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is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). There are 295 days remaining.

Events

*1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the High Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
*928 - Trpimir II succseedes Croatian throne
*1387 - Battle of Castagnaro
*1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
*1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
*1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
*1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
*1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the thrown.
*1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
*1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Also, Henry Jones invented self-raising flour on this day.
*1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi.
*1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
*1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
*1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos written by Verdi.
*1872 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. Also on this day in 1872, the Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
*1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
*1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
*1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
*1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
*1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
*1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union
*1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
*1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
*1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
*1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
* 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
*1977 - 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
*1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
*1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
*1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
*1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Ceasefire declared.
*1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
* 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
*1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
*1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
*1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
* 1996 - EU Database Directive passed
*1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
*1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
*2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
*2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 192 people.
*2006 - Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

Births

*1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
*1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
*1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
*1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
*1811 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877)
*1863 - Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)
*1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
*1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
*1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
*1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
*1885 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948)
*1890 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)
*1892 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)
*1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
*1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972), Danish King
*1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
* 1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
*1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
*1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
*1915 - Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
*1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
*1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
*1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
* 1921 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
*1926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
*1927 - Robert Mosbacher, United States Secretary of Commerce
*1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
*1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
*1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
*1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
*1936 - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
*1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
*1948 - Dominique Sanda, French actress
*1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer
* 1950 - Jerry Zucker, American producer, director, and writer
*1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)
*1954 - Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior
*1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer
*1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
* 1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
*1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress
*1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director
*1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
*1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
*1964 - Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera)
* 1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
*1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
*1967 - John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor
*1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer
*1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
*1974 - Russ Haas, professional wrestler and brother of Charlie Haas (d. 2001)
* 1974 - Bobby Abreu, baseball player
*1975 - Eric the Midget, American radio personality/actor (The Howard Stern Show)
*1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast footballer
* 1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
*1979 - Benji Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)
* 1979 - Joel Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)
*1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
*1981 - David Anders, American actor
* 1981 - Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster/recording artist and Glamour model
* 1981 - Lee Evans, American football player
* 1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
* 1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer and former Destiny's Child member
*1982 - Thora Birch, American actress
*1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian hockey player
*1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

Deaths

* 222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
* 222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
*1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
*1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
*1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
*1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
*1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
*1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
*1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
*1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
*1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
*1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
*1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
*1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
*1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
*1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
*1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
*1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
*1931 - F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)
*1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
*1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
*1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
*1969 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)
*1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
*1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
* 1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)
*1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
*1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
*1982 - Edmund Cooper, Author and Poet (b. 1926)
*1993 - Dino Bravo, Professional wrestler (b. 1949)
*2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
*2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author and broadcaster (b. 1921)
*2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
* 2006 - Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

*United States - Johnny Appleseed Day
*Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.
*Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.
*Zambia - Youth Day.

Liturgical feasts

*Saint Vindician
*Blessed John Righi
*Saint Alberta
*Saint Rosina
*Blessed Auria

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