Hatches Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, along with 742 – Charlemagne, Frankish king (d. 814) 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663) 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author (d. 1798) 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist (d. 1848) 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874) 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet (d. 1875) 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) 1840 – Émile Zola, French author and critic (d. 1902) 1841 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (d. 1926) 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (d. 1940) 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 1976) 1914 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000) 1926 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver 1938 – Booker Little, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1961) 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (The Moonglows) (d. 1984) 1942 – Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef 1945 – Linda Hunt, American actress 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1948 – Roald Als, Danish cartoonist 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (d. 2012) 1971 – Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player 1981 – Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer 1990 – Amy Castle, American actress 1995 – Abdou Nef, Algerian footballer (d. 2013) Matches 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida. 1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet. 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia, and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies. 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate GeneralRobert E. Lee to retreat. 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg. 1902 – Electric Theatre, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the countrys first national census. 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. 1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside London Waterloo station. 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound. 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; their attack is thwarted. Despatches 1118 – Baldwin I of Jerusalem (b. 1058) 1502 – Arthur, Prince of Wales (b. 1486) 1872 – Samuel Morse, American inventor, invented the Morse code (b. 1791) 1966 – C. S. Forester, Egyptian-American author (b. 1899) 1998 – Rob Pilatus, American singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (b. 1965) 2005 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920) 2013 – Jane Henson, American puppeteer and voice actress, and widow of Muppets creator Jim Henson (1936–1990) (b. 1934)
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