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Pre-1600

* 690 – Empress
Wu Zetian Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ''de facto'' ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empres ...
establishes the
Zhou Dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by th ...
of China. *
1091 Year 1091 ( MXCI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring – Tzachas, a Seljuk Turkish military commander, establishes an i ...
–
London tornado of 1091 The London Tornado of 1091 is the earliest reported tornado in England, occurring in London on Friday, 17 October 1091. It has been reckoned by modern assessment as possibly a T8 on the TORRO scale (roughly equivalent to an F4 on the Fujita ...
: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. *
1346 Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
– The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years. *
1448 Year 1448 ( MCDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies with ...
– An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the
Second Battle of Kosovo The Second Battle of Kosovo ( Hungarian: ''második rigómezei csata'', Turkish: ''İkinci Kosova Muharebesi'') (17–20 October 1448) was a land battle between a Hungarian-led Crusader army and the Ottoman Empire at Kosovo Polje. It was ...
. * 1456 – The
University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe. *
1534 __NOTOC__ Year 1534 ( MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the '' Act Respecting the ...
– Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass. * 1558 –
Poczta Polska Poczta Polska ( lit. ''Polish Post'') is the state postal administration of Poland, initially founded in 1558. It is the largest mail-handling company in the country, which additionally provides courier, banking, insurance and logistics serv ...
, the Polish postal service, is founded.


1601–1900

*
1604 Events January–June * January 1 – ''The Masque of Indian and China Knights'' is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court. * January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England, ...
– Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. *
1610 Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broa ...
– French king
Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crow ...
is crowned in Reims Cathedral. *
1660 Events January–March * January 1 ** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into Englan ...
– The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of
Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after ...
are hanged, drawn and quartered. * 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds. *
1713 Events January–March * January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ref ...
–
Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swe ...
:
Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
defeated
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...
in the
Battle of Kostianvirta A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...
in
Pälkäne Pälkäne () is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which . The population density is . Onkkaala is the administrative center of the municipality. Tamper ...
. *
1771 Events January– March * January 5 – The Great Kalmyk ( Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule. * January ...
– Premiere in Milan of the opera ''
Ascanio in Alba ''Ascanio in Alba'', K. 111, is a pastoral opera in two parts (') by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, to Mari ...
'', composed by Mozart at age 15. * 1777 –
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn ...
– American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the
Siege of Yorktown The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies), beginning on September 28, 1781, and ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virg ...
. * 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. *
1806 Events January–March * January 1 ** The French Republican Calendar is abolished. ** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon. * January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
– Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule. *
1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Br ...
– The silver deposits of
Agua Amarga Agua Amarga (lit. ''Bitter Water'') is a silver deposit and defunct mining district in Chile's Atacama Region. It is located 30 km south of Vallenar. Agua Amarga was discovered in 1811 and its silver was instrumental to finance the Chilean ...
are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence. * 1814 – Eight people die in the
London Beer Flood The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the wooden vats of fermenting Porter (beer), porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vesse ...
. *
1850 Events January–June * April ** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome. ** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States. * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...
– Riots start, which lead to a
massacre A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
in Aleppo. *
1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts ...
– First
The Open Championship The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later t ...
(referred to in North America as the ''British Open''). *
1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first stea ...
– Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the
Cullin-la-ringo massacre The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, known historically as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous people that occurred north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia on 17 October 1861. Nineteen men, wom ...
.


1901–present

*
1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco ...
– Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. *
1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ** German geophysicist Alfred ...
– Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the
First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...
. *
1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
–
Leeds United F.C. Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of England's football league system, and plays its home matches at Elland R ...
founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of
Leeds City F.C. Leeds City Football Club was the leading professional club in Leeds, England, before the First World War. It was dissolved in 1919 due to financial irregularities, after which Leeds United was established as a replacement. History The club was ...
for making illegal payments to players during
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
* 1931 –
Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the ...
is convicted of income tax evasion. *
1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
–
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theor ...
flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. * 1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. *
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar E ...
– World War II: The USS ''Kearny'' becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat. *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...
– The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed. * 1943 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland:
Sobibór extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As a ...
is closed. * 1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release. *
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
– Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the
Provisional People's Representative Council The Provisional People's Representative Council ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Sementara) was the first Indonesian legislature under the Provisional Constitution of 1950. The council was formed after the transition of Indonesia to a unitary sta ...
. *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
– The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in
Sellafield Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuc ...
, England. *
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police
massacre A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
scores of Algerian protesters. *
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri. *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
– The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees. *
1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo ...
– The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters. *
1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
– The
Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of h ...
painting ''
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence ''Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence'' is a painting of the nativity of Jesus from 1609 by Italian painter Caravaggio. It has been missing since 1969 when it was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. Investigators believe ...
'' is stolen from the
Oratory of Saint Lawrence The Oratory of Saint Lawrence ( it, Oratorio di San Lorenzo) is a Baroque oratory of Palermo. It is located near the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo. The oratory was buil ...
in
Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its ...
. * 1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. * 1973 – OPEC imposes an
oil embargo An oil embargo is an economic situation wherein entities engage in an embargo to limit the transport of petroleum to or from an area, in order to exact some desired outcome. One commentator states, " oil embargo is not a common commercial practice; ...
against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the ''Yom Kippur War''. *
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
– The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued. *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
–
Mother Teresa Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, MC (; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa ( sq, Nënë Tereza), was an Indian-Albanian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu () was ...
is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. * 1979 – The
Department of Education Organization Act The Department of Education Organization Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1979. Purpose Congress established the United States Department of Education (ED) with the Department of Education Organization Act. Under the law, ED's missio ...
creates the U.S. Department of Education. *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In ...
– As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican. * 1988 – Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in
Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...
,
Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
, killing 33 people. *
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– The 6.9
Loma Prieta earthquake The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of t ...
shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. * 1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove
Erich Honecker Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts ...
from his role as General Secretary. *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
– 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a
Ramlila Ramlila (Rāmlīlā) (literally 'Rama's lila or play') is any dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic ''Ramayana'' or secondary literature based on it such as the ''Ramcharitmanas''. It particularly ...
Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
celebration in
Rudrapur, Uttarakhand Rudrapur ( Kumaoni: ''रुद्रपुर'') is a city that serves as the headquarters of the Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Located at a distance of about northeast of New Delhi and south of Dehradun, R ...
, killing 41 people. *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...
– Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
– Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. *
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
– The
Hatfield rail crash The Hatfield rail crash was a railway accident on 17 October 2000, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It was caused by a metal fatigue-induced derailment, killing four people and injuring more than 70. The accident exposed major stewardship shortco ...
leads to the collapse of Railtrack. *
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
– Israeli tourism minister
Rehavam Ze'evi Rehavam Ze'evi ( he, רחבעם זאבי ; 20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general and politician who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer. He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran ...
becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. *
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...
–
Taipei 101 Taipei 101 (; stylized as TAIPEI 101), formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a supertall skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. This building was officially classified as the world's tallest from its opening in 2004 until the 2009 ...
, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise. *
2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...
– Syrian civil war: The
Syrian Democratic Forces , war = the Syrian Civil War , image = Flag of Syrian Democratic Forces.svgborder , caption = Flag , active = 10 October 2015 – present , ideology = DemocracyDecentralizationSecularism ...
(SDF) capture the last foothold of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic ter ...
(ISIL) in
Raqqa Raqqa ( ar, ٱلرَّقَّة, ar-Raqqah, also and ) ( Kurdish: Reqa/ ڕەقە) is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, ...
, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa. *
2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
– The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. * 2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea. *
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest. *
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– The 17 October Revolution starts in
Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lie ...
.


Births


Pre-1600

* 503 – Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...
(d. 548) * 1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303) *
1493 Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne a ...
– Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560) * 1500 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591) * 1538 – Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559) * 1577 –
Cristofano Allori Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his ...
, Italian painter (d. 1621) * 1577 –
Dmitry Pozharsky Dmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky ( rus, Дми́трий Миха́йлович Пожа́рский, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ pɐˈʐarskʲɪj; 17 October 1577 – 30 April 1642) was a Russian prince known for his military leadersh ...
, Russian prince (d. 1642) * 1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637) *
1587 Events January–June * February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of ...
–
Nathan Field Nathan Field (also spelled Feild occasionally; 17 October 1587 – 1620) was an English dramatist and actor. Life His father was the Puritan preacher John Field, and his brother Theophilus Field became the Bishop of Llandaff. One of his brother ...
, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)


1601–1900

* 1623 –
Francis Turretin Francis Turretin (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as François Turrettini) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian.1629 – Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646) *
1688 Events January–March * January 2 – Fleeing from the Spanish Navy, French pirate Raveneau de Lussan and his 70 men arrive on the west coast of Nicaragua, sink their boats, and make a difficult 10 day march to the city of O ...
–
Domenico Zipoli Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was a composer from the Baroque period. He worked and died in Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina). He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where ...
, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726) *
1711 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edwar ...
–
Jupiter Hammon Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – ca. 1806) was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American in North America. He published both po ...
, American poet (d. 1806) *
1719 Events January–March * January 8 – Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish Swedish- Carolean army under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the Tydal mountains in a blizzard kills around 3, ...
–
Jacques Cazotte Jacques Cazotte (; 17 October 1719 – 25 September 1792) was a French author. Life Born in Dijon, he was educated by the Jesuits. Cazotte then worked for the French Ministry of the Marine and at the age of 27 he obtained a public office at Mar ...
, French author and academic (d. 1792) * 1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian
harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...
player and composer (d. 1795) * 1725 –
John Wilkes John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he ...
, English journalist and politician (d. 1797) *
1729 Events January–March * January 8 – Frederick, the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain is made Prince of Wales at the age of 21, a few months after he comes to Britain for the first time after growing up in Hano ...
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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ( – ) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical gen ...
, French composer and academic (d. 1817) * 1735 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
artist (d. 1803) * 1759 – Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814) *
1760 Events January–March * January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas. * January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on p ...
, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825) *
1768 Events January–March * January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London. * February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House ...
– Sophie von Dönhoff,
morganatic Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spous ...
spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838) * 1779 – Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (d. 1808) * 1779 – José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820) *
1780 Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...
– Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850) *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn ...
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Johann Friedrich Meckel Johann Friedrich Meckel (17 October 1781 – 31 October 1833), often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle. He worked as a professor of anatomy, pathology and zoology at the University of Halle, ...
, German anatomist (d. 1833) * 1784 –
Fructuoso Rivera José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana (17 October 1784 – 13 January 1854) was a Uruguayan general and patriot who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental from Brazilian rule, twice served as Uruguay's President and was one of the instigators ...
, first president of
Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
(d. 1854) * 1785 –
Christen Smith Christen Smith (17 October 1785 – 22 September 1816) was an early 19th-century Norwegian physician, economist and naturalist, particularly botanist. He died, only 30 years old during a dramatic expedition to the Congo River in 1816, leaving a ...
, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816) *1792 – John Bowring, English Polyglotism, polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826) *1797 – Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841) *1803 – Ferenc Deák (politician), Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876) *1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880) *
1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Br ...
– Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876) *1813 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837) * 1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888) *1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898) *1821 – Alexander Gardner (photographer), Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882) *1828 – Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890) *1833 – José E. Díaz, José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867) *1835 – Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (d. 1894) * 1835 – Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (d.1905) *1840 – André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885) *1844 – Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (d. 1929) *1845 – John J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1921) *1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920) *1859 – Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935) *
1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts ...
– Henry Campbell Black, founder of ''Black's Law Dictionary'' (d. 1927) *1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943) *1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950) *1867 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalonia, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956) *1871 – Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929) *1876 – Hippolyte Aucouturier, French road bicycle racing, road cyclist (d. 1944) *1878 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953) *1880 – Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977) *1881 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959) *1882 – Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (d. 1904) *1883 – Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973) * 1883 – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966) *1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971) *1889 – Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanon, Lebanese author (d. 1988) *1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928) *1892 – Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943) * 1892 – Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983) *1893 – Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979) *1894 – Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962) * 1894 – Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968) *1895 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982) * 1895 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958) *1896 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978) *1898 – Shinichi Suzuki (violinist), Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998) * 1898 – Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991) * 1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971) *1900 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) * 1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) * 1900 – Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)


1901–present

*1901 – Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973) *1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973) *1903 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976) * 1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940) *1905 – Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996) *1906 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 1993) * 1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987) *
1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco ...
– John Marley, American actor (d. 1984) *1908 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988) * 1908 – Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980) * 1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969) * 1908 – Kenji Miyamoto (politician), Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007) *1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981) * 1909 – Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962) * 1909 – Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992) *1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000) * 1910 – Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995) *
1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ** German geophysicist Alfred ...
– Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 (d. 1978) * 1912 – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001) * 1912 – Jack Owens (singer-songwriter), Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982) *1913 – Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003) * 1913 – Robert Lowery (actor), Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971) * 1913 – Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006) *1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996) *1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005) *1916 – José López Rega, Argentinean politician (d. 1989) *1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000) * 1917 – Martin Donnelly (cricketer), Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) * 1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991) * 1917 – Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (d. 2022) * 1917 – Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989) * 1917 – Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014) * 1917 – Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013) *1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987) * 1918 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014) * 1918 – Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993) *
1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
– Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (d. 2021) * 1919 – Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014) * 1919 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005) *1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) * 1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010) * 1920 – Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (d. 1999) *1921 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996) * 1921 – Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012) * 1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001) * 1921 – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007) *1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001) * 1922 – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012) *1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004) * 1923 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001) *1924 – Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010) * 1924 – Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012) * 1924 – Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (d. 1991) * 1924 – Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (d. 2019) *1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010) *1926 – Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019) * 1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008) * 1926 – Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011) * 1928 – Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007) * 1928 – Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017) *1929 – Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016) *1930 – Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003) * 1930 – Robert Atkins (nutritionist), Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003) * 1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012) * 1931 – José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011) * 1931 – Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008) * 1932 – Paul Anderson (weightlifter), Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994) *
1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
– William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut * 1933 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985) *1934 – Alan Garner, English author and playwright * 1934 – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005) * 1934 – Rico Rodriguez (musician), Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (d. 2015) *1935 – Sydney Chapman (politician), Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014) * 1935 – Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival * 1935 – Carlos Pairetti, Argetine racing driver (d. 2022) *1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013) * 1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic * 1936 – Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993) * 1936 – Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (d. 2018) *1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor * 1937 – José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician * 1937 – Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano * 1937 – Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011) *1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007) * 1938 – Les Murray (poet), Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019) * 1938 – António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist *1939 – Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (d. 2015) * 1940 – Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor * 1940 – Jim Smith (footballer, born 1940), Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 2019) * 1940 – Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018) *
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar E ...
– Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) * 1941 – Seals and Crofts, Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist * 1941 – Paul Ellison, American musician *1942 – Steve Jones (basketball), Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017) * 1942 – Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...
– Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015) *1944 – Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2010) *1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010) * 1946 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012) * 1946 – Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager * 1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian * 1946 – Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic * 1946 – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter * 1946 – Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian * 1946 – Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (d. 2021) * 1946 – Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018) * 1946 – José Perramón, Spanish handball player * 1946 – Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician * 1946 – Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist * 1946 – Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist *1947 – Gene Green, American lawyer and politician * 1947 – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director * 1947 – Robert Post (law professor), Robert Post, American educator and academic * 1947 – Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco *1948 – Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007) * 1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018) * 1948 – George Wendt, American actor and comedian * 1948 – Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer *1949 – Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2020) * 1949 – Bill Hudson (singer), Bill Hudson, American musician and actor *1950 – Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal * 1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996) * 1950 – Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017) *1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater * 1951 – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer * 1951 – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist * 1951 – Dirk Beheydt, Belgian footballer *1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader * 1953 – Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer *1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer *1955 – Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Ministry of Finance (Greece), Greek Minister of Finance * 1955 – Mike Bratz, American basketball player *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
– Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1956 – Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut * 1956 – Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina * 1956 – Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author *1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer * 1957 – Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster * 1957 – Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor * 1957 – Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist * 1957 – Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002) * 1957 – Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist * 1957 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer *1958 – Howard Alden, American guitarist * 1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter * 1958 – Craig Murray, British diplomat * 1958 – Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (d. 1977) *1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar * 1959 – Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016) * 1959 – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter * 1959 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2021) * 1959 – Mark Peel (historian), Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic * 1959 – Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic * 1959 – Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician * 1959 – Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician *1960 – Guy Henry (actor), Guy Henry, English actor * 1960 – Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer * 1960 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013) * 1960 – Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic *
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– David Means, American short story writer *1962 – Glenn Braggs, American baseball player * 1962 – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor * 1962 – Jay Humphries, American basketball player *1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist * 1963 – Toby Young, English journalist and academic *1964 – Gregg Wallace, English television presenter * 1964 – Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
– Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer * 1965 – Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor *
1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo ...
– Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach * 1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager * 1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist * 1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster *1967 – Simon Segars, English businessman * 1967 – Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player * 1967 – René Dif, Danish musician * 1967 – Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer *1968 – Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster * 1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor * 1968 – David Robertson (footballer, born 1968), David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager * 1968 – Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist *
1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
– Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster * 1969 – Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker * 1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor * 1969 – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter * 1969 – Wood Harris, American actor * 1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer * 1970 – John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster * 1970 – J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor *1971 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer * 1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer * 1971 – Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player * 1971 – Martin Heinrich, American politician * 1971 – Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005) *1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor * 1972 – Tarkan (singer), Tarkan, German-Turkish singer * 1972 – Musashi (kickboxer), Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer * 1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach * 1973 – Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player *1974 – Ariel Levy (journalist), Ariel Levy, American journalist and author * 1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor * 1974 – Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician * 1974 – Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress * 1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player * 1974 – John Rocker, American baseball player * 1974 – Darío Sala, Argentine footballer * 1974 – Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player * 1974 – Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer *1975 – Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player * 1975 – Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician * 1975 – Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer *1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer * 1976 – Seth Etherton, American baseball player * 1976 – Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist * 1976 – Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach *
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
– Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer * 1977 – Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer * 1977 – Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter * 1977 – Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer * 1977 – Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician * 1977 – Ryan McGinley, American photographer * 1977 – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager *1978 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician * 1978 – Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach * 1978 – Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress * 1978 – Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
– Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist * 1979 – Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist (d. 2022) * 1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver * 1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In ...
– Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player * 1980 – Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer * 1980 – Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer * 1980 – Angel Parker, American actress * 1980 – Alessandro Piccolo (racing driver), Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver * 1980 – Justin Shenkarow, American actor *1981 – Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer * 1981 – Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter * 1981 – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer * 1981 – Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist *1982 – Rubén Ramírez (footballer, born 1982), Rubén Ramírez, Argentine footballer * 1982 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer * 1982 – Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer *1983 – Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress * 1983 – Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater * 1983 – Felicity Jones, English actress * 1983 – Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer * 1983 – Riki Miura, Japanese actor * 1983 – Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer * 1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer * 1983 – Mitch Talbot, American baseball player * 1983 – Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer *1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor * 1984 – Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer * 1984 – Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator * 1984 – Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist * 1984 – Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader * 1984 – Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist * 1984 – Jared Tallent, Australian race walker *1985 – Carlos González (baseball), Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player * 1985 – Max Irons, English-Irish actor * 1985 – Collins John, Dutch footballer * 1985 – Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer *1986 – Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer * 1986 – Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist * 1986 – Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player * 1986 – Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer * 1986 – Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater * 1986 – Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player *1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer * 1987 – Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer * 1987 – Elliot Grandin, French footballer * 1987 – Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer * 1988 – Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player * 1988 – Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model * 1988 – Marina Salas, Spanish actress *
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– Débora García, Spanish footballer * 1989 – Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer * 1989 – Sophie Luck, Australian actress * 1989 – Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist * 1989 – David Timor, Spanish footballer *1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer * 1990 – Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player * 1990 – Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer * 1990 – Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer * 1990 – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
– Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...
– Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer * 1992 – Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress *1993 – Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer *
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
– Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer


Deaths


Pre-1600

*AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC) * 532 – Pope Boniface II * 866 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836) *1271 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet *1277 – Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254) *
1346 Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
– John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray *
1346 Year 1346 ( MCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages. In Asia that year, the Black Death came to the troop ...
– Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn * 1456 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375) *1485 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports *1552 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498) *1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511) *1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554) *
1587 Events January–June * February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of ...
– Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)


1601–1900

*1616 – John Pitts (Catholic scholar), John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560) *
1660 Events January–March * January 1 ** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into Englan ...
– Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601) *1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630) *1690 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647) *1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683) *1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681) *
1780 Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...
– William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705) *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn ...
– Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705) *1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723) *
1806 Events January–March * January 1 ** The French Republican Calendar is abolished. ** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon. * January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
– Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, List of heads of state of Haiti, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758) *1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) *1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778) *1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810) *1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian War of 1812, war heroine (b. 1775) *1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824) *1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828) *1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)


1901–present

*1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819) *1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886) *1920 – Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (b. 1881) *1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853) * 1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884) *1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862) *1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854) *1948 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869) *1955 – Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873) *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
– Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920) *1957 – Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (b. 1884) *1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896) * 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876) *1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882) *1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865) *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
– Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873) *
1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo ...
– Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883) * 1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917) *1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906) * 1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921) * 1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897) * 1970 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890) *1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914) * 1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) * 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926) *1978 – George Clark (racing driver), George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890) * 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887) *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
– S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904) * 1979 – John Stuart (actor), John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898) * 1979 – Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909) *1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927) * 1981 – Albert Cohen (novelist), Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895) * 1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887) *1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905) *1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925) *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
– Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919) *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...
– Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912) * 1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908) *1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963) *1996 – Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (b. 1966) *1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933) *1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906) * 1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920) *1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915) *
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
– Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924) * 2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964) *
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
– Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915) * 2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922) * 2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926) *2002 – Derek Bell (musician), Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935) *2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952) *2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924) * 2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938) *2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918) * 2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931) * 2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939) *2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955) * 2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936) * 2008 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923) *2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931) * 2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916) *2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919) *2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951) * 2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912) * 2012 – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930) * 2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922) * 2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) *2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926) * 2013 – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944) * 2013 – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926) * 2013 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation, Filmation Company (b. 1928) * 2013 – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966) *2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937) * 2014 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943) * 2014 – Tom Shaw (bishop), Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945) * 2014 – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919) *2015 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926) * 2015 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946) * 2015 – Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) * 2015 – Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician), Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947) *
2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...
– Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964) *
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
– Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Andrew of Crete (martyr), Andrew of Crete **Anstrudis **Catervus **Æthelred and Æthelberht, Ethelred and Ethelberht **Florentius of Orange **François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) **Hosea **Ignatius of Antioch **John the Dwarf, John the Short (John Colobus) **Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines) **Nothhelm **Saint Regulus, Rule of Andrew **Richard Gwyn **Victor of Capua **October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *International Day for the Eradication of Poverty *Loyalty Day (Argentina) *National Police Day (Thailand)


References


External links

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