 - Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)
1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP
1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 - Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 - The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 - The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 - World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 - Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 - The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983 - The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
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