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2006 Calendar
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[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1418)
  • 1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer (b. 1632)
  • 1820 - Stephen Decatur, sailor (b. 1779)
  • 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and poet (b. 1749)
  • 1842 - Stendhal, French author
  • 1896 - Thomas Hughes, novelist (b. 1822)
  • 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, founder of the KMT (b. 1882)
  • 1945 - John Hessin Clarke, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1857)
  • 1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
  • 1958 - Michael Todd, Academy Award winning film producer
  • 1978 - Karl Wallenda, acrobat (The Flying Wallendas)
  • 1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, hall of fame track coach (b. 1915)
  • 1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor
  • 1987 - Joan Shawlee, American actress
  • 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer
  • 1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
  • 1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, record producer
  • 1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
  • 2001 - William Hanna, animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio
  • 2003 - Terry Lloyd, reporter
  • 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas (b. 1937)

[edit] Events

  • 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
  • 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
  • 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
  • 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
  • 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
  • 1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
  • 1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
  • 1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • 1888 - The Football League is formed.
  • 1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
  • 1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
  • 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
  • 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
  • 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
  • 1954 - Closed since 1939, the London gold market reopens.
  • 1958 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia.
  • 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
  • 1963 Please Please Me first Beatles album released in the UK
  • 1965 - Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
  • 1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
  • 1975 - In Stockholm, Sweden, Teach-In wins the twentieth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Ding-a-dong."
  • 1978 - Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
  • 1989 - Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
  • 1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
  • 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
  • 1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
  • 2005 - Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's college basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.