565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican.
1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.
1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1863 - The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana - Zulu troops defeat British troops.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
1905 - Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
1946 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1946 - Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.
1952 - The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.
1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 - Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1964 - Mumbai's lowest-ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).
1967 - Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until July 16 2002.
1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
1973 - A chartered Boeing 707 exploded in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1983 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII 38-9.
1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1987 - Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, California, for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.
1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm. Birth of Louis-Charles Régnier
1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 - Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
1995 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves-up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2002 - RahXephon debuts in the early morning on Fuji Television.
2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
2006 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.
2006 - Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant scores 81 points, the second highest by one individual in NBA history against the Toronto Raptors. He shot 28-46 from the field, 7-13 from three point distance, and 18-20 from the free throw line. This performance saved the Lakers from an 18 point deficit.
2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
2007 - A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 88 people and injures 160 others.

Births

1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1781 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Quebec printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
1858 - Beatrice Webb, British economist (d. 1943)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 (N.S.) - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 - George A. Borgman, American jazz historian and journalist
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress
1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1934 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1939 - Jean-Claude Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
1940 - John Hurt, English actor
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league player & coach
1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
1947 - Afeni Shakur, 2Pac's mother
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1949 - Steve Perry, American musician
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1966 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1968 - Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician
1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayen racing driver (d. 1999)
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
1975 - David Vyborny, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand, Maori and Waikato rugby player
1978 - Chone Figgins, baseball player
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 - Ben Eager,Canadian hockey player
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Robert O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter, actor and model
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American collegiate basketball player
1989 - Jared Smith, American rapper and actor

Deaths

1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
1967 - Robert Henriques, British writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1987 - R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 - Telly Savalas, Greek-American actor (b. 1922)
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
1994]] - Rhett Forrester, American singer, Second Riot frontman (b. 1956)
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890)
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, wrestler (b. 1949)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2007 - Ngo Quang Truong, South Vietnamese general (born 1929)
2007 - Disco D, music producer (born 1980)

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