Happy birthday and many happy returns Isaac Watts (1674), John Wilbur (1774), James Cagney (1899), Fred Ball (1915) and Donald Sutherland (1935). Born on the same day, across the years. On your day, in 1453, The Battle of Castillon, the last conflict of the Hundred Years War, ended with the English losing all landholdings in France, except Calais. 1771, Dene men, acting as a guide to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about 20 Copper Inuit. 1936, Nationalist rebels attempted a coup détat against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War. 1973, Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan, was ousted in a coup by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. 1981, A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, US, to collapse killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. Your hymn raises hope, which when all else is lost, retains Calais. And if the structure about you fails, if you lose your crown, if your plan fails, you can resort to the defiant snarl You dirty rat. Matches 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile. 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China. 1429 – Hundred Years War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign byJoan of Arc 1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony. 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handels Water Music is premiered. 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. 1771 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit. 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. 1794 – The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolutions Reign of Terror. 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university. 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor. 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues. 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France. 1945 – World War II: the main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed. 1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California. 1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. 1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida. 1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Hatches 1487 – Ismail I of Iran (d. 1524) 1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748) 1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759) 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762) 1763 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (d. 1848) 1774 – John Wilbur, American minister (d. 1856) 1797 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856) 1831 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (d. 1861) 1839 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916) 1870 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish bagpipe player (d. 1939) 1899 – James Cagney, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1986) 1912 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010) 1915 – Fred Ball, American actor (d. 2007) 1917 – Phyllis Diller, American comedian, actress, and singer (d. 2012) 1920 – Gordon Gould, American physicist, invented the laser (d. 2005) 1921 – Toni Stone, the first of three women to play Negro league baseball (d. 1996) 1923 – John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000) 1933 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (d. 2014) 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor 1939 – Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group) 1940 – Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter 1946 – Alun Armstrong, English actor 1950 – Damon Harris, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 2013) 1951 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress, singer, and dancer 1954 – J. Michael Straczynski, American author 1956 – Julie Bishop, Australian politician 1969 – Scott Johnson, American cartoonist 1975 – Darude, Finnish DJ and producer 1976 – Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish-American actress 1978 – Panda Bear, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Animal Collective and Jane) 1982 – Natasha Hamilton, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Atomic Kitten) 1986 – Dana, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (The Grace) 1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player 2000 – Maria Aragon, Canadian singer Despatches 521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and poet (b. 474) 924 – Edward the Elder, English king (b. 877) 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (b. 1802) 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854) 1918 – people of the Shooting of the Romanov family Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901) Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899) Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895) Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897) Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1872) Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1904) Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
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