1923 - Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere) 1923 - Horace Ashenfelter, US, 3000m steeplechase (Olympic-gold-1952) 1923 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars) 1924 - Frank R Lautenberg, (Sen-D-NJ, 1983- ) 1925 - Marty Paich, Oakland Calif, orch leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell) 1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994) 1928 - Eugene Monti, Italy, bobsledder (Olympic-2 golds-1968) 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim) 1928 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, Dutch speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952) 1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005) 1929 - Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65) 1929 - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986) 1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate 1930 - Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992) 1930 - Ken Errair, rocker (Four Freshmen) 1930 - William Reid Pogue, Okemah Okla, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4) 1932 - Bud Shuster, (Rep-R-PA, 1973- ) 1933 - Arlene Golonka, Chicago Ill, actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD) 1933 - Chita Rivera, Wash DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity) 1933 - Joel Spiegelman, composer 1934 - Lou Antonio, Okla City, actor (Barney-Snoop Sisters, Makin' It) 1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003) 1936 - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay) 1938 - Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident 1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999) 1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist 1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress 1940 - Johnny Russell, country singer 1942 - Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, cosmonaut 1942 - Laurie Mayne, cricketer (Australian pace bowler in 6 Tests 1965-70) 1942 - Willy Bogner Jr, Munich, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) 1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director 1943 - Gil Gerard, Little Rock Ark, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century) 1943 - William E "Bill" Gibb, Scottish fashion designer 1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist 1944 - Jerry Lawson, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk) 1944 - Marty Russo, (Rep-D-IL, 1975- ) 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend) 1944 - Sergey Belov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972) 1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario 1946 - Asif Masood, cricketer (Pakistani quick with long & erratic run-up) 1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon 1947 - Thomas R Carper, (Rep-D-DE, 1983- ) 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia 1948 - Anita Pointer, Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy) 1949 - Robert Cabana, Minneapolis, Mjr USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, sk:88) 1950 - Bill Cunningham, rock keyboardist/bassist (Box Tops) 1950 - Danny Federici, rocker (E Street Band)
1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877) 1828 - Calvin Edward Pratt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 1830 - Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900) 1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883) 1833 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1840 - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) 1843 - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer 1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) 1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) 1862 - David Hilbert, Knigsberg East Prussia, mathematician 1865 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore) 1867 - Herbert Bedford, composer 1868 - Juventino Rosas, composer 1869 - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer 1869 - Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life) 1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946) 1872 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957) 1878 - Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom) 1878 - Rutland Boughton, composer 1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956) 1885 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer 1888 - Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor 1889 - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living) 1889 - Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography) 1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist 1893 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks) 1894 - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
3102 BCE - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga. 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 - In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. 1368 - In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity. 1533 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant. 1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Franois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 - Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 - Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time. 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. 1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
3102 BCE - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga. 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 - In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. 1368 - In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity. 1533 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant. 1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Franois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 - Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 - Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time. 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. 1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1897 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction. 1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. 1900 - The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat. 1904 - lesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. 1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign. 1943 - World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army. 1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying. 1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1973 - A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland. 1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1997 - Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others. 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody. 2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered . 2003 - Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10. 2009 - Dendermonde nursery attack in Dendermonde, Belgium.
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