1927 - Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
1927 - John Beckwith, composer
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer (d. 1990)
1564 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star)
1929 - Marie Cardinal, writer
1627 - John Bowne, English-born American Quaker (d. 1695)
1697 - Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1695 - Martn Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d.1772)
1931 - Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
1737 - Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (d. 1781)
1749 - Honor Gabriel Riqueti, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1920 - Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (d. 2008)
1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
1921 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1791 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian artillery designer (d. 1990)
1810 - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
1935 - Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun
1935 - Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
1962 - Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World)
1820 - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
1824 - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
1964 - Phil Housley, St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team USA Oly-98)
1839 - Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1940 - Raul Julia, PR, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1848 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1941 - Jim Colbert, Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
1865 - Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1966 - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
1967 - Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1943 - Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1881 - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1969 - Bryce Burnett, NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1944 - Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
1969 - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1892 - David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1971 - Bev Oden, Millington Tenn, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1892 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 - Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
1971 - Sean Holcomb, NFL linebacker (NE Patriots)
1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
1900 - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1948 - Jimmy Fadden, Long Beach Calif, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
1902 - Will Geer, Frankfort Indiana, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1949 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
1905 - Flix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
1973 - Troy Bailey, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1905 - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1975 - Adonal Foyle, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1952 - William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana Calif, actor (How the West Was Won)
1908 - Luiz Cosme, composer
1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
1977 - Radek Dvorak, Tabor Cze, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1955 - Fernando Bujones, Miami Fla, ballet dancer
1912 - Alan David Melville, polymath
1955 - Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1956 - Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
1915 - Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1917 - Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
1918 - Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1957 - Jeff Senior, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1920 - Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1983 - Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1922 - Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
1958 - Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
1926 - Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
1959 - Lonny Price, NYC, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1960 - Linda Fiorentino, Phila, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
141 BC - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
1009 - First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1500 - The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1566 - David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 - After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1796 - Napolon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josphine de Beauharnais.
1811 - Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuar.
1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premire performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1842 - The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1862 - American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1896 - Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
1910 - The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 - Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
1925 - Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1944 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
1944 - The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
1946 - Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1956 - Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1957 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1959 - The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1960 - Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 - Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1967 - Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1976 - Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 - The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
1989 - Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloevic in Belgrade.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2010 - The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
2011 - Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
1927 - John Beckwith, composer
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer (d. 1990)
1564 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star)
1929 - Marie Cardinal, writer
1627 - John Bowne, English-born American Quaker (d. 1695)
1697 - Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1695 - Martn Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d.1772)
1931 - Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
1737 - Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (d. 1781)
1749 - Honor Gabriel Riqueti, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1920 - Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (d. 2008)
1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
1921 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1791 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian artillery designer (d. 1990)
1810 - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
1935 - Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun
1935 - Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
1962 - Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World)
1820 - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
1824 - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
1964 - Phil Housley, St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team USA Oly-98)
1839 - Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1940 - Raul Julia, PR, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1848 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1941 - Jim Colbert, Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
1865 - Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1966 - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
1967 - Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1943 - Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1881 - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1969 - Bryce Burnett, NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1944 - Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
1969 - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1892 - David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1971 - Bev Oden, Millington Tenn, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1892 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 - Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
1971 - Sean Holcomb, NFL linebacker (NE Patriots)
1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
1900 - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1948 - Jimmy Fadden, Long Beach Calif, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
1902 - Will Geer, Frankfort Indiana, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1949 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
1905 - Flix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
1973 - Troy Bailey, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1905 - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1975 - Adonal Foyle, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1952 - William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana Calif, actor (How the West Was Won)
1908 - Luiz Cosme, composer
1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
1977 - Radek Dvorak, Tabor Cze, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1955 - Fernando Bujones, Miami Fla, ballet dancer
1912 - Alan David Melville, polymath
1955 - Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1956 - Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
1915 - Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1917 - Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
1918 - Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1957 - Jeff Senior, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1920 - Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1983 - Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1922 - Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
1958 - Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
1926 - Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
1959 - Lonny Price, NYC, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1960 - Linda Fiorentino, Phila, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
141 BC - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
1009 - First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1500 - The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1566 - David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 - After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1796 - Napolon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josphine de Beauharnais.
1811 - Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuar.
1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premire performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1842 - The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1862 - American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1896 - Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
1910 - The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 - Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
1925 - Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1944 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
1944 - The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
1946 - Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1956 - Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1957 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1959 - The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1960 - Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 - Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1967 - Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1976 - Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 - The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
1989 - Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloevic in Belgrade.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2010 - The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
2011 - Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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