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1774 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia 1902 - British parliament passes the Education Act, which will come to be regarded as the most important legislation of Arthur Balfour's government 1932 - National Football League Championship; Playoff, Chicago Stadium: Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans, 9-0 1935 - Edvard Beneš becomes President of Czechoslovakia after Tomáš Masaryk retires 1962 - Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1963 - "The Pink Panther" film premieres, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers and David Niven, with theme by Henry Mancini 1963 - Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow 1970 - Polish uprising fails 1976 - Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan 1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1869 - Canada's Hamilton Football Club plays its 1st game 1962 - Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1969 - House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973) 1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years 1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect. 2020 - US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1837 - Adolf Daens, Flemish priest, politician and founder of the Daensist movement, born in Aalst, Belgium (d. 1907) 1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984) 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws), born in Cincinnati, Ohio 1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator) 1983 - Ady Barkan, American lawyer and activist (Medicare for all) 1995 - Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player (French Open singles 2021; French Open doubles 2018, 21; Wimbledon 2018, 22; US Open and Australian Open 2022; 3 x Australian Open mixed doubles), born in Brno, Czech Republic More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1577 - Anna, Duchess of Saxony, German born 2nd wife of Prince William of Orange (divorced and imprisoned for adultery), dies at 32 1894 - Erastus Flaval Beadle, American publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels), dies at 73 1911 - Alberto Randegger, Italian composer, dies at 79 1980 - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76 1994 - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 2020 - Tim Severin, British author and explorer who replicated historic voyages, dies at 80 More Famous Deaths »

1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain 1885 - France declares Madagascar a protectorate 1946 - US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico 1970 - Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia, Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd, killing at least 18, wounding hundreds 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 - Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting 1977 - Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance on "Saturday Night Live" 1983 - In his 352nd NHL game, Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and 5 assists in 8-1 rout of Quebec Nordiques to record his 800th point and 500th assist; averages 2.27 points, 1.42 assists, 0.85 goals per game to start career 1992 - "A Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances 2019 - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia for high treason More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain 1961 - India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies 1963 - West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules 1971 - Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir 2012 - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan 2013 - Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician, born in Aynho, United Kingdom (d. 1998) 1933 - Stefan Florenski, Polish soccer defender (11 caps; Górnik Zabrze), born in Gleiwitz, Poland (d. 2020) 1944 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker, American sci-fi author (Saga of Well World) 1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player 1974 - Jeffrey "Duff" Goldman, American cake designer, TV personality (Ace of Cakes) and chef, born in Detroit, Michigan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1891 - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition 1990 - Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 1996 - Irving Caesar, American lyricist and theater composer (Tea for Two; Just A Gigilo; Sometimes I'm Happy; Animal Crackers In My Soup), dies at 101 2010 - Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vliet], American rock musician, complications from multiple sclerosis at 69 2013 - Leland Smith, American composer, bassoonist and computer coder who led music publishing into the digital age (SCORE), dies at 88 2020 - Stanley Cowell American jazz pianist (Heath Brothers), record label co-founder (Strata-East), and educator, dies from hypovolemic shock at 79 More Famous Deaths »

1900 - A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes 1912 - 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued 1960 - "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances 1965 - Gemini 6 returns to Earth 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 - Bill Veeck buys 80% of MLB Chicago White Sox from John Allyn 1979 - Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular season game with the Cowboys, a 35-34 win over Washington Redskins at Texas Stadium 1990 - Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti 1997 - US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever "Buddy" 2020 - Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1826 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 1938 - State of California executes Ed Davis (38), leader of Folsom Prison escape attempt resulting in murder of warden and guard (San Quentin State Prison, Marin County) 1944 - US 2nd Infantry division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid 1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances 1991 - UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote 2016 - US State Department increases reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to $25 million More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819) 1907 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress (Lonesome, Flesh and the Devil), born in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada (d. 2011) 1916 - Udom Patpongsiri, Thai property developer (Father of the Thai sex industry), (d. 1996) 1945 - Bobby George, English darts player (BDO World C'ship 1980, 84 runner-up), born in Manor Park, Essex, England 1965 - Chris Jones, outfielder (NY Mets), born in Utica, New York 1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 714 - Pepin/Pippin II, of Herstal/Héristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Duke and Prince of the Franks, dies 1670 - Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies 1993 - Charizma [Charles Hicks], American rapper, killed in a mugging at 20 1996 - Joe Coral [Joseph Kagarlitski], British bookmaker (Gala Coral Group), dies at 92 1997 - Richard Warwick, English actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies of AIDS complications at 52 2018 - John Ford Noonan, American playwright (A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking), dies at 77 More Famous Deaths »

1569 - Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in "The Rising of the North", Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland. 1840 - Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death 1863 - Romania's mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens 1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms 1965 - D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London 1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena 1986 - CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 2011 - ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m 2017 - Anita Hill is appointed to lead a Hollywood commission on sexual harassment, spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy 2020 - MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1918 - American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting 1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel 1973 - American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty 1983 - 3 Kansas City Royals (Willie Wilson, Willie Aikens, and Jerry Martin) suspended due to cocaine usage 2017 - Pakistani teenager Ahed Tamimi filmed slapping Israeli officers during protest, arrested 4 days later More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish-Farosese physician and phototherapist (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1903 for treatment for Lupus), born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (d. 1904) 1888 - Artturi Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer (Kati), born in Ylihärmä, Finland (d. 1963) 1892 - J. Paul Getty, American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1976) 1899 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), born in Bedford, England (d. 1978) 1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace), born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland 1960 - Doug Phelps, American singer (Ky Headhunters - Davy Crockett), born in Leachville, Arkansas More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1816 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, Bohemian aristocrat and composer, dies at 44 1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803) 1896 - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologian and church historian, dies at 67 1952 - Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary known as the Father of Andhra for conducting a 56 day hunger strike in support of a separate Telugu-speaking state, fasts to death at 51, sparking rioting and 3 days later Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to declare an intention to form Andhra Pradesh state 1953 - Ed Barrow, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1918 Boston Red Sox) and executive (10 x World Series NY Yankees), dies at 85 2009 - Carolyn DeZurik, American country and polka singer and yodeler (The Cackle Sisters; Prairie Ramblers; The Polka Chips), dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

1575 - Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1914 - US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, to regulate and tax production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products 1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC 1954 - WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain 1959 - The album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies. 1960 - Washington Senators joins American League 1980 - Massacre at Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles with 3 people killed and 6 injured 1991 - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed 2019 - Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women. More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1793 - 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cincinnati 1849 - 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert in Boston 1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC 1977 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years 1978 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1978 - "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (Stranger Than Fiction, The Infidel), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1956) 1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004) 1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist and feminist, born in NYC, New York (d. 2006) 1968 - Jamie Crysdale, CFL corner (Calgary Stampeders), born in Calgary, Alberta 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer, born in Belfast 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese gravure idol and actress, born in Saitama prefecture, Japan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1077 - Agnes of Poitou, German Empress and wife of Emperor Henry III, dies at 52 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 79 1760 - Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies at 56 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 1914 - Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 73 1989 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (Nobel 1975), dies of a heart attack at 68 More Famous Deaths »

1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey 1920 - Francis G. Pease's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star - the Betelgeuse 1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions 1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres at Carnegie Hall, NYC, performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Walter Damrosch 1936 - National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, NYC: Green Bay Packers beat Boston Redskins, 21-6; Packers 4th title; Redskins move to Washington, D.C. for 1937 season 1961 - "The Young Ones" directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley and Carole Gray premieres in London 1964 - In El Paso, Texas, LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats, Amsterdam 2014 - Two US soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul 2017 - Scientists begin checking interstellar asteroid Oumuamua for signs of alien technology through radio signals (later studies conclude it a piece of sliced off planet) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 and 78 1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games 2012 - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute 2012 - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12 2015 - 81st Heisman Trophy Award: Derrick Henry, Alabama (RB) 2018 - US Senate passes non-binding "war powers resolution" against long-term ally Saudi Arabia More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1770 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1836) 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1856) 1835 - Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal bishop and composer (Little Town of Bethlehem), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1893) 1897 - Drew Pearson, American newscaster (Drew Pearson), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1969) 1977 - Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer, born in Münster, Germany 1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist (All That Remains), born in Peterborough, New Hampshire More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1126 - Henry IX, the Black, Duke of Bavaria (1120-26), dies 1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756) 1919 - Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74 1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921) 1993 - Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 More Famous Deaths »

1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo 1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide) 1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die 1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people 1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St and Amsterdam Ave NYC 1970 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays 1986 - James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden 1992 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World 2008 - Andrei Klepach, Deputy Economic Minister of Russia, states that Russia has entered a recession, with two quarters of contraction expected, meaning Russia will fall short of reaching the 6.8% growth forecast for 2008 2018 - China built 88 out of world's 143 skyscrapers in 2018 more than any country ever (buildings over 200 meters/656 ft) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st "The Katzenjammer Kids" cartoon strip appears in NY Journal 1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing", composed 1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. 1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK 1966 - "A Man for All Seasons" based on the play by Robert Bolt, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Paul Scofield premieres in New York (Best Picture 1967) 1992 - 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, U of Miami (QB) More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1902 - Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, born in NYC, New York (d. 1995) 1913 - Hal Dickinson, American singer (Modernaires), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1970) 1931 - Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani, Iranian writer and journalist, born in Sirjan, Kerman (d. 1994) 1937 - Philip Ledger, British organist, composer, conductor, and academic (King's College Cambridge), born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England (d. 2012) 1938 - Joel Chadabe, American electronic music composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2021) 1968 - Chris Walsh, American NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings; sues NFL over head injuries 2011), born in Cleveland, Ohio More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77 1914 - Watkins Lewis Africa American lynched in Shrevport, Louisiana 1992 - Jasu Patel, Indian cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 29 wickets, BB 9-69 v Aust 1959; Gujarat), dies at 68 2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted mass murderer, dies at 37 2019 - Brian Muller, New Zealand rugby union prop (14 caps; Taranaki), dies at 77 2020 - John le Carré [pen name for David Cornwell], English novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), dies at 89 More Famous Deaths »

1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England) 1816 - Citizens of Geneva thwart Savoyard invaders 1882 - Victorien Sardous play "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt premieres in Paris 1932 - San Francisco's coldest day (27°F) - it snows 1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip 1948 - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting 1984 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya 1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC 2017 - Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York wounds 3, bomb fails to fully detonate 2019 - Discovery of the earliest figurative artwork in the world, (43,900 years old), figures part human part animal, from cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia, reported in journal "Nature" More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1730 - Voltaire's tragedy "Brutus" premieres in Paris 1958 - Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains autonomy from France 1968 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig 1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space 2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings. 2017 - Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York wounds 3, bomb fails to fully detonate More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1843 - Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), born in Clausthal, Hanover (d. 1910) 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago), born in Magenta, Lombardy (d. 2007) 1948 - Chester Thompson, American session and touring drummer and percussionist (Frank Zappa; Genesis; Chester Thompson Trio), born in Baltimore, Maryland 1954 - Vicki Randle, American singer-songwriter, born in San Francisco, California 1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer (The Pomegranate Seed), born in Concord, New Hampshire 1989 - Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer (lightweight Gold Medal 2021 Tokyo Olympics), born in Dublin, Ireland More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1610 - False Dmitry 2, Tsar of Russia, murdered 1756 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII, dies at 55 1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovene author, poet, novelist and playwright (Erotika, The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights), dies of pneumonia at 42, a complication of the Spanish flu 2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach, dies at 87 2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian child actress (Now and Then), dies of a drug overdose at 26 2014 - Hans Wallat, German opera conductor, dies at 85 More Famous Deaths »

1690 - Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money 1899 - Delta Sigma Phi fraternity founded at City College of New York, to spread "the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed." 1913 - Belgium head of the International Peace Bureau Henri La Fontaine becomes the first Socialist to win the Nobel Peace Prize 1935 - White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam 1961 - USSR and Albania break diplomatic relations 1988 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Montreal Canadiens 2001 - "The Fellowship of the Ring" Lord of the Rings film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in London 2001 - 67th Heisman Trophy Award: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (QB) 2009 - US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1923 - Polish government of Grabski forms 1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS) 1963 - Leonard Bernstein premieres his Third Symphony "Kaddish" with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Israel 1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize 1993 - "Doom" pioneering first-person shooter video game is uploaded onto the internet by id Software 2013 - Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1872 - Johann Babtist Thaller, German composer, born in Röhrmoos, Germany (d. 1952) 1891 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright (O the Chimneys - Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1970) 1893 - Walter Rein, German composer, born in Stotternheim (d. 1955) 1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer (Norwich City), born in Leeds, England 1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and university professor, born in Portsmouth, England 1965 - (Joseph) "J" Mascis, American rock singer and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr), born in Amherst, Massachusetts More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663) 1831 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (Seebeck effect), dies at 61 1992 - Bernard Reichel, Swiss composer, dies at 91 1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905) 1997 - Jake Carey, American actor (Rock Rock Rock!, Go, Johnny, Go!), dies at 71 2005 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate, dies of parkinsons at 89 More Famous Deaths »

536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire 1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia 1854 - Alfred Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" is published in "The Examiner" 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed 1975 - Yelena Bonner accepts Soviet dissident Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize in Oslo 1978 - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does 1990 - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard 1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns 2012 - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala 2021 - Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol 1949 - NFL merges with AAFC; Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts join league intact, other teams in New York and Los Angeles are merged with existing units 1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania - with Ukuru (Freedom) Torch lit on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro 1967 - Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President of Romania (overthrown in 1989) 1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1787 - John Dobson, English architect, born in High Chirton, North Shields, England (d. 1865) 1899 - Howard Freeman, American actor (Studio One, Double Dynamite), born in Helena, Montana (d. 1967) 1934 - Alan Ridout, British composer, born in West Wickham, England (d. 1996) 1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician (Mayor of Pittsburgh, 2006), born in Greenfield, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2006) 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor (The Killing Fields; Dangerous Liaisons), born in Christopher, Illinois 1973 - Stacey Abrams, American politician, lawyer and voting rights activist, born in Madison, Wisconsin More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet, dies at 53 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage), dies at 69 1814 - Jose Angel Lamas, Venezuelan composer, dies at 39 1940 - Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle 1992 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Moonstruck, Little Shop of Horrors), dies of a heart attack at 71 2021 - Demaryius Thomas, American football wide receiver (Super Bowl 2015; 4 × Pro Bowl; Denver Broncos), dies at 33 More Famous Deaths »

1326 - Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi 1864 - Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum") 1915 - Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York 1973 - 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) 1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB) 1984 - Ringo Starr hosts "Saturday Night Live"; Herbie Hancock is the musical guest 1993 - 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win 1997 - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win 1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1914 - Boers rebelling against the British in South Africa suffer several defeats, with one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidentally drowning 1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die 1963 - Frank Sinatra, Jr is kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe (Nevada) 1972 - United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 1990 - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field) 2018 - US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), born in Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1874) 1905 - Charles Cushing, American composer, born in Oakland, California (d. 1982) 1908 - John Volpe, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts) and U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1969-73), born in Wakefield, Massachusetts (d. 1994) 1942 - Bobby Elliott, British rock drummer (The Hollies), born in Burnley, Lancashire 1949 - Mary Gordon, American author 1959 - Jim Yong Kim, South Korean-American physician, anthropologist and President of the World Bank, born in Seoul, South Korea More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1907 - Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies 1940 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861) 1952 - Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874) 1958 - Tris Speaker, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1912, 15, 20; AL MVP 1912; career batting average .345 [6th all-time]; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland Indians 1919-26), dies at 70 1982 - Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (D.O.A., The Desert Fox), dies at 81 More Famous Deaths »

1727 - Physician Sir Hans Soane becomes President of the Royal Society, succeeding Sir Isaac Newton 1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister 1917 - The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks) 1980 - PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, Turnberry Isle CC: Arnold Palmer wins with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole against Paul Harney 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC 1989 - C Coleman and D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC 1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base and Mariah Carey win 2016 - 6.5 earthquake in Aceh province, Indonesia kills at least 97 people 2017 - Australia's parliament votes to legalize gay marriage 2020 - Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes Tsarina of Russia 1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister 1937 - Russian chess player Alexander Alekhine recaptures his final world title from Dutch grand master Max Euwe by a large margin (+10−4=11) 1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick 1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands 2007 - The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit. More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England (d. 1947) 1863 - Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party), born in Scuol, Switzerland (d. 1952) 1878 - Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair), born in Sakai, Ōsaka, Japan (d. 1942) 1971 - Ben Atkins, American fencer-epee (Olympics 1996), born in NYC, New York 1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer, rapper and songwriter, born in Tampa, Florida (d. 2022) 1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor (The Favourite; Tolkien; Peter III-The Great), born in Wokingham, England More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1881 - Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 1946 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871) 1984 - Jeanne Cagney, American stage, screen, and radio actress (Lion is in the Streets; Quicksand; Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of lung cancer at 65 1990 - Peter Mieg, Swiss composer, dies at 84 1990 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet and novelist (Pentagonia), dies at 47 2019 - Ron Saunders, English soccer striker (Portsmouth) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, Birmingham City), dies at 87 More Famous Deaths »

1240 - Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians 1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Pennsylvania 1896 - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura 1941 - NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens 1986 - 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB) 1987 - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) 2008 - 13th Big 12 Championship Game: #4 Oklahoma beats #19 Missouri, 62-21 2008 - 4th ACC Championship Game: Virginia Tech beats #18 Boston College, 30-12 2012 - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced More Historical Events »