Events

• 1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia
• 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published
• 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published
• 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public
• 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor

Births

• 1867 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry
• 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist
• 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
• 1901 - Cecília Meireles, Brazilian writer and poet
• 1993 - me

Deaths

• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary
• 2000 – Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist
• 2007 – George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer