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2007 Calendar
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[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
  • 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
  • 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
  • 1435 - Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)
  • 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
  • 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, author, teacher (b. 1672)
  • 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
  • 1877 - Brigham Young, Mormon leader (b. 1801)
  • 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
  • 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
  • 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
  • 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter
  • 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, theoretician.
  • 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer
  • 1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman
  • 1981 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer
  • 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
  • 1987 - Lee Marvin, actor
  • 1989 - Peter Scott, explorer, naturalist and painter (b. 1909)
  • 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
  • 2004 - Hans Vonk, conductor

[edit] Events

  • 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first
  • 1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
  • 1484 - Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope
  • 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade
  • 1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia
  • 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom
  • 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
  • 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens
  • 1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
  • 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
  • 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
  • 1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
  • 1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded.
  • 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers
  • 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
  • 1930 - the last 36 remaining inhabitants of Saint Kilda left forever
  • 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
  • 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
  • 1949 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
  • 1952 - Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York
  • 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • 1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
  • 1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
  • 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
  • 1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
  • 1996 - A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard
  • 1997 - At least 98 villagers killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria
  • 1997 - Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims.
  • 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
  • 2004 - End of the 2004 Summer Olympics