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2008 Calendar
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[change] Births

• 1683 - King Philip V of Spain
• 1699 - William Bowyer, printer
• 1813 - Thomas Andrews, chemist (d. 1885)
• 1820 - Mary Ashton Livermore, women's rights activist (d. 1905)
• 1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, stage actress (d. 1932)
• 1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
• 1888 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
• 1894 - Ford Frick, commissioner of baseball
• 1900 - Géza von Cziffra, film director (d. 1989)
• 1901 - Rudolf Hell, inventor (d. 2002)
• 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
• 1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
• 1915 - Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
• 1916 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, publicist
• 1918 - Professor Longhair, musician (d. 1980)
• 1920 - David Susskind, movie, stage, and television producer (d. 1987)
• 1923 - Gordon Jackson, film, stage and television actor (d. 1990)
• 1925 - Tankred Dorst, dramatist
• 1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, musician
• 1933 - Cicely Tyson, actress
• 1934 - Al Kaline, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1935 - Bobby Timmons, jazz pianist (d. 1974)
• 1939 - Gwynn Dowell, teacher
• 1940 - Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter (d. 1976)
• 1941 - Maurice White, musician
• 1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
• 1944 - Alvin Lee, musician
• 1946 - Stan Smith, tennis player
• 1946 - Robert Urich, actor (d. 2002)
• 1949 - Claudia Kolb, swimmer
• 1960 - Mike Lookinland, actor
• 1961 - Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball star
• 1965 - Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
• 1969 - Kristy Swanson, actress
• 1971 - Tiffany Towers, actress
• 1972 - Alyssa Milano, actress
• 1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
• 1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player
• 1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
• 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
• 1980 - Marla Sokoloff, actress

[change] Deaths

• 401 - Pope Anastasius I
• 1075 - Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England
• 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
• 1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
• 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
• 1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
• 1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
• 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
• 1751 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
• 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
• 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
• 1848 - Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
• 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
• 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation (executed) (b. 1908)
• 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
• 1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
• 1989 - Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
• 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer
• 2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1941)
• 2004 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)

[change] Events

• 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
• 1187 - Pope Clement III elected
• 1732 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack
• 1777 - George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• 1828 - John C. Calhoun pens South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
• 1835 - Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• 1842 - United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii
• 1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which killed over 1,000 people was pardoned by President Taft after 3 1/2 years in Sing Sing prison .
• 1916 - The Battle of Verdun ended.
• 1928 - First autogiro flight in the United States
• 1945 - Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interrupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.
• 1946 - Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
• 1961 - The Indian Army invades the Portuguese province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) which will become part of India.
• 1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• 1963 - Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.
• 1965 - Prisoners Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker escape from Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. During the escape a guard is killed. Ryan would hang for his death, in 1967.
• 1972 - Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.
• 1974 - Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt is pronounced dead.
• 1974 - The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale
• 1978 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men
• 1980 - Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from Saint Kitts and Nevis
• 1984 - The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which handed Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
• 1997 - A Silkair Boeing 737-300 crashes into the Musi River, in Sumatra, Indonesia killing 104
• 1997 - Titanic (the highest-grossing movie ever as of 2005) opens in U.S. theaters.
• 1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passes articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
• 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units attack a party office of the far-right MHP in Istanbul, Turkey. One MHP member is killed and several wounded.
• 2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.
• 2001 - A new world-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is set at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl Aymag, Mongolia.
• 2001 - The Argentine economic crisis burst into street riots after the announcement by the economy minister of the measures of holding back the bank deposits.
• 2005 - Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon suffers a minor stroke.