Happy birthday and many happy returns Alvin Mak and Marcus Lee. Born on the same day as Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741), Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890), Gene Kelly (1912), Tex Williams (1917), Barbara Eden (1934), Keith Moon (1946), River Phoenix (1970), Kobe Bryant (1978) and Jeremy Lin (1988). On your day, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism/Black Ribbon Day in Canada and the European Union 1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened. 1929 – Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, killing over sixty people in two days. 1943 – World War II: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war. 1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form an over 600 km (370 mi) long human chain across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their respective desires for independence. 2010 – A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila and held its occupants hostage for nearly 11 hours before being killed by police. Your day is worth rejoicing in. Cross the bridge. Use the mandate for peace. Victory at Kursk does not make a submarine seaworthy. My singing is revolting, but heart felt. Stay off the buses ;) Matches 30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Marc Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra. 20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used byAugustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standardsthat had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. 406 – Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 barbarians are incorporated into the Roman army or sold asslaves. 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae (King of Italy) by his troops. 634 – Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. 1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The citys citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire. 1268 – Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy. 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London. 1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. 1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. 1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. 1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent. 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. 1572 – French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomews Day massacre. 1592 – Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka. 1595 – Long War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreniand achieves a tactical victory. 1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal toToyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara. 1614 – Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse. 1614 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic. 1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton. 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Moncks Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards. 1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1765 – Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. Jamess stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion. 1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years. 1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power. 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army. 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War. 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways. 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas. 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens. 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made inPugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed). 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented. 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. 1914 – World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal. 1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humberestuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive. 1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. 1927 – Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial. 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in theBritish Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during aTest match against Australia. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations. 1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. 1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. 1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies. 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school inFreckleton, England killing 61 people. 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanoverand Schleswig-Holstein. 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed. 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the Peoples Liberation Armys bombardment of Quemoy. 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. 1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins. 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome. 1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. 1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games inIndianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the Dream Team. 1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinnroad, holding hands (Baltic Way). 1989 – One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western guests (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. 1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users. 1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenantin the United States Air Force. 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places. 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity. 2007 – The skeletal remains of Russias last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia. 2010 – Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed. 2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD. 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war. 2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people. Hatches 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566) 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer (d. 1590) 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675) 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer (d. 1788) 1754 – Louis XVI of France (d. 1793) 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775) 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist (d. 1832) 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852) 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (d. 1819) 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920) 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927) 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet and critic (d. 1903) 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (d. 1883) 1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1925) 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist (d. 1966) 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1946) 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect (d. 1959) 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (d. 1932) 1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1971) 1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996) 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985) 1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician (d. 1984) 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist (d. 2003) 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2005) 1931 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer 1938 – Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (d. 2014) 1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (d. 1978) 1949 – Shelley Long, American actress and producer 1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot) 1950 – Alan Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor (The Wynners) 1953 – Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz) 1963 – Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer 1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church 1970 – KK, Indian singer-songwriter 1970 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (d. 1993) 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist 1995 – Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress and singer 2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor Despatches 30 BC– Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (b. 47 BC) 30 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (b. 47 BC) 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40) 406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573) 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765) 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045) 1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164) 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish commander (b. 1272) 1507 – Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (b. 1435) 1591 – Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (b. 1527) 1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1592) 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600) 1706 – Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654) 1723 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639) 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736) 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766) 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785) 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895) 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891) 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888) 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
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