0780 – The oldest recorded eruption of
Mt. Fuji (Traditional
Japanese date: July 6, 781)
1009 –
Pietro Boccapecora becomes
Pope Sergius IV1099 –
El Cid, dies (b. 1044). Spanish warrior.
1108 – King
Philip I of France dies
1396 –
William Courtenay, dies.
Archbishop of Canterbury1396 –
Philip III of Burgundy, was born (d. 1467). Duke of
Burgundy1423 –
Hundred Years War:
Battle of Cravant – The
French army is defeated at
Cravant on the banks of the river
Yonne.
1498 – On his third voyage to the
Western Hemisphere,
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of
Trinidad.
1508 –
Na’od, dies killed in battle.
Emperor of Ethiopia.
1547 – King
Francis I of France dies (b. 1494)
1556 –
Ignatius Loyola, dies (b. 1491). Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits
1588 – The
Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of
England.
1667 – The
Treaty of Breda ends the
Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1703 –
Daniel Defoe is placed in a
pillory for the crime of seditious
libel after publishing a politically satirical
pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1726 –
Nicolaus II Bernoulli, dies (b. 1695). Swiss mathematician.
1811 –
Morte de Miguel Hidalgo. Herói nacional mexicano.
1816 –
George Henry Thomas, was born (d. 1870). American general.
1872 – Nascimento, no Porto, de
Ângelo de Lima (Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima) (m. 14 Ago 1921). Poeta português.
1900 –
José Manuel Cayetano Marroquín Ricaurte assume a Presidência da Colômbia
1901 –
Jean Dubuffet, was born (d. 1985). Painter and sculptor.
1901 –
Henriqueta Brieba, was born in Barcelona (d. 18 Sep 1995). Actress
1904 –
Brett Halliday, was born (d. 1977). American mystery writer.
1911 –
George Liberace, was born (d. 1983). Musician.
1912 –
Milton Friedman, was born. American economist. Recipient of the
1976 “Nobel” Prize in economics1912 –
Irv Kupcinet, was born (d. 2003). American newspaper columnist.
1913 – William Todman, was born. Game show producer
1914 –
Louis de Funès, was born (d. 1983). Actor and comedian.
1914 –
Jean Jaurès, dies (b. 1859). French politician.
1916 –
Bill Todman, was born (d. 1979).
Game show producer.
1917- The
Third Battle of Ypres starts in
Flanders.
1917 –
Francis Ledwidge, dies. Irish poet
1918 –
Paul D. Boyer, was born. American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1918 –
Hank Jones, was born. Pianist
1919 –
Curt Gowdy, was born. Sports announcer
1919 –
Primo Levi, was born (d. 1987). Author, chemist
1919 – German national assembly adopts the
Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14).
1921 –
Whitney Young, was born (d. 1971).
Civil rights activist.
1923 –
Ahmet Ertegun,was born. Record company executive
1928 – Kurt Sontheimer, was born. Political scientist
1929 –
Don Murray, was born. Aactor
1930 –
Oleg Popov, was born. Clown
1930 – The
radio mystery program
The Shadow airs for the first time.
1931 –
Kenny Burrell, was born. Guitarist.
1933 –
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague. Dutch author, novelist
(“Rituals” “Berlin Notes”). In 1993 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature.
1936 – The
International Olympic Committee announces that the
1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in
Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the
Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of
World War II.
1937 – Charles Martine dies. Apache scout.
1939 –
France Nuyen, was born. Actress
1941 –
Amarsinh Chaudhary, was born. Politician
1941 –
Holocaust: Under instructions from
Adolf Hitler,
Nazi official
Hermann Göring, orders
SS general
Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired
final solution of the Jewish question.”
1943 –
William Bennett, was born. Former
U.S. Secretary of Education and
drug czar1943 –
Susan Flannery, was born. Actress
1944 –
Geraldine Chaplin, was born. Actress
1944 –
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, dies. French pilot and writer
1945 –
Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of
Vichy France, surrenders to
Allied soldiers in
Austria.
1946 – Gary Lewis,was born. Singer/musician
Gary Lewis & The Playboys1946 –
Bob Welch, was born.
Rock and roll musician
1948 – At Idlewild Field in
New York, New York International Airport (later renamed
John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1950 –
Morte da violoncelista portuguesa Guilhermina Suggia
1951 –
Japan Airlines is established.
1951 –
Evonne Goolagong, was born.
Tennis star
1951 –
Barry Van Dyke, was born. Actor
1952 –
Alan Autry, was born.
American football player, actor, mayor of
Fresno, California1952 –
Helmuts Balderis, was born.
Latvian ice-hockey player
1953 –
Robert Taft, dies. U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate
1954 – First ascent of
K2, by an
Italian expedition led by
Ardito Desio.
1956 –
Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at
Old Trafford in the fourth
Test of taking nineteen wickets in a
first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.
1958 –
Bill Berry, was born.
Rock and roll musician (of the band
R.E.M.)
1958 –
Mark Cuban,was born. Billionaire businessman, producer,
Dallas Mavericks owner
1959 –
Stanley Jordan, was born.
Jazz guitarist1961 – At
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts, the first
All-Star Game tie in major league
baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
1962 –
Wesley Snipes, was born. Actor
1964 –
Jim Corr, was born. Singer, musician (“
The Corrs“)
1964 –
Ranger program:
Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the
moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound
telescopes).
1965 –
J. K. Rowling, was born. Novelist
1966 –
Dean Cain, was born. Actor
1971 –
Apollo program:
Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a
lunar rover.
1972 –
Paul-Henri Spaak, dies.
Prime minister of Belgium1973 – A
Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at
Logan Airport,
Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
1974 –
Jonathan Ogden, was born.
American football player
1974 – Luca Tiengo, was born. Italian
guitar player. Member of
Ledel1974 –
Emilia Fox, was born. English
actress1975 – In
Detroit, Michigan,
Teamsters Union president
Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
2001 – Portugal – Morte de Francisco da Costa Gomes. Presidente da República (1974-1976)
2002 – Portugal – Inicio da 2ª edição da
Minho Campus Party.
2002 – O Prémio Camões é entregue à escritora portuguesa Maria Velho da Costa