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Morris Berman
American historian (born 1944)
Notable Births
Zach Wilson
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Brahim Díaz
b. 1999
Morocco international footballer (born 1999)
Yoo Yeon-jung
b. 1999
South Korean singer (born 1999)
Luis Robert Jr.
b. 1997
Cuban-born baseball player (born 1997)
Alec Bohm
b. 1996
American baseball player (born 1996)
Bokondji Imama
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Derwin James
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Zac Gallen
b. 1995
American baseball player (born 1995)
Victoria Kan
b. 1995
Russian tennis player (born 1995)
Kwon Alexander
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Manaia Cherrington
b. 1994
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Esther Earl
b. 1994
American author and online personality (1994–2010)
Todd Gurley
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Younghoe Koo
b. 1994
South Korean-American football player (born 1994)
Chris Murphy
b. 1973
American politician (born 1973)
Lucky Dube
b. 1964
South African reggae musician (1964–2007)
Todd Christensen
b. 1956
American football player (1956–2013)
Morris Berman
b. 1944
American historian (born 1944)
Rupert Brooke
b. 1887
English poet (1887–1915)
Elisha Otis
b. 1811
19th-century American industrialist and inventor of the Otis Elevator
Notable Deaths
Loni Anderson
d. 2025
American actress (1945–2025)
Yamini Krishnamurthy
d. 2024
Indian dancer (1940–2024)
Bram Moolenaar
d. 2023
Dutch computer programmer (1961–2023)
Jackie Walorski
d. 2022
American politician (1963–2022)
John Hume
d. 2020
Irish nationalist politician (1937–2020)
Robert Conquest
d. 2015
British-American historian and poet (1917–2015)
Mel Farr
d. 2015
American football player and businessman (1944–2015)
Coleen Gray
d. 2015
American actress (1922–2015)
Margot Loyola
d. 2015
Johanna Quandt
d. 2015
German businesswoman (1926–2015)
Jef Murray
d. 2015
American fantasy artist and author
Edward Clancy (cardinal)
d. 2014
Australian cardinal (1923–2014)
Lydia Yu-Jose
d. 2014
Filipino academic
John Coombs
d. 2013
British racing driver
Jack Hightower
d. 2013
American judge (1926–2013)
Frank Evans (baseball)
d. 2012
Baseball player
Martin Fleischmann
d. 2012
British chemist (1927–2012)
Paul McCracken (economist)
d. 2012
American economist (1915–2012)
Bubba Smith
d. 2011
American actor and athlete (1945–2011)
Edward Whittemore
d. 1995
American novelist
On This Day in History
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2023
Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
2023 Slovenia floods
2019
Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
Lyubov Sobol
2019
Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
2018
Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2014
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014 Ludian earthquake
2014
The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
Yazidi genocide
2010
Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2010 Karachi riots
2007
Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional
2005
President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
List of heads of state of Mauritania
2004
The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
Statue of Liberty
1997
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre
1997
The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
History of the world's tallest structures
1981
Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
Senegal
1977
Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
Tandy Corporation
1975
A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
Boeing 707
1972
The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
United States Senate
1960
Niger gains independence from France.
Niger
1959
Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
PIDE
1958
The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
1949
The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
Basketball Association of America