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Events

★ 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the Viking Age.

★ 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.

★ 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.

★ 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

★ 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

★ 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.

★ 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.

★ 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

★ 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.

★ 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

★ 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

★ 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

★ 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

★ 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.

★ 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

★ 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

★ 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.

★ 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.

★ 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

★ 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.

★ 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.

★ 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

★ 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

★ 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' for the first time.

★ 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.

★ 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.

★ 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.

★ 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.

★ 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

★ 1971 - Attica Prison riots.

★ 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.

★ 1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

★ 1994 - Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.

★ 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.

★ 2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

★ 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.

★ 2007 - Wikipedia's 2,000,000th article in the English language version.

Births

★ 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)

★ 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)

★ 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)

★ 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)

★ 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)

★ 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

★ 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)

★ 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780)

★ 1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer

★ 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)

★ 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)

★ 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)

★ 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)

★ 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)

★ 1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)

★ 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)

★ 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)

★ 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)

★ 1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)

★ 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)

★ 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)

★ 1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)

★ 1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)

★ 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)

★ 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)

★ 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)

★ 1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)

★ 1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)

★ 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)

★ 1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)

★ 1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)

★ 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer

★ 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)

★ 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)

★ 1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)

★ 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)

★ 1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)

★ 1919 - Gottfried Dienst, German football referee

★ 1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher

★ 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)

★ 1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)

★ 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ 1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer

★ 1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)

★ 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

★ 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)

★ 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)

★ 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor

★ 1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric

★ 1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)

★ 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)

★ 1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress

★ 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor

★ 1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor

★ 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player

★ 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer

★ 1941 - Peter Bonetti, English footballer

★ 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)

★ 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist

★ 1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer

★ 1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor

★ 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer

★ 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)

★ 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician

★ 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player

★ 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator

★ 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician

★ 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer

★ 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)

★ 1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress

★ 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor

★ 1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator

★ 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist

★ 1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer

★ 1959 - Eric Serra, French composer

★ 1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor

★ 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur

★ 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach

★ 1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player

★ 1965 - Constance Marie, American actress

★ 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger

★ 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian

★ 1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor

★ 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)

★ 1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer

★ 1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer

★ 1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter

★ 1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress

★ 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress

★ 1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress

★ 1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician

★ 1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist

★ 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player

★ 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader

★ 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player

★ 1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor

★ 1973 - Mark Parry, Welsh guitarist (The Manvils)

★ 1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player

★ 1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer

★ 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)

★ 1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army

★ 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor

★ 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer

★ 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)

★ 1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor

★ 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer

★ 1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer

★ 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)

★ 1977 - Kyle Snyder, American baseball player

★ 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player

★ 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player

★ 1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player

★ 1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer

★ 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress

★ 1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player

★ 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter

★ 1983 - Edwin Jackson, German baseball player

★ 1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer

★ 1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player

★ 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer

★ 1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer

★ 1987 - Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, Child Prodigy in Physics

★ 1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress

★ 2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

★ c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop

★ 701 - Pope Sergius I

★ 1000 - Olaf I of Norway

★ 1087 - King William I of England

★ 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)

★ 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)

★ 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)

★ 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)

★ 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter

★ 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen

★ 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)

★ 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)

★ 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)

★ 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)

★ 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)

★ 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)

★ 1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)

★ 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)

★ 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)

★ 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)

★ 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)

★ 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)

★ 1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)

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

★ 1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)

★ 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893)

★ 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)

★ 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)

★ 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)

★ 1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)

★ 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

★ 1990 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)

★ 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)

★ 1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)

★ 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)

★ 1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)

★ 1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)

★ 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)

★ 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)

★ 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)

★ 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)

★ 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)

★ 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)

★ 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)

★ 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)

★ 2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)

★ 2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)

★ 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)

★ 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

★ Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (''Kiku no Sekku'').

★ North Korea - Republic Day (1948).

★ Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).

★ California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).

Liturgical feasts

★ Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise

★ Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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