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1830 Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian pioneering dramatist (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon), dies of tuberculosis at 42
1844 Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1863 Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 74
1866 Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, French politician and historian, dies at 84
1870 Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69
1875 Friedrich Albert Lange, German philosopher and socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
1881 Ami Boué, French Huguenot geologist considered to be one of the first producers of a geological map of the world, dies at 87
1882 Sergey Nechayev, Russian Nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary), dies at 35
1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th VP, dies
1907 Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78
1907 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust’s early Tests), dies

Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), dies of pneumonia after catching a cold taking a walk at 86

1920 Caryl Florio [William James Robjohn], English-American composer, dies at 77
1922 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
1924 Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1925 Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (US Open 1893-94, 1896-97), dies at 52
1928 Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies
1932 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, dies at 68
1932 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies at 60
1938 Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer (Java Suite; Triakontameron; 53 Studies on Chopin’s Études), and pedagogue, dies of stomach cancer at 68
1940 Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies
1941 George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor, dies at 73
1941 Henrietta Vinton Davis, African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker, dies at 81
1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in Calif

1945 Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942), dies at 72
1945 Jimmy Quinn, Scottish soccer striker (11 caps; Celtic 272 games, 188 goals), dies at 67
1945 Robert Benchley, American humorist (My 10 years in a Quandary), dies at 56
1952 Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82
1952 William Green, American trade union leader and president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52), dies at 79
1953 Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), dies at 60
1954 Karol Rathaus, German-Austrian composer, dies at 59
1954 Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 69
1956 Jean Desmet, Dutch early film distributor and cinema owner dies at 80
1957 Francis Burton Harrison, American-Filipino statesman, Governor General of the Philippines (1913-21), dies at 83

American Baseball HOF right fielder and manager (12 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1933; 6 × NL home run leader; NY Giants), dies of injuries sustained in an auto accident at 49

American boxer (Undisputed world heavyweight champion 1934-35), dies of a heart attack at 50

1963 Artur Lemba, Estonian concert pianist, composer (Sabina), and piano teacher (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1908-20), dies at 67
1963 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61
1963 Pierre Blanchar, Algerian actor and director (Magnificent Sinner; Wooden Crosses; Pastoral Symphony), dies from a brain tumor at 71
1963 Robert Stroud, American murderer, convict, and ornithologist dubbed “Birdman of Alcatraz”, dies at 73
1967 C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1967 Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84
1969 Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
1969 Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and novelist (The Magic Pudding), dies at 90 [1]

1970 Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey (Montreal Canadiens) and lacrosse player, dies at 83
1972 Karel Haba, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 74
1973 Thomas Pelly, American politician, dies at 71
1974 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84
1975 Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (The Church on the Mountain), dies at 86
1976 Niles Welch, American actor (Cornered), dies at 88
1980 Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies
1981 Harry Von Zell, American radio announcer and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), dies of cancer at 75
1982 Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, Hungarian concert pianist, and second wife of composer Béla Bartók, dies at 79
1982 John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1982 Lee Patrick, American stage and screen actress (The Maltese Falcon; Topper (TV series) – “Henrietta”), dies of a heart attack at 80
1985 Ramnath Kenny, Indian cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies at 55
1986 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1986 Jerry Colonna, American actor (Jerry Colonna Show, Alice in Wonderland, Road to Singapore), dies at 82
1986 Marcelino Sánchez, Puerto Rican actor (The Warriors), dies of AIDS at 28
1987 Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79

1991 Daniel Mann [Chugerman], American stage and screen director (The Rose Tattoo; The Teahouse Of The August Moon; Butterfield 8), dies of heart failure at 79
1991 David “Sonny” Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
1991 Prior Jones, West Indian cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 25 wickets; Trinidad), dies at 74
1991 Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81
1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister and President of Laos (1975-91), dies at 71
1992 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies at 73

American actor, director and producer (Incredible Hulk; The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59

1993 Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59
1995 Dorothy Jeakins, American film and theatre costume designer (Samson and Delilah), dies at 81
1995 George Ivan Smith, ustralian radio correspondent, UN diplomat and spokesman, dies at 80
1995 Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1995 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
1995 Smilin’ Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71
1996 Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist (1979 Noble Prize for Physics – electroweak unification theory), dies at 70
1996 Bernard Rose, British organist, soldier, composer, and academic, dies at 80
1996 Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8), dies at 92
1997 Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies
1997 Robert Simpson, British classical composer, and broadcaster (BBC), dies at 76
1999 Alvin Cash [Welch], American pop singer (“Twine Time”; “The Philly Freeze”), and actor, dies of ulcer complications at 60
1999 Eddie Maxwell [Cherkose], American lyricist (Breathless) and actor, dies of natural causes at 87
1999 Quentin Crisp [Denis Charles Pratt], British author, actor, and raconteur (The Naked Civil Servant), dies at 90 [1] [2]
2000 Manfred Langer, Austrian-Dutch owner of the Amsterdam discotheque iT, dies of cancer at 42 [1] [2]
2001 Gardner McKay, American actor and author (Adventures in Paradise, Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles), dies at 69
2001 Robert Bly, American poet (Loving a Woman in Two Worlds), and writer (Iron John: A Book About Men), dies at 94 [1]
2001 Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2002 Norihito, Prince Takamado of Japan, dies from cardiac arrest at 47
2003 Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I’m on the Outside Looking In), dies at 68
2005 Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 Bill D’Angelo, American heavy metal guitarist (Femme Fatale, 1987-90), dies of a drug overdose at 43
2005 Hugh Sidey, American journalist (Life; Time), and author (Hugh Sidey’s Portraits of the Presidents), dies of an apparent heart attack at 78
2006 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist, dies at 91
2006 Věroslav Neumann, Czech composer and music educator, dies at 75
2007 Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (All About My Mother), dies at 86
2007 Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricket batsman (25 Tests, 1 x 100; Otago CA), dies at 75
2007 Tom Johnson, Canadian NHL ice hockey defenseman, 1947-65 (5 x Stanley Cups – Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), and executive (Bruins – 2 x Stanley Cups), dies of heart failure at 79
2009 Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1), dies at 83
2010 David Nolan, American political activist (b. 1943)
2010 José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado, Brazilian composer, dies at 67
2010 Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American visual artist and co-founder of DuSable Museum of African American History, dies at 95
2010 Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)

American sci-fi author, first woman to win a Hugo and Nebula Award (Dragonflight, Dragondrums), dies at 85 [1]

2011 Arghyris Kounadis, Greek composer of opera and film music (The Bewitched Music Stands), dies at 87
2013 Bernard Parmegiani, French composer (L’Oeil écoute – The Eye Listens), dies at 86
2013 Maurice Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler, dies at 84
2013 Vern Mikkelsen, American HOF basketball player, dies at 85
2014 Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist, researcher and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, dies at 84
2015 Bob Foster, American boxer (world light-heavyweight champion 1968-74), dies at 76
2015 Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican film, theater, television, and voice actor (El Vampiro), dies at 86
2015 Joseph Silverstein, American violinist, concertmaster and conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1955-84), dies of complications after a heart attack at 83 [1]
2015 Ken Johnson, American baseball pitcher (only pitcher to lose a complete game 9-inning no-hitter 1964), dies at 82
2017 David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family), dies at 67
2017 Rodney Bewes, English actor (The Likely Lads), dies at 79
2018 Devin Lima [Harold Lima], American singer (LFO), dies of cancer at 41
2019 Andrée Lachapelle, French-Canadian stage and screen actress (The Last Escape), dies via assisted suicide while suffering from cancer at 88
2019 Gahan Wilson, American author and cartoonist known as the “Michelangelo of the Macabre”, dies at 89 [1]
2020 Dena Dietrich, American actress (“Mother Nature” in Chiffon margarine commercials), dies at 91
2020 Ricky Yacobi, Indonesian soccer striker (31 caps; Arseto Solo, Matsushita), dies from a heart attack at 57
2021 Gordon Crosse, British contemporary classical composer (Grace of Todd; Purgatory; Changes), and educator, dies at 84
2022 Jeremy Lloyds, English cricket umpire (5 Tests, 18 ODIs, 1 T20I) and all-rounder (Somerset CCC, Orange Free State, Gloucestershire CCC), dies at 68
2022 Jürgen Nöldner, German soccer midfielder (30 caps East Germany; ASK Vorwärts Berlin 285 games) and journalist (Neue Fußballwoch, Kicker), dies at 81
2022 Kálmán Mészöly, Hungarian soccer defender (61 caps; Vasas SC 279 games) and manager (Hungary, Turkey, Fenerbahçe SK), dies at 81
2022 Wilko Johnson [John Wilkinson], British guitarist, singer and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood, 1971-77 – “She Does It Right”), dies of cancer at 75
2023 Chad Allan [Allan Kowbel], Canadian pop-rock singer and musician (The Expressions/The Guess Who, 1962-65; Brave Belt), and television personality, dies at 80 [1]
2023 Georges Perroud, Swiss soccer forward (18 caps; FC Sion, Servette FC), dies at 82
2023 Lothar Buchmann, German soccer manager (VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, Karlsruher SC), dies at 87
2024 Alice Brock, American restaurateur, visual artist, and inspiration for Arlo Guthrie’s song “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 [1] [2]
2024 Kathleen Wharton, New Zealand rugby league second-rower (14 Tests; NRLW NZ Warriors), dies at 41
2024 Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (14 Tests, BB 7/99; Pakistan railways CC, Punjab Uni CC), dies at 78

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French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide), born in Paris

1724 Jan Ekels the Elder, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1781)
1729 Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman (signed US Declaration of Independence), born in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1795)
1742 Alessandro Felici, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1772)
1768 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia (d. 1834)
1773 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (discovered ‘Brownian Motion’), born in Montrose, Scotland (d. 1858)

American surgeon and father of gastric physiology, born in Lebanon, Connecticut

1787 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-British shipping magnate and founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1865)
1817 Richard B. Garnett, American Confederate Brigadier General, born in Essex County, Virginia (d. 1863)
1824 Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1898)
1828 William McComb, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania (d. 1918)
1829 Petrus Augustus de Génestet, Dutch vicar and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1861)
1831 John Franklin Miller, American lawyer, businessman, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 1886)

American businesswoman and financier whose wealth and miserliness saw her known as the “Witch of Wall Street”, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts

1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, American attorney, diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1893)
1840 Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III, born in Buckingham Palace, London (d. 1901)
1851 Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian philosopher and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium (d. 1926)
1852 Francisco Tárrega, Spanish composer, born in Villarreal, Spain (d. 1909)
1853 Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt (1914-17), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1917)

Italian 258th Pope (1914-22), born in Pegli, Genoa, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia

1857 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (1898-1920), born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (d. 1924)

1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Cornish novelist and editor (The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900), born in Bodmin, Cornwall (d. 1944)
1865 Albert Ward, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 100, 3 x 50, HS 117; Yorkshire CCC), born in Leeds, England (d. 1939)
1867 Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian-American chemist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1952)
1870 Joe Darling, Australian cricket batsman and captain (34 Tests, 21 as captain; 3 x 100s, TS 178; South Australia CA), born in Glen Osmond, Australia (d. 1946)
1870 Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (4th President International Olympic Committee 1952-64), born in Morlanda, Sweden (d. 1964)
1870 Stanley Jackson, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 5 x 100, HS 144no, 24 wickets; Yorkshire CCC, Cambridge University CCC), born in Leeds, England (d. 1947)
1871 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian bandmaster, composer, pedagogue, and (with his son) Antarctic glacier namesake, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (d. 1942)
1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1921)
1877 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany (d. 1933)
1878 Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and jurist, born in Lübeck, GErmany (d. 1949)
1880 Franz Hessel, German writer (Spazieren in Berlin (Walking in Berlin), poet, and translator (Marcel Proust), born in Szczecin, Poland (d. 1941)
1881 Arthur Chesney [Kellaway], British stage and screen character actor (The Lodger; Chelsea Life), born in Wandsworth, London, England (d. 1949)
1886 Harold Nicolson, English diplomat and author (Good Behaviour), born in Tehran, Persian Empire (d. 1968)
1894 Corinne Griffith, American actress dubbed “The Orchid Lady of the Screen” (3 Hours, Lilies of Field), born in Texarkana, Texas (d. 1979)
1894 Max Miller [Thomas Henry Sargent], English comedian known as The Cheeky Chappie, born in Brighton, England (d. 1963)
1897 Mollie Steimer, American political prisoner and anarchist agitator, born in Dunaevtsy, Russia (d. 1980)
1898 René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (This is Not a Pipe), born in Lessines, Belgium (d. 1967)
1899 Jobyna Ralston, American actress (For Heaven’s Sake), born in South Pittsburg, Tennessee (d. 1967)
1900 Alice Calhoun, American silent film actress (Flowing Gold; Between Friends; Pampered Youth), and movie theater owner, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1966)
1902 Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio broadcaster (Hockey Night in Canada), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1985)
1902 Mikhail Suslov, Soviet statesman and party ideologist, born in Shakhovskoye, Russian Empire (d. 1982)
1904 Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician who virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz, born in St. Joseph, Missouri (d. 1969)
1905 David Moule-Evans, English composer and conductor, born in Ashford, Kent, England (d. 1988)
1905 Freddie Lindstrom, American Baseball Hall of Fame utility (New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1981)
1907 Charles Korvin [Geza Korvin Karpathi], Austrian actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools), born in Piestany, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
1907 Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln was Shot), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1987)
1907 M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1993)
1908 Elizabeth George Speare, American author (The Witch of Blackbird Pond), born in Melrose, Massachusetts (d. 1994)
1912 Anne Bolt, photo-journalist and trade unionist, born in London (d. 1996)
1912 Eleanor Powell, American stage and screen actress and tap dancer (Born to Dance, Broadway Melody films), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1982)
1913 Roy Boulting, British film director and producer (Desert Victory), born in Bray, Berkshire, Eng (d. 2001)
1916 Sid Luckman, American College-Pro Football HOF quarterback (Columbia University; 4 × NFL C’ship 1940, 41, 43, 46; NFL MVP 1943; 5 × First-team All-Pro; 3 × Pro Bowl; Chicago Bears), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1998)
1917 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1986)
1919 Eleanor Collins [Elnora Proctor], Canadian jazz and standards singer, and television personality, born in Edmonton, Alberta (d. 2024)
1919 Steve Brodie [John Stevenson], American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), born in El Dorado, Kansas (d. 1992)
1920 Ralph Meeker [Rathgeber], American actor (Mister Roberts, Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1988)

American Baseball HOF outfielder (24 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1942, 44, 46; NL MVP 1943, 46, 48; 7 × NL batting champion; St Louis Cardinals), born in Donora, Pennsylvania

1921 Vivian Blaine, American actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1995)
1922 Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (Oklahoma City Uni, Pan American Uni; NABC Coach of the Year 1978 Uni of Texas Austin), born in Ryan, Oklahoma (d. 2002)
1922 Maria Casares [Pérez], Spanish-French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice), born in A Coruña, Spain (d. 1996)
1924 Christopher Tolkien, British author and son of J. R. R. Tolkien, born in Leeds, England (d. 2020)
1924 Joseph Campanella, American character actor (Guiding Light, Mannix), born in New York City (d. 2018)
1924 Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1982-86), born in Drniš, Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
1925 Poncke Princen, Dutch anti-Nazi fighter, colonial soldier and human rights activist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2002)
1927 (Carlos) “Charlie” Palmieri, American salsa and charanga music bandleader, musical director, and piano player (Tito Puente; Alegre All-Stars), born in South Bronx, New York City (d. 1988)
1927 Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (co-owner Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams 1979–2008), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2008)
1929 Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator, born in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (d. 2012)
1929 Marilyn French, American author (The Women’s Room), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2009)
1931 Jim Ringo, American Pro Football HOF center (7 × First-team All-Pro; 10 × Pro Bowl; Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles) and coach (Buffalo Bills 1976–77), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 2007)
1931 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2003)
1931 Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (one of the founders of Quantum electrochemistry), born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1985)
1932 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (Symphony and Antiphony), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2016)
1933 Frank Brake, English entrepreneur (Brake Bros. Frozen Food), multi-millionaire, and philanthropist, born in Holborn. England (d. 2018)
1933 Henry Hartsfield Jr, American astronaut (STS-4; STS-41-D; STS-61-A), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2014)
1933 Jean Shepard, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee), born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma (d. 2016)
1934 Dietrich Weise, German soccer forward (Eintracht Frankfurt, FSV Mainz) and manager (FC Kaiserslautern, E Frankfurt, F Düsseldorf, Egypt, Liechtenstein), born in Gröben, Germany (d. 2020)
1934 Fairuz [Nouhad Haddad], Lebanese singer (“Habbaytak Bissayf”; “Bektob Ismak Ya Habibi”), born in Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut, State of Greater Lebanon
1934 Laurence Luckinbill, actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike), born in Fort Smith, Arkansas
1934 Peter Philpott, Australian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 26 wickets, best 5/90; NSW CA), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2021)
1935 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], American stage and screen actor (Cool Hand Luke; Illustrated Man; Our Private World), and theater director, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
1936 James DePreist, American conductor (Mitropoulos Prize, 1964, Oregon Symphony, 1980-2003), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
1936 Victor Chang, Australian pioneering cardiac surgeon, born in Shanghai, China (d. 1986)
1937 Marlo Thomas, American actress (That Girl; Jenny), and writer (Free to Be… You and Me), born in Detroit Michigan
1939 R. Budd Dwyer, American politician who committed suicide on TV, born in St. Charles, Missouri (d. 1987)
1939 Rick Lenz, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John), born in Springfield, Illinois
1940 Amelia Freedman, British music impresario and founder of the Nash Ensemble of London, born in London (d. 2025)
1940 Natalia Makarova, a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer (Kirov Ballet, 1956-70), born in Leningrad, USSR
1940 Richard Marcinko, American Navy Seal veteran and author, born in Lansford, Pennsylvania (d. 2021)
1940 Terry Dischinger, American College Basketball HOF guard (Purdue; 3 x NBA All-Star; NBA Rookie of the Year 1963 Baltimore Bullets; Detroit Pistons; Olympic gold 1960), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 2023)
1941 Andrew Love, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2012)
1941 David Porter, American producer, arranger and songwriter (“Soul Man”; “Hold On, I’m Coming”), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1941 İdil Biret, Turkish concert pianist, born in Ankara, Turkey
1941 Juliet Mills, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII), born in London, England
1942 Afa Anoaʻi, Samoan-American WWE HOF pro wrestler (The Wild Samoans(with brother Sika): WWF Tag Team C’ship x 3), born in Territory of Western Samoa (d. 2024)
1942 Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician of the Social Democratic Party, born in Frankfurt, Germany
1943 Jacques Laffite, French auto racer (6 x F1 wins, Ligier) and broadcaster (TF1), born in Paris, France
1943 Larry Mahan, American rodeo rider (PRCA All-Around Champion 1966–70, 73; ProRodeo Hall of Fame), born in Salem, Oregon (d. 2023)
1943 Orlando de la Torre, Peruvian soccer defender (39 caps; Sporting Cristal SA), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 2022)
1943 Phil Bredesen, American businessman and politician (D), 48th Governor of Tennessee (2003-11), born in Oceanport, New Jersey
1943 Robert Alner, British racehorse trainer (Cheltenham Gold Cup: Cool Dawn 1998), born in Droop, England (d. 2020)
1943 Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer (Olympic gold team sabre 1968, 76, 80; individual sabre 1972), born in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Russia
1944 Dick Durbin, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1983-97, Senator-D-IL, 1997-), born in East St. Louis, Illinois
1944 Earl “the Pearl” Monroe, American basketball HOF guard (4 x NBA All-Star; NBA C’ship 1973 NY Knicks; NBA Rookie of the Year 1968 Baltimore Bullets), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1944 Harold Ramis, American actor and director (SCTV, Stripes), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014)
1944 Marcy Carsey, American TV executive who produced “The Cosby Show” and “Roseanne”, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts

1945 American actress (The First Wives Club, Private Benjamin), born in Washington, D.C.

1946 Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress known for Flemish soap opera “Familie”, born in Dendermonde, Belgium
1946 Jónas Tómasson, Icelandic composer, teacher, and conductor, born in Ísafjörður, Westfjords, Iceland
1947 Steve Webber, American baseball college coach (University of Georgia 1981-96; NCAA C’ship 1990), born in Stockport, Iowa (d. 2022)
1948 Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz musician (Weather Report, Tenacious Records), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 2016)
1948 George Zimmer, American businessman (Men’s Warehouse), born in New York City
1948 John “Rabbit” Bundrick, American keyboardist and organist (The Who, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), born in Houston, Texas
1948 Leroy “Lonnie” Jordan, American rock keyboardist and vocalist (War – “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”), born in San Diego, California
1948 Mark Tulin, American psychedelic rock bassist (The Electric Prunes – “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
1949 Anatoliy Kuksov, Ukrainian soccer midfielder (8 caps USSR; FC Zorya Luhansk 489 games) and manager, born in Luhansk, Ukraine (d. 2022)
1949 Barbara Jo Rubin, American jockey (first women to win a race on a major US track), born in Highland, Illinois
1949 Basil Williams, West Indian cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 100s; century on debut 1978), born in Caymanas Estate, St Catherine, Jamaica (d. 2015)
1949 Judith Shatin, American contemporary classical and electronic composer (Hark My Love; Ice Becomes Water), and educator (University of Virginia), born in the USA
1949 Nickolas Grace, British stage and screen actor (Brideshead Revisited; Heat and Dust; Robin of Sherwood), born in West Kirby, Cheshire, England
1949 Travis Carter, auto race crew chief (NASCAR Winston Cup Series 1973, Daytona 500 1975 Benny Parsons) and team owner (TC Motorsports 1970-2003), born in Ellerbe, North Carolina (d. 2025)
1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete (Olympic gold 400/800m 1976; WR 800m 1:43.44), born in Santiago, Cuba
1950 Bruce Laird, Australian cricket batsman (21 Tests; 23 ODIs; 13 “Supertests” in World Series Cricket), born in Perth, Western Australia
1950 David Williams, American R&B, pop and rock session and touring guitarist (Michael Jackson; Madonna; Rod Stewart; Bryan Ferry), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 2009)
1950 Gary Pihl, American guitarist (Sammy Hagar), born in Chicago, Illinois
1950 Livingston Taylor, American singer-songwriter (“I Will Be In Love With You”), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1950 Marcia Resnick, American fine arts photographer known for her celebrity portraits, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2025) [1]
1950 Stephen Geyer, American guitarist, and film and television songwriter (Greatest American Hero; Blossom; The Wuzzles), born in Lima, Peru
1951 John Kennedy, American politician (Senator-R-Louisiana 2017-), born in Centreville, Mississippi
1952 Deborah Shelton, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double), born in Washington, D.C.
1952 Eamonn Coghlan, Irish athlete (World C’ship gold 1500m 1983), born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
1952 Lorna Luft, American singer and actress (Where the Boys Are-1980), born in Scarsdale, New York
1953 Asa Brebner, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Modern Lovers; The Chartbusters), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2019)
1953 Tina Brown, British journalist (New Yorker, Tattler), born in Maidenhead, United Kingdom
1954 Tom Rothman, American film executive, CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, born in Baltimore, Maryland
1955 Cedric Maxwell, American basketball small forward (NBA C’ship 1981 [MVP], 84 Boston Celtics; LA Clippers, Houston Rockets), born in Kinston, North Carolina
1955 Jacob Desvarieux, French zouk singer, and guitarist (Kassav’), born in Paris, France (d. 2021)
1956 Cherry Jones, American stage and TV actress (Doubt, 24), born in Paris, Tennessee
1956 Mariana Simionescu, Romanian tennis player (1st wife of Björn Borg), born in Tirgu Neamt, Romania
1956 Terri Welles [Knepper], American playboy model (Dec 1980, Playmate of the Year 1981), born in Santa Monica, California
1958 Tim Robinson, English cricketer (solid England opener in 29 Tests 1984-89), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England
1959 Tim Wilkison, American tennis player (6 ATP tiles), born in Shelby, North Carolina
1962 Sabine Busch, German athlete (World C’ship gold GDR 4 × 400m relay 1983, 87; 400m hurdles 1987), born in Erfurt, Germany
1962 Steven Curtis Chapman, American Dove Award-winning contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter, born in Paducah, Kentucky
1963 Nicollette Sheridan, British actress (Paige-Knots Landing), born in Worthing, England
1963 Peter Bosz, Dutch soccer midfielder (8 caps; Feyenoord 155 games) and manager (Vitesse, Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Lyon, PSV), born in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
1964 Liza Tarbuck, British actress (Watching), comedienne, and TVe and radio presenter, born in Liverpool, England
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent, Miss America (1991), born in Oak Park, Illinois
1964 Thomas Everett, American football safety (Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII; Pro Bowl 1993 Dallas Cowboys), born in Daingerfield, Texas
1965 Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-born British actor (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, “24”), born in Omdurman, Sudan

1965 Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love), born in Reykjavik, Iceland

1965 Ira Sachs, American screenwriter and director (Passages, Forty Shades of Blue), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1966 Troy Aikman, American College/Pro Football HOF quarterback (University of Oklahoma, UCLA; Super Bowl 1992 [MVP], 93, 95; 6 x Pro Bowl; Dallas Cowboys) and broadcaster (Fox, ESPN MNF), born in West Covina, California
1967 (Roy) “Tripp” Cromer, American MLB baseball infielder, 1993-2003 (St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers), born in Lake City, North Carolina
1967 Kelly Wearstler [Gallagher], American interior designer and Playboy playmate (Sep, 1994), born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
1967 Ken Block, American rally driver (Hoonigan Racing Division) and co-founder of DC Shoes, born in Long Beach, California (d. 2023)
1967 Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka (Olympic gold – 71kgs 1992; silver 1996), born in Kitashigeyasu, Saga, Japan (d. 2021)
1968 Alex James, English rock bassist (Blur – “Girls & Boys”, “Country House”), born in Boscombe, England
1968 Andy Caddick, English cricket fast bowler (62 Tests, 234 wickets; 54 ODIs, 69 wickets; Somerset), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
1968 Antonio Tarver, light heavyweight boxer (Olympics-br-96), born in Orlando, Florida
1968 Christopher Noxon, American journalist, born in Los Angeles, California
1968 Tamara Gorski, Canadian actress (Mrs, ‘Arris Goes to Paris), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

1969 American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (13 x MLB All Star, AL MVP 1997; 10 x Gold Glove; Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds), born in Donora, Pennsylvania

1970 Andrew Sean Greer, American writer (Less – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018), born in Washington D. C.
1970 Justin Langer, Australian cricket batsman (105 Tests, 23 x 100, HS 250; WACA, Middlesex CCC, Somerset CCC) and coach (Australia 2018-22), born in Perth, Australia
1970 Karen Davila, Filipina broadcast journalist, born in Manila, Philippines
1971 Dahlia Salem, American actress (Another World, General Hospital), born in Boston, Massachusett

1971 American Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end (7 x Pro Bowl; Super Bowl 2007; NY Giants) and broadcaster (Fox NFL Sunday, co-host ABC’s Good Morning America), born in Houston, Texas

1972 Rain Phoenix, Americanactor (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues), and singer, born in Crockett, Texas
1973 Brook Kerr, American actress (Passions, General Hospital), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1973 Inés Sastre, Spanish model and actress (The Lost City, El Dorado), born in Valladolid, Spain
1974 Tremain Mack, American NFL football strong safety, 1997-2000 (Cincinnati Bengals), born in Tyler, Texas
1975 Cherie Johnson, American actress (Punky Brewster – “Cherie”), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1975 Chris Moneymaker, American poker player, 1st person to win world championship through online qualifier (2003), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1976 Saleem Elahi, Pakistani cricket batsman (13 Tests, 1 x 50; Lahore City CC, Habib Bank Ltd CC), born in Sahiwal, Pakistan
1977 Bruno Berner, Swiss soccer left-back (16 caps; Grasshoppers, SC Freiburg, Leicester City) and manager (FC Winterthur, Grasshoppers), born in Zürich, Switzerland
1977 Myles Heskett, Australian rock drummer (Wolfmother, 2000-08), and soundtrack composer (500 Days of Summer), born in Sydney, Australia
1977 Tobias Sammet, German heavy metal singer-songwriter (Edguy; Avantasia), and radio host, born in Fulda, Germany
1977 Yolande James, Quebec politician, 1st black cabinet minister in Quebec, born in Montreal, Quebec
1978 Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress known for “Al salir de clase”, born in Segovia, Spain
1979 Kim Dong Wan, Korean K-pop and dance music singer (Shinhwa), and actor (A Farewell to Sorrow), born in Seoul, South Korea
1979 Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian soccer striker (40 caps; Udinese 176 games, Juventus), born in Cutro, Italy
1980 Danielle Hartsell, pairs skater (with partner Steve Hartsell), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
1980 Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress (The Sword and the Brocade, Can’t Buy Me Love), born in Hong Kong
1980 Hank Blalock, American MLB third baseman, 2002-10 (Texas Rangers), born in San Diego, California
1980 Leonardo González, Costa Rican soccer left-back (61 caps; CS Herediano 204 games, Seattle Sounders FC 133 games), born in San José, Costa Rica
1981 Jonny Magallón, Mexican soccer centre-back (54 caps; CD Guadalajara 194 games, Club León 126 games), born in Ocotlán, Mexico
1982 Aarti Chabria, Indian model, beauty queen (Miss India Worldwide, 1999), and Bollywood actress, born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
1982 Paul W. Downs, American producer, actor and writer, co-creator and showrunner of “Hacks”, born in New Jersey
1982 Ryan Starr [Tiffany Montgomery], American alt-rock singer (American Idol, 2002), born in Los Angeles, California
1983 Brie Bella, American pro wrestler, one half of The Bella Twins and reality TV star (Total Divas), born in San Diego, California
1983 Nikki Bella, American pro wrestler, one half of The Bella Twins and reality TV star (Total Divas), born in San Diego, California
1984 Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer (125cc World Champion 2006), born in Talavera de la Reina, Spain

1985 Canadian singer (“Call Me Maybe”), born in Mission, British Columbia

1985 Jesús Navas, Spanish soccer utility (45 caps 2021; Sevilla, Manchester City), born in Los Palacios, Spain
1985 Ronny Chieng, Malaysian comedian and actor known for “The Daily Show”, born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
1986 Colleen Ballinger, American YouTuber and comedian (Miranda Sings), born in Santa Barbara, California
1989 Bára Gísladóttir, Icelandic contemporary classical and experimental music composer and double bassist (Elja Ensemble), born in Reykjavík, Iceland

1997 Alton Mason, American model (1st black male to model for Chanel), born in Nebraska

2000 American actress (Katie Cooper-Alexa & Katie; Veronica Duncan-Young Sheldon), born in Santa Monica, California

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Columbus Loses the Pinta

1492 The caravel Pinta, commanded by Martín Alonso Pinzón, separates from Christopher Columbus‘s fleet off the coast of Cuba to search for treasure on its own

1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1696 J Vanbrughe’s “Relapse or Virtue in Danger” premieres in London
1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1783 Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d’Arlandes make 1st manned free balloon flight in a Montgolfier balloon

Jackson Admitted to the Bar

1787 Future US president Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar aged 20

1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered

Napoleon Bans British Trade

1806 The Continental System is declared in the Decree of Berlin by French Emperor Napoleon I to ban all trade with the British Empire

1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1817 US soldiers attack Miccosukee Tribe village of Fowltown, Georgia, beginning what becomes known as the First Seminole War

Jewish Rights in Europe

1818 Russia’s Tsar Alexander I has his delegation submit a petition to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle calling for greater civil rights for Jews in Europe, an effort driven by English activist Lewis Way

1824 First Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, South Carolina
1831 Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “Robert le diable” (Robert the Devil) premieres at the Paris Opéra
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1847 Steamer “Phoenix” is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 Alfred de Musset’s “Andre del Sarto” premieres in Paris
1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1849 Friedrich Hebbel’s play “Der Rubin” premieres in Vienna
1852 Duke University founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College
1864 Two-day Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia begins
1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley’s expedition & natives

First Surviving Motion Picture

1890 Edison Lab records the first surviving motion picture, “Monkeyshines No. 1,” shot by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and William Heise [date disputed between June 1889 and November 21–27, 1890]

1901 Richard Strauss‘ opera “Feuersnot” premieres in Dresden
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 Baseball’s Philadelphia Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1902 The Canadian government appoints a commission to consider revising, classifying, and consolidating the many public statutes passed over the years
1905 First match ever played in the Australian National Tennis Championships

Theory of Relativity

1905 Physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein‘s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” His general theory of relativity introduces the equation E = mc²

1906 China prohibits the opium trade
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1914 British army conquers Bazra
1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people

1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia, Poland
1918 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth

Palazzo d’Accursio Massacre

1920 Fascist Blackshirts attack the inauguration of the socialist city council in Bologna, leaving 11 dead in the Palazzo d’Accursio massacre and sparking the rise of violent Squadrismo militias

1921 The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa
1922 Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator [1]

Soviet Contract Cancelled

1924 British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR

1925 Red Grange plays his final University of Illinois game and signs with the Chicago Bears

Frankenstein

1931 Horror film “Frankenstein” is released, starring Boris Karloff as the monster, directed by James Whale and based on Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus”

1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 “Uiver” returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1934 NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1935 Jean Giraudoux’s play “La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu” (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place) premieres at Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris
1937 Australian endurance athlete Tom Morris sets a world record by skipping rope 22,806 times in a single session

Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony

1937 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s 5th Symphony premieres in Leningrad, the ovation lasts for over an hour

1938 Belgian king Leopold III, King of the Belgians begins 3-day visit to Netherlands
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1941 German troops occupy Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia

Hitler Appoints Manstein

1942 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)

1943 7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany
1943 WWII: German submarine U-538 sunk on southwest of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean by British warships
1944 Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food

Britten’s String Quartet No. 2

1945 Benjamin Britten‘s String Quartet No. 2 premieres at the Wigmore Hall, London, played by the Zorian Quartet

1945 General Motors workers go on strike

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 “The Best Years of Our Lives,” based on MacKinlay Kantor’s novella “Glory for Me,” directed by William Wyler, and starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1947)

1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 Harry Truman becomes the first US president to travel in a submerged sub
1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight title

Veeck Sells the Cleveland Indians

1949 Bill Veeck sells MLB Cleveland Indians for $22 million, to fund his divorce settlement

1952 The first US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) is introduced

1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the “Piltdown Man” skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax

1953 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting

Peron Return Request

1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Juan Peron

1955 KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
1961 “La Ronde,” the first revolving restaurant in the US, designed by architect John Graham Jr., opens atop the 23-floor Ala Moana Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii
1962 The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

Second Vatican Council

1964 Pope Paul VI formally closes the third session of the Second Vatican Council, promulgating major changes to Church doctrine and practice, including the landmark constitution Lumen Gentium

1964 The Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, the world’s longest at the time
1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port, Israel
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR
1966 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet (8,534,4 meters)

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: “I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.”

1968 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me

1968 The Supremes & The Temptations release “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”

1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Syrian Military Coup

1970 General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following a military coup known as the Corrective Revolution

1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavaliers, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden
1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by the Mukti Bahini, Bengali guerrillas, defeat the army of Pakistan
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center
1972 MLB Boston Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, New York Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
1973 US President Richard Nixon‘s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

Freedom of Information Act

1974 Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act broadening public access to US government actions passed by Congress over President Gerald Ford‘s veto [1]

1974 Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (deadliest attack in England during “the Troubles”)
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

Rocky

1976 Sports action film “Rocky,” directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)

1977 “All ‘N All” 8th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1978)
1977 Baltimore Orioles first baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year
1978 Atlanta Braves infielder Bob Horner wins NL Rookie of Year Award
1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1980 “Hi Infidelity” 9th studio album by REO Speedwagon is released
1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michael named 25th New York Yankees manager, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns

1980 TV show “Dallas” episode “Who Done It” reveals ‘Who Shot J.R.?’, gets a then record 53.3 rating (over 83 million viewers, 76% of television watchers) in the US
1981 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
1981 Olivia Newton-John‘s single “Physical” goes to #1 and stays for ten weeks
1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution
1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

Inflight Smoking Ban

1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by US President George H. W. Bush

1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons

France Backs Use of Force

1990 French President François Mitterrand voices support for a proposed UN resolution that would authorize the use of force in the Persian Gulf

Junk Bond King Sentenced

1990 Junk bond king Michael Milken is sentenced to ten years in prison for securities law violations

1991 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)

Bob Packwood Apologies

1992 Oregon Senator Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances

1993 Neo-fascist MSI wins 36% of municipal elections in Rome

The Ghost of Tom Joad

1995 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen‘s 11th studio album “The Ghost of Tom Joad”; wins Grammy Award for best Contemporary Folk Album

1995 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 for 1st time
1995 Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
1996 “Rehearsal” opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
1996 Canadian Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples says relationship between indigenous people and non-indigenous people should be completely re-structured [1]
1999 Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother
2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004 Island of Dominica hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. Damage concentrated in the north and the town of Portsmouth. Also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
2004 The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq’s external debt.
2004 The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election’s integrity.

Kingdom Come

2006 “Kingdom Come,” the ninth studio album by Jay-Z is released

2006 Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2006 Daughtry release their debut album “Daughtry” (2007 Billboard Album of the Year, American Music Awards Favorite Pop-Rock Album 2007)
2012 An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
2012 Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Benítez

Happy

2013 “Happy” single is released by Pharrell Williams (Billboard Song of the Year 2014, Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance 2015)

2013 31 people are killed, and dozens more injured during a truck bomb attack of an open-air vegetable market in Sadiyah, in northeastern Iraq
2013 54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia
2013 The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
2016 Adam Ondra completes the second free ascent of The Dawn Wall on El Capitan, leading every pitch and finishing in 8 days
2016 India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, a high-yielding rice variety that helped avert famine across Asia
2017 CBS TV host Charlie Rose is fired after allegations of sexual harassment by eight women
2017 Mt Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali begins erupting
2017 Pixar animation head John Lasseter takes 6 month leave of absence amid sexual misconduct claims, leave eventual becomes permanent

2017 Robert Mugabe‘s resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe’s parliament during impeachment proceedings

2018 Former Guatemalan soldier Santos López Alonzo sentenced to 5,160 years for killing 171 people in Dos Erres during the civil war
2018 RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil
2019 22 killed in displacement camp in attack by Syrian government in Idlib province, Syria
2019 44% of Americans work in low-wage jobs with medium annual wage of just $18,000, with most aged 25-54 according to analysis by Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program

Tesla Cybertruck

2019 Elon Musk launches Tesla’s electric Cybertruck with shatterproof windows that, when demonstrated on stage, shatter

2019 First of a series of national strikes in Colombia against the government of President Iván Duque and proposed cuts to pensions
2019 WHO says Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, in world’s largest and fastest-moving epidemic
2020 Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge
2021 “Voiceless Mass” by Raven Chacon, premieres at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee – first work by an Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music [1]
2021 British driver Lewis Hamilton wins 1st Qatar Grand Prix Formula One motor race at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar
2022 China reports new COVID-19 outbreaks, with 28,127 new cases, with half in Guangzhou and the municipality of Chongqing and public venues closed in Beijing and Shanghai [1]
2022 Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes near the city of Cianjur, on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 268 people, with over 1000 injured [1]

2023 Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleads guilty to allowing customers to launder money – will pay $4.3 billion in fines to US government [1]
2024 Controversial artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $6.2 million at auction in New York; new owner Justin Sun says he will eat it [1]
2024 Evidence is presented of the earliest known alphabet on clay cylinders, 4,400 years old, 500 years older than previous writing, discovered in tombs in Umm el-Marra, Syria [1]

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Australian endurance athlete Tom Morris sets a world record by skipping rope 22,806 times in a single session

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Is Beef Really the Villain? New Research Challenges Common Heart Health Myths

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A new study found that including moderate amounts of lean beef in a Mediterranean-style diet did not raise a key marker of heart disease risk. Eating moderate portions of lean beef within a Mediterranean-style diet does not raise a developing marker linked to cardiovascular disease, according to new research from an interdisciplinary team at Penn […]

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The Stunning New Push to Protect the Invisible 99% of Life

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Scientists worldwide have joined forces to build the first-ever roadmap for conserving Earth’s vast invisible majority—microbes. Their new IUCN Specialist Group reframes conservation by elevating microbial life to the same urgency as plants and animals, emphasizing microbes’ foundational role in climate stability, soil fertility, marine ecosystems, and human health. The roadmap charts new metrics, policies, […]

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Baby Turtles Dance for Science and Reveal How They Navigate the Open Sea

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Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to magnetic fields they associated with food, allowing researchers to test whether the animals rely on seeing or feeling magnetic cues. After temporarily disabling the turtles’ ability to […]

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This Nearby Galaxy Shows How Frozen Clouds Ignite Into Stars

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Hubble captures NGC 4571 glowing with star-forming nebulae and sparkling clusters woven through its spiral arms. The view exposes both the frigid origins of star birth and the dust-shrouded regions where massive stars are taking shape. A Bright Spiral Galaxy in Hubble’s Latest View A vibrant spiral galaxy filled with stars takes center stage in […]

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Hiring freeze deepens faculty crisis in varsities & colleges in Kochi – Times of India

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Hiring freeze deepens faculty crisis in varsities & colleges in Kochi Times of India

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