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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 5 Recorded this date

Events

• 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope
• 1775 - United States Navy established
• 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio signed
• 1810 - United States annexes West Florida
• 1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world
• 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers)
• 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr becomes first African-American general in the United States Air Force
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends
• 1991 - Turkmenistan independence achieved
• 1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vazgan Sarkisian and 6 other members killed in attack on Armenian parliament.
• 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.

• 1466 (assumed) - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
• 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)
• 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
• 1782 - Niccolò Paganini;, Italian violinist and composer
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
• 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan.
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
• 1872 - Emily Post, etiquette authority (sometimes October 3, 1873 is given as her birthdate)
• 1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
• 1914 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer (d. 1953)
• 1917 - Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress
• 1918 - Teresa Wright, actress
• 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist
• 1924 - Ruby Dee, actress
• 1926 - H. R. Haldeman, Watergate scandal figure
• 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
• 1933 - Floyd Cramer, musician
• 1939 - John Cleese, British actor, comedian
• 1940 - John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)
• 1942 - Lee Greenwood, musician
• 1945 - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva;, Brazilian President
• 1946 - Ivan Reitman, movie director, producer
• 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, actress
• 1947 - Terry Anderson, journalist, Middle Eastern hostage
• 1948 - Berni Wrightson, American artist
• 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
• 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian actor
• 1953 - Peter Firth, actor
• 1953 - Robert Picardo, actor ()
• 1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician
• 1959 - Rick Carlisle, NBA basketball coach
• 1966 - Matt Drudge, Internet personality
• 1967 - Scott Weiland, musician ("Stone Temple Pilots")
• 1968 - Martin Clark, English snooker player
• 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambiquan athlete
• 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, American television personality

• 939 - King Athelstan I of England
• 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
• 1439 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer
• 1505 - Ivan III of Russia
• 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer
• 1957 - Daniel M Nazarian, actor
• 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
• 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
• 1975 - Rex Stout, novelist
• 1977 - James M. Cain, novelist
• 1990 - Elliot Roosevelt, advertising executive
• 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor
• 2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Recorded this date

• 1903 "Silver Threads Among The Gold" (w. Eben E. Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks)
  - Richard Jose
  
• 1911 "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" (w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt)
  - Christie MacDonald & Lyric Quartette with O/Magee
  
• 1911 "There's A Girl In Havana" (w. Irving Berlin & E. Ray Goetz m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Beulah Young & Henry Burr
  
• 1913 "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Lillian Davis
  
• 1913 "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor)
  - Harry Macdonough & Marguerite Dunlap
  
• 1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris)
  - Nora Bayes with O/Rosario Bourdon
  
• 1916 "When John McCormack Sings A Song" (w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Nora Bayes
  
• 1921 "When Buddha Smiles" (w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
  - Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
  
• 1922 "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" (w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1922 "Rolling Down To Rio" (w. Rudyard Kipling m. German)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1922 "Drake Goes West" (Sanderson)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1925 "Sweet Man" (w. Roy Turk m. Maceo Pinkard)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1925 "Sleepy Time Gal" (w. Joseph R. Alden & Raymond B. Egan m. Ange Lorenzo & Richard A. Whiting)
  - Lewis James
  
• 1925 "Just A Cottage Small (By A Waterfall)" (w. B. G. De Sylva m. James F. Hanley)
  - John McCormack
  
• 1926 "Because I Love You" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1927 "Up In The Clouds" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby)
  - Franklyn Baur with Harry Archer & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Gorgonzola"
  - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1930 "I'm Twenty-One Today" (Kendal)
  - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Pick Up Tha' Musket"
  - Stanley Holloway with piano Wolseley Charles
  
• 1930 "They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" (w.m. Edward Eliscu, Billy Hill & Willie Raskin)
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
  
• 1930 "The Face On The Bar-Room Floor" (w. Maurice De Witt m. Leonard Hope)
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
  
• 1930 "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" (w.m. Lew Brown, B. G. De Sylva & Ray Henderson)
  - Pat O'Malley w. chorus with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1930 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1932 "Let's Call It A Day" (w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
  - Frank Marvin with Arden-Ohman Orchestra
  
• 1932 "Please" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Rudy Vallee
  
• 1932 "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney)
  - Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees
  
• 1933 "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" (w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt)
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "Thanks" (w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston)
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
  
• 1938 "Do You Wanna Jump Children?" (w.m. James Van Heusen, Willie Bryant & Victor Selsman)
  - Cab Calloway
  
• 1939 "I'll Remember" (Rich, Connelly)
  - Cyril Grantham with Geraldo & his Orchestra
  
• 1939 "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Evelyn Dove with Billy Cotton & his Band
  
• 1941 "I Hate You, Darling" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1941 "Ev'ry Time" (w.m. Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1943 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
  - Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
• 1943 "When They Ask About You" (w.m. Sam H. Stept)
  - Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
• 1944 "Right As The Rain" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen)
  - Celeste Holm & David Brooks
  
• 1947 "Bluegrass Breakdown"
  - Bill Monroe
  
• 1950 "It Is No Secret" (w.m. Stuart Hamblen)
  - Ink Spots
  
• 1950 "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (w.m. Al Hoffman, Walter Kent & Mann Curtis)
  - Frankie Laine w. Conlon Singers with O/Harry Geller
  
• 1951 "Charmaine" (w.m. Erno Rapee & Lew Pollack)
  - Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra
  
• 1953 "Not Since Nineveh" (w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest)
  - Danny Kaye with O/Sonny Burke
  
• 1958 "Green Christmas" (Stan Freberg)
  - Stan Freberg featuring Daws Butler as Cratchet with Marvin Miller and Wil Wright & Jud Conlon chorale with Billy May & his Music
  
• 1959 "Young Emotions" (w. Mack David m. Jerry Livingston)
  - Ricky Nelson
  
• 1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
  - Ben E. King
  
• 1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
  - Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum
  

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