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Events

    * 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
    * 1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
    * 1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
    * 1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
    * 1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
    * 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
    * 1810 - In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
    * 1837 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
    * 1865 - In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
    * 1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
    * 1895 - Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
    * 1895 - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
    * 1914 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
    * 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
    * 1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
    * 1935 - Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    * 1936 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
    * 1938 - Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
    * 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
    * 1946 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
    * 1953 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
    * 1953 - The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
    * 1955 - In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
    * 1961 - Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
    * 1961 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
    * 1963 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
    * 1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
    * 1966 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
    * 1967 - The Celtic Football Club becomes the first British, Scottish and Northern European football club to win the European Cup
    * 1977 - Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise.
    * 1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
    * 1981 - In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
    * 1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
    * 1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
    * 1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
    * 1997 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
    * 1999 - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
    * 2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
    * 2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
    * 2002 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
    * 2002 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
    * 2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
    * 2007 - The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.

[edit] Births

    * 1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
    * 1334 - Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
    * 1458 - Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
    * 1606 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
    * 1661 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
    * 1713 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
    * 1725 - Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
    * 1783 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
    * 1803 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
    * 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
    * 1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
    * 1845 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
    * 1846 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
    * 1846 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
    * 1848 - Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
    * 1852 - William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
    * 1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
    * 1860 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
    * 1865 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
    * 1865 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
    * 1877 - Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
    * 1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American entertainer (d. 1949)
    * 1879 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
    * 1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
    * 1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
    * 1886 - Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
    * 1886 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
    * 1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
    * 1888 - Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
    * 1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
    * 1892 - Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (d. 1980)
    * 1897 - Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
    * 1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d. 1971)
    * 1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
    * 1900 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
    * 1903 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
    * 1907 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
    * 1908 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
    * 1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
    * 1909 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
    * 1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
    * 1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
    * 1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
    * 1917 - Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
    * 1918 - Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
    * 1921 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1921 - Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
    * 1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
    * 1922 - Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
    * 1924 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
    * 1925 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
    * 1925 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
    * 1925 - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
    * 1927 - Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
    * 1929 - Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
    * 1929 - Warren Frost, American actor
    * 1931 - Georgi Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
    * 1931 - Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
    * 1931 - Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
    * 1932 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
    * 1932 - W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer
    * 1933 - Ray Spencer, English footballer
    * 1933 - Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
    * 1935 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
    * 1935 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
    * 1936 - Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
    * 1938 - Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
    * 1939 - Dixie Carter, American actress
    * 1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
    * 1943 - Jessi Colter, American singer
    * 1943 - John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
    * 1944 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
    * 1944 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
    * 1944 - John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
    * 1944 - Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
    * 1946 - David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
    * 1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
    * 1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
    * 1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
    * 1951 - Bob Gale, American screenwriter
    * 1952 - Al Sarrantonio, American writer
    * 1952 - Gordon Smith, American politician, junior senator from Oregon
    * 1952 - Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
    * 1953 - Eve Ensler, American playwright
    * 1953 - Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
    * 1953 - Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
    * 1955 - Alistair Burt, British politician
    * 1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
    * 1956 - David P. Sartor, American music composer
    * 1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1957 - Edward Lee, American writer
    * 1957 - Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1958 - Paul Weller, British musician
    * 1959 - Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
    * 1959 - Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1959 - Julian Clary, British television personality
    * 1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota
    * 1960 - Anthea Turner, British television personality
    * 1962 - Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
    * 1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
    * 1964 - David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1965 - George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
    * 1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
    * 1967 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
    * 1968 - Kendall Gill, American basketball player
    * 1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
    * 1969 - Stacy London, American fashion consultant
    * 1969 - Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth)
    * 1970 - Joey Eischen, American baseball player
    * 1970 - Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
    * 1970 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor
    * 1970 - Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
    * 1971 - Marco Cappato, Italian politician
    * 1971 - Justin Henry, American actor
    * 1972 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
    * 1973 - Demetri Martin, American comedian
    * 1973 - Molly Sims, American model and actress
    * 1973 - Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
    * 1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
    * 1974 - Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
    * 1975 - Lauryn Hill, American singer
    * 1976 - Tarik Glenn, American football player
    * 1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
    * 1976 - Ethan Suplee, American actor
    * 1976 - Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
    * 1977 - Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
    * 1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player
    * 1979 - Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
    * 1979 - Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
    * 1979 - Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player
    * 1979 - Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
    * 1980 - Jae Hee, South Korean actor
    * 1980 - David Navarro, Spanish footballer
    * 1982 - Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer
    * 1982 - Adam Boyd, English footballer
    * 1982 - Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
    * 1982 - Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
    * 1983 - Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
    * 1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
    * 1984 - Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
    * 1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
    * 1984 - Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1984 - Shawne Merriman, American football player
    * 1984 - Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
    * 1985 - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
    * 1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
    * 1986 - Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
    * 1986 - Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
    * 1987 - Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
    * 1987 - Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper
    * 1990 - Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
    * 1993 - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets

[edit] Deaths

    * 709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (b. c. 639)
    * 735 - Bede, English historian and monk
    * 967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
    * 992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. c. 935)
    * 1085 - Pope Gregory VII
    * 1261 - Pope Alexander IV
    * 1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
    * 1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
    * 1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
    * 1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
    * 1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
    * 1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
    * 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
    * 1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
    * 1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
    * 1786 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
    * 1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
    * 1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
    * 1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
    * 1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
    * 1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
    * 1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
    * 1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
    * 1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
    * 1919 - Madame C. J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
    * 1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
    * 1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
    * 1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
    * 1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
    * 1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
    * 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
    * 1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
    * 1942 - Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American Cellist (b. 1902)
    * 1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
    * 1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
    * 1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
    * 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
    * 1968 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
    * 1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
    * 1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
    * 1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
    * 1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
    * 1983 - Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
    * 1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
    * 1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
    * 1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
    * 1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
    * 1996 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
    * 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
    * 2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
    * 2002 - Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
    * 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
    * 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
    * 2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
    * 2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
    * 2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
    * 2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
    * 2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
    * 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
    * 2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
    * 2008 - J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)

[edit] Holidays and observances

    * Argentina - Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)
    * Africa Day commemorating the 1963 fouding of he AU's precursor, OAU
    * Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - African Liberation Day
    * Lebanon, Liberation Day (2000)
    * The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Day of Youth
    * Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed
    * Saint Urban's Day (d. 240)
    * Saint Bede the Venerable (d. 735)
    * Saint Augustine of Canterbury
    * Saint Pope Gregory VII (d. 1085)
    * Towel Day
    * Nerd Pride Day

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Events

    * 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
    * 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
    * 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
    * 1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.
    * 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
    * 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided.
    * 1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
    * 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
    * 1800 - The first smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
    * 1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
    * 1848 - The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
    * 1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
    * 1876 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
    * 1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
    * 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
    * 1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
    * 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
    * 1925 - Because of a lineup shakeup by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995. Exactly 16 years to the day, in 1941, Gehrig passes away from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
    * 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
    * 1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
    * 1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
    * 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrive in South Vietnam.
    * 1966 - Surveyor program: The Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
    * 1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
    * 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
    * 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
    * 1984 - Operation Bluestar, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with causalities, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
    * 1990 - The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
    * 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
    * 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
    * 1997 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
    * 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
    * 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
    * 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
    * 2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

[edit] Births

    * 926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
    * 1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
    * 1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
    * 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
    * 1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
    * 1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
    * 1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
    * 1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
    * 1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
    * 1838 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
    * 1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
    * 1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
    * 1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
    * 1863 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
    * 1865 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
    * 1869 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
    * 1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
    * 1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
    * 1899 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
    * 1904 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
    * 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
    * 1907 - Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
    * 1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
    * 1913 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
    * 1915 - Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
    * 1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
    * 1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
    * 1918 - Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
    * 1919 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
    * 1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
    * 1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
    * 1920 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
    * 1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
    * 1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
    * 1924 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
    * 1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
    * 1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
    * 1929 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
    * 1929 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
    * 1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
    * 1930 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
    * 1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
    * 1931 - William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
    * 1932 - Sammy Turner, American singer
    * 1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
    * 1935 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
    * 1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
    * 1937 - Sally Kellerman, American actress
    * 1937 - Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
    * 1938 - Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
    * 1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
    * 1941 - Stacy Keach, American actor
    * 1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
    * 1941 - William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
    * 1942 - Maree Cheatham, American actress
    * 1943 - Charles Haid, American actor
    * 1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
    * 1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
    * 1945 - Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
    * 1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
    * 1946 - Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
    * 1947 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
    * 1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor
    * 1949 - Heather Couper, British astronomer
    * 1949 - Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
    * 1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
    * 1952 - Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
    * 1953 - Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
    * 1953 - Craig Stadler, American golfer
    * 1954 - Dennis Haysbert, American actor
    * 1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
    * 1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
    * 1955 - Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
    * 1956 - Mani Ratnam, Indian director
    * 1956 - Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
    * 1957 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
    * 1957 - Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit
    * 1958 - Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
    * 1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
    * 1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
    * 1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
    * 1961 - Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
    * 1964 - Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
    * 1965 - Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
    * 1965 - Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
    * 1965 - Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
    * 1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
    * 1967 - Mike Stanton, baseball player
    * 1968 - Beetlejuice, American radio personality
    * 1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian
    * 1969 - Cy Chadwick, English actor
    * 1970 - Andy McCollum, American football player
    * 1970 - B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
    * 1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
    * 1971 - Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
    * 1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
    * 1972 - Wentworth Miller, American actor
    * 1972 - Simon Staho, Danish film director
    * 1973 - Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
    * 1974 - Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
    * 1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
    * 1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
    * 1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
    * 1976 - Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
    * 1976 - Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
    * 1976 - Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho
    * 1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
    * 1978 - Dominic Cooper, English actor
    * 1978 - Nikki Cox, American actress
    * 1978 - Justin Long, American actor
    * 1978 - A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
    * 1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes)
    * 1980 - Abby Wambach, American Soccer player
    * 1981 - Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player
    * 1981 - Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer.
    * 1981 - Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
    * 1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
    * 1983 - Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
    * 1983 - Brooke White, American singer
    * 1983 - Leela James, American singer-songwriter
    * 1985 - Ana Cristina, Cuban American singer,composer, and actress
    * 1987 - Darin Zanyar, Swedish Singer
    * 1988 - Patrik Berglund, Swedish hockey player
    * 1988 - Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
    * 1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
    * 1990 - Brittany Curran, American actress

[edit] Deaths

    * 829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
    * 910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
    * 1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
    * 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
    * 1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
    * 1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
    * 1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
    * 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
    * 1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
    * 1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
    * 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
    * 1806 - William Tate, English Portrait Painter (b. c. 1747)
    * 1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
    * 1853 - Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
    * 1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
    * 1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
    * 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
    * 1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
    * 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
    * 1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
    * 1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
    * 1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
    * 1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
    * 1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
    * 1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
    * 1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
    * 1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
    * 1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
    * 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
    * 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
    * 1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
    * 1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
    * 1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
    * 1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
    * 1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
    * 1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
    * 1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
    * 1974 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
    * 1976 - Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
    * 1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
    * 1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
    * 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
    * 1983 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
    * 1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
    * 1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
    * 1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
    * 1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
    * 1989 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
    * 1990 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
    * 1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
    * 1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
    * 1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
    * 1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
    * 1994 - David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
    * 1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
    * 1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
    * 1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
    * 1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
    * 1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
    * 1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
    * 1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
    * 2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
    * 2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
    * 2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
    * 2001 - Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
    * 2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
    * 2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
    * 2004 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
    * 2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)
    * 2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
    * 2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
    * 2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
    * 2006 - Keith Smith, English professional rugby player (b. 1952)
    * 2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
    * 2007 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
    * 2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
    * 2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
    * 2008 - Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)

[edit] Holidays and observances

    * Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
    * Xenia name day in Slovakia.
    * The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria.
    * Independence day Samoa 1962
    * The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death - see also March 13.
    * World Pétanque Day.

The following Catholic saints:

    * Saint Erasmus
    * Saint Eugene I (d. 657)
    * Saint Blandina
    * Saint Felix of Nicosia

ebug9 wrote:

1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash.

Mutantsteak wrote:

Coincidence?

Last edited by bad-man (2009-01-14 17:52:00)

Poseidon wrote:

April 17th, 1992 -

1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
1790 - Benjamin Franklin died.
1861 - American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the United States.
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971) born.
1949 - At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA finances and trains Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
1970 - Apollo 13th returns to Earth.