Happy birthday and many happy returns Quoc Nguyen, Andrew Raiss and Graham Donald Sparks. Born on the same day, across the years. On your day in 1253, Mindaugas, the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned as King of Lithuania, the only person to ever hold that title. In 1411, Ming Dynasty Admiral Zheng He returned to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presented the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor. In 1809, Napoleons French forces defeated Archduke Charles Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition. In 1885, French chemists Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux successfully tested their vaccine against rabies on nine-year-old Joseph Meister after he was bitten by an infected dog. In 1978, A sleeping car train at Taunton, England, caught fire, killing 12 people and causing British Rail to install state-of-the art fire prevention measures. It is wonderful to claim titles and make them your own. It is finer to build them for those that follow you. Battles can be won decisively, adversely, and still you succeed. Dont let sleeping cars lie. If a French chemist wishes to test on you, let them, but pay them in Lire. They prefer that to dollars. Cheers. Matches 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeated Cleombrotus I, takes place 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under Amr ibn al-As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). 1189 – Richard I the Lionheart accedes to the English throne. 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1411 – Ming Chinas Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during theMing–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor. 1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake. 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England. 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again. 1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. 1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held. 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. 1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. 1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that killed 71 people and injured 200. 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. 1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicagos Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2. 1939 – Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed. 1941 – Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the Secret Annexe above her fathers office in an Amsterdam warehouse. 1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial. 1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of Americas worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. 1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles. 1962 – The Late Late Show, the worlds longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time. 1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the worlds worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life. 1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Fourteen bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff. 1995 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War. 1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams. 2013 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the towns central area. Hatches 1580 – Johann Stobäus, German lute player and composer (d. 1646) 1623 – Jacopo Melani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1676) 1747 – John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain (d. 1792) 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (d. 1813) 1781 – Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (d. 1826) 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879) 1865 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (d. 1950) 1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor (d. 1970) 1887 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975) 1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States 1925 – Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007) 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981) 1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress and singer (d. 2004) 1931 – Della Reese, American actress and singer 1935 – 14th Dalai Lama 1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian and actor (d. 2005) 1939 – Jet Harris, English bass player (The Shadows, The Jeff Beck Group, and The Vipers Skiffle Group) (d. 2011) 1939 – John Makepeace, English furniture designer 1945 – Burt Ward, American actor 1946 – George W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 43rd President of the United States 1947 – Shelley Hack, American actress 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer 1955 – Michael Boyd, Irish theatre director 1960 – Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 63rd Yokozuna 1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper, producer, and actor (G-Unit) 1981 – Emily West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater 1986 – David Karp, American businessman, founded Tumblr 1990 – Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer 1996 – Sun Ziyue, Chinese tennis player 1996 – Sigrid Schjetne, Norwegian homicide victim (d. 2012) Despatches 371 BC – Cleombrotus I, Spartan king 649 – Goar of Aquitaine, French-German priest and bishop (b. 585) 1017 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942) 1189 – Henry II of England (b. 1133) 1218 – Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166) 1415 – Jan Hus, Czech priest, philosopher, and reformer (b. 1369) 1476 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (b. 1436) 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474) 1535 – Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1478) 1553 – Edward VI of England (b. 1537) 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789) 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850) 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901) 1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
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