DEATHS

* 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.

* 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.



* 1776 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
* 1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
* 1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.

* 1899 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.
* 1903 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
* 1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
* 1931 - Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets in a season. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
* 1935 - Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.


* 1942 - Holocaust: future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
* 1943 - Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
* 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

* 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

* 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.

* 1979 - Adrian Rogers is elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, marking the beginning of the conservative resurgence.
* 1982 - Over 750,000 people attend a concert in New York's Central Park to support MUSE (or Musicians United for Safe Energy, aka: No Nukes), to see Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt (among others) perform.
* 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
* 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.




* 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
* 1997 - The Globe Theater reopens in London by Queen Elizabeth II.

* 2008 - Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.
* 2008 - The Supreme Court announces its ruling in Boumediene v. Bush

BIRTHS

* 1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)

* 1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
* 1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)

* 1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
* 1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
* 1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

* 1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
* 1920 - Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000)
* 1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1921 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
* 1921 - James Archibald Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
* 1923 - Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
* 1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States

* 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer
* 1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
* 1929 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
* 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)



* 1959 - Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham

* 1969 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)


* 1982 - Jason David, American football player
* 1982 - Loïc Duval, French racing driver



DEATHS

* 816 - Pope Leo III
* 918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
* 1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
* 1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
* 1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)

* 1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
* 1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)

* 1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)
* 1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
* 1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (b. 1969)
* 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
* 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
* 1994 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
* 1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
* 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
* 2000 - P. L. Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
* 2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
* 2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
* 2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)

* 2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)

:bulletsorange: holidays and observances

# Roman Empire – sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
# Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
# Russian Federation – Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
# Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
# United States – Loving Day celebrates the legalization of interracial marriage

# Blessed Ternan, bishop, confessor
# Saint Ursinus, bishop of Bourges, confessor (Translation day)
# Saint Pharaildis, virgin
# Wales - Dydd y Dywysoges Gwenllian (Welsh) - Princess

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