1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1949 - Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1949 - Arthur Kane, American musician
1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1908 - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
1951 - Felipe Munoz, Mexico, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1910 - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
1910 - Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1952 - Jack Fields, (Rep-R-TX, 1981- )
1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1784 - John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1956 - Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
1915 - Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
1958 - Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1920 - Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
1920 - Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
1920 - Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1922 - Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1925 - John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
1925 - Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1960 - Richard Kotzen, rocker
1826 - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1831 - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1833 - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
1961 - Linda Eder, American singer
1962 - Joe Handle, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1851 - Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
1965 - Kathleen Kimont, LA Calif, actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1965 - Maura Tierney, Boston, actress (Lisa-Newsradio)
1865 - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power)
1966 - Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler (NZ since 1987)
1929 - Russell Arms, Berkeley Calif, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1966 - Frank Coraci, American film director
1967 - Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player (Standard Luik, Feyenoord)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
1967 - Natalie Hunter, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1932 - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1879 - Charles Follis, 1st black NFLer (Shelby, Ohio)
1968 - Frantisek Kucera, Prague Cze, NHL defenseman (Vanc Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1968 - Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1935 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1883 - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1886 - Erwin Kroll, composer
1938 - Victor Buono, SD Calif, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
1938 - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1887 - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minn Vikings)
1970 - Eric Curry, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1889 - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1941 - Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
1891 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
1971 - Eric Owens, Danville VA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1895 - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1922, 0 & 4 , 0-52)
1943 - Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
1943 - Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
1896 - Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
1898 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1972 - Keith Elias, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1972 - Tyrone Poole, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1947 - Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
1900 - Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1903 - Priaulx Rainier, composer
1903 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
1976 - Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA (1996)
1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
313 - Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius met at a conference in Milan. They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 - More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1534 - The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1637 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
1706 - During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius.
1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
1807 - A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 - The Illinois Territory is created.
1813 - Jos de San Martn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 - Wake Forest University is established.
1852 - Justo Jos de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1900 - Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1943 - The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
1944 - World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 - World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1947 - The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 - A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
1960 - British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
1961 - The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1961 - A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 - New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 - The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 - John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
1989 - After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1995 - Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1996 - The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 - Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2011 - All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
1949 - Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1949 - Arthur Kane, American musician
1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1908 - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
1951 - Felipe Munoz, Mexico, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1910 - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
1910 - Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1952 - Jack Fields, (Rep-R-TX, 1981- )
1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1784 - John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1956 - Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
1915 - Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
1958 - Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1920 - Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
1920 - Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
1920 - Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1922 - Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1925 - John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
1925 - Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1960 - Richard Kotzen, rocker
1826 - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1831 - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1833 - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
1961 - Linda Eder, American singer
1962 - Joe Handle, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1851 - Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
1965 - Kathleen Kimont, LA Calif, actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1965 - Maura Tierney, Boston, actress (Lisa-Newsradio)
1865 - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power)
1966 - Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler (NZ since 1987)
1929 - Russell Arms, Berkeley Calif, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1966 - Frank Coraci, American film director
1967 - Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player (Standard Luik, Feyenoord)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
1967 - Natalie Hunter, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1932 - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1879 - Charles Follis, 1st black NFLer (Shelby, Ohio)
1968 - Frantisek Kucera, Prague Cze, NHL defenseman (Vanc Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1968 - Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1935 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1883 - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1886 - Erwin Kroll, composer
1938 - Victor Buono, SD Calif, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
1938 - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1887 - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minn Vikings)
1970 - Eric Curry, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1889 - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1941 - Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
1891 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
1971 - Eric Owens, Danville VA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1895 - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1922, 0 & 4 , 0-52)
1943 - Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
1943 - Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
1896 - Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
1898 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1972 - Keith Elias, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1972 - Tyrone Poole, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1947 - Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
1900 - Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1903 - Priaulx Rainier, composer
1903 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
1976 - Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA (1996)
1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
313 - Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius met at a conference in Milan. They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 - More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1534 - The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1637 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
1706 - During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius.
1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
1807 - A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 - The Illinois Territory is created.
1813 - Jos de San Martn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 - Wake Forest University is established.
1852 - Justo Jos de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1900 - Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1943 - The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
1944 - World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 - World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1947 - The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 - A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
1960 - British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
1961 - The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1961 - A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 - New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 - The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 - John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
1989 - After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1995 - Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1996 - The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 - Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2011 - All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
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