Mac. 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collides with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. 2011 – The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team. 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses. 2017 – The 8.2 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people. 2019 – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. 2021 – Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador. 2021 – The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a people's defensive war against the military junta during the Myanmar civil war Births Pre-1600 923 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952) 1395 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1427) 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (d. 1471) 1448 – Henry, Count of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1473–1482) (d. 1519) 1500 – Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (d. 1535) 1524 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (d. 1583) 1533 – Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603) 1601–1900 1629 – Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, Irish nobleman (d. 1665) 1635 – Paul I, Prince Esterházy, Hungarian prince (d. 1713) 1641 – Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese shōgun (d. 1680) 1650 – Juan Manuel María de la Aurora, 8th duke of Escalona (d. 1725) 1683 – Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1754) 1694 – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish Minister of State (d. 1763) 1705 – Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788) 1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (d. 1788) 1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795) 1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor and illustrator (d. 1814) 1777 – Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer (d. 1844) 1791 – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet and author (d. 1863) 1795 – John William Polidori, English physician and author (d. 1821) 1801 – Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (d.1871) 1803 – William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (d.1845) 1807 – Henry Sewell, English lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1879) 1810 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist and