| Jessica Watson | 5/18/1993 | Birth | |
| Najla Mangoush | 6/7/1973 | Birth | |
| Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes | 9/5/1935 | Birth | President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum |
| Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlot... | 12/19/1778 | Birth | eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI |
| Elihu Root | 2/7/1937 | Death | US statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| Erastus Corning 2nd | 5/28/1983 | Death | US politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York |
| Jesse James | 4/3/1882 | Death | US outlaw |
| Lee Atwater | 3/29/1991 | Death | US political consultant |
| Allen Carr | 11/29/2006 | Death | English anti-smoking campaigner |
| John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of St... | 1/8/1707 | Death | Scottish politician |
| Justinian the Great | 11/14/565 | Death | Byzantine Emperor |
| Anna Anderson | 2/12/1984 | Death | claimant to the throne of Russia |
| Khudiram Bose | 8/11/1908 | Death | Indian freedom fighter |
| Péter Pázmány | 3/19/1637 | Death | Hungarian cardinal and statesman |
| Alain Poher | 12/9/1996 | Death | French politician |
| Isabella of Aragon | 1/28/1271 | Death | queen of Philip III of France |
| Aleksander Kesküla | 6/17/1963 | Death | Estonian politician and nationalist |
| Lennart Meri | 3/14/2006 | Death | former president of Estonia |
| Abbas Mirza | 10/25/1833 | Death | prince of Persia |
| Ann Calvello | 3/14/2006 | Death | Roller Derby Queen |
| Charles K. Johnson | 3/19/2001 | Death | President of the Flat Earth Society |
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| * 2/22/1974 — Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. |
| * 7/27/1663 — The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the US colonie... |
| * 11/4/1979 — Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians mostly students, invades the United States embassy in Te... |
| * 2/22/1922 — The British unilaterally declare the independence of Egypt. |
| * 8/31/1056 — Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the... |
| * 8/11/1960 — Chad declares independence. |
| * 9/15/1821 — Guatemala El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain. |
| * 2/22/1974 — Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven c... |
| * 4/8/1929 — Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw hand... |
| * 5/13/1998 — Race riots break out in Jakarta Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are l... |
| * 12/19/1154 — Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. |
| * 1/8/1499 — Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. |
| * 8/11/1804 — Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria |
| * 5/18/1993 — EU-riots in Nørrebro Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht... |
| * 11/29/1850 — The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian... |
| * 8/31/1992 — Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo . |
| * 3/24/1944 — World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape 76 prisoners begin breaking out... |
| * 4/8/1149 — Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum. |
| * 7/2/2000 — Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción... |
| * 8/6/1965 — US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. |
| * 12/24/1929 — Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. |