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Events
- 1000 - Battle of Swold somewhere in the Baltic Sea between Norway and other Scandinavians.
- 1087 - William the Conqueror dies near Rouen, France.
- 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
- 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution).
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-Turkic population flees.
- 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
- 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is occupied by Soviet Union.
- 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
- 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1971 - Attica Prison riots
- 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1995 - Sony's PlayStation game console was released in the US.
- 1995 - Kids' WB! debuted on The WB.
- 1999 - Sega's Dreamcast game console was released in the US.
- 2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
- 2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
Births
- 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
- 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
- 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer
- 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
- 1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Jimmy Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
- 1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American musician (d. 1975)
- 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Aleksandr Vinogradov, Russian writer
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
- 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British footballer
- 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
- 1943 - Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
- 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia
- 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
- 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
- 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor
- 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restauranteur
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian
- 1967 - Anna Malle, Adult film star
- 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
- 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Baseball player
- 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
- 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian pop jazz singer and actor
- 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
Deaths
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 - King William I of England
- 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
- 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
- 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
- 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
- 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
- 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
- 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
- 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
- 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1915 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, President of China(b. 1893)
- 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
- 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
- 1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
- 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1990 - Doc Cramer, baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia
- 1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball player (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader
- 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
- 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English North Shore Granny Murderer (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances
- Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna
- Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku)
- North Korea - Republic Day (1948)
- Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
- [United States] - [Bonza Bottler Day].
- California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA)
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