Hatches Happy birthday and many happy returns Aprille Love. On your day in 1776, The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, a hugely influential document that proclaimed the inherent rights of men. In 1954, Pope Pius XII canonised Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old when he died, to make him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church. And in 1963, African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith. All of which suggests to me that you, though young, are mighty. And stand for the oppressed. Thank you. 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (d. 1187) 1519 – Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574) 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643) 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English sociologist (d. 1876) 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869) 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1875) 1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977) 1914 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer and songwriter 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and Holocaust victim (d. 1945) 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer 1941 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (The Troggs) (d. 2013) 1965 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (Psí vojáci) (d. 2013) 1967 – Frances OConnor, Australian actress 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player 1985 – Blake Ross, American software developer, co-created Mozilla Firefox 1992 – Laura Jones, English gymnast 1996 – Anna Margaret, American actress and singer 2005 – Ryzza Mae Dizon, Filipino actress Matches 1381 – Peasants Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. 1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians. 1429 – Hundred Years War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau. 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam). 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged. 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south. 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the citys old Jewish graveyard and shot. 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith. 1978 – David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings. 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit. 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Despatches 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750) 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870) 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor (b. 1490) 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904) 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968) 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American murder victim (b. 1959) 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
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