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45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 180 Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. 1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. 1776 American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. 1780 American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence". 1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board. 1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland. 1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber. 1948 Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. 1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. 1968 As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. 1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. 2000 Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. Births 1804 Jim Bridger, 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, 1902 Bobby Jones, 1919 Nat King Cole, 1938 Rudolf Nureyev, 1941 Paul Kantner, 1944 Pattie Boyd, 1944 John Sebastian, 1949 Patrick Duffy, 1951 Kurt Russell, 1954 Lesley-Anne Down, 1955 Paul Overstreet, 1955 Gary Sinise, 1959 Danny Ainge, 1960 Arye Gross, 1960 Vicki Lewis, 1961 Sam Bowie, 1961 Casey Siemaszko, 1964 Rob Lowe, 1967 Billy Corgan, 1969 Alexander McQueen, 1972 Mia Hamm Deaths 180 Marcus Aurelius, 1853 Christian Doppler, 1956 Fred Allen, 1974 Louis Kahn, 1990 Capucine, 1993 Helen Hayes, 1994 Mai Zetterling, 1996 Terry Stafford, 2006 Oleg Cassini
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37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. 1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. 1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights. 1892 Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup. 1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two. 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. 1937 The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children. 1938 Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities. 1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes. 1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. 1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. 1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. 1990 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. Births 1496 Mary Tudor, Queen of France, 1782 John C. Calhoun, 1837 Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th POTUS), 1858 Rudolf Diesel, 1869 Neville Chamberlain, 1877 Edgar Cayce, 1909 Ernest Gallo, 1911 Smiley Burnette♪ ♫, 1915 Richard Condon, 1923 Andy Granatelli, 1926 Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible, Airplane! movie series, The Ballad of Josie), 1927 George Plimpton, 1932 John Updike, 1936 F. W. de Klerk, 1937 Mark Donohue, 1938 Charley Pride♪ ♫, 1941 Wilson Pickett♪ ♫, 1943 Kevin Dobson, 1947 B. J. Wilson(Procol Harum), 1950 Brad Dourif, 1951 Ben Cohen (co-founded Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream), 1959 Luc Besson, 1962 Irene Cara♪ ♫, 1962 Thomas Ian Griffith, 1963 Jeff LaBar(Cinderella), 1963 Vanessa L. Williams, 1964 Bonnie Blair, 1966 Jerry Cantrell(Alice In Chains), 1970 Queen Latifah, 1972 Dane Cook (attempted American comedian), 1979 Adam Levine♪ ♫(Maroon 5, judge on The Voice), 1992 Ryan Truex Deaths 1845 Johnny Appleseed, 1947 William C. Durant (co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet), 2001 John Phillips♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas), 2003 Adam Osborne (founded the Osborne Computer Corporation), 2009 Natasha Richardson, 2011 Warren Christopher
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1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England". 1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. 1863 The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiθre record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. 1918 The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919). 1931 Gambling is legalized in Nevada. And there was much rejoicing. I mean, like, a lot of rejoicing. They're still rejoicing. 1941 World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated. 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. 1954 Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record which remains unbroken. 1962 Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records. 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. 1966 Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins, becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four (defeating University of Kentucky) with an all-black starting lineup. The story is told in Haskins' autobiography (and movie of the same name) Glory Road. 1969 The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up. 1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. 1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom. 1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell. 2008 GRB 080319B: A gamma ray burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. It originated 7.5 billion light-years from Earth, and was visible to the naked eye for approximately 30 seconds. Births 1813 David Livingstone (subject of Henry Stanley's famous quote "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". Livingstone was, literally, the only other white person for hundreds of miles in any direction.), 1883 Norman Haworth, 1848 Wyatt Earp, 1849 Alfred von Tirpitz, 1860 William Jennings Bryan, 1891 Earl Warren, 1894 Moms Mabley♪ ♫, 1905 Albert Speer, 1906 Adolf Eichmann, 1923 Pamela Britton (Lorelei on My Favorite Martian), 1925 Brent Scowcroft, 1928 Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner), 1936 Ursula Andress, 1946 Paul Atkinson(The Zombies), 1946 Ruth Pointer♪ ♫(eldest of The Pointer Sisters), 1947 Glenn Close, 1952 Harvey Weinstein (co-founded Miramax movie studio), 1953 Ricky Wilson♪ ♫(The B-52s), 1955 Bruce Willis, 1958 Andy Reid, 1964 Jake Weber, 1973 Brant Bjork(Kyuss) Deaths 1687 Renι-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, 1943 Frank Nitti (mobster), 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs (created Tarzan, and John Carter), 1950 Norman Haworth, 1982 Randy Rhoads(Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne), 1990 Andrew Wood♪ ♫(Mother Love Bone), 2005 John DeLorean\_____(founded the DeLorean Motor Company), 2008 Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey), 2008 Paul Scofield, 2014 Fred Phelps (scum)
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Today is the first day of Spring. Today is also World Storytelling Day, as well as Extraterrestrial Abduction Day, The Great American Meatout, International Day of Happiness, UN French Language Day, National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and World Sparrow Day. Events 1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established. 1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. 1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings. 1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. 1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". 1969 - John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. 1972 – The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland. 1980 - 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York and demanded to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation. He gave him-self up when told that neither act was in the office at the time. 1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT. 1991 - Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’. 1991, Michael Jackson signed a $1 billion (£0.6 billion) contract with Sony, the richest deal in recording history. 1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people. 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq. 2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day. Births 43 BC – Ovid, 1821 – Ned Buntline, 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, 1882 – Renι Coty, 1903 – Edgar Buchanan, 1906 – Ozzie Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), 1908 – Michael Redgrave, 1914 – Wendell Corey, 1917 – Vera Lynn ("Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?"), 1918 – Jack Barry, 1922 – Carl Reiner, 1928 – Fred 'Mr.' Rogers, 1931 – Hal Linden, 1935 – Ted Bessell, 1937 – Jerry Reed, 1943 – Douglas Tompkins (co-founded The North Face outdoor products), 1943 – Paul Junger Witt, 1944 – Camille Cosby, 1945 – Pat Riley, 1946 – Douglas B. Green♪ ♫('Ranger Doug' in the band Riders In The Sky), 1948 – John de Lancie ('Q' in Star Trek:TNG), 1948 – Bobby Orr, 1950 – William Hurt, 1950 – Carl Palmer(Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 1951 – Jimmie Vaughan(The Fabulous Thunderbirds), 1957 – Spike Lee, 1957 – Theresa Russell, 1958 – Holly Hunter, 1961 – Slim Jim Phantom(The Stray Cats), 1963 – Kathy Ireland, 1967 – Mookie Blaylock, 1970 – Michael Rapaport, 1976 – Chester Bennington♪ ♫(Linkin Park) Deaths 1726 – Isaac Newton, 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, 1974 – Chet Huntley, 1994 – Lewis Grizzard, 2013 – George Lowe, 2015 - A. J. Pero(Twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob)
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Today is observed as Education Freedom Day, and, no, that does not mean free education, nor freedom from education, ya wingnut. Our Aussie friends are celebrating Harmony Day today. This date also marks International Color Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, International Day of Forests, World Down Syndrome Day, World Poetry Day, as well as World Puppetry Day. Events 630 Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. 1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. 1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. 1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. Ohio's worst natural disaster to date. 1925 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. 1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. 1935 Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. 1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1946 The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in American football since 1933. 1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes. 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan. 1983 The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championship. 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones (no, not that one) become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000 Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2004 - Ozzy Osbourne was named the nation's favorite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth. The 55-year-old singer came out on top of a poll as the face people want to represent them to alien life. The poll of internet users was carried out following the discovery of signs of water on Mars. Ozzy won 26 per cent of the vote. A spokesman for Yahoo! News said: "As the world waits desperately for signs of alien life, we decided to ask our users who they thought was best suited for this most auspicious of roles. Ozzy is a great choice but I'm not sure what the Martians would make of his individual approach to the English language." 2006 The social media site Twitter is founded. Perhaps you've heard of it? 2009 Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California. Births 1867 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (of the Ziegfeld Follies), 1880 Broncho Billy Anderson, 1902 Son House, 1904 Forrest Mars, Sr. (created M&M's and Mars bar, PBUH), 1910 Julio Gallo, 1922 Russ Meyer, 1930 James Coco, 1940 Solomon Burke♪ ♫, 1945 Rose Stone(Sly & The Family Stone), 1946 Timothy Dalton, 1949 Eddie Money♪ ♫, 1951 Conrad Lozano(Los Lobos), 1958 Brad Hall, 1958 Gary Oldman, 1962 Matthew Broderick, 1962 Rosie O'Donnell(American mouth), 1976 Rachael MacFarlane (voice of 'Hayley' on American Dad!, Seth MacFarlane's sister), 1990 Mandy Capristo♪ ♫ Deaths 1556 Thomas Cranmer, 1891 Joseph E. Johnston, 1985 Michael Redgrave, 1987 Robert Preston, 1991 Leo Fender♪ ♫, 1992 John Ireland, 1994 Macdonald Carey, 1997 Wilbert Awdry (created Thomas the Tank Engine), 2011 Pinetop Perkins♪ ♫, 2014 James Rebhorn (that guy who was in that thing)
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1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire. 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. 1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. 1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. 1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. 1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment. 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. 1943 – World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. [...the fuck?] 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. 2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. Births 1814 – Thomas Crawford, 1817 – Braxton Bragg, 1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, 1887 – Chico Marx, 1908 – Louis L'Amour, 1912 – Karl Malden, 1920 – James Brown, 1920 – Werner Klemperer, 1923 – Marcel Marceau, 1924 – Al Neuharth, 1930 – Pat Robertson, 1931 – William Shatner, 1934 – Orrin Hatch, 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, 1936 – Roger Whittaker, 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, 1941 – Bruno Ganz, 1942 – Dick Poundsnicker, 1943 – George Benson, 1947 – James Patterson, 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1952 – Bob Costas, 1955 – Lena Olin, 1955 – Pete Sessions, 1959 – Matthew Modine, 1971 – Keegan-Michael Key, 1972 – Elvis Stojko, 1975 – Cole Hauser, 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, 1989 – J. J. Watt Deaths 1820 – Stephen Decatur, 1978 – Karl Wallenda, 1994 – Dan Hartman, 1994 – Walter Lantz, 1999 – David Strickland, 2001 – William Hanna, 2005 – Rod Price, 2016 – Rob Ford
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1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech "Give me liberty, or give me death!" at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. 1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. 1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. 1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. 1862 The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond. 1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. 1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. 1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. 1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. 1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) 1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. 1991 The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. 1994 A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq. 2009 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot. Births 1887 Josef Čapek, 1910 Akira Kurosawa, 1912 Wernher von Braun, 1921 Donald Campbell, 1922 Ugo Tognazzi, 1929 Roger Bannister, 1931 Viktor Korchnoi, 1937 Craig Breedlove, 1949 Ric Ocasek, 1953 Chaka Khan, 1957 Amanda Plummer, 1959 Catherine Keener, 1964 Hope Davis, 1976 Michelle Monaghan, 1976 Keri Russell, 1989 Ayesha Curry Deaths 1801 Paul I of Russia, 1964 Peter Lorre, 2006 Desmond Doss, 2006 Cindy Walker, 2011 Elizabeth Taylor, 2013 Joe Weider, 2016 Joe Garagiola, Sr., 2016 Ken Howard
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1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1663 The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. 1765 Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. 1832 In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. 1900 Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. 1958 Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. 1965 Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television. 1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perσn and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. 1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. 1989 In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground. 1993 Discovery of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9. 1999 Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval , marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. 1999 A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people. 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. births 1725 Samuel Ashe, 1820 Edmond Becquerel, 1834 John Wesley Powell, 1874 Harry Houdini, 1887 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, 1901 Ub Iwerks, 1902 Thomas E. Dewey, 1909 Clyde Barrow, 1910 Richard Conte, 1911 Joseph Barbera, 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1924 Norman Fell, 1930 Steve McQueen, 1940 Bob Mackie, 1944 R. Lee Ermey, 1949 Nick Lowe, 1951 Tommy Hilfiger, 1956 Steve Ballmer, 1959 Renaldo Nehemiah, 1960 Kelly Le Brock, 1960 Annabella Sciorra, 1960 Nena, 1962 Star Jones, 1965 The Undertaker, 1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, 1973 Jim Parsons, 1974 Alyson Hannigan, 1976 Peyton Manning, 1977 Jessica Chastain, 1979 Lake Bell Deaths 1603 Elizabeth I of England, 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1905 Jules Verne, 1984 Sam Jaffe, 1990 Ray Goulding, 1993 John Hersey, 2008 Richard Widmark, 2010 Robert Culp, 2016 Garry Shandling
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