2005 Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66
1993 Lillian Gish, U.S. actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
1989 Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space, chicken
1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1988 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 Beatrice E M, Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1985 Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia
1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1968 Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
1966 Margaret Sanger, U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy
1963 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland
1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands for birth control
1962 Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
1960 U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1959 Madame Sul-To-Wan, [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85
1958 Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies
1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
1930 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator
1928 George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46
1923 Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1921 National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1921 Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
1898 Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer, Birth of Hero,
1898 Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer, Birth of Hero,
1896 Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress, Birth of a Nation
1895 Mae Marsh, Madrid, New Mexico, silent film actress, Birth of a Nation
1893 Robert Harron, born in New York City, actor, Birth of a Nation, Intolerance
1882 George Siegmann, actor, Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist
1879 Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1878 Henry B. Walthall, born in Shelby City, Alabama, actor, Birth of a Nation, Klondike
1875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation
1867 Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)
1836 British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1823 Georgia passes 1st U.S. state birth registration law
1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1672 Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1624 Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown)
1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
1612 Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1510 Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter, Birth of Venus
810 Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
468 Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
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