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In 1969, Ben Harper – an American musician.

In 1967, John Romero – American video game developer (“Wolfenstein 3D”, “Doom” and “Quake”).

In 1967, Julia Roberts – American actress.

In 1963 Eros Ramazzotti – Italian musician.

In 1944, Dennis Franz – American actor.

In 1937, Lenny Wilkens – American basketball player and coach.

In 1933 Garincha – Brazilian football legend, winner of the 1958 and 1962 World Cups (died 1983).

In 1930, Bernie Ecclestone – British businessman, former leader of the concert “Formula One”.

In 1928, Ion Mihai Pachepa – a Romanian general, the highest officer of the Soviet intelligence services, fled to Western countries (died in 2021).

In 1914, Jonas Salk, an American medical scientist who developed the first polio vaccine (died 1995).

In 1914, Richard Lawrence Millington Synge – British biochemist, Nobel laureate (died 1994).

In 1909 Francis Bacon – English painter (died 1992).

In 1896, Howard Henson – American composer (died 1981).

In 1697 Canaletto – Italian artist (died 1768).

In 1691, Pēders Turdensholl – Norwegian navy hero (died 1720).

Events in Latvia

In 2008, the Criminal Affairs Department of the Senate of the Supreme Court (SC) decided to leave unchanged the sentence of 22 August of the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court, in which the 9th member of the Saeima Juris Boldāns was found guilty of falsifying the results of the Saeima elections in Kubulu parish, Balvu district, and it was determined that he would be jailed another two months to go. With the entry into force of the court decision, Juris Boldāns was excluded from the composition of the Saeima and loses the position of substitute.

In 2008, the government decided to liquidate the Secretariat of the Minister of Special Tasks for Social Integration on January 1, 2009, adding it to the Ministry of Childhood and Family. Following the reorganization, the Ministry of Childhood, Family and Social Integration will be established.

In 2004, when the Saeima rejected the following year’s state budget and all related bills at first reading, the minority government led by Induļis Emš (ZZS), formed by the Union of Greens and Farmers, the Popular Party and by the First Party of Latvia, it was overthrown.

In 1999, in the premises of the Russian embassy in Latvia, the Russian ambassador Aleksandrs Udaltsov, carrying out the order of President Boris Yeltsin, presents the Order of Friendship to actress Vija Artmane.

In 1998 the Latvian Honorary Consulate was opened in Seoul, Korea.

In 1709, the Russian army reached the left bank of the Daugava in front of Riga and occupied Kobronskansti. The siege of Riga begins.

In 1610, Jäkabs Ketler – one of the most important dukes of Kurzeme, who led the duchy for 40 years.

Events around the world

In 2007, a woman was elected president for the first time in Argentina: Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, wife of former president Nestor Kirchner, won the elections by a large margin.

In 2006, 817 of the approximately 100,000 Ukrainian civilians killed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s and early 1940s in the vicinity of the village of Bikivnia were buried again near Kiev.

In 2005, US Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Louis Libby is accused of providing information to the media and lying to investigators in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plaim. Libby resigns the next day.

In 1999, Luis Alfredo Garavito confessed to killing around 140 children in Colombia over a seven-year period, becoming Colombia’s most famous mass murderer of all time.

In 1995, 289 people died and another 270 were injured when a subway train caught fire in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.

In 1981 the heavy metal band “Metallica” was founded in San Francisco.

In 1971, the House of Representatives of the British Parliament voted with 356 votes in favor and 244 against to join the European Economic Community.

In 1965, at the Second Vatican Council, Jews were freed from collective responsibility for the killing of Jesus Christ, annulling the declaration issued by Pope Innocent III before 760.

In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended after Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev promised to remove the Soviet missiles installed there from Cuba. In response, US President John F. Kennedy promised to lift the blockade of Cuba. .

In 1958 Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, who became Pope John XXIII, was elected Pope of Rome.

In 1956, after the election of the new head of the Polish Politburo, Władysław Gomulka, the Polish Archbishop Cardinal Stefan Wyśiński, who spent three years in prison, was released from prison.

In 1954 the Kingdom of the Netherlands becomes a federal monarchy.

In 1942, Nazi forces deported 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Krakow to the Belzec death camp.

In 1942, the Alaska Highway was opened.

In 1941, Nazi forces killed more than 9,000 Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas. At six in the morning, the Nazi forces rounded up all the Jews of the Kaunas ghetto – men, women and children – in the Kaunas Democratic Square, shot them and then buried them in large mass graves.

In 1940, Italian forces invaded Greece via Albania, involving Athens in World War II.

In 1922, the Italian fascists under the leadership of Benito Mussolini begin a march from Naples to Rome, where they take power in Italy with the support of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XI, a Roman Catholic declares that “Mussolini is a man sent with a message from God”.

In 1919, the United States Congress passed the Volstead Prohibition Act, which prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages.

In 1918 Czechoslovakia gained independence from Austria-Hungary.

In 1886, US President Grover Cleveland ceremoniously unveiled the Statue of Liberty donated by France in New York Harbor.

In 1848 the first railway line between Barcelona and Mataro was opened in Spain.

In 1628 the siege of La Rochelle, which lasted 14 months, ended with the surrender of the Huguenots, or French Protestants. By order of the French king Charles IX, the killing of the Huguenots, or French Protestants, begins.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus reached Cuba.