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2007 Calendar
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[edit] Births

[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.