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627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
1098 - First Crusade : Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan - Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 of the people living in it. After finding themselves without enough food, they resort to cannibalism .1531 - Vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in Mexico City .1719 - The Boston Gazette is published for the first time.1781 - American Revolutionary War : Second Battle of Ushant - A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory French fleet.1787 - Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to make the United States Constitution official.1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.1862 - USS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman .1897 - Belo Horizonte , the first planned city of Brazil , is made official.1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India .1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average , down 24.39%.1915 - President of the Republic of China , Yuan Shikai tells that he is going to make himself the Emperor of China.1917 - In Nebraska , Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.1925 - The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.1936 - Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China , Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.1937 - Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China .1939 - Winter War : Battle of Tolvajärvi - Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.1940 - Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.1941 - World War II : Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines . Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed.1941 - World War II : USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island .
1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria . Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States . India declares war on Japan .
1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.1946 - A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.1950 - Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States , leads the congregation in her first services.1963 - Kenya becomes independent from the United Kingdom .1964 - Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya .1969 - Strategia della tensione : Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan , are bombed.1979 - Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean military officer Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha , alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.1979 - Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq conferred Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam .
1979 - Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe .
1982 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.1984 - Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya become the third president of Mauritania after coup d'etat against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla. Taya was ousted in March 2005 by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall in another coup.1985 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.1988 - Clapham Junction rail crash killed 35 and injured 100's after two collisions of three commuter trains. One of the worst train crashes in Britain.1991 - Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR.1996 - Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.2000 - The United States Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore 2006 - Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry , formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
1298 - Albert II of Austria1418 - Albert VI of Austria1574 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England 1610 - Saint Vasilije1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect /designer1712 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader1724 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States 1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist1806 - Stand Watie , American Confederate general1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer1845 - Bruce Price, American architect1849 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family1863 - Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist1866 - Alfred Werner, Nobel Prize laureate1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron1875 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist1887 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer1892 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Austro-Hungarian-born rocket engineer1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer1903 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer1903 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director
1904 - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite1905 - Mànes Sperber, Austro-Hungarian-born writer1907 - Roy Douglas, British composer and orchestrator1909 - Karen Morley, American actress1914 - Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), British author1915 - Frank Sinatra , American singer and actor1918 - Joe Williams, American singer1919 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist
1923 - Bob Barker , American television game show host1924 - Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer1927 - Honor Blackman , British actress1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer1929 - John Osborne, British dramatist1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1930 - Bill Beutel, American Journalist1931 - Lionel Blair, British actor and choreographer1932 - Bob Pettit, American basketball player1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico1938 - Connie Francis, American singer1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician1940 - Dionne Warwick , American singer
1943 - Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers)1943 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor1944 - Jean Doré, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal
1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian 2 time Formula 1 World Champion1946 - Paula Wagner, American film executive
1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor1949 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
1950 - Billy Smith , National Hockey League goaltender1952 - Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian politician1952 - Cathy Rigby, American gymnast
1953 - Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss )1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek business woman, president of the organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens 1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist1957 - Sheila E., American musician1957 - Robert Lepage, Quebec playwright
1962 - Tracy Austin, American tennis player1962 - Mike Golic, former NFL football player
1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist1967 - John Randle, American football player1968 - Laurie Williams, Indian cricket player1970 - Jennifer Connelly , American actress1970 - Madchen Amick, American actress
1970 - Regina Hall, American actress
1972 - Hank Williams III, grandson of Hank Williams 1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
1972 - Kevin Parent, Quebec singer and songwriter
1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim
1973 - William Hutton, American engineer1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer1975 - Mayim Bialik, American actress1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
1976 - Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (The Darkness)1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player1977 - Bridget Hall, American supermodel
1977 - Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress1978 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricket player
1981 - Stephen Warnock, British footballer
1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer1983 - Brad Smith, American football player
1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer1986 - Thomas Wansey, English television actor1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer1987 - Kate Todd, Canadian actress1989 - Harry Eden, British actor1990 - Tommy Lane, British football player1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks
1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan 1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland 1685 - John Pell, English mathematician1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer1843 - King William I of the Netherlands,1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal1889 - Robert Browning , British poet1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada 1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak orientalist and linguist1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill 1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian esssayist, novelist and playwright1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut1996 - Vance Packard, American author1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida1999 - Joseph Heller, American author2000 - George Montgomery, American actor2001 - Jean Richard, French actor2002 - Dee Brown, American author2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor
2003 - Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania
2006 - Shane Halligan - Student
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