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Events

★ 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.

★ 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.

★ 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

★ 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.

★ 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

★ 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

★ 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.

★ 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).

★ 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

★ 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.

★ 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.

★ 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

★ 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily ''Kairoi'' entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

★ 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.

★ 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.

★ 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.

★ 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

★ 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

★ 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

★ 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

★ 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.

★ 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

★ 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.

★ 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.

★ 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.

★ 1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, is ordained as a priest.

★ 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

★ 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".

★ 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.

★ 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

★ 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian space station ''Mir'' for the first time.)

★ 1990 - Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics and Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitch no-hitters on the same day.

★ 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

★ 1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.

★ 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

★ 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.

★ 2006 - ''Hamdan v. Rumsfeld'': The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

★ 2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.

Births

★ 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)

★ 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)

★ 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)

★ 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)

★ 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)

★ 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)

★ 1858 - George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)

★ 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)

★ 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)

★ 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)

★ 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)

★ 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)

★ 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)

★ 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)

★ 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d.1961)

★ 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist (d. 2001)

★ 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)

★ 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

★ 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)

★ 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)

★ 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)

★ 1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)

★ 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)

★ 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)

★ 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)

★ 1912 - Emile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)

★ 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)

★ 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)

★ 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)

★ 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)

★ 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker

★ 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)

★ 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)

★ 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer

★ 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)

★ 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer

★ 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician

★ 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor

★ 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress

★ 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)

★ 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)

★ 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress

★ 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)

★ 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress

★ 1930 - Robert Evans - American film producer

★ 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord

★ 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player

★ 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian

★ 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player

★ 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer

★ 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)

★ 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer

★ 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther member (d. 1998)

★ 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter

★ 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)

★ 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor

★ 1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston

★ 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka

★ 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)

★ 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician

★ 1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian

★ 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor

★ 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)

★ 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona

★ 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture

★ 1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator of Duck Donald.

★ 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player

★ 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer

★ 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player

★ 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program

★ 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal

★ 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player

★ 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress

★ 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete

★ 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer

★ 1960 - Evelyn King, American singer

★ 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, actress

★ 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist

★ 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress

★ 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress

★ 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut

★ 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist

★ 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist

★ 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer

★ 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician

★ 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player

★ 1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver

★ 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player

★ 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor

★ 1969 - Claude Béchard, Quebec politician

★ 1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder

★ 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress

★ 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician

★ 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player

★ 1972 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl (d. 1985)

★ 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer

★ 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist

★ 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet

★ 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist

★ 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress

★ 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer

★ 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer

★ 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules Football player

★ 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish Singer and Actor (d. 2007)

★ 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano

★ 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality

★ 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver

★ 1980 - James Courtney, Australian racing driver

★ 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player

★ 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)

★ 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star

★ 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)

★ 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model

★ 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer

★ 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer.

★ 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

Deaths

★ 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony

★ 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)

★ 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)

★ 1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)

★ 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)

★ 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)

★ 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)

★ 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)

★ 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)

★ 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)

★ 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)

★ 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)

★ 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)

★ 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)

★ 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)

★ 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)

★ 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)

★ 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)

★ 1934 - Zaro Aga, 157 years ago.(b.1777)

★ 1935 - Jack O'Neill, baseball player (b. 1873)

★ 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)

★ 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)

★ 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)

★ 1960 - Frank Patrick, professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)

★ 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)

★ 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)

★ 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)

★ 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)

★ 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)

★ 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)

★ 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)

★ 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)

★ 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)

★ 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)

★ 1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)

★ 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)

★ 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)

★ 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)

★ 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)

★ 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)

★ 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)

★ 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)

★ 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

★ 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)

★ 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)

★ 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)

★ 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)

★ 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)

★ 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)

★ 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)

★ 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

★ Seychelles - Independence Day.

★ The Netherlands - Veterans Day.

★ Malta - l-Imnarja

Liturgical feasts

★ Saints Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers

★ Saint Hemma

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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