0258 – Saint
Pope Sixtus II dies
0523 – Saint
Pope Hormisdas dies
1221 – Saint
Dominic dies / Morre
São Domenico de Guzman teólogo espanhol. Foi canonizado em 13 Julho de 1234 pelo Papa Gregorio IX.
1458 –
Pope Callixtus III dies
1504 –
Matthew Parker was born (d. 1575). Archbishop of Canterbury
1538 –
Colombia: fundação da cidade de Santa Fé de
Bogotá por
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1539 –
Capitão Gonzalo Suárez Rondón funda a cidade de Tunja – Colômbia
1619 –
Barbara Strozzi was born (d. 1677). Italian singer and composer
1637 –
Ben Jonson dies (b. 1572). English dramatist and poet
1638 –
Nicolas Malebranche was born (d. 1715). French philosopher.
1644 –
Louise de la Vallière was born (d. 1710). French mistress of
Louis XIV of France1656 –
Claude de Forbin was born (d. 1733). French naval commander.
1660 –
Diego de Velázquez, pintor español.
1667 – Johann Bernoulli was born. Matematician
1679 –
John Snell dies (b. 1629). English royalist.
1695 –
François de Harlay de Champvallon dies (b. 1625). Archbishop of Paris.
1697 – Niccolo Salvi was born (d. 8 Feb 1751). Italian sculptor.
1700 – Johann Beer dies. Poet.
1715 – Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues, was born (d. 1747) . French moralist and essayist.
1766 –
William Hyde Wollaston was born († 1828). English chemist.
1776 –
Amedeo Avogadro, was born (d. 9 Jul 1856). Italian chemist.
1787 – The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.
1806 –
Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the
Holy Roman Empire. / Francisco II (1768-1835), imperador Habsburgo do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico da Nação Alemã, renunciou ao título, criando o título de Imperador da Áustria, com o nome de Francisco I. Devido à criação da Confederação do Reno, por Napoleão Bonaparte, o Sacro Império tinha de facto deixado de existir
1809 –
Alfred Lord Tennyson was born (d. 6 Oct 1892). English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry :
The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam
1813 –
Venezuela Simón Bolívar (“El libertador”) liberates
Caracas.
1819 –
Norwich University founded in
Vermont as the first private military school in the
United States1824 –
Perú: batalla de Junín las fuerzas de
Simón Bolívar derrotan a las
españolas comandadas por Cantarec.
1825 –
Bolivia gains independence from
Peru.
1828 – Andrew Taylor Still was born (d. 12 Dec 1917). American founder of osteopathy
1840 –
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born († 1914) . American archeologist
1844 –
James Henry Greathead was born (d. 1896). Engineer.
1844 –
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1900)
1851 –
Uruguay: llega a
Montevideo, procedente de Southampton, el primer
barco a vapor, el “Prince”. Se establece así el servicio regular entre
Europa y el
Río de la Plata.
1861 –
British annexation of
Lagos,
Nigeria.
1862 –
American Civil War: The
Confederate ironclad
CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the
Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with
USS Essex near
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1868 –
Paul Claudel was born (d. 23 Feb 1955). French poet and playwright.
1869 – Frank Cobb was born (d. 21 Dec 1923). American journalist and editor of the New York World
1872 –
Colombia: se funda la
Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, la más antigua de las Correspondientes de la
Real Academia Española.
1874 –
Charles Fort was born (d. 1932). Writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
1875 –
Francisco Javier León assume a presidência do Equador.
1875 – Gabriel García Moreno, presidente ecuatoriano, asesinado .
1877 –
Wallace H. White, Jr. was born (d. 1952). U.S. Senator from Maine.
1880 –
Hans Moser was born in Vienna († 6 Aug 1964). Actor.
1881 –
Leo Carrillo was born (d. 1961). Actor.
1881 –
Alexander Fleming was born (d. 11 Mar 1955). Scottish bacteriologist; discovered penicillin in 1928. Laureated in 1945 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1881 –
Louella Parsons was born (d. 1972). Gossip columnist.
1883 – Scott Nearing was born (d. 1983). American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.
1889 –
John Middleton Murry was born (d. 1957). English poet.
1890 – At
Auburn Prison in
New York, the convicted murdetr, with murderer
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
1890 – Renuncia do presidente argentino
Miguel Juárez Celman1892 –
Hoot Gibson was born (d. 1962). Actor.
1893 –
Wright Patman was born (d. 1976). American politician.
1900 –
Cecil H. Green was born (d. 2003). American geophysicist and businessman.
1902 –
Dutch Schultz was born (d. 1935). American bootlegger and gangster.
1904 – Jean Desses was born (d. 1970). French couturier.
1904 –
Aleksander Bocheński was born († 2001) . Polish publicist and essayst (
DZIEJE GLUPOTY W POLSCE – Pamflety dziejopisarskie )
1904 –
Eduard Hanslick dies. Music critic
1906 – Cátulo Castillo, dramaturgo, compositor y letrista de tangos argentino.
1911 –
Lucille Ball was born (d. 1989). American radio, film and television actress and comedy star.
1911 –
Florentino Ameghino, dies (b. 18 Sep 1854). Argentinian Paleontologist , naturalist?.
1914 – Ronald Duncan was born (d. 3 Jun 1982). English playwright, poet and writer
1915 –
World War I: Battle of
Battle of Sari Bair begins – The
Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at
Suvla Bay.
1916 –
Richard Hofstadter was born (d. 24 Oct 1970). Physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons.
1916 – Michael Burke was born.
1917 –
Robert Mitchum was born (d. 1 Jul 1997). Actor.
1918 – Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born. Industrialist.
1922 – Sir
Freddie Laker was born. Entrepreneur.
1926 – Jackie Presser was born (d. 9 Jul 1988). American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88)
1926 –
Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the
English Channel.
1926 – In
New York, the
Warner Brothers‘
Vitaphone system premieres with the movie
Don Juan starring
John Barrymore.
1928 – Jan Kucera was born. Author .
1928 – Chung Se Yung was born. Korean automobile manufacturer
1929 – Luis García Morales, poeta e intelectual venezolano.
1928 –
Andy Warhol was born (d. 22 Feb 1987). American artist best known for initiating the Pop art movement
1930 – Abbey Lincoln was born. Singer, actress
1931 –
Bix Beiderbecke dies (b. 1903). Jazz musician.
1931 – Fundação do
Club Atlético Independiente – Uruguai1932 –
Howard Hodgkin was born. Painter and print-maker.
1932 –
Italia –
First Venice film festivals 1932 – Morte do explorador checo
Václav Vojtech.
1934 –
Haití: las tropas estadounidenses se retiran de la isla, que ocupaban desde 1915 (habían sido invadidas cruentamente por
Woodrow Wilson).
1934 –
Piers Anthony was born. Writer
1937 – Nascimento de Baden Powell. Músico brasileiro.
1938 –
Paul Bartel was born (d. 2000). American actor, writer and director.
1938 – Peter Bonerz was born. Actor-director
1940 –
União Soviética anexa a Letónia
1941 –
Cezar Ivănescu was born. Romanian poet
“Rod”, “La Baad”, “Muzeon”, “Doina”, “Sutrele muţeniei”, “Jeu d’amour”, “Rosarium”.
1942 –
Jonathan Campbell dies (b. 1875). Film pioneer.
1943 –
Jon Postel was born. Creator of
DNS1943 – Dan Grigore was born. Romanian pianist
1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb. / Com a Segunda Guerra Mundial já vencida de fato, os Estados Unidos da América lançam uma bomba atómica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima. Oitenta mil pessoas morrem imediatamente e mais sessenta mil morreram até o fim do ano de doenças causadas por poeira radioativa.1946 –
Roh Moo-hyun was born. President of South Korea
1946 –
Masaaki Sakai was born. Japanese comedian.
1946 –
Tony Lazzeri dies.
Major League Baseball player.
1949 –
Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu.
1950 – Muere en San José, Melico Salazar, gran tenor nacional da Costa Rica.
1951 –
Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1957 –
Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
1959 – Joyce Sims was born. American singer and songwriter
1959 –
Argentina: el Partido Comunista es declarado ilegal.
1959 –
Preston Sturges dies. Playwright, screenwriter, director
1960 –
Cuban Revolution: In response to a
United States embargo,
Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 –
Jamaica becomes independent.
1962 –
Michelle Yeoh was born. Actress
1963 –
Kevin Mitnick was born. Computer hacker
1964 – Sir
Cedric Hardwicke dies. Actor
1965 –
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 into
United States law.
1966 – Portugal – Inauguração da ponte sobre o
Tejo, de 2278 m de comprimento, baptizada na época por Ponte Salazar e após a revolução de
25 de Abril de 1974, denominada Ponte 25 de Abril. de 2278 metros de longitud.
1966 – Portugal – São postos em circulação os selos da
Emissão Comemorativa da Inauguração da Ponte Salazar.
1966 –
Cordwainer Smith dies. Writer
1968 – Pope
Paul VI issues his Encyclical
Ecclesiam Suam.
1968 –
Independência da Suazilândia
1969 –
Elliott Smith was born (d. 2003). American musician.
1969 – Theodor W. Adorno dies (b. 1903). German philosopher
1970 –
M. Night Shyamalan was born. Film director, writer, producer, and actor
”The Village,” ”The Sixth Sense’‘
1971 –
Merrin Dungey was born. Actress
1972 –
Geri Halliwell was born. Singer (Spice girls)
1973 –
Asia Carrera was born. Actress.
1973 –
Fulgencio Batista dies.
Cuban dictator
1975 –
Renate Götschl, sciatrice austriaca
1975 –
Giorgio Rocca, sciatore italiano
1976 –
Melissa George was born. Actress
1976 –
Gregor Piatigorsky dies (b. 1903). Russian cellist.
1978 –
Pope Paul VI dies.
263th Pope1978 –
Billy Klippert was born. Singer.
1982 –
Adrianne Curry was born. Reality television
1983 –
Chile: los partidos de oposición forman la Alianza Democrática.
1983 –
Klaus Nomi dies. Singer
1984 –
Pop star
Prince releases
Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1985 – In
Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the
atomic bombing of the city.
1985 –
Victor Paz Estenssoro assume a presidência da Bolívia.
1985 –
Morte de Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés. Presidente de Honduras (1971-1972)
1986 – A low pressure system that redeveloped off the
New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on
Sydney.
1986 – William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
1988 – “
Police riot” in
New York City‘s
Tompkins Square Park1990 –
Gulf War: The
United Nations Security Council orders a global
trade embargo against
Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of
Kuwait.
1990 – Benazir Bhutto government dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of India.
1990 –
JonBenét Ramsey was born (d. 1996). Beauty queen and murder victim.
1991 –
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the
World Wide Web.
1991 –
Doi Takako, chair of the
Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes
Japan’s first female speaker of the
House of Representatives.
1991 –
Harry Reasoner dies. Reporter
1993 –
Tex Hughson dies (b. 1916).
Major League Baseball player.
1993 –
Louis Freeh is confirmed by the
United States Senate to be the director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation1993 –
The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring
Harrison Ford and
Tommy Lee Jones.
1994 –
Domenico Modugno dies (9 Jan 1928). Italian singer & songwriter
1996 – Hernán Siles Zuazo, presidente boliviano.
1996 –
NASA announces that the
ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from
Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 –
Australian census conducted.
1996 –
Morte de Hernán Siles Zuazo. Presidente boliviano (1956-1960 e 1982-1985)
1997 –
Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled
Apple Computer.
1997 –
Korean Air Flight 801, a
Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on
Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Teodor Yivkov, jefe del Estado búlgaro.
1998 –
Andre Weil dies. Mathematician
2001 –
Jorge Amado de Faria dies. Brazilian writer
2001 –
President George W. Bush receives
President’s Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
2001 –
Renúncia do presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer. Jorge Quiroga sucede-lhe na Presidencia
2002 –
Marquis de la Fayette is made
Honorary Citizen of the United States2002 –
Manaindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing
number theory conjecture in the article entitled “Primes in P”.
2002 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, de 72 años, jura a la presidencia de Bolivia,
2002 –
Edsger Dijkstra dies (b. 1930). Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972
2004 –
Rick James, musician.
2004 –
Posse de Antônio Carlos Secchin na Academia Brasileira de Letras.
2005 – Em San Jose da California, Estados Unidos, começa a disputar-se o 37º. Campeonato do Mundo de Hóquei em Patins.
2005 – Inauguração em Helsínquia, Finlândia, do Campeonato do Mundo de Atletismo.
Christianity – Feast of the
Transfiguration of ChristBolivia – Independence Day
Jamaica – Independence Day
United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh
Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan‘s Accession Day.