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Events

• 1014 - Battle of Kleidion[?]: Basil II inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
• 1588 - Spanish Armada defeated
• 1851 - A De Gasparis[?] discovers asteroid #15 Eunomia
• 1945 - USS Indianapolis sinks
• 1567 - James VI was crowned at Stirling
• 1928 - Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie is released
• 1936 - First television show broadcast
• 1958 - NASA created
• 1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched, aimed at mainstream light entertainment and music
• 1947 - ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, debuts
• 1948 - XIVth Olympic Games open in London, England
• 1981 - Diana Spencer marries Charles, the Prince of Wales
• 1984 - XXIIIrd Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California

Births

• 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville,historian, political scientist (+ 1859)
• 1869 - Booth Tarkington, author (+ 1946)
• 1871 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian spiritualist (+ 1916)
• 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya[?], actress (+ 1949)
• 1878 - Don Marquis, author (+ 1937)
• 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (+ 1945)
• 1887 - Sigmund Romberg[?], composer (+ 1951)
• 1892 - William Powell, actor (+ 1984)
• 1905 - Clara Bow, actress (+ 1965)
• 1905 - Thelma Todd[?], actress (+ 1935)
• 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General (+ 1961)
• 1907 - Melvin Belli[?], attorney, actor (+ 1996)
• 1926 - Don Carter[?], bowler
• 1930 - Paul Taylor, dancer, choreographer
• 1938 - Peter Jennings[?], television news anchor
• 1941 - David Warner, actor
• 1949 - Vida Blue[?], Major League Baseball player
• 1953 - Ken Burns, television producer and director
• 1953 - Geddy Lee of Rush, musician
• 1959 - Ruud Janssen, Teacher, writer, artist, active in mail art
• 1965 - Chang-Rae Lee[?], author
• 1972 - Wil Wheaton, actor
• 1973 - Stephen Dorff[?], actor

Deaths

• 1099 - Pope Urban II
• 1644 - Pope Urban VIII
• 1833 - William Wilberforce, campaigner against slavery
• 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
• 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy
• 1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
• 1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
• 1974 - Mama Cass Elliott[?], musician
• 1975 - James Blish, science fiction writer
• 1983 - David Niven, actor
• 1983 - Raymond Massey, actor
• 1984 - Fred Waring[?], band leader, inventor
• 2001 - Henryk Jablonski[?], Polish president

Holidays and observations

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