68 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
632 Muhammad (died), Saudi Arabian prophet (born 570)
793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1042 Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1154 William of York (died), English archbishop
1191 Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1376 Edward, the Black Prince (died), English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini (born), Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)
1783 Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1809 Thomas Paine (died), English-American theorist and author (born 1737)
1810 Robert Schumann (born), German composer and critic (died 1856)
1845 Andrew Jackson (died), American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)
1856 A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright (born), American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
1874 Cochise (died), American tribal chief (born 1805)
1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ his punched card calculator.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1921 LeRoy Neiman (born), American painter (died 2012)
1921 Suharto (born), Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
1924 George Mallory (died), English lieutenant and mountaineer (born 1886)
1924 Lyn Nofziger (born), American journalist and author (died 2006)
1925 Barbara Bush (born), American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
1927 Jerry Stiller (born), American comedian and actor
1933 Joan Rivers (born), American comedian, actress, and author
1940 Nancy Sinatra (born), American singer and actress
1942 Andrew Weil (born), American author and educator
1942 Chuck Negron (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1942 World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1944 Boz Scaggs (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1949 The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1955 Tim Berners-Lee (born), English-American computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web
1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans (born), American actor, director, and screenwriter
1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1962 Nick Rhodes (born), English keyboard player and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils)
1965 Kevin Farley (born), American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965 Rob Pilatus (born), American-German singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (died 1998)
1966 Julianna Margulies (born), American actress and producer
1968 Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City.
1969 Robert Taylor (died), American actor and singer (born 1911)
1970 Abraham Maslow (died), American psychologist (born 1908)
1970 Gabrielle Giffords (born), American politician
1972 Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1979 Derek Trucks (born), American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band)
1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1982 Satchel Paige (died), American baseball player (born 1906)
1983 Kim Clijsters (born), Belgian tennis player
1984 Gordon Jacob (died), English composer (born 1895)
1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
2003 Leighton Rees (died), Welsh darts player (born 1940)
2009 Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labor.
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