44 BC Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standardied
1903 The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge western coast of Orchid Island in the Indian River Lagoon east of Sebastian, Florida. is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1931 Alam Ara, India’s first talking film, is releasedied
1936 The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1945 World War II The R.A.F.’s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1978 The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1994 Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 –Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann (born), German composer (died 1767)
1790 Ludwig Emil Grimm (born), German painter and engraver (died 1863)
1804 Johann Strauss I (born), Austrian composer (died 1849)
1813 Joseph P. Bradley (born), American jurist (died 1892)
1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor (born), American dentist (died 1910)
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli (born), Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910)
1837 Charles Ammi Cutter (born), American librarian (died 1903)
1844 Umberto I of Italy (born), (died 1900)
1844 Arthur O’Shaughnessy (born), English poet (died 1881)
1854 Paul Ehrlich (born), German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)
1854 Thomas R. Marshall (born), American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925)
1862 Vilhelm Bjerknes (born), Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (died 1951)
1863 Casey Jones (born), American engineer (died 1900)
1866 Alexey Troitsky (born), Russian composer and author (died 1942)
1869 Algernon Blackwood (born), English author (died 1951)
1874 Anton Philips (born), Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951)
1879 Albert Einstein (born), German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
1887 Sylvia Beach (born), American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (died 1962)
1908 Philip Conrad Vincent (born), English businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (died 1979)
1911 Akira Yoshizawa (born), Japanese origamist (died 2005)
1912 Les Brown (born), American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2001)
1914 Lee Petty (born), American race car driver (died 2000)
1919 Max Shulman (born), American author (died 1988)
1920 Hank Ketcham (born), American cartoonist (died 2001)
1921 S. Truett Cathy (born), American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A
1921 Ada Louise Huxtable (born), American author and critic (died 2013)
1922 Les Baxter (born), American pianist and composer (died 1996)
1928 Frank Borman (born), American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1932 Naina Yeltsina (born), Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
1933 Michael Caine (born), English actor and author
1933 Quincy Jones (born), American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
1939 Raymond J. Barry (born), American actor
1941 Wolfgang Petersen (born), German-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 Michael Martin Murphey (born) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 Walter Parazaider (born), American saxophonist (Chicago)
1948 Tom Coburn (born), American physician and politician
1948 Billy Crystal (born), American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
1951 Jerry Greenfield, (born) American businessman, co-founded Ben & Jerry’s
1957 Jean van de Velde (born), Dutch director and screenwriter
1961 Greg Anderson (born), American race car driver
1970 Kristian Bush (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sugarland and Billy Pilgrim)
1471 Thomas Malory (died), English author (born 1405)
1647 Frederick Henry (died), Prince of Orange (born 1584)
1680 René Le Bossu (died), French critic (born 1631)
1791 Johann Salomo Semler (died), German historian and critic (born 1725)
1860 Carl Ritter von Ghega (died), Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (born 1802)
1883 Karl Marx (died), German philosopher and theorist (born 1818)
1932 George Eastman (died), American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854)
1973 Chic Young (died), American cartoonist (born 1901)
1975 Susan Hayward (died), American actress (born 1917)
1976 Busby Berkeley (died), American choreographer and director (born 1895)
1977 Fannie Lou Hamer (died), American activist (born 1917)
2010 Peter Graves (died), American actor (born 1926)
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