Events
In 1559 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England.
Births
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the dramatist Molière, 1622; Ivor Novello, composer and dramatist, 1893; Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate, 1906; Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate 1964, 1929.
Deaths
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Fanny Kemble, actress, 1893; Mathew Brady, photographer, 1896.