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[edit] Births
- 1945 - Anne Murray, singer
- 1949 - Lionel Richie, American singer andmusician
- 1960 - John Taylor, musician ("Duran Duran")
- 1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress
[edit] Deaths
- 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
- 840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
- 1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator
- 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer
- 1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician
- 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom
- 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, mathematician (b. 1826)
- 1945 - Bruno Frank, author
- 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster
- 1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (suicide)
- 1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist
- 1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from East Germany.
- 1999 - Clifton Fadiman, author
- 2002 - Erwin Chargaff, biochemist
- 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter
- 2003 - Bob Stump, U.S. Congressman from Arizona
[edit] Events
- 451- The Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
- 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
- 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore was attacked by Algerian pirates.
- 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath
- 1791 - The Flight to Varennes began.
- 1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
- 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1862 - Barbu Catargiu is assassinated.
- 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
- 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario.
- 1893 - Lizzie Borden is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father.
- 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
- 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
- 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people
- 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
- 1963 - "Hotline" established between Soviet Union and United States.
- 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.
- 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
- 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.
- 1981 - Iran is taken over by what is now known as the Islamic Republic of Iran after two and a half years of intimidation.
- 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
- 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
- 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital city from Bonn back to Berlin.
- 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan
- 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison.
- 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
- 2003 - Bounce premieres at the Goodman Theatre.
- 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.