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★ 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.

★ 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

★ 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

★ 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

★ 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

★ 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

★ 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.

★ 1885 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

★ 1900 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal

★ 1917 - The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

★ 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.

★ 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

★ 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

★ 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times.

★ 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.

★ 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

★ 1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.

★ 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

★ 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

★ 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.

★ 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

★ 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, ''Antares'' land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.

★ 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

★ 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

★ 1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

★ 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.

★ 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

★ 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

★ 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.

★ 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Births

★ 976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)

★ 1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)

★ 1519 - René of Châlon, (d. 1544)

★ 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)

★ 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)

★ 1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)

★ 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (d. 1696)

★ 1650 - Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)

★ 1703 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)

★ 1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)

★ 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)

★ 1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)

★ 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)

★ 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)

★ 1810 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)

★ 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)

★ 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)

★ 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)

★ 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)

★ 1848 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)

★ 1848 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)

★ 1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)

★ 1880 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)

★ 1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, British cricketer (d. 1962)

★ 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)

★ 1903 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)

★ 1906 - John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)

★ 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)

★ 1910 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer

★ 1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)

★ 1911 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)

★ 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)

★ 1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998)

★ 1915 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)

★ 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)

★ 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)

★ 1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)

★ 1920 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)

★ 1921 - John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)

★ 1922 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)

★ 1923 - Claude King, American musician

★ 1927 - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)

★ 1928 - Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist

★ 1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)

★ 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician

★ 1929 - Al Worthington, baseball player

★ 1930 - John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)

★ 1933 - Jörn Donner, Finnish writer/director

★ 1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian hockey commentator

★ 1934 - Hank Aaron, American baseball player

★ 1937 - Stuart Damon, American actor

★ 1937 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist

★ 1940 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist

★ 1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist

★ 1941 - David Selby, American actor

★ 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor

★ 1942 - Roger Staubach, American football player

★ 1942 - Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)

★ 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer

★ 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director

★ 1943 - Craig Morton, American football player

★ 1944 - Al Kooper, American musician

★ 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, British actress

★ 1947 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver

★ 1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager

★ 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor

★ 1948 - Barbara Hershey, American actress

★ 1948 - Errol Morris, American film director

★ 1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)

★ 1953 - John Beilein, American basketball coach

★ 1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician

★ 1955 - Mike Heath, baseball player

★ 1956 - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver

★ 1960 - Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor

★ 1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager

★ 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress

★ 1963 - Steven Shainberg, American film director

★ 1964 - Laura Linney, American actress

★ 1964 - Duff McKagan, American musician

★ 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer

★ 1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)

★ 1966 - Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer

★ 1968 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player

★ 1968 - Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor

★ 1969 - Bobby Brown, American singer

★ 1969 - Michael Sheen, Welsh actor

★ 1971 - Sara Evans, American singer

★ 1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

★ 1972 - Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian

★ 1973 - Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1973 - Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer

★ 1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer

★ 1975 - Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)

★ 1976 - Tony Jaa, Thai actor

★ 1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor

★ 1976 - John Aloisi, Australian footballer

★ 1977 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor

★ 1977 - Adam Everett, American baseball player

★ 1977 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player

★ 1978 - Shawn Reaves, American actor

★ 1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer

★ 1980 - Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty

★ 1980 - Jo Swinson, British politician

★ 1980 - Robin Vik, Czech tennis player

★ 1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress

★ 1981 - Loukas Vyntra, Greek volleyball player

★ 1982 - Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer

★ 1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer

★ 1985 - Laurence Maroney, American football player

★ 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

★ 1985 - Crystal Hunt, American actress

★ 1985 - Lindsey Cardinale, American singer

★ 1986 - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver

★ 1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer

★ 1986 - Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer

★ 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor

Deaths

★ 995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)

★ 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)

★ 1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter

★ 1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)

★ 1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)

★ 1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)

★ 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

★ 1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)

★ 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)

★ 1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)

★ 1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)

★ 1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)

★ 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)

★ 1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)

★ 1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi

★ 1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)

★ 1938 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)

★ 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)

★ 1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)

★ 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)

★ 1957 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)

★ 1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)

★ 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)

★ 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)

★ 1970 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)

★ 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)

★ 1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)

★ 1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)

★ 1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)

★ 1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)

★ 1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)

★ 1987 - William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)

★ 1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)

★ 1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)

★ 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)

★ 1993 - Tip Tipping, American actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)

★ 1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)

★ 1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)

★ 1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)

★ 1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)

★ 2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)

★ 2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer

★ 2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)

★ 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)

★ 2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)

★ 2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)

★ 2007 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)

★ 2007 - Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930)

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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