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 +*[[1501]] - Katherine Of Aragon (later Henry VIII's wife) met Arther Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother, and they later got married.
 +*[[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Flandes]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
 +*[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
 +*[[1737]] - The [[Teatro di San Carlo]] was inaugurated.
 +*[[1825]] - The [[Erie Canal]] was completed with Governor [[DeWitt Clinton]] performing the ''Wedding of The Waters'' ceremony in [[New York Harbour]].
 +*[[1839]] – The [[Newport Rising]] was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
 +*[[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
 +*[[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
 +*[[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
 +*[[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
 +*[[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]].
 +*[[1890]] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street (London)|King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
 +*[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
 +*[[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]].
 +* 1918 - The [[German Revolution]] begins when 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]].
 +*[[1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally formed by [[Adolf Hitler]]
 +* 1921 - [[Prime Minister of Japan|Japanese Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] assassinated in [[Tokyo]].
 +* 1921 - [[milite Ignoto|Italian unknown soldier ]] is buried in the [[Altare della Patria]] ( Fatherland Altar ) in Rome.
 +*[[1922]] - In [[Egypt]], [[United Kingdom|British]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter (archaeologist)|Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamun]]'s tomb in the [[Valley of the Kings]].
 +*[[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]].
 +*[[1927]] - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to [[Washington, D.C.]], having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
 +*[[1928]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]] game.
 +*[[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s by belligerents.
 +*[[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by [[Adolf Hitler]], General Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
 +*[[1945]] - [[UNESCO]] is founded.
 +*[[1948]] - [[T. S. Eliot]] wins the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].
 +*[[1952]] - The [[United States]] [[Federal government of the United States|government]] establishes the [[National Security Agency]].
 +*[[1955]] - The rebuilt [[Vienna State Opera]] reopens with [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s ''[[Fidelio]]'' after it was totally destroyed in [[World War II]].
 +*[[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops enter [[Hungary]] to end the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October 23]]. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
 +*[[1960]] - Filming wraps on ''[[The Misfits (film)|The Misfits]]'', starring [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Clark Gable]] -- the last film for both.
 +*[[1966]] - Two-thirds of [[Florence]], [[Italy]] is submerged as the [[Flood of the River Arno in Florence|Arno rivers flood]]; considering also the contemporary flood of [[Po River]] in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous [[Renaissance]] artworks and books are destroyed.
 +*[[1967]] - Racing Club de Avellaneda wins de Intercontinental cup, beating 1-0 to Celtic Glasgow at Centenary stadium.
 +*[[1970]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Vietnamization]] - The [[United States]] turns control of the [[Binh Thuy Air Base]] in the [[Mekong Delta]] over to [[South Vietnam]].
 +* 1970 - [[Genie (feral child)|Genie]], a 13 year old [[feral child]] was found in [[Los Angeles, California]] having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
 +*[[1979]] - [[Iran hostage crisis]] begins: [[Iran]]ian radicals, mostly students, invade the [[United States]] embassy in [[Tehran]] and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
 +*[[1984]] - [[Dell Computers|Dell]] was founded.
 +* 1984 - [[Sandinista Front]] wins the elections in [[Nicaragua]].
 +*[[1986]] - Chief Justice [[Rose Bird]] and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the [[Supreme Court of California]] for their opposition to [[capital punishment]].
 +*[[1989]] - The congress of the [[KFML|Solidarity Party]] is inaugurated in [[Sweden]]. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
 +*[[1993]] - [[Jean Chrétien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
 +* 1993 - [[Bolivia]] becomes a member of the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Berne Convention]] [[copyright]] [[treaty]].
 +* 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern [[California]], causing between 500 million and 1 billion [[US dollar|USD]] of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be [[arson]].
 +* 1993 - A [[China Airlines]] [[Boeing 747]] overran Runway 13 at [[Hong Kong]]'s [[Kai Tak International Airport]] while landing during a [[typhoon]], injuring 22 people.
 +*[[1994]] - [[San Francisco]]: First conference that focused exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the [[World Wide Web]].
 +*[[1995]] - [[Israel]]i prime minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
 +*[[2001]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops and thousands of homes.
 +* 2001 - The [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] is established.
 +*[[2002]] - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident [[He Depu]] for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th [[National Congress of the Communist Party of China|Communist Party Congress]]
 +* 2002 - [[Fugazi]] plays last show to date in London, UK at The Forum
 +*[[2003]] - The most powerful [[solar flare]] as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
 +* 2003 - Former [[HealthSouth]] CEO [[Richard Scrushy]] becomes the first person indicted under the [[Sarbanes-Oxley Act]]. He was eventually acquitted.
 +*[[2004]] - 12 [[France|French]] soldiers, 3 [[UN]] personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the [[Côte d'Ivoire civil war]].
 +
==Births== ==Births==
 +*[[1448]] - King [[Alphonso II of Naples]] (d. [[1495]])
 +*[[1470]] - King [[Edward V of England]], one of the two princes in the Tower
 +*[[1575]] - [[Guido Reni]], Italian painter (d. [[1642]])
 +*[[1631]] - [[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Mary of Orange]], eldest daughter of [[Charles I of England]] and mother of [[William III of England]] (d. [[1660]])
 +*[[1661]] - [[Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine]] (d. [[1742]])
 +*[[1740]] - [[Augustus Montague Toplady]], English author of hymn "[[Rock of Ages (Christian hymn)|Rock of Ages]]" (d. [[1778]])
 +*[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], French mathematician (d. [[1836]])
 +*[[1809]] - [[Benjamin Robbins Curtis]], Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. [[1874]])
 +*[[1816]] - [[Stephen Johnson Field]], Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. [[1899]])
 +*[[1836]] - [[Henry J. Lutcher]], American businessman (d. [[1912]])
 +*[[1845]] - [[Vasudeo Balwant Phadke]], Indian revolutionary (d. [[1883]])
 +*[[1874]] - [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak]], Russian military commander (d. [[1920]])
 +*[[1879]] - [[Will Rogers]], American humorist (d. [[1935]])
 +*[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general (d. [[1953]])
 +*[[1884]] - [[Harry Ferguson]], Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. [[1960]])
 +*[[1890]] - [[Alfred Henschke]], ps. [[Klabund]], German writer and poet (d. [[1928]])
 +*[[1899]] - [[Nicolas Frantz]], Luxembourgish cyclist (d. [[1985]])
 +*[[1900]] - [[Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu]], Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. [[1954]])
 +*[[1901]] - Princess [[Masako Nashimoto|Bang-ja of Korea]] (d. [[1989]])
 +* 1901 - [[Spyridon Marinatos]], Greek archaeologist (d. [[1974]])
 +*[[1904]] - [[Tadeusz Żyliński]], Polish technician and textilist (d. [[1967]])
 +*[[1908]] - [[Józef Rotblat]], Polish physicist, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[2005]])
 +* 1908 - [[Stanley Cortez]], American cinematographer (d. [[1997]])
 +*[[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American baseball player (d. [[1986]])
 +* 1909 - [[Bert Patenaude]], American soccer player (d. [[1974]])
 +*[[1912]] - [[Vadim Salmanov]], Russian composer (d. [[1978]])
 +*[[1913]] - [[Gig Young]], American actor (d. [[1978]])
 +*[[1916]] - [[Walter Cronkite]], American news broadcaster
 +*[[1918]] - [[Art Carney]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
 +* 1918 - [[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
 +*[[1919]] - [[Martin Balsam]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
 +*[[1922]] - [[Benno Besson]], Swiss actor (d. [[2006]])
 +*[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], Dutch businessman (d. [[2002]])
 +*[[1924]] - [[Howie Meeker]], Canadian ice hockey player and politician
 +*[[1930]] - [[Doris Roberts]], American actress
 +* 1930 - [[Dick Groat]], American baseball player
 +*[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], [[President of Austria]] (d. [[2004]])
 +*[[1933]] - [[Tito Francona]], American baseball player
 +*[[1936]] - [[C. K. Williams]], American poet
 +*[[1937]] - [[Loretta Swit]], American actress
 +* 1937 - [[Michael Wilson (politician)|Michael Wilson]], Canadian politician
 +*[[1943]] - [[Marlène Jobert]], French actress
 +* 1943 - [[Clark Graebner]], American tennis player
 +*[[1944]] - [[Scherrie Payne]], American singer ([[The Supremes]])
 +* 1944 - [[Linda Gary]], American voice actress (d. [[1995]])
 +*[[1946]] - [[Laura Bush]], [[First Lady of the United States]]
 +* 1946 - [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American photographer (d. [[1989]])
 +*[[1950]] - [[Charles Frazier]], American author
 +* 1950 - [[Markie Post]], American actress
 +*[[1951]] - [[Traian Băsescu]], [[President of Romania]]
 +* 1951 - [[Cosey Fanni Tutti]], English performance artist ([[Throbbing Gristle]], [[Chris and Cosey]])
 +*[[1953]] - [[Carlos Gutierrez]], American politician
 +* 1953 - [[Jacques Villeneuve (elder)]], Canadian racing driver
 +* 1953 - [[Dr. Marvel Williamson]], American educator
 +*[[1954]] - [[Chris Difford]], English musician and songwriter
 +*[[1955]] - [[Matti Vanhanen]], [[Prime Minister of Finland]]
 +*[[1956]] - [[Jordan Rudess]], American musician ([[Dream Theater]])
 +* 1956 - [[James Honeyman-Scott]], English guitarist ([[The Pretenders]]) (d. [[1982]])
 +*[[1960]] - [[Marc Awodey]], American artist and writer
 +* 1960 - [[Frl. Menke]], German pop singer of the [[Neue Deutsche Welle]]
 +*[[1961]] - [[Kathy Griffin]], American comedian
 +* 1961 - [[Daron Hagen]], American composer
 +* 1961 - [[Edward Knight (composer)|Edward Knight]], American composer
 +* 1961 - [[Ralph Macchio]], American actor
 +* 1961 - [[Les Sampou]], American musician
 +* 1961 - [[Nigel Worthington]], Northern Irish footballer
 +*[[1962]] - [[Jeff Probst]], American television host
 +*[[1963]] - [[Marc Déry]], [[Québécois]] singer and guitarist ([[Zébulon (band)|Zébulon]])
 +* 1963 - [[Michel Therrien]], Canadian ice hockey coach
 +*[[1965]] - [[Wayne Static]], American musician ([[Static-X]])
 +* 1965 - [[Jeff Scott Soto]], American musician ([[Yngwie Malmsteen]] Band, [[Journey (band)|Journey]])
 +* 1965 - [[Malandra Burrows]], English actress and singer
 +*[[1967]] - [[Eric Karros]], American baseball player
 +*[[1968]] - [[Carlos Baerga]], Puerto Rican baseball player
 +*[[1969]] - [[Matthew McConaughey]], American actor
 +* 1969 - [[Sean Combs|Sean "Diddy" Combs]], American rapper
 +*[[1972]] - [[Luís Figo]], Portuguese footballer
 +* 1972 - [[Tabu (actress)|Tabassum Hashmi]], Indian actress
 +*[[1974]] - [[Cedric Bixler-Zavala]], American musician ([[At the Drive-In]], [[The Mars Volta]])
 +*[[1975]] - [[Eric Fichaud]], Canadian ice hockey player
 +* 1975 - [[Eduard Kokcharov]], Russian handball player
 +* 1975 - [[Curtis Stone]], Australian chef and television personality
 +* 1976 - [[Bruno Junqueira]], Brazilian racing driver
 +*[[1976]] - [[Mario Melchiot]], Dutch footballer
 +*[[1977]] - [[Larry Bigbie]], American baseball player
 +* 1977 - [[So Ji-sub]], South Korean swimmer, model and actor
 +*[[1978]] - [[Carmen Cali]], American baseball player
 +* 1978 - [[John Grabow]], American baseball player
 +*[[1979]] - [[Audrey Hollander]], American pornographic actress
 +* 1979 - [[Jesse Camp]], former MTV veejay
 +*[[1980]] - [[Marcy Rylan]], American actress
 +* 1980 - [[Jerry Collins]], New Zealand rugby union footballer
 +* 1980 - [[Richard Owens]], American football player
 +* 1980 - [[Sabrina Colie]], Jamaican Actress
 +* 1982 - [[Devin Hester]], American football player
 +*[[1985]] - [[Marcell Jansen]], German footballer
 +*[[1986]] - [[Alexz Johnson]], Canadian singer and actress
 +* 1986 - [[Adrian Zaugg]], South African racing driver
 +*[[1990]] - [[Jean-Luc Bilodeau]], Canadian actor
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 +== Deaths ==
 +*[[1254]] - [[John III Ducas Vatatzes]], Emperor of the [[Empire of Nicaea]] (b. circa [[1192]]).
 +*[[1411]] - [[Khalil Sultan (Timurid dynasty)|Khalil Sultan]], ruler of Transoxonia (b. [[1384]])
 +*[[1652]] - [[Jean-Charles de la Faille]], Flemish mathematician (b. [[1597]])
 +*[[1669]] - [[Johannes Cocceius]], Dutch theologian (b. [[1603]])
 +*[[1698]] - [[Rasmus Bartholin]], Danish physician and mathematician (b. [[1625]])
 +*[[1702]] - [[John Benbow]], English admiral (b. [[1653]])
 +*[[1704]] - [[Andreas Acoluthus]], German orientalist (b. [[1654]])
 +*[[1781]] - [[Johann Nikolaus Götz]], German poet (b. [[1721]])
 +*[[1801]] - [[William Shippen]], American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. [[1712]])
 +*[[1847]] - [[Felix Mendelssohn]], German composer (b. [[1809]])
 +*[[1856]] - [[Hippolyte Delaroche]], French painter (b. [[1797]])
 +*[[1893]] - [[Pierre Tirard]], French politician (b. [[1827]])
 +*[[1906]] - [[John H. Ketcham]], American politician (b. [[1832]])
 +*[[1918]] - [[Wilfred Owen]], English poet (b. [[1893]])
 +*[[1924]] - [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer (b. [[1845]])
 +* 1924 - [[Richard Conner]], American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. [[1843]])
 +*[[1928]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], American gambler (b. [[1882]])
 +*[[1930]] - [[Buddy Bolden]], American musician (b. [[1877]])
 +*[[1950]] - [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]], American baseball player (b. [[1887]])
 +*[[1955]] - [[Cy Young]], American baseball player (b. [[1867]])
 +*[[1957]] - [[Shoghi Effendi]], Guardian of the [[Bahá'í Faith]] (b. [[1897]])
 +*[[1968]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]])
 +*[[1974]] - [[Bert Patenaude]], American soccer player (b. [[1909]])
 +*[[1980]] - [[Elsie MacGill]], Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. [[1905]])
 +*[[1982]] - [[Dominique Dunne]], American actress (b. [[1959]])
 +*[[1986]] - [[Kurt Hirsch]], German mathematician (b. [[1906]])
 +*[[1987]] - [[Shaike Ofir]], Israeli actor (b. [[1929]])
 +*[[1994]] - [[Fred Sonic Smith]], American guitar player [[MC5]] (b. [[1949]])
 +*[[1995]] - [[Yitzhak Rabin]], assassinated [[Prime Minister of Israel]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1922]])
 +* 1995 - [[Gilles Deleuze]], French philosopher (suicide) (b. [[1925]])
 +*[[1997]] - [[H. Richard Hornberger]], American writer (b. [[1924]])
 +*[[1999]] - [[Malcolm Marshall]], Barbadian [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] cricketer (b. [[1958]])
 +*[[2003]] - [[Richard Wollheim]], British philosopher (b. [[1923]])
 +*[[2005]] - [[Nadia Anjuman]], Afghan poet & journalist (b. [[1980]])
 +* 2005 - [[Sheree North]], American actress and singer (b. [[1932]])
 +*[[2006]] - [[Ernestine Gilbreth Carey]], American memoirist (''[[Cheaper by the Dozen]]'') (b. [[1908]])
 +* 2006 - [[Frank Arthur Calder]], Canadian politician (b. [[1915]])
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==Notes== ==Notes==
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