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1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci 1670 - Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I 1813 - US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 1864 - 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin 1960 - US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal 1966 - 8th Daytona 500: Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain 1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance 1980 - Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors 2012 - Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1919 - American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC) 1959 - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players 1967 - Rio de la Plata Treaty 1968 - CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War 1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance 1998 - Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (Gentlemen's Magazine, coined term "magazine"), born in Newton, England (d. 1754) 1832 - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, (d. 1872) 1921 - András Szőllősy, Hungarian composer, and musicologist (cataloged works of Béla Bartók), born in Orăştie, Hungary (d. 2007) 1947 - Ashley Woodcock, Australian cricketer (one Test Aust v NZ 1974, only knock 27), born in Adelaide, Australia 1960 - Stoney Jackson, American actor (White Shadow, Insiders), born in Richmond, Virginia 1970 - Matthias Lechner, German art director, born in Mannheim, Germany More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1906 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and pioneer aviator, dies at 71 1945 - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer, dies at 91 1994 - Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84 2010 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer, dies at 87 2016 - George Kennedy, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Naked Gun films), dies at 91 More Famous Deaths »

1917 - 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) 1924 - Trial against Adolf Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" begins in Munich, Germany 1930 - Play "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater 1935 - RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt 1953 - Allen Dulles officially promoted from deputy director to become the 5th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 1981 - 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn and Bost 1991 - Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death' 1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) 2018 - Cold weather nicknamed "the Beast from the East" hits Europe, killing 7 and covering Pompeii in snow 2019 - Catholic Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse in Melbourne, Australia. As treasurer at the Vatican, the highest-ranking church official to be convicted; overturned in 2020 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1869 - Franz Schubert's Symphony number 4, "The Tragic", premieres 1918 - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 1923 - Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony held at Crissy Field 1940 - US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY 1991 - NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1837 - Charles Woeste, Belgian count, Minister of Justice, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1922) 1880 - Lionel Logue, Australian speech therapist who treated King George VI (The Kings Speech), born in Adelaide (d. 1953) 1917 - Robert Taft Jr, American politician (Sen-R-Ohio), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1993) 1946 - Bobby "Bingo" Smith, American NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers), born in Memphis, Tennessee 1970 - Meeno Peluce, Dutch actor (Bad News Bears), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands 1981 - Kertus Davis, American auto racer (competition director NASCAR team JD Motorsports), born in Gaffney, South Carolina More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1650 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Savoyard grammarian and man of letters, dies at 65 1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817) 1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853) 1990 - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies 2016 - Andy Bathgate, professional ice hockey player (New York Rangers, 1958 NHL MVP), dies at 83 2017 - Robert Allworth, Australian composer (A Different Time, A Different Place), dies at 74 More Famous Deaths »

1799 - US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games 1910 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops 1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets record their smash hit "That'll Be the Day" in Clovis, New Mexico 1962 - India Congress Party wins elections 1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue 1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: "We Are the World", Sade, Phil Collins win 1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: "Unforgettable";, Marc Cohn win 1999 - British chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary "Boiling Point" detailing the opening of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1862 - First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America 1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians) 1957 - US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport 1963 - Beatles release their 1st US single - "Please Please Me" 1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in NYC 2021 - Chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1868 - Anthony John Blok, Dutch lawyer (strafproces), born in Hees, Netherlands (d. 1934) 1902 - Oscar Cullmann, French-Swiss Lutheran theologist (Das Petrusproblem), born in Strasbourg, Germany (d. 1999) 1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player ("The Battle of the Sexes", US Open 1939, 41), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1995) 1934 - Robert Neame, British brewer (Shepherd Neame) 1947 - Doug Yule, American bassist and singer (Velvet Underground, 1968-73), born in Mineola, Long Island, New York 1986 - Danny Saucedo [Grzechowski], Swedish pop singer-songwriter ("Play It for the Girls"; E.M.D. - "Jennie Let Me Love You"), born in Stockholm, Sweden More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 779 - Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint (Walpurgis Night), dies 1851 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, Austrian composer, dies at 53 1957 - Mark Aldanov, Russian-French writer and critic (Novy Zhurnal), dies at 70 1967 - Walter "Fats" Pichon American jazz pianist, singer, and big bandleader, dies at 60 2013 - C Everett Koop, American pediatric surgeon, health administrator and 13th US Surgeon General (1982-89), dies at 96 2016 - Tony Burton, American actor (Rocky films) and boxer, dies at 78 More Famous Deaths »

1552 - Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated 1894 - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1917 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) 1943 - Major General Omar Bradley flies to Algiers 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 - American radio and television personality Larry King suffers a heart attack 1997 - Qatar inaugurates the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. 2002 - 55th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" Best Film, Peter Jackson Best Director 2018 - Men's big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang; Canada's Sébastien Toutant is inaugural gold medallist 2019 - 91st Academy Awards: Best Picture "Green Book", Best Director Alfonso Cuarón, Best Actor Rami Malek, Best Actress Olivia Colman More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1807 - 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England 1839 - Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia 1893 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America 1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button of USA 2010 - Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009 2013 - Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1934 - Renata Scotto, Italian soprano and opera director (La Traviata - "Violetta"), born in Savona, Italy 1940 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70), born in Louisville, Kentucky, (d. 2014) 1943 - Pablo Milanés, Cuban Nueva Trova singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yolanda; Yo Me Quedo), born in 1943, Bayamo, Cuba (d. 2022) 1953 - Derek St. Holmes, American musician rock guitarist and singer (Ted Nugent band, 1975-78; 2011-14), born in Riverview, Michigan 1974 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes) 1984 - Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81 2001 - Claude Shannon, American mathematician and information theorist (A Mathematical Theory of Communication), dies at 84 2008 - Philip Bodner, American jazz clarinetist and studio musician (also played flute, oboe, saxophone, piccolo, and English horn), dies at 90 2011 - Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929) 2019 - Margaret Scott, South-African ballet dancer and founder (Australian Ballet School), dies at 96 2022 - Jan Gomola, Polish soccer goalkeeper (7 caps; Górnik Zabrze), dies at 80 More Famous Deaths »

1660 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden 1778 - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge 1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia) 1945 - US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture 1969 - Groundbreaking TV documentary series "Civilisation" presented by art historian Kenneth Clark premieres on BBC2 in the UK 1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1985 - Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens 2007 - A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. 2016 - US primary elections: Nevada Republican Primary - Donald Trump wins with 45.9.5% 2019 - Clashes on Venezuelan border kills two as its country's officials try to stop aid getting in More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1574 - France begins 5th "holy war" against Huguenots 1822 - Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city 1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco 1999 - Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album 'The Slim Shady LP' (Grammy 2000 - Rap album) 2020 - African American Ahmaud Arbery shot to death after being chased down by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Video of the killing emerges in May, prompting arrests. 2020 - First major COVID-19 outbreak in Europe in Italy with 152 cases and three deaths, prompting emergency measures, locking down 10 towns in Lombardy More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1938 - Sylvia Chase, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota 1953 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver 1965 - Robert "Bob" Ferguson, American politician (Democratic Party) and Attorney General of Washington, born in Seattle, Washington 1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans), born in Huskvarna, Sweden 1973 - Jack Case, American artist 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress (I Am Sam, Man of Fire), born in Conyers, Georgia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1669 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian (Matters of State and War), dies at 68 1930 - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22 1937 - Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies 1987 - Esmond Knight, British actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder), dies from a heart attack at 80 1992 - Jacquelyn Hyde, American actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61 1994 - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40 More Famous Deaths »

303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued by Emperor Diocletian at Nicomedia, ordering all churches to be closed and scriptures burnt 1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV 1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum 1927 - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine 1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya 1941 - Arthur "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal 1951 - 4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "All About Eve" Best Film 1979 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio) 2014 - 45th NAACP Image Awards: "12 Years a Slave" wins Outstanding Motion Picture 2014 - Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1888 - “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends 1915 - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war 1932 - Purple Heart (the Badge of Military Merit) award reinstituted 1941 - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres 1972 - US President Richard Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in Beijing 1973 - US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C. More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1773 - Matthijs Ignatius van Bree, Belgian painter of historical subjects, born in Antwerp (d. 1839) 1822 - Adolf Kussmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), born in Graben (d. 1902) 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian NHL hockey player (1948-49 Hart Trophy), born in Melville, Saskatchewan (d. 2000) 1926 - (Alan) "Bud" Yorkin, American film and television producer and director (Divorce American Style; All in the Family; Sanford And Son), born in Washington, Pennsylvania (d. 2015) 1939 - George Haslam, British avant-garde jazz baritone saxophonist, and tárogató player, born in Preston, Lancashire, England 1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1897 - Charles Blondin, French acrobat and tight rope walker, dies at 72 1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864) 1968 - Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 1976 - Florence Ballard, American pop and RandB singer (The Supremes, 1959-67 - "Buttered Popcorn"; "Where Did Our Love Go"), dies of a heart attack at 32 1996 - Helmut Schoen, Germany football coach (manager of West Germany (1964-1978, 1974 World Cup), dies at 80 1997 - Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers), dies at 68 More Famous Deaths »

1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London 1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree 1911 - Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto, Berceuse élégiaque, in New York City 1922 - Airship "Rome" explodes at Hampton Roads, Virginia; 34 die 1945 - Operation Veritable: British Army captures Goch from Germany, forcing German retreat away from the Rhineland 1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt 1991 - Neil Simon's stage comedy "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 780 performances 2019 - Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 touches down on asteroid Ryugu on mission to collect rock samples 2019 - The Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library launched on board Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander, aiming to be stored on the Moon More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1902 - Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, performs his 1st brain operation 1909 - John Galsworthy's "Strife" premieres in London 1965 - Civil rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York City 1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazakhstan (explodes) 2017 - Plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1909 - Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2015) 1917 - Tadd Dameron, American jazz pianist, composer ("If You Could See Me Now"; "Lady Bird"), arranger (Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine) and band leader, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1965) 1940 - Peter McEnery, English actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners), born in Walsall, England 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor, comedian, director and activist ("Frasier Crane" in Cheers and Fraiser), born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands 1966 - Bronwen Booth, English actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil), born in London, England 1978 - Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani American comedian, actor and writer (The Big Sick, Silicon Valley), born in Karachi, Pakistan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1513 - Julius II, Italian Pope (1503-13) and patron of Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael, dies at 69 1918 - Neltje Blanchan, American nature writer, dies at 52 1919 - Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), murdered at 46 1996 - Morton Gould, American pianist, conductor, and theatrical, screen, and concert composer (Pulitzer Prize, 1956 - Stringmusic), dies at 82 2012 - Eiko Ishioka, Japanese Costume designer, dies from pancreatic cancer at 74 2016 - Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian composer, dies at 88 More Famous Deaths »

1922 - Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1934 - Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" opens on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre, NYC 1949 - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks) 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1987 - 37th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Theme" wins the Golden Bear 1988 - Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating 1988 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) 1989 - An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England 2018 - Venezuela becomes the first country to launch a virtual currency, the petro, to counteract their financial crisis 2021 - Englishwoman Jasmine Harrison (21) becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean arriving in Antigua as part of the Atlantic Challenge after 70 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1953 - August A. Busch buys St. Louis Cardinals MLB club from Fred Saigh for $3.75 million; pledges not to move the team from St. Louis, Missouri 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1980 - Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 30k and 50k gold 1981 - James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec) 2010 - On the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, leaving at least 32 deaths in the worst disaster on the history of the archipelago. 2013 - Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1745 - Henry James Pye, English poet, British Poet Laureate (1790-1813), born in London (d. 1813) 1896 - Henri de Lubac, French Jesuit cardinal and theologist ("new theology” movement that influenced Second Vatican Council), born in Cambrai, France (d. 1991) 1926 - Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral 1927 - Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, first black actor to win Oscar for Best Actor ('Lillies in the Field' - 1963; To Sir With Love"; "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"), director (Stir Crazy), civil rights advocate, and diplomat, born in Miami, Florida (d. 2022) 1928 - Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon 1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1810 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, German composer, dies at 57 1937 - Barlow Carkeek, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests, 6 dismissals; Victoria), dies when struck by a car at 58 1980 - Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), dies at 84 2002 - Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing), dies at 94 2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist, dies at 76 2013 - Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer, dies at 80 More Famous Deaths »

1700 - Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark 1884 - "Enigma Outbreak" of over 60 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill hundreds, if not over a thousand (hence the "enigma") people 1933 - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers 1942 - Bill Longson beats Managoff and Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ 1942 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra record "I'll Take Tallulah" 1952 - American defending champion Dick Button becomes first figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition; performs a triple loop in the Olympic free skate in Oslo; wins gold medal ahead of Austria’s Helmut Seibt 1952 - French offensive at Hanoi 1980 - Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark wins the giant slalom from Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; also takes slalom gold 1982 - Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 2007 - Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1771 - French astronomer Charles Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis and Hydra and galaxy in Virgo) 1819 - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III 1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines 1985 - Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola 1992 - In a blockbuster NHL trade, Pittsburgh Penguins send Mark Recchi, Brian Benning and LA's 1st round 1992 pick (Jason Bowen) to the Philadelphia Flyers for Kjell Samuelsson, Rick Tocchet and Ken Wregget 2014 - Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1920 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007) 1923 - Donald Lybbert, American composer (Zap; Lines for the Fallen), and educator (Hunter College, 1954-80), born in Cresco, Iowa (d. 1981) 1940 - [William] Smokey Robinson, American soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles - "You Really Got A Hold On Me"; "Tears Of A Clown"; "My Girl"), born in Detroit, Michigan 1979 - Mariska [Anna Maria Rahikainen], Finnish rapper, born in Helsinki, Finland 1981 - Ronnie Arniell, Canadian professional wrestler 1993 - Victoria Justice, American Actress (The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, Lola Martinez in Nickelodeon show Zoey 101) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1545 - Pierre Brully [Peter Brulius], Calvinist minister, burned to death for teaching Protestant doctrine in Tournai 1878 - Charles-François Daubigny, French painter of the Barbizon school, dies at 61 1948 - Bob Groom, American baseball pitcher (Washington Senators; no-hitter 1917 St. Louis Browns), dies at 63 1957 - Maurice Garin, Italian-born French road bicycle racer (winner of Tour de France in 1903), dies at 85 1993 - Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 1994 - Derek Jarman, English filmmaker (The Tempest), artist and gay rights activist, dies of AIDS at 52 More Famous Deaths »

1574 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels 1861 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War) 1865 - Battle of Fort Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals 1885 - Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US 1919 - Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goal 1950 - "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances 1952 - Norwegian speed skater Hjalmar Anderson wins his 3rd gold medal of the Oslo Winter Olympics when he claims the 10,000m in Olympic record 16:45.8; also wins gold in 1,500m and 5,000m 1977 - George Harrison releases music single "True Love", from his "33-1/3" album 1984 - Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen wins first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the Large Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games 2020 - President Donald Trump commutes the 14-year sentence of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich's corruption conviction More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1896 - Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for first time in 50 yrs 1957 - Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan freedom fighter is executed by the British colonial government. 1967 - Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers 1980 - East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins first of 2 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in women's 10k; also takes gold as part of 4 x 5k relay team 1992 - American amateur astronomer Peter Collins discovers Nova Cygni 1992, observed from Boulder, Colorado 2022 - Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway wins his 4th biathlon gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics when he takes out the men's mass start More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1770 - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, German composer, born in Elgersburg (d. 1846) 1867 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German Romantic novelist whose novels sold 80 million copies (Warbride), born in Nebra (d. 1950) 1909 - Wallace Stegner, American novelist and critic (Pulitzer-1972 for Angle of Repose), born in Lake Mills, Iowa (d. 1992) 1936 - Jozef Vengloš, Slovak soccer manager (Australia, Czechoslovakia, Malaysia, Fenerbahçe, Aston Villa, Celtic, Slovakia), born in Ružomberok, Slovakia (d. 2021) 1955 - Miles Tredinnick, English playwright, born in Warrington, United Kingdom 1967 - Colin Jackson, Welsh 100m hurdler (Olympic silver 1988), born in Cardiff, Wales More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1546 - Martin Luther, German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation, dies at 62 1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667) 1957 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan freedom fighter, dies by execution at 36 1963 - Monte Blue, American silent film actor (Apache), dies of a heart attack at 73 1980 - Gale Robbins [Betty Gale Murphy], American singer and actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex), dies of lung cancer at 58 1996 - Jack Thieuloy, French writer, dies at 64 More Famous Deaths »

1843 - Battle of Miani: Bombay Army of the East India Company led by Charles Napier defeats a Baluch army of Talpur Emirs of Sindh led by Mir Nasir Khan Talpur. Leading to the capture of parts of Sindh, the company's first possession in modern-day Pakistan. 1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded 1951 - Detroit right wing Gordie Howe scores his 100th career NHL goal and adds an assist in a 2-1 Red Wings' victory away to the Montreal Canadiens 1967 - Parlophone releases the Beatles' double "A" side single "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" in the UK 1984 - 34th Berlin International Film Festival: "Love Streams" wins the Golden Bear 1985 - Panamanian jockey Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000 winners; wins aboard Doria's Delight in the 5th race at Santa Anita Park 1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 2016 - Car bomb attack on military convoy in Ankara, Turkey, by Kurdish militant eaves 28 dead 2016 - Nike ends endorsement deal with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he made TV comments gay people are "worse than animals." 2021 - Texan senator Ted Cruz flies to Cancun, Mexico with his family amid a winter disaster in his state, igniting widespread condemnation More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1621 - Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony 1905 - Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall 1954 - WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 1995 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY 1995 - Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike 2021 - South Africa, Africa's worst-affected country begins COVID-19 vaccinations with the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine in Cape Town More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866) 1821 - Lola Montez, Irish dancer and courtesan, born in Grange, Ireland (d. 1861) 1850 - Anton Urspruch, German composer, born in Frankfurt (d. 1907) 1895 - Anita Stewart, American silent film actress (South of Hell Mountain), producer, and mystery novelist, born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1961) 1913 - Oskar Danon, Yugoslav conductor (Belgrade Opera, 1944-65), born in Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) (d. 2009) 1963 - Larry the Cable Guy [Daniel Lawrence Whitney], American comedian (Blue Collar Comedy Tour), born in Pawnee City, Nebraska More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer (Méthode, Op. 27), dies at 71 1924 - Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57 1976 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Le Plaisir, Every Man is My Enemy), dies from heart failure at 65 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), dies at 80 2013 - Mindy McCready, American country singer, commits suicide by gunshot at 37 2019 - Ethel Ennis, American jazz singer (If Women Ruled The World), dies of a stroke at 86 More Famous Deaths »

1646 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War 1892 - Opera "Werther" by Jules Massenet premieres in Vienna 1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) 1916 - Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI 1916 - The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships 1961 - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Virginia 1963 - 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US) 1966 - End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australian wicketkeeper 1973 - West Indies v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Gary Sobers 1975 - 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1512 - Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen 1559 - Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy 1916 - The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania 1931 - Extreme right wing politician Pehr Evind Svinhufvud becomes President of Finland 1952 - Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record) 2016 - Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is placed under investigation for campaign funds More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1868 - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist and linguist (Anthropos), born in Hörde, Germany (d. 1954) 1900 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (For the Freedom of Ireland, Salome), born in Louisiana (d. 1971) 1934 - Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins), born in Port Jervis, New York (d. 2005) 1945 - Julio Morales, Uruguayan soccer striker (24 caps; Racing Montevideo, Nacional, Austria Wien), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2022) 1971 - Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player (NAC) 1980 - Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1823 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman - allegorical paintings and portraits, dies at 64 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, dies at 71 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841) 1944 - Edmund von Borck, German composer, dies fighting in Italy in WWII at 37 1966 - Hendrik Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer and political leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 1987 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (In the Fire), dies at 82 More Famous Deaths »

1145 - Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III 1861 - Fort Point, in San Francisco, California, completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) 1958 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB 1967 - 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted 1979 - Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins 1987 - ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series 1996 - American boxer Tommy Morrison announces he has contracted HIV 1999 - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya. 2005 - YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States 2013 - Chelyabinsk meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,200 people, with 26 to 33 times energy of Hiroshima bomb More Historical Events »