1960 – Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)

1609 – John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier

1910 – Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This island Earth, River of No Return)

1961 – George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton)

1961 – Alexander Payne, American film director

1912 – Lord Orr-Ewing

1962 – Jean-Marie Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)

1913 – Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian

1963 – Bennie Thompson, NFLer (Saints, Chiefs, Cleveland Browns/Ravens)

1916 – Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )

1728 – Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)

1963 – Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Phila Phillies)

1920 – Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)

1920 – J Heslop-Harrison, botanist

1775 – Charles Lamb, london England, critic/poet/essayist

1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)

1788 – Johann Peter Pixis, composer

1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor

1807 – Abner Clark Harding, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874

1965 – Marjolein Macrander, Dutch actress (Drowned)

1926 – Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player

1927 – Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)

1967 – Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc VIC, Australasia golfer

1827 – Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder

1927 – Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire

1928 – Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-St Louis, 1973- )

1968 – Peter Popovic, Koping Swe, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)

1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)

1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster

1969 – Jayhawk Owens, Cincinnati ohio, catcher (colorado Rockies)

1929 – Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)

1930 – Peter Phillips, composer [or Jun 18]

1866 – Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian

1931 – Gerhard Rosenfeld, composer

1970 – Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (NY Mets)

1970 – Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)

1872 – Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)

1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver

1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer

1884 – Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)

1971 – Kevin Sefcik, Oaklawn IL, infielder (Phila Phillies)

1935 – Salvator Pueyo, composer

1935 – Theodore Antoniou, composer

1889 – Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)

1972 – Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler v WI 1996)

1937 – Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don’t Run, Batman Theme)

1972 – Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)

1972 – Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)

1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer

1893 – Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)

1974 – Ty law, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)

1939 – Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)

1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada

1975 – Tina Thompson, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)

1897 – John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)

1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper

1940 – Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd’s)

1941 – John Hampshire, cricketer (of Yorkshire Century on debut for Eng 1969)

1976 – Kev Brown, American rapper/producer

1942 – Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)

1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer

1943 – Ral Donner, [Ralph Stuart], Black Mountain NC, singer (Starfires)

1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer

1903 – Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer

1944 – Rufus Reid, American musician

1980 – Csar Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player

1904 – John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake island)

1905 – John Dierkes, OH, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)

1981 – Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter

1905 – Vilko Ukmar, composer

1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer

1947 – Nicholas Owen, English newsreader

1948 – Conrad Cummings, composer

1906 – John “Cat” Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)

1949 – Joe Lavender, NFLer

1906 – Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis

1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, south Korean actress

1985 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper

1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

1355 – The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

1567 – An explosion destroys the Kirk o’ Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.

1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert

1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war

1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.

1870 – The YWCA is founded in new york City.

1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.

1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

1923 – texas Tech University is founded as texas Technological College in Lubbock, texas.

1933 – The new york City-based Postal Telegraph company introduces the first singing telegram.

1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at new york City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

1942 – Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.

1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United states intervention in Vietnam.

1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of new south Wales, Australia.

1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United states Constitution is ratified.

1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.

1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.

2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

2005 – north Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.

2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

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