Events Pre-1600 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. 963 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto. 1217 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
1601–1900 1792 – Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race. 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. 1900 – President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
1901–present 1936 – Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead. 1943 – World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation. 1947 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television. 1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm. pp. 300–01. 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. 1976 – Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. 1985 – Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. 1986 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. 1988 – Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province. 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. 2002 – Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. 2002 – A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three. 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120. 2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. 2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa. 2025 - Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC.
Births Pre-1600 1391 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (died 1425) 1479 – Philip I, Margrave of Baden (died 1533) 1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566) 1550 – Karin Månsdotter, Swedish queen (died 1612)
1601–1900 1604 – George Ent, English scientist (died 1689) 1661 – Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (died 1700) 1750 – Carlo Aurelio Widmann, Venetian nobleman and admiral (died 1798) 1755 – Zina Hitchcock, New York politician (died 1832) 1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (died 1894) 1832 – Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (died 1914)Joseph Smith, III at the Encyclopædia Britannica 1839 – Elvire Serrouin, French anarchist and protagonist of the Clichy affair (died ?) 1841 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (died 1915) 1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (died 1902) 1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer and bandleader (died 1932) 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball (died 1939) 1880 – Yoshisuke Aikawa, Japanese businessman and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (died 1967) 1884 – May Brahe, Australian composer (died 1956) 1885 – Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1935) 1887 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player and manager (died 1946) 1897 – Jack O'Connor, English cricketer (died 1977) 1900 – Ida Lou Anderson, American orator and professor, pioneer in the field of radio broadcasting (died 1941)
1901–present 1908 – Tony Canzoneri, American boxer (died 1959) 1913 – Cho Ki-chon, North Korean poet (died 1951) 1921 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (died 2006) 1924 – Harry Threadgold, English footballer (died 1996) 1926 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian and actor (died 2012) 1926 – Zig Ziglar, American soldier, businessman, and author (died 2012) 1929 – Lu Chao-Hsuan, Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (died 2017) 1930 – Derrick Bell, American scholar, author and critical race theorist (died 2011) 1931 – Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014) 1932 – François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) 1933 – Else Ackermann, German physician and pharmacologist (died 2019) 1937 – Leo Goeke, American tenor and actor (died 2012) 1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (died 2004) 1939 – Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino lawyer and jurist (died 2019) 1939 – Michael Schwerner, American activist (died 1964) 1940 – Johnny Giles, Irish footballer and manager 1941 – Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2016) 1941 – Doug Sahm, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1999) 1946 – Sally Field, American actress 1946 – George Young, Scottish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017) 1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2016) 1949 – Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (died 2024) 1949 – Ariel Henry, Haitian prime-minister, neurosurgeon, and politician 1950 – Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, Pakistani politician 1950 – Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (died 2000) 1952 – Michael Cunningham, American novelist and screenwriter 1953 – Frank Hanisch, German footballer 1953 – Brian McKechnie, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player* 1955 – Mark Donaldson, New Zealand rugby player 1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist and authorShriver known for her political bloodlines (October 9, 2003) Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved February 5, 2008. 1956 – Graeme Wood, Australian cricketer and footballer 1960 – Lance Kerwin, American actor (died 2023) 1962 – Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, Russian pilot and former cosmonaut 1963 – Rozz Williams, American singer, musician and artist (died 1998) 1964 – Mike Brewer, New Zealand rugby player 1966 – Paul Gilbert, American guitarist 1966 – Stephanie Vozzo, American professional comic book colorist and music agent 1967 – Shuzo Matsuoka, Japanese tennis player and sportscaster 1967 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress and model (died 1989) 1968 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress 1968 – Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American engineer and businessman, co-founded Yahoo! 1971 – Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer and politician 1972 – Rebecca Romijn, American model and actressRebecca Romijn Profile in the FMD-database. Retrieved December 3, 2019. 1973 – David Giffin, Australian rugby playerDavid Giffin rugby profile Scrum.com 1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (died 2009) 1976 – Sal Vulcano, American comedian and actor 1978 – Erik Cole, American ice hockey player 1978 – Zak Morioka, Brazilian race car driver 1979 – Adam LaRoche, American baseball player 1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player 1979 – Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player 1981 – Kaspars Gorkšs, Latvian footballer 1981 – Luke Jackson, American basketball player and coach 1981 – Andrew Murray, Canadian ice hockey player 1983 – Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier 1984 – Ricky Romero, American baseball player 1984 – Sebastian Schachten, German footballer 1985 – Sun Yue, Chinese basketball player 1986 – Ben Rector, American singer, songwriter and musician 1986 – Conor Sammon, Irish footballer 1987 – Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player 1988 – John Holland, Puerto Rican-American basketball player 1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer 1988 – James Paxton, Canadian baseball player 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress 1988 – Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer 1989 – Jozy Altidore, American soccer player 1989 – Aaron Hernandez, American football player (died 2017) 1990 – André Schürrle, German footballer 1990 – Akua Shōma, Japanese sumo wrestler 1990 – Bowen Yang, Australian-born American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer 1991 – Doron Lamb, American basketball player 1992 – Rebecca Allen, Australian basketball player 1992 – Nasya Dimitrova, Bulgarian volleyball player 1992 – Paula Kania-Choduń, Polish tennis player 1992 – Kim Ah-young, South Korean singer and actress 1992 – Stefan Ortega, German footballer 1993 – Josh Wakefield, English footballer 1994 – Isaah Yeo, Australian rugby league player 1995 – Addin Fonua-Blake, Australian-Tongan rugby league player 1995 – Sam Reinhart, Canadian ice hockey player 1997 – Aliona Bolsova, Spanish-Moldovan tennis player 1997 – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor and model 1997 – Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Romanian tennis player 2001 – Day'Ron Sharpe, American basketball player
Deaths Pre-1600 1003 – Pope John XVII 1312 – Christina von Stommeln, Roman Catholic mystic and stigmatic (born 1242) 1406 – Pope Innocent VII (born 1339) 1492 – Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (born 1430)
1601–1900 1656 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (born 1583) 1672 – Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585)Joshua Rifkin, et al. "Schütz, Heinrich." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed October 8, 2013. Online: . 1692 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (born 1619) 1752 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (born 1685) 1816 – Gouverneur Morris, American scholar, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (born 1752) 1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840)
1901–present 1918 – Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1899) 1942 – Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist and academic (born 1884) 1955 – Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (born 1882) 1964 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (born 1925)Cyclisme : la fiche coureur de Hugo Albert Koblett . Lequipe.fr (23 July 2014). Retrieved on 2015-08-05. 1965 – Clarence Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1898) 1968 – Chauncey Sparks, American politician and 41st Governor of Alabama (born 1884) 1978 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (born 1899) 1984 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (born 1929) 1985 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1938) 1987 – Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (born 1955) 1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920) 1998 – Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (born 1928) 2000 – L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (born 1907) 2003 – Just Betzer, Danish production manager and producer (born 1944) 2003 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer and coach (born 1919)