The United States takes possession of the Louisiana Territory from France. AI analysis
The Battle of the Wabash takes place during the Tecumseh's War. AI analysis
The first recorded use of ether as an anesthetic during surgery in the United States. AI analysis
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States. AI analysis
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The first issue of the Time magazine is published. AI analysis
The United States begins shipping military supplies to the United Kingdom through the Lend-Lease program. AI analysis
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed, officially ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. AI analysis
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). AI analysis
The United States votes in the controversial presidential election of 2000, which ultimately results in George W. Bush's victory. AI analysis
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The United States begins distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. AI analysis
Oronce Finé
French mathematician and cartographer
(d. 1555)
Joseph ha-Kohen
historian and physician
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John III
king of Sweden
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John Sarkander
Moravian priest and saint
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Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
German scholar and politician
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Pieter de Hooch
Dutch painter
(d. 1684)
Urban Hjärne
Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician
(d. 1724)
Arthur Lee
American physician and diplomat
(d. 1792)
Pietro Raimondi
Italian composer
(d. 1853)
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet
French painter and educator
(d. 1845)
Martín Carrera
Mexican general and president
(1855) (d. 1871)
Laura M. Hawley Thurston
American poet and educator
(d. 1842)
Edwin Abbott Abbott
English theologian, author, and educator
(d. 1926)
Ferdinand Buisson
French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1932)
Knut Wicksell
Swedish economist
(d. 1926)
Ferdinand Bonn
German actor
(d. 1933)
Ivana Kobilca
Slovenian painter
(d. 1926)
Elsie de Wolfe
American actress and interior decorator
(d. 1950)
Harvey Samuel Firestone
American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
(d. 1938)
Charley Grapewin
American actor
(d. 1956)
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer and conductor
(d. 1937)
Kan'ichi Asakawa
Japanese historian, author, and academic
(d. 1948)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Turkish poet, academic, and politician
(d. 1936)
Branch Rickey
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1965)
Ruhana Kuddus
Indonesian activist and journalist
(d. 1972)
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
American tennis player and businessman
(d. 1974)
Yitzhak Baer
German-Israeli historian and academic
(d. 1980)
Fred Merkle
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1956)
Yvonne Arnaud
French pianist, actress and singer
(d. 1958)
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1967)
Erik Almlöf
Swedish triple jumper
(d. 1971)
Robert Menzies
Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
(d. 1978)
Konstantinos Dovas
Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 1973)
Irene Dunne
American actress and singer
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Welsh preacher and physician
(d. 1981)
Lissy Arna
German actress
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Gabby Hartnett
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1972)
Robert J. Van de Graaff
American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator
(d. 1967)
Prince George
Duke of Kent
(d. 1942)
Sidney Hook
American philosopher and author
(d. 1989)
Spud Davis
American baseball player, coach, and manager
(d. 1984)
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Russian author
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Bill O'Reilly
Australian cricketer and sportscaster
(d. 1992)
Paul Francis Webster
American soldier and songwriter
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Dennis Morgan
American actor and singer
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Vakkom Majeed
Indian journalist and politician
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Hortense Calisher
American author
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Harry F. Byrd Jr.
American lieutenant, publisher, and politician
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Aziz Nesin
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Michel Chartrand
Canadian trade union leader and activist
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David Bohm
American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher
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Cahit Külebi
Turkish poet and author
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Audrey Totter
American actress
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Jean Marchand
Canadian trade union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada
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Väinö Linna
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George Roy Hill
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Beverly Pepper
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William Soeryadjaya
Chinese-Indonesian businessman and co-founder of Astra International
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Charlie Callas
American actor and comedian
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Judy LaMarsh
Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada
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Benito Lorenzi
Italian footballer
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Geoffrey Howe
Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Otto Graf Lambsdorff
German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Economics
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Michael Beaumont
22nd Seigneur of Sark, English engineer and politician
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Jim Simpson
American sportscaster
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Kim Young-sam
South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea
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John Menkes
Austrian-American pediatric and writer
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Don Sunderlage
American basketball player
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Mala Powers
American actress
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John Hillerman
American actor
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Olavi Salonen
Finnish runne
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Rik Van Looy
Belgian cyclis
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Khalid Ibadulla
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Kathryn Joosten
American actress
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Kim Weston
American soul singe
r
Rana Bhagwandas
Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan
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Bob Hayes
American sprinter and football player
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Jean-Claude Trichet
French banker and economis
t
Ray Martin
Australian television host and journalis
t
Peter Criss
American singer-songwriter, drummer, and produce
r
Sivakant Tiwari
Indian-Singaporean lawyer and author
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Uri Geller
Israeli-English magician and psychi
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Bill Hosket Jr.
American basketball playe
r
Sonny Perdue
American politician, 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture, 81st Governor of Georgi
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Dick Wolf
American director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Gigliola Cinquetti
Italian singer-songwrite
r
Alan Parsons
English keyboard player and produce
r
Mitsuko Uchida
Japanese pianis
t
Soumaïla Cissé
Malian engineer and politician
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Cecil Cooper
American baseball player and manage
r
Arturo Márquez
Mexican-American compose
r
Nuala O'Loan
Baroness O'Loan, Northern Irish academic and police ombudsma
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Marta Russell
American author and activist
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Jenny Agutter
English actres
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Michael Badalucco
American acto
r
Sandra Cisneros
American author and poe
t
Martin Schulz
German politicia
n
Binali Yıldırım
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Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritani
a
Guy Babylon
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Blanche Baker
American actress and screenwrite
r
Junji Hirata
Japanese wrestle
r
Andrew Mackenzie
Scottish geologist and businessma
n
Anita Ward
American disco/R&B singe
r
Billy Bragg
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Anna Vissi
Cypriot singer-songwriter and actres
s
Mike Watt
American singer-songwriter and bass playe
r
Doug Nordquist
American high jumpe
r
James Thomson
American biologist and academi
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George Coupland
Scottish scientis
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Hildegard Körner
German runne
r
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
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d
Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican-Canadian author and educato
r
Kim Ki-duk
South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2020)
Mohammad Fouad
Egyptian singer-songwriter and acto
r
Joel Gretsch
American acto
r
Veronica Pershina
Russian-American figure skater and coac
h
Chris Robinson
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Karl Wendlinger
Austrian racing drive
r
Alain de Botton
Swiss-English philosopher and autho
r
Zahra Ouaziz
Moroccan runne
r
Nicole de Boer
Canadian actres
s
Grant Flower
Zimbabwean cricketer and coac
h
Jörg Schmidt
German footballe
r
Jan Čaloun
Czech ice hockey playe
r
Anders Odden
Norwegian guitarist, songwriter, and produce
r
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Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and produce
r
Bartosz Bosacki
Polish footballe
r
Nenad Vučković
Croatian footballe
r
Yoon Kye-sang
South Korean singe
r
Andrei Markov
Russian-Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Geremi Njitap
Cameroon footballe
r
Bouabdellah Tahri
French runne
r
Michael Rogers
Australian cyclis
t
Israel Castro
Mexican footballe
r
Ashley Cole
English footballe
r
Anthony da Silva
French-Portuguese footballe
r
Martín Demichelis
Argentine footballe
r
Royal Ivey
American basketball player and coac
h
James Shields
American baseball playe
r
Mohammad Asif
Pakistani crickete
r
David Cook
American singer-songwrite
r
Kasper Klausen
Danish footballe
r
David Wright
American baseball playe
r
Jonah Hill
American actor, producer, and screenwrite
r
Bob Morley
Australian acto
r
David Tavaré
Spanish singer and D
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Chay Genoway
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Malcolm Jenkins
American football playe
r
JoJo
American singer and actres
s
Marta Xargay
Spanish basketball playe
r
Rachael Boyle
Scottish footballe
r
Jorginho
Brazilian footballe
r
Jillian Rose Reed
American actres
s
Fabian Schär
Swiss footballer
Ksenia Makarova
Russian-American figure skate
r
Robeisy Ramírez
Cuban boxe
r
Calvin Ridley
American football playe
r
Anžejs Pasečņiks
Latvian basketball playe
r
Christian Wilkins
American football playe
r
Jarrod Bowen
English football playe
r
De'Aaron Fox
American basketball playe
r
Suzuka Nakamoto
Japanese singe
r
Kylian Mbappé
French footballe
r
Facundo Pellistri
Uruguayan footballe
r
Marcelo Pitaluga
Brazilian footballe
r
Titus Flavius Sabinus
a Roman politician and soldie
r
Zephyrinus
pope of the Catholic Churc
h
Alfonso III
king of Asturia
s
Fujiwara no Kanemichi
Japanese statesman
(b. 925)
Margaret of Provence
French queen
(b. 1221)
Peter of Moscow
Russian metropolitan bisho
p
John I
duke of Bavaria
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Stefan Dušan
emperor of Serbia
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Johannes Lupi
Flemish composer
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Katharina von Bora
wife of Martin Luther
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Ambroise Paré
French physician and surgeon
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Jean Jannon
French designer and typefounder
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Kangxi
emperor of the Qing Dynasty
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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
German physician and botanist
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Richard Boyle
2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth
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Louis
dauphin of France
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Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni
Italian poet and academic
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Antonio Soler
Spanish priest and composer
(b. 1729)
Sacagawea
American explorer
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John Bell
American farmer
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Francesco Bentivegna
Italian activist
(b. 1820)
Robert Knox
Scottish surgeon and zoologist
(b. 1791)
Gaspar Tochman
Polish-American colonel and lawyer
(b. 1797)
George C. Magoun
American businessman
(b. 1840)
Upendrakishore Ray
Indian painter and composer
(b. 1863)
Arthur Morgan
Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland
(b. 1856)
Lucien Petit-Breton
French-Argentinian cyclist
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Philip Fysh
English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania
(b. 1835)
Linton Hope
English sailor and architect
(b. 1863)
Julius Richard Petri
German microbiologist
(b. 1852)
João Ferreira Sardo
the founder of Gafanha da Nazaré, also known as Prior Sardo
(b. 1873).
Frederick Semple
American golfer and tennis player
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Émile Loubet
French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France
(b. 1838)
Martin O'Meara
Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1882)
Erich Ludendorff
German general
(b. 1865)
Annie Armstrong
American missionary
(b. 1850)
Lida Howell
American archer
(b. 1859)
Hans Langsdorff
German captain
(b. 1894)
Igor Severyanin
Russian-Estonian poet and author
(b. 1887)
Enrico Mizzi
Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta
(b. 1885)
James Hilton
English-American author and screenwriter
(b. 1900)
Ramón Carrillo
Argentinian neurologist and physician
(b. 1906)
Juhan Simm
Estonian composer and conductor
(b. 1885)
Moss Hart
American director and playwright
(b. 1904)
Earle Page
Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia
(b. 1880)
John Steinbeck
American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1902)
Roy O. Disney
American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company
(b. 1893)
Adolfo Orsi
Italian businessman
(b. 1888)
Luis Carrero Blanco
Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain
(b. 1904; assassinated)
Bobby Darin
American singer-songwriter and actor
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Rajani Palme Dutt
English journalist and politician
(b. 1896)
André Jolivet
French composer and conductor
(b. 1905)
Richard J. Daley
American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago
(b. 1902)
Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo
Indonesian politician, 1st Governor of West Java
(b. 1890)
Dimitris Rontiris
Greek actor and director
(b. 1899)
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American pianist and composer
(b. 1887)
Stanley Milgram
American psychologist and academic
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Dmitry Ustinov
Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
(1976–84) (b. 1908)
Joe DeSa
American baseball player
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Simone Beck
French chef and author
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Sam Rabin
English wrestler, singer, and sculptor
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Albert Van Vlierberghe
Belgian cyclist
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W. Edwards Deming
American statistician, author, and academic
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Nazife Güran
Turkish composer and educator
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Dean Rusk
American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State
(b. 1909)
Madge Sinclair
Jamaican-American actress
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Carl Sagan
American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
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Denise Levertov
English-American poet and translator
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Dick Spooner
English cricketer
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Dawn Steel
American film producer
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Riccardo Freda
Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter
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Hank Snow
Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(b. 1914)
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal
(b. 1906)
Raoul Bott
Hungarian-American mathematician and academic
(b. 1923)
Anne Rogers Clark
American dog breeder and trainer
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Adrian Mitchell
English author, poet, and playwright
(b. 1932)
Robert Mulligan
American director and producer
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Igor Troubetzkoy
Russian aristocrat and racing driver
(b. 1912)
Brittany Murphy
American actress and singer
(b. 1977)
Arnold Stang
American actor
(b. 1918)
K. P. Ratnam
Sri Lankan academic and politician
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Barry Reckord
Jamaican playwright and screenwriter
(b. 1926)
Stan Charlton
English footballer and manager
(b. 1929)
Robert Juniper
Australian painter and sculptor
(b. 1929)
Victor Merzhanov
Russian pianist and educator
(b. 1919)
Pyotr Bolotnikov
Russian runner
(b. 1930)
Per-Ingvar Brånemark
Swedish surgeon and academic
(b. 1929)
John Freeman
English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
(b. 1915)
Fanny Waterman
British pianist
(b. 1920)
Ezra Vogel
American sociologist
(b. 1930)
Franco Harris
American football player
(b. 1950)