On this day in History – Aug. 6

• 0258 – Saint Pope Sixtus II dies
• 0523 – Saint Pope Hormisdas dies
• 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV dies. Count of Barcelona.
• 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan was born (d. 1239)
• 1195 – Henry the Lion dies (b. 1129). Duke of Saxony and Bavaria.
• 1221 – Saint Dominic dies / Morre São Domenico de Guzman teólogo espanhol. Foi canonizado em 13 Julho de 1234 pelo Papa Gregorio IX.
• 1272 – King Stephen V of Hungary dies
• 1414 – King Ladislas of Naples dies (b. 1377)
• 1458 – Pope Callixtus III dies (b. 1378).
• 1504 – Matthew Parker was born (d. 1575). Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1539 – Capitão Gonzalo Suárez Rondón funda a cidade de Tunja – Colômbia
• 1619 – Barbara Strozzi was born (d. 1677). Italian singer and composer
• 1623 – Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare’s wife) dies (b. 1556)
• 1628 – Johannes Junius dies (b. 1573). Mayor of Bamberg.
• 1637 – Ben Jonson dies (b. 1572). English dramatist and poet
• 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche was born (d. 1715). French philosopher.
• 1644 – Louise de la Vallière was born (d. 1710). French mistress of Louis XIV of France
• 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex dies (b. 1575). English merchant.
• 1656 – Claude de Forbin was born (d. 1733). French naval commander.
• 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky dies. Polish-Lithuanian noble
• 1660 – Diego Velázquez dies (b. 1599). Spanish painter.
• 1666 – D. Maria Sofia Isabel de Neuburgo was born. Queen of Portugal.
• 1667 – Johann Bernoulli was born. Matematician who was a Major member of the Bernoulli family of Swiss mathematicians. He investigated the then new mathematical calculus, which he applied to the measurement of curves, to differential equations, and to mechanical problems
• 1679 – John Snell dies (b. 1629). English royalist.
• 1694 – Antoine Arnauld dies (b. 1612). French philosopher and mathematician.
• 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon dies (b. 1625). Archbishop of Paris.
• 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor was born (d. 1745)
• 1697 – Niccolo Salvi was born (d. 8 Feb 1751). Italian sculptor.
• 1700 – Johann Beer dies (b. 28. Febr. 1655). Composer.
• 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was born (d. 1747). French writer
• 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann dies (b. 1711). Russian physicist
• 1759 – Eugene Aram dies (b. 1704). English philologist.
• 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston was born († 22 Dec 1828). English scientist who discovered palladium (1803) and rhodium (1804), during his investigation of platinum ore.
• 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières was born (d. 1813). French marshal.
• 1775 – Daniel O’Connell was born (d. 1847). Irish politician.
• 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro was born (d. 9 Jul 1856). Italian chemist.
• 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
• 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst dies (b. 1714). British politician.
• 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. / Francisco II (1768-1835), imperador Habsburgo do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico da Nação Alemã, renunciou ao título, criando o título de Imperador da Áustria, com o nome de Francisco I. Devido à criação da Confederação do Reno, por Napoleão Bonaparte, o Sacro Império tinha de facto deixado de existir
• 1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson was born (d. 6 Oct 1892). English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry : The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam
• 1813 – Venezuela Simón Bolívar (“El libertador”) liberates Caracas.
• 1815 – James A. Bayard (elder) dies (b. 1767). United States Senator from Delaware.
• 1819 – Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States
• 1824 – Perú: batalla de Junín las fuerzas de Simón Bolívar derrotan a las españolas comandadas por Cantarec.
• 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
• 1828 – Andrew Taylor Still was born (d. 12 Dec 1917). American founder of osteopathy
• 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff dies. Russian general and statesman
• 1838 – George James Symons was born. British meteorologist who strove to provide reliable observational data by imposing standards of accuracy and uniformity on meteorological measurements and by substantially increasing the number of reporting stations.
• 1840 – Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born († 18 Mar 1914) . American archeologist, anthropologist and historian who was among the first to study the American Indian cultures of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Peru-Bolivia.
• 1844 – James Henry Greathead was born (d. 21 Oct 1896). British civil engineer who improved the tunneling shield, the basic tool of underwater tunneling, essentially to its modern formEngineer.
• 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1900)
• 1845 – Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
• 1850 – Edward Walsh dies (b. 1805). Irish poet.
• 1851 – Uruguay: llega a Montevideo, procedente de Southampton, el primer barco a vapor, el “Prince”. Se establece así el servicio regular entre Europa y el Río de la Plata.
• 1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1861 – Edith Roosevelt was born (d. 1948). American First Lady of the United States
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1866 – John Mason Neale dies (b. 1818). English divine, scholar and hymnwriter.
• 1868 – Paul Claudel was born (d. 23 Feb 1955). French poet and playwright.
• 1869 – Frank Cobb was born (d. 21 Dec 1923). American journalist and editor of the New York World
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1872 – Colombia: se funda la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, la más antigua de las Correspondientes de la Real Academia Española.
• 1874 – Charles Fort was born (d. 1932). American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
• 1875 – Francisco Javier León assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1875 – Gabriel García Moreno dies assassinated. President of Ecuador.
• 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr. was born (d. 1952). American politician, Senator from Maine.
• 1879 – Johann Von Lamont dies (b. 13 Dec 1805). Scottish-born German astronomer noted for discovering (1852) that the magnetic field of the Earth fluctuates with a 10.3-year activity cycle, but does not correlate it with the period of the sunspot cycle
• 1880 – Hans Moser was born in Vienna († 6 Aug 1964). Austrian actor.
• 1881 – Leo Carrillo was born (d. 1961). American actor.
• 1881 – Alexander Fleming was born (d. 11 Mar 1955). Scottish bacteriologist; discovered penicillin in 1928. Laureated in 1945 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• 1881 – Louella Parsons was born (d. 1972). American gossip columnist.
• 1881 – James White dies (b. 1821). co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• 1883 – Scott Nearing was born (d. 1983). American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.
• 1884 – Robert Spear Hudson dies (b. 1812). English businessman.
• 1887 – Dudley Benjafield was born (d. 1957). British racing driver.
• 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus was born (d. 1952). German baritone.
• 1889 – John Middleton Murry was born (d. 1957). English poet.
• 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the convicted murdetr, with murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
• 1890 – Renuncia do presidente argentino Miguel Juárez Celman
• 1891 – William Slim was born (d. 1970). British general
• 1892 – Hoot Gibson was born (d. 1962). American actor.
• 1893 – Wright Patman was born (d. 1976). American politician.
• 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel dies (b. 1811). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 1900 – Cecil H. Green was born (d. 2003). American geophysicist and businessman.
• 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 1902 – Dutch Schultz was born (d. 1935). American bootlegger and gangster.
• 1904 – Jean Desses was born (d. 1970). French couturier.
• 1904 – Aleksander Bocheński was born († 2001) . Polish publicist and essayst (DZIEJE GLUPOTY W POLSCE – Pamflety dziejopisarskie )
• 1904 – Henry Iba was born (d. 1993). American basketball coach.
• 1904 – Eduard Hanslick dies (b. 1825). Austrian music critic
• 1906 – Cátulo Castillo was born in Buenos Aires (d. 19 Oct 1975). Argentine dramatist, composer and writer of lyrics for tangos.
• 1906 – Vic Dickenson was born (d. 1984). American trombonist.
• 1908 – Helen Jacobs was born (d. 1997). American tennis player.
• 1908 – Will Lee was born (d. 1982). American actor.
• 1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
• 1910 – Charles Crichton was born (d. 1999). British film director.
• 1911 – Lucille Ball was born (d. 1989). American radio, film and television actress and comedy star.
• 1911 – Florentino Ameghino dies (b. 18 Sep 1854). Argentinian Paleontologist , naturalist.
• 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1914 – Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
• 1914 – Arthur Charles Dobson was born (d. 1980). British racing driver.
• 1914 – Ronald Duncan was born (d. 3 Jun 1982). English playwright, poet and writer
• 1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson dies (b. 1860). First wife of President Woodrow Wilson
• 1915 – Portugal: Bernardino Machado is elected to President of Republic
• 1915 – World War I: Battle of Battle of Sari Bair begins – The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• 1916 – Richard Hofstadter was born (d. 24 Oct 1970). American historian
• 1916 – Michael Burke was born. American sports executive.
• 1916 – Dom Mintoff was born. Maltese Prime Minister
• 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 1917 – Robert Mitchum was born (d. 1 Jul 1997). American actor.
• 1918 – Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born. Industrialist.
• 1918 – Norman Granz was born (d. 2001). American record producer.
• 1919 – Portugal: António José de Almeida is elected to President of Republic.
• 1920 – Ella Raines was born (d. 1988). American actress
• 1920 – Stefan Bastyr dies (b. 1890). Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland.
• 1922 – Sir Freddie Laker was born (d. 2006). English entrepreneur.
• 1923 – Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
• 1923 – Jess Collins was born (d. 2004). American artist.
• 1925 – Barbara Bates was born (d. 1969). American actress.
• 1925 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro dies (b. 12 Jan 1853). Italian mathematician instrumental in the development of the absolute differential calculus (also called the Ricci calculus), now known as tensor analysis.
• 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers‘ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• 1926 – Jackie Presser was born (d. 9 Jul 1988). American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88)
• 1926 – Clem Labine was born (d. 2007). American baseball player.
• 1926 – Norman Wexler was born (d. 1999). American screenwriter.
• 1926 – Frank Finlay was born. British actor
• 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers‘ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1928 – Jan Kucera was born. Author .
• 1928 – Chung Se Yung was born. Korean automobile manufacturer
• 1928 – Andy Warhol was born (d. 1987). American artist best known for initiating the Pop art movement.
• 1928 – Herb Moford was born (d. 2005).American baseball player.
• 1929 – Luis García Morales was born in Ciudad Bolívar. Venezuelan poet and intelectual.
• 1930 – Abbey Lincoln was born. American jazz singer
• 1930 – Joseph-Achille Le Bel dies (b. 24 Jan 1847). French chemist who was the first to present a theory on the relationship between molecules and how they absorb or reflect light.
• 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke dies (b. 1903). American jazz musician.
• 1931 – Club Atlético Independiente – Uruguay is founded
• 1932 – Howard Hodgkin was born. British painter and print-maker.
• 1932 – Italia – First Venice film festivals
• 1932 – Václav Vojtech dies. Czech explorer.
• 1934 – Haití: las tropas estadounidenses se retiran de la isla, que ocupaban desde 1915 (habían sido invadidas cruentamente por Woodrow Wilson).
• 1934 – Piers Anthony was born. English writer
• 1937 – Barbara Windsor was born. English actress
• 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino was born (d. 2000). Brazilian guitarist.
• 1938 – Peter Bonerz was born. American actor
• 1938 – Paul Bartel was born (d. 2000). American actor, writer and director.
• 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev was born. Dagestanian politician
• 1941 – A curfew is imposed on US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war.
• 1941 – Lyle Berman was born. American poker player
• 1941 – Ray Culp was born. American baseball player
• 1941 – Cezar Ivănescu was born. Romanian poet “Rod”, “La Baad”, “Muzeon”, “Doina”, “Sutrele muţeniei”, “Jeu d’amour”, “Rosarium”.
• 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• 1942 – George Jung was born. American convicted drug felon
• 1942 – Jonathan Campbell dies (b. 1875). Film pioneer.
• 1943 – Jon Postel was born (d. 16 Oct 1988). American computer scientist, creator of DNS
• 1943 – Dan Grigore was born. Romanian pianist
• 1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb. / Com a Segunda Guerra Mundial já vencida de fato, os Estados Unidos da América lançam uma bomba atómica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima. Oitenta mil pessoas morrem imediatamente e mais sessenta mil morreram até o fim do ano de doenças causadas por poeira radioativa.
• 1945 – Ron Jones was born (d. 1995). British TV director.
• 1945 – Prince Wu of Korea dies (b. 1912)
• 1945 – Richard Bong dies (b. 1920). America’s all time Ace of Aces.
• 1945 – Hiram Johnson dies (b. 1866). American politician.
• 1946 – Allan Holdsworth was born. British musician
• 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun was born. President of South Korea
• 1946 – Masaaki Sakai was born. Japanese comedian.
• 1946 – Tony Lazzeri dies (b. 1903). American baseball player.
• 1948 – Dino Bravo was born (d. 1993). Canadian professional wrestler
• 1949 – Alan Campbell was born. Northern Irish clergyman
• 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva was borm in Honolulu, Haway. Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
• 1950 – Dorian Harewood was born. American actor
• 1950 – Melico Salazar dies in San Jose. Costa Rican tenor
• 1950 – Dorian Harewood was born. American actor
• 1951 – Catherine Hicks was born. American actress
• 1951 – Daryl Somers was born. Australian television personality
• 1952 – Vinnie Vincent was born. American musician (ex-Kiss)
• 1954 – Paul Steigerwald was born. American sports announcer
• 1954 – David Grandison Fairchild dies (b. 7 Apr 1869). American botanist and plant explorer who supervised the introduction of over 20,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the U.S., including soya beans, mangos, alfalfa, nectarines, horseradish, and flowering cherries.
• 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network has its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
• 1957 – Bob Horner was born. American baseball player
• 1957 – Jim McGreevey was born. American politician, Governor of New Jersey
• 1959 – Joyce Sims was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1959 – Argentina: el Partido Comunista es declarado ilegal.
• 1959 – Preston Sturges dies (b. 1898). American playwright, screenwriter, director
• 1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
• 1961 – Second successful manned orbital flight (USSR, Gherman Titov)
• 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
• 1962 – Michelle Yeoh was born. Malaysian actress.
• 1962 – Marc Lavoine was born. French singer and actor
• 1963 – Kevin Mitnick was born. American computer hacker
• 1964 – Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
• 1964 – Moosie Drier was born. American actor and director
• 1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke dies B. 1893). English actor
• 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
• 1965 – Yuki Kajiura was born. Japanese composer
• 1965 – David Robinson was born. American basketball player
• 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
• 1966 – Portugal – Inauguração da ponte sobre o Tejo, de 2278 m de comprimento, baptizada na época por Ponte Salazar e após a revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974, denominada Ponte 25 de Abril. de 2278 metros de longitud.
• 1966 – Portugal – São postos em circulação os selos da Emissão Comemorativa da Inauguração da Ponte Salazar.
• 1966 – Cordwainer Smith dies (b. 1913). American writer
• 1967 – Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko) was born.
• 1967 – Mike Greenberg was born. American sportscaster
• 1967 – Julie Snyder was born. Quebec talk show host and producer
• 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues his Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam.
• 1968 – Independência da Suazilândia
• 1969 – Elliott Smith was born (d. 2003). American musician.
• 1969 – Theodor Adorno dies (b. 1903). German philosopher
• 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan was born. Film director, writer, producer, and actor ”The Village,” ”The Sixth Sense’‘
• 1971 – Merrin Dungey was born. American actress.
• 1972 – Geri Halliwell was born. British singer (Spice girls)
• 1973 – Asia Carrera was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1973 – Stuart O’Grady was born. Australian cyclist
• 1973 – Max Kellerman was born. American sportscaster
• 1973 – Fulgencio Batista dies (b. 1901). Cuban President.
• 1973 – Memphis Minnie dies (b. 1897). American blues singer.
• 1974 – Luis Vizcaino was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Gene Ammons dies (b. 1925). American jazz saxophonist.
• 1975 – Victor Zambrano was born. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1975 – Renate Götschl was born. Austrian alpine skier
• 1975 – Renate Götschl dies. Austrian alpine skier
• 1975 – Giorgio Rocca dies. Italian alpine skier
• 1975 – Peter Hodgson dies (b. 15 Aug 1912). A marketing executive and entrepreneur who named “Silly Putty” and promoted it as a toy.
• 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
• 1976 – Melissa George was born. Australian actress
• 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye was born. American actress
• 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky dies (b. 1903). Russian cellist.
• 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen was born. Danish footballer
• 1977 – Leandro Amaral was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Pope Paul VI dies (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Marisa Miller was born. American supermodel
• 1978 – Billy Klippert was born. Singer.
• 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen dies (b. 1911) German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1981 – Liliana Domínguez was born. Mexican supermodel
• 1982 – Adrianne Curry was born. American model
• 1982 – Karl Davies was born. British actor
• 1982 – Ryan Sypek was born. American actor
• 1983 – Chile: los partidos de oposición forman la Alianza Democrática.
• 1983 – Robin van Persie was born. Dutch footballer
• 1983 – Klaus Nomi dies (b. 1944). German singer
• 1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
• 1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
• 1985 – Victor Paz Estenssoro takes place on the Presidency of Bolivia.
• 1985 – Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés dies. President of Honduras (1971-1972)
• 1985 – Manoel de Oliveira recebe o Prémio Leão de Ouro Especial do Festival Internacional de Cinema de Veneza, pelo seu filme O Sapato de Cetim, sendo igualmente agraciado com o Prémio Navicella de Ouro pelo Instituto Católico do Cinema Italiano.
• 1985 – Forbes Burnham dies (b. 1923). President of Guyana
• 1986 – A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.
• 1986 – Bryan Young was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
• 1986 – Emilio Fernández dies (b. 1904). Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director
• 1987 – Ira Eaker dies (b. 1896). American Air Force leader.
• 1987 – Quinn Martin dies (b. 1922). American television producer.
• 1988 – “Police riot” in New York City‘s Tompkins Square Park
• 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
• 1990 – Benazir Bhutto government dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of India.
• 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey was born (d. 1996). American beauty queen and murder victim.
• 1990 – Jacques Soustelle dies (b. 1912). French anthropologist.
• 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
• 1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 1991 – Harry Reasoner dies (b. 1923). American reporter.
• 1991 – Roland Michener dies (b. 1900). Canadian politician and governor general.
• 1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
• 1993 – Tex Hughson dies (b. 1916). American baseball player.
• 1994 – Domenico Modugno dies (9 Jan 1928). Italian singer and songwriter.
• 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
• 1996 – Legendary punk rock band, Ramones play their 2,263rd and final concert, in The Palace, Los Angeles.
• 1996 – Australian census conducted.
• 1996 – Hernán Siles Zuazo dies. President of Bolivia (1956-1960 e 1982-1985)
• 1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
• 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
• 1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 – Teodor Yivkov dies. Bulgarian Chief of State.
• 1998 – Andre Weil dies (b. 1906). French mathematician.
• 2000 – The Roman Catholic Church‘s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.
• 2001 – White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 2001 – President George W. Bush receives President’s Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
• 2001 – Renúncia do presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer. Jorge Quiroga sucede-lhe na Presidencia
• 2001 – Jorge Amado de Faria dies (b. 1912). Brazilian writer.
• 2001 – Dorothy Tutin dies (b. 1930). English actress.
• 2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
• 2002 – Manaindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled “Primes in P”.
• 2002 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada takes place on the Presidency of Bolivia.
• 2002 – Edsger Dijkstra dies (b. 1930). Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972
• 2003 – Alvalade XXI Stadium of Sporting Clube de Portugal is inaugurated.
• 2004 – Rick James dies (b. 1948). American musician.
• 2004 – Posse de Antônio Carlos Secchin na Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• 2005 – Em San Jose da California, Estados Unidos, começa a disputar-se o 37º. Campeonato do Mundo de Hóquei em Patins.
• 2005 – Inauguração em Helsínquia, Finlândia, do Campeonato do Mundo de Atletismo.
• 2005 – Keter Betts dies (b. 1928). American jazz bassist.
• 2005 – Robin Cook dies (b. 1946). British politician
• 2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer dies (b. 1927). Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club).
• Christianity – Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
• Bolivia – Independence Day
• Jamaica – Independence Day
• Japan – Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) – Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
• United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan‘s Accession Day.