364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily andNaples.
1360 Roger Mortimer (died), 2nd Earl of March, English commander (born 1328)
1361 Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (born) (died 1419)
1552 Heinrich Faber (died), German composer (born 1500)
1564 Christopher Marlowe (born), English playwright (died 1593)
1587 Stefano Landi (born), Italian composer (died 1639)
1608 John Still (died), English bishop (born 1543)
1630 William Brade (died), English violinist and composer (born 1560)
1638 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (died), French mathematician and linguist (born 1581)
1658 Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the King of Denmark-Norwayis forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1714 James Hervey (born), English clergyman (died 1758)
1724 Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born), German son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1763)
1786 François Arago (born), French mathematician and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (died 1853)
1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1802 Victor Hugo (born), French author, poet, and playwright (died 1885)
1808 Honoré Daumier (born), French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (died 1879)
1808 Nathan Kelley (born), American architect (died 1871)
1814 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (born), French geologist and meteorologist (died 1876)
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1829 Levi Strauss (born), German-American fashion designer, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (died 1902)
1846 Buffalo Bill (born), American soldier and hunter (died 1917)
1852 John Harvey Kellogg (born), American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes (died 1943)
1858 Vladimir Serbsk (born) y, Russian psychiatrist (died 1917)
1866 Herbert Henry Dow (born), Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (died 1930)
1876 Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
1880 Kenneth Edgeworth (born), Irish astronomer, economist, and engineer (died 1972)
1900 Fritz Wiessner (born), German-American mountaineer (died 1988)
1902 Jean Bruller (born), French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (died 1991)
1908 Tex Avery (born), American animator, producer, and voice actor (died 1980)
1909 Fanny Cradock (born), English chef, author, and critic (died 1994)
1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 Robert Alda (born), American actor (died 1986)
1916 Jackie Gleason (born), American actor and singer (died 1987)
1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park – theGrand Canyon National Park.
1920 The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, receives its première in Berlin.
1920 Tony Randall (born), American actor, director, and producer (died 2004)
1921 Betty Hutton (born), American actress and singer (died 2007)
1921 Carl Menger (died), Austrian economist (born 1840)
1922 Margaret Leighton (born), English actress (died 1976)
1928 Ariel Sharon (born), Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel
1928 Fats Domino (born), American singer-songwriter and pianist
1929 President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1930 Mary Calkins (died), American philosopher and psychologist (born 1863)
1931 Robert Novak (born), American journalist and author (died 2009)
1932 Johnny Cash (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tennessee Three and The Highwaymen) (died 2003)
1935 Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
1943 Bob Hite (born), American singer-songwriter (Canned Heat) (died 1981)
1945 Mitch Ryder (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Detroit Wheels)
1945 Peter Brock (born), Australian race car driver (died 2006)
1946 Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
1949 Elizabeth George (born), American author
1950 Jonathan Cain (born), American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Journey, The Babys, and Bad English)
1966 Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1966 Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
1969 Karl Jaspers (died), German psychiatrist (born 1883)
1971 U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1974 Sébastien Loeb (born), French race car driver
1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1981 Howard Hanson (died), American composer (born 1896)
1987 Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1990 Cornell Gunter (died), American singer (The Coasters, The Platters, and The Flairs) (born 1938)
1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 Selena Quintanilla Perez gave her last “Live” Concert in front of over 74 thousand people,breaking record for the 3rd time, live at the Houston Astrodome, a few days before she was shot to death.
1995 The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
2005 Jef Raskin (died), American computer scientist, created Macintosh (born 1943)
2008 Buddy Miles (died), American drummer and songwriter (Band of Gypsies and Electric Flag) (born 1947)
2008 Dick Fletcher (died), American meteorologist (born 1942)
2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
2013 Dale Robertson (died), American actor (born 1923)
2013 Harold G. Clarke (died), American politician and judge (born 1927)
2013 Randolph Bromery (died), American geologist and academic (born 1926)
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