Events 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal. 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded 1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil 1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands 1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel 1910 - Yellow Cab is founded 1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded 1916 - United States National Park Service is created 1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea 1944 - Paris is liberated by the Allies 1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome 1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune. 2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories. Births 1530 - Ivan I of Russia (Ivan the Terrible) (d. 1584) 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688) 1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876) 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Agency (d. 1884) 1836 - Bret Harte, author (d. 1902) 1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria 1850 - Charles Richet, scientist 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972) 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971) 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993) 1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994) 1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (d. 1917) 1916 - Van Johnson, actor 1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer (d. 1990) 1918 - Richard Greene, actor 1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998) 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host 1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, actor 1933 - Regis Philbin, television host 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author 1938 - David Canary, actor 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor 1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War 1947 - Anne Archer, actress 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist 1949 - Martin Amis, novelist 1949 - John Savage, actor 1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer 1954 - Elvis Costello, songwriter, musician 1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, screenwriter 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer 1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor 1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel Deaths 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer 1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist. 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher. 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist. 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent. 1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor. 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader. 1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader. 1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big band leader. 1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer. 1984 - Truman Capote, author. 1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress. 1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer 2000 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck. 2001 - Aaliyah, singer. Holidays and observances Uruguay - National Day Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops See Also: August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n
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