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Today in History

• The Elizabethan era begins with the death of Mary I and the ascension of her half-sister Elizabeth I to the throne of England (1558)
• Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason (1603)
• The Articles of Confederation are sent to the US states for ratification (1777)
• The Suez Canal is inaugurated (1869)
• The US recognizes the Soviet Union (1933)
• The finish of the Raiders-Jets football game is interrupted for the regularly scheduled broadcast of Heidi on NBC (1968)
• William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre (1960)
• The Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia (1989)

Birthdays

• Vespasian, Roman emperor (9)
• Louis XVIII, French monarch (1755)
• August Mobius, mathematician (1790)
• Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (1887)
• Lee Strasberg, actor and director (1901)
• Shelby Foote, historian (1916)
• Rock Hudson, actor (1925)
• Peter Cook, comedian (1937)
• Gordon Lightfoot, singer-songwriter (1938)
• Martin Scorsese, director (1942)
• Lauren Hutton, actress (1943)
• Danny DeVito, actor (1944)
• Rem Koolhaas, architect (1944)
• Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live (1944)
• Tom Seaver, baseball player and sportscaster (1944)
• Howard Dean, politician (1948)
• John Boehner, politician (1949)
• Dean Paul Martin, singer and fighter pilot (1951)
• RuPaul, drag queen (1960)
• Daisy Fuentes, television personality (1966)

Deaths

• Valentinian I, Roman emperor (375)
• Gregory of Tours, bishop and saint (594)
• Jami (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی‎), Sufi poet and theologian (1492)
• Mary I, English monarch (1558)
• Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Великая), Russian tsarina (1796)
• Robert Owen, socialist (1858)
• Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1917)
• Mervyn Peake, fantasy author (1968)
• Esther Rolle, actress (1998)
• Doris Lessing, author and Nobel laureate (2013)

Holidays and Celebrations