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1040 Ladislaus I, Árpád dynasty King of Hungary (1077-95), and King of Croatia (1091-95), and Roman Catholic saint, born in Kraków, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1095)
1350 Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425) only Byzantine Emperor to visit England, born in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (d. 1425)

King of France (1498-1515) and King of Naples (1501-04) known as the Just, born in Château de Blois, France

King of France (1560-74), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

1615 Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter, born in Innsbruck, Austria (d. 1674)
1696 William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier, born in Kittery, Maine (d. 1759)
1717 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, born in Paris (d. 1799)
1718 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1763)
1745 Johann Nepomuk Went, Bohemian composer, born in Vinařice, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1801)
1787 Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1834)
1789 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, born in Weinstadt, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1860)
1805 Stephen Elvey, British organist and choir master (New College, Oxford 1830-60), and hymn composer, born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1860)
1806 Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer, born in Besançon, France (d. 1883)
1809 François Certain Canrobert, French marshal and parliament member, born in Saint-Céré, France (d. 1895)
1812 John Pike Hullah, English composer, born in Worcester, England (d. 1884)
1819 Carl Albert Löschhorn, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1905)
1821 August Conradi, German organist and composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1873)
1821 John Chivington, American officer involved in the Sand Creek Massacre, born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1894)
1828 Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Halifax, North Carolina (d. 1864)
1833 Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, born in Dunajowce, Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1902)
1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Indian novelist (Anandamath), born in Naihati, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1894)
1838 Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1914)

Scottish golfer (British Open 1877-79), born in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland

1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, English-Irish Home Rule Party leader, born in Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland (d. 1891)
1849 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, American cosmetics manufacturer and columnist, born in Chicago (d. 1903)
1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (Under the Yoke), born in Sopot, Bulgaria (d. 1921)
1850 Jacob Adolf Hägg, Swedish composer, born in Östergarn, Sweden (d. 1928)
1850 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (Gram–Schmidt process), born in Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1919)
1850 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan), born in Leucas, Greece (d. 1904)
1859 Mildred J. Hill, American composer and musician (“Happy Birthday To You”), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1916)
1862 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (“Hot Time in the Old Town”), born in Whitby, Ontario (d. 1938)

Russian-American anarchist, writer (Anarchism and Other Essays; Living My Life), publisher (Mother Earth), and feminist, born in Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) [1]

1869 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1941)
1869 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, born in Oakland, California (d. 1961)

American poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory), born in Dayton, Ohio

1878 Jean François van Royen, Dutch graphic designer, bibliophile, and Secretary-General of Dutch PTT (Post, Telephone & Telegraph), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1942)

American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama

1882 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1963)
1884 Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (Rebecca, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford), born in Cork, Ireland (d. 1945)
1884 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu), born in Bar-sur-Aube, France (d. 1962)
1885 Artúr Harmat, Hungarian composer, born in Bojná, Hungary (d. 1962)
1886 Charles Macartney, Australian cricket all-rounder (35 Tests, 2,131 runs @ 41.78, 7 x 100s, 45 wickets), born in West Maitland, Australia (d. 1958)
1888 Antoinette Perry, American stage actress, theater director, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, and namesake of the Tony Award, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1946)
1888 Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland (d. 1960)
1889 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1967)
1889 Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1954)
1892 Paul Colin, French poster designer, born in Nancy, France (d. 1985)
1898 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), born in Kasli, Russia (d. 1991)
1898 Henry Gurney, British colonial administrator (High Commissioner to Malaya, 1948-51), assassinated by communist insurgents, born in Poughill, Cornwall, England (d. 1951)
1898 Tibor Harsányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor who settled Paris, France, born in Magyarkanizsa, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1954)
1899 Juan Trippe, American airline pioneer and entrepreneur (Pan Am founder), born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1981)
1900 Otto Passman, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (1947-77), born in Franklinton, Washington Parish Louisiana (d. 1988)
1905 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American teacher who taught for 50 years in one-room schoolhouse in South Carolina, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1992)
1906 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), born in Jarrow, Durham, England (d. 1998)
1906 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), born in Maesteg, Wales (d. 1967)
1907 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1991)
1907 Valerie Cossart, British actress (Hartmans), born in London, England (d. 1994)
1908 David Davis, British radio broadcaster (BBC Children’s Hour), born in Malvern, Worcestershire, England (d. 1996)
1908 Hans de Jong, Dutch conductor (De Damrakkertjes; Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), born in Netherlands (d. 1994)
1908 João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), born in Cordisburgo, Brazil (d. 1967)
1910 Karel Reiner, Czech pianist, composer, and Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor, born in Žatec, Bohemia (d. 1979)
1910 Lester “Shad” Collins, American jazz trumpet player, composer and arranger (Chick Webb; Lester Young: Cab Calloway), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1978)
1911 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3-year-old who drowned on Lusitania, born in New York City (d. 1915)
1911 V. K. Narayana Menon, Indian classical dance scholar, born in Kerala, British India (d. 1997)
1912 Audrey Christie, American actress (Splendor in the Grass, Fair Exchange), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989)
1913 Philip Guston, Canadian-American abstract painter, muralist, and printmaker (To Fellini), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 Willie Mosconi, American pool player (World C’ship pocket billiards 1941-57), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
1914 Alexander Pola [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor and writer (Cassata), born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1992)
1914 Giorgio Almirante, Italian fascist and MP (1948-87), born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (d. 1988)
1914 Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (co-founding the Inland Waterways Association), born in London (d. 1981)
1915 Grace Lee Boggs (née Grace Chin Lee), American philosopher, author (The Next American Revolution), civil rights activist and feminist, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2015)
1916 Arthur Walter Lucas, first Chief Restorer of the National Gallery, London, born in London (d. 1996)
1916 Hallvard Johnsen, Norwegian flautist, and composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 2003)
1916 Robert Normann, Norwegian jazz guitar pioneer, accordionist, and composer, born in Borge, Østfold, Norway (d. 1998)
1917 K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48), born in Bombay, India (d. 1984)
1917 Ron Hayward, English politician, General Secretary of the Labour Party, born in Chipping Sodbury, Oxfordshire (d. 1996)
1918 Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m backstroke 1936), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
1920 I. A. L. Diamond, Hollywood screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment), born in Ungheni, Basarabia (d. 1988)
1921 Muriel Pavlow, British actress (Murder, She Said, Reach for the Sky), born in Lewisham, London (d. 2019)
1922 George Theophilus Walker, African-American pianist, composer and teacher (Lilacs; In Praise Of Folly), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2018)
1922 Herbert Ziergiebel, German writer, born in Nordhorn, Germany (d. 1988)
1923 Elmo Hope, American bebop jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, born in New York City (d. 1967)
1924 Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career), born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (d. 2015)
1924 Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian writer (Nyamekye), born in Cape Coast, Ghana (d. 1996)
1924 Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 2010)
1925 Doc Pomus [Jerome Solon Felder], American blues singer and songwriter (“Save the Last Dance For Me”; “His Latest Flame”; “Viva Las Vegas”), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1991)
1927 Bob Keeshan, American actor (Captain Kangaroo; Howdy Doody, 1948-52 – “Clarabell”), and television producer, born in Lynbrook, New York (d. 2004)
1927 David Hobman, British elder rights activist and first director of Age Concern England, born in England (d. 2003) [1]
1927 Johnny “Big Moose” Walker, American electric and Chicago blues pianist, organist, and bass guitar player (Muddy Waters; Junior Wells; Elmore James), born in Stoneville, Mississippi (d. 1999)
1927 Robert Casey, American actor (Aldrich Family Show – “Henry”; What to Do on a Date), born in Rochester, New York
1928 Rudy Perpich, American politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, born in Carson Lake, Minnesota (d. 1995)
1929 Dick the Bruiser [William Fritz Afflis], American professional wrestler, born in Delphi, Indiana (d. 1991)

American businessman (Electronic Data Systems, Perot Systems), billionaire and presidential candidate (1992, 1996), born in Texarkana, Texas

1930 Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 67.5kg 1952, 82.5kg 1956; silver 75kg 1960; World C’ship gold x 6), born in Sacramento, California (d. 2016)
1931 Alojz Srebotnjak, Slovenian composer, born in Postojna, Slovenia (d. 2010)
1931 Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos) and philanthropist, born in Montreal, Quebec
1931 Eddie Kasko, American baseball infielder (MLB All Star 1961, 1961²; Cincinnati Reds) and manager (Boston Red Sox), born in Linden, New Jersey (d. 2020)
1931 Grant Weatherstone, Scotland rugby union winger (16 caps;
Edinburgh District), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2020)
1931 Ryszard Kwiatkowski, Polish composer (Polyphonic Music), born in Jaranów, Włocławek, Poland (d. 1993)
1932 Anna Moffo, American soprano (Adventurers), born in Wayne, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)
1932 Hugh Wood, British composer (Song Cycle to Poems of Pablo Neruda), born in Parbold, Lancashire, England (d. 2021)
1932 Joachim Wohlgemuth, German writer, born in Prenzlau, Germany (d. 1996)
1932 Magali Noël [Guiffray], French actress and singer, born in Izmir, Turkey (d. 2015)
1935 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, born in Poltava, Ukraine (d. 1994)
1935 Laurent Terzieff, French actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France (d. 2010)
1935 Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor, born in San Juan, Rizal, Philippines (d. 2007)
1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2011)
1936 Lucille Clifton, American poet (Two-Headed Woman), born in Depew, New York (d. 2010)
1937 Joseph P. Allen, American NASA astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), born in Crawfordsville, Indiana
1938 Bruce Babbitt, American attorney and politician (47th United States Secretary of the Interior), born in Flagstaff, Arizona
1938 Gordon Rorke, Australian cricketer (Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50’s), born in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
1938 Jake Crouthamel, American football halfback (Boston Patriots), coach (Dartmouth College 1971-77) and administrator (AD Syracuse University 1978–2005), born in Perkasie, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
1938 Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress (Alice-Alice in Wonderland), born in London
1938 Shirley Anne Field, English actress (Beat Girl, Kings of the Sun), born in Forest Gate, London
1938 Tommy Cannon [Derbyshire], English comedian and singer (“Cannon and Ball”), born in Oldham, Lancashire, England
1939 Neil Hawke, Australian cricket fast bowler (27 Tests, 91 wickets; South Australia CA), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2000)
1939 R. D. Burman, Indian film score composer (1942: A Love Story), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1994)
1941 Fevzi Zemzem, Turkish soccer striker (18 caps; AS Göztepe 356 games) and manager (Orduspor), born in İskenderun, Turkey (d. 2022)
1941 James P. Hogan, British sci-fi author (Giants’ Star), born in London (d. 2010)
1941 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (The Double Life of Veronique), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1996)
1942 Bruce Johnston [Benjamin Baldwin], American singer (The Beach Boys), songwriter (“I Write The Songs”), and record producer, born in Peoria, Illinois
1942 Frank Mills, Canadian pianist, composer and arranger (Music Box Dancer), born in Montreal, Quebec
1942 John Howard McGuire, American composer, born in Artesia, California
1943 Harm Ottenbros, Dutch bicycle racer (World C’ships gold men’s road race 1969), born in Alkmaar, Netherlands (d. 2022)
1943 Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress (Offshore), born in Oslo, Norway
1943 Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 Kees [Cornelis Johannes] Ouwens, Dutch writer and poet (Intimate Acts), born in Zeist, Netherlands (d. 2004)
1944 Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist, 1K time trial (Olympic gold 1964), born in Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium
1944 Will Jennings, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist (Celine Dion – “My Heart Will Go On”; Steve Winwood – “Higher Love”; Eric Clapton – “Tears in Heaven”), born in Kilgore, Texas (d. 2024)
1945 Catherine Lacoste, French golfer (US Women’s Open 1967), born in Paris, France
1945 Joel Revzen, American opera conductor and pianist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
1945 Joey Covington [Michno], American drummer (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
1945 John M. Veitch, American thoroughbred horse trainer (Breeders’ Cup Classic 1985 [Proud Truth]; Alydar; National Museum of Racing HOF), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 2023)
1945 Norma Kamali, American dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz), born in New York City
1945 Omar Badsha, South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist, born in Durban, South Africa
1946 Daria Semegen, German-American electro-acoustic and classical composer, and educator, born in Bamberg, West Germany [1]
1946 Janice Giteck, American composer (Thunder; Like a White Bear Dancing), born in New York
1946 Sally Priesand, 1st U.S. woman rabbi, born in Cleveland, Ohio
1947 Jim Fuller, American “Godfather of surf guitar” and songwriter (The Surfaris – “Wipe Out”), born in Monrovia, California (d. 2017)
1948 Angel Penna Jr., horse trainer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1948 Bill Summers, American jazz, fusion, and Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist and conguero (Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters; Sonny Rollins; Quincy Jones), born in Detroit, Michigan
1948 Camile Baudoin, American guitarist (The Radiators), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1949 Vera Wang, American fashion designer (Vera Wang Fashions), born in New York City
1950 Ben Peterson, American freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 90kg 1972), born in Barron County, Wisconsin
1951 Gilson Lavis, British session and touring rock drummer (Squeeze; Jools Holland), born in Bedford, England
1951 Julia Duffy [Hinds], American actress (Newhart – “Stephanie”; Designing Woman, 1991-92 – “Allison”; Baby Talk), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
1951 Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland (1997-2011), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1951 Sidney M. Gutierrez, Mjr USAF and NASA astronaut (STS 40, 59), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1951 Ulf Andersson, Swedish International Chess Grandmaster (1972), born in Västerås, Sweden
1952 Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)), born in Taplejung, Nepal (d. 1993)
1953 Kent Bostick, American pursuit cyclist (Olympics-84, 96), born in Lowell, Massachusetts
1955 Isabelle Adjani, French actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar), born in Paris, France
1955 Sam Tshabalala, South African guitarist, and composer (The Malopoets; Sabeka), born in South Africa
1956 Brad Childress, American collegiate and professional football coach, born in Aurora, Illinois
1956 Jeff Odintz, American horse trainer, born in Brooklyn, New York City
1956 Ted Haggard, American disgraced evangelical preacher (New Life Church, Colorado), born in Yorktown, Indiana
1958 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer and songwriter (The Gun Club), born in Montebello, California (d. 1996)
1958 Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Geek the Girl), born in Mishawaka, Indiana
1958 Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer, born in Helsinki, Finland
1958 Robert Newman, American actor (Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light), born in Los Angeles, California
1959 Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer (The Death of Superman), born in Ortonville, Minnesota

1959 Khadja Nin, Burundian Afro-pop singer (Sambolera), born in Usumbura, Kingdom of Burundi
1959 Lorrie Morgan, American country singer (Out of Your Shoes), born in Nashville, Tennessee
1960 Brian Dillinger, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs), born in Brooklyn, New York
1960 Jim Nussle, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (2003-07), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1961 Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress (Goodness Gracious Me), born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
1961 Tim Whitnall, English actor (Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story), born in Canvey Island, Essex, England
1962 Michael Ball, British pop and theatrical singer and actor, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
1962 Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chinese actor (In the Mood for Love), born in Hong Kong
1963 Johnny Benson Jr., American NASCAR driver, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
1963 Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer, born in Melbourne, Australia
1964 Chuck Person, American NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs), born in Brantley, Alabama
1964 James Sanders, American classical, and jazz violinist, and educator, born in Chicago, Illinois
1964 Michel Bénébig, New Caledonian jazz Hammond B-3 organ, and accordion player, born in Nouméa City, New Calédonia
1964 Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director, born in Doorwerth, Netherlands
1966 Giambattista Valli, Italian fashion designer, born in Rome, Italy

1966 American writer, producer and director (Lost, Star Wars: the Force Awakens), born in New York City

1966 Jeff Conine, American MLB outfielder (Florida Marlins), born in Tacoma, Washington
1966 Mercedes Paz, Argentine tennis star (1990 Strasbourg), born in Tucumán, Argentina
1966 Rob Harbison, American 3×40 rifle shooter (Olympic 6th 1996), born in Fallston, Maryland
1967 Lester Archambeau, American NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons), born in Montville, New Jersey
1967 Michelle Torres, American tennis star, born in Chicago, Illinois
1968 Pascale Bussières, French Canadian actress (Blanche), born in Montreal, Quebec
1970 Jim Edmonds, American MLB baseball outfielder, 1993-2010, 4X All-Star, 8X Gold Glove (California/Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, and 4 other teams), born in Fullerton, California
1970 Petra Langrová, tennis star (1995 Palermo doubles), born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia
1971 Brant Boyer, American football linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Ogden, Utah
1971 Jo Frost, British television personality (Supernanny), born in London, England
1971 Yancey Arias, American actor (Kingpin, Thief), born in New York City
1973 Heath Irwin, American football guard (New England Patriots), born in Boulder, Colorado
1973 Jennifer Brundage, American softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Orange, California
1974 Christian Kane, American actor (Leverage, The Librarians), born in Dallas, Texas
1975 Ace Darling [Michael Maraldo], American professional wrestler, born in Wildwood, New Jersey
1975 Bianca del Rio [Roy Haylock], American drag queen, comedian, actor and costume designer (RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 winner), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1975 Porter Collins, American rower (World C’ship gold 1995 M4+, 1998-99 M8+), born in New York City

1975 American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California

1976 Johnny Estrada, American baseball player, born in Hayward, California
1976 Leigh Nash, American pop singer and songwriter (Sixpence None The Richer -“Kiss Me”), born in New Braunfels, Texas
1977 Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer (Veendam), born in Gniezno, Poland
1977 Raúl, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid), born in Madrid, Spain

Cabrillo Departs

1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad on the first European voyage to explore the west coast of North America for the Spanish Empire

1552 Cathedral Church of Charcas established in Charcas, Spanish Empire (later La Plata, now Sucre, Bolivia) [1]
1580 Duke of Alva’s army occupies Portugal
1598 Disastrous Dutch expedition to find new spice routes and harass Spanish territories leaves Rotterdam, only one of the five ships with just 36 crew ever return [1]
1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1693 First Sea Battle of Lagos: French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeats an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke
1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king

Battle of Poltava

1709 Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Charles goes into exile in Bender, Ottoman Empire

1743 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

Bonnie Prince Charlie Slips Away

1746 Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye

1756 French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca

Siege of Quebec

1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure

Louis XVI Orders Meeting

1789 French Revolution: King Louis XVI orders the nobility and clergy of the Estates-General to meet with the Third Estate, by then called the National Assembly

1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
1847 New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires
1857 Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the siege of Cawnpore

Donnelly Freud Intensifies

1857 James Donnelly becomes engaged in a drunken brawl with Patrick Farrell, who suffers a fatal blow to the head. Farrell dies two days later, which makes James Donnelly a wanted man and draws the Donnelly family into the notorious feud

1860 First running of the Queen’s Plate at Toronto’s Carleton Track – North America’s oldest continuously run horse race [1]
1862 -28] Battle at Garnett’s/Golding’s Farms, Virginia
1862 Battle of Gaines’s Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
1863 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

1864 US Civil War: Atlanta Campaign – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Union General Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defense

1864 US Civil War: Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Colonel Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defensive lin
1867 Bank of California opens doors
1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin “Nunc” Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England

1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)

Majors and Minors

1896 Review of Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s second book, “Majors and Minors” by William Dean Howells in “Harper’s Weekly” brings the poet to national attention

1898 Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, completing the 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe

1905 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is established at “The “Continental Congress of the Working Class” in Chicago, Illinois; members include representatives of the Socialist Labor Party/Socialist Trades & Labor Alliance, Socialist Party of America, Western Federation of Miners and the International Working People’s Association
1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship “Potemkin” and sail for Odessa
1906 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]

Johnson vs Moran

1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal heavyweight boxing title

1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription

Greece Joins the Allies

1917 Eleftherios Venizelos takes over as Prime Minister of Greece and severs relations with Central Powers, bringing Greece onside with the Allies in WWI

1918 Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle sunk by German U-boat off southern Ireland – only 24 of 258 people on board survive (U-boat officers later charged with war crimes) [1]
1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane

1929 First color television demonstration is performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
1929 German President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay the German reparation debt of WWI
1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 Danno O’Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Bees, 2-2 in 23 innings; called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes
1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania

1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar, using Sunday as a rest day, after 6 years using a Russian six-day calendar

1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY’s Long Island
1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
1947 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 “Captain Video & His Video Rangers” debut on DUMONT-TV – Television’s first sci-fi series

US Enters Korean War

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, causing the UN to ask member states to aid South Korea. Harry Truman orders the US Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.

1950 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

Guatemalan Government Overthrown

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala and force President Jacobo Árbenz to resign

1954 First nuclear power station opens, in Obninsk near Moscow, Russia
1954 Hungary beats Brazil, 4-2 in the “Battle of Berne” as FIFA World Cup quarter-final descends into an all-out brawl with 3 players sent-off; fighting continues in dressing rooms after final whistle
1955 “Julius LaRosa Show” debuts on CBS-TV
1955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted, in Illinois
1956 MLB Cleveland Indians trailing Baltimore Orioles 9-1, come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1958 Billy Pierce’s perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 Chlorophyll “A” synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Election of Interest

1960 Joseph Kasa-Vubu is sworn in as the 1st President of the Republic of the Congo after being elected by the two chambers of Parliament

1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1961 Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
1962 Dutch soccer clubs Rapid JC and Roda Sports merge to form Roda JC Kerkrade; KNVB Cup winners 1996–97, 1999–2000
1962 In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president’s power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders

1963 Billy J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon-McCartney song “I Call Your Name”
1963 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but teammate centerfielder Tony Gonzalez’s error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games

1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth, flying in X-15 rocket powered aircraft, reaches altitude 285,000 feet (86,868 meters)
1964 “Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)” by Die Beatles peaks at #97
1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 World’s first ATM is installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London
1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes “Manifest of 2000 words” in Prague

1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match

Music History

1970 Festival Express opens in Toronto, Canada – The Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Flying Burrito Bros, Buddy Guy, Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends cross Canada together by train, for 5 shows in 3 cities

1970 Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists
1971 Bill Graham’s New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco

Film & TV History

1972 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California

Live & Let Die

1973 “Live & Let Die”, 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US

1973 John Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon’s “enemies list”
1973 Uruguayan president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and heads a coup d’état – beginning of the civic-military dictatorship
1974 American TV variety program “The Flip Wilson Show” last airs on NBC-TV, after 4 seasons, winning 2 Emmy Awards
1974 US President Nixon visits USSR
1976 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers, members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
1976 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France

1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

Sports History

1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn’t)

1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
1980 Dodgers’ Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1980 US revives draft registration

Assassination Attempt

1981 Ali Khamenei narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, when a bomb concealed in a tape recorder, explodes on a desk in front of him

1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
1981 Pamela Jenks, aged 21, is crowned the 14th Miss Black America
1982 “Play Me a Country Song” opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) launches
1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds – Joan Miro
1983 Maxie Anderson and Don Ida, American balloonists, die during a crash landing in endurance race in Schweinfurt, West Germany
1983 MLB Seattle Mariners bat out of order against Chicago White Sox in 2nd inning
1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 Fire destroys a set in “A View to a Kill”
1984 Late Night’s 1st Tower Drop
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 First hotel strike in New York City
1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica) is decommissioned
1986 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break

Event of Interest

1986 Ibrahim Babangida‘s regime in Nigeria launches the ‘Structural Adjustment Program” to restructure the Nigerian economy via deregulation and privatization with the support of the IMF and the World Bank

1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 South African Journalist and founder of the ‘New Nation’ newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
1986 US informs New Zealand it will no longer defend NZ against attack due to its nuclear-free policy
1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 “The Living Daylights”, 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres in London
1987 In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed

Boxing Title Fight

1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)

1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning

Contract of Interest

1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A’s contract

1990 NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets

Event of Interest

1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help earthquake victims in the country

1992 Dan O’Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief

Music History

1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song “It’s Not Easy Being Green” to President Clinton

1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
1994 Aerosmith is the first major band to let fans download a full new track for free from the internet
1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1995 Holland’s debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
1995 Mason City Iowa’s TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
1995 William Alford, an engineer for rival radio station WMMS, is sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $1,000 for cutting the feed during Howard Stern’s live broadcast from Cleveland
1998 Kuala Lumpur International Airport opens in Malaysia
1998 NHL Draft: Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) center Vincent Lecavalier first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning
1999 ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with “9pm, Till I Come”
1999 The Chemical Brothers go #1 on the UK album chart with ‘Surrender’, their second #1 album

Sports History

1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a “900”, (a 2-½ revolution aerial spin), at the X Games in San Francisco, California

2001 NBA Draft: Glynn Academy center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards

Beatification

2001 Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.

2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 “Bad Day” single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)

Event of Interest

2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.

2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Event of Interest

2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2009 The Tower of Hercules in northern Spain – only preserved Roman lighthouse still in use is inscribed as a World Heritage Site [1]
2013 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
2013 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia
2014 NHL Coyotes franchise changes geographic name from “Phoenix” to “Arizona” after change of ownership
2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
2017 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize

Event of Interest

2017 Colombia’s rebel group FARC officially end armed existence after 52 years in ceremony with President Juan Manuel Santos in Mesetas

2017 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices

2017 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries

Sports History

2017 Tennis star Serena Williams poses pregnant and nude for the cover of “Vanity Fair”

2018 Complex carbon-based molecules found by Cassini spacecraft on Saturn moon Enceladus, previously only ever found on earth and meteorites in research published in “Nature”

Election of Interest

2018 Democrat Representative Joseph Crowley is defeated in New York Primary election by liberal challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

2018 French government introduces plan to bring back national service for 16 year-olds
2018 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu

Event of Interest

2018 Malaysian police announce seizure of goods linked to former prime minister Najib Razak, worth $273 million, biggest in the country’s history, including 567 handbags and 14 tiaras

2018 President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former Vice President Riek MacharSouth sign peace deal to end four-year civil war

Event of Interest

2018 US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces he will retire on July 31

2019 Chief Apple designer Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years
2019 US Supreme Court rules 2020 census cannot contain a question about citizenship in a 5-4 ruling
2019 US Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn’t prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries
2020 Ireland’s coalition government appoints Micheál Martin as Prime Minister after four months of negotiations
2020 Locust invasion labelled ‘Swarmageddon’ by The Times of India as it reaches Delhi
2021 Boat sinks off Tunisia, drowning 43 migrants with 84 rescued by Tunisian navy [1]
2021 Heat dome envelops the Pacific Northwest with Portland posting highest temperature since records began of 112 F (broken the next day)
2021 Hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada at 46.6 C (116 F) in Lytton, British Columbia (breaks record 2 days later with 49.6 C)
2022 51 migrants die after being found inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas in extreme heat, with 16 people hospitalized [1]
2022 First rocket launch in Australia for 25 years and NASA’s first commercial spaceport outside the US for sub-orbital rocket from Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory [1]
2022 Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping center in Kremenchuk, with 1000 people inside kills at least 13 [1]
2023 Archaeologists in Roman city of Pompeii uncover a “pizza” painting in a fresco from house next to a bakery (more likely flatbread as lacks essential ingredients tomatoes and mozzarella) [1]
2023 Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s last completed portrait “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) sells for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London – most expensive artwork sold at a European auction [1]
2023 French police officer shoots dead a 17-year old at a traffic stop in Paris, prompting a wave of violent protests across the country [1]

Seacrest to Host Wheel of Fortune

2023 Ryan Seacrest announced as the new host of “Wheel of Fortune”, to replace long-time host Pat Sajak in 2024 [1]

2023 US Supreme Court rejects the “independent state legislature” theory that would have given state legislatures power to set rules for federal elections and draw congressional maps [1]

Biden Debates Trump

2024 First debate between presumptive US presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump, hosted by CNN, raises fears about Biden as he appears to stumble with his words [1]

Event of Interest

2025 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: The 1975, Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo headline; other performers include Rod Stewart, The Script, Nile Rodgers & Chic; Charli XCX, John Fogerty, and The Searchers