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1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307 )
1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718 )
1703 - John Wesley , English theologian, founder of Methodism (d. 1791 )
1808 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author
1810 - Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876 )
1811 - Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879 )
1818 - Charles Gounod , French composer (d. 1893 )
1832 - Sir William Crookes, physicist and chemist (d. 1919 )
1881 - Tommy Burns, boxer (d. 1955 )
1882 - Igor Stravinsky , Russian composer (d. 1971 )
1898 - M. C. Escher , Dutch artist (d. 1972 )
1900 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945 )
1904 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (d. 1991 )
1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978 )
1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004 )
1910 - Red Foley, country musician (d. 1968 )
1914 - John Hersey, author (d. 1993 )
1915 - Karl Targownik, psychiatrist (d. 1996 )
1915 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor (d. 1973 )
1917 - Dean Martin , American singer (d. 1995 )
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004 )
1929 - Tigran Petrosian, chess player (d. 1984 )
1930 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000 )
1940 - George Akerlof, American economist
1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei , Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency Director
1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
1943 - Barry Manilow, musician
1945 - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
1945 - Eddy Merckx , Belgian cyclist
1945 - Anupam Kher, Indian actor
1945 - Frank Ashmore, American actor
1946 - Peter Rosei, writer
1957 - Jon Gries, American actor
1958 - Jello Biafra, musician, politician
1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor
1964 - Michael Gross, swimmer
1966 - Jason Patric, actor
1975 - Chloe Jones, actor (d. 2005 )
1979 - Nick Rimando, footballer
1980 - Venus Williams , American tennis player
1980 - Jeph Jacques, amazing webcomic artist
1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1536 )
1696 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland (b. 1629 )
1719 - Joseph Addison , English politician and writer (b. 1672 )
1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653 )
1797 - Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Shah of Qajar dynasty (b. 1742 )
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833 )
1939 - Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France
1940 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )
1956 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892 )
1957 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873 )
1961 - Jeff Chandler, actor (b. 1918 )
1979 - Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888 )
1982 - Roberto Calvi, banker
1986 - Kate Smith, American singer
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science
2002 - Willie Davenport, athlete
2002 - Fritz Walter, footballer
2004 - Gerry McNeil, hockey player (b. 1926 )
2004 - Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (b. 1923 )
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California ) for England .
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth . Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb , the Taj Mahal .
1775 - American Revolutionary War : Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces take Bunker Hill outside of Boston .
1789 - In France , the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands . The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1863 - Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War
1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. [1]
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor .
1898 - The Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.
1930 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
1930 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 - Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri , four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1940 - World War II : Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France , following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 - World War II : Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France .
1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union .
1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.
1948 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953 - Workers Uprising: In East Germany , the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion .
1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1963 - The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools .
1971 - Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa .
1972 - Watergate scandal : Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee , in an attempt by the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London .
1991 - Apartheid : The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide , O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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