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Events

★ 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

★ 1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights.

★ 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.

★ 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

★ 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the ''Frontenac'', is launched.

★ 1829 - HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba.

★ 1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.

★ 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

★ 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

★ 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' or, ''Life Among the Lowly'' starts a ten-month run in the ''National Era'' abolitionist newspaper.

★ 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

★ 1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888: Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, '5,5' Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.

★ 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

★ 1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

★ 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

★ 1916 - Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

★ 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

★ 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

★ 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.

★ 1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

★ 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

★ 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

★ 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.

★ 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

★ 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on ''The Milton Berle Show'', scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

★ 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

★ 1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.

★ 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.

★ 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

★ 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.

★ 1969 - International communist conference begins in Moscow.

★ 1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

★ 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

★ 1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC.

★ 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.

★ 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.

★ 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.

★ 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

★ 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

★ 1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.

★ 1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.

★ 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

★ 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

★ 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).

★ 2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.

★ 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.

★ 2003 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.

★ 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

Births

★ 1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)

★ 1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)

★ 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)

★ 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)

★ 1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)

★ 1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)

★ 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)

★ 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)

★ 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)

★ 1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)

★ 1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)

★ 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)

★ 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)

★ 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)

★ 1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)

★ 1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)

★ 1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)

★ 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

★ 1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)

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

★ 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)

★ 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)

★ 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)

★ 1895 - William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)

★ 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)

★ 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

★ 1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)

★ 1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)

★ 1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)

★ 1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)

★ 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)

★ 1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)

★ 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star

★ 1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)

★ 1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)

★ 1931 - Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)

★ 1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher

★ 1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)

★ 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist

★ 1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler

★ 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada

★ 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist

★ 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist

★ 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)

★ 1941 - Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots

★ 1941 - Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter

★ 1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician

★ 1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author

★ 1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete

★ 1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer

★ 1945 - John Carlos, American Athlete

★ 1945 - Patrick Head, British engineer

★ 1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)

★ 1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor

★ 1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist

★ 1947 - Tom Evans (musician), from Badfinger (d. 1983)

★ 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author

★ 1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author

★ 1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.

★ 1952 - Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician

★ 1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)

★ 1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)

★ 1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player

★ 1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)

★ 1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist

★ 1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros

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

★ 1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)

★ 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium

★ 1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian

★ 1963 - Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer

★ 1964 - Karl Sanders, vocalist/guitar virtuoso and founding member of the Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile.

★ 1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano

★ 1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete

★ 1967 - Ray Lankford, baseball player

★ 1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor

★ 1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician

★ 1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player

★ 1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress

★ 1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor

★ 1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor

★ 1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist

★ 1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler

★ 1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter

★ 1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer

★ 1974 - Chad Allen, American actor

★ 1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player

★ 1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

★ 1977 - Liza Weil, American actress

★ 1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer

★ 1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer

★ 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

★ 1979 - Jason White, American NASCAR driver

★ 1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player

★ 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

★ 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality

★ 2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

★ 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople

★ 1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)

★ 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

★ 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)

★ 1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)

★ 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)

★ 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)

★ 1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)

★ 1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)

★ 1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)

★ 1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)

★ 1722 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)

★ 1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)

★ 1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)

★ 1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)

★ 1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence

★ 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)

★ 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)

★ 1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)

★ 1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)

★ 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)

★ 1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)

★ 1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)

★ 1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)

★ 1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

★ 1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)

★ 1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)

★ 1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)

★ 1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)

★ 1993 - Twenty-Four Pakistani Soldiers, during Operation Restore Hope

★ 1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)

★ 1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)

★ 1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)

★ 2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925).

★ 2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist.

★ 2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)

★ 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)

★ 2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)

★ 2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)

★ 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)

★ 2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)

★ 2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician.

★ 2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress.

★ 2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)

★ 2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances

★ World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.

★ National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day).

★ Seychelles - Liberation Day.

★ Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

Liturgical Feasts

★ Saint Boniface (died 754)

★ Saint Dorotheus

★ Saint Igor (died 1147)

★ Saint Valeria

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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