Events

• 1149 – Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.

• 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

• 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.

• 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.

• 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

• 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

• 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy.

• 1749 – New Governor Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).

• 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

• 1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.

• 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.

• 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

• 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

• 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.

• 1888 – First (known) recording of classical music, Handel's "Israel in Egypt", made on a wax cylinder.

• 1891 – Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.

• 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

• 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

• 1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

• 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

• 1925 – Canada House opens in London, England.

• 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

• 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.

• 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.

• 1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.

• 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by Soviet Union.

• 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

• 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".

• 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.

• 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.

• 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)

• 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

• 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

• 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

• 2007 – Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.

Births

• 1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)

• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)

• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)

• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)

• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)

• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)

• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)

• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)

• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)

• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)

• 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)

• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)

• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)

• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)

• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)

• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)

• 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)

• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)

• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)

• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)

• 1895 – Olivia Patricia Thomas, American supercentenarian

• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)

• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)

• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)

• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)

• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)

• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)

• 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)

• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)

• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)

• 1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)

• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)

• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)

• 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)

• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)

• 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)

• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)

• 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)

• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker

• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)

• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)

• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer

• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)

• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer

• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician

• 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor

• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress

• 1925 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (d. 1999)

• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)

• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)

• 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesia Finance Minister (d. 2005)

• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress

• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)

• 1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress

• 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)

• 1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer

• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician

• 1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player

• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian

• 1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor

• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager

• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player

• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer

• 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)

• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer

• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player

• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)

• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter

• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)

• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor

• 1944 – Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop

• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka

• 1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)

• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician

• 1947 – Michael Carter, British actor

• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian

• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer

• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician

• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician

• 1951 – Don Rosa, American illustrator

• 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player

• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer

• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player

• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist

• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut

• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, baseball player

• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal

• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress

• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician

• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian musician

• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete

• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer

• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress

• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist

• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress

• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress

• 1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut

• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist

• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist

• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer

• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American musician

• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player

• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist

• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver

• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian musician

• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress, singer

• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American Actress and Acting Teacher

• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician

• 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor

• 1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician

• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder

• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer

• 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress

• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian musician

• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player

• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)

• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer

• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist

• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician

• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver

• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress

• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist

• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)

• 1979 – Abs Breen, English singer

• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer

• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player

• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)

• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano

• 1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality

• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver

• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player

• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer

• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)

• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer

• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model

• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor

• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer

• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player

• 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipina actress

• 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer/songwriter

• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer

• 1992 – Adam Sevani, American actor/dancer

• 1993 – George Sampson, English Street Dancer

Deaths

• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony

• 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)

• 1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)

• 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)

• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)

• 1744 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)

• 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)

• 1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)

• 1855 – John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)

• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)

• 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)

• 1875 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)

• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)

• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)

• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)

• 1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)

• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)

• 1933 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)

• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)

• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)

• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)

• 1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)

• 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)

• 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)

• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)

• 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)

• 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)

• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)

• 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)

• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

• 1977 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)

• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)

• 1979 – Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)

• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)

• 1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)

• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)

• 1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)

• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)

• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)

• 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)

• 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)

• 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)

• 1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)

• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)

• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

• 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)

• 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)

• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)

• 2004 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)

• 2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)

• 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)

• 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)

• 2007 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)

• 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)

• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)

• 2009 – Joe Bowman (marksman), American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker & master showman (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles – Independence Day.

• The Netherlands – Veterans Day.

• Malta – l-Imnarja

• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers

• Saint Cassius of Narni