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Events

1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

1919 - The pop-up toaster is patented

1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.

1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.

1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.

1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.

1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.

1968 - Future U.S. president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.

Births

1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Cilla Black, English singer
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )
1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
1967 - Paul Gascoigne, former British footballer
1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
1971 - Monika Schnarre, Canadian supermodel
1975 - Andre 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality

Deaths

1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
1910 - Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)