12 Mehr 1402

Events

• 1209 (817 years ago) Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
• 1582 (444 years ago) The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
• 1602 (424 years ago) Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
• 1636 (390 years ago) Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth ends in a Union victory, with General William Rosecrans protecting the critical rail junction of Corinth, Mississippi from Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn.
• 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• 1965 (61 years ago) Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
• 2006 (20 years ago) WikiLeaks is launched.

Births

• 1822 (204 years ago) Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (died 1966)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (died 2008)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Anne Rice, American author (died 2021)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
• 1956 (70 years ago) Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
• 1989 (37 years ago) Dakota Johnson, American actress

Deaths

• 1582 (444 years ago) Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (born 1515)
• 1669 (357 years ago) Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1606)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1880)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
• 1970 (56 years ago) Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1932)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1911)

All 386 events, births and deaths of October 4