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World Cerebral Palsy Day

1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

1783 Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock

1854 The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

1869 Johannes Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer" premieres

1914 The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia

1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides

1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die

1936 Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest

1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain and announces plans to regulate Jewish problem

1939 Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

1941 German army occupies Briansk, USSR

1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram

1942 – World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.

1943 – Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.

1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Fishing, Overijssel

1944 Canadians free Austria

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea

1944 Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia

1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1956 Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad

1966 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California

1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel

1978 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"

1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

1985 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham

1991 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (59) weds for 8th time to construction worker Larry Fortensky (39)

2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševic resigns.

2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

2019 Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks

Born Today ;-

1846 George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York

1888 Roland Garros, French pilot

1905 Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (19 Grand Slam titles), born in Centerville California

1910 Barbara Castle, politician

1914 Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik

1916 Tommy Lawton Legendary Burnley, Everton & England Footballer, scored on his debut (Burnley) after just 30 seconds, before going on to record a hat-trick in a 3–1 win over Tottenham Hotspur, scoring a goal with either foot and one with his head.

1930 Richie Benaud, Australian cricket captain, broadcaster (62 Tests, 248 wickets), born in Penrith, New South Wales

1931 – Eileen Derbyshire, actress the longest-serving female cast member in a TV soap opera - Coronation St, born Urmston

1939 – Melvyn Bragg, Tv Presenter, journalist, author, and academic

1942 Britt Ekland actress (Wicker Man, Asylum), born in Stockholm

1946 Tony Greig England cricket captain, born South Africa

1948 Gerry Adams Northern Irish politician

1971 Alan Stubbs, Everton & England 'B' footballer , born in Kirkby

1978 Ricky Hatton, Man City fan & Boxer, born Stockport

Died today ;-

1536 William Tyndale, English Protestant bible translator and scholar, is strangled and burned at the stake

1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83

1980 Josephine "Hattie" Jacques, British comedy actress (Carry on films, Hancock's Half Hour), dies of a heart attack at 58

1981 Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers

1989 Bette Davis actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81

1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70

2011 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man), born in Brisbane

2017 Terry Downes, British middleweight boxing champion (1961-62), dies at 812019 [Peter] Ginger Baker, English drummer (Cream), dies at 80

2019 – Ginger Baker, drummer, Cream, Ginger Baker's Air Force,

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International Walk to School Day

1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain

1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands

1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood

1891 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Hugh Kirkaldy wins by 2 strokes from brother Andrew Kirkaldy and Willie Fernie; last Open contested in a single day over 36 holes

1915 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers

1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport,
Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in
international waters

1919 First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM) KLM is oldest existing airline

1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)

1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.

1940 The McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1941 German army occupies Viarma, USSR

1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1942 US & UK government announce establishment of
United Nations

1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums

1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.

1959: Southend Pier fire traps 300 on the world's longest pleasure pier on England's south-east coast.

1965 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one

1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland

1973 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi

1986 First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published

2000 Last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium, England defeated 1-0 by Germany, last goal scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. Match is Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley, the record for most appearances at the stadium.

2001 Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out

2016 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent

2018 Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television

Born today ;-

1900 Heinrich Himmler Head of Gestapo

1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress, daughter of Winston

1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor "Here in My Heart". It was number one in the first UK Singles chart, published by the New Musical Express

1931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal

1938 Ann Haydon-Jones, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1969, French Open 1961, 66), born in Birmingham

1939 Clive James TV Presenter, born in Kogarah, Australia

1952 – Vladimir Putin Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad

1957 Jayne Torvill, English ice dancer (Torvill & Dean, Olympic gold 1984), born in Nottingham

1959 – Simon Cowell recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol), born in London

1964 Paul Stewart, England & footballer Liverpool, born in Manchester

1978 – Alesha Dixon pop singer (Mis-Teeq), born in Welwyn Garden City

1996 – Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter

1998 – Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool & England footballer

Died today ;-

1849 Edgar Allan Po writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), dies in Baltimore at 40

1918 Hubert Parry, English musicologist and composer (Jerusalem)

1956 – Clarence Birdseye, founded Birds Eye

1966 Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash

1993 Cyril Cusack, South African born Irish actor (Day of the Jackal, Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82, father of Actresses Sinéad, Sorcha, Niamh and gradfather of Catherine

1999 Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir! - Sykes), dies at 85

2004 Kenneth Bigley civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq

2011 George Baker, Bulgarian-born British actor (I, Claudius, Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly), dies at 80

2013 – Mick Buckley, Everton footballer

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International Lesbian Day

World Octopus Day

1769 Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay)

1818 Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves

1829 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.

1871 Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded history

1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow

1897 Emperor Franz Joseph I names Gustav Mahler Director of the Vienna Court Opera

1915 Battle of Loos on Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)

1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans

1939 Germany annexes Western Poland

1940 German troops occupies Romania

1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins

1941 – During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.

1943 – Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.

1943 Italian government surrenders to Allied forces

1945 Microwave oven patented

1952 Harrow and Wealdstone, Rail Crash Northwest London, 112 people killed

1959 Conservatives win British general election

1961 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen having already clinched World Drivers Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix

1964 Ringo Starr passes his driving test

1965 Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England

1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

1971 John Lennon releases "Imagine"

1973: Commercial radio joins UK airwaves

1973 – Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.

1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro

1990: Britain's first full day in ERM

2005 – The 7.6 Mw? Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.

Born Today ;-

1895 Juan Perón President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires

1895 Zog I, King of Albania (1928-39), born in Burgajet Castle, Ottoman Empire

1928 – Bill Maynard, [Walter Williams], English actor (Greengrass-Heartbeat) and comedian, born in Heath End, England

1929 – Betty Boothroyd politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons

1935 – Albert Roux, French-English chef

1941 – Jesse Jackson American clergyman and Democratic presidential candidate (1984, 88), born in Greenville, South Carolina

1949 – Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], American actress (Alien, Working Girl), born in Manhattan

1970 Sadiq Khan politician and 1st Muslim Mayor of London, born in London

1971 – David Gauke English lawyer and politician

1985 Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez], American singer ("Just the Way You Are", "Grenade"), born in Honolulu

Died today ;-

1606 John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies at 69

1953 Nigel Bruce, British actor (Rebecca, Suspicion, Sherlock Holmes), dies from a heart attack at 58

1967 Clement Attlee Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84

1992 Willy Brandt [Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm], German statesman, leader of the SPD party (1964-1987) and Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74, Nobel 1971)

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International Beer and Pizza Day

World Day Against the Death Penalty

World Egg Day

World Post Day

1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America

1192 Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise

1290 Last of 16,000 Jews expelled by King Edward I leave England

1514 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)

1665 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster

1799 Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast, the majority of the cargo has never been recovered. Lloyd's of London has preserved her salvaged bell – the Lutine Bell – which is now used for ceremonial purposes at their headquarters in London.

1854 The siege of Sevastopol begins during the Crimean War

1855 American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor

1914 – The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.

1946 First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50

1959: 'Supermac' leads Tories to 3rd election victory

1963 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigns and is replaced by Alec Douglas-Home

1965 Ryder Cup, Royal Birkdale GC: US beats Great Britain 19½-12½; Byron Nelson non-playing American captain; Harry Weetman GB skipper

1973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years

1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee

1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.

1989 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands

1999 The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"

2009 President Barack Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

2012 Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan

Born Today ;-

1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright), born in Edinburgh

1907 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

1923 Donald Sinden actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba), born in St Budeaux, Plymouth

1931 Anthony "Tony" Booth actor and father of Cherie Blair (Till Death Us Do Part), born in Liverpool

1933 – Bill Tidy cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga), born in Tranmere, lived in Birkdale

1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

1936 – Brian Blessed actor (Z Cars, King Arthur, High Road to China), born in Mexborough, Yorkshire

1940 – John Lennon

1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer - The Who

1952 – Sharon Osbourne TV personality (X-Factor, America's Got Talent) and wife of Ozzy Osbourne

1955 – Steve Ovett athlete (Olympics gold 800m, bronze 1500m 1980), born in Brighton

1966 – David Cameron British Prime Minister (Conservative: 2010-16), born in London

1969 Steve McQueen, British filmmaker and artist (12 Years a Slave), born in London

1975 Sean Ono Lennon Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, born in New York City

Died Today ;-

1709 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England

1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's

1967 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39

1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates

1974 Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel "Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List", credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

1988 Felix Wankel, German inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine), dies at 86

1995 – Sir Alec Douglas-Home British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), Lord Home of Hirsel, cricketer(Middlesex )dies at 92

2015 - Gordon Honeycombe newscaster, broadcaster/author, dies at 79

2015 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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World Homeless Day

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

World Mental Health Day

World Porridge Day

World Day Against the Death Penalty

International African Penguin Awareness Day

International Newspaper Carrier Day

International Stage Management Day

1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

1865 John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany, New York (patent US50359A)

1871 The Great Chicago Fire after a barn accident is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage

1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan

1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame

1903 The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights

1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)

1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea

1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale

1938 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet

1941 RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancing

1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney

1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp

1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths

1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die

1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops

1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, becomes the world's first major nuclear accident

1974 Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins UK general election

1975 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (43) 6th marriage and remarriage to actor Richard Burton (49)

2002 Former cricketer Imran Khan elected to the Pakistani Parliament

2019 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution

Born today ;-

1344 Mary Plantagenet, English princess, daughter of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, born in Waltham, Hampshire

1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata)

1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer and advocate for refugees (Nobel Peace Prize 1922), born in Store Frøen, Christiania

1911 Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, born in Knighton, England

1923 Nicholas Parsons Tv presenter and actor described as "the ultimate quiz show host", born in Grantham

1923 – Murray Walker

1930 Harold Pinter playwright (The Homecoming, Servant), born in London

1936 Judith Chalmers TV hostess (Wish You Were Here), born in Stockport

1940 – Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician, son of Winston

1946 Charles Dance

1946 Chris Tarrant TV presenter (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), born in Reading

1953 Midge Ure

1956 – Amanda Burton

1959 Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter, born in Croydon

1961 Martin Kemp, actor, English rock bassist (Spandau Ballet), born in London

1964 – Sarah Lancashire, born Ildham

1970 Matthew Pinsent English rower (4 Olympic gold medals), born in Holt, Norfolk

Died Today ;-

1938 Lord Hawke [Martin Bladen Hawke], Yorkshire & England cricketer , born Lincolnshire - reputedly qualified for Yorkshire by being concieved on Doncaster Racecourse.

1939 Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song

1963 – Édith Piaf

1966 Charlotte Cooper, British tennis player (1st female Olympic champion 1900; Wimbledon 1895-96, 98, 1901, 08), dies at 96

1983 – Sir Ralph Richardson actor (Richard III)

1985 – Yul Brynner actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments)

1985 – Orson Welles actor and director (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)

2004 Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), dies of an adverse reaction to an antibiotic at 52

2010 – Joan Sutherland Australian operatic soprano

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International Day of the Girl Child

International Newspaper Carrier Day

World Egg Day

World Obesity Day

1138 Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000

1521 Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"

1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India

1887 A Miles patents elevator

1890 First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds run by John Owen in 9.8 sec at Analostan Island, Washington, D.C.

1899 South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

1915 Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans

1923 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $

1937 – The Duke and Duchess of Windsor start tour Nazi Germany

1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb

1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere

1945 Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party

1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, it fails to achieve a stable orbit.

1969 Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast

1974: Labour scrapes working majority in Election

1982 Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, raised at Portsmouth

1987 200,000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington, D.C.

1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel

1990 Libya's Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated

1990 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait

1995 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches

2000 South African Cricket Board issues former captain Hansie Cronje with a life ban as a result of match-fixing allegations

2017 TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, world's best restaurant

Born today ;-

1821 George Williams, English philanthropist and founder of YMCA, born in Dulverton, Somerset

1844 – Henry J. Heinz (H.J. Heinz Company-57 varieties), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1872 Emily Davison, English suffragette who died when hit by King George's horse at Epsom Derby, born in Greenwich

1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt 39th First Lady of the United States

1905 – Fred Trump real estate developer, father of Donald Trump, born in NYC, New York

1926 – Jean Alexander actress (Hilda Ogden on Coronation Street), born in Liverpool, lived in Churchtown

1937 – Bobby Charlton, brother of Jack, both World Cup Winners 1966, born in Ashington, Northumberland

1943 – John Nettles, actor

1957 – Dawn French TV actress (Supergrass, French & Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley), born in Holyhead

1963 Ronny Rosenthal, Liverpool & Israel footballer , born in Haifa, Israel


Died Today ;-

1721 – Edward Colston, English merchant and politician, Tory Member of Parliament for Bristol who was involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist, composer, and educator

1961 Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers)

1963 Édith Piaf singer (No, I don't regret anything), dies of liver cancer at 47

1993 – Andy Stewart

2000 – Donald Dewar politician (1st minister of Scotland's first Parliament in almost 300yrs),

2004 – Keith Miller cricketer (one of Australia's best ever all-rounders)

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World Arthritis Day

International Moment of Frustration Scream Day

International Newspaper Carrier Day

UN Spanish Language Day (United Nations)

International Day Against DRM

633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd

1216 King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge

1285 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany and are set on fire

1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on a Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia

1609 Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in London

1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats

1853 John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans

1899 South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain

1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"

1914 The First Battle of Ypres begins

1915 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth automobile

1915 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners

1917 – The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.

1925 Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8)

1927 Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet

1928 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)

1931 Christ the Redeemer statue opens standing 30 meters high (98 ft) on top of Mount Corcovado overlooking Rio de Janeiro, built by engineer Heitor da Silva Costa

1944 – The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.

1945 – Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.

1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience forms with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell

1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk

1978 Sid Vicious charged with murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen

1979 The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in Guam, in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip

1984 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die

1999 The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born

2002 Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists

2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Home Depot Center, Carson, CA: Nia Künzer scores winner in sudden death extra time as Germany beats Sweden, 2-1

2019 Centre-back Sergio Ramos becomes Europe's most capped male outfield soccer player (168 caps) as Spain draws 1-1 with Norway in Euro 2020 qualification in Oslo

Born Today ;-

1537 – Edward VI, Tudor King of England (1547-53), born in Hampton Court Palace

1808 John Liptrot Hatton, English composer and pianist, born in Liverpool

1866 Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister (Labour: 1924, 1929-35), born in Lossiemouth, Morayshire

1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer (Hugh the Drover), born in Down Ampney

1929 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic television presenter, born in Reykjavik - Mastermind - "I've started so I'll finish"

1929 Brian Cobby, British actor (Evita, The Nudist Story) and the first male voice of the British speaking clock, born in Brighton, East Sussex

1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors), born in Modena, Italy

1944 – Angela Rippon, television personality, born in Plymouth

1948 Rick Parfitt, English pop guitarist and singer (Status Quo-Wanderer), born in Surrey

1950 Robin Askwith actor (Confessions - Sex Comedies), born Southport

1953 – Les Dennis

1975 Marion Jones, Professional Basketball player, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited Olympic medals), born in Los Angeles

1997 Boris, Prince of Bulgaria, born in Madrid

Died Today ;-

632 Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda

1654 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius

1845 – Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, social reformer and Quaker Minister, dies of a stroke at 65

1936 Bernard Bosanquet, England cricketer (invented the googly bowl) Father of newscaster Reginald Bosanquet

1971 – Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36

1997 John Denver, country music star (Country Boy), dies in a plane crash

2001 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

2003 Willy Shoemaker, legendary US jockey (8,833 career victories, Kentucky Derby 1955, 59, 65, 86)

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English Language Day

Good Samaritan Day

Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day

National No Bra Day

International Face Your Fears Day

International Plain Language Day

International Day for Failure

International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

National Train Your Brain Day

National Yorkshire Pudding Day

Ada Lovelace Day (the daughter of Lord Byron, spouse of Charles Babbage was fascinated by Babbages "Analytical Engine," wrote "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator," included sketched out programs of the engine, and prescient observations of its use. This work is viewed as early computer programming, and because of this, Lovelace is often referred to as the first computer programmer, was an inspiration to Alan Turing. She even has a programming language, Ada, named after her.

54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances.[

1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated

1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Phillip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.

1399 Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England in Westminster Abbey, a few weeks after deposing Richard II

1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert

1881 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations

1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude

1908 – Keir Hardie's secretary suffragette Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.

1914 Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask

1915 – The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

1917 70,000 peope gather to see 'Miracle of the Sun', solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children

1941 Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people

1943 – The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.

1943 – Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.

1944 The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

1954: Chataway beats 5,000m world record

1992: 31000 miners to lose their jobs

1964 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins her third consecutive Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Games; Olympic record 59.05s

1988 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages

1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points

1997 RAF pilot Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH, the first person to break the sound barrier on land, also hold the Diesel Land Speed Record of 350mph

2008 HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.

2010 – The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.

2016 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

2017 Actress Rose McGowan alleges that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997

2018 Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird

2019 – Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon

Born Today ;-

1162 Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile, born in Domfront Castle, Normandy

1453 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, son and heir of Henry VI of England

1537 Jane Grey, Queen of England in 1553 for 9 days

1853 – Lillie Langtry[Emilie Charlotte Le Breton], American actress (His Neighbor's Wife), born in Jersey, Channel Islands, also known for her relationships with noblemen, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Prince Louis of Battenberg (Earl Mounbattens of Burma's father) & many others.

1904 – Wilfred Pickles actor and host of the BBC Radio show Have A Go, appeared in the show with his wife Mabel, whom he had married at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Ainsdale they celebrated their silver wedding anniversary by returning to the Sacred Heart Church celebrated their silver wedding anniversary by returning to the Sacred Heart Church when they donated money for a statue of Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, which still stands in the church

1925 – Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister (Conservative: 1979-90), born in Grantham, Lincolnshire

1934 – Nana Mouskouri Greek singer (Try to Remember), born in Chania, Crete

1941 – Paul Simon singer and actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony), born in Newark, New Jersey

1946 – Edwina Currie politician (C), born in Liverpool

1971 Sacha Baron Cohen comedian and actor (Ali G, Borat), born in London

1993 Tiffany Trump daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples, born in West Palm Beach, Florida

Died Today ;-

54 Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms

1945 Milton S. Hershey Chocolate tycoon

1961 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian-British film director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)

1966 Charles Stowell "Father" Marriott Lancashire (12) & England (1) Cricketer

1974 Ed Sullivan American television host

1996 Beryl Reid actress (The Killing of Sister George, Smiley's People)

2016 Bhumibol Adulyadej [Rama IX], King of Thailand (1946-2016), was world's longest reigning monarch

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The Start of Sukkot

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1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"

1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners

1926 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" published

1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed at Scapa Flow.

1940 Balham tube station in London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, killing 66 people

1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed

1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal

1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland

1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60of 291 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt

1944 Allied troops land in Corfu

1944 British troops march into Athens

1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.

1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)

1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1

1961 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes: Jerry Barber captains US to 14½-9½ win

1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba

1964 Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

1964 Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women's long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV

1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.

1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971

1972 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition

1975 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over ?abbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground

1996 Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)

2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on his descent.He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance with a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Baumgartner is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career.

2014 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%

Born Today ;-

1633 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), born in St. James's Palace, London

1873 Jules Rimet football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), born in Theuley, Franche-Comté, France

1882 Éamon de Valera(President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59)), born in NYC, New York

1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, born in Denison, Texas

1896 Bud Flanagan [Chaim Reuben Weintrop], English comedian (duo with Chesney Alley), born in London

1927 – Roger Moore actor (The Saint, James Bond), born in London

1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx, New York

1940 – Cliff Richard [Harry Webb], English rock vocalist (Suddenly), born in Lucknow, India

1940 Christopher Timothy actor (All Creatures Great & Small), born in Bala, Wales

1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player, 3 time Wimbledon semi finalist

1945 – Lesley Joseph, actress - Birds of a Feather

1960 Steve Cram runner (world record mile/2 km)

1965 – Steve Coogan

1990 – Jordan Clark, Lancs & Surrey cricketer, born Whitehaven

Died Today :-

1066 – Harold Godwinson, King Harold II last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England (1066), dies at the Battle of Hastings

1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, brother of Harold II

1066 – Gyrth Godwinson brother of Harold II

1944 – Erwin Rommel German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign), commits suicide at 52

1959 – Errol Flynn Australian born actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood), dies of a heart attack at 50

1976 Dame Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88

1977 Bing Crosby [Harry Lillis Crosby], American singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74

1990 – Leonard Bernstein

1997 – Harold Robbins salacious novelist, dies at 81

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale

2016 Jean Alexander actress (Hilda Ogden on Coronation Street), dies at 90, Southport Resident

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International Top Spinning Day

The Start of Sukkot

World Standards Day

1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"

1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners

1926 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" published

1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed at Scapa Flow.

1940 Balham tube station in London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, killing 66 people

1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed

1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal

1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland

1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60of 291 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt

1944 Allied troops land in Corfu

1944 British troops march into Athens

1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.

1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)

1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1

1961 Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes: Jerry Barber captains US to 14½-9½ win

1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba

1964 Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

1964 Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women's long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV

1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.

1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971

1972 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition

1975 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over ?abbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground

1996 Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)

2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on his descent.He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance with a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Baumgartner is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career.

2014 World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%

Born Today ;-

1633 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), born in St. James's Palace, London

1873 Jules Rimet football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), born in Theuley, Franche-Comté, France

1882 Éamon de Valera(President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59)), born in NYC, New York

1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, born in Denison, Texas

1896 Bud Flanagan [Chaim Reuben Weintrop], English comedian (duo with Chesney Alley), born in London

1927 – Roger Moore actor (The Saint, James Bond), born in London

1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx, New York

1940 – Cliff Richard [Harry Webb], English rock vocalist (Suddenly), born in Lucknow, India

1940 Christopher Timothy actor (All Creatures Great & Small), born in Bala, Wales

1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player, 3 time Wimbledon semi finalist

1945 – Lesley Joseph, actress - Birds of a Feather

1960 Steve Cram runner (world record mile/2 km)

1965 – Steve Coogan

1990 – Jordan Clark, Lancs & Surrey cricketer, born Whitehaven

Died Today :-

1066 – Harold Godwinson, King Harold II last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England (1066), dies at the Battle of Hastings

1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, brother of Harold II

1066 – Gyrth Godwinson brother of Harold II

1944 – Erwin Rommel German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign), commits suicide at 52

1959 – Errol Flynn Australian born actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood), dies of a heart attack at 50

1976 Dame Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88

1977 Bing Crosby [Harry Lillis Crosby], American singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74

1990 – Leonard Bernstein

1997 – Harold Robbins salacious novelist, dies at 81

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale

2016 Jean Alexander actress (Hilda Ogden on Coronation Street), dies at 90, Southport Resident

Errol Flynn was born in Battery Point, Hobart.

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Errol Flynn was born in Battery Point, Hobart.

No no no, he died today, born on June 20th 1909

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International Credit Union Day

International ShakeOut Day

Breast Health Day

Global Handwashing Day

Global Wave Of Light

International Day of Rural Women

World Students' Day

1066 – Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned and concedes power to William the Conqueor two months later.[

1501 Heir to the English throne Prince Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon

1674 Torsåker witch trials begin, largest witch trials in Sweden, 71 beheaded and burned

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent

1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile

1846 Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

1866 Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses

1886 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres in St. Petersburg's Kononov Hall, Russia

1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France

1904 The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000)

1905 Claude Debussy's symphonic sketch "La Mer" premieres in Paris

1913 Train crash in Liverpool, St James Station , 6 dead over 60 injured, one train ran into the back of another in the Station

1917 Dutch exotic dancer and Courtesan Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany at Vincennes near Paris

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

1940 Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed

1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe

1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe

1941 Hideki Tojo appointed Prime Minister of Imperial Japan

1941 Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die

1951 First synthesis of an oral contraceptive (norethindrone) made by Luis E. Miramontes under direction of Carl Djerassi and George Rosenkranz at Mexican drug company Syntex

1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

1964 Sprinter Bob Hayes equals world record 10.0s to beat Cuba's Enrique Figuerola by 0.2s and win the men's 100m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1964 Soviet rower Vyacheslav Ivanov wins his third consecutive Olympic men's single sculls gold medal at the Tokyo Games; also the reigning World and European champion

1964 Australian swimmer Ian O'Brien sets world record 2:27.8 to beat Soviet Georgy Prokopenko by 0.4s and win men's 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1968 Al Oerter wins the men's discus in Olympic record 64.78m at the Mexico City Games; Oerter's unprecedented 4th consecutive Olympic discus title

1968 Australian Ralph Doubell runs a world record 1:44.40 to beat Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut and win the men's 800m at the Mexico City Olympics

1968 British athlete David Hemery sets a world record 48.12s to beat Gerhard Hennige of West Germany and take the gold medal in the men's 400m hurdles at the Mexico City Olympics

1975 Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles

1977 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)

1987 Hurricane on the Way? Don't Worry says Michael Fish as The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.

1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1997 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)

2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

2017 500 wildfires occur in Portugal and Northern Spain fanned by winds from Hurricane Ophelia, killing at least 35

Born Today ;-

70 BC Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period (Aeneid), born in Andes, Cisalpine Gaul

1880 - Marie C. C. Stopes

1881 – P. G. Wodehouse (Bertie Wooster novels), born in Guildford

1925 Tony Hart, English artist and television presenter (Take Hart, Hartbeat), born in Maidstone

1926 Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), born in NYC, New York

1948 or 1950 – Chris de Burgh (The Lady in Red), born in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe Province, Argentina

1951 – Roscoe Tanner, Tennis player

1951 Peter Richardson, British actor, writer and director (The Comic Strip Presents, The Pope Must Die), born in Devon

1959 Sarah Margaret Ferguson, Duchess of York, born in London

1969 – Dominic West, actor

1989 – Anthony Joshua

Died Today ;-

1917 Mata Hari

1945 Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (1931-32 and 1935-36) and Head of Vichy France (1942-44), executed by firing squad for high treason

1946 Hermann Goering Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison

1964 Cole Porter American composer and songwriter

2011 Elizabeth "Betty" Driver, British singer and actress (Coronation Street, Pardon the Expression), dies from pneumonia at 91

2018 Paul Allen, American business magnate (co-founder Microsoft), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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Global Cat Day

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1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles

1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia

1834 Much of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down

1846 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.

1847 Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" published

1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party

1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

1923 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)

1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

1934 Mao Zedong and 25,000 troops begin their 6,000 mile Long March from the south of China to the north and west

1936 Jean Batten reaches Auckland, New Zealand after flying solo from Kent, England in a record 11 days and 45 minutes

1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.

1940 – Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.

1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow

1941 Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia

1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta

1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz

1950 The first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is released in London

1953 Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba

1964 Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election

1968 Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium and are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.

1975 – Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

1983 Ryder Cup Golf, PGA National GC: US wins 14½-13½; Bernard Gallacher's missed 3-foot putt for bogey gives Tom Watson 2 & 1 win and the US winning point

1984 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

1987 Record number 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange

1987 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)

1987 Great Storm of 1987: 175-kph hurricane force winds hit London and much of the South of England killing 23 people and causing widespread blackouts

1993 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters

1995 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)

1995 – The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.

2004 Lionel Messi, aged 17, makes his league debut for Barcelona against Espanyol

2017 – Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

Born Today ;-

1430 – James II of Scotland

1797 James Brudenell, British Earl Of Cardigan (led the Charge of the Light Brigade), born in Hambleden

1854 Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], (The Picture of Dorian Gray), born in Dublin

1886 – David Ben-Gurion 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 1955-63), born in P?onsk, Poland

1890 Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader and leading figure in the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century, born in Clonakilty, Ireland

1904 Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, theatre organist

1922 – Max Bygraves [Walter William Bygraves], Singer & actor (Charley Moon, Spare the Rod, Tom Brown's School Days), born in London

1923 – Bill McLaren Scottish rugby player and sportscaster

1925 Angela Lansbury actress (Gaslight, Murder She Wrote), born in London

1936 Peter Bowles, actor

1937 Emile Ford, singer and engineer (first black male singer to top UK charts), born in Castries, St Lucia

1942 Dave Lovelady, English musician (The Fourmost), born in Liverpool

1967 – Davina McCall television presenter

1973 David Unsworth, Everton & England footballer, born Chorley



Died Today ;-

1555 Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford Martyrs at 80

1555 Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford martyr

1793 Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase "let them eat cake", beheaded at 37

1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal
Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
Alfred Jodl, German general, signed unconditional Nazi surrender
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal
Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician
Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria
Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany

1946 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), dies at 78

1956 Jules Rimet (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54)

1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66

1983 George Liberace (Liberace Show)

2003 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer, the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. It was a remarkable run of Olympic Boxing supremacy, in that of his 13 Olympic fights, he won 12 of them without losing a round

2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the record for an actress most nominated in the lead actress category without winning.

2017 – Roy Dotrice, British actor

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World Trauma Day

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International Cassette Store Day

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

International Independent Video Store Day

International Repair Day

International Sloth Day

International ShakeOut Day

1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.

1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him in the Tower of London for eleven years

1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

1651 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees from England

1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.

1662 Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds)

1814 A Beer Flood occurs at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, in London killing nine, when one of the 22-foot-tall wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The pressure destroyed another vessel, and between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons of beer were released.
The resulting wave of porter destroyed the back wall of the brewery and swept into an area of slum-dwellings known as the St Giles rookery. Eight people were killed there, five of them mourners at the wake being held by an Irish family for a two-year-old boy.
Thomas Beames, the preacher of Westminster St James, and author of the 1852 work The Rookeries of London: Past, Present and Prospective, described the St Giles rookery as "a rendezvous of the scum of society"; the area had been the inspiration for William Hogarth's 1751 print Gin Lane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

1825 1st opera by Franz Liszt, "Don Sanche" premieres in Paris

1831 Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres

1854 French and British forces bombard Sevastopol for the first time during the Crimean War

1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented

1860 1st British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins inaugural event by 2 strokes from fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr

1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)

1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland

1917 1st British bombing of Germany

1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany

1940 German occupiers issue identity cards

1941 USS Kearney becomes the 1st US destroyer torpedoed in World War II, while the country is still officially neutral

1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian labourers

1945 Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.

1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens at Calder Hall, Sellafield

1968 Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets world record 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics; world record improved 5 times by 3 different athletes during competition

1971 16,000 households are withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland

1972 Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1

1972 The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast

1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"

1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1989 An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.

2000 Train crash at Hatfield, leads to collapse of Railtrack, 4 died.

2006 The United States population reaches 300 million

2008 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-scorer ever in test cricket beating Brian Lara's record and passing 12,000 runs against Australia in Mohali

2008 Iran's attempt to create the world's largest sandwich (1,500 metres) fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured

2017 George Soros announces he has donated $18 billion to his grantmaking network the Open Society Foundations

2018 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay

Born today ;-

1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), born in NYC, New York

1918 – Rita Hayworth [Margarita Cansino], actress (Gilda, Cover Girl, The Lady from Shanghai), born in NYC, New York

1925 – Harry Carpenter sportscaster

1938 – Evel Knievel motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), born in Butte, Montana

1940 – Peter Stringfellow nightclub owner (Stringfellows), born in Sheffield

1942 Gary Puckett, vocalist (Gary Puckett& Union Gap "Woman Woman"), born in Hibbing, Minnesota

1946 Vicki Hodge, actress (Confessions of a Sex Maniac), born in London

1960 – Guy Henry, actor Holby City, Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2,

1960 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer

1964 – Gregg Wallace, English television presenter - Masterchef

1966 – Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach

1972 Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], American rapper and movie star (The Real Slim Shady, Stan and 8 Mile), born in St. Joseph , Missouri

1978 – Chuka Umunna lawyer and politician

1974 Matthew Macfaden actor

Died today ;-

33 Agrippina the Elder, Roman noblewoman (mother of Caligula), dies of starvation at 47

1849 Frederic Chopin Polish-French pianist and composer (Concert in F Minor), dies of at 39

1868 Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812, walked 20 miles (32 km) out of American-occupied territory in 1813 to warn British forces of an impending American attack, dies at 93

1873 Robert McClure, Irish explorer who discovered the Northwest passage

1944 Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer, murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

1998 – Joan Hickson actress, Mis Marple

2015 – Howard Kendall Everton & England footballer & Manager

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1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.

1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London

1855 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Prometheus" premieres

1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million

1869 Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund" premieres in Christiania (Oslo)

1878 Edison makes electricity available for household use

1904 Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

1910 E. M. Forster publishes novel "Howards End"

1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation

1929 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II

1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres

1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

1954 Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA

1963 Lord Home becomes Conservative Party Leader & PM

1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" film is released

1968 American long jumper Bob Beamon sets an incredible world record (8.90m, 29' 2½") in high altitude at the Mexico City Olympics; 0.55m (22") improvement over previous world record

1968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony

1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2009 British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship

2016 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attemps to influence US election

2017 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”

Born Today ;-

1616 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, His book The English Physitian (1652, later the Complete Herbal, 1653.) is a store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655)is one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe

1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Italian painter (Regatta on the Grand Canal) and printmaker, born in Venice

1919 – Pierre Trudeau 15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), born in Montreal, Quebec

1926 – Chuck Berry [Charles Andersen], guitarist and singer-songwriter (Roll over Beethoven), born in St Louis, Missouri

1927 George C. Scott actor and director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove), born in Wise, Virginia

1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald assassin of JFK, born in New Orleans

1947 Paul Chuckle (Paul Harman Elliott), comedian, actor - "To me, to you"

1955 – Timmy Mallett, radio and television host

1956 – Martina Navratilova tennis player (18 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Prague

1958 Thomas Hearns, American boxer (first boxer to win world titles in 5 weight divisions), born in Memphis

1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor (Double Impact, Kickboxer, No Retreat), born in Brussels

1968 Stuart Law, Lancs & Austrailia cricketer

1968 Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian (Never Mind the Buzzcocks), born in Carmarthen

1974 – Robbie Savage Welsh footballer and Pundit

1978 Mike Tindall, English rugby union player, SiL of Princess Anne

Died Today ;-

1541 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland as wife of James IV of Scotland (1503-13), dies at 51

1871 Charles Babbage mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies of renal failure

1931 Thomas Edison inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera), dies at 84

1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc

1978 Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky

2012 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress - Last Tango in Paris, Emmanuelle, Lady Chatterley's Lover