241 BC - First Punic War : Battle of Aegusa[?] - The Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthaginian ships.
1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain , ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere .
1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny[?] in which there was no parliament.
1804 - Louisiana Purchase : In St. Louis , a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States .
1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon[?] in France .
1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate , ending the Mexican-American War .
1864 - American Civil War : The Red River Campaign[?] begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana .
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1902 - Boer War : South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera (see Edison v. American Mutoscope[?] )
1912 - China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty .
1945 - World War II : In Japan , American B-29 bombers fire-bomb Tokyo killing 100,000.
1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba
1966 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg .
1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee , James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr . Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
1975 - Vietnam War : North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout[?] , South Vietnam , on their way to capturing Saigon .
1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports because of their support of terrorist groups .
1982 - Syzygy[?] : all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun
1987 - Reproductive rights[?] : The Vatican condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination .
1990 - 18 months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril[?] is ousted in Haiti .
1991 - Gulf War : Operation Phase Echo[?] - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf .
1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax .
1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel , aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829 )
1776 - Louise[?] , queen of Prussia (+ 1810 )
1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff[?] , lyricist and narrator (+ 1857 )
1848 - Albert Fraenkel[?] , physician (+ 1916 )
1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson[?] , actor (+ 1971 )
1888 - Barry Fitzgerald , actor (+ 1966 )
1891 - Sam Jaffe[?] , actor (+ 1984 )
1892 - Arthur Honegger , composer (+ 1955 )
1892 - Gregory La Cava[?] , director, producer, writer (+ 1952 )
1903 - Bix Beiderbecke , jazz musician (+ 1931 )
1903 - Clare Booth Luce[?] , publisher, writer (+ 1987 )
1918 - Heywood Hale Broun[?] , sports journalist, commentator (+ 2001 )
1927 - Paul Wunderlich[?] , painter, graphic artist, sculptor
1927 - Jupp Derwall[?] , football coach
1928 - James Earl Ray , assassin (+ 1998 )
1940 - Dean Torrence[?] , musician ("Jan and Dean ")
1940 - Chuck Norris , actor, martial arts practitioner
1947 - Kim Campbell , nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office
1957 - Osama Bin Laden , terrorist
1958 - Sharon Stone , actress
1963 - Neneh Cherry[?] , musician
1964 - Edward, Earl of Wessex
1966 - Edie Brickell[?] , singer
1913 - Harriet Tubman , Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist
1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov[?] , Russian writer
1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald[?] (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald )
1948 - Jan Masaryk , Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor[?] , segregationist
1985 - Konstantin Chernenko , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1986 - Ray Milland , British actor
1988 - Andy Gibb , singer
1996 - Ross Hunter[?] , producer
1997 - La Vern Baker[?] , singer
1998 - Lloyd Bridges[?] , actor
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