1944 - Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1956 - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1967 - Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1971 - Cricketer John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1990 - 11th ACE Cable Awards: CNN wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the events in Beijing, China
1995 - Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
2020 - US game show Jeopardy "greatest of all time" tournament won by Ken Jennings
2021 - Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

1684 - Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter, born in Aix-en-Provence, France (d. 1745)
1824 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1906)
1915 - Mark Goodson, American radio and TV game show producer, with Bill Todman ("I've Got A Secret"; "The Price Is Right"; "Password"), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1992)
1920 - Donald Beard, New Zealand cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the 1950's), born in Palmerston North, New Zealand (d. 1982)
1931 - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2009)
1940 - Siegmund Nimsgern, German operatic bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Germany
1949 - Lamar Williams, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band), born in Gulfport, Mississippi (d. 1983)
1969 - Martin Bicknell, English cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 14 wickets; 7 ODIs, 13 wickets; Surrey), born in Guildford, England
1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier, born in Oslo, Norway
1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer defender (19 caps; FC St.Pauli, Feyenoord, Colorado Rapids, NE Revolution, Chicago Fire), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1867 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather), dies at 86
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 47
1961 - Ernest Thesiger, English actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
1978 - Robert Heger, German conductor and composer, dies at 91
1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres, dies of heart failure at 81
1996 - Jacques LeBrun, French yachtsman (Olympic gold - Snowbird class, 1932), dies at 85
1999 - Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall), dies at 80
2008 - Judah Folkman, American pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), dies of a heart attack at 74
2016 - Alan Rickman, English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard, Harry Potter), dies of cancer at 69
2024 - Christophe Boesch, French-Swiss primatologist (studied and championed chimpanzees), dies at 72