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Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical observances

References

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Events

★ 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.

★ 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

★ 1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.

★ 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

★ 1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.

★ 1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.

★ 1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.

★ 1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

★ 1825 - Malden Island discovered.

★ 1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

★ 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

★ 1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

★ 1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.

★ 1932 - Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California.

★ 1932 - Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.

★ 1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.

★ 1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.

★ 1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.

★ 1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.

★ 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

★ 1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, After drawing 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, England beat West Germany 4-2.

★ 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.

★ 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.

★ 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, ''Falcon'', land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.

★ 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.

★ 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

★ 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

★ 1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.

★ 1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

★ 1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.

★ 2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush.

★ 2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

★ 2003 - 490,000 Rock Fans attend Sarsfest concert at Downsview Park in Toronto, Canada, Headlined by The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.

★ 2006 - World's longest running music show ''Top of the Pops'' broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

★ 2006 - At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.

★ 2007 - John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks.

Births

★ 1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)

★ 1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)

★ 1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)

★ 1763 - Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)

★ 1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)

★ 1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)

★ 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)

★ 1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)

★ 1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)

★ 1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)

★ 1889 - Franz Masereel, Belgian painter (d. 1972)

★ 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)

★ 1890 - Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)

★ 1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)

★ 1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)

★ 1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)

★ 1899 - Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)

★ 1901 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)

★ 1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)

★ 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)

★ 1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)

★ 1910 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)

★ 1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)

★ 1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor

★ 1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe

★ 1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)

★ 1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block

★ 1925 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)

★ 1925 - Jacques Sernas, French actor

★ 1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)

★ 1927 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)

★ 1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress

★ 1929 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer

★ 1930 - Thomas Sowell, American economist

★ 1933 - Edd Byrnes, American actor

★ 1934 - Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball

★ 1935 - Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)

★ 1936 - Buddy Guy, American guitarist and singer

★ 1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain

★ 1937 - Keizō Obuchi, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)

★ 1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician

★ 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director

★ 1939 - Eleanor Smeal, American feminist

★ 1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician

★ 1940 - Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor

★ 1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer

★ 1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician

★ 1945 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist

★ 1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)

★ 1947 - William Atherton, American actor

★ 1947 - Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)

★ 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California

★ 1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor

★ 1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor

★ 1954 - Ken Olin, American actor

★ 1956 - Delta Burke, American actress

★ 1956 - Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1956 - Anita Hill, American author

★ 1957 - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager

★ 1957 - Colm Imbert, Trinidadian politician

★ 1957 - Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer

★ 1957 - Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)

★ 1958 - Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter

★ 1958 - Daley Thompson, English decathlete

★ 1960 - Richard Linklater, American director

★ 1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor

★ 1962 - Alton Brown, American television host and chef

★ 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress

★ 1963 - Chris Mullin, American basketball player

★ 1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress

★ 1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager

★ 1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete

★ 1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)

★ 1969 - Simon Baker, American actor

★ 1970 - Christopher Nolan, English/American film director

★ 1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor

★ 1971 - Christine Taylor, American actress

★ 1971 - Basil Zempilas, Australian television presenter

★ 1973 - Markus Naslund, Swedish ice hockey player

★ 1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor

★ 1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress

★ 1974 - Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer

★ 1974 - Jason Robinson, English Rugby Union Player

★ 1975 - Graham Nicholls, English artist

★ 1975 - Cherie Priest, American writer

★ 1977 - Jaime Pressly, American actress

★ 1977 - Samuel Obeng, Ghanaian Information technologist

★ 1979 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer

★ 1979 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)

★ 1980 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player

★ 1981 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer

★ 1982 - Matthew Johnson, American rapper

★ 1983 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer

★ 1984 - Gabrielle Christian, American actress

★ 1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player

★ 1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer

★ 1990 - Corry Evans, Irish footballer

★ 2002 - Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne

Deaths

★ 578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa

★ 579 - Pope Benedict I

★ 1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)

★ 1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)

★ 1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)

★ 1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)

★ 1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)

★ 1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)

★ 1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)

★ 1715 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)

★ 1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)

★ 1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)

★ 1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)

★ 1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)

★ 1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)

★ 1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)

★ 1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)

★ 1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)

★ 1930 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)

★ 1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)

★ 1965 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)

★ 1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)

★ 1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)

★ 1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)

★ 1983 - Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)

★ 1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)

★ 1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)

★ 1992 - Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)

★ 1992 - Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)

★ 1996 - Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)

★ 1997 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

★ 1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (''Howdy Doody'') (b. 1917)

★ 2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)

★ 2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)

★ 2005 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)

★ 2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)

★ 2005 - Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)

★ 2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)

★ 2006 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)

★ 2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)

★ 2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)

★ 2007 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)

★ 2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)

★ 2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

★ Vanuatu - Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).

★ Utah - Dream Theater Day

Liturgical observances

Roman Catholicism

★ Saints Abdon and Sennen [common] ^[1]

★ Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 450)

★ Saint Ursus, bishop of Auxerre, confessor [Auxerre]

References

1. Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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