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0195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
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0987 – Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
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1076 – Prince Mstislav of Kiev was born (d. 1132).
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1204 – King Philip August of France conquers Rouen.
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1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
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1300 – Thomas of Brotherton was born (d. 1338). 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
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1480 – Tiedemann Giese was born (d. 1550). Polish Catholic bishop.
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1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach was born (d. 1567). German adventurer.
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1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1612). English statesman and spymaster.
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1633 – Geminiano Montanari was born (d. 1687). Italian astronomer.
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1641 – Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
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1653 – Georg Muffat was born (d. 1704). French composer.
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1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
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1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was born (d. 1755). Italian archaeologist.
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1765 – Christiane Vulpius was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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1771 – Ferdinando Paer was born (d. 1839). Italian composer.
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1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
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1780 – Carl von Clausewitz was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
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1790 – Ferdinand Raimund was born (d. 1836). Austrian playwright
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1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;
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1801 – Brigham Young was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
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1804 – Mikhail Glinka was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
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1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, ‘Don’t give up the ship’.
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1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1815 – Philip Kearny was born (d. 1862). American general.
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1815 – King Otto of Greece was born (d. 1862).
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1826 – Carl Bechstein was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
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1831 – John Bell Hood was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
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1843 – Dr Henry Faulds was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
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1846 – Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
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1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
- 1851 – Isaac Peral was borm. Spanish inventor
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
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1855 – Charles Baudelaire‘s Fleurs du mal is published.
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1859 – António Feijó was born (d. 1917). Portuguese poet. / Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
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1868 – James Buchanan dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
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1876 – Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
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1878 – John Masefield was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
- 1879 – Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
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1881 – Charles Kay Ogden was born. English writer and linguist.
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1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Italy.
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1890 – Frank Morgan was born (d. 1949). American actor.
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1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1890 – Camilo Castelo Branco commites suicide (b. 1825). Portuguese writer/ Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco (n. 1825), autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.
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1893 – Silva Porto dies. Portuguese painter.
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1897 – General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial
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1898 – Molly Picon was born (d. 1992). American actress.
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1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh was born (d. 1963). English mathematician.
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1901 – John Van Druten was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.
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1906 – Club Atlético Talleres – Argentina – is founded
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1907 – Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day’s bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
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1910 – Robert Falcon Scott‘s South Pole expedition leaves England
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1917 – William S. Knowles was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
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1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
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1921 – Nelson Riddle was born (d. 1985). American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
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1922 – Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
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1922 – Joan Caulfield was born. Actress.
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1922 – Povel Ramel was born. Swedish musician
- 1924 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born. American clergyman
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1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
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1926 – Andy Griffith was born. American actor.
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1926 – Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
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1926 – Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortensen] was born in Los Angeles (d. 05 Aug 1962). American actress ( Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952];
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1927 – J. B. Bury dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
- 1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski was born. Cosmonaut.
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1928 – Bob Monkhouse was born (d. 2003). English comedian and game show host.
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1928 – Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo dies (b. 1851). Brazilian architect.
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1930 – Edward Woodward was born. English actor.
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1930 – Maria de Lurdes Modesto was born. Portuguese chef and publicist.
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1930 – Eugénio Tavares dies. Cape-Verdean poet.
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1933 – Expo Universal of Chicago is open
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1933 – Charles Wilson was born. American politician
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1935 – The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
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1937 – Morgan Freeman was born. American actor ( Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha)
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1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
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1939 – Cleavon Little was born (d. 1992). American actor
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1940 – René Auberjonois was born. American actor
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1940 – Kip Thorne was born. American physicist .
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1941 – Germany banned all Catholic publications.
-
1942 – World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
- 1943 – A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
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1943 – Leslie Howard dies (b. 1893). English actor.
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1944 – O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.
-
1945 – Frederica von Stade was born. American mezzo-soprano
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1946 – Brian Cox was born. Scottish actor
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1946 – Ion Antonescu dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
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1947 – Jonathan Pryce was born. British actor.
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1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson dies. American blues musician.
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1948 – Viana da Mota dies. Portuguese composer and pianist.
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1953 – Foi inaugurada a TAP – Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
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1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.
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1954 – Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
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1956 – Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
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1958 – Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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1958 – Ahron Bregman was born. Author and Journalist, Arab-Israeli conflict
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1959 – Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
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1959 – Sax Rohmer dies (b. 1883). English author.
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1959 – Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
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1960 – Lester Patrick dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.
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1961 – Paul Coffey was born. Canadian hockey star
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1962 – Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel.
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1965 – Nigel Short was born. English chess player
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1965 – Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
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1966 – Papa Jack Laine dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
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1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
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1967 – Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
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1968 – Jason Donovan was born. Australian actor
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1968 – Jeff Hackett was born. Canadian hockey player
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1968 – Helen Keller dies (b. 1880). American humanitarian. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. he also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
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1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
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1969 – Teri Polo was born. American actress
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1970 – Alexi Lalas was born. American soccer player
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1970 – Karen Mulder was born. Dutch model
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1970 – R. Madhavan was born. Indian actor
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1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
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1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
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1973 – Adam Garcia was born. Australian actor
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1973 – Heidi Klum was born. German supermodel. See here Heidi Klum wallpapers
- 1973 – Derek Lowe was born. American baseball pitcher.
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1973 – É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
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1974 – Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
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1974 – Alanis Morissette was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
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1974 – Melissa Sagemiller was born. American actress
-
1974 – Michael Rasmussen was born. Danish cyclist
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1974 – Akis Zikos was born. Greek footballer
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1975 – James Storm was born. American professional wrestler
-
1975 – Michal Grosek was born. Czech hockey player
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1977 – Veronika Vařeková was born. Czech supermodel (See here Veronica Varekova wallpaper)
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1977 – Danielle Harris was born. American voice actress
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1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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1980 – Oliver James was born. British actor
- 1980 – Rube Marquard dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
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1981 – Smush Parker was born. American basketball player
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1981 – Carlos Zambrano was born. Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- 1981 – Carl Vinson dies (b. 1883). United States Congressman.
- 1982 – Justine Henin-Hardenne was born. Belgian tennis player
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1984 – Nat Nelson dies. Singer.
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1984 – Oliver Tielemans was born. Dutch racing driver
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1985 – Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru.
-
1985 – Mário Hipóliton was born. Angolan footballer
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1987 – Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
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1987 – Zoltán Harsányi was born. Slovakian footballer
- 1987 – Rashid Karami dies at 65. 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon.
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1987 – Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
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1988 – Nami Tamaki was born. Japanese singer
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1989 – Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
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1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation’s stockpiles.
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1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
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1994 – Frances Heflin dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.
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1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dies. President of India (1977 – 1982)
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1997 – LTD (of WACCOE fame) loses virginity to a farmyard animal, later prosecuted for sodomy.
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1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidental elections in Bolivia.
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1997 – Georgos Livanos dies. Greek armador, one of the ten richest men im the World
- 1999 – DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
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2000 – The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
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2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
- 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2001 – Hank Ketcham dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
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2001 – King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya and other ten members of Royal Family of Nepal die shot by Prince Dipendra, during a dinner, before shooting himself . There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
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2001 – Hank Ketcham dies (b. 1920). American cartoonist.
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2002 – Hansie Cronje dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.
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2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
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2003 – Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author.
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2003 – Johnny Hopp dies (b. 1916). Baseball player.
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2004 – William Manchester dies (b. 1922). American biographer and novelist.
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2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
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2005 – George Mikan dies (b. 1924). American basketball player.
- 2006 – Rocío Jurado dies (b. 1944). Spanish singer and actress.
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Children’s Day in some countries (Unicef)
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Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
- U.S. – National Accordion Awareness Month begins.
- Kenya – Madaraka Day 1963.
- Nirvana of Buddhists.
- Roman Empire – Festival in honour of Carna.
- Samoa – Independence Day 1962.
- Tunisia – Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959.
- The Ascension in Eastern Christianity.
- Foundation Day in Western Australia
On this day in History – Jun 1 Maio 31, 2007
On this day in History – Jun 1
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0195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
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0987 – Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
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1076 – Prince Mstislav of Kiev was born (d. 1132).
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1204 – King Philip August of France conquers Rouen.
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1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
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1300 – Thomas of Brotherton was born (d. 1338). 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
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1480 – Tiedemann Giese was born (d. 1550). Polish Catholic bishop.
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1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach was born (d. 1567). German adventurer.
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1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1612). English statesman and spymaster.
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1633 – Geminiano Montanari was born (d. 1687). Italian astronomer.
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1641 – Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
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1653 – Georg Muffat was born (d. 1704). French composer.
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1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
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1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was born (d. 1755). Italian archaeologist.
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1765 – Christiane Vulpius was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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1771 – Ferdinando Paer was born (d. 1839). Italian composer.
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1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
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1780 – Carl von Clausewitz was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
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1790 – Ferdinand Raimund was born (d. 1836). Austrian playwright
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1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;
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1801 – Brigham Young was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
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1804 – Mikhail Glinka was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
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1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, ‘Don’t give up the ship’.
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1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1815 – Philip Kearny was born (d. 1862). American general.
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1815 – King Otto of Greece was born (d. 1862).
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1826 – Carl Bechstein was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
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1831 – John Bell Hood was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
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1843 – Dr Henry Faulds was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
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1846 – Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
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1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
- 1851 – Isaac Peral was borm. Spanish inventor
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.
-
1855 – Charles Baudelaire‘s Fleurs du mal is published.
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1859 – António Feijó was born (d. 1917). Portuguese poet. / Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
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1868 – James Buchanan dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
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1876 – Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
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1878 – John Masefield was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
- 1879 – Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
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1881 – Charles Kay Ogden was born. English writer and linguist.
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1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Italy.
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1890 – Frank Morgan was born (d. 1949). American actor.
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1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1890 – Camilo Castelo Branco commites suicide (b. 1825). Portuguese writer/ Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco (n. 1825), autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.
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1893 – Silva Porto dies. Portuguese painter.
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1897 – General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial
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1898 – Molly Picon was born (d. 1992). American actress.
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1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh was born (d. 1963). English mathematician.
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1901 – John Van Druten was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.
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1906 – Club Atlético Talleres – Argentina – is founded
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1907 – Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day’s bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
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1910 – Robert Falcon Scott‘s South Pole expedition leaves England
-
1917 – William S. Knowles was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
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1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
-
1921 – Nelson Riddle was born (d. 1985). American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
-
1922 – Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
-
1922 – Joan Caulfield was born. Actress.
-
1922 – Povel Ramel was born. Swedish musician
- 1924 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born. American clergyman
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1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
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1926 – Andy Griffith was born. American actor.
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1926 – Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
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1926 – Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortensen] was born in Los Angeles (d. 05 Aug 1962). American actress ( Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952];
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1927 – J. B. Bury dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
- 1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski was born. Cosmonaut.
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1928 – Bob Monkhouse was born (d. 2003). English comedian and game show host.
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1928 – Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo dies (b. 1851). Brazilian architect.
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1930 – Edward Woodward was born. English actor.
-
1930 – Maria de Lurdes Modesto was born. Portuguese chef and publicist.
-
1930 – Eugénio Tavares dies. Cape-Verdean poet.
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1933 – Expo Universal of Chicago is open
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1933 – Charles Wilson was born. American politician
-
1935 – The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
-
1937 – Morgan Freeman was born. American actor ( Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha)
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1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
-
1939 – Cleavon Little was born (d. 1992). American actor
-
1940 – René Auberjonois was born. American actor
-
1940 – Kip Thorne was born. American physicist .
-
1941 – Germany banned all Catholic publications.
-
1942 – World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
- 1943 – A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
-
1943 – Leslie Howard dies (b. 1893). English actor.
-
1944 – O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.
-
1945 – Frederica von Stade was born. American mezzo-soprano
-
1946 – Brian Cox was born. Scottish actor
-
1946 – Ion Antonescu dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
-
1947 – Jonathan Pryce was born. British actor.
-
1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson dies. American blues musician.
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1948 – Viana da Mota dies. Portuguese composer and pianist.
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1953 – Foi inaugurada a TAP – Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
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1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.
-
1954 – Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
-
1956 – Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
-
1958 – Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
-
1958 – Ahron Bregman was born. Author and Journalist, Arab-Israeli conflict
-
1959 – Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
-
1959 – Sax Rohmer dies (b. 1883). English author.
-
1959 – Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
-
1960 – Lester Patrick dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.
-
1961 – Paul Coffey was born. Canadian hockey star
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1962 – Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel.
-
1965 – Nigel Short was born. English chess player
-
1965 – Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
-
1966 – Papa Jack Laine dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
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1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
-
1967 – Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
-
1968 – Jason Donovan was born. Australian actor
-
1968 – Jeff Hackett was born. Canadian hockey player
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1968 – Helen Keller dies (b. 1880). American humanitarian. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. he also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
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1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
-
1969 – Teri Polo was born. American actress
-
1970 – Alexi Lalas was born. American soccer player
-
1970 – Karen Mulder was born. Dutch model
-
1970 – R. Madhavan was born. Indian actor
-
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
-
1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
-
1973 – Adam Garcia was born. Australian actor
-
1973 – Heidi Klum was born. German supermodel. See here Heidi Klum wallpapers
- 1973 – Derek Lowe was born. American baseball pitcher.
-
1973 – É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
-
1974 – Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
-
1974 – Alanis Morissette was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
-
1974 – Melissa Sagemiller was born. American actress
-
1974 – Michael Rasmussen was born. Danish cyclist
-
1974 – Akis Zikos was born. Greek footballer
-
1975 – James Storm was born. American professional wrestler
-
1975 – Michal Grosek was born. Czech hockey player
-
1977 – Veronika Vařeková was born. Czech supermodel (See here Veronica Varekova wallpaper)
-
1977 – Danielle Harris was born. American voice actress
-
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
-
1980 – Oliver James was born. British actor
- 1980 – Rube Marquard dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
-
1981 – Smush Parker was born. American basketball player
-
1981 – Carlos Zambrano was born. Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- 1981 – Carl Vinson dies (b. 1883). United States Congressman.
- 1982 – Justine Henin-Hardenne was born. Belgian tennis player
-
1984 – Nat Nelson dies. Singer.
-
1984 – Oliver Tielemans was born. Dutch racing driver
-
1985 – Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru.
-
1985 – Mário Hipóliton was born. Angolan footballer
-
1987 – Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
-
1987 – Zoltán Harsányi was born. Slovakian footballer
- 1987 – Rashid Karami dies at 65. 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon.
-
1987 – Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
-
1988 – Nami Tamaki was born. Japanese singer
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1989 – Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
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1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation’s stockpiles.
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1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
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1994 – Frances Heflin dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.
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1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dies. President of India (1977 – 1982)
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1997 – LTD (of WACCOE fame) loses virginity to a farmyard animal, later prosecuted for sodomy.
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1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidental elections in Bolivia.
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1997 – Georgos Livanos dies. Greek armador, one of the ten richest men im the World
- 1999 – DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
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2000 – The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
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2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
- 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
- 2001 – Hank Ketcham dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
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2001 – King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya and other ten members of Royal Family of Nepal die shot by Prince Dipendra, during a dinner, before shooting himself . There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
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2001 – Hank Ketcham dies (b. 1920). American cartoonist.
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2002 – Hansie Cronje dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.
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2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
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2003 – Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author.
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2003 – Johnny Hopp dies (b. 1916). Baseball player.
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2004 – William Manchester dies (b. 1922). American biographer and novelist.
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2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
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2005 – George Mikan dies (b. 1924). American basketball player.
- 2006 – Rocío Jurado dies (b. 1944). Spanish singer and actress.
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Children’s Day in some countries (Unicef)
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Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
- U.S. – National Accordion Awareness Month begins.
- Kenya – Madaraka Day 1963.
- Nirvana of Buddhists.
- Roman Empire – Festival in honour of Carna.
- Samoa – Independence Day 1962.
- Tunisia – Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959.
- The Ascension in Eastern Christianity.
- Foundation Day in Western Australia
Respostas imaginativas (e humorísticas) em exames
História
- A História divide-se em 4: Antiga, Média, Moderna e Momentânea (esta, a dos nossos dias);
- O Hino Nacional Francês chama-se La Mayonèse;
- Tiradentes, depois de morto, foi decapitulado;
- Entres os índios da América, destacam-se os aztecas, os incas, os pirineus, etc;
- No começo os índios eram muito atrazados mas com o tempo foram-se sifilizando;
- Com a morte de Jesus Cristo os apóstolos continuaram a sua carreira;
- Entre os povos orientais os casamentos eram feitos “no escuro” e os noivos só se conheciam na hora h.
Geografia
- A capital de Portugal é Luiz Boa;
- O principal rio nos Estados Unidos é o Mininici;
- A Geografia Humana estuda o homem em que vivemos;
- Na América Central há países como a República do Minicana;
- A Terra é um dos planetas mais conhecidos no mundo;
- As constelações servem para esclarecer a noite;
- As principais cidades da América do Norte são Argentina e Estados Unidos;
Ciências
- Ecologia é o estudo dos ecos, isto é, da ida e vinda dos sons;
- Solo é quando numa orquestra um dos músicos “capricha” sozinho e os outros ficam à escuta;
- Assexuada é a pessoa que não está nem do lado de cá nem do lado de lá;
- Trompa de Eustáquio é o instrumento musical de sopro, inventado pelo grande músico belga Eustáquio, de Bruxelas;
- Newton foi um grande ginecologista e obstetra europeu que regulamentou a lei da gravidez e estudou os ciclos de Ogino-Knaus;
Português
- Parentesis é o grau da família que existe entre os pais e filhos, tios e sobrinhos, avós e netos, primos e primas, etc;
- Preposição, conforme diz a palavra pela sua própria entomologia, é aquela que é colocada antes da outra que é mais importante;
- Conjunção é a grafia que se usa quando se quer conjugar um verbo;
- Sujeito é a pessoa com quem a gente fala;
- Concordância é quando nós estamos de acordo com o que o outro disse.
EXAMES – 2ª FASE
- A febre amarela foi trazida da China por Marco Polo;
- Os ruminantes distinguem-se dos outros animais porque o que comem, comem duas vezes;
- O coração é o único órgão que não deixa de funcionar 24 horas por dia;
- A arquitectura gótica notabilizou-se por fazer edifícios verticais
- A diferença entre o Romantismo e o Realismo é que os românticos escrevem romances e os realistas nos mostram como está a situação do país;
- As múmias tinham um profundo conhecimento de anatomia;
- Na Grécia a democracia funcionavam muito bem porque os que não estavam de acordo envenenavam-se;
- As plantas distinguem-se dos animais por só respirarem à noite;
- Os estuários e os deltas foram os primitivos habitantes da Mesopotâmia;
- A caixa de previdência assegura o direito à enfermidade colectiva;
- A respiração anaeróbica é a respiração sem ar que não deve passar de três minutos;
- Calor é a quantidade de calorias armazenadas numa unidade de tempo;
- Antes de ser criada a Justiça, o mundo era injusto.
Exames nacionais do 9º. e 12º. anos
- Lavoisier foi guilhotinado por ter inventado o oxigénio;
- O nervo óptico transmite ideias luminosas ao cérebro;
- O vento é uma imensa quantidade de ar;
- Terramoto é um pequeno movimento de terras não cultivadas;
- Os antigos egípcios desenvolveram a arte funerária para que os mortos pudessem viver melhor;
- Péricles foi o principal ditador da democracia grega;
- O problema fundamental do terceiro mundo é a superabundância de necessidades;
- O petróleo apareceu há muitos séculos, numa época em que os peixes se afogavam dentro de água;
- A principal função da raíz é enterrar-se;
- O sol dá-nos luz, calor e turistas;
- As aves têm na boca um dente chamado bico;
- A unidade de força é o Newton, que significa a força que se tem de realizar num metro da unidade de tempo, no sentido contrário!
World No Tobacco Day – May 31, 2007
Há 46 anos o Benfica era campeão europeu de clubes
O jogo disputou-se em Berna, precisamente no dia 31 de Maio de 1961 e perante 28 mil espectadores e sob a arbitragem do suíço Gottfie Dienst, as equipas apresentaram:
Benfica: Costa Pereira; Mário João e Ângelo, Neto, Germano e Cruz: José Augusto, Santana, José Águas, Coluna e Cavém
Barcelona: Rammallets; Foncho e Garay; Vergés, Gensana e Garcia; Kubala, Suarez, Evaristo, Kocsis e Czibor
Golos: 0-1 Czibor de cabeça aos 20′; 1-1 José Águas aos 30′ ; 2-1 aos 31′ após lançamento longo de Neto com a bola disputada por Santana e Gensana a ir parar ao fundo da baliza; 3-1 aos 55′ por Mário Coluna. Com 3-1 ficou célebre o remate de Kubala ao poste com a bola a percorrer toda a linha de fundo bater no outro poste e ir parar às mãos de Costa Pereira. Aos 75′ na sequencia de um canto, Czibor bisava para os espanhóis. Depois foi o sufoco do Barcelona que não chegou para evitar o primeiro triunfo na Taça dos Campeões Europeus.
No ano seguinte o Benfica voltaria a vencer agora frente ao Real Madrid perante 65000 espectadores por 5-3 em Amesterdão, no dia 2 de Maio de 1962.
E em 1963, terceira final consecutiva para defrontar o Milan em Wembley. O Benfica perdeu por 2-1 (dois golos de Altafini) estando a ganhar ao intervalo por 1-0 com um golo de Eusébio. No Milan jogava Trapattoni que teve um duelo de fazer faísca com Coluna. Os encarnados queixaram-se da permissividade do árbitro Ken Aston, de nacionalidade holandesa. …
On this day in History – May 31
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1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
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0455 – Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
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0455 – Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
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1048 – Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
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1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Volga Bulgars warriors under Mstislav the Bold.
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1232 – O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
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1246 – Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England.
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1349 – Thomas Wake dies (b. 1297). English politician.
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1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Japanese shogun.
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1410 – King Martin I of Aragon dies (b. 1356).
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1443 – Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
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1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
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1522 – Guido de Bres was born (d. 1587). Belgian theologian
- 1535 – Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
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1557 – Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
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1558 – Philip Hoby dies (b. 1505). English politician.
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1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
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1594 – Tintoretto dies (b. 1518). Italian painter.
- 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680)
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1640 – Michał Wiśniowiecki was born (d. 1673). King of Poland
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1656 – Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
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1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
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1680 – Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). German clergyman.
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1727 – Royal Bank of Scotland is created.
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1740 – King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
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1747 – Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
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1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
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1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
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1754 – Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
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1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
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1773 – Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
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1775 – Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
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1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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1790 – The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
- 1790 – Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
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1799 – Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
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1801 – Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
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1809 – Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
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1809 – Jean Lannes dies (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
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1813 – In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
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1819 – Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet ( Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain! )
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1831 – Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). British mechanical engineer.
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1832 – Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). French mathematician.
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1837 – Joseph Grimaldi dies (b. 1779). British clown (king of pantomime).
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1838 – Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
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1842 – “Pour le Mérite” extended
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1846 – Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
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1847 – Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
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1847 – Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
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1848 – Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). French writer.
- 1852 – Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
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1857 – Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
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1860 – Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
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1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
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1863 – Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
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1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
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1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O’Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
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1872 – Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
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1874 – Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
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1875 – Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
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1876 – Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
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1878 – Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
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1879 – Madison Square Garden opens its doors
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1880 – The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
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1882 – Sándor Graf Festetics was born (d. 1956). Hungarian politician.
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1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). 2nd. Presidemt of Finland
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1884 – John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
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1885 – Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
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1887 – Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
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1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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1892 – Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
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1892 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
- 1894 – Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for “Allen’s Alley” radio program, 1932-49.
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1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking,” 1952.
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1901 – Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby)
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1902 – Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
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1905 – Florence Desmond was born (d. 1993). English actress and comedian.
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1908 – Nils Poppe was born (d. 2000). Swedish actor.
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1908 – Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna;
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1908 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette dies (b. 1839). French Canadian poet.
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1909 – Aurore Gagnon was born (d. 1920). French Canadian victim of child abuse.
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1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
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1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
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1911 – Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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1912 – Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
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1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
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1916 – World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
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1916 – Bert Haanstra was born (d. 1997). Dutch filmmaker
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: More than 300 are killed in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
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1921 – Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
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1921 – Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
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1922 – Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor ( A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
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1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
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1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an “integral part of the Republic of China“, whose “sovereignty” therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
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1924 – Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
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1926 – Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
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1926 – James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
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1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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1928 – É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
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1928 – Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
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1929 – Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
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1930 – Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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1931 – Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
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1931 – John Robert Schrieffer was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 – Jay Miner was born (d. 1994). American microchip designer.
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1935 – Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
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1935 – Jim Bolger was born. 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
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1937 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American singer.
- 1938 – Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
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1938 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
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1938 – John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1938 – Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer (“Peter, Paul and Mary“)
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1939 – Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
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1940 – Gilbert Shelton was born. American underground comics illustrator (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy’s Cat)
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1941 – Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
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1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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1943 – Sharon Gless was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
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1943 – Joe Namath was born. American football star.
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1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). Film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
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1945 – Laurent Gbagbo was born. President of Ivory Coast
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1945 – Odilo Globocnik dies (b. 1904). Austrian nazi.
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1946 – Ted Baehr was born. American media critic.
- 1947 – MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
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1947 – Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
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1948 – José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
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1948 – John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
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1948 – Marília Gabriela was born. Brazilian journalist, actress and TV presenter.
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1948 – Marco Nanini was born. Brazilian actor.
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1949 – A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
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1949 – Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore] was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
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1950 – Gregory Harrison was born. American television actor.
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1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
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1953 – Pirkka-Pekka Petelius was born. Finnish actor.
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1954 – Vicki Sue Robinson was born (d. 2000). American singer.
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1954 – Thomas Mavros was born. Greek footballer
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1957 – Jim Craig was born. American hockey player.
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1957 – Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
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1959 – Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
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1959 – Andrea de Cesaris was born. Italian racing driver.
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1960 – Greg C. Adams was born. Canadian ice hockey player
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1960 – Chris Elliott was born. American comedian
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1960 – Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
- 1960 – Willem Elsschot dies (b. 1882). Flemish writer.
- 1961 – Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
- 1961 – Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
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1961 – Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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1961 – Ray Cote was born. Canadian ice hockey player
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1961 – Lea Thompson was born. American actress
- 1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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1962 – Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
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1962 – Corey Hart was born. Canadian musician
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1962 – Sebastian Koch was born. German actor
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1962 – Henry Fountain Ashurst dies (b. 1874). American politician.
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1963 – Wesley Willis was born (d. 2003). American musician.
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1963 – Teresa Cheung was born. Hong Kong socialite and actress.
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1963 – Hugh Dillon was born. Canadian musician and actor
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1963 – Viktor Orbán was born. Hungarian politican, prime minister (1998-2002)
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1964 – Leonard Asper was born. Canadian businessman
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1964 – Scotti Hill was born. American rock guitarist
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1964 – Darryl McDaniels was born. American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
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1965 – Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
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1966 – Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
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1966 – Jeremy Hotz was born. Canadian stand-up comedian
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1966 – Nick Scotti was born. American actor and singer
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1967 – The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
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1967 – Kenny Lofton was born. Baseball player
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1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire was born. French actress
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1967 – Vampiro was born. Canadian professional wrestler
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1967 – Phil Keoghan was born. New Zealand television personality
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1969 – Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records.
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1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
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1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
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1970 – Terry Sawchuk dies (b. 1929). Hockey player.
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1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
- 1972 – Official IRA declares ceasefire : The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
- 1972 – Frode Estil was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
- 1972 – Sarah Murdoch was born. English model.
- 1972 – Karl Geary was born. Irish actor.
- 1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
- 1974 – Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War
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1974 – William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got
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1974 – Adrian Tomine was born. American cartoonist.
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1974 – Zsolt Erdei was born. Hungarian light heavyweight boxer.
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1975 – ESA (European Spacial Agency) is established / Constituição da Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).
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1975 – Sienna Guillory was born. English actress
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1976 – East Timor is invaded and ocuppied by Indonesia.
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1976 – Colin Farrell was born. Irish actor
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1976 – Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
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1976 – Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
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1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
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1977 – Debbie King was born. English TV presenter.
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1977 – Theodoros Baev was born. Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player.
- 1977 – William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
- 1978 – József Bozsik dies (b. 1925). Hungarian footballer.
- 1980 – Andy Hurley was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1981 – Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
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1983 – Dustin Wells was born. New Zealand footballer.
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1983 – Reggie Yates was born. English television presenter.
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1983 – Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
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1984 – Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
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1985 – The US-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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1985 – Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
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1985 – Ian Vouyoukas was born. Greek basketball player.
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1986 – Melissa McIntyre was born. Canadian actress.
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1986 – Sopho Khalvashi was born. Georgian musical artist.
- 1986 – Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) dies (b. 1918). American artist.
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1986 – James Rainwater dies (b. 9 Dec 1917). American physicist, Nobel laureate (shared) in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
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1987 – John Abraham (Director) dies. Indian film director
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1987 – Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
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1990 – The pilot episode of Seinfeld premieres.
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1990 – The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or “mad cow” disease.
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1991 – São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
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1994 – O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
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1996 – Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
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1996 – Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
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1996 – Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American professor and LSD advocate.
- 1997 – Canada‘s Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
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1997 – James Bennett Griffin dies (b. 1905). American archaeologist.
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2000 – Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). American musician.
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2000 – Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). American singer.
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2001 – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country’s biggest political scandal in recent history.
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2001 – Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
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2002 – The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
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2002 – The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
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2002 – A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavillion at Kennywood collapses.
- 2002 – Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
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2003 – The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
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2003 – Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
- 2004 – A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
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2004 – Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). American guitarist.
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2004 – Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
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2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil dies (b. 1941). French songwriter and screenwriter.
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2005 – W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
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2006 – Raymond Davis Jr. dies (b. 1914). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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2006 – Ryan Bennett dies (b. 1970). Broadcast commentator.
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2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway dies (b. 1930). American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder
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Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
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The Godiva procession
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Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)
On this day in History – May 31
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1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
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0455 – Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
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0455 – Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
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1048 – Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
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1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Volga Bulgars warriors under Mstislav the Bold.
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1232 – O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
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1246 – Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England.
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1349 – Thomas Wake dies (b. 1297). English politician.
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1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Japanese shogun.
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1410 – King Martin I of Aragon dies (b. 1356).
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1443 – Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
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1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
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1522 – Guido de Bres was born (d. 1587). Belgian theologian
- 1535 – Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
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1557 – Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
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1558 – Philip Hoby dies (b. 1505). English politician.
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1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
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1594 – Tintoretto dies (b. 1518). Italian painter.
- 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680)
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1640 – Michał Wiśniowiecki was born (d. 1673). King of Poland
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1656 – Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
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1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
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1680 – Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). German clergyman.
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1727 – Royal Bank of Scotland is created.
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1740 – King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
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1747 – Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
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1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
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1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
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1754 – Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
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1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
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1773 – Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
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1775 – Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
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1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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1790 – The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
- 1790 – Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
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1799 – Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
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1801 – Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
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1809 – Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
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1809 – Jean Lannes dies (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
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1813 – In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
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1819 – Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet ( Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain! )
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1831 – Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). British mechanical engineer.
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1832 – Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). French mathematician.
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1837 – Joseph Grimaldi dies (b. 1779). British clown (king of pantomime).
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1838 – Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
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1842 – “Pour le Mérite” extended
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1846 – Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
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1847 – Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
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1847 – Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
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1848 – Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). French writer.
- 1852 – Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
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1857 – Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
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1860 – Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
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1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
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1863 – Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
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1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
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1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O’Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
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1872 – Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
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1874 – Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
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1875 – Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
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1876 – Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
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1878 – Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
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1879 – Madison Square Garden opens its doors
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1880 – The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
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1882 – Sándor Graf Festetics was born (d. 1956). Hungarian politician.
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1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). 2nd. Presidemt of Finland
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1884 – John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
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1885 – Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
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1887 – Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
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1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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1892 – Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
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1892 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
- 1894 – Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for “Allen’s Alley” radio program, 1932-49.
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1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking,” 1952.
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1901 – Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby)
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1902 – Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
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1905 – Florence Desmond was born (d. 1993). English actress and comedian.
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1908 – Nils Poppe was born (d. 2000). Swedish actor.
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1908 – Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna;
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1908 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette dies (b. 1839). French Canadian poet.
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1909 – Aurore Gagnon was born (d. 1920). French Canadian victim of child abuse.
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1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
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1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
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1911 – Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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1912 – Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
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1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
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1916 – World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
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1916 – Bert Haanstra was born (d. 1997). Dutch filmmaker
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: More than 300 are killed in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
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1921 – Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
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1921 – Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
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1922 – Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor ( A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
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1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
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1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an “integral part of the Republic of China“, whose “sovereignty” therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
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1924 – Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
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1926 – Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
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1926 – James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
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1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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1928 – É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
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1928 – Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
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1929 – Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
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1930 – Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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1931 – Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
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1931 – John Robert Schrieffer was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 – Jay Miner was born (d. 1994). American microchip designer.
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1935 – Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
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1935 – Jim Bolger was born. 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
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1937 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American singer.
- 1938 – Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
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1938 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
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1938 – John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1938 – Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer (“Peter, Paul and Mary“)
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1939 – Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
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1940 – Gilbert Shelton was born. American underground comics illustrator (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy’s Cat)
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1941 – Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
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1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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1943 – Sharon Gless was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
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1943 – Joe Namath was born. American football star.
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1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). Film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
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1945 – Laurent Gbagbo was born. President of Ivory Coast
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1945 – Odilo Globocnik dies (b. 1904). Austrian nazi.
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1946 – Ted Baehr was born. American media critic.
- 1947 – MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
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1947 – Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
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1948 – José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
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1948 – John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
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1948 – Marília Gabriela was born. Brazilian journalist, actress and TV presenter.
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1948 – Marco Nanini was born. Brazilian actor.
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1949 – A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
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1949 – Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore] was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
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1950 – Gregory Harrison was born. American television actor.
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1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
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1953 – Pirkka-Pekka Petelius was born. Finnish actor.
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1954 – Vicki Sue Robinson was born (d. 2000). American singer.
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1954 – Thomas Mavros was born. Greek footballer
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1957 – Jim Craig was born. American hockey player.
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1957 – Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
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1959 – Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
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1959 – Andrea de Cesaris was born. Italian racing driver.
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1960 – Greg C. Adams was born. Canadian ice hockey player
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1960 – Chris Elliott was born. American comedian
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1960 – Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
- 1960 – Willem Elsschot dies (b. 1882). Flemish writer.
- 1961 – Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
- 1961 – Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
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1961 – Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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1961 – Ray Cote was born. Canadian ice hockey player
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1961 – Lea Thompson was born. American actress
- 1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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1962 – Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
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1962 – Corey Hart was born. Canadian musician
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1962 – Sebastian Koch was born. German actor
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1962 – Henry Fountain Ashurst dies (b. 1874). American politician.
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1963 – Wesley Willis was born (d. 2003). American musician.
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1963 – Teresa Cheung was born. Hong Kong socialite and actress.
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1963 – Hugh Dillon was born. Canadian musician and actor
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1963 – Viktor Orbán was born. Hungarian politican, prime minister (1998-2002)
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1964 – Leonard Asper was born. Canadian businessman
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1964 – Scotti Hill was born. American rock guitarist
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1964 – Darryl McDaniels was born. American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
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1965 – Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
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1966 – Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
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1966 – Jeremy Hotz was born. Canadian stand-up comedian
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1966 – Nick Scotti was born. American actor and singer
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1967 – The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
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1967 – Kenny Lofton was born. Baseball player
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1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire was born. French actress
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1967 – Vampiro was born. Canadian professional wrestler
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1967 – Phil Keoghan was born. New Zealand television personality
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1969 – Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records.
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1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
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1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
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1970 – Terry Sawchuk dies (b. 1929). Hockey player.
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1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
- 1972 – Official IRA declares ceasefire : The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
- 1972 – Frode Estil was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
- 1972 – Sarah Murdoch was born. English model.
- 1972 – Karl Geary was born. Irish actor.
- 1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
- 1974 – Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War
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1974 – William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got
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1974 – Adrian Tomine was born. American cartoonist.
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1974 – Zsolt Erdei was born. Hungarian light heavyweight boxer.
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1975 – ESA (European Spacial Agency) is established / Constituição da Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).
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1975 – Sienna Guillory was born. English actress
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1976 – East Timor is invaded and ocuppied by Indonesia.
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1976 – Colin Farrell was born. Irish actor
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1976 – Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
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1976 – Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
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1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
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1977 – Debbie King was born. English TV presenter.
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1977 – Theodoros Baev was born. Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player.
- 1977 – William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
- 1978 – József Bozsik dies (b. 1925). Hungarian footballer.
- 1980 – Andy Hurley was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1981 – Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
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1983 – Dustin Wells was born. New Zealand footballer.
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1983 – Reggie Yates was born. English television presenter.
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1983 – Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
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1984 – Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
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1985 – The US-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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1985 – Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
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1985 – Ian Vouyoukas was born. Greek basketball player.
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1986 – Melissa McIntyre was born. Canadian actress.
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1986 – Sopho Khalvashi was born. Georgian musical artist.
- 1986 – Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) dies (b. 1918). American artist.
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1986 – James Rainwater dies (b. 9 Dec 1917). American physicist, Nobel laureate (shared) in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
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1987 – John Abraham (Director) dies. Indian film director
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1987 – Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
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1990 – The pilot episode of Seinfeld premieres.
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1990 – The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or “mad cow” disease.
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1991 – São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
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1994 – O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
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1996 – Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
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1996 – Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
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1996 – Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American professor and LSD advocate.
- 1997 – Canada‘s Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
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1997 – James Bennett Griffin dies (b. 1905). American archaeologist.
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2000 – Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). American musician.
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2000 – Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). American singer.
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2001 – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country’s biggest political scandal in recent history.
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2001 – Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
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2002 – The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
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2002 – The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
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2002 – A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavillion at Kennywood collapses.
- 2002 – Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
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2003 – The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
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2003 – Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
- 2004 – A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
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2004 – Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). American guitarist.
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2004 – Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
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2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil dies (b. 1941). French songwriter and screenwriter.
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2005 – W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
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2006 – Raymond Davis Jr. dies (b. 1914). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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2006 – Ryan Bennett dies (b. 1970). Broadcast commentator.
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2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway dies (b. 1930). American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder
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Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
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The Godiva procession
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Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)
No Jardim em Penumbra – Ribeiro Couto Maio 30, 2007
A tarde triste vai morrendo… desfalece…
Sobre a pedra de um banco um vulto doloroso
Vem sentar-se, isolado, e como que se esquece.
Deve ser um secreto, um delicado gozo
Permanecer assim, na hora em que a noite desce,
Anônimo, na paz do jardim silencioso,
Numa imobilidade extática de prece.
Em lugar tão propício à doçura das almas
Ele vem meditar muitas vezes, sozinho,
No mesmo banco, sob a carícia das palmas.
E uma só vez o vi chorar, um choro brando…
Fiquei a ouvir… Caíra a noite, de mansinho…
Uma voz de menina ao longe ia cantando.
Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto (n. Santos, São Paulo a 12 Mar 1898; m. em Paris a 30 de Mai de 1963)
No Jardim em Penumbra – Ribeiro Couto
A tarde triste vai morrendo… desfalece…
Sobre a pedra de um banco um vulto doloroso
Vem sentar-se, isolado, e como que se esquece.
Deve ser um secreto, um delicado gozo
Permanecer assim, na hora em que a noite desce,
Anônimo, na paz do jardim silencioso,
Numa imobilidade extática de prece.
Em lugar tão propício à doçura das almas
Ele vem meditar muitas vezes, sozinho,
No mesmo banco, sob a carícia das palmas.
E uma só vez o vi chorar, um choro brando…
Fiquei a ouvir… Caíra a noite, de mansinho…
Uma voz de menina ao longe ia cantando.
Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto (n. Santos, São Paulo a 12 Mar 1898; m. em Paris a 30 de Mai de 1963)
No Jardim em Penumbra – Ribeiro Couto
A tarde triste vai morrendo… desfalece…
Sobre a pedra de um banco um vulto doloroso
Vem sentar-se, isolado, e como que se esquece.
Deve ser um secreto, um delicado gozo
Permanecer assim, na hora em que a noite desce,
Anônimo, na paz do jardim silencioso,
Numa imobilidade extática de prece.
Em lugar tão propício à doçura das almas
Ele vem meditar muitas vezes, sozinho,
No mesmo banco, sob a carícia das palmas.
E uma só vez o vi chorar, um choro brando…
Fiquei a ouvir… Caíra a noite, de mansinho…
Uma voz de menina ao longe ia cantando.
Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto (n. Santos, São Paulo a 12 Mar 1898; m. em Paris a 30 de Mai de 1963)