Hatches Happy birthday and many happy returns for Malyka, little Zee, Dallas Beaufort, Adrian Kuswendi and Langley Bui. Born on the same day, across the years. That day, in 1939, Billie Holliday recorded Strange fruit. May your compassion and love be bountiful. 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author, playwright, and poet (d. 1556) 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895) 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and inventor (d. 1893) 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931) 1851 – Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923) 1889 – Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French Christian mystic (d. 1918) 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945) 1893 – Edna Parker, American educator and super-centenarian (d. 2008) 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network 1937 – George Takei, American actor 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor 1972 – Carmen Electra, American model, actress, and singer 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model 1992 – Ashton Moio, American actor, stunt actor and martial artist in film and television 2007 – Zarkandar, Thoroughbred racehorse Matches 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn. 1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan. 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament. 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). 1689 – The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57) 1789 – President George Washington arrives in Philadelphia after his inauguration to elaborate welcome at Grays Ferry just after noon first inauguration of George Washington 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld. 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou. 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia. 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation. 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IXs yacht, the LImmaculata Concezion. 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law. 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League. 1912 – Opening day for baseballs Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston. 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners strike. 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings. 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film. 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song Strange Fruit. 1939 – Adolf Hitlers 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany. 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth. 1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school. 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations. 1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ. 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station. 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon. 1978 – Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union. 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years. 1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School inColumbine, Colorado. 2013 – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japans last reactor is shut down at midnight. Despatches 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish military leader (b. 1130) 1873 – William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798) 1999 – Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre: Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981) Eric Harris, American student and murderer (b. 1981) Dylan Klebold, American student and murderer (b. 1981) Rachel Scott, American student, inspired the Rachels Challenge (b. 1981) William David Sanders, American educator (b. 1951)
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