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Events

★ 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.

★ 844 - Gregory IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

★ 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.

★ 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.

★ 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.

★ 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.

★ 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.

★ 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.

★ 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

★ 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.

★ 1858 - The ''Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

★ 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.

★ 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

★ 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

★ 1909 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

★ 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

★ 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.

★ 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.

★ 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

★ 1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.

★ 1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.

★ 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.

★ 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.

★ 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.

★ 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.

★ 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.

★ 1955 - Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.

★ 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.

★ 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.

★ 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

★ 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.

★ 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

★ 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.

★ 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.

★ 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.

★ 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.

★ 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

★ 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.

★ 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

★ 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

★ 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

★ 1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.

★ 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

★ 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.

★ 2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka .

★ 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.

★ 2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.

★ 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

Births

★ 750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor

★ 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)

★ 1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)

★ 1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)

★ 1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)

★ 1634 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)

★ 1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)

★ 1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)

★ 1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)

★ 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)

★ 1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)

★ 1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)

★ 1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)

★ 1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)

★ 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)

★ 1860 - Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)

★ 1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)

★ 1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)

★ 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)

★ 1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)

★ 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)

★ 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)

★ 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)

★ 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)

★ 1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)

★ 1905 - Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)

★ 1913 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)

★ 1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)

★ 1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)

★ 1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)

★ 1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)

★ 1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster

★ 1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer

★ 1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)

★ 1924 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)

★ 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)

★ 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia

★ 1928 - Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician

★ 1929 - Benny Golson, American jazz musician

★ 1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)

★ 1931 - Dean Jones, American actor

★ 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines

★ 1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)

★ 1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic

★ 1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)

★ 1938 - Etta James, American singer

★ 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)

★ 1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician

★ 1941 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver

★ 1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor

★ 1942 - Carl Eller, American football player

★ 1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer

★ 1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director

★ 1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model

★ 1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress

★ 1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer

★ 1947 - Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer

★ 1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate

★ 1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet

★ 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)

★ 1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)

★ 1953 - Wayne Ferris, American professional wrestler

★ 1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer

★ 1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist

★ 1955 - Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)

★ 1956 - Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)

★ 1957 - Jenifer Lewis, American actress

★ 1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician

★ 1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician

★ 1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress

★ 1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician

★ 1962 - Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player

★ 1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

★ 1967 - Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1969 - Kina, American singer

★ 1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver

★ 1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer

★ 1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer

★ 1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler

★ 1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress

★ 1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete

★ 1975 - Dat Phan, Stand up comedian

★ 1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver

★ 1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist

★ 1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer

★ 1978 - Phil Stacey, American Singer

★ 1978 - Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player

★ 1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player

★ 1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner

★ 1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver

★ 1980 - Alicia Keys, American singer

★ 1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler

★ 1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer

★ 1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer

★ 1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer

★ 1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor

★ 1984 - Ines Cudna, Polish model

★ 1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer

★ 1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer

★ 1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer

★ 1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player

★ 1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player

★ 1998 - Marlene Lawston, American actress

Deaths

★ 389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)

★ 477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans

★ 844 - Pope Gregory IV

★ 1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)

★ 1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic

★ 1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)

★ 1494 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)

★ 1559 - King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)

★ 1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)

★ 1640 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)

★ 1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)

★ 1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)

★ 1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)

★ 1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)

★ 1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)

★ 1907 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)

★ 1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)

★ 1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)

★ 1912 - Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)

★ 1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)

★ 1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)

★ 1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)

★ 1963 - Wilson Kettle, Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b. 1860)

★ 1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)

★ 1970 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)

★ 1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Founder of Tsuburaya Productions, creator of Ultraman (b. 1901)

★ 1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)

★ 1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)

★ 1981 - Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)

★ 1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)

★ 1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)

★ 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)

★ 1995 - Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)

★ 1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)

★ 1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)

★ 1999 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)

★ 1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)

★ 2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)

★ 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)

★ 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

★ 2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)

★ 2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)

★ 2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

★ 2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)

★ 2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)

★ 2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)

Holidays and observances

★ Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,

★ Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople

★ Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.

★ Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date. (Originated in Scotland)

★ Criminon Day - Commemorates the 1970 founding of Criminon, a program which seeks to rehabilitate prisoners by disseminating free copies of Scientology-related materials such as The Way to Happiness.

★ Roman Empire - second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra

★ St. Dwynwen's Day - Welsh celebration of love 'Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen'.

★ Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On this day in Canada
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