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• 1043 - Coronation o Edward the Confessor as Keeng o Ingland.
• 1559 - The Peace o Cateau-Cambresis ends the Spaingie-French War.
• 1865 - American Ceevil War: Union troops captur Richmond, Virginie.
• 1882 - American outlaw Jesse James is shot deed.
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler gets a patent for his ingine design.
• 1905 - Argentine fitbaw club Boca Juniors is foondit bi Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires.
• 1908 - H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, succeedin Scot Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wha dees 19 days later.
• 1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes leader o the Soviet Union.
• 1926 - Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency.
• 1941 - Warld War II: Germany an Hungary mairch intae Yugoslavie.
• 1944 - A mine splosion in Heessen, Westphalie, Germany, kills 169 miners.
• 1966 - The Soviet Union's Luna 10 probe enters intae orbit aroond the Muin.
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. maks his last speech.
• 1973 - The fiirst-ever mobile phone call is placit bi Martin Cooper in New York Ceety.
• 1974 - 148 tornadoes affect 13 states o the Unitit States an 1 Canadian province, killin 315 fowk.
• 1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses tae play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov.
• 1992 - Ramiz Alia, Albanie's last Communist leader, demits.
• 2007 - A French TGV train sets a new speed record.
• 2013 - 50 fowk die in floods in Buenos Aires an La Plata, Argentinae.
• 2016 - Panama Papers: A leak o 11 million legal documents reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
• 2017 - 2017 Saunt Petersburg Metro bombin: 14 fowk are kilt efter a bomb is detonatit on Saunt Petersburg's subway seestem.
• 2019 - Brunei introduces a penalty o daith bi stonin for Gay sex.

 

 

 

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• 1761 - George Douglas, 16t Yerl o Morton, Scots peer (d. 1827)
• 1783 - Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
• 1882 - Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman (d. 1954)
• 1915 - Piet de Jong, umwhile Prime meenister o the Netherlands (d. 2016)
• 1922 - Doris Day, American actress an sangster (d. 2019)
• 1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1925 - Tony Benn, Inglis politeecian (d. 2014)
• 1926 - Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1929 - Poul Schlüter, umwhile Prime meenister o Denmark
• 1930 - Helmut Kohl, umwhile Chancellor o Germany (d. 2017)
• 1934 - Jane Goodall, Inglis primatologist
• 1943 - John Hughes, Scots fitbawer
• 1948 - Carlos Salinas, umwhile Preses o Mexico
• 1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
• 1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor
• 1964 - Nigel Farage, Inglis politeecian
• 1971 – Picabo Street, American skier
• 1972 - Kenny Logan, Scots rugby player
• 1978 - Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
• 1980 - Suella Braverman, Inglis politeecian
• 1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
• 1985 - Leona Lewis, Inglis sangster
• 1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
• 1989 - James McArdle, Scots fitbawer

• 1287 - Pape Honorius IV (b. 1210)
• 1854 - John Wilson, Scots writer (b. 1785)
• 1862 - James Clark Ross, Breetish naval officer an splorer (b. 1800)
• 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
• 1897 - Johannes Brahms, German componer (b. 1833)
• 1990 - Sarah Vaughan, American sangster (b. 1924)
• 1991 - Graham Greene, Inglis writer (b. 1904)
• 2013 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born writer (b. 1927)
• 2016 - Cesare Maldini, Italian fitbawer (b. 1932)