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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

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Events

★ 1295 BCE - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.

★ 1281 - Martin IV becomes Pope.

★ 1288 - Nicholas IV becomes Pope.

★ 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.

★ 1819 - By the Adams-Onís 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 drive off 15,000 Mexican.

★ 1853 - The Washington University is founded in ''St. Louis'' as Eliot Seminary.

★ 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.

★ 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

★ 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.

★ 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.

★ 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.

★ 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.

★ 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

★ 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.

★ 1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

★ 1920 - In Emeryville, new york, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.

★ 1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.

★ 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States 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 American defense collapses.

★ 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

★ 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

★ 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

★ 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

★ 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

★ 1969 - The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.

★ 1973 - Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.

★ 1974 - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.

★ 1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.

★ 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

★ 1980 - The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".

★ 1986 - Start of the 1986 EDSA 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.

★ 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.

★ 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.

★ 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

★ 2007 - Norwegian cross country skiers Jens Arne Svartedal and Astrid Jacobsen become the first ever gold medalists of an indoor and a nighttime nordic skiing event at a World Championship or Winter Olympic level by winning their respective men's and women's individual sprint finals in Sapporo, Japan.

Births

★ 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)

★ 1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)

★ 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)

★ 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)

★ 1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)

★ 1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)

★ 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)

★ 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)

★ 1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)

★ 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)

★ 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)

★ 1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)

★ 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)

★ 1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)

★ 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)

★ 1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)

★ 1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)

★ 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)

★ 1840 - August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)

★ 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)

★ 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)

★ 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)

★ 1864 - Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)

★ 1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)

★ 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)

★ 1879 - Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)

★ 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)

★ 1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)

★ 1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)

★ 1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)

★ 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)

★ 1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)

★ 1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)

★ 1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)

★ 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)

★ 1895 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of APRA party (d. 1979)

★ 1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)

★ 1899 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)

★ 1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)

★ 1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)

★ 1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)

★ 1900 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)

★ 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)

★ 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)

★ 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)

★ 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)

★ 1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)

★ 1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)

★ 1911 - Bill Baker, baseball player (d. 2006)

★ 1913 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)

★ 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

★ 1917 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)

★ 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)

★ 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)

★ 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer

★ 1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)

★ 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)

★ 1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)

★ 1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)

★ 1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)

★ 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)

★ 1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)

★ 1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director

★ 1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor

★ 1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer

★ 1928 - Clarence 13X, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)

★ 1929 - James Hong, Chinese American actor

★ 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress

★ 1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer

★ 1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts

★ 1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent

★ 1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer

★ 1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager

★ 1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

★ 1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)

★ 1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer

★ 1938 - Pierre Vallières, founding member of the Front de libération du Québec (d. 1998)

★ 1940 - Johnson Mlambo, South African politician

★ 1940 - Billy Name, American photographer and Andy Warhol archivist

★ 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic

★ 1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl

★ 1943 - Terry Eagleton, British theorist

★ 1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany

★ 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director

★ 1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer

★ 1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player

★ 1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress

★ 1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)

★ 1947 - Carol Burns, Australian actress

★ 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver

★ 1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player

★ 1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player

★ 1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress

★ 1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer

★ 1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress

★ 1950 - Julie Walters, English actress

★ 1952 - Bill Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee

★ 1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor

★ 1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1959 - Jiří Čunek, Czech politician

★ 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor

★ 1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist

★ 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)

★ 1962 - Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder

★ 1962 - Les Wallace, Scottish darts player

★ 1963 - Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer

★ 1964 - Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player

★ 1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne

★ 1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician

★ 1966 - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor

★ 1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian

★ 1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician

★ 1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)

★ 1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress

★ 1969 - Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer

★ 1969 - Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer

★ 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist

★ 1970 - Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer

★ 1972 - Michael Chang, American tennis player

★ 1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater

★ 1973 - Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer

★ 1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer, currently playing for Southampton F.C.

★ 1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete

★ 1974 - James Blunt, English musician

★ 1974 - Chris Moyles, English DJ

★ 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

★ 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player

★ 1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer

★ 1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress

★ 1980 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer

★ 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress

★ 1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player

★ 1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor

★ 1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player

★ 1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer

★ 1988 - [Smith], Wikipedia editor

Deaths

★ 965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)

★ 1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c.1055)

★ 1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily

★ 1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)

★ 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)

★ 1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)

★ 1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)

★ 1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)

★ 1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)

★ 1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)

★ 1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)

★ 1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)

★ 1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)

★ 1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)

★ 1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)

★ 1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)

★ 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)

★ 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)

★ 1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)

★ 1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)

★ 1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)

★ 1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)

★ 1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)

★ 1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)

★ 1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)

★ 1923 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)

★ 1934 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)

★ 1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)

★ 1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)

★ 1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)

★ 1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)

★ 1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)

★ 1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)

★ 1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)

★ 1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)

★ 1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)

★ 1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)

★ 1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)

★ 1973 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)

★ 1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)

★ 1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)

★ 1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)

★ 1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)

★ 1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)

★ 1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)

★ 1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)

★ 1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)

★ 1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)

★ 1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)

★ 1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)

★ 1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)

★ 1994 - Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)

★ 1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)

★ 1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)

★ 1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)

★ 1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)

★ 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)

★ 2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)

★ 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)

★ 2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)

★ 2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)

★ 2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)

★ 2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)

★ 2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)

★ 2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)

★ 2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)

★ 2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)

★ 2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)

★ 2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)

★ 2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest World War 1 veteran (b. 1898)

★ 2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)

★ 2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

★ United States — Washington's Birthday.

★ Saint Lucia — independence (1979).

★ The Scouting movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrate this day as "World Thinking Day", "B.-P. day", or "Founder's Day", as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.

Liturgical feasts

★ Roman Catholic Church — Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.

★ Blessed Saint Isabel of France (died 1270)

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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