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January
*January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA. Resolution 2200A (XXI), and came in force from 3 January 197 ...
enters into force.
* January 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
– The Pol Pot
Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist ...
regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea
Kampuchea ( km, កម្ពុជា ), officially known as Democratic Kampuchea (DK; km, កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ ) from 5 January 1976, was a one-party totalitarian state which encompassed modern-day Camb ...
.
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game
The Flyers–Red Army game was a famous international ice hockey game played on January 11, 1976, between the Philadelphia Flyers of the North America-based National Hockey League (NHL), and HC CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Club of the Army Moscow, ...
results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranke ...
's Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The team play ...
over HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow (1946–present, russian: ЦСКА Москва, Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии, ''Central Sports Club of the Army, Moscow'') is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. The club ...
of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Sp ...
– The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970.
The ...
(the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...
.
* January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
*1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chin ...
** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War
The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali ...
.
** The Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Labour ( gd, Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, sco, Scots Labour Pairty; officially the Scottish Labour Party) is a social democratic political party in Scotland. It is an autonomous section of the UK Labour Party. From their peak of ...
is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party.
** Super Bowl X in American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
: The Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...
defeat the Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divis ...
, 21–17, in Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
.
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when ...
– First commercial Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
Studies started in 1954, and France an ...
flight, from London to Bahrain.
* January 27
** The United States vetoes a United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization ( ...
.
** The First Battle of Amgala
The First Battle of Amgala was fought between 27 and 29 January 1976 around the oasis of Amgala, Western Sahara, about west of the border with Algeria.
Units from the Algerian Army were attacked by units from the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces on ...
breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.
February
* February 4 ** The1976 Winter Olympics
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
** The 7.5 Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
* February 5 – Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot at Escambia High School
Escambia High School is a high school located in Escambia County, Florida, United States.
History
Escambia High School opened for the 1958–59 school year, and its first graduating class in 1959 was composed of 207 students. A large n ...
in Pensacola, Florida; 30 students are injured in the 4-hour fray.
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army
The Australian Army is the principal land warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army (CA), wh ...
, the Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the principal naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister of ...
and the Royal Australian Air Force.
* February 11 – Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
Secretary of the United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare, land military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight Uniformed services of the United States, U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army o ...
.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Actor Sal Mineo is fatally stabbed in the alley behind his apartment building in West Hollywood, California, aged 37.
* February 13
** General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
is assassinated in a military coup.
** Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles.
Early life
Hamill was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. Her fat ...
(US) wins the gold medal in ladies figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
.
* February 17 – The Eagles' ''Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
''Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)'' is the first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released by Asylum Records on February 17, 1976. It contains a selection of songs from the band's first four albums, which were released fro ...
'' compilation is released in the United States. Globally, it will become probably the second best-selling album of all time, followed by the same band's '' Hotel California'', released on December 8.
* February 19 – Former Tower of Power
Tower of Power is an American R&B and funk based band and horn section, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. There have been a number of lead vocalists, the best-known being Lenny Williams, who fronted th ...
vocalist Rick Stevens is arrested in the United States for murdering three men during a botched drug deal. He ultimately serves 36 years of a life sentence.
* February 24 – Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
's constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.
When these princ ...
of 1976 is enacted.
* February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.
* February 27 – The Polisario Front
The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, Frelisario or simply Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro), (in ar, rtl=yes, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير الس ...
, Western Sahara's national liberation movement
A liberation movement is an organization or political movement leading a rebellion, or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or national government, often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperial ...
, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (; SADR; also romanized with Saharawi; ar, الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية ' es, República Árabe Saharaui Democrática), also known as Western Sahara, is a ...
". On February 28, Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
becomes the first country to recognise it.
March
*March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March ...
– The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996
) was an American
) was an American
Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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* February 1
** Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
** Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
* February 2
** Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
** James Hickman, British swimmer
** Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian
* February 3
** Isla Fisher, Australian actress
** Tim Heidecker, American comedian
** Tijana Dapčević, Tijana, Macedonian singer
**Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer songwriter and rapper
* February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper
* February 5
** Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
** Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
** Brian Moorman, American football player
* February 6
** James Hiroyuki Liao, American actor
** Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
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* April 1
** Troy Baker, American actor and musician
** Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player
** David Oyelowo, English-American actor
**Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
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* July 1
** Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
** Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
** U. K. Shyam, Singaporean athlete
** Haaz Sleiman, Lebanese-American actor
** Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
** Kellie Bright, English actress
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* September 1
** Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
** Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
** Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
* September 3
** Jevon Kearse, American football player
** Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
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* Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022)
* October 1
** Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer
** Giuliana Jakobeit, German voice actress
* October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
* October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor and producer
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* November 1
** Chad Lindberg, American actor
** Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007
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* February 1
** Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
** Hans Hofmann, German artist (b. 1880)
** George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
* February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1906)
* February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b. 1925)
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* April 1
** Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
** Alfred Lennon, father of musician John Lennon (b. 1912)
* April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer (b. 1889)
* April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. 1905)
* April 8 – Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891)
* April 9 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
* April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891)
* April 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903)
* April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891)
* April 18 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
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* May 3 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (b. 1902)
* May 7 – Alison Uttley, English children's author (b. 1884)
* May 9
** Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
** Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934)
* May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
* May 12 – Keith Relf, British rock musician (''The Yardbirds'') (b. 1943)
* May 20 – Royal E. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1883)
* May 24 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
* May 26
** Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
** Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (b. 1904)
* May 27 – Ruth McDevitt, American actress (b. 1895)
* May 28 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1917)
* May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b. 1902)
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* July 1
** Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman who was believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
** Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1900)
* July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader (b. 1946)
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* August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890)
* August 6
** Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
** Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)
* August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910)
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* September 5 – Arthur Gilligan, English cricket captain (b. 1894)
* September 9 –
* October 5
** Lars Onsager, Norwegian-born American physical theoretical physicist, 1968 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
** Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
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* November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (b. 1909)
* November 9 – Armas Taipale, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1890)
* November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
* November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
* November 18 – Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
* November 20 – Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b. 1898)
* November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (b. 1901)
* November 28 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
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* December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
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March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees
Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, (né Merlyn Rees; 18 December 1920 – 5 January 2006) was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–197 ...
ends Special Category Status
In July 1972, William Whitelaw, the Conservative British government's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, granted Special Category Status (SCS) to all prisoners serving sentences in Northern Ireland for Troubles-related offences. This had be ...
for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
.
** Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and William K ...
list.
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
** The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland
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In Northern Irish politics, direct rule () is the administration of Northern Ireland directly by the Government of the United Kingdom. It was practised for 26 straight years between 1972 and 1998 during the Troubles, and has since th ...
by the Government of the United Kingdom
ga, Rialtas a Shoilse gd, Riaghaltas a Mhòrachd
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in London.
** The Maguire Seven
Maguire ( , also spelled MacGuire or McGuire) is an Irish surname from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic , which is "son of Odhar" meaning "dun", "dark one". According to legend, this relates to the eleventh descendant of The Three Collas, Colla da ...
are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions will be overturned in 1991.
* March 9 – A cable car disaster in Cavalese
Cavalese (''Cavalés'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' of 4,004 inhabitants in Trentino, northern Italy, a ski resort and the main center in the Fiemme Valley. It is part of the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme (Magnificent Community of Fiemme) a ...
, Italy leaves 43 dead.
* March 9– 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky
Letcher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,548. Its county seat is Whitesburg. The county, founded in 1842, is named for Robert P. Letcher, Governor of Kentucky from 1840 t ...
.
* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, '' The Wizard of Oz'' returns to CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
, where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by '' The Ten Commandments'' in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.)
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
– American boxer Rubin Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
In ...
is retried in New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
* March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
bank in 1974.
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– '' Star Wars'' begins filming in Tunisia
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* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– In a feud between Japanese ultranationalists, Mitsuyasu Maeno attempts to assassinate Yoshio Kodama
was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous '' kuromaku'', or behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th century, he was active in Japan's political arena and crim ...
by flying a plane into his Tokyo house.
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
** Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
** A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo
The People's Republic of the Congo (french: République populaire du Congo) was a Marxist–Leninist socialist state that existed in the Republic of the Congo from 1969 to 1992.
The People's Republic of the Congo was founded in December 1969 ...
.
* March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
** The Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...
are created as a baseball team.
** The Body Shop
The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics, skin care and perfume company.
Founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick, the company currently has a range of 1,000 products sold in about 3,000 stores, divided ...
, the retail chain for skin care
Skin care is a range of practices that support skin integrity, enhance its appearance, and relieve skin conditions. They can include nutrition, avoidance of excessive sun exposure, and appropriate use of emollients. Practices that enhance appea ...
products and cosmetics
Cosmetics are constituted mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources, or synthetically created ones. Cosmetics have various purposes. Those designed for personal care and skin care can be used to cleanse or protect ...
founded by Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of the British version of The Body Shop, now The Body Shop Internationa ...
, opens its first branch in Brighton, England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
.
* March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
** The South African Defence Force
The South African Defence Force (SADF) (Afrikaans: ''Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag'') comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the former Union Defence F ...
withdraws from Angola
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and concludes Operation Savannah
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.
** The first of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina
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.
* March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
*1282 &ndash ...
– Land Day
Land Day ( ar, يوم الأرض, ''Yawm al-ʾArḍ''; he, יוֹם הַאֲדָמָה, ''Yom HaAdama''), March 30, is a day of commemoration for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 in Israel.
In 1976, ...
: Arab citizens of Israel protest against intended appropriation of land by the government.
* March 31 – The New Jersey
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Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state
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in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator
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. She remains comatose and dies in 1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
.
* March late – The first truly complete recording of the opera '' Porgy and Bess'' is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U.S. It stars Willard White
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Early life
White was born into a Jamaican family in Kingston. His father was a dockworker, his mother a housewife. White first beg ...
and Leona Mitchell
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In her home state of Oklahoma, she rec ...
. The orchestra is the Cleveland Orchestra
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conducted by Lorin Maazel.
April
* April 1 ** Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California. ** Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public. ** TheJovian–Plutonian gravitational effect
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is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
* April 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
– Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot
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and is placed under house arrest.
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
*1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
*1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
* ...
– The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man
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Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initi ...
, representing the United Kingdom, with their song ''Save Your Kisses for Me
"Save Your Kisses for Me" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed for the by Brotherhood of Man in The Hague, Netherlands. The lyrics and music were written by Tony Hiller, Lee Sheriden, and Martin Lee, the latter two ...
''.
* April 5
** James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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.
** Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's ''Monument of the Martyrs'' to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
** Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since the Spanish civil war
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, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia
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prison.
* April 10 – ''Frampton Comes Alive!
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'', the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton hits #1 in the ''Billboard'' 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year.
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
*1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
*1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...
– Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch the first Apple computer, the Apple I, for the U.S. hobbyist market.
* April 13
** The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion
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in Lapua
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, Finland kills 40.
** The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson
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's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
* April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
– As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
* April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne
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: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
* April 23
** Punk rock group the Ramones release their first album, '' Ramones''.
** Jethro Tull release their album, '' Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!''
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
– Portugal's new constitution is enacted.
* April 29
Events Pre-1600
* 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
* 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...
– Sino-Soviet split
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: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese. The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.
May
*May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
– Neville Wran
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becomes Premier of New South Wales
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.
* May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
** The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
** A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
* May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction
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The ...
is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
* May 11
**U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
** An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia
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takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.
* May 13 – Video arcade game Breakout is released.
* May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens
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sweep the Philadelphia Flyers
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in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. Flyers' forward Reggie Leach
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became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy
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as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabi ...
** The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
** The "Famous Fire" in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, destroys seven downtown structures, damages more than 12 others, and starts fires in at least 10 homes.
* May 24
** Washington, D.C. Concorde
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service begins.
** The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican
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presidential primaries: Kentucky
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, Tennessee
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and Oregon
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.
* May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford
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wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or .
* May 31
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
– Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.
June
*June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
– The United Kingdom and Iceland
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end the Third Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
** A car bomb fatally injures ''Arizona Republic
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'' reporter Don Bolles.
** The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union
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.
* June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals
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at the Boston Garden
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. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
* June 5 – The Teton Dam
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collapses in southeast Idaho
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in the US, killing 11 people.
* June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu
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, Malaysia
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, kills everyone on board, including Sabah
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an Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
* June 12 – Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011) was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who served as constitutional President from 1972 until 1973, and then ruled as the head of a civilian-military dictatorship up t ...
is deposed by the military.
* June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
* 1325 – Ibn Battuta ...
– Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa
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, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan
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.
* June 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
* 1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon ...
– The trial begins at Oxford
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Crown Court in England of Donald Neilson
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, the multiple killer known as the Black Panther. He will be convicted and serve the remainder of his life in prison.
* June 16
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
* 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king ...
** The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
** Francis E. Meloy Jr., newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, and two others are kidnapped in Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
and killed.
* June 17 – The National Basketball Association
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and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA–NBA merger
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.
* June 20
** Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut
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and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
** General elections
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are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
** Czechoslovakia
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beats West Germany
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5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
– Strikes start in Poland ( Ursus, Radom
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, Płock
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) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...
– The CN Tower
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is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
** G-6 is renamed " Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
** Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe
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, Uganda
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.
* June 28
** Inauguration of the north lane of the Rodovia dos Imigrantes.
* June 29
** Seychelles
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gains independence from the United Kingdom.
** The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
July
* July 2
Events Pre-1600
* 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
* 626 – Li Shimin, t ...
– North Vietnam
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dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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.
* July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolut ...
** '' Gregg v. Georgia'': The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the '' Furman v. Georgia'' case of 1972
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.
** The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
* July 4
** The U.S. celebrates its bicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House ( ...
from the United Kingdom.
** Entebbe Raid: Israel
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i airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian
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hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda
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's Entebbe
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Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
* July 6
Events Pre-1600
* 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.
* 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ...
– The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy
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in Annapolis, Maryland.
* July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...
** German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin
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.
** David Steel
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, (born 31 March 1938) is a British politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles, followed by Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale, he served as the final leade ...
becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe
John Jeremy Thorpe (29 April 1929 – 4 December 2014) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the ...
.
* July 10
** Four mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola
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, following the Luanda Trial.
** Seveso disaster: An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
* July 12 – In the United States:
** California State University, Fullerton massacre
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: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting
There is a lack of consensus on how to define a mass shooting. Most terms define a minimum of three or four victims of gun violence (not including the shooter or in an inner city) in a short period of time, although an Australian study from 20 ...
on campus at California State University, Fullerton
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.
** Barbara Jordan
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is the first African-American to keynote a political convention.
** Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California
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.
** ''Family Feud
''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. It features two families who compete to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.
The show has had three separate runs, th ...
'' debuts on ABC-TV.
* July 15
Events Pre-1600
*484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
* 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. ( 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
* 756 – ...
** Jimmy Carter
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is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
** Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
* July 16– 20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
, France.
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
*1048 – Damasu ...
** The 1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 P ...
begin in Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
, Quebec, Canada.
** East Timor
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is declared the 27th province of Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.
* July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 ...
earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal
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is created.
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
** Viking program
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: The '' Viking 1'' lander successfully lands on Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...
.
** American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
* July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army
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bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
* July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker
Richard Schultz Schweiker (June 1, 1926 – July 31, 2015) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 198 ...
as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican
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delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
* July 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
* 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Ste ...
** The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda
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in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.
** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia
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, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia
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: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak
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of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
* July 28
Events Pre-1600
*1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
*1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...
– The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan
Tangshan () is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in the central area of the Boha ...
, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
* July 29
Events Pre-1600
* 587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
* 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
* 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo ...
– In New York City, the "Son of Sam
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Berkowitz ...
" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
* July 30
** Caitlyn Jenner wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 P ...
in Montreal.
** In Santiago
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, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football
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.
* July 31
** NASA
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releases the famous Face on Mars
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photo, taken by '' Viking 1''.
** The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.
August
*August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
** The 1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 P ...
ends in Montreal
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, Quebec, Canada.
** Trinidad and Tobago
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becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II
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as its head of state
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with President Ellis Clarke
Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke (28 December 191730 December 2010) was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and the second and last Governor-General. He was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitu ...
.
** The Seattle Seahawks play their first American football
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game.
** Defending F1 World Champion Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur. He was a three-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, winning in , and , and is the only driver in Formula ...
suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix
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after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
* August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr
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and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas
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. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
* August 5 – The clock of " Big Ben" at the Palace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
* August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 192514 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and cabinet minister under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death i ...
is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
* August 7
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Co ...
– Viking program
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: '' Viking 2'' enters into orbit around Mars
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.
* August 8
Events Pre-1600
* 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...
– As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
* August 10
Events Pre-1600
* 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
* 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Gro ...
— 13 – Hurricane Belle hits Long Island and southern New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the Can ...
. Twelve people are killed by the storm and damage is $100 million.
* August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas
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on a Holiday Inn
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results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.
* August 14
** Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland
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.
** The Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
ese political party
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'' PAI-Rénovation'' is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
* August 16 – The Ramones make their first "professional" performance at CBGB
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in New York City.
* August 18
Events Pre-1600
* 684 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
* 707 – Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
*1304 & ...
– At Panmunjom, North Korea
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, two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
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which has obscured their view.
* August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
* August 21 – Disappearance of Andy Puglisi: Massachusetts
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child Angelo "Andy" Puglisi goes missing from a public pool near his home; the case is never solved.
* August 24 – In Uruguay
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, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
* August 25
Events Pre-1600
* 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to ...
** Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre
Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (; 12 April 192425 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three presidents (Rey, ...
.
** Landslide disaster in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong.
* August 26
Events Pre-1600
* 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
*1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...
** The first known outbreak of Ebola virus
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occurs in Yambuku, Zaire
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.
** Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
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, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
* August 28 – Actress Anissa Jones
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, famous for playing Buffy Davis in the television series '' Family Affair'', is found dead of an accidental overdose in Oceanside, California.
* August 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
* 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
*1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake ...
– James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
September
* September 1 ** Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio. **Aparicio Méndez
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Backgrou ...
, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian ''de facto'' President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship.
** The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland
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legally still in force since 1939 is lifted.
* September 3 – Viking program
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: The '' Viking 2'' spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia
Utopia Planitia (Greek and Latin: "Nowhere Land Plain") is a large plain within Utopia, the largest recognized impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System with an estimated diameter of . It is the Martian region where the ''Viking 2'' lander to ...
on Mars
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, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
* September 4
Events Pre-1600
* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...
– 1500th anniversary of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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.
* September 6
Events Pre-1600
* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
*1492 – Christopher Colu ...
** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko
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lands a MiG-25
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by th ...
jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum
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in the United States.
** Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
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in Las Vegas
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, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
* September 10
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
*1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
* 1509 – An eart ...
** Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways
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The airline is the second largest UK-based carrier, based on fleet size and passengers ...
Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb
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, Yugoslavia
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(modern-day Zagreb, Croatia
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), killing all 176 aboard.
* September 13
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...
– '' The Muppet Show'' is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, on ITV.
* September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup
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for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.
* September 16
** Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan
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reservoir
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Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...
.
** Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.
* September 17 – The space shuttle '' Enterprise'' is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar.
* September 20
Events Pre-1600
*1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.
*1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.
*1187 – Saladin b ...
– 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Special festival in London ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk
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bands, arguably sparking the punk movement
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's introduction into mainstream culture.
* September 21
** The Seychelles
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join the United Nations
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.
** Orlando Letelier
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (13 April 1932 – 21 September 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A refugee from the Military government of Chile (1973–1990), military dictato ...
is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
an dictator Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...
.
* September 24
Events Pre-1600
*787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia.
*1568 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near ...
– Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco
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bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...
will set her free after only 22 months).
* September 25 – Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.
* September 28 – American singer Stevie Wonder releases his hit album ''Songs in the Key of Life
''Songs in the Key of Life'' is the eighteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder. A double album, it was released on September 28, 1976, by Tamla Records, a division of Motown. It was recorded primarily at Crys ...
''.
October
*October 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
*1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
*1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes t ...
– The InterCity 125
The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125New trai ...
high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* October 6
Events Pre-1600
* 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic.
* 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
*A ...
** Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
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crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.
** Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok
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, Thailand
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are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn ( th, ถนอม กิตติขจร, ; 11 August 1911 – 16 June 2004) was the leader of Thailand from 1963 to 1973, during which he staged a self-coup, until public protests which exploded into viole ...
by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
** In San Francisco
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, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter
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, U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
** The Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...
in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.
* October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin
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replaces Olof Palme as Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
of Sweden.
* October 9
Events Pre-1600
* 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
* 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
* 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
* 1446 &ndash ...
– Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher Bob Moose is killed in a car crash in Ohio
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on his 29th birthday.
* October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...
– Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
* October 12
Events Pre-1600
* 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
* 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance u ...
– The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack
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.
* October 13
Events Pre-1600
* 54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
* 409 – Vandals and Alans cross the P ...
– The United States Commission on Civil Rights
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releases the report, ''Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future,'' that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States
Stateside Puerto Ricans ( es, link=no, Puertorriqueños de Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans ( es, link=no, puertorriqueño-americanos,), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the U ...
have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico
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, a U.S. territory).
* October 18 – Ford
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* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
officially launches volume production of the Fiesta car at its Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
plant in Spain.
* October 19
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
* 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in ...
** The Battle of Aishiya
The Aishiyeh massacre was a massacre in 1976 in Aishiya, Lebanon, of more than 70 Lebanese Christian civilians, including at least 7 under the age of 16, by the Syrian backed Palestinian factions Fatah and Saika during the Lebanese Civil War. ...
is fought in Lebanon
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.
** The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...
duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
** The Chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes'') is placed on the list of endangered species.
* October 20
Events Pre-1600
*1568 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
* 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the re ...
– The Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
ferry MV ''George Prince'' is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
* October 22
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council.
* 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (no ...
** Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
** The Damned release their debut single " New Rose", making them the first British punk band to release a single, beating the Sex Pistols by a month.
* October 24
Events Pre-1600
* AD 69 – In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius.
*1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
* 1360 – The T ...
– James Hunt
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wins a very political Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
World Championship by just 1 point driving a McLaren M23
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-D as rival Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur. He was a three-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, winning in , and , and is the only driver in Formula ...
retires from the Japanese Grand Prix
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due to heavy rain.
* October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.
* October 26
Events Pre-1600
* 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
* 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally b ...
– Transkei gains "independence" from South Africa
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.
* October 28 – British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' book ''The Selfish Gene
''The Selfish Gene'' is a 1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's '' Adaptation and Natural Selection'' (1966). Dawkins uses the term "selfish gen ...
'' is published, introducing the term memetics.
November
* November – Diffie–Hellman key exchangecryptography
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is proposed.
* November 2
Events Pre-1600
* 619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
* 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the ...
– 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...
narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
.
* November 4 – Mark Fidrych, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, wins 1976 Major League Baseball
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Rookie Of The Year Award.
* November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.
* November 15 – The first megamouth shark
The megamouth shark (''Megachasma pelagios'') is a species of deepwater shark. It is rarely seen by humans and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark. Since its d ...
is discovered off Oahu
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in Hawaii.
* November 19 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho
Jaime Ornelas Camacho (28 February 1921 – 24 February 2016) was a Portuguese politician. He was the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira and a member of the Madeiran branch of the centre-right Social Democratic Party. In 1978 ...
takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
* November 24
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Theodosius I makes his '' adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople.
*1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
* 1221 – Genghis Khan d ...
– 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 earthquake at Van and Muradiye in eastern Turkey.
* November 25 – In San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, The Band holds its farewell concert, ''The Last Waltz
''The Last Waltz'' was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. ''The Last Waltz'' was advertised as The Band's "farewell concert a ...
''.
* November 26
** Microsoft
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is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
.
** The Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat is established.
* November 29
Events Pre-1600
* 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
* 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
– The New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of ...
sign free agent Reggie Jackson to a five-year $3 million contract, setting the precedent for lucrative multi-year contracts for Major League Baseball
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players in years to come.
December
*December 1
Events Pre-1600
* 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
*1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
* ...
** Angola
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joins the United Nations
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.
** José López Portillo
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...
takes office as President of Mexico
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.
** The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety, as they unleash several four-letter words live on Bill Grundy's early evening television show in the United Kingdom.
** Sir Douglas Nicholls
Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls, (9 December 1906 – 4 June 1988) was a prominent Aboriginal Australian from the Yorta Yorta people. He was a professional athlete, Churches of Christ pastor and church planter, ceremonial officer and a pioneeri ...
is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal
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appointed to vice-regal office.
* December 3
Events Pre-1600
* 915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date). 1601–1900
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the ...
** Attempted assassination of Bob Marley
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(and his manager Don Taylor) in a shooting at his home in Kingston, Jamaica.
** Patrick Hillery
Patrick John Hillery ( ga, Pádraig J. Ó hIrghile; 2 May 1923 – 12 April 2008) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the sixth president of Ireland from December 1976 to December 1990. He also served as vice-president of the Eur ...
is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.
* December 4
Events Pre-1600
* 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne as sole king of the Frankish Kingdom.
* 963 – The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 ...
– The Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...
officially becomes a monarchy as the Central African Empire
From 4 December 1976 to 21 September 1979, the Central African Republic was officially known as the Central African Empire (french: Empire centrafricain), after military dictator (and president at the time) Marshal Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared ...
, and President Jean-Bedel Bokassa proclaims himself Emperor Bokassa I.
* December 5
Events Pre-1600
* 63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
* 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville.
* 1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multipl ...
– The Japanese general election takes place, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-member House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
, but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
* December 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
*1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
*1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba for gold (wh ...
– The Viet Cong
,
, war = the Vietnam War
, image = FNL Flag.svg
, caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green.
, active ...
is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the Vietnam People's Army.
* December 8
Events Pre-1600
* 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
* 757 – The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city durin ...
– The Congressional Hispanic Caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is an organization of 38 Democratic members of the United States Congress of Hispanic and Latino descent. The Caucus focuses on issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The CHC was fou ...
is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo (pronounced ''bah-DEE-yoh''; August 21, 1929 – December 3, 2014) was an American politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Pu ...
of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
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, Baltasar Corrada del Río.
* December 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköpi ...
– The United Nations General Assembly
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adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
* December 15
** Samoa
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joins the United Nations
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.
** Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the International Monetary Fund
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.
* December 23
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity.
* 558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
* 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
* 962 &ndas ...
– A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire
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.
Date unknown
* Plans to move theNigeria
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n capital from Lagos
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to Abuja are approved.
* Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
* California
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's sodomy law is repealed.
* Thomas A. Minetree founds Bethesda Cancer Centers in the United States.
* The first laser printer
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is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
* The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor
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Brendan Byrne declares "The mob
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is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada
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.
* The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is established by the University of California ( UC) in response to the State Legislature's recommendation to expand post-secondary opportunities to all of California's students including those who are first-generation, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and English-language learners.
* ''Universe
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'', a public domain
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film produced by Lester Novros
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for NASA
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, is released.
* Marc Brown's children's picture book '' Arthur's Nose'' is published in the United States.
Births
January
* January 1
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**Chai Jing
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, Chinese host and reporter
**Tank
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, American R&B musician
* January 2
** Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
** Paz Vega, Spanish actress
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
* January 4
** Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer
** August Diehl, German actor
* January 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
– Shintarō Asanuma
is a Japanese scriptwriter, director, actor, voice actor, narrator, copywriter and designer. He was affiliated with Office Osawa and currently attached under DANDELION.
Biography
Filmography
Television animation
;2003
*'' Origami Warriors'' ...
, Japanese voice actor
* January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor and musician
* January 7
** Nilton Pereira Mendes, Brazilian footballer (d. 2006)
** Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
* January 10
** Eduardo Garza, Mexican voice actor, announcer, translator, puppeteer and singer
** Khairy Jamaluddin, Malaysian politician
* January 13
** Michael Peña
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, American actor
** Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter
** Mario Yepes, Colombian football player
* January 15
** Meredith Bishop, American actress
** Dorian Missick
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, American actor
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Sp ...
** Carrie Keranen
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, American voice actress
** Eva Habermann
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While studying for (the German eq ...
, German actress
* January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrend ...
– Marsha Thomason
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, English actress
* January 20
** Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter
** Michael Myers, NFL defensive tackle
** Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
** Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima ballerina
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when ...
– Emma Bunton, English musician ( Spice Girls)
* January 22 – TJ Trinidad, Filipino actor
* January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
*1264 & ...
** Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer ( world champion 2008)
** Angelica Lee
Lee Sinje (; born 23 January 1976) is a Malaysian film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong and Malaysia. Lee starred in '' The Eye'', the hit Asian horror film by the ...
, Taiwanese actress and singer
** Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
* January 24 – Paul Bowman (rugby league), Paul Bowman, Australian rugby league player
* January 26 – Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (d. 2009)
* January 27
** Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer and television personality
** Maia Estianty, Indonesian musician, music producer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and television personality
* January 28
** Lee Ingleby, British voice artist
** Mark Madsen (basketball), Mark Madsen, American basketball player
**Rick Ross, American rapper
* January 30 – Andy Milonakis, American actor, writer, rapper, comedian and streamer
February
* February 1
** Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
** Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
* February 2
** Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
** James Hickman, British swimmer
** Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian
* February 3
** Isla Fisher, Australian actress
** Tim Heidecker, American comedian
** Tijana Dapčević, Tijana, Macedonian singer
**Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer songwriter and rapper
* February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper
* February 5
** Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
** Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
** Brian Moorman, American football player
* February 6
** James Hiroyuki Liao, American actor
** Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Charlie Day, American actor
* February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
*February 10 – Keeley Hawes, British actress
* February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
** Jenni Falconer, British television presenter
** Silvia Saint, Czech actress
* February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
* February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter and author
* February 16
** Kyo (musician), Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir En Grey)
** Adam Simpson, Australian rules footballer
** Janet Varney, American actress and comedian
* February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
* February 20
** Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist
** Chris Cillizza, American journalist
* February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian
* February 23
** Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
** Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
** Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
* February 24
** Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian
** Zach Johnson, American golfer
* February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model and musician
* February 27 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and songwriter
* February 27 – Barry Opdam, Dutch footballer
* February 27 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player
* February 28
** Ali Larter, American actress and model
** Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
* February 29
** Ja Rule, American rapper
** Shane Johnson (actor), Shane Johnson, American actor
** Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint kayaker
** Mark Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and author
March
* March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** Akhil Gogoi, Indian activist and politician
** Aleksey Jdanov, Uzbekistani football player
** Luke Mably, British actor
** Peter Bell (footballer, born 1976), Peter Bell, Australian rules footballer
* March 3
**Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
**Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer (d. 2017)
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
** Robbie Blake, English footballer
** Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
** Sean Covel, American film producer
** Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
** Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
** Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
* March 5
** Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
** Lucian Msamati, English actor
**Neil Jackson, English actor
* March 6 – Ken Anderson (wrestler), Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
* March 8
** Sergej Ćetković, Montenegrin singer
** Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass)
** Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
* March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model
* March 10
** Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
** Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer
* March 11
** Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
** Craig Parkinson, British actor
* March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
* March 13
** Danny Masterson, American actor
** Jamie Pressnall, American tap dancer and musician
* March 14
** Corey Stoll, American actor
** Daniel Gillies, Canadian actor
** Brian Quinn (comedian), Brian Quinn, American actor
** Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
* March 15
** Abhay Deol, Indian actor
** Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
** Nick Spano, American actor
** Blu Cantrell, American R&B singer
** Pál Dárdai, Hungarian football player and manager
** Kim Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
** Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
** Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (d. 2009)
** Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
* March 18
** Emma Willis, English television presenter and former model
** FanFan, American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
* March 19
** Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
** Andre Miller, American basketball player
** Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
* March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– Chester Bennington, American singer (Linkin Park) (d. 2017)
* March 21
** Rachael MacFarlane, American actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
** Dariush Ramezani, Iranian cartoonist
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
** Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
** Shawty Lo, American rapper (d. 2016)
** Wayne Turner (basketball), Wayne Turner, American basketball player
** Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
** Reese Witherspoon, American actress
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
** Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
** Keri Russell, American actress
** Sa Beining, Chinese host
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
** Aaron Brooks (American football), Aaron Brooks, American football player
** Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
** Peyton Manning, American football player
* March 25 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian professional boxer
* March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
** Blaise Alexander, American automobile racing driver (d. 2001)
** Amy Smart, American actress
** Eirik Verås Larsen, Norwegian sprint kayaker
* March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
* March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
*1282 &ndash ...
** Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer
** Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player
** Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress
April
* April 1
** Troy Baker, American actor and musician
** Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player
** David Oyelowo, English-American actor
**Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
* April 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
** Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
** Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
** Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
*1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
*1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
* ...
– Will Mellor, English actor
* April 4 – James Roday, American actor, director and screenwriter
* April 5
** Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
** Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
** Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor
* April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
* April 7 – Eric Wareheim, American comedian
* April 9 –
** Kris Radlinski, English rugby league player
** Blayne Weaver, American actor and filmmaker
** Ramkarpal Singh, Malaysian politician
* April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006)
* April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
* April 13
** Glenn Howerton, American actor
** Jonathan Brandis, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
* April 14 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
* April 15
** Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
** Brock Huard, American football player
** Steve Williams (rower), Steve Williams, British rower
* April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
** David Lyons (actor), David Lyons, Australian actor
** Lukas Haas, American actor and musician
** Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d. 2017)
** Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
* April 17 – Monet Mazur, American actress
* April 18
** Gavin Creel, American actor and singer-songwriter
** Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
** Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
* April 19
**Wyatt Cenac, American actor, writer and director
**Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
* April 20
** Joey Lawrence, American actor
** Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper
* April 21
** Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
** Petero Civoniceva, Australian rugby league player
* April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
* April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
* April 24
** George P. Bush, American attorney and politician
** Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
** Tim Duncan, American basketball player
** Denis Kartsev, Russian professional ice hockey player
** Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
** Kim Jong-kook (singer), Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, television personality
** Amir Fryszer Guttman, Israeli singer
* April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
* April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
* April 28 – Michael Carbonaro, American actor, magician and improv artist
* April 29
Events Pre-1600
* 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
* 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...
** Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer
** Shiho Kawaragi, Japanese voice actress
*April 30 – Ankaralı Namık, Turkish singer
May
* May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
** Darius McCrary, American actor
** James Murray (comedian), James Murray, American actor
** Michele Frangilli, Italian archer
* May 3
** Beto (footballer, born May 1976), Beto, Portuguese footballer
** Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
* May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
** Jason Michaels, American baseball player
** Anza (singer), Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of ''Sailor Moon'' in some Sailor Moon musical
* May 5
** Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster
** Sage Stallone, American actor, film director, producer and distributor (d. 2012)
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– Marshall Burt, American railroader and politician
* May 7
** Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player
** Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War (d. 2005)
* May 8
** Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
** Ian "H" Watkins, Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Steps (band), Steps) and actor
* May 10
** Rhona Bennett, American actress, singer and model
** Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football striker (d. 2006)
* May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
* May 15
**Tyler Walker (baseball), Tyler Walker, American baseball player
** Mark Kennedy (footballer, born 1976), Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
** Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
** Ryan Leaf, American football quarterback
**Anže Logar, Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs
* May 16 – Ana Paula Valadão, Brazilian worship leader, singer-songwriter, pastor, author and television presenter
* May 19 – Kevin Garnett, African-American basketball player
* May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan Major League Baseball, baseball player
* May 22
** Chris Brazzell, Canadian and American football player
** Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
** Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
** J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor
** Erinn Hayes, American actress
** Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru
** Ethan Suplee, American actor
**Vincent Piazza, American actor
* May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
* May 28
** Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
** Liam O'Brien, American actor
* May 31
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
** Tony Hopper, English footballer (d. 2018)
** Colin Farrell, Irish actor
** Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
– Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss America 2001
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
** Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
** Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane (band), Keane)
** Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
* June 3 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
* June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist
* June 5
** Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
** Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor
** Joe Gatto (comedian), Joe Gatto, American comedian
* June 6
** Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer
** Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
* June 7
** Necro (rapper), Necro, American rapper
** Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model
* June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
* June 9
** Ameesha Patel, Indian actress
* June 10
** Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
** Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
* June 12 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish football goalkeeper
* June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
* 1325 – Ibn Battuta ...
** Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
** Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive)
* June 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
* 1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon ...
– Alan Carr, English comedian
* June 16
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
* 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king ...
– Tom Lenk, American actor
* June 17
** Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
** Scott Adkins, English actor
* June 18
** Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach
** Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel
** Blake Shelton, American singer
* June 19
** Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer
** Ryan Hurst, American actor
* June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
* June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
* June 22
** Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player
** Mike O'Brien (actor), Mike O'Brien, American actor, writer and comedian
* June 23
** Brandon Stokley, American football player
** Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
** Patrick Vieira, French footballer
** Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education
* June 24 – Suhaimi Mat Hassan, Malaysian football referee
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
** Sylvain N'Diaye, Senegalese footballer
** Hennie Otto, South African professional golfer
** Neil Walker (swimmer), Neil Walker, American swimmer
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...
** Cédric Jimenez, French film producer, film director and screenwriter
** Wilson Lima, Brazilian politician and journalist
** Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (d. 2018)
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
– Joseph Sikora, American actor
* June 28
** Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player
** Jason J. Lewis, American voice actor
** David Palmer (squash player), David Palmer, Australian squash player
** Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
* June 29
** Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist
** Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player
** Takahiro Mazuka, Japanese sprinter
** Omar Doom, American actor, musician and artist
** Ma Yili, Chinese actress
** Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer
* June 30
** Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress
** Kazumasa Shimizu, Japanese football player
** Jason Bostic, American football defensive back
** Christine Schürrer, German serial killer
** Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artist
July
* July 1
** Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
** Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
** U. K. Shyam, Singaporean athlete
** Haaz Sleiman, Lebanese-American actor
** Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
** Kellie Bright, English actress
* July 2
Events Pre-1600
* 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
* 626 – Li Shimin, t ...
** Kon Arimura, Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic and film commentator
** Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
** Tommy Pistol, American actor and director
* July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolut ...
** Shane Lynch, Irish singer
** Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
** Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean rugby union player
** Andrea Barber, American actress
** Henry Olonga, Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer
* July 4
** Rohan Nichol, Australian actor
** Aryan Vaid, Indian male model
** Jo Chen, American-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer
** Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
* July 5
** Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor
** Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
** Liberty Phoenix, Venezuelan actress
** Rufus Johnson, American rapper also known as Bizarre
* July 6
Events Pre-1600
* 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.
* 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ...
– Dimitrije Banjac, Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter
* July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...
** Kim Jong-chun, South Korean football player
** Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, television host and model
** Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress
** Hamish Linklater, American actor and playwright
** Natasha Collins, English actress and model (d. 2008)
* July 8
** Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
** Josh Taumalolo, Tongan rugby union player
** Grettell Valdez, Mexican television and film actress and fashion model
* July 9
** Fred Savage, American actor and director
** Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor
** Elliot Cowan, English actor
* July 10
** Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
** Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician and director
* July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
* July 12
** Anna Friel, English actress
** Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer
* July 13 – Lisa Riley, British actress and presenter
* July 14 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinea cricketer
* July 15
Events Pre-1600
*484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
* 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. ( 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
* 756 – ...
** Diane Kruger, German actress
** Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist
** Jim Jones (rapper), Jim Jones, American rapper, member of hip hop group The Diplomats
** Gabriel Iglesias, American actor, voice actor and comedian
** Murder of Leslie Mahaffy, Leslie Mahaffy, Canadian murder victim (d. 1991)
* July 16
** John Ovia, Papua New Guinean cricketer
** Zak Smith, American artist and adult film performer
** Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
** Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
*1048 – Damasu ...
** Luke Bryan, American country music singer-songwriter
** Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer
** Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress and author
** Matt Holmes (actor), Matt Holmes, Australian actor
** Eric Winter, American actor and fashion model
* July 18 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress and model
* July 19
** Diether Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer and model
** Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
** Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
** Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
** Annie Man, Hong Kong actress
* July 21
** Jaime Murray, English actress
** Kang Sung-yeon, South Korean actress
* July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
* July 24
** Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
** Johnny McDaid, Irish musician, songwriter and music producer
** Rashida Tlaib, American politician and lawyer
* July 25 – Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard
* July 26 – Martha Roby, American politician
* July 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
* 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Ste ...
** Scott Mason (cricketer), Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
** Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2019)
* July 28
Events Pre-1600
*1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
*1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...
– Jacoby Shaddix, American singer
* July 31 – Rod Monroe (American football), Rod Monroe, American football player (d. 2017)
August
* August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
** Don Hertzfeldt, American animator
** Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
** Iván Duque Márquez, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombia
** Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model
* August 2 – Sam Worthington, English-born Australian actor
* August 3 – Sarah Kendall, Australian-born comedian
* August 4
** Paul Goldstein (tennis), Paul Goldstein, American tennis player
** David Lewis (Canadian actor), David Lewis, Canadian actor
* August 5 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile offender (d. 2002)
* August 6
** Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
** Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, director and screenwriter
** Melissa George, Australian actress
** Travis Kalanick, American businessman and computer programmer; co-founder of Uber
* August 8
Events Pre-1600
* 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...
** JC Chasez, American singer ('N Sync)
** Drew Lachey, American singer (98 Degrees)
* August 9
** Jessica Capshaw, American actress
** Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter
** Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
** Audrey Tautou, French actress
* August 11 – Will Friedle, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
* August 12
** Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
** Lina Rafn, Danish singer
* August 14 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
* August 15
** Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
** Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
* August 16 – Kadri Rämmeld, Estonian actress
* August 18
Events Pre-1600
* 684 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
* 707 – Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
*1304 & ...
** Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player
** Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
* August 23 – Scott Caan, American actor
* August 24
** Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
** Yang Yang (A), Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater
* August 25
Events Pre-1600
* 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to ...
– Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
* August 26
Events Pre-1600
* 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
*1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...
– Mike Colter, American actor
*August 27
** Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
** Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
** Mark Webber (racing driver), Mark Webber, Australian racing driver
* August 29 – Luana Piovani, Brazilian actress and model
* August 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
* 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
*1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake ...
– Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
* August 31 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
September
* September 1
** Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
** Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
** Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
* September 3
** Jevon Kearse, American football player
** Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
* September 4
Events Pre-1600
* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...
– Brian Myrow, American baseball player
* September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
* September 6
Events Pre-1600
* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
*1492 – Christopher Colu ...
** Naomie Harris, British actress
** Mark Wilkerson, American musician
** Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
* September 7 – Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
* September 8 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
* September 9
** Mick Blue, Austrian pornographic actor and director
** Emma de Caunes, French actress
** Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress
* September 10
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
*1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
* 1509 – An eart ...
– Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
* September 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
* September 13
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...
– Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress
* September 15 – Rob Wiethoff, American actor
* September 16 – Tina Barrett, English singer (S Club 7)
* September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, American track and road racing cyclist (d. 2000)
* September 18 – Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer), Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
* September 19
** Raja Bell, American basketball player
**Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
** Alison Sweeney, American actress
** Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee
* September 20
Events Pre-1600
*1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.
*1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.
*1187 – Saladin b ...
** Jon Bernthal, American actor
** Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress
** Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
* September 23 – Rob James-Collier, British actor and model
* September 24
Events Pre-1600
*787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia.
*1568 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near ...
– Stephanie McMahon, Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American wrestling promoter
* September 25
** Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
** Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2005 runner-up
* September 26
** Michael Ballack, German footballer
** Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
* September 27 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
* September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
* September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
October
* Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022)
* October 1
** Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer
** Giuliana Jakobeit, German voice actress
* October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
* October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor and producer
* October 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
*1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
*1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes t ...
** Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer
** Alicia Silverstone, American actress
** Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2017)
* October 5
** Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic
** Mauro Colagreco, Italian Argentine chef
**Matt Hamill, American mixed martial arts fighter
* October 6
Events Pre-1600
* 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic.
* 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
*A ...
** Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
** Barbie Shu, Taiwanese actress and singer
* October 7
** Taylor Hicks, American singer
** Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish violinist
** Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player
* October 8 – Peter Stickles, American actor
* October 9
Events Pre-1600
* 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
* 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
* 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
* 1446 &ndash ...
** Sam Riegel, American voice actor and director
** Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
* October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...
** Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
** Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
* October 11 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
* October 14 – Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
* October 15 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
* October 18 – Galder, Norwegian musician
* October 19
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
* 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in ...
** Joe Duplantier, French musician
** Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer
** Dan Smith (ice hockey), Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player
** Michael Young (baseball), Michael Young, American baseball player
** Desmond Harrington, American actor
** Omar Gooding, American actor
* October 20
Events Pre-1600
*1568 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
* 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the re ...
** Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer
** Plamen Goranov, Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d. 2013)
* October 21
** Jeremy Miller, American actor
** Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian artistic gymnast
** Andrew Scott (actor), Andrew Scott, Irish actor
* October 23
** Cat Deeley, British television presenter
** Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
* October 25 – Steve Jones (Northern Irish footballer), Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
* October 26
Events Pre-1600
* 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
* 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally b ...
** Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
** Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater
** Thurop Van Orman, American animator and voice actor
**Florence Kasumba, Ugandan-born German actress
* October 29 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
* October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress
November
* November 1
** Chad Lindberg, American actor
** Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007
* November 2
Events Pre-1600
* 619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
* 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the ...
– Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper
* November 5
** Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
** Sean Brown (ice hockey), Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
** Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
* November 6
** Pat Tillman, American football player, victim of friendly fire (d. 2004)
** Troy Hambrick, American football player
** Wiley Wiggins, American actor
** Sal Vulcano, American actor
* November 7 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
* November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
* November 9
** Josh Kaufman, American singer-songwriter, winner of ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice'' The Voice (U.S. season 6), season 6
** Federica De Bortoli, Italian voice actress
* November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
* November 12
** Tevin Campbell, American singer and actor
** Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
* November 13 – Janine Leal, Venezuelan television presenter and model.
* November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
* November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
* November 19
** Jack Dorsey, American software architect, businessman, co-founder of Twitter
** Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
** Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
* November 20
** Dominique Dawes, African-American Olympic gymnast
** Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
** Laura Harris, Canadian actress
* November 22
** Torsten Frings, German footballer
** Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer (HIM (Finnish band), HIM)
* November 24
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Theodosius I makes his '' adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople.
*1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
* 1221 – Genghis Khan d ...
** Chen Lu (figure skater), Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
** Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player
* November 25
** Donovan McNabb, American football player
** Hienadz Shutau, Belarusian demonstrator (d. 2020)
* November 26 – Maia Campbell, American actress and singer
* November 27 – Jaleel White, African-American actor
* November 28 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and comedian
* November 29
Events Pre-1600
* 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
* 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
** Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
** Anna Faris, American actress
** Ehren McGhehey, American stunt performer and actor
December
* December 1
Events Pre-1600
* 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
*1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
* ...
** Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
** Laura Ling, American journalist 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea, imprisoned by North Korea
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* December 3
Events Pre-1600
* 915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date). 1601–1900
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the ...
** Cornelius Griffin, American football player
** Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer
* December 4
Events Pre-1600
* 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne as sole king of the Frankish Kingdom.
* 963 – The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 ...
– Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (d. 1997)
* December 5
Events Pre-1600
* 63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
* 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville.
* 1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multipl ...
** Amy Acker, American actress
** Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
* December 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
*1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
*1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba for gold (wh ...
– Alicia Machado, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996
* December 7
** Mark Duplass, American actor, screenwriter and director
** Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey player
** Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
* December 8
Events Pre-1600
* 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
* 757 – The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city durin ...
** Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician
** Dominic Monaghan, English-German actor
* December 13
** Mark Paston, New Zealand footballer
** Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
* December 14 – Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman
* December 15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
* December 17
** Takeo Spikes, American football player
** The Hageman Brothers, Dan Hageman, American screenwriter and television producer
* December 18
** Koyuki, Japanese actress
* December 21 – Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower
* December 23
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity.
* 558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
* 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
* 962 &ndas ...
** Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
** Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Qawwali singer (d. 2016)
** Christopher Pizzey, English actor and comedian
* December 24 – Ángel Matos, Cuban taekwondo athlete
* December 25
** Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist (Nightwish)
** Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ
* December 26
** Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and producer
** Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey (d. 1999)
* December 27 – Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey player
* December 28 – Joe Manganiello, American actor
* December 28 - Deddy Corbuzier, Indonesian actor, YouTuber and magician.
* December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer
* December 31 – Ceza, Turkish rapper
* December 31
** Vanessa Kerry, American physician and health care administrator
** Chris Terrio, American film director/screenwriter
Date unknown
* Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan caricaturist * Birgit C. Muller, Austrian fashion designer, producer and philanthropistDeaths
January
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– John Ainsworth-Davis, Welsh surgeon and athlete (b. 1895)
* January 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
** John A. Costello, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...
(b. 1891)
** Mal Evans, English road manager to The Beatles (b. 1935)
** Károly Takács, Hungarian Olympic shooter (b. 1910)
* January 8 – Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
* January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer (b. 1910)
* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English detective fiction writer (b. 1890)
* January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
* January 14
** Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
** Muhammad Sakizli, 2nd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1892)
* January 15 – Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1882)
* January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrend ...
– Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
* January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1896)
* January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
*1264 & ...
– Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and activist (b. 1898)
* January 24 – Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b. 1904)
* January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907)
* January 29 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896)
* January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right (b. 1941)
February
* February 1
** Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
** Hans Hofmann, German artist (b. 1880)
** George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
* February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1906)
* February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b. 1925)
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Percy Faith, Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b. 1908)
* February 11
** Lee J. Cobb, American actor (b. 1911)
** Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1894)
** Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Mathematician and biochemical theorist (b. 1894)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
* February 13
** Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general (b. 1938)
** Lily Pons, French-American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1898)
* February 17 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (b. 1910)
* February 20
** René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
** Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and faith healer (b. 1907)
* February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer (''The Supremes'') (b. 1943)
* February 23 – L. S. Lowry, British artist (b. 1887)
* February 26 – Frieda Inescort, Scottish-born actress (b. 1901)
March
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
– Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
* March 5
** Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1910)
** Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889)
* March 6 – Maxie Rosenbloom, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1907)
* March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
* March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, Swedish illustrator and American artist (b. 1899)
* March 14 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...
– Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906)
* March 19 – Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (''free (band), Free'') (b. 1950)
* March 21 – Spider Sabich, Vladimir Peter "Spider" Sabich, American alpine pro ski racing champion (1971, 1972), Olympic skier (''Alpine Skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics'') and homicide victim (b. 1945)
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate o ...
** Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
** E. H. Shepard, English artist and book illustrator (b. 1879)
* March 25 – Josef Albers, German-American artist (b. 1888)
* March 28 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1899)
* March 31 – Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
April
* April 1
** Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
** Alfred Lennon, father of musician John Lennon (b. 1912)
* April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer (b. 1889)
* April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. 1905)
* April 8 – Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891)
* April 9 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
* April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891)
* April 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903)
* April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891)
* April 18 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
** Carol Reed, English film director (b. 1906)
** Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886)
* April 26 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Soviet Defence Minister, Minister of Defence (b. 1903)
May
* May 3 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (b. 1902)
* May 7 – Alison Uttley, English children's author (b. 1884)
* May 9
** Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
** Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934)
* May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
* May 12 – Keith Relf, British rock musician (''The Yardbirds'') (b. 1943)
* May 20 – Royal E. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1883)
* May 24 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
* May 26
** Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
** Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (b. 1904)
* May 27 – Ruth McDevitt, American actress (b. 1895)
* May 28 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1917)
* May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b. 1902)
* May 31
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
– Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1910)
June
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
** Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st List of Secretaries General of the Arab League, Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1893)
** Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
* June 5 – Robert Wichard Pohl, German physicist (b. 1884)
* June 6
** J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892)
** David Jacobs (Welsh athlete), David Jacobs, Welsh Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
** Fuad Stephens, Malaysian politician (b. 1920)
** Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
* June 7
** Bobby Hackett, American jazz musician (b. 1915)
** Shigetarō Shimada, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1883)
* June 9 – Sybil Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882)
* June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
* June 11 – Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1894)
* June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b. 1908)
* June 16
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
* 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king ...
– Hector Pieterson, South African activist (b. 1963)
* June 17 – Richard Casey, Baron Casey, Richard Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890)
* June 24 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
– C. Wade McClusky, United States Navy admiral (b. 1902)
* June 28 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1928)
July
* July 1
** Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman who was believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
** Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1900)
* July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader (b. 1946)
* July 6
Events Pre-1600
* 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.
* 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ...
– Zhu De, List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China, Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886)
* July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...
** Norman Foster (director), Norman Foster, American film director (b. 1903)
** Gustav Heinemann, 6th President of Germany, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1899)
* July 11 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
* July 12 – James Wong Howe, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
* July 14 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)
* July 15
Events Pre-1600
*484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
* 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. ( 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
* 756 – ...
– Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer (b. 1897)
* July 16 – Wilhelmina von Bremen, American sprint runner (b. 1909)
* July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (b. 1890)
* July 23 – Basil Hopko, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1904)
* July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912)
* July 28
Events Pre-1600
*1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
*1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...
** Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (b. 1881)
** Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress (b. 1899)
* July 29
Events Pre-1600
* 587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
* 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
* 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo ...
– Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
* July 30 – Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1884)
August
* August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890)
* August 6
** Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
** Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)
* August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910)
* August 10
Events Pre-1600
* 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
* 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Gro ...
– Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (b. 1884)
* August 12 – Tom Driberg, British politician/journalist (b. 1905)
* August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
* August 25
Events Pre-1600
* 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to ...
– Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1900)
* August 26
Events Pre-1600
* 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
*1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...
– Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
* August 28 – Anissa Jones
Mary Anissa Jones (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom ''Family Affair'', which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from combined drug intoxication at the age of 1 ...
, American actress and student (b. 1958)
* August 29 – Jimmy Reed, American blues musician (b. 1925)
September
* September 5 – Arthur Gilligan, English cricket captain (b. 1894)
* September 9 – Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
, Chinese revolutionary and political theorist, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1893)
* September 10
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
*1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
* 1509 – An eart ...
– Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
* September 13
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...
– Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician), Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuadorian political figure, 30th President of Ecuador (b. 1912)
* September 14 – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, (b. 1893)
* September 15 – Josef Sudek, Czech photographer (b. 1896)
* September 16 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (b. 1894)
* September 21 – Orlando Letelier
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (13 April 1932 – 21 September 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A refugee from the Military government of Chile (1973–1990), military dictato ...
, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1932)
* September 26 – Leopold Ružička, Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
* September 28 – Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893)
October
* October 5
** Lars Onsager, Norwegian-born American physical theoretical physicist, 1968 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
** Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
* October 9
Events Pre-1600
* 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
* 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
* 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
* 1446 &ndash ...
– Troy H. Middleton, American general and educator (b. 1889)
* October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...
– Silvana Armenulić, Yugoslav singer (b. 1939)
* October 14
** Edith Evans, British actress (b. 1888)
** Suleiman Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1908)
* October 15 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (b. 1902)
* October 18 – Giacomo Lercaro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1891)
* October 31 – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer (b. 1878)
November
* November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (b. 1909)
* November 9 – Armas Taipale, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1890)
* November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
* November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
* November 18 – Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
* November 20 – Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b. 1898)
* November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (b. 1901)
* November 28 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
* November 29
Events Pre-1600
* 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
* 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
– Godfrey Cambridge, American comedian and actor (b. 1933)
* November 30 – Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1912)
December
* December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
* December 3
Events Pre-1600
* 915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date). 1601–1900
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the ...
** Alfredo Dinale, Italian Olympic cyclist (b. 1900)
** Angelo Iachino, Italian admiral (b. 1889)
** Mary Nash (actress), Mary Nash, American actress (b. 1884)
* December 4
Events Pre-1600
* 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne as sole king of the Frankish Kingdom.
* 963 – The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 ...
** Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
** Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
* December 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
*1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
*1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba for gold (wh ...
– João Goulart, Brazilian politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
* December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
* December 15 – Grégoire Kayibanda, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda (b. 1924)
* December 19 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
* December 20
** Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago since 1955 (b. 1902)
** Ned Washington, American lyricist (b. 1901)
* December 28 – Freddie King, American rock guitarist (b. 1934)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – William Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Baruch S. Blumberg, D Carleton Gajdusek * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Saul Bellow * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Betty Williams (Nobel laureate), Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Milton FriedmanReferences
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