the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1972 - Apollo 17 launches, as the last mission to-date to fly to the Moon; On this mission, the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of the Earth is taken.
1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 people on board.
1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
1988 – In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 people homeless.
1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter.
1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
2003 – The newly formed Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognised.
2006 - A tornado strikes Kensal Green, Northwest London.
2007 - The "Hebei Spirit" oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
2015 - Then-US Presidential candidate Donald Trump calls for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
2016 - An earthquake in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, kills around 100 people.
2016 - All 47 people on board die when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes near Islamabad.
2017 - Australia legalises same-sex marriage.
521 - Columba, Irish missionary, monk and saint (d. 597)
903 - Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
1302 - Azzone Visconti, Italian ruler (d. 1339)
1546 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1625)
1598 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
1627 - Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (d. 1667)
1637 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
1643 - Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
1724 - Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751)
1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
1801 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
1810 – Theodor Schwann, German biologist (d. 1882)
1823 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)
1830 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 - Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
1847 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (d. 1939)
1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1863 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
1863 - Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952)
1863 - Richard Warren Sears, American businessman (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, American writer (d. 1947)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
1884 - John Carpenter, American sprinter (d. 1933)
1885 - Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1888 - Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
1889 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, dramatist and critic (d. 1973)
1891 – Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
1900 - Christian Matras, Faroese poet (d. 1988)
1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer (d. 1973)
1908 - Slim Bryant, American musician (d. 2010)
1909 - Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1942)
1910 - Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper (d. 1998)
1910 - Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpeter and actor (d. 1978)
1910 - Vere Bird, 1st Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 1999)
1910 – Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian bandleader (d. 2011)
1912 - Daniel Jones, Welsh composer (d. 1993)
1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
1918 - Max Merkel, Austrian footballer (d. 2006)
1920 – Manuel Pereira da Silva, Portuguese sculptor (d. 2003)
1920 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
1920 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1924 - Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
1924 – Mario Soares, former President of Portugal (d. 2017)
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher and political writer
1930 - Christopher Nicole, English author
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
1933 - Krsto Papic, Croatian actor (d. 2013)
1935 - Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer and composer
1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian and actor
1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
1943 – Sue Johnston, English actress
1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
1947 - Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
1947 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1947 - Anne Fine, British author
1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor
1952 – Susan Collins, American senator
1952 - Georges Corraface, French actor and producer
1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer
1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress and producer
1955 - John Watkins, Australian educator and politician
1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player
1956 - Anna Soubry, English politician
1956 - Iveta Radicova, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
1958 - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta
1959 - Barbara Wilshere, British actress
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
1962 - Alain Blondel, French decathlete
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan-Argentine actress
1962 - Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese resistance leader and freedom fighter
1963 - Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach
1964 – Ilse Aigner, German politician
1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor and director
1969 - Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian historian and archaeologist
1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
1972 – Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager
1973 - Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
1977 – Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1977 - Luke Donald, English golfer
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
1979 – Sara Bareilles, American singer
1980 – Clemens Fritz, German footballer
1980 – John Terry, English footballer
1984 – Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1984 - Marko Vujin, Serbian handball player
1985 - Dean Ambrose, American wrestler
1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer
1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
1988 - Andrew Goudelock, American basketball player
1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
1989 - Caleb Landry Jones, American actor
1989 - Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
1990 - Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
1990 - David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
1990 – Urszula Radwanska, Polish tennis player
1991 - Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
1993 - Jasmine Villegas, American actress
1994 - Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
2003 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Dutch royal
43 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and writer (b. 106 BC)
283 - Pope Eutychian
983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
1254 - Pope Innocent IV (b. 1195)
1279 - Boleslaw V the Chaste, Polish prince (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1243)
1649 - Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
1683 - Algernon Shirley, English philosopher and politician (b. 1623)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
1772 - Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, missionary, scholar and author (b. 1695)
1793 - Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
1817 – William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (b. 1754)
1879 – Jon Sigurdsson, Icelandic independence campaigner (b. 1811)
1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (b. 1805)
1899 - Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1902 - Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss educator and journalist (b. 1833)
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
1917 - Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
1938 - Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906)
1947 - Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat and educator (b. 1862)
1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b. 1883)
1975 - Thornton Wilder, American author and playwright (b. 1897)
1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1985 – Robert Graves, English poet (b. 1895)
1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
1993 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
1994 - J. C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1997 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
1998 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, Indian-born supercentenarian (b. 1892)
2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat (b. 1926)
2010 - Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
2011 - Jerry Robinson, American comic artist (b. 1922)
2012 - Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
2013 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2014 - Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1934)
2014 - Mango, Italian singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1954)
2014 - Ken Weatherwax, American actor (b. 1955)
2015 - Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor and producer (b. 1945)
2015 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress (b. 1941)
2015 - Martin E. Brooks, American actor (b. 1925)
2016 - Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Fred J. Doocy, American politician and banker (b. 1913)
2017 - Ivan Korsak, Ukrainian writer and journalist (b. 1946)
2017 - Philippe Maystadt, Belgian politician (b. 1948)
2017 - Roland Taylor, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2018 - Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (b. 1923)
2018 - Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, French-Israeli politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2019 - Berkley Bedell, American politician and businessman (b. 1921)
2019 - Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (b. 1940)
2019 - Bump Elliott, American football player (b. 1925)
2019 - Giuseppe Frigo, Italian politician and lawyer (b. 1935)
2019 - Herbert Joos, German jazz trumpeter (b. 1940)
2019 - Ali Mufuruki, Tanzanian businessman (b. 1958)
Saint Ambrose Feast Day
United States – Pearl Harbor Day
Colombia – Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity
India – The Armed Forces Flag Day
Armenia - Spitak Remembrance Day
International Civil Aviation Day
December 07
395 - China: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal of Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
757 - China: Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
1432 - First battle of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1626 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King of Hungary.
1660 – A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time, as Desdemona, in a production of William Shakespeare's Othello.
1792 – Frankfort becomes the capital city of Kentucky.
1813 - Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is performed for the first time.
1864 – The Clifton Suspension Bridge in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is opened.
1907 – Gustav V becomes King of Sweden.
1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility of war breaking out.
1914 - World War I: A squadron of the UK's Royal Navy defeats a weaker squadron of the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1922 - Northern Ireland stops being part of the Irish Free State.
1941 – World War II: Japan invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines, just after the Pearl Harbor attack.
On the same day, the United States and the Republic of China declare war on Japan.
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the start of the American 'Atoms for Peace' program.
1956 - The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, end.
1962 - Workers at four US newspapers (later nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 – PanAm Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning in Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1966 – The ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200 people.
1969 - An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 hits a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on the Pakistani city of Karachi.
1972 - United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after abandoning its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45 people.
1974 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
1980 – John Lennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Apartment building in New York City.
1982 – December murders: In Suriname, 13 civilians and 2 military officers, opposed to the military regime of Desi Bouterse, are killed.
1987 - Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia, before committing suicide.
1987 - The entire Alianza Lima football team is killed in a plane crash.
1988 - A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50.
1991 – Romania's Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1991 – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and forming the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by Bill Clinton.
1994 – Ethiopia adopts a new Constitution.
1994 - SWAPO wins the most seats in the election to the Namibian parliament (53 out of 72).
1998 - 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2003 – Zimbabwe leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
2004 – Dimebag Darrell is shot dead in Columbus, Ohio by paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Gale.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, creating the South American Community of Nations.
2007 – The office of Benazir Bhutto is stormed by gunmen.
Three people are killed.
2009 – A bombing in Baghdad kills 127 people.
2012 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar, it is agreed that the Kyoto Protocol is to be extended until 2020.
2019 - A clothing factory fire in Delhi, India, kills at least 43 people.
2019 - Sanna Marin is elected as the new Prime Minister of Finland.
65 BC – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1616)
1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) (N.S. December 18 on Gregorian calendar)
1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1685 – Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfume designer (d. 1766)
1699 – Maria Josepha of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1724 - Claude Balbastre, French composer (d. 1799)
1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist (d. 1799)
1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (d. 1801)
1765 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1790 - Augustus Meineke, German philologist (d. 1870)
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (d. 1874)
1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
1831 - William Pitt Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1918)
1832 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (d. 1910)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and writer (d. 1908)
1857 - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, German politician (d. 1920)
1861 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)
1861 - William C. Durant, American businessman (d. 1947)
1864 – Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
1865 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
1873 - William Watson, Baron Thankerton, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1948)
1875 - Wilfred Hudson Osgood, American zoologist (d. 1947)
1880 - Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (d. 1973)
1886 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
1890 – Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (d. 1959)
1892 – E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (d. 1938)
1894 - Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)
1894 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (d. 1930)
1899 - John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
1899 - Anselmo Alliegro y Mila, Cuban politician (d. 1961)
1900 - Ants Oras, Estonian writer (d. 1982)
1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban painter (d. 1982)
1908 - John A. Volpe, American politician (d. 1994)
1909 - Gratien Gelinas, Canadian author, actor and director (d. 1999)
1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 - Richard Fleischer, American movie director (d. 2006)
1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, American politician, former Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
1922 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (d. 2011)
1922 - Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018)
1922 - Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1923 - Pio Taufinu'u, Samoan cardinal (d. 2006)
1923 - Rudolph Pariser, American chemist
1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1925 – Arnaldo Forlani, Italian politician, former Prime Minister of Italy
1926 – Joachim Fest, German historian (d. 2006)
1926 - Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian movie director (d. 2015)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet-Kazakhstani cosmonaut and general
1928 - Jimmy Smith, American musician (d. 2005)
1928 - Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist (d. 2012)
1929 - Johnny Anderson, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1929 - Gérard de Villiers, French writer (d. 2013)
1930 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor and director (d. 2014)
1931 - Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
1932 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 2005)
1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 – David Carradine, American actor (d. 2009)
1936 - Ralph Brand, Scottish footballer
1937 - James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
1938 – John Kufuor, former President of Ghana
1939 – James Galway, Northern Irish flautist
1939 - Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter
1939 - Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer
1939 - Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer
1941 - Bobby Elliott, English drummer
1942 - Mario Savio, American activist (d. 1996)
1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1943 - James Tate, American writer (d. 2015)
1944 - Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - John Banville, Irish author
1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer and director
1947 – Thomas R. Cech, American chemist
1947 – Gregg Allman, American musician (d. 2017)
1948 - Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-American mathematician and academic
1950 - Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1951 – Bill Bryson, American writer
1952 - Bobby McKean, Scottish footballer (d. 1978)
1953 – Kim Basinger, American actress
1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American academic, author and activist
1954 - Louis de Bernières, English writer
1955 - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American guitarist
1956 - Andrius Kubilius, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania
1956 - Pierre Pincemaille, French organist
1957 - James Cama, American martial arts teacher (d. 2014)
1957 – Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1959 - Paul Rutherford, English singer
1959 - Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American former President of the World Bank
1960 - Lim Guam Eng, Malaysian politician
1960 - Aaron Allston, American author (d. 2014)
1961 – Ann Coulter, American political commentator
1962 – Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1963 - Greg Howe, American guitarist, composer and producer
1963 - Brian McClair, Scottish footballer
1964 – Teri Hatcher, American actress
1964 - Mike Ruiz, Canadian-American model, photographer and director
1964 - Richard David Precht, German philosopher
1965 - David Harewood, English actor
1966 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
1966 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer
1966 – Hope Powell, English footballer and coach
1972 – Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer
1976 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
1977 – Sébastien Chabal, French rugby player
1978 – Frédéric Piquionne, French footballer
1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1980 - Lisa Kelly, American trucker (Ice Road Truckers)
1982 – Halil Altintop, Turkish footballer
1982 – Hamit Altintop, Turkish footballer
1982 – Nicki Minaj, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer
1982 - DeeDee Trotter, American athlete
1983 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1984 - Dustin Brown, Jamaican-German tennis player
1984 - Emma Green Tegaro, Swedish high jumper
1985 - Meagan Duhamel, Canadian ice skater
1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1986 – Amir Khan, English boxer
1986 – Kate Voegele, American musician
1987 - Susanne Riesch, German skier
1989 - Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Katie Stevens, American singer and actress
1993 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
1994 - Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1995 - Jordon Ibe, English footballer
1996 - Teala Dunn, American actress
1996 - Scott McTominay, English-Scottish footballer
592 - Emperor Sushun of Japan
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, King of East Francia (b. 850)
1495 - Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1691 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1709 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
1722 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (b. 1652)
1744 - Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (b. 1711)
1793 – Madame du Barry, French mistress (b. 1743)
1830 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French writer (b. 1767)
1859 - Thomas De Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1864 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
1869 - Narcisa de Jesus, Ecuadorean Catholic laywoman and saint (b. 1832)
1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, American railroad executive and philanthropist (b. 1821)
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1903 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist (b. 1820)
1907 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1930 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (b. 1894)
1933 – Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)
1952 - Charles Lightoller, English officer on the RMS Titanic (b. 1874)
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1885)
1956 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (b. 1899)
1963 - Sarit Thanarat, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1967 – John Mills, Sr.,
American singer (b. 1889)
1971 - Ernst Krenkel, Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator (b. 1903)
1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand musician (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
1980 – John Lennon, English singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
1981 – Ferruccio Parri, Italian politician (b. 1890)
1982 - Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (b. 1925)
1982 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
1982 - Andre Kramperveen, Surinamese footballer and politician (b. 1924)
1983 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
1983 - Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
1990 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 - Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (b. 1911)
1992 – William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
1996 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
1996 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1938)
1997 - Laurean Rugambwa, Tanzanian cardinal (b. 1912)
1998 - Aaron Hopa, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1971)
2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
2004 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966)
2008 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (b. 1925)
2011 – Zelman Cowen, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)
2013 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist (b. 1917)
2014 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (b. 1927)
2014 - Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
2014 - Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2015 - Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
2015 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (b. 1913)
2015 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, American coloratura soprano (b. 1925)
2015 - John Trudell, American activist and poet (b. 1946)
2015 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (b. 1924)
2015 - Douglas Tompkins, American businessman (b. 1943)
2016 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (b. 1921)
2016 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor (b. 1929)
2017 - Vladimir Curbet, Moldovan choreographer (b. 1930)
2017 - Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer (b. 1936)
2017 - Atsutoshi Nishida, Japanese businessman (b. 1943)
2018 - Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian activist (b. 1927)
2018 - Enrico Crispolti, Italian art critic and historian (b. 1933)
2018 - Pentti Tiusanen, Finnish politician (b. 1949)
2018 - David Weatherall, British physician and molecular geneticist (b. 1933)
2019 - René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
2019 - Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
2019 - Caroll Spinney, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1933)
2019 - Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
2019 - Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian boxer (b. 1943)
2019 - Juice Wrld, American rapper (b. 1998)
CARICOM-Cuba Day
Constitution Day (Romania and Uzbekistan)
Roman Catholic Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception
Students' Day (Bulgaria)
National Youth Day (Albania)
Bodhi Day (Japan)
December 08
480 - Odoacer, the first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia in present-day Croatia.
536 - Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed.
1531 - The Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have first appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose in the Battle of Great Bridge and leave Virginia shortly after.
1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is created by Noah Webster.
1824 – Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian troops defeat the Spanish, who then end their colonial rule over Peru.
1835 – The Texan Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
1851 – The YMCA in North America is founded in Montreal.
1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American State Governor in the US, in Louisiana.
1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States Department of War.
1892 - English football club Newcastle United is created.
1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
1905 – France passes the law separating church and state.
1911 – A mine explosion in Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners.
1917 - World War I: Hussein al-Husseyni, Ottoman Mayor of Jerusalem, surrenders the city to the British.
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is confirmed as President of Poland.
1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 - American football: The trophy that later becomes the Heisman Trophy is given for the first time.
The winner is Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1937 – In the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops launch an assault on the city of Nanjing.
1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Japan.
1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets to write the Constitution.
1946 - The Doctors' trial begins over physicians believed to have committed Nazi war crimes and medical experiments on people.
1948 - The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces the discharge of all Communist employees.
1956 - Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, killing all 62 people on board.
1960 – Coronation Street is broadcast for the first time on British television.
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent.
In 1964 it joins with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
1962 – Tanganyika joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962 - The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is created.
1966 – Barbados joins the UN.
1968 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer mouse and hypertext.
1971 – The United Arab Emirates join the UN.
1973 – Britain and Ireland sign the Sunningdale Agreement.
1979 – The eradication of Smallpox is announced.
1990 – Lech Walesa becomes President of Poland.
1998 - In the Swiss Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss is chosen to be Switzerland's President for the year 1999, making her the first woman to take up the role, on January 1, 1999.
2003 – A blast in central Moscow kills 6 people.
2005 - End of the London Routemaster Red Double-Decker Bus Service.
2008 – Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal agents on a number of crimes, including trying to sell the United States Senate Seat of Barack Obama, who had been elected President.
2009 - Carwyn Jones becomes First Minister of Wales, succeeding Rhodri Morgan.
2016 - President of South Korea Park Geun-hye is impeached by the country's National Assembly, as a result of a major corruption scandal.
2016 - A suicide bomb attack in Madagali, Nigeria, kills at least 45 people.
2019 - 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption: The Whakaari-White Island volcano in New Zealand erupts, killing at least 18 people.
2019 - A Chilean plane crashes en-route from Chile to Antarctica with 38 people on board.
1392 - Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese prince (d. 1449)
1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (d. 1555)
1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 - Martín de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
1594 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivenus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician, historian and theologian (d. 1752)
1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain (d. 1819)
1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist and writer (d. 1921)
1845 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)
1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1863 - John Burnet, Scottish classical philologist (d. 1928)
1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (d. 1934)
1872 - Thomas W. Hardwick, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1944)
1873 - Henry S. Caulfield, American politician, 37th Governor of Missouri (d. 1966)
1876 - Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)
1877 - Mart Kuusik, Russian-Estonian rower (d. 1964)
1882 - Joaquin Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist and academic (d. 1950)
1883 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and Prime Minister (d. 1955)
1883 - Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert (d. 1967)
1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
1887 - Tim Moore, American actor (d. 1958)
1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
1890 - Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)
1896 - Goodwin Knight, American politician, 31st Governor of California (d. 1970)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, English-American actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (d. 1979)
1900 - Albert Weisbord, American activist (d. 1977)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1901 – Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 – Odon von Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (d. 1938)
1902 - Rab Butler, British politician (d. 1982)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1912 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (d. 1994)
1914 - Max Manus, Norwegian resistance activist (d. 1996)
1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano (d. 2006)
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor (d. 2020)
1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist (d. 1986)
1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (d. 2011)
1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former President of Italy (d. 2016)
1924 - Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and poet (d. 2014)
1926 - Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
1929 – Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1929 – John Cassavetes, American director and actor (d. 1989)
1930 - Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, director and writer (d. 2020)
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1933 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (d. 2012)
1933 - Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1942 - Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1942 - Joe McGinniss, American writer (d. 2014)
1943 - Joanna Trollope, English writer
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1944 - Neil Innes, English musician and composer (d. 2019)
1944 - Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
1945 - Michael Nouri, American actor
1946 - Mervyn Davies, Welsh rugby player (d. 2012)
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1948 – Dennis Dunaway, American musician
1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer
1949 – Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 – Joan Armatrading, British musician and singer-songwriter.
1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor and director
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor
1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1954 - Phil Bryant, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
1954 - Mary Fallin, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma
1954 - Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
1954 - Kip Hanrahan, American musician and producer
1955 - Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1960 – Caroline Lucas, English politician, MP for and former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
1961 - John Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 – Empress Masako of Japan
1963 – Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2005)
1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German comedian, actor and television presenter
1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German television presenter
1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist
1964 - Michael Müller, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Spencer Rochfort, American-Canadian actor
1966 - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician
1966 - Shane Scott, American director, producer, cinematographer and screenwriter
1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1968 – Kurt Angle, American professional wrestler
1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1970 - Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1971 - Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer and producer
1972 - Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player
1972 – Tré Cool, American musician (Green Day)
1976 - Booba, French rapper
1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1981 - Gemma Fay, Scottish footballer
1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 - Dia Mirza, Indian model, actress and producer
1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1987 - Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
1987 - Adam Szalai, Hungarian footballer
1988 - Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
1989 – Lindsey Evans, American glamour model
1990 – LaFee, German singer
1991 – Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1991 - Choi Minho, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1995 - McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
638 - Sergius I of Constantinople
1165 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
1669 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1600)
1706 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer and cartographer (b. 1650)
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and academic (b. 1757)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1916 – Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1930 - Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1937 – Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (b. 1869)
1941 - Dmitry Merezhovsky, Russian author, poet and philosopher (b. 1865)
1955 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet (b. 1887)
1967 - Charles Leon Hammes, Luxembourgish lawyer and judge (b. 1898)
1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman (b. 1905)
1970 - Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (b. 1904)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1975 - William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1977 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (b. 1920)
1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
1981 – Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 – Asmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1893)
1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
1995 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
1996 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
2010 – James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2012 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (b. 1969)
2012 - Patrick Moore, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
2012 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
2013 - Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
2014 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (b. 1939)
2014 - Jane Freilicher, American painter (b. 1924)
2014 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (b. 1929)
2015 - Rusty Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1942)
2017 - James Joseph Brady, American judge (b. 1944)
2017 - Leonid Bronevoy, Ukrainian-Russian actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Lando Fiorini, Italian actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (b. 1923)
2017 - Joe Newton, American track and field coach (b. 1929)
2018 - Yigal Bashan, Israeli singer and composer (b. 1950)
2018 - Robert Bergland, American politician (b. 1928)
2018 - William Blum, American author and historian (b. 1933)
2018 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist (b. 1931)
2018 - Bob Giggie, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018 - Gordon Scholes, Australian politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Dick Van Orden, American rear admiral (b. 1921)
2019 - John R. Broxson, American politician (b. 1932)
2019 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer (Roxette) (b. 1958)
2019 - Omar Graffigna, Argentine air force officer (b. 1926)
2019 - William Luce, American writer (b. 1931)
2019 - Veijo Puhjo, Finnish politician (b. 1948)
2019 - Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
National holiday in Tanzania, celebrating independence of Tanganyika in 1961
Anna's Day (Sweden and Finland)
Armed Forces Day (Peru)
December 09
1278 - Tran Thanh Tang, second Emperor of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty, decides to pass the throne to crown prince Tran Kham.
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
1576 - Eighty Years' War: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 - The Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 - Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1644 - Shunzhi Emperor, the first Emperor of China's Qing Dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of around 5,000 that would later take part in the Battle of Culloden.
1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1798 - British seafarer John Fearn becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Nauru, which he names Pleasant Island.
1861 - American Civil War: The Trent Affair - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparkinga diplomatic crisis between the UK and the USA.
1864 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1867 - Two explosions occur at the Ferndale Colliery in Wales, killing 178 people.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 – U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1932 – U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
1933 - As part of the New Deal program, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for over 4 million unemployed.
1935 – Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: Start of the Siege of Madrid.
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1940 - Greco-Italian War: Italy's invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units push back the Italians in the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas.
1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyist XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.),
and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt.
Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
1957 - The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the South Pacific Ocean.
1959 - Basketball player Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers sets a new NBA record, scoring 64 points, against the Boston Celtics.
1960 – U.S. presidential election: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon in a very close election.
He becomes the youngest man elected to that office.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created.
It includes Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million United States Dollars.
1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in Thessaloniki, Greece.
1977 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and professor, discovers the tomb of Philip of Macedon at Vergina, Greece.
1982 – Wethersfield, Connecticut, a meteorite crashed through the roof of Wanda and Bob Donahue's house at 461 Church Street.
1983 - Lubango, Angola - A Boeing 727 of Angola Airlines crashes and explodes shortly after take-off, killing all 130 people on board.
1987 – Eleven people are killed in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, when a bomb explodes.
1988 – U.S. presidential election: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
1991 - A typhoon causes massive flooding in the Philippines, killing 7,000 people.
1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
2000 - A re-count of electoral votes in Florida takes place, because of a dispute in the 2000 United States Presidential Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
2002 - Iraq Disarmament Crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm, or face "serious questions".
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected President of Liberia.
This leads to her becoming Africa's first elected female President on January 16, 2006.
2006 - After the Republican Party made losses in the mid-term elections, Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, submits his resignation to George W. Bush.
Robert Gates succeeds him.
2011 - Asteroid 2005 YU55 passes within 35,000 kilometers of Earth.
2013 - Typhoon Haiyan strikes the Philippines with some of the strongest typhoon winds recorded.
It is estimated to have killed over 6,000 people and caused over 1 billion US Dollars in damage.
2014 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the world is close to another Cold War, over tensions between the West and Russia and armed conflicts in the Middle East, in a speech marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
2016 - United States presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, though Clinton had won more votes overall.
2017 - Priti Patel resigns from the British cabinet because of a controversy over undeclared meetings with Israeli government ministers.
2018 - Camp Fire: A massive fire kills 85 people in Butte County, California; it is one of the deadliest-ever forest fires in the United States, and destroys the town of Paradise.
30 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1563 - Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
1622 – King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1737 - Antoine Bruni d'Entrecastaeux, French explorer (d. 1793)
1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1777 - Désirée Clary, French-born Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1860)
1802 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, Welsh civil engineer and politician (d. 1867)
1810 - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (d. 1861)