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The original members of Pink Floyd met in an architectural college. The band started as a blues band.  Later, under Syd Barrett's leadership, they played music that was psychedelic in style.  After Barrett left the band, they started to play longer and more complicated songs, and to play at a lot of colleges and universities.  Soon, they were famous as studio musicians who loved to experiment with music.  On the album Atom Heart Mother, from 1970, they used a brass band and a choir.
They used a lot of things to make their concerts interesting to watch. They had a round movie screen on the stage. They would show videos on the screen when they played. They also used lighting and lasers in a much fancier way than many bands do. They also had big balloon puppets. The most famous is in the shape of a pig, which first appeared on the cover for their album, Animals. The pig has since become a symbol of Pink Floyd. Another symbol that reminds people of Pink Floyd is a prism with light shining through it. This was on the cover of Dark Side of the Moon, one of their most popular albums. The album was released in 1973, and stayed on music charts for a very long time. Millions of people bought it.
The album The Wall, recorded in 1979, was also famous.  It was made into a movie, directed by Alan Parker, in 1982. That album is important to the history of the group.  It talks about the distance they put between them and their fans.  It was the last album they all worked on together before starting to split up.  

Roger Waters forced Richard Wright to leave the band in 1979, but Wright came back in 1987, after Waters quit.  Waters tried to sue the other members so that they could not call themselves Pink Floyd without him, but he did not succeed.  Because of this and other reasons, there was a lot of anger and bitterness between Waters and the other members of the band, especially Gilmour.

Pink Floyd without Roger Waters
The last album of new songs that Pink Floyd released is called The Division Bell. It was made in 1994, when Pink Floyd also played their last concert tour. The last time that Pink Floyd played was in 2005, as part of the Live 8 concerts for charity. Waters sang with the band for the first time since leaving the band. It was a big surprise to many people who thought Pink Floyd would never play together again, especially not with Roger Waters.

Syd Barrett died of pancreatic cancer in 2006.  Richard Wright died of cancer in 2008.

In 2014, Pink Floyd released their first album in over 20 years: The Endless River.

In 2022, the band released "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!". It was a single released to support Ukraine when Russia invaded them.

Discography
Discography 

 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
 A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
 More (1969)
 Ummagumma (studio & live album) (1969)
 Atom Heart Mother (1970)
 Meddle (1971)
 Obscured by Clouds (1972)
 Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
 Wish You Were Here (1975)
 Animals (1977)
 The Wall (1979)
 The Final Cut (1983)
 A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
 Delicate Sound of Thunder (live album) (1988)
 The Division Bell (1994)
 Pulse (live album) (1995)
 Is There Anybody Out There? – The Wall Live 1980-81 (live album) (2000)
 The Endless River (2014)

Other websites 

 Pink Floyd's UK site 
 Pink Floyd's U.S. site

 Another Link on the Wall - A large collection of fan sites, news resources and other websites, updated regularly.
Musical groups established in 1965
1965 establishments in England
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Progressive rock bands
Pope John Paul I (; , 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978), born Albino Luciani, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 264th Pope for 33 days in 1978.  His name was a combination of the names of the two popes who came before him.  The name "John Paul" honors Pope John XXIII who made him a bishop and Pope Paul VI who raised him to the rank of cardinal. Pope John Paul I was beatified by Pope Francis on 04 September 2022.

Early life
Luciani was born in Canale d'Agordo, a small town between Venice and the Austrian border with Italy.  His father was a migrant worker in Switzerland.

Priest
Luciani began his priesthood in the parishes of his home region.  In 1937, he became a professor of theology and vice-rector of Belluno seminary.

Bishop
He was made Bishop of Vittorio Veneto in 1969.  He understood his role as bishop in a modest way:

Cardinal
In 1972, Pope Paul VI made Luciani a cardinal. and the Patriarch of Venice.
Pope
Cardinal Luciani was elected Pope in 1978, John Paul I was the first pope to combine the names of John and Paul as a Pope as his way of paying tribute to Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.  He was the first Pope to call himself by a new name since Pope Lando in 913.

He was known as "the Smiling Pope".

Death 
John Paul I died of a heart attack on 28 September 1978, 33 days after his election.

Selected works
 In a list made of writings by and about John Paul I, OCLC/WorldCat has over 250 works in 370 publications in 17 languages and 11,300 library holdings.
 Illustrissimi (1978)

Related pages
 List of popes
 List of popes by length of reign

References

More reading
 Cornwell, John. (1989). A Thief in the Night: the Death of Pope John Paul I. New York: Simon & Schuster. ;  OCLC 20013469
 Seabeck, Raymond, ed. (2004). The Smiling Pope: the Life and Teaching of John Paul I. 	Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division. ;  OCLC 438570516

Other websites
Other websites

  Catholic Hierarchy,  Pope John Paul I
 Vatican webpage, John Paul I biography
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church,  Cardinal Luciani 

1912 births
1978 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Italian popes
People from Veneto
Beatified people
Up to 1900 
1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1660 – The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1817 – The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
1827 – Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan.
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1861 – Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1901 – 2000 
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
1941 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1943 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
  1943   – Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
1956   – Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
1961 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1977 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  1979   – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
1980 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
1989 – The 6.9  Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
  1989   – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
1992 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
2000 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2001 onwards 
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
2006 – The population of the United States officially reaches 300 million.
2018 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.

Births
Up to 1800 
 503 – Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
1493 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1500 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
  1577   – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
1587 – Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
1629 – Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)
1725 – John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
1729 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817)
1735 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (d. 1803)
1759 – Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
  1760   – Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist (d. 1825)
1768 – Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
1779 – Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (d. 1808)
  1779   – José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argetine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
1780 – Richard Mentor Johnson, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1781 – Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833)
1784 – Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854)
1785 – Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
1792 – John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
1797 – Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d. 1841)
1801 – 1900 
1803 – Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880)
1811 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
1813 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
1821 – Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
1828 – Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
1833 – José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
1835 – Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (d. 1894)
  1835   – Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (d.1905)
1840 – André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885)
1844 – Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (d. 1929)
1845 – John J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1921)
1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 – Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
1860 – Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927)
1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
1867 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
1871 –  Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
1876 – Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist (d. 1944)
1878 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
1880 – Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
1881 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959)
1883 – Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
  1883   – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
1889 – Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (d. 1988)
1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 – Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
1892   – Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
1893 – Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
1894 – Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962)
  1894   – Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968)
1895 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (d. 1982)
  1895   – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1858)
1896 – Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978)
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
  1898   – Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991)
  1898   – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
1900 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
  1900   – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
  1900   – Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)
1901 – 1925 
1901 – Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
  1903   – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976)
1905 – Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1907 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
1908 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
  1908   – Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
  1908   – Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
  1908   – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
  1909   – Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
  1909   – Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
  1910   – Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)
1912 – Pope John Paul I,  Catholic pope from August  1978- September 1978 (d. 1978)
  1912   – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
  1912   – Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
1913 – Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003)
  1913   – Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971)
  1913   – Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 – José López Rega, Argentinean politician  (d. 1989)
1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
  1917   – Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) 
  1917   – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
  1917   – Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer
  1917   – Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1917   – Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
  1918   – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
  1918   – Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 2021)
  1919   – Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
  1919   – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
  1920   – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
  1920   – Zully Moreno, Argentian actress (d. 1999)
1921 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
  1921   – Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
  1921   – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)
  1921   – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
1922   – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
  1923   – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
1924 – Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
  1924   – Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
  1924   – Giacomo Mari, Italian football midfielder (d. 1991)
  1924   – Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (d. 2019)
1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
1926 – 1950 
1926 – Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
  1926   – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
  1926   – Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-American art curator (d. 2019)
  1926   – Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
1928 – Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
  1928   – Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
1929 – Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930 – Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
  1930   – Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
  1930   – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
  1931   – José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
  1931   – Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008)
  1932   – Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
1933 – William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
1933   – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1934 – Alan Garner, English author and playwright
  1934   – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
  1934   – Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist (d. 2015)
1935 – Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
  1935   – Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
  1935   – Carlos Pairetti, Argetine racing driver
1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  1936   – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
  1936   – Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
  1937   – José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
  1937   – Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
  1937   – Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1938   – Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic
  1938   – António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
1939 – Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
  1940   – Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
  1940   – Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018)
1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
  1941   – Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
  1941   – Paul Ellison, American musician
1942 – Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
  1942   – Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
  1944   – Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2012)
1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
  1946   – Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
  1946   – Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
1946   – Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
  1946   – Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
  1946   – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
  1946   – Manuel Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
  1946   – Julio Miranda, Argentine politician
  1946   – Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
  1946   – José Perramón, Spanish handball player
  1946   – Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
  1946   – Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
  1946   – Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
1947 – Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
  1947   – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
  1947   – Robert Post, American educator and academic
  1947   – Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
1948 – Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
  1948   – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
  1948   – George Wendt, American actor and comedian
  1948   – Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
1949 – Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados
  1949   – Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
1950 – Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
  1950   – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
  1950   – Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (d. 2017)
1951 – 1975 
1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
  1951   – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
  1951   – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
  1951   – Dirk Beheydt, Belgian football player.
1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader 
  1953   – Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
1955 – Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
  1955   – Mike Bratz, American basketball player
1956 – Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 
  1956   – Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
  1956   – Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
  1956   – Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
  1957   – Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
  1957   – Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
1957   – Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
  1957   – Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
  1957   – Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
  1957   – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
1958 – Howard Alden, American guitarist
  1958   – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
  1958   – Craig Murray, British diplomat
  1958   – Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (d. 1977)
1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
  1959   – Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
  1959   – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  1959   – Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
  1959   – Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
  1959   – Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
  1959   – Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
  1959   – Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
1960 – Guy Henry, English actor
  1960   – Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
1960   – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013)
  1960   – Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
1961 – David Means, American short story writer
1962 – Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
  1962   – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
  1962   – Jay Humphries, American basketball player
1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
  1963   – Toby Young, English journalist and academic
1964 – Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
  1964   – Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
1965 – Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
  1965   – Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
1966 – Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
  1966   – Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
  1966   – Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
  1966   – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
1967 – Simon Segars, English businessman
  1967   – Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
1967   – René Dif, Danish musician
  1967   – Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
1968 – Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
  1968   – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
  1968   – David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
  1968   – Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
  1969   – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
  1969   – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
  1969   – Wood Harris, American actor
1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
  1970   – John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
  1970   – J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
1971 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 
  1971   – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
  1971   – Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
  1971   – Martin Heinrich, American politician
1971   – Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor 
  1972   – Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
  1972   – Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
  1973   – Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
1974 – Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
  1974   – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
  1974   – Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician
  1974   – Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
  1974   – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
  1974   – John Rocker, American baseball player
  1974   – Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
  1974   – Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
  1974   – Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
1975 – Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
  1975   – Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
  1975   – Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
1976 onwards 
1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
  1976   – Seth Etherton, American baseball player
  1976   – Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
  1976   – Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
  1977   – Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
  1977   – Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  1977   – Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
  1977   – Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
  1977   – Ryan McGinley, American photographer
  1977   – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
1978 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
  1978   – Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
  1978   – Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
  1978   – Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist 
  1979   – Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist
  1979   – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979   – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1980 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
  1980   – Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
  1980   – Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
  1980   – Angel Parker, American actress
  1980   – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
  1980   – Justin Shenkarow, American actor
1981 – Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
  1981   – Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
  1981   – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
  1981   – Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
1982 – Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
  1982   – Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
  1982   – Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
1983 – Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
  1983   – Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
  1983   – Felicity Jones, English actress
  1983   – Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
  1983   – Riki Miura, Japanese actor
  1983   – Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
  1983   – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
1983   – Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
  1983   – Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor
  1984   –  Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
  1984   – Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
  1984   – Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
  1984   – Anja Eline Skybakmoen,  Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
  1984   – Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
  1984   – Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
1985 – Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
  1985   – Max Irons, English-Irish actor
  1985   – Collins John, Dutch footballer
  1985   – Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
1986 – Alexandre Bonnet, French football midfielder
  1986   – Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
  1986   – Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
  1986   – Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
  1986   – Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
  1986   – Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
1987   – Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
  1987   – Elliot Grandin, French football winger
  1987   – Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1988 – Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
  1988   – Dami Im, South Korean-born Australian singer
  1988   – Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
  1988   – Marina Salas, Spanish actress
1989 – Débora García, Spanish football midfielder
  1989   – Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
  1989   – Sophie Luck, Australian actress
  1989   – David Timor, Spanish footballer
1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
  1990   – Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
  1990   – Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
  1990   – Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
  1990   – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
1991 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
  1992   – Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
1993 – Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
2001 – Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
Up to 1900 
AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
 532 – Pope Boniface II
 866 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
1271 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
1277 – Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
1346 – John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
1346 – Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
1456 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
1485 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
1552 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1616 – John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
1690 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
1780 – William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
1901 – 2000 
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher and theoretician (b. 1854)
1948 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
1955 – Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
  1958   – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
1965 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
1966   – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
  1970   – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
  1970   – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
  1972   – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
1978 – George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
  1978   – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
  1979   – John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
  1979   – Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
  1981   – Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
1981   – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
  1992   – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1996 – Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
  1998   – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
  2000   – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
2001 onwards 
2001 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
  2001   – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
  2001   – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
  2006   – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
  2007   – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
  2007   – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
  2008   – Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
  2008   – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
  2009   – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
  2012   – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
  2012   – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
  2012   – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
  2012   – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
  2012   – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
  2013   – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
  2013   – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
  2013   – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
  2013   – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
2014   – Gero Bisanz, German football coach (b. 1935)
  2014   – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
  2014   – Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
  2014   – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
2015 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
  2015   – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
  2015   – Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
  2015   – Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
2017 – Danielle Darrieux, French actress (b. 1917)
  2017   – Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964) 
2018 – Leone Frollo, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
  2018   – Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (b. 1921)
  2018   – Ara Güler, Turkish photojournalist (b. 1928)
  2018   – Jacques Monory, French painter and filmmaker (b. 1924)
  2018   – Derrick Sherwin, English television producer and actor (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Andrew of Crete
Anstrudis
Catervus
Ethelred and Ethelberht
Florentius of Orange
François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Hosea
Ignatius of Antioch
John the Short (John Colobus)
Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly)
Nothhelm
Rule of Andrew
Richard Gwyn
Victor of Capua
October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dessalines Day (Haiti)
Digital Society Day (India) 
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 
Loyalty Day (Argentina)
Kannemesai Festival (Ise Grand Shrine)

References

Days of the year
Events 
 January 1 – Establishment of Republic of China.
 January 5 – Prague Party Conference
 January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
 January 17 – British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
 January 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
 February 8 – Mexican Revolution – Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City. Battles last for 10 days
 February 12 – Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar
 February 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
 February 14 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
 February 18 – Francisco Madero is forced to resign – battle ends. All members of Madero's government are arrested.
 February 19 – Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time
 February 22 – Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez are shot, allegedly when they "tried to escape"
March 1 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
 March 1 – Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
 March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
 March 7 – Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
 March 7 – French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
 March 12 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) are founded.
 March 16 – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time"
 March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
 March 30 – France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
April 14–15 – The R.M.S Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Over 1500 people died.
 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Births

January 

 January 8 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director (d. 1992)
 January 28 – Jackson Pollack, American artist (d. 1956)

February 
 February 19 – Anton Buttigieg, 2nd President of Malta (d. 1983)

March 

 March 5 – Jack Marshall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
 March 12 – Pat Nixon, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
 March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
 March 27 — James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)

April 

 April 8 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
 April 15 – Kim Il-sung, Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)

May 

 May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)

June 

 June 23 – Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)

July

August 

 August 13 – Salvador Luria, Italian American microbiologist (d. 1991)
 August 23 – Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer (d. 1996)
 August 25 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (d. 1994)

September
September 

 September 5 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
 September 21 – Chuck Jones, American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films (d. 2002)

October 

 October 7 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 49th and 52nd President of Peru (d. 2002)
 October 17 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)

November

December 

 December 2 – Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1980)
 December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)

Deaths 
 February 12 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (b. 1841)
 May 30 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
 April 15 – Over 1500 people die on the R.M.S Titanic
 December 11 - James Otis, American children's writer

Art, music, theatre, literature, movies 
 May 29 - Premiere of Nijinsky's ballet The Afternoon of a Faun in Paris
Ted Cassidy (July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Lurch and Thing on The Addams Family.

Cassidy died of surgery-related problems to remove a tumor from his heart on January 16, 1979.

References

Other websites 
 

American television actors
American movie actors
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1979 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Deaths from heart cancer
Up to 1900 
 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781)
 904 - Thessaloniki falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
 1009 – Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
 1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain, when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to land on the island of Trinidad.
 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
 1655 – Russo-Polish War of 1654 to 1667: The Russian army enters the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
 1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Emperor of India.
 1667 – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam gets tranferred to British control, being renamed New York. The Dutch get the previously British colony in present-day Suriname.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
 1712 - Great Northern War: Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea, with an inconclusive result.
 1715 - An 11-ship Spanish treasure fleet is lost in a hurricane between the Florida Keys and Havana, Cuba, killing at least 1,000 people.
 1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
 1763 – Pontiac's War: The Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run.
 1790 – First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
 1865 - The first Narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1901  1950 
 1901 - With hot-air balloon Preussen, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Suering reach a record height of 10,800 meters.
 1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
 1914 - French Socialist politician Jean Jaurès is assassinated in a Paris café by the Nationalist Raoul Villain.
 1917 – The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
 1932 - Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party wins over 38% of the vote in German elections.
 1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
 1945 – Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.