632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruptionwhich kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
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Herman Hollerith |
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the ‘Art of Compiling Statistics’, which was his punched card calculator.
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral
1984 – Homosexuality declared legal in New South Wales.
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Births
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author (d. 2015)
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Thomas Paine |
1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
1927 – Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer
1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
Deaths
1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (b. 1906) |
