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2006 Calendar
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[edit] Births

  • 1628 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
  • 1743 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
  • 1749 - Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)
  • 1758 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
  • 1768 - Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (d. 1821)
  • 1794 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
  • 1821 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
  • 1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900)
  • 1842 - August Thyssen, industrialist (d. 1926)
  • 1844 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
  • 1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
  • 1873 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
  • 1873 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957)
  • 1879 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
  • 1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
  • 1888 - Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg-spinner (d. 1965)
  • 1898 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
  • 1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini, (d. 1981)
  • 1901 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
  • 1903 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
  • 1904 - Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
  • 1906 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera soprano (d. 1989)
  • 1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
  • 1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano
  • 1919 - Merle Miller, Presidential biographer (d. 1986)
  • 1921 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
  • 1922 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
  • 1924 - Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
  • 1935 - Dennis Potter, writer (d. 1994)
  • 1936 - Dennis Hopper, actor, director
  • 1937 - Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
  • 1942 - Taj Mahal, singer, guitarist
  • 1945 - Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
  • 1946 - Udo Lindenberg, musician
  • 1948 - William Bruford, drummer, songwriter
  • 1950 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician
  • 1955 - Bill Paxton, actor
  • 1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
  • 1956 - Bob Saget, actor
  • 1959 - Paul Di'Anno, singer
  • 1959 - Jim Nantz, broadcaster
  • 1962 - Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
  • 1965 - Trent Reznor, singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails")
  • 1966 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
  • 1971 - Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
  • 1971 - Shaun Hart, Australian rules footballer
  • 1974 - Andrea Corr, singer ("The Corrs")
  • 1975 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
  • 1975 - Jonti Picking, internet cartoonist
  • 1975 - Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Events

  • 1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
  • 1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
  • 1642 - Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
  • 1673 - Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
  • 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
  • 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
  • 1809 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
  • 1814 - Norway gets its own constitution.
  • 1814 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
  • 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
  • 1863 - Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
  • 1865 - The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
  • 1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
  • 1900 - Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • 1902 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
  • 1915 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
  • 1919 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
  • 1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
  • 1940 - World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
  • 1943 - World War II: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
  • 1943 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
  • 1944 - Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
  • 1954 - The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
  • 1967 - Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
  • 1969 - Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
  • 1970 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 1973 - Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
  • 1974 - Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
  • 1974 - Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
  • 1980 - General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
  • 1983 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
  • 1984 - Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
  • 1987 - Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
  • 1992 - In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops, equipped with M-16 rifles, open fire.
  • 1995 - After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
  • 1999 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
  • 2003 - Mozilla Firefox. Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.
  • 2004 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
  • 2005 - Reverend Clarence Silva of Oakland is appointed fifth Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii.