1338 – Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1949 – Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1907 – James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
1525 – Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer
1908 – Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1950 – Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
1677 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1690 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
1952 – Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, Calif, Baltimore)
1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austria organist/composer
1953 – Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1747 – Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)
1955 – Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 – Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1784 – John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1914 – Felix Kelly, artist
1805 – Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
1915 – Richard Bales, composer
1809 – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
1958 – Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1958 – Joe Frank Edwards Jr, Richmond Va, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 89)
1817 – Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1958 – N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
1820 – Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
1923 – Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1959 – Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
1824 – Nathan George “Shanks” Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
1925 – Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1826 – Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
1926 – Glen Tetley, US choreographer
1961 – Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
1926 – J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1926 – Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
1845 – Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan)
1851 – Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
1965 – Kathleen Kimont, LA Calif, actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1927 – Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
1965 – Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
1868 – Damaso Ledesma, composer
1870 – Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara)
1872 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1929 – Ken Shipp, American football coach
1874 – Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1967 – Jason Morris, Scotia NY, half-middleweight judoka (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1876 – William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
1967 – Dave Benson-Phillips, Children’s TV Presenter
1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
1968 – Frantisek Kucera, Prague Cze, NHL defenseman (Vanc Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1968 – Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1935 – Johnny “Guitar” Watson, rock guitarist
1883 – Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1936 – Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager
1938 – Victor Buono, SD Calif, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
1938 – Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1969 – Terry Bradshaw, US baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1887 – Juan Negrn, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
1970 – Alonza Barnett, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1889 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d’arc)
1889 – Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1941 – Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
1941 – Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
1891 – Peter H “Paul” Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
1941 – Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler (NZ in 10 Tests in the 1960′s)
1971 – Marcus Buckley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1971 – Roman Cechmanek, NHL goaltender (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1943 – Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
1895 – Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
1896 – Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 – Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
1945 – Johnny Cymbal, rocker (Mr Bass Man)
1945 – Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], Dutch vocalist/actress (Small Truth)
1899 – Forrest “Red” DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
1972 – Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1899 – Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
1900 – Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1947 – Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
1947 – Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
1947 – Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
1904 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
313 – Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius met at a conference in Milan. They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 – The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 – Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 – The Illinois Territory is created.
1813 – Jos de San Martn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 – Wake Forest University is established.
1852 – Justo Jos de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1931 – The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 – A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the “a wind of change” of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a “Doomsday Plane” is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States’ bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC’s command post.
1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 – Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan’s request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
1989 – After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1996 – The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2011 – All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
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