Today in History

Vilém Tauský CBE was a Czech conductor and composer. From the advent of the Second World War, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, and was one of a significant group of émigré composers and musicians who settled there.

Australian basketball player (born 1996)

New Zealand and Samoa international rugby league footballer

New Zealand basketball player (born 1993)

American beauty pageant contestant (born 1991)

American-Australian basketball player (born 1988)

Northern Irish professional footballer (born 1987)

American filmmaker and actor (born 1985)

Canadian Internet personality (born 1985)

French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive and pharmacist

Portuguese historian, jurist and television presenter (1919–2012)

British painter and engraver (1922–2011)

American evangelical and singer (1942–2007)

Founder-leader of Militant then Socialist Appeal

French film director, actor and writer (1919–2006)

American professional wrestler (1922–1998)

American television journalist (1923–1983)

Native American potter (ca. 1887–1980)

Dates when the Norwegian state flag is flown by all branches of government and state agencies are listed in Article 4 of the regulations concerning the use of the state flag and the merchant flag, as modified by Royal Resolution of 3 December 2004. Civilians are also encouraged to display the national flag on these flag-flying days. The flag is flown on the birthday of a member of the Norwegian Royal House, on some Christian holidays and on the dates of significant events of Norwegian history.

Saint Ansegisus was a monastic reformer of the Franks.

Syrian bishop and saint

Bishop of Carthage, c. 391-429

Biblical prophet

American suffragist (1815–1902)

Phoenician Christian missionary; the first bishop of Axumite Empire

Martyred Italian priest

Christian victims of persecution in 19th-century Korea; some canonized in 1984