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36 BC – Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor (d. 38 AD) 877 – Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943) 1512 – King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580) 1517 – Gioseffo Zarlino, composer 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616) 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588) 1573 – Ambrosius Metzger, composer 1573 – Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer 1597 – John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640) 1601 – Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter 1607 – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby 1612 – Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia 1614 – Nicolas Saboly, composer 1620 – Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief 1623 – Francois-Xavier de Laval 1633 – Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham) 1673 – Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716) 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758) 1734 – Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer 1734 – Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence) 1750 – Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06) 1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816) 1759 – Francois Devienne, composer 1778 – Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848) 1784 – Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer 1797 – Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony) 1798 – Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer 1802 – Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero 1804 – Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic 1810 – Daniel Ruggles, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 1812 – John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883 1813 – Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist 1817 – Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia) 1818 – William Raine Peck, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871 1820 – William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)

1931 – Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat 1932 – Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist 1932 – Rick Hall, country/R&B singer 1933 – Joseph D Early, (Rep-D-MA, 1975- ) 1933 – Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP (CDA) 1933 – Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss 1934 – Brian Bolus, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60′s) 1934 – James Franciscus, Clayton Mo, actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter) 1934 – Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist 1935 – Bojidar Dimov, composer 1935 – Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter) 1936 – Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night) 1937 – Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach) 1937 – Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud’s for You) 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, NYC, actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart Show) 1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor 1937 – Andre Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007) 1938 – Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta) 1938 – Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980- ) 1938 – James G Watt, Colo, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83) 1939 – Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter 1940 – Jessica Walter, Bkln NY, actress (Play Misty For Me, Amy Prentiss) 1940 – Stuart Margolin, Davenport Iowa, actor (Love American Style) 1941 – George S Mickelson, (Gov-SD) 1941 – Richard A Gephardt, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- ) 1941 – Sharon Miller, LPGA golfer 1942 – Derek Jarman, actor/director (Angelic Conversation, Edward II) 1942 – Gerald Chanberlain, rocker 1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress 1944 – Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet (For the Good Order) 1944 – Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog) 1944 – Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging 1944 – John Inverarity, cricketer (Australian batsman 1968-72) 1945 – Noah Creshevsky, composer 1946 – Glynn Turman, NYC, actor (Lew-Peyton Place, Manimal, Centennial) 1946 – Jonathan Banks, Wash DC, actor (Armed & Dangerous, Cold Steel)

1902 – Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982) 1902 – Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer 1902 – Julian H Steward, US anthropologist/professor 1903 – Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine) 1903 – Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling) 1904 – E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/ARP-alderman/co-founder (Trouw) 1905 – Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend) 1905 – John O’Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist (Appointment at Samarra) 1906 – Benjamin Frankel, composer 1906 – R W Bonham, founder (International Braille Chess Association) 1908 – Ren Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934) 1909 – Foley Newns, British colonial administrator 1909 – Miron Grindea, literary editor 1910 – Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society) 1911 – A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford) 1911 – Christina Foyle, book seller 1911 – Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981) 1913 – Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers) 1913 – Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer 1913 – Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins) 1914 – Carey Lofton, Blountsville Fla, actor (Skinner-Troubleshooters) 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52) 1914 – Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith 1914 – Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure

314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1848 – John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University. 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

1891 – The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto. 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia 1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. 1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore. 1943 – German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II’s fiercest battles. 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby’s Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. 1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. 1946 – Yugoslavia’s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands. 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan. 1990 – The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

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