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2007 Calendar
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[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
  • 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
  • 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
  • 1856 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
  • 1879 - John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
  • 1907 - Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
  • 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (b. 1864)
  • 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
  • 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc., Roman Catholic priest
  • 1961 - Charles Coburn, actor
  • 1981 - Vera-Ellen, actress
  • 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, author
  • 1991 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
  • 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, film director
  • 2003 - Charles Bronson, actor
  • 2003 - Donald Davidson, philosopher

[edit] Events

  • 711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
  • 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
  • 1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
  • 1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
  • 1862 - Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
  • 1862 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
  • 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
  • 1918 - Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror
  • 1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
  • 1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins
  • 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan
  • 1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
  • 1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
  • 1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
  • 1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • 1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
  • 1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
  • 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
  • 1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
  • 1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
  • 1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
  • 2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.