the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
1912 – Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1915 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian independence activist (d. 2015)
1916 – Francis Crick, British scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004)
1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (d. 2007)
1917 – Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002)
1918 – Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987)
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1918 - George Edward Hughes, British philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
1921 – Suharto, former President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
1923 - Alice Coleman, English geographer and academic
1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American political operative
1924 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (d. 2013)
1925 – Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
1926 - Julio Silva Solar, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1927 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter
1929 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor
1930 – Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician
1930 - Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedienne, writer (d. 2014)
1934 – Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
1934 - Mikio Aoki, Japanese politician
1936 – James Darren, actor, singer
1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (d. 2013)
1936 - Robert Floyd, American computer scientist (d. 2001)
1938 - Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
1939 - Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American musician ("P Funk")
1941 - George Pell, Australian cardinal and Archbishop of Sydney
1942 - Jacques Dubochet Swiss biochemist
1942 - Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
1942 – Horst Wolter, German footballer
1943 – Colin Baker, British actor
1943 – William Calley, American war criminal
1944 – Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter
1944 - Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
1946 - Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1946 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of Saint Lucia
1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist
1947 – Sara Paretsky, American writer
1947 - Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
1948 – Jürgen von der Lippe, German show master
1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
1950 - Kathy Baker, American actress
1950 - Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
1953 – Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia
1953 - Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1954 - Sergei Storchak, Russian politician
1954 - Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor
1955 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web
1955 - José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer
1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist ("Dilbert")
1957 - Dimple Kapadia, Indian movie actress
1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director
1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer/songwriter ("Simply Red")
1961 - Mary King, English equestrian
1962 – Nick Rhodes, English musician ("Duran Duran")
1962 - Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1962 - Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
1964 - Butch Reynolds, American athlete
1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-born singer and dancer (d. 1998)
1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress (ER)
1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, United States Congresswoman
1970 – Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
1970 - Kwame Kilpatrick, 68th Mayor of Detroit
1971 – Troy Vincent, American football player
1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (Andromeda)
1973 - Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-English comedienne
1973 - Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer
1978 - Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper, producer and actor
1978 – Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1979 - Derek Trucks, American musician
1981 - Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1981 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (d. 2019)
1981 – Sara Watkins, violinist (Nickel Creek)
1982 - Irina Lazareanu, Romanian model
1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1985 – Pierre Spies, South African rugby player
1985 - Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
1986 - Carl Ikeme, English-born footballer
1986 - Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
1987 - Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
1987 - Danielle Foote, Australian singer
1989 - Amaury Vassili, French singer
1989 - Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
1990 - Mickey Bushell, British Paralympic athlete
1990 - Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
1991 - Nick Benson, American actor
1997 - Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
2002 - Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg, Dutch royal
2004 - Francesca Capaldi, American actress
2006 - Deng Minghe, Chinese actor (d. 2015)
62 - Octavia, daughter of Nero
632 – Muhammad the Prophet, founder of Islam (b. 570)
1042 – Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
1154 - William of York, English saint and archbishop
1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1522)
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1701 - Philippe, Duke of Orléans (b. 1640)
1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1771 - George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (b. 1716)
1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 – Thomas Paine, American writer (b. 1737)
1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1874 – Cochise, Apache chief (b. between 1810 and 1823)
1876 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
1900 - Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (b. 1846)
1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (b. 1886)
1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (b. 1902)
1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1951 - Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1969 - Aino Sibelius, wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. 1871)
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
1980 – Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1904)
1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
1987 - Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
1990 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (b. 1906)
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
1998 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2007 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 1st President of Somalia (b. 1908)
2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
2009 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2009 - Harold Norse, American writer and poet (b. 1916)
2013 - Willi Sitte, German artist (b. 1921)
2013 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer, artist and journalist (b. 1930)
2013 - Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, husband of Megawati Sukarnoputri (b. 1942)
2013 - Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
2014 - Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Japanese royal (b. 1948)
2014 - Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist and supercentenarian, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
2014 - J. Stanley Marshall, American educator and academic (b. 1923)
2015 - Chea Sim, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
2015 - David Rotem, Israeli politician (b. 1949)
2015 - Frank Cappuccino, American boxing referee (b. 1929)
2016 - Qahhor Mahkamov, former President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
2016 - Pierre Aubert, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
2016 - Sascha Lewandowski, German football manager (b. 1971)
2016 - Marina Malfatti, Italian actress (b. 1933)
2017 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, priest and politician (b. 1933)
2017 - Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
2017 - Jan Notermans, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
2017 - Jill Singer, Australian journalist (b. 1957)
2017 - Sam Panopoulos, Greek-American cook (b. 1934)
2017 - Norro Wilson, American country singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
2018 - Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
2018 - Anthony Bourdain, American chef, author and television personality (b. 1956)
2018 - Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
2018 - Freddy Eugen, Danish cyclist (b. 1941)
2018 - Eunice Gayson, British actress (b. 1928)
2018 - Danny Kirwan, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
2018 - Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer (b. 1918)
2018 - John McKenzie, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
2018 - Theodore J. Sophocleus, American politician (b. 1939)
2018 - Thomas Stuttaford, British medical columnist and politician (b. 1931)
2019 - Lucho Avilés, Uruguayan-Argentine entertainment journalist (b. 1938)
2019 - Spencer Bohren, American guitarist (b. 1950)
2019 - Jorge Brovetto, Uruguayan engineer, academic and politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Norman Dewis, British racing driver and engineer (b. 1920)
2019 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (b. 1969)
2019 - Frank Lucchesi, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1927)
2019 - Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal singer and guitarist (b. 1971)
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1099 - First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
1628 - The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
1788 - Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 - The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1840 - Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1880 - War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
1893 - Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
1906 - The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
1909 - Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
1913 - Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines  underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 - Sette Giugno: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
1940 – Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London.
They return to Norway five years later.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
1944 - World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
1945 - Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
1948 - Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid signing the Ninth of May Constitution that makes his country a Communist state.
1959 - The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present-day East Timor.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
1968 - The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
1973 - Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1977 - 500 million people watch television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary of her reign in the UK and Commonwealth realms).
1979 - The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 - Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
1989 – Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog.
More than 170 people on board are killed.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
1995 - The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel-Lebanon border.
2001 - Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 begins as the Switzerland national football team, as co-host with Austria, loses the opening match to the Czech Republic national football team.
2009 – In European elections, Social-Democratic political parties suffer heavy losses, as more Conservative MEPs are elected.
Far-right politicians also gain several seats in the European Parliament.
2013 - A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
2014 - At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2014 - Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
2016 - Hillary Clinton declares victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for US President, which would make her the first woman to achieve this.
2017 - 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
2019 - The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4-0 in the opening game.
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1529 - Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
1561 - Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1623)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1686 - Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1852)
1687 - Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
1732 - Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
1757 - Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
1761 - John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
1809 - William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
1825 - R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 - Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1849 - Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
1851 - Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
1863 - Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
1877 - Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
1880 - Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
1888 - Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
1892 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
1894 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1970)
1906 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
1907 - Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
1909 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
1910 - Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
1911 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
1914 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
1921 - Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
1922 - Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1927 - Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1927 - Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
1928 - Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
1928 - James Ivory, American director
1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
1929 - Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
1929 - Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
1930 - Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1930 - Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
1933 - Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
1936 - Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
1937 - Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
1938 - Ian St John, Scottish footballer
1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1940 - Ronald Pickup, English actor
1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
1943 - Ken Osmond, American actor
1944 - Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
1944 - Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
1947 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1949 - Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
1950 - Gary Graham, American actor
1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
1953 - Johnny Clegg, British musician
1953 - Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
1955 - William Forsythe, American actor
1956 - L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
1957 - Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
1957 - Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
1958 – Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
1959 - Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
1960 - Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
1960 - Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
1961 - Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1962 - Michael Cartellone, American drummer
1962 - Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
1962 - Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Judie Aronson, American actress
1963 - Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
1964 - Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
1965 - Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
1969 - Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
1969 - Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 - Helen Baxendale, British actress
1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 - Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
1970 - Cha Seung-won, South Korean actor and model
1970 - Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
1974 - Sunshine Anderson, American singer
1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
1974 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
1975 - Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
1976 - Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
1976 - Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
1977 - Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
1978 - Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
1978 - Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress and producer
1979 - Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
1980 - Ed Moses, American swimmer
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 - Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
1982 - German Lux, Argentine footballer
1983 - Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
1984 - Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
1985 - Dani Evans, American model
1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
1986 - Keegan Bradley, American golfer
1988 - Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor
1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
1990 - Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
1990 - Amy Childs, English TV personality
1990 - Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
1991 - Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1991 - Fetty Wap, American rapper
1993 - George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor
1993 - Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer
555 - Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
1594 - Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese-English physician
1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1842 - James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1863 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1871 - August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
1876 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1916 - Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1931 - Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
1933 - Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1945 - Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 - Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1992 - Bill France, Sr.,
American racing driver and businessman, co-founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)
2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
2012 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2014 – Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2014 – Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
2014 – Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (b. 1928)
2014 – Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
2014 – Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
2015 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
2015 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
2016 – Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
2016 – Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2016 – Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
2016 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
2017 – Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
2017 – Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
2017 – James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
2017 – France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
2018 – Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
2018 – Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2018 – Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
2019 – Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan-Spanish film director (b. 1935)
2019 – Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
2019 – Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
2021 - Ben Roberts, British actor (b. 1950)
Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation
Birthday of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)
June 07
1332 – Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation.
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite strikes Earth in a wheatfield in the Alsace.
1619 - Elizabeth of Bohemia is crowned.
1659 - France and Spain sign the Treaty of the Pyrenees, agreeing on their border in northern Catalonia.
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest-surviving journal, is first published.
1775 - John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America.
1786 - The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical organization in the United States, is founded.
1801 – Alessandro Volta demonstrates the first battery.
1848 – Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Denver, Colorado is incorporated as a city.
1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York City.
1876 – Rutherford B. Hayes is controversially elected President of the United States over Samuel J. Tilden, as Tilden had won the popular vote.
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1893 - Colorado becomes the first US State to allow women to vote.
1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in Bolivia.
1911 - Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
1913 - First Day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
1916 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to a second term as President of the United States.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1917 – The October Revolution begins in Russia.
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in Bavaria.
1918 - The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak reaches Western Samoa.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed.
1933 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected the 99th Mayor of New York City.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco's troops begin their assault on Madrid.
1940 – The original bridge in Tacoma, Washington collapses in a wind storm, only 4 months after its completion.
1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes.
1944 - A passenger train derails in Puerto Rico, killing 16 people.
1944 - Soviet spy Richard Sorge is executed by his Japanese captors.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Thomas E. Dewey, as he is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States, though he only serves this term for a short time, as he dies on April 12, 1945, when he is succeeded by Harry S. Truman.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt.
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine, after surviving for 14 days.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American Mayor of a major US city.
1972 – Richard Nixon is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating George McGovern, who only manages to win in Massachusetts and Washington, DC.
1975 - In Bangladesh, a joint force of civilians and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the house-arrested army chief and future President Major General Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1982 - In Burkina Faso, Saye Zerbo is removed from power by Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
1987 – Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali becomes the 2nd President of Tunisia.
1989 - Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India.
1989 – In Virginia, Douglas Wilder is elected the first African-American Governor in the United States.
1989 – David Dinkins is elected the first African-American Mayor of New York City.
1989 – Willi Stoph and the entire East German cabinet resigns.
1990 – Mary Robinson is elected the first female President of Ireland.
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has AIDS, and declares his retirement from professional basketball.
1996 - A Boeing 727 crashes in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 143 people on board.
2000 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first First Lady of the United States to be elected to the United States Senate.
2000 – The Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in the United States ends in controversy.
Gore wins the popular votes, but after narrowly winning Florida, Bush wins the electoral college vote.
The result is not known for a month, when Bush is declared as the next President of the United States.
2001 - SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of US products.
2006 - US Mid-Term Elections: The Democrats gain a majority in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives halfway through Republican George W. Bush's second term in office as President.
2007 – Jokela School Shooting: A shooting in Tuusula, Finland, kills 9 people.
2008 - The Pétion-Ville school collapse in Haiti kills 94 people.
2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray is found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson.
2012 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off Guatemala.
2018 - Donald Trump fires United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
2018 - Twelve people are killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting in a country music bar near Los Angeles, California.
630 – Constans II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 668)
994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
1598 - Francisco Zurbaran, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1612 – Pierre Mignard, French painter (d. 1695)
1687 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian, physician and clergyman (d. 1765)
1706 - Carlo Cecere, Italian composer (d. 1761)
1720 - Erekle II, Georgian King (d. 1798)
1728 – James Cook, English explorer (d. 1879) (born on Oct. 27 in the Julian calendar)
1790 - Luigi Legnani, Italian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1877)
1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1832 - Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat (d. 1918)
1833 - Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet (d. 1912)
1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1846 – Ignaz Bruell, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
1849 - Ernesto Hinze Ribeiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1907)
1855 - Edwin Hall, American physicist (d. 1938)
1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
1867 – Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
1872 - Leonora Speyer, American poet and novelist (d. 1956)
1876 - Alex Smith, Scottish footballer (d. 1954)
1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1879 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (d. 1940)
1879 - King Baggot, American actor (d. 1958)
1885 – Frank Knight, American economist (d. 1972)
1886 – Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian chess player (d. 1935)
1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (d. 1970)
1890 - Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
1891 - Miriam Cooper, American actress (d. 1976)
1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1953)
1897 - Armstrong Sperry, American author (d. 1976)
1899 - Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (d. 1989)
1903 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1903 - Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
1904 - Gino Rosetti, Italian footballer (d. 1992)
1905 - Aurélio de Lira Tavares, President of Brazil (d. 1998)
1908 - Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1913 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
1913 - Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and movie director (d. 1991)
1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian and writer (d. 1987)
1915 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (d. 2005)
1917 – Helen Suzman, South African political activist (d. 2009)
1918 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1921 - Jack Fleck, American golfer (d. 2014)
1922 - Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2014)
1925 - János Horváth, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (d. 2010)
1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, 3rd president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist
1930 - Antonio Marchesano, Uruguayan lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
1936 – Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
1938 - Ian Balding, American-English horse trainer
1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
1940 - Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer
1941 - Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
1942 – Johnny Rivers, American musician
1943 – Silvia Cartwright, former Governor-General of New Zealand
1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
1943 – Michael Spence, American economist
1943 - Michael Byrne, British actor
1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
1944 - E. Hunter Harrison, American railroad executive (d. 2017)
1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 - Bob Windle, Australian swimmer
1947 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player
1949 – Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (d. 2001)
1950 - Lindsay Duncan, British actress
1951 - Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor and producer
1952 - Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2016)
1952 – David Petraeus, American general and CIA director
1952 – Modibo Sidibe, former Prime Minister of Mali
1953 - Lucinda Green, British horse rider and journalist
1955 - Norbert Eder, German footballer (d. 2019)
1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1957 - Christopher Knight, American actor
1957 - John Benitez, American DJ, songwriter and producer
1957 - King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 - Alexandre Guimaraes, Costa Rican football manager
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 - Sergei Aleinikov, Belarussian footballer
1962 – Bettina Hoy, German equestrian showjumper
1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
1964 - Bonnie St. John, American Paralympic ski racer
1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1967 – David Guetta, French DJ
1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer
1969 - Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American movie director and producer
1970 - Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter
1971 - Robin Finck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 - Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican track athlete
1975 - Venkat Prabhu, Indian movie director
1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
1976 - Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
1977 - Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
1978 - Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer
1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 – Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Mike Commodore, American ice hockey player
1979 - Barney Harwood, English television presenter and actor
1980 - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model, actress and singer
1980 - Karthik, Indian singer and composer
1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
1982 - Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Amelia Vega, Dominican model
1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American footballer
1985 - Tom Croft, English rugby player
1987 - Rachele Brooke Smith, American actress and dancer
1988 – Tinie Tempah, English rapper and musician
1988 - Yuki Muto, Japanese footballer
1988 - Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
1989 - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and actress (Pussy Riot)
1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
1994 - Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1996 - Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
641 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, 2nd Caliph od Islam
739 - Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint
1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 – Jon Arason, last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland (b. 1484)
1574 - Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and educator (b. 1546)
1633 - Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and explorer (b. 1823)
1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
1922 - Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1930 - Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1878)
1933 - Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, activist and wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1884)
1967 - John Nance Garner, Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Jivraj Narayan Mehta, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
1978 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1897)
1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1981 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885)
1990 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912)
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1921)
1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 - Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress and dancer (b. 1901)
1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama (b. 1942)
2000 – Ingrid of Sweden, mother of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1910)
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (b. 1923)
2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English author, screenwriter and producer (b. 1960)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer and world champion (b. 1944)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and writer (b. 1920)
2012 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
2013 - Manfred Rommel, German politician, former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, and son of Erwin Rommel (b. 1928)
2013 - Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
2014 - Lincoln D. Faurer, American air force officer (b. 1928)
2014 - Connie Dion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2014 - Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
2015 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor (b. 1947)
2016 - Janet Reno, United States Attorney General (b. 1938)
2016 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
2017 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977)
2017 - Brad Harris, American actor and stuntman (b. 1933)
2017 - Carl Sargeant, Welsh politician (b. 1968)
2017 - Wendell Eugene, American jazz trombonist (b. 1923)
2017 - Hans-Michael Rehberg, German actor (b. 1938)
2018 - Francis Lai, French film score composer (b. 1932)
2018 - Alan Watson, British legal scholar (b. 1933)
2019 - Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
2019 - Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)
2019 - Heinz Höher, German footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2019 - Maria Perego, Italian television writer and animator (b. 1923)
2019 - Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
2019 - Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1938)
Anniversary of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (Northern Catalonia)
National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
November 07
355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
1429 – Henry VI becomes King of England.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place.
Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6-4.
1880 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
1900 – William McKinley is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, of which he is only able to serve 6 months, as he is fatally shot by Leon Czolgosz the following September.
1913 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
1939 - World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 68 sinks British passenger ship City of Cairo, killing 104 people.
1943 - World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
1944 – The element Plutonium is created.
1947 – The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.
1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
1956 - Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1962 – The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
1963 – Duong Vanh Minh takes over the leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.
1975 - Green March: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tafarya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
1978 – Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
1981 - Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
1982 – Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
1984 – Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
His challenger Walter Mondale only managed to win in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
1985 – Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
1985 - Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1985 – Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
1986 – Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
1986 – Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United.
He serves for over 26-and-a-half years, until May 2013.
1986 - Sumburgh Disaster: British International Helicopter Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes into the sea to the east of Sumburgh Airport, at the southernmost point of Shetland.
45 people are killed.
1991 – Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
1991 – The KGB no longer exists from this date.
1995 – In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
1999 – Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
1999 - In Berlin, American Bryan Berg builds the world's biggest card house, at 7.71 meters tall, with 91,800 playing cards, at 131 levels high.
2001 – Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
2001 - TV Series 24 is first shown.
2004 – A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 – The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana-Naypidaw.
2012 - Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2012 - Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.