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Events
1400-1899
- 1487 - Battle of
Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the
Roses
- 1586 - Mary Queen of
Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir
- 1654 - Queen Christina
of Sweden abdicates
- 1716 - The first volume of Alexander Pope's* translation of the lliad is published. Admonishes classical scholar Richard
Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer."
- 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River
- 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of
the Austrian Succession.
- 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
- 1755 - French and
Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
- 1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1779 - Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar
begins
- 1815 - Battle of Ligny and
Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
- 1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
- 1846 - Pope Pius IX is elected
pope.
- 1858 - Abraham Lincoln's
House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
- 1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1871 - University Tests Act allow
students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
- 1884 - The first roller
coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
- 1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
- 1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
- 1583 - Axel Oxenstierna,
Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
- 1613 - John Cleveland,
English poet (d. 1658)
- 1644 - Henrietta
Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and later Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
- 1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, early American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
- 1792 - John
Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
- 1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
- 1801 - Julius Plücker,
German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
- 1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
- 1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
- 1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (d.
1875)
- 1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist
and botanist (d. 1897)
- 1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909)
- 1836 - Wesley Merritt,
soldier (d. 1910)
- 1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
- 1838 - Cushman Davis,
politician (d. 1900)
- 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913)
- 1858 - King Gustav V of
Sweden (d. 1950)
- 1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
- 1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian -American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
- 1890 - Stan Laurel, actor, comedian
(d. 1965)
- 1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979 (d. 1987)
1900-1999
- 1902 - Barbara
McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992)
- 1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d.
1984)
- 1903 - Helen Traubel, American
soprano (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Jack Albertson, actor
(d. 1981)
- 1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987)
- 1910 - Juan Velasco, President of
Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977)
- 1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
- 1914 - Babe
Didrikson Zaharias, athlete (d. 1956)
- 1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1917 - Katharine Graham,
Washington Post publisher (d. 2001)
- 1917 - Irving Penn, photographer
- 1920 - José López
Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004)
- 1920 - John Howard Griffin, writer (d. 1980)
- 1927 - Tom Graveney, English
cricketer
- 1927 - Herbert
Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001)
- 1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond,
cinematographer
- 1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins,
English actress
- 1935 - Jim Dine, artist
- 1937 - Erich Segal, author
- 1938 - James Bolam, English
actor
- 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
- 1940 - Neil Goldschmidt,
governor of Oregon
- 1941 - Lamont Dozier, record
company executive
- 1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
- 1942 - Eddie Levert, R&B
singer
- 1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
- 1951 - Roberto Durán,
boxer
- 1952 - Michel Blanc, French actor
- 1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
- 1952 - Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter
- 1955 - Laurie Metcalf,
actress Dennis
Lippincott,Printer
- 1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech
athlete
- 1967 - John Franklin,
actor
- 1970 - Phil Mickelson,
golfer
- 1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (d.
1996)
- 1977 - Kerry Wood, baseball pitcher
- 1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- 1988 - Marinó Sigurðsson, Iceland actor/director
- 1988 - Keshia Chante, Canadian R&B Singer
- 1990 - Nicholas James Cron-DeVico, artist
Deaths
1800 BC-AD 1899
- 1750 BC - King Hammurabi of
Babylon
- AD 1216 - Pope Innocent
III
- 1464 - Roger van der
Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
- 1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
- 1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, chancellor of Scotland (b. ca. 1555)
- 1626 - Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander
(b. 1599)
- 1666 - Richard Fanshawe,
English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
- 1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack
rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630)
- 1707 - Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her Mémoires (b.
1625)
- 1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
- 1752 - Giulio Alberoni,
Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
- 1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
- 1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
- 1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
- 1779 - Sir Francis Bernard,
Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- 1804 - Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
- 1817 - Alexander Dallas,
statesman and financier (b. 1759)
- 1848 - Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777)
- 1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German
theologian (b. 1780)
- 1855 - John Gorrie, physician,
early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803)
- 1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician
(b. 1813)
- 1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, French satirical poet (b. 1796)
- 1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
- 1872 - Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812)
- 1878 - Crawford Long, physician
(b. 1815)
- 1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English pen-manufacturer (b. 1795)
- 1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
- 1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
1900-1999
- 1900 - Prince François, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818)
- 1925 - Chittaranjan Das,
Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
- 1925 - Emmett Hardy, jazz
musician (b. 1903)
- 1930 - Elmer Ambrose
Sperry, inventor (b. 1860)
- 1940 - DuBose Heyward,
writer
- 1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
- 1953 - Margaret
Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
- 1958 - Imre Nagy, former Premier of Hungary (b. 1895)
- 1959 - George Reeves, actor,
played Superman (b. 1914)
- 1969 - Harold Alexander,
British military commander (b. 1891)
- 1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player
- 1971 - Lord Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889)
- 1976 - Hector Pieterson,
one of the first children (566 in all) killed during the Soweto Uprising.
- 1977 - Wernher von
Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- 1979 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916)
- 1979 - Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911)
- 1986 - Maurice Duruflé,
French composer and organist (b. 1902)
- 1988 - Kim Milford, actor (b.
1951)
- 1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer
- 1999 - Screaming Lord
Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party
(b. 1940)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
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