Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson is born (1850), and Iraq agrees to UN Security Council Resolution 1441 on disarmament (2002). Born on this day: St. Augustine, Robert Louis Stevenson and Whoopi Goldberg. Died: Gioachino Rossini, Vittorio De Sica and Camille Pissarro.
30 events, 61 births and 46 deaths on this date.
Born in Edinburgh, he went on to write Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, despite chronic bronchial illness. He also wrote the verse collection A Child's Garden of Verses and, later in life, settled in Samoa.
Henry Walter Barnett · Public domainIraq accepted the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded that it readmit weapons inspectors and open its programmes to scrutiny. The agreement was a key step in the run-up to the 2003 invasion, as Western governments argued Iraq had not disarmed.
Philippine lawmakers moved to remove President Joseph Estrada from office over corruption allegations. The articles of impeachment, handed over by House Speaker Manny Villar, set off a political crisis that ended with Estrada's ouster a few weeks later.
Mozambique, which had been ruled by Portugal rather than Britain, became the first country to join the Commonwealth without any British colonial past. It had won independence in 1975 and had only recently emerged from a long civil war, which ended in 1992.
Arthur Denny and his travelling companions came ashore at Alki Point, on the western side of Elliott Bay. They moved across the bay the following year, to the site where Seattle would grow.
Gunmen and suicide bombers hit a football match, cafés, restaurants and a concert venue across Paris and Saint-Denis. The Islamic State claimed it, and the 130 deaths made it France's deadliest attack on record.
Maya-Anaïs Yataghène from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
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Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher whose ideas on grace, original sin and the Church shaped Western thought for centuries. He also wrote Confessions, usually counted as the first Western autobiography.
Philippe de Champaigne · Public domain
Scottish novelist remembered for Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Despite lifelong bronchial illness, he wrote prolifically and travelled widely before settling in Samoa.
Henry Walter Barnett · Public domain
Whoopi Goldberg is an American actor, comedian and author, and one of only 28 entertainers to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She is best known for winning the Oscar for Ghost, and for playing Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Photographer is Daniel Langer, dlanger on flickr.com . Copyright is held by Daniel Langer and Comic Relief, Inc. · CC BY-SA 2.0
Italian composer of 39 operas, including The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola. He stopped writing large-scale works while still a young man, at the peak of his fame.
Étienne Carjat · Public domain
Italian director and actor who led the neorealist movement, making Bicycle Thieves, a film many critics have called the greatest ever made. His work with non-professional actors on the streets of postwar Italy changed how cinema looked.
Harry Pot for Anefo · CC0
Pissarro was a Danish-French painter who became a central figure of Impressionism, valued as a mentor by younger artists such as Cézanne and Gauguin. He died in Paris in 1903, having shown at every Paris Impressionist exhibition.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
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