<p>1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.</p>
<p>1913 – Earl of Lincoln</p>
<p>1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.</p>
<p>1972 – Steve Holy, American country singer</p>
<p>1944 – James Cousins, British MP</p>
<p>1949 – Anna-Maria Muller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)</p>
<p>1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.</p>
<p>1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>1930 – Jef Geeraerts,http://090.jmapollo.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=991783, Flemish writer (Black Venus)</p>
<p>1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.</p>
<p>1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.</p>
<p>1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.</p>
<p>1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine</p>
<p>1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.</p>
<p>1916 – George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)</p>
<p>1869 – Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)</p>
<p>1811 – George Washington Hewitt, composer</p>
<p>1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer</p>
<p>1977 – Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)</p>
<p>1947 – Anton Mosimann, chef</p>
<p>1850 – Csar Ritz,http://demo.jikekj.com/4189/news/html/?44933.html, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)</p>
<p>1941 – Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal (George Watson’s College)</p>
<p>1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.</p>
<p>1875 – Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)</p>
<p>1878 – Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)</p>
<p>1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.</p>
<p>1920 – David Wright, poet</p>
<p>1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.</p>
<p>1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.</p>
<p>1940 – Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)</p>
<p>1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.</p>
<p>2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.</p>
<p>1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.</p>
<p>1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin,http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/waiwai/aw-590-1ajf.html, French scientist (d. 1656)</p>
<p>1917 – Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]</p>
<p>1928 – Duke of Beaufort</p>
<p>1824 – Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886</p>
<p>1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.</p>
<p>1944 – John Sandford, American novelist</p>
<p>1899 – Erich Kstner, German writer (d. 1974)</p>
<p>1879 – Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)</p>
<p>1977 – Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)</p>
<p>1967 – Steven C Stricker, Edgerton WI, PGA golfer (1994 Northern Telecom-2nd)</p>
<p>1914 – Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)</p>
<p>1938 – Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)</p>
<p>1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)</p>
<p>1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.</p>
<p>1940 – Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider,piumini moncler, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)</p>
<p>1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet,http://dodod.cc/viewthread.php?tid=250921&extra=page%3D1&frombbs=1, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.</p>
<p>1945 – Frank Murray, police Officer</p>
<p>1972 – Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)</p>
<p>1868 – W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader</p>
<p>1937 – David Ward, president (Law Society)</p>
<p>1925 – Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)</p>
<p>1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.</p>
<p>1819 – By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.</p>
<p>1649 – John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)</p>
<p>1939 – Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio,http://tuonela.s138.xrea.com/lightbbs/light.cgi?res=7524, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)</p>
<p>1964 – John Norum,http://cnlifecz.cn/news/html/?3874.html, rocker</p>
<p>1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.</p>
<p>1632 – Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.</p>
<p>1834 – Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis</p>
<p>1976 – Jeff O’Neill, Richmond Hill, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)</p>
<p>1923 – Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)</p>
<p>1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O’,hogan outlet online;Neill Theatre.</p>
<p>1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.</p>
<p>1933 – Donna J Stone, poet</p>
<p>1973 – Jack Case, American artist</p>
<p>1920 – Lord St Levan</p>
<p>1868 – William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)</p>
<p>1950 – Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)</p>
<p>1905 – Leonidas Zoras, composer</p>
<p>1958 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots)</p>
<p>1925 – Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )</p>
<p>1723 – Richard Price,http://bbs.xuanit.top/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8736, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)</p>
<p>1976 – Kelly Macdonald, British actress</p>
<p>1947 – Colin Sanders, British computer engineer (Solid State Logic)</p>
<p>1955 – Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)</p>
<p>1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima (d. 2007)</p>
<p>1960 – Naruhito, crown prince of Japan</p>
<p>1938 – Diane Varsi, San Mateo Calif, actress (Peyton Place)</p>
<p>1926 – Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D’ete)</p>
<p>1942 – John Lewis, Head Master (Eton College)</p>
<p>1881 – Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher</p>
<p>1941 – Robin Bynoe,doudoune moncler femme, cricketer (WI opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67)</p>
<p>1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)</p>
<p>1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.</p>
<p>1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.</p>
<p>1873 – Dmitri Arakishvili, composer</p>
<p>2006 – At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.</p>
<p>1942 – Colin Sanders, founder (Solid State Logic)</p>
<p>1939 – Josef Feistmantl,tn reuqin pas cher, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)</p>
<p>1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.</p>
<p>1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.</p>
<p>1947 – Pia Kjrsgaard, Danish politician</p>
<p>1898 – Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist</p>
<p>1876 – Agnes M Royden, writer</p>
<p>1776 – John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)</p>
<p>1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.</p>
<p>1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>1838 – Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901</p>
<p>1887 – Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer</p>
<p>1943 – Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver</p>
<p>1947 – Geoff Cope, cricketer (England off-spinner 1977-78)</p>
<p>1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>1901 – Aartje W “Mien” van It Sant-van Bommel,</p><p>" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://wx.jazzsynth.com/wxcgi/kizai/sunkizai.cgi?mode=form&no=72&page=2</p><p>, author (Mieke-serial)</p>
<p>1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.</p>
<p>1944 – Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss,woolrich outlet milano, guitarist (Silver Train)</p>
<p>1633 – Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)</p>
<p>1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)</p>
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<p>1929 – Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)</p>
<p>1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.</p>
<p>1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.</p>
<p>1960 – Cindy Figg-Currier, Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 Brit Open-6th)</p>
<p>2011 – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.</p>
<p>1863 – Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)</p>
<p>1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.</p>