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10 BC - Claudius , Roman emperor (d. AD 54 )
126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193 )
1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673 )1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, scientist (d. 1829 )1770 - William Clark, explorer (d. 1838 )1779 - Francis Scott Key , American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843 )1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882 )1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer (d. 1889 )1819 - Herman Melville, writer (d. 1891 )1858 - Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884 )1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966 )1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968 )1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player1922 - Arthur Hill, actor1922 - Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990 )
1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer (d. 2000 )1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002 )1931 - Tom Wilson, cartoonist1932 - Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990 )1933 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian1936 - Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer1937 - Al D'Amato, U.S. Senator from New York1942 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead ) (d. 1995 )1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist1950 - Jim Carroll, poet, actor1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003 )1953 - Robert Cray, blues singer1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer1956 - Tom Leykis, radio personality1959 - Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard )1960 - Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy )1960 - Richard Roeper , newspaper columnist and film critic
1963 - Coolio, rapper1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player1981 - Taylor Fry, actress1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger , German footballer
371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081 )1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179 )1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341 )1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386 )1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493 )1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506 )1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490 )1580 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524 )1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567 )1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527 )1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665 )1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696 )1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853 )1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775 )1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879 )1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854 )1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856 )1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934 )1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 )1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913 )1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882 )1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929 )1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923 )1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937 )1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947 )1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897 )1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940 )1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897 )1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian writer (b. 1897 )2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974 )2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922 )2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962 )2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913 )2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928 )2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923 )
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920 )
2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918 )
527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor .
607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain .1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England .1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela .1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia .1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley .1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.1831 - London Bridge opens.1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire .1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state .1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea .1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France .1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I .1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China . This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games open.1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor .1941 - The first Jeep is produced.1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw , Poland .
1945 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York .1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin ) declares independence from France 1960 - Communist PAI is banned in Senegal .
1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park , opens.1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin , in the United States , before being killed by the police.1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem .1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan , Eric Clapton , Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.1981 - First broadcasts by MTV . The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.1996 - Olympic Games : Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia .2001 - Bulgaria , Cyprus , Latvia , Malta , Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay .2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented2005 - Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
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