eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe. 2012 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq. 2014 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people. 2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day. 2015 – Syrian civil war: The Siege of Kobanî is broken by the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA), marking a turning point in the Rojava–Islamist conflict. Births Pre-1600 43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17) 1253 – Magadu, renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (b. a commoner; d. on a Saturday in January 1307) 1319 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1348) 1469 – Cecily of York (d. 1507) 1477 – Jerome Emser, German theologian and scholar (d. 1527) 1479 – Ippolito d'Este, Italian cardinal (d. 1520) 1502 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) 1532 – Juan de Ribera, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1611) 1601–1900 1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d. 1672) 1615 – Dara Shikoh, Indian prince (d. 1659) 1639 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709) 1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736) 1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1789) 1737 – Rama I, Thai king (d. 1809) 1771 – Heinrich Clauren, German author (d. 1854) 1796 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (d. 1862) 1799 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet and author (d. 1839) 1800 – Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (d. 1845) 1805 – Thomas Cooper, British poet (d. 1892) 1811 – Napoleon II, French emperor (d. 1832) 1811 – George Caleb Bingham, American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (d. 1879) 1821 – Ned Buntline, American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1886) 1824 – Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (d. 1876) 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906) 1831 – Patrick Jennings, Northern Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1897) 1831 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (d. 1881) 1834 – Charles William Eliot, American mathematician and academic (d. 1926) 1836 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886) 1836 –