1328 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII
1538 - Geneva throws out John Calvin
1637 - Pequot War[?] : an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut , killing approximately 500 inhabitants
1670 - In Dover , Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
1736 - Battle of Ackia[?] : British and Chickasaw[?] Native Americans defeat French troops.
1805 - In Milan 's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy[?] .
1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nurenberg[?] , Germany .
1830 - The Indian Removal Act United States Congress .
1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory[?] .
1865 - American Civil War : Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith[?] , commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote
1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak[?] establishing an Afghan state[?] .
1896 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia
1897 - The novel Dracula Bram Stoker , goes on sale in London
1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman[?] in southwest Persia , the first major commercial oil strike[?] in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom .
1918 - The first Republic of Georgia is established
1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session
1940 - World War II : Battle of Dunkirk - In France , Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk .
1948 - The United States Congress passes Public Law 557[?] which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force .
1963 - The Organization of African Unity forms
1966 - British Guiana gains independence, as Guyana
1969 - Apollo program : Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia .
1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty .
1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey , Resorts International[?] , the first legal casino in the eastern United States , opens.
1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag .
2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars .
1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (+ 1722 )
1667 - Abraham de Moivre , mathematician (+ 1754 )
1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (+ 1760 )
1764 - Edward Livingston , jurist and statesman (+ 1836 )
1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin , Russian author (+ 1837 )
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt , writer (+ 1896 )
1865 - Robert W. Chambers , artist (+ 1933 )
1867 - Mary of Teck , queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom (+ 1953 )
1873 - Olaf Gulbransson[?] , painter (+ 1958 )
1878 - Isadora Duncan , dancer (+ 1927 )
1886 - Al Jolson (+ 1950 )
1887 - Paul Lukas , actor (+ 1971 )
1893 - Norma Talmadge[?] , actress (+ 1957 )
1907 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (+ 1979 )
1908 - Robert Morley[?] , actor (+ 1992 )
1911 - Ben Alexander[?] , actor (+ 1969 )
1912 - Jay Silverheels , actor (+ 1980 )
1913 - Peter Cushing , actor (+ 1994 )
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg , journalist (+ 1972 )
1920 - Peggy Lee , singer (+ 2002 )
1923 - James Arness[?] , actor
1923 - Roy Dotrice[?] , actor
1926 - Miles Davis , musician (+ 1991 )
1928 - Jack Kevorkian , physician
1939 - Brent Musburger[?] , sports broadcaster
1941 - Cliff Drysdale[?] , tennis star
1942 - Levon Helm[?] , musician ("The Band )"
1946 - Mick Ronson , guitarist (+ 1993 )
1948 - Stevie Nicks , songwriter, actress
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas[?] , actor
1949 - Hank Williams Jr. , singer
1951 - Sally Ride , astronaut
1953 - Michael Portillo , politician
1955 - Doris Dörrie[?] , actor and screenplay writer
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait[?] , actor, comedian
1964 - Lenny Kravitz , guitaris, singer
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter , actress
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark[?]
1975 - Lauryn Hill , hip-hop singer
604 or 605 - Augustine of Canterbury
946 - King Edmund I of England
1648 - Vincent Voiture , poet
1703 - Samuel Pepys , English civil servant, famous for his diary
1824 - Capel Lofft , writer
1881 - Jakob Bernays , philologist
1883 - Edward Sabine , astronomer
1902 - Almon Strowger , developed the Strowger switch
1907 - Ida McKinley[?] , First Lady of the United States
1926 - Simon Petlyura , Ukrainian independence fighter
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers , singer
1943 - Edsel Ford , president of the Ford Motor Company
1976 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher
1995 - Friz Freleng , animator
1999 - Waldo Semon , inventor
2002 - Mamo Wolde , marathon runner
2003 - Kathleen Winsor , novelist
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