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BoDenna dag i historien:
1947 -
USA:s utrikesminister George C. Marshall lägger fram
Marshallplanen för hjälp till återuppbyggnad av
Europas länder.
1963 -
Brittiske försvarsministern John Profumo tvingas avgå på grund av
Profumoaffären.
1964 -
Hasse å
Tages revy Gula Hund har premiär.
1967 -
Sexdagarskriget inleds av
Israel.
Kriget pågår till den
10:e och får som resultat att Israel
ockuperar Västbanken,
Gazaremsan,
Golanhöjderna och
Sinaihalvön.
1968 -
Robert Kennedy blir skjuten på ett hotell i
Los Angeles av
Sirhan Sirhan och avlider
dagen därpå.
1984 -
Sikhernas centrala
helgedom Gyllene templet i
Amritsar stormas av
indiska trupper.
Ganska mkt trista saker...
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[
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70 -
Titus and his
Roman legions breach the middle wall of
Jerusalem in the
Siege of Jerusalem1257 -
Kraków,
Poland received
city rights.
1305 -
Pope Clement V is elected.
1798 -
Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread
United Irish Rebellion into
Munster is defeated.
1817 - First
Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 -
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of
Cuba.
1832 -
Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
1837 -
Houston, Texas is incorporated by the
Republic of Texas.
1849 -
Denmark becomes a
constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new
constitution.
1851 -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-
slavery serial,
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era
abolitionist newspaper.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Piedmont:
Union forces under
General David Hunter defeat a
Confederate army at
Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1888 -
Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888:
Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5
Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.
1900 -
Second Boer War:
British soldiers take
Pretoria.
1915 -
Denmark amends its
constitution to allow
women's suffrage.
1916 -
Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 -
World War I:
Conscription begins in the
United States as "Army registration day."
1933 - The
U.S. Congress abrogates the
United States' use of the
gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in
gold.
1941 - Four thousands
Chongqing residents were
asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the
Bombing of Chongqing.
1944 -
World War II: More than 1000
British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on
German gun batteries on the
Normandy coast in preparation for
D-Day.
1945 -
Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of
Germany, formally takes power.
1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in
Chicago, kills 61 people.
1947 -
Marshall Plan: At a speech at
Harvard University,
United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn
Europe.
1956 -
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "
Hound Dog", on
The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 - The first government of the
State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 -
British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a
sex scandal.
1963 -
Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by
Shah of
Iran,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1967 -
Six-Day War begins: The
Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of
Egypt,
Jordan, and
Syria.
1968 -
U.S. presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the
Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles, California by Palestinian
Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 -
International communist conference begins in
Moscow.
1970 -
Chile becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1975 - The
Suez Canal opens for the first time since the
Six-Day War.
1975 - The
UK holds its first and only
UK-wide
referendum, on remaining in the
EEC.
1976 - Collapse of the
Teton Dam in
Idaho,
United States.
1977 - A
coup takes place in
Seychelles.
1977 - The
Apple II, the first practical
personal computer, goes on sale.
1981 - The
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five
homosexual men in
Los Angeles, California have a rare form of
pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened
immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of
AIDS.
1984 -
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the
Golden Temple, the holiest site of the
Sikh religion.
1986 - A 52-year old man in
Auburn, Washington,
United States, dies after taking an
Excedrin capsule laced with
cyanide; this is the first of two
Excedrin deaths.
1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in
Canada to give the
Inuit of
western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
1989 -
The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1995 -
Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 - A
strike begins at the
General Motors parts factory in
Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 -
U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the
Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the
United States Senate from the Republicans to the
Democratic Party.
2001 -
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 - Severe
heat wave across
Pakistan and
India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2006 -
Serbia declares independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro[
edit] Births
469 BC -
Socrates, Greek philosopher (d.
399 BC)
1341 -
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of
Edward III of England (d.
1402)
1493 -
Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d.
1555)
1523 -
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d.
1573)
1553 -
Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d.
1617)
1554 -
Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d.
1592)
1640 -
Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d.
1715)
1660 -
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d.
1744)
1646 -
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d.
1684)
1718 -
Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d.
1779)
1723 -
Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d.
1790)
1757 -
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d.
1808)
1760 -
Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d.
1852)
1771 -
Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d.
1851)
1781 -
Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d.
1860)
1819 -
John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d.
1892)
1850 -
Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d.
1908)
1862 -
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1930)
1868 -
James Connolly, Irish socialist (d.
1916)
1876 -
Tony Jackson, American musician (d.
1920)
1878 -
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d.
1923)
1879 -
Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d.
1985)
1879 -
René Pottier, French cyclist (d.
1907)
1883 -
John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d.
1946)
1884 -
Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d.
1957)
1894 -
Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d.
1976)
1895 -
William Boyd (actor), American actor (d.
1972)
1898 -
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d.
1936)
1900 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
1905 -
John Abbott, British actor (d.
1996)
1912 -
Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d.
2003)
1919 -
Richard Scarry, American children's author (d.
1994)
1920 -
Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d.
1974)
1923 -
Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d.
2006)
1923 -
Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d.
1963)
1925 -
Art Donovan, American football star
1928 -
Tony Richardson, British film director (d.
1991)
1930 -
Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d.
1996)
1931 -
Jacques Demy, French film director (d.
1990)
1931 -
Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
1932 -
Christy Brown, Irish author (d.
1981)
1934 -
Bill Moyers, American journalist
1938 -
Karin Balzer, German hurdler
1939 -
Joe Clark, sixteenth
Prime Minister of Canada1939 -
Margaret Drabble, English novelist
1941 -
Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
1941 -
Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d.
2004)
1941 -
Robert Kraft, owner of the
New England Patriots1941 -
Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
1942 -
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
1943 -
Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 -
Tommie Smith, American athlete
1944 -
Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 -
John Carlos, American Athlete
1945 -
Patrick Head, English
F1 technical director and team co-owner (
WilliamsF1)
1946 -
Freddie Stone, American guitarist (
Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 -
John Bach, Welsh actor
1947 -
Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1947 -
Tom Evans, English musician (
Badfinger) (d.
1983)
1949 -
Ken Follett, Welsh author
1950 -
J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1950 -
Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d.
1990)
1950 -
Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d.
1977)
1951 -
Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 -
Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician
1952 -
Carole Fredericks, American singer (d.
2001)
1954 -
Nicko McBrain, English musician (
Iron Maiden)
1955 -
Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 -
Richard Butler, English singer (
Psychedelic Furs)
1956 -
Kenny G, American saxophonist
1958 -
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of
the Comoros1961 -
Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d.
2006)
1961 -
Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d.
1999)
1962 -
Princess Astrid of Belgium1962 -
Jeff Garlin, American comedian
1963 -
Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
1964 -
Karl Sanders, American musician (
Nile)
1965 -
Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1967 -
Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1967 -
Ray Lankford, baseball player
1967 -
Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 -
Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 -
Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
1971 -
Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 -
Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1971 -
Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
1972 -
Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1972 -
Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 -
Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1973 -
Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 -
Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1974 -
Chad Allen, American actor
1974 -
Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 -
Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 -
Christian Martucci, American musician
1977 -
Liza Weil, American actress
1977 -
Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
1978 -
Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
1979 -
David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 -
Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 -
Pete Wentz, American musician (
Fall Out Boy)
1979 -
Jason White, American NASCAR driver
1980 -
Yasser Latif Hamdani,
Pakistani constitutional lawyer1980 -
Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 -
Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (
Simple Plan)
1981 -
Jade Goody, British television personality
1983 -
Bill Bray, American baseball player
1984 -
Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
1987 -
Lara Bingle, Australian model
1987 -
Charlie Clements ,Actor
2005 -
Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
[
edit] Deaths
535 -
Epiphanius of Constantinople,
patriarch of Constantinople1017 -
Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b.
976)
1118 -
Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester1296 -
Edmund Crouchback, son of
Henry III of England (b.
1245)
1316 - King
Louis X of France (b.
1289)
1383 -
Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b.
1324)
1568 -
Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b.
1522)
1625 -
Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b.
1583)
1667 -
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b.
1607)
1688 -
Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b.
1667)
1716 -
Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b.
1682)
1722 -
Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b.
1660)
1738 -
Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b.
1659)
1791 -
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b.
1718)
1816 -
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b.
1741)
1825 -
Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the
Greek War of Independence1826 -
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b.
1786)
1866 -
John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b.
1815)
1898 -
Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1900 -
Stephen Crane, American author (b.
1871)
1902 -
Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the
assassins of
Abraham Lincoln (b.
1842)
1906 -
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b.
1842)
1910 -
O. Henry, American author (b.
1862)
1913 -
Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b.
1851)
1916 -
Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b.
1850)
1920 -
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b.
1840)
1921 -
Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b.
1862)
1930 -
Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b.
1885)
1975 -
Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b.
1916)
1976 -
Violet Wilkey, American actress (b.
1903)
1993 -
Conway Twitty, American musician (b.
1933)
1998 -
Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b.
1911)
1998 -
Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.
1909)
1999 -
Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b.
1925)
2000 -
Don Liddle, baseball player (b.
1925)
2001 -
Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 -
Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b.
1912)
2002 -
Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (
The Ramones) (b.
1952)
2003 -
Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b.
1945)
2003 -
Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and
conductor (b.
1904)
2004 -
Ronald Reagan, American radio broadcaster, film actor, governor of
California and 40th
President of the United States (b.
1911)
2004 -
Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b.
1941)
2005 -
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b.
1949)
2005 -
Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b.
1918)
2006 -
Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b.
1909)
2007 -
Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b.
1922)
[
edit] Holidays and observances
World Environment Day, since the
United Nations General Assembly resolution in
1972.
National holiday of
Denmark (
Constitution Day).
Suriname -
Indian Arrival DaySeychelles -
Liberation Day.
Bahá'í Faith -
Feast of Núr (
Light) - First day of the fifth month of the
Bahá'í calendar.
Saint Boniface (d.
754)
Saint Valeria
