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1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)

1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)

1942 – Michel Forget, French Canadian actor

1910 – Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)

1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer

1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)

1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)

1745 – Silverius Muller, composer

1913 – Frank Allaun, British MP (L)

1913 – Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)

1947 – Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)

1784 – Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)

1917 – John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade

1919 – Lawrence Durrell, writer

1950 – Franco Moschino, fashion Designer

1950 – Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi

1920 – Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)

1822 – Eugene Gautier, composer

1823 – Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1823 – William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903

1952 – Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)

1831 – Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)

1954 – Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)

1923 – Viktor Kalabis, composer

1924 – M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland

1955 – Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director

1846 – Joaquin Valverde, composer

1847 – Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)

1925 – Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer

1925 – Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)

1926 – Peter Emery, British MP

1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1927 – Guy Mitchell, [Al Cernick], Detroit Mich, rocker/actor (Red Garters)

1960 – Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)

1927 – Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)

1960 – Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)

1874 – Max Ettinger, composer

1961 – Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)

1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer

1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)

1881 – Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician

1962 – Kory Tarpenning, Portland Oregon, pole vaulter

1962 – Veronica Ribot-Canales, Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96)

1963 – Francesco Cancellotti, Italy, tennis star

1888 – Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)

1964 – April Heinrichs, Littleton Colo, US women’s soccer coach (Olympic-96)

1888 – Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)

1932 – Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)

1965 – Sandra Cecchini, Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles)

1891 – Georges E Migot, French composer

1891 – Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)

1933 – Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977- )

1933 – Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)

1893 – Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)

1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor

1967 – Dallas Eakins, Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)

1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)

1967 – Robert Kron, Brno Cze, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)

1968 – Loy Vaught, NBA forward (LA Clippers)

1898 – Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)

1898 – Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer

1969 – Greg Stevenson, Sherbrooke Quebec, rower (Olympics-11-92, 96)

1936 – Timothy Spall, actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)

1969 – Robert Molenaar, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)

1899 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)

1969 – Willie Banks, US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)

1969 – Brad Vander Ark, American musician

1937 – L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)

1970 – Michael A. Burstein, American writer

1903 – Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)

1970 – Matthias Lechner, German art director

1939 – Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)

1971 – Ivan Robinson, Phila Pa, US boxer (Olympic-92)

1971 – Jaroslav Modry, Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)

1971 – Rich Tylski, guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars)

1971 – Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist

1971 – Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, American singer (TLC)

1973 – “Pooh” Clark, rocker (High-5)

1941 – Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat)

1906 – H Algernon F “Algy” Rumbold, English diplomat (S Africa/Tibet)

1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.

1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.

1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.

1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.

1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.

1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.

1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.

1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.

1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.

1902 – Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’ Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.

1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.

1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.

1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14

1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.

1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin

1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.

1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.

1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.

1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.

2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.

2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;

2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.

2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured.

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