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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| + | *[[1609]] - [[Biblioteca Ambrosiana]] opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe. | ||
| + | *[[1659]] - [[Mexican]] border town [[Ciudad Juárez]] is founded by Fray García de San Francisco. | ||
| + | *[[1854]] - [[Pope Pius IX]] proclaims the dogma of [[Immaculate Conception]], which holds that [[the Virgin Mary]] was born free of [[original sin]]. | ||
| + | *[[1864]] - The [[Clifton Suspension Bridge]] over the River Avon was officially opened. | ||
| + | *[[1869]] - [[Timothy Eaton]] founds [[Eaton's|T. Eaton Co. Limited]] in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]]. | ||
| + | *[[1886]] - The [[American Federation of Labor]] is founded in [[Columbus, Ohio]]. | ||
| + | *[[1904]] - [[Konservativ Ungdom]] (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it is the oldest youth political organisation in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest remaining in the world. | ||
| + | *[[1907]] - King [[Gustaf V of Sweden]] accedes to the Swedish throne. | ||
| + | *[[1912]] - [[First Balkan War]]: The [[Greece|Greek]] army captures [[Korçë]] that had been under Ottoman rule. | ||
| + | *[[1914]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of the Falkland Islands]] - The [[Kaiserliche Marine]] under the command of Admiral [[Graf]] [[Maximilian von Spee]] is engaged by the [[Royal Navy]]. | ||
| + | *[[1935]] - The [[Japan]]ese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect [[Oomoto]], beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of [[Ayabe]] and [[Kameoka]] in [[Kyoto Prefecture]] and the arrest of its leader [[Onisaburo Deguchi]]. | ||
| + | *[[1940]] - The [[Chicago Bears]] defeat the [[Washington Redskins]] 73-0, in the [[NFL Championship Game]]. This is the most lopsided game in [[NFL]] history. | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[World War II]]: The Japanese invade the [[British Crown Colony]] of [[Hong Kong]], [[Malaya]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]]. | ||
| + | *[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Pacific War]] - After the [[Japanese Empire|Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] pass a [[Declaration of war by the United States|declaration of war]] against Japan. | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[World War II]]: Pacific War - the [[Republic of China]] officially declares war against [[Japanese Empire|Japan]]. | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[World War II]]: Pacific War - The [[Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea]] in China issues a proclamation which declared war against [[Japan]] and [[Germany]] on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since [[1910]]. | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[World War II]]: First Japanese attack on [[Wake Island]]. | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[Holocaust]]: [[Gas van]]s are first used as a means of execution, at the [[Chelmno extermination camp]] near [[Łódź]] in [[Poland]]. | ||
| + | *[[1942]] - [[Holocaust]]: in [[Ternopil]], [[Ukraine]], [[Germany|German]] [[SS]] organise the last deportation of [[Ternopil]] [[Jews]] to death camp in [[Belzec]], when 1,400 [[Jews]] were sent there. The chief of the [[Gestapo]], [[SS]]-Sturmbannführer [[Hermann Müller]], bore overall responsibility for the mass [[murder]] of the [[Jews]] of [[Ternopil]] and [[Berezhany]] county. | ||
| + | *[[1949]] - [[Chinese Civil War]]: The capital of the [[Republic of China]] is moved from [[Nanjing]] to [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]. | ||
| + | *[[1953]] - [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] gives the [[Atoms for Peace]] speech. | ||
| + | *[[1966]] - The Greek ''[[SS Heraklion]]'' sinks in a storm in the [[Aegean Sea]], killing over 200. | ||
| + | *[[1969]] - An [[Olympic Airlines|Olympic Airways]] [[Douglas DC-6]] crashes in [[Keratea]] during a storm, killing 93 people. | ||
| + | *[[1972]] - [[United Airlines Flight 533]] crashes near [[Chicago Midway Airport]], killing 45 people. | ||
| + | *[[1974]] - A [[Greek plebiscite, 1974|plebiscite]] results in the abolition of monarchy in [[Greece]]. | ||
| + | *[[1980]] - [[Mark David Chapman]] shoots John Lennon in front of [[The Dakota]] apartment building with five bullets, murdering him. | ||
| + | *[[1982]] - Activist [[Norman Mayer]] threatens to blow up the [[Washington Monument]], before being killed by [[United States Park Police]]. | ||
| + | *1982 - In [[Suriname]] several opponents of the military government are [[December murders|killed]]. | ||
| + | *[[1987]] - The [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]] is signed. | ||
| + | * 1987 - The [[Queen Street Massacre]]: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of [[Australia Post]] in [[Melbourne, Australia]] before being killed himself. | ||
| + | * 1987 - [[Alianza Lima air disaster]] | ||
| + | *[[1991]] - The leaders of [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]] sign an agreement dissolving the [[Soviet Union]] and establishing the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]]. | ||
| + | * 1991 - The [[Romanian Constitution]] is adopted in a referendum. | ||
| + | *[[1993]] - The [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President [[Bill Clinton]]. | ||
| + | *[[1998]] - [[Tadjena massacre]]: 81 people are killed by armed groups in [[Algeria]]. | ||
| + | *[[2002]] - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "[[Caribbean Community|CARICOM]]-[[Cuba]] Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba. | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - The [[Cuzco Declaration]] is signed in [[Cusco|Cuzco]], [[Peru]], establishing the [[South American Community of Nations]]. | ||
| + | *[[2005]] - [[Ante Gotovina]], Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the [[Playa de las Américas]], [[Tenerife]] by the Spanish police. | ||
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| - | == Births == | + | ==Births== |
| + | *[[65 BC]] - [[Horace]], Roman poet (d. [[8 BC]]) | ||
| + | *[[1542]] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] (d. [[1587]]) | ||
| + | *[[1574]] - [[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]], Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. [[1616]]) | ||
| + | *[[1626]] - Queen [[Christina of Sweden]] (d. [[1689]]) | ||
| + | *[[1678]] - [[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton]], English diplomat (d. [[1757]]) | ||
| + | *[[1699]] - [[Maria Josepha of Austria]], queen of Poland (d. [[1757]]) | ||
| + | *[[1708]] - [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1765]]) | ||
| + | *[[1730]] - [[Jan Ingenhousz]], Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. [[1799]]) | ||
| + | *[[1765]] - [[Eli Whitney]], American inventor (d. [[1825]]) | ||
| + | *[[1795]] - [[Peter Andreas Hansen]], Danish astronomer (d. [[1874]]) | ||
| + | *[[1815]] - [[Adolph Menzel]], German painter and graphic artist (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| + | *[[1816]] - [[August Belmont, Sr.]], Prussian-born American financier (d. [[1890]]) | ||
| + | *[[1817]] - [[Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs]], Danish nobleman and politician (d. [[1896]]) | ||
| + | *[[1832]] - [[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]], Norwegian author and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1910]]) | ||
| + | *[[1848]] - [[Joel Chandler Harris]], American author and folklorist (d. [[1908]]) | ||
| + | *[[1861]] - [[William C. Durant]], American automobile pioneer (d. [[1947]]) | ||
| + | * 1861 - [[Aristide Maillol]], French sculptor (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| + | * 1861 - [[Georges Méliès]], French filmmaker (d. [[1938]]) | ||
| + | *[[1862]] - [[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (d. [[1921]]) | ||
| + | *[[1864]] - [[Camille Claudel]], French graphic artist and sculptor (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| + | *[[1865]] - [[Jean Sibelius]], Finnish composer (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| + | * 1865 - [[Jacques Hadamard]], French mathematician (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| + | *[[1874]] - [[Ernst Moro]], Austrian physician (d. [[1951]]) | ||
| + | *[[1886]] - [[Diego Rivera]], Mexican painter (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| + | *[[1890]] - [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech composer (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| + | *[[1894]] - [[James Thurber]], American writer (d. [[1961]]) | ||
| + | * 1894 - [[E.C. Segar]], American cartoonist ([[Popeye]]) (d. [[1938]]) | ||
| + | *[[1900]] - [[Sun Li-jen]], Chinese general (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| + | *[[1909]] - [[Gratien Gélinas]], Quebec playwright, actor, director and producer (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| + | *[[1911]] - [[Lee J. Cobb]], American actor (d. [[1976]]) | ||
| + | * 1911 - [[Nikos Gatsos]], Greek poet and lyricist (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| + | *[[1913]] - [[Delmore Schwartz]], American poet (d. [[1966]]) | ||
| + | *[[1915]] - [[Ernest Lehman]], American screenwriter (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| + | *[[1916]] - [[Richard Fleischer]], American film director (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| + | *[[1918]] - [[Gérard Souzay]], French baritone (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | *[[1919]] - [[Peter Tali Coleman]], American politician (d. [[1997]]) | ||
| + | *[[1922]] - [[Jean Ritchie]], American folk singer | ||
| + | *[[1923]] - [[Rudolph Pariser]], Chinese-born American chemist | ||
| + | *[[1925]] - [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], American actor and singer (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| + | * 1925 - [[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]], American jazz musician (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| + | *[[1927]] - [[Vladimir Shatalov]], Soviet Union-born cosmonaut | ||
| + | *[[1930]] - [[Maximilian Schell]], Austrian-born Swiss actor, film director, and author | ||
| + | *[[1933]] - [[Flip Wilson]], American comedian (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| + | *[[1935]] - [[Dharmendra]], Indian actor | ||
| + | * 1935 - [[Tatiana Zatulovskaya]], Israeli chess player | ||
| + | *[[1936]] - [[David Carradine]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1937]] - [[James MacArthur]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1937 - [[Arne Næss Jr.]], Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | *[[1939]] - [[Red Berenson]], [[National Hockey League]] player | ||
| + | * 1939 - [[Jerry Butler (singer)|Jerry Butler]], American soul singer | ||
| + | * 1939 - Sir [[James Galway]], Northern Irish flute player | ||
| + | * 1939 - [[Soko Richardson]], American rhythm and blues drummer. (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | *[[1940]] - [[Brant Alyea]], baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1941]] - [[Ed Brinkman]], baseball player | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[Bob Brown (NFL)|Bob Brown]], American football player | ||
| + | * 1941 - [[Duke Cunningham|Randall "Duke" Cunningham]], US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman | ||
| + | * 1941 - Sir [[Geoff Hurst]], ex-English footballer | ||
| + | *[[1943]] - [[Jim Morrison]], American singer ([[The Doors]]) (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| + | * 1943 - [[Mary Woronov]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - [[John Banville]], Irish novelist and journalist | ||
| + | *[[1946]] - [[John Rubinstein]], American actor, composer, director | ||
| + | *[[1947]] - [[Gregg Allman]], American musician | ||
| + | * 1947 - [[Kati-Claudia Fofonoff]], Finnish writer | ||
| + | * 1947 - [[Thomas R. Cech]], American chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate | ||
| + | *[[1949]] - [[Mary Gordon]], American writer | ||
| + | * 1949 - [[Ray Shulman]], English musician | ||
| + | * 1949 - [[Robert Sternberg]], Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence | ||
| + | *[[1950]] - [[Richard A. Baker|Rick Baker]], American film makeup artist | ||
| + | * 1950 - [[Tim Foli]], American baseball player | ||
| + | * 1950 - [[Dan Hartman]], American musician ([[Edgar Winter Group]]) (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| + | *[[1951]] - [[Jan Eggum]], Norwegian singer-songwriter | ||
| + | * 1951 - [[Bill Bryson]], American author | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[Khaw Boon Wan]], Singapore Health Minister | ||
| + | *[[1953]] - [[Kim Basinger]], American actress | ||
| + | * 1953 - [[Sam Kinison]], American comedian (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| + | *[[1956]] - [[Warren Cuccurullo]], American musician | ||
| + | *[[1957]] - [[Phil Collen]], British guitarist ([[Def Leppard]]) | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - [[Bird McIntyre]], Thai pop singer / musician | ||
| + | *[[1961]] - [[Ann Coulter]], American author, political commentator, and attorney | ||
| + | *[[1962]] - [[Marty Friedman (guitarist)|Marty Friedman]], American guitarist | ||
| + | *[[1963]] - [[Toshiaki Kawada]], Japanese professional wrestler | ||
| + | *[[1964]] - [[Sandy Burnett]], British record producer | ||
| + | * 1964 - [[Teri Hatcher]], American actress | ||
| + | * 1964 - [[James Blundell (singer)|James Blundell]], Australian country singer | ||
| + | *[[1965]] - [[Carina Lau]], Hong Kong actress | ||
| + | *[[1966]] - [[Sinéad O'Connor]], Irish musician | ||
| + | *[[1967]] - [[Jeff George]], American football player | ||
| + | * 1967 - [[Kotono Mitsuishi]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actress) | ||
| + | *[[1968]] - [[Mike Mussina]], American baseball player | ||
| + | * 1968 - [[Michael Cole]], American professional wrestling commentator | ||
| + | *[[1969]] - [[Jeff Tremaine]], American television & film director | ||
| + | *[[1972]] - [[Marco Abreu]], Angolan footballer | ||
| + | * 1972 - [[Frank Shamrock]], American MMA-Fighter and younger brother of MMA-Fighter [[Ken Shamrock]] | ||
| + | *[[1973]] - [[Corey Taylor]], American singer ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]], [[Stone Sour]]) | ||
| + | * 1973 - [[Doron Bell Jr.]], Canadian actor | ||
| + | *[[1974]] - [[Tony Simmons]], American football player | ||
| + | * 1974 - [[Nick Zinner]], American guitarist ([[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]]) | ||
| + | *[[1975]] - [[Kevin Harvick]], American NASCAR driver | ||
| + | *[[1976]] - [[Dominic Monaghan]], German-born British actor | ||
| + | * 1976 - [[Naimee Coleman]], Irish singer and songwriter | ||
| + | * 1976 - [[Reed Johnson]], American baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1977]] - [[Ryan Newman]], American NASCAR driver | ||
| + | * 1977 - [[Elsa Benítez]], Mexican supermodel | ||
| + | * 1977 - [[Sébastien Chabal]], French international rugby player | ||
| + | *[[1978]] - [[John Oster]], Welsh footballer | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Anwar Siraj]], Ethiopian footballer | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Ian Somerhalder]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Vernon Wells (baseball)|Vernon Wells]], American baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1979]] - [[Johan Forssell]], Swedish politician | ||
| + | * 1979 - [[Daniel Fitzhenry]], Australian rugby league footballer | ||
| + | * 1979 - [[Christian Wilhelmsson]], Swedish footballer | ||
| + | *[[1981]] - [[Jeremy Accardo]], American baseball player | ||
| + | * 1981 - [[Philip Rivers]], American football player | ||
| + | *[[1982]] - [[Dee Dee Trotter]], American athlete | ||
| + | *[[1983]] - [[Neel Jani]], Swiss racing driver | ||
| + | * 1983 - [[Liu Song (snooker player)|Liu Song]], Chinese snooker player | ||
| + | *[[1984]] - [[Greg Halford]], English footballer | ||
| + | * 1984 - [[Badr Hari]], Dutch kickboxer | ||
| + | *[[1985]] - [[Dwight Howard]], American basketball player | ||
| + | *[[1986]] - [[Amir Khan (boxer)|Amir Khan]], British boxer | ||
| + | *[[1993]] - [[AnnaSophia Robb]], American actress and singer | ||
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| + | ==Deaths== | ||
| + | * [[899]] - [[Arnulf of Carinthia]] (b. [[850]]) | ||
| + | *[[1626]] - [[John Davies (poet)|John Davies]], English poet (b. [[1569]]) | ||
| + | *[[1632]] - [[Philippe van Lansberge]], Flemish astronomer (b. [[1561]]) | ||
| + | *[[1638]] - [[Ivan Gundulic]], Croatian poet (b. [[1589]]) | ||
| + | *[[1643]] - [[John Pym]], English statesman (b. [[1583]]) | ||
| + | *[[1649]] - [[Noël Chabanel]], French Jesuit missionary (b. [[1613]]) | ||
| + | *[[1680]] - [[Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester]], English politician (b. [[1606]]) | ||
| + | *[[1691]] - [[Richard Baxter]], English clergyman (b. [[1615]]) | ||
| + | *[[1695]] - [[Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville]], French orientalist (b. [[1625]]) | ||
| + | *[[1709]] - [[Thomas Corneille]], French dramatist (b. [[1625]]) | ||
| + | *[[1722]] - [[Liselotte von der Pfalz]], [[Duchess of Orléans]] (b. [[1652]]) | ||
| + | *[[1744]] - [[Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux]], mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (b. [[1717]]) | ||
| + | *[[1745]] - [[Etienne Fourmont]], French orientalist (b. [[1683]]) | ||
| + | *[[1746]] - [[Charles Radclyffe]], British politician (b. [[1693]]) | ||
| + | *[[1756]] - [[William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington]], British statesman and diplomat | ||
| + | *[[1768]] - [[Jean Denis Attiret]], French Jesuit missionary (b. [[1702]]) | ||
| + | *[[1779]] - [[Nathan Alcock]], English physician (b. [[1707]]) | ||
| + | *[[1830]] - [[Benjamin Constant]], Swiss writer (b. [[1767]]) | ||
| + | *[[1859]] - [[Thomas de Quincey]], British author (b. [[1785]]) | ||
| + | *[[1864]] - [[George Boole]], British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. [[1815]]) | ||
| + | *[[1885]] - [[William Henry Vanderbilt]], member of the [[Vanderbilt family]] (b. [[1821]]) | ||
| + | *[[1894]] - [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1821]]) | ||
| + | *[[1907]] - [[Oscar II of Sweden]] (b. [[1829]]) | ||
| + | *[[1914]] - [[Maximilian von Spee]], German naval officer (b. [[1861]]) | ||
| + | *[[1917]] - [[Mendele Moykher Sforim]], Russian writer (b. [[1836]]) | ||
| + | *[[1938]] - [[Friedrich Glauser]], German-language Swiss writer (b. [[1896]]) | ||
| + | *[[1952]] - [[Charles Lightoller]], British second officer on the Titanic (b. [[1874]]) | ||
| + | *[[1958]] - [[Tris Speaker]], American baseball player (b. [[1888]]) | ||
| + | *[[1963]] - Field Marshal [[Sarit Dhanarajata]], [[Prime Minister of Thailand]] (b. [[1908]]) | ||
| + | *[[1975]] - [[Gary Thain]], New Zealand bassist ([[Uriah Heep (band)|Uriah Heep]]) (b. [[1948]]) | ||
| + | *[[1978]] - [[Golda Meir]], Russian-born [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1898]]) | ||
| + | *[[1980]] - [[John Lennon]], English musician and peace activist (b. [[1940]]) | ||
| + | *[[1982]] - [[Bram Behr]], Surinamese journalist (b. [[1951]]) | ||
| + | *[[1983]] - [[Slim Pickens]], American actor (b. [[1919]]) | ||
| + | *[[1984]] - [[Luther Adler]], American actor (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| + | *1984 - [[Robert Jay Mathews]], [[White Nationalist]] (b. [[1953]]) | ||
| + | *[[1991]] - [[Buck Clayton]], American jazz trumpet player (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| + | *[[1992]] - [[William Shawn]], American magazine editor (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | *[[1994]] - [[Tom Jobim]], Brazilian composer and arranger (b. [[1927]]) | ||
| + | *[[1996]] - [[Howard Rollins]], American actor (b. [[1950]]) | ||
| + | *[[1999]] - [[Péter Kuczka]], Hungarian writer (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| + | *[[2001]] - [[Don Tennant]], American advertising executive (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| + | *[[2003]] - [[Rubén González]], Cuban pianist ([[Buena Vista Social Club]]) (b. [[1919]]) | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - [[Dimebag Darrell]] (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (b. [[1966]]) | ||
| + | *[[2005]] - [[Georgiy Zhzhonov]], Russian actor and author (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| + | *[[2006]] - [[Martha Tilton]], American singer (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| + | * 2006 - [[José Uribe]], Dominican baseball player (b. [[1959]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
- 1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
- 1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
- 1864 - The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon was officially opened.
- 1869 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
- 1886 - The American Federation of Labor is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1904 - Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it is the oldest youth political organisation in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest remaining in the world.
- 1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
- 1912 - First Balkan War: The Greek army captures Korçë that had been under Ottoman rule.
- 1914 - World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands - The Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy.
- 1935 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
- 1940 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game. This is the most lopsided game in NFL history.
- 1941 - World War II: The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
- 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress pass a declaration of war against Japan.
- 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - the Republic of China officially declares war against Japan.
- 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910.
- 1941 - World War II: First Japanese attack on Wake Island.
- 1941 - Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Łódź in Poland.
- 1942 - Holocaust: in Ternopil, Ukraine, German SS organise the last deportation of Ternopil Jews to death camp in Belzec, when 1,400 Jews were sent there. The chief of the Gestapo, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Müller, bore overall responsibility for the mass murder of the Jews of Ternopil and Berezhany county.
- 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
- 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
- 1966 - The Greek SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
- 1969 - An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 crashes in Keratea during a storm, killing 93 people.
- 1972 - United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
- 1974 - A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
- 1980 - Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon in front of The Dakota apartment building with five bullets, murdering him.
- 1982 - Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
- 1982 - In Suriname several opponents of the military government are killed.
- 1987 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
- 1987 - The Queen Street Massacre: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
- 1987 - Alianza Lima air disaster
- 1991 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 1991 - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
- 1993 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
- 1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
- 2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
- 2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
- 2005 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
Births
- 65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
- 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
- 1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
- 1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
- 1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
- 1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
- 1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
- 1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. 1799)
- 1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
- 1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
- 1815 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
- 1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
- 1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)
- 1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
- 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist (d. 1908)
- 1861 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (d. 1947)
- 1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
- 1861 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
- 1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
- 1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1865 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
- 1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
- 1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
- 1890 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
- 1894 - James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
- 1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
- 1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
- 1909 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright, actor, director and producer (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
- 1913 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
- 1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
- 1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer
- 1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
- 1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
- 1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
- 1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor, film director, and author
- 1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998)
- 1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
- 1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
- 1936 - David Carradine, American actor
- 1937 - James MacArthur, American actor
- 1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
- 1939 - Red Berenson, National Hockey League player
- 1939 - Jerry Butler, American soul singer
- 1939 - Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flute player
- 1939 - Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer. (d. 2004)
- 1940 - Brant Alyea, baseball player
- 1941 - Ed Brinkman, baseball player
- 1941 - Bob Brown, American football player
- 1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
- 1941 - Sir Geoff Hurst, ex-English footballer
- 1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
- 1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress
- 1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
- 1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director
- 1947 - Gregg Allman, American musician
- 1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish writer
- 1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 - Mary Gordon, American writer
- 1949 - Ray Shulman, English musician
- 1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
- 1950 - Rick Baker, American film makeup artist
- 1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
- 1950 - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
- 1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
- 1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
- 1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
- 1953 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
- 1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American musician
- 1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer / musician
- 1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
- 1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
- 1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1964 - Sandy Burnett, British record producer
- 1964 - Teri Hatcher, American actress
- 1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
- 1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
- 1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
- 1967 - Jeff George, American football player
- 1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- 1968 - Mike Mussina, American baseball player
- 1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
- 1969 - Jeff Tremaine, American television & film director
- 1972 - Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
- 1972 - Frank Shamrock, American MMA-Fighter and younger brother of MMA-Fighter Ken Shamrock
- 1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
- 1973 - Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
- 1974 - Tony Simmons, American football player
- 1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- 1975 - Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver
- 1976 - Dominic Monaghan, German-born British actor
- 1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Reed Johnson, American baseball player
- 1977 - Ryan Newman, American NASCAR driver
- 1977 - Elsa Benítez, Mexican supermodel
- 1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French international rugby player
- 1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer
- 1978 - Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
- 1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
- 1978 - Vernon Wells, American baseball player
- 1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
- 1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
- 1981 - Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
- 1981 - Philip Rivers, American football player
- 1982 - Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete
- 1983 - Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver
- 1983 - Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
- 1984 - Greg Halford, English footballer
- 1984 - Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer
- 1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
- 1986 - Amir Khan, British boxer
- 1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer
Deaths
- 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)
- 1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
- 1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
- 1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
- 1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
- 1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
- 1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
- 1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
- 1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
- 1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
- 1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1652)
- 1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
- 1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
- 1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
- 1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
- 1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
- 1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
- 1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
- 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author (b. 1785)
- 1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
- 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
- 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
- 1907 - Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
- 1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
- 1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
- 1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
- 1952 - Charles Lightoller, British second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
- 1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
- 1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
- 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
- 1978 - Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
- 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist (b. 1940)
- 1982 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
- 1983 - Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
- 1991 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1911)
- 1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
- 1994 - Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (b. 1927)
- 1996 - Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
- 1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
- 2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (b. 1966)
- 2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
- 2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
- 2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
Notes
Thomas de Quincey
Horace
Max Bill
Georges Méliès
Venus in Furs
Mary Woronov
Gustav Wyneken
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Aristide Maillol
Richard Fleischer
Jean Sibelius
Graciela Daniele
Mark Pesce
List of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann
James Thurber
Madame du Barry
Diego Rivera
John Lennon
Claude Cahun
Georges Feydeau
Lucian Freud
Art, Truth and Politics
John Banville
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