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Events
- 307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1455 – The Romanus Pontifex is written.
- 1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics'—his punched card calculator.
- 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
- 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
- 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Births
- 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese daimyo (d. 1623)
- 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
- 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
- 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)
- 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844)
- 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)
- 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Emma Booth, English member of The Salvation Army (d. 1903)
- 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
- 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
- 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (The Blue Moon Boys) (d. 1977)
- 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (d. 1989)
- 1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian-American painter
- 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Riot Squad, Tin Machine, The Hype, and Arnold Corns)
- 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
- 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
- 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
Deaths
- 307 – Emperor Hui of Jin (b. 259)
- 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)
- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)
- 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
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