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Events

307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine I (emperor) marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII of France is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 - Isabella I of Castile of Castille Alhambra decree to Christianity or face expulsion.
1717 - A Sermon (oration) on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.
1822 - Chios massacre of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1854 - Commodore (USN) Matthew Perry (naval officer) signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda, Shizuoka and Hakodate to United States trade.
1866 - The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile.
1877 - The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Takamori Saigo army in Ōita Prefecture Nakatsu rebels.
1885 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1903 - Richard Pearse apparently made the worlds first powered flight, after flying a few hundred metres he crashed into a hedge.
1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
1909 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1917 - The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1930 - The Hays Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1931 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
1942 - In World War II, Japanese forces Battle of Christmas Island Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1942 - Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. Germany Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5.000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
1944 - Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.
1946 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
1949 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 - The first commercial US made computer, UNIVAC I, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 - Elections to the Territorial Assembly Election in Upper Volta 1957 of the France colony Upper Volta. After the elections Unified Democratic Party and Voltaic Democratic Movement form a government.
1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 - The History of Brazil (1964-1985)#History of Brazil (1964-1985), under the aegis of general Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, begins.
1965 - Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1968 - President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1970 - Eight terrorism from the Japanese Red Army Aircraft hijacking Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding Katana and carrying a bomb.
1979 - The last Armed Forces of the United Kingdom soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1986 - A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
1986 - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 - Poll Tax Riots of London to show their displeasure at the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1992 - USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active US Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 - The journal Nature (journal) reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
1995 - In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
1998 - Netscape Communications Corporation releases the code base of its browser under an Open-source software license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
2002 - 331 Earthquake in Taiwan, which measured 7.1 and killed at least four people.
2004 - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 United States private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.

Births

250 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1499 - Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
1504 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 - King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (died 1644)
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1621 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
1651 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
1718 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
1809 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
1847 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1855 - Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1871 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
1872 - Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d.1952)
1872 - Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
1876 - Borisav Stanković, Serbia writer (d. 1927)
1878 - Jack Johnson (boxer), American boxer (d. 1946)
1884 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1890 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1971)
1891 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
1893 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
1906 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1979)
1907 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)
1914 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1998)
1915 - Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
1915 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1916 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
1916 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
1919 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1922 - Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
1924 - Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
1924 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
1925 - Jean Coutu (actor), French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
1927 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
1927 - William Daniels, American actor
1928 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1928 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Liz Claiborne (fashion designer), Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
1929 - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1931 - Miller Barber, American golfer
1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
1933 - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1934 - Richard Chamberlain (actor), American actor
1934 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
1934 - Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
1934 - John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
1935 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
1935 - Judith Rossner, American author
1936 - Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Marge Piercy, American writer
1936 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1938 - Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
1938 - David Steel, Scottish politician
1938 - Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
1938 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1939 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
1939 - Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
1940 - Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont
1940 - Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
1942 - Michael Savage (commentator), American talk radio host and commentator
1942 - Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor
1944 - Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 - Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 - Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1945 - Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
1946 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
1948 - Al Gore, Vice President of the United States
1948 - Rhea Perlman, American actress
1950 - Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
1950 - András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
1955 - Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
1955 - Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1957 - Marc McClure, American actor
1957 - Alan Duncan, British politician
1963 - Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
1964 - Paul Wong, Hong Kong musician (Beyond (band))
1965 - Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
1965 - Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
1966 - Roger Black, English athlete
1968 - Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 - Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1971 - Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
1972 - Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1972 - Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
1973 - Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
1974 - Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo (band))
1974 - Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
1974 - Angela Dotchin, New Zealand actress
1976 - Josh Saviano, American actor
1976 - Ashton Moore, American porn actress
1977 - Toshiya (musician), Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1977 - Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
1978 - Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1978 - Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 - Tony Yayo, American rapper
1979 - Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1980 - Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1980 - Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
1980 - Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1982 - Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter and Suicide Girls
1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1983 - Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 - Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1984 - James Jones (football player), American football player

Deaths

1074 - Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
1340 - Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
1547 - Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1567 - Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
1621 - Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
1631 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
1671 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1723 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
1741 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
1837 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
1855 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
1877 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
1913 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
1917 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
1915 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1927 - Borisav Stanković, Serbia writer (b. 1875)
1931 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
1945 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1881)
1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
1952 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
1968 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1972 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1976 - Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
1978 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1980 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
1981 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
1986 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
1986 - Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
1988 - William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1993 - Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
1993 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1995 - Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican American singer (b. 1971)
1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
1998 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1915)
2002 - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005 - Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 - Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
2006 - Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)

Holidays and observances

New Jersey - Thomas Mundy Peterson
Freedom Day (Malta)

Liturgical feasts

Abdas of Susa Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
Saint Amos
Anesius and companions
Blessed Hendrik Werner

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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