On this day in History – May 18

• 0526 – St. John I, Catholic Pope (523-526), dies.
• 1048 – Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer.
• 1152 – Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine / Casamento de Henrique II de Inglaterra com Leonor, Duquesa da Aquitânia.
• 1186 – Konstantin of Rostov was born (d. 1218). Prince of Novgorod.
• 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
• 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
• 1401 – Władysław Opolczyk dies. Count palatine of Hungary 1367–1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 – 1378, count palatine of Poland
• 1450 – Sejong the Great of Joseon dies (b. 1397). Ruler of Korea.
• 1474 – Isabella d’Este was born (d. 1539). Marquise of Mantua.
• 1475 – Nascimento do príncipe Afonso de Portugal (m. 1491).
• 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
• 1541 – Fundación de la ciudad de Valladolid en la Nueva España (actual ciudad de Morelia, México) por el virrey Antonio de Mendoza.
• 1550 – John, Cardinal of Lorraine dies (b. 1498). French churchman.
• 1551 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, il Mecherino (or Mecarino), dies (b. 1486). Sienese Mannerist painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, and illuminator. [Self-portrait; Birth of the Virgin; Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena; Tanaquil; Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist; Fall of the Rebellious Angels].
• 1584 – Ikeda Motosuke dies (b. 1559). Japanese samurai commander.
• 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd‘s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1610 – Stefano della Bella was born (d. 1664). Italian printmaker.
• 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger was born (d. 1667). German composer.
• 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
• 1662 (O.S.) – George Smalridge was born (d. 1719). English bishop of Bristol.
• 1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki dies (b. 1623). Polish astronomer.
• 1675 – Jacques Marquette dies (b. 1637). French Jesuit missionary and explorer.
• 1692 (O.S.) – Joseph Butler was born (d. 1752). English bishop and philosopher.
• 1692 – Elias Ashmole dies (b. 1617). English antiquarian.
• 1711 – Rudjer Josip Boscovich was born (d. 1787). Serbian atomic theorist.
• 1712 – D. Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde becomes Cardinal of Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1727 – Chegada a Pequim da embaixada de Alexandre Mettelo de Sousa e Menezes, que tinha partido de Lisboa em 12 de Abril de 1724.
• 1733 – Georg Böhm dies (b. 1761). German organist.
• 1765 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
• 1778 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry was born (d. 1854).
• 1780 – Charles Hardy dies. British governor of Newfoundland.
• 1781 – Túpac Amaru II dies (b. 1742). Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru/ Es ejecutado por los realistas el Inca José Gabriel Condorcanqui, conocido como “Tupac Amaru”.
• 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
• 1785 – John Wilson was born (d. 1854). Scottish writer.
• 1797 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony was born (d. 1854).
• 1798 – Em Portugal, foi autorizada a pesca livre da baleia.
• 1799 – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais dies (b. 1732). French playwright.
• 1800 – Alexander Suvorov dies (b. 1729). Russian general.
• 1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
• 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
• 1807 – John Douglas dies (b.1721). Scottish Anglican bishop.
• 1808 – Elijah Craig dies (b. 1738). American minister and inventor.
• 1811 – Las Piedras Battle first great military triumph of the liberating revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay leaded by Jose Artigas.
• 1825 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the Greek War of Independence is released from prison.
• 1827 – Antoine-Pierre Mongin dies (b. 1761). French artist.
• 1828 – The Battle of Las Piedras, ended the conflict between Uruguay and Brazil.
• 1829 – Maria Josepha of Saxony dies (b. 1803). Queen consort of Spain.
• 1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz was born. The Czech-born world chess champion (1866-94) later became a naturalized American.
• 1837 – Marguerite Gérard dies (b. 28 Jan 1761). French Romantic portrait and genre-scene painter. Dors mon enfant L’Enfant Chéri.
• 1844 – Richard McCarty dies (b. 1780). American politician.
• 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1850 – Oliver Heaviside was born (d. 3 Feb 1925). English physicist who predicted the existence of the ionosphere.
• 1851 – James Budd was born (d. 1908). Governor of California.
• 1857 – Emancipação da cidade de Caruaru, Pernambuco (Brasil).
• 1858 – Casamento de D. Pedro V com a princesa Estefânia de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, ramo católico da casa real da Prússia. A rainha morrerá em Julho seguinte vítima de difteria.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL was nominated for the U.S. Presidency by Republican party leaders at a meeting in Chicago.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins, ending on July 4.
• 1868 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born (d. 1918). Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia.
• 1869 – Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
• 1869 – The Public Credit Act is passed by Ulysses S. Grant, one of his first actions as President of the United States. The Act endorsed the payment of the national debt after the American Civil War in gold currency instead of greenbacks.
• 1872 – Lord Bertrand Russell was born (d. 2 Feb 1970). English Mathematician and philosopher, best known for his work in mathematical logic and for his social and political campaigns in gfavour of pacifism and nuclear disarmament. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.
• 1876 – Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger.
• 1876 – Hermann Müller was born (d. 1931). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1882 – Babe Adams was born (d. 1968). Baseball player.
• 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra was born (d. 1974). President of Brazil.
• 1883 – Walter Gropius was born (d. 1969). German architect.
• 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra was born. President of Brazil (1945-50).
• 1887 – Jeanie MacPherson was born (d. 1946). American actress and screenwriter.
• 1889 – Thomas Midgley was born (d. 2 Nov 1944). American engineer and chemist who discovered the effectiveness of tetraethyl lead (C2H5)4Pb in 1921 as an antiknock additive for gasoline.
• 1889 – Isabella Glyn Dallas dies (b. 1823). British Shakepearean actress.
• 1891 – Rudolf Carnap was born (d. 1970). German philosopher.
• 1892 – Ezio Pinza was born (d. 1957). Italian-born bass.
• 1895 – Nascimento de Augusto César Sandino. Guerrilheiro e héroi nacional de Nicaragua, que lutou contra a ocupação dos Estados Unidos.
• 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
• 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: a mass panic on Khodynka Field during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II resulted in the deaths of 1389 people.
• 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
• 1897 – Frank Capra was born (d. 3 Sep 1991). American Academy Award winning Director: It Happened One Night [1934], Mr. Deeds Goes to Town [1936], You Can’t Take It with You [1938]; It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Pocketful of Miracles.
• 1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• 1900 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien dies (b. 1813). French philosopher.
• 1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud was born (d. 11 Dec 1978). American biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1955 for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.
• 1902 – Meredith Willson was born (d.1984). American composer.
• 1904 -Inauguração da sinagoga Shaaré Tikvá (Lisboa).
• 1904 – Jacob K. Javits was born (d. 1986). American politician.
• 1905 – Hedley Verity was born (d. 1943). English cricketer.
• 1905 – Mário Tavares Chicó was born (d. 1966). Portuguese art historian.
• 1907 – Carl Mydans was born (d. 2004). American photographer.
• 1909 – Fred Perry was born (d. 1995). British former tennis player.
• 1909 – George Meredith dies (b. 1828). English novelist and poet.
• 1909 – Isaac M. F. Albéniz dies at 48. Spanish pianist, composer.
• 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• 1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa dies (b. 1841). Polish novelist.
• 1910 – Pauline Garcia-Viardot dies (b. 1821). French mezzo-soprano and composer.
• 1911 – President / Dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends.
• 1911 – Big Joe Turner was born (d. 1985). American blues singer.
• 1911 – Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna (b. 1860). Austrian composer. His wife Alma Schindler married Walter Gropius in 1915. Mahler left his 10th symphony unfinished. A 1996 recording was made based on work by Remo Mazzetti Jr. who in turn based his work on the late Deryck Cooke.
• 1912 – Perry Como was born (d. 2001). American singer.
• 1912 – Walter Sisulu was born (d. 2003). South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1912 – Georg von Opel was born. German auto manufacturer.
• 1912 – Richard Brooks was born (d. 1992). American film director, writer and producer
• 1913 – Charles Trenet was born in Narbonne, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Singer, actor (La Mer; Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?).
• 1913 – Jane Birdwood was born (d. 2000). British anti-Semitic activist.
• 1913 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was born (d. 1996). Fifth President of India.
• 1914 – Pierre Balmain was born (d. 1982). French fashion designer.
• 1915 – Elman Rogers Service was born (d. 14 Nov 1996). American anthropological theorist and formulator of the nomenclature now in standard use to categorize primitive societies as bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
• 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription.
• 1918 – George Welch was born (d. 1954). American pilot and war hero.
• 1918 – Massimo Girotti was born (d. 2003). Italian actor.
• 1919 – Dame Margot Fonteyn was born (d. 1991). English ballet dancer.
• 1920 – Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtiła) was born at Wadowice, a small town 50 Km far Cracovia, Poland (d. 2005). He became the 264th Roman Catholic Pope in 1978 being the first non Italian Pope since the Renaissance (after 456 years).
• 1920 – Lucia Mannucci was born. Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra).
• 1922 – Bill Macy was born. American actor.
• 1922 – Kai Winding was born (d. 1983). Danish-born jazz musician.
• 1922 – Gerda Boyesen was born (d. 2005). Norwegian-born body psychotherapist.
• 1922 – Kai Winding was born (d. 1983). Danish-born musician.
• 1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran dies (b. 18 Jun 1845). French physician, pathologist, and parasitologist Nobel Prize for Medicine 1907.
• 1923 – Hugh Shearer was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of Jamaica.
• 1923 – Jean-Louis Roux was born. French Canadian actor and artistic director.
• 1924 – At the Olympics in Paris the American rugby team beat the French 17-3. Only France Rumania and America fielded rugby teams. Rugby was dismissed from the Olympics after rival fans rioted following the American upset victory.
• 1924 – Jack Whitaker was born. American sportscaster.
• 1924 – Priscilla Pointer was born. American actress.
• 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California, beach.
• 1926 – Dirch Passer was birn (d. 1980). Danish actor.
• 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• 1927 – The Ritz Hotel opened in Boston.
• 1927 – Andrew Kehoe dies (b. 1872). American mass murderer.
• 1928 – Gabriel Mariano was born (d. 18 Feb 2002). Capeverdean poet.
• 1928 – Pernell Roberts was born in Waycross, Georgia, USA . Actor (Bonanza).
• 1929 – A FIFA escolhe o Uruguai para a Copa do Mundo em Futebol de 1930.
• 1929 – Jack Sanford was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.
• 1930 – Joao Marcelino Arroio morre em Colares (n. 4 Oct 1861, no Porto). Regenerador. Professor de Direito. No Governo de António Serpa foi Ministro da Marinha e Ultramar e Ministro da Instrução Pública e Belas Artes ( de 5 Abr 1890 a 13 Out 1890) e Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros de Hintze Ribeiro (de 26 Jun 1900 a 1 Jun 1901). Compositor, pertence ao número dos fundadores do Orfeão Académico de Coimbra; compôs a música para as óperas “Amor de Perdição”, “Leonor Teles”, e a cantata “Inês de Castro”, assim como a marcha “Camões”, e isso além do que produziu como poeta e autor dramático.
• 1931 – Don Martin was born (d. 2000). American cartoonist.
• 1931 – Robert Morse was born. American actor.
• 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 1933 – Bernadette Chirac was born. French politician.
• 1934 -The Academy Award was 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky).
• 1934 – Dwayne Hickman was born. American actor and television executive.
• 1935 – Paul Dukas dies. French composer.
• 1937 – Brooks Robinson was born. Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1937 – Jacques Santer was born. Luxembourg statesman.
• 1938 – Muere en la ciudad de México, donde naciera el 13 de enero de 1876, Don Juan Sánchez Azcona, distinguido filósofo, literato, periodista, diplomático, escritor liberal y político revolucionario.
• 1939 – Hark Bohm was born. Film director.
• 1939 – Giovanni Falcone was born (d. 1992). Italian magistrate.
• 1939 – Gordon O’Connor was born. Canadian politician
• 1941 – Malcolm Sim Longair was born. Scottish astronomer, noted for his scholarship and teaching, who in 1980 was appointed by Royal Warrant Astronomer Royal for Scotland, a post he held until 31 Dec 1990.
• 1941 – Lobby Loyde was born (d. 2007). Australian guitarist and songwriter.
• 1941 – World War II: East Africa – The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, take Amba Alagi after 18 days of fighting. The Italian commander, Duke d’Aosta, is the last one to leave the fortress.
• 1941 – Werner Sombart dies (b. 1863). German economist and sociologist.
• 1942 – Albert Hammond was born. British musician and composer.
• 1942 – Nobby Stiles was born. English footballer.
• 1943 – James Reiher was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1944 – Justus Frantz was born. Pianist.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
• 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
• 1944 – World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia.
• 1944 – W. G. Sebald was born (d. 2001). German-born writer.
• 1946 – Bruce Gilbert was born. English musician (Wire)
• 1946 – Frank Hsieh was born. Former Premier of Taiwan
• 1946 – Andreas Katsulas was born (d. 2006). American actor.
• 1946 – Reggie Jackson was born. Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1946 – Mila Moreira was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1947 – John Bruton was born. Ninth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
• 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• 1949 – Rick Wakeman was born. English composer and musician (Yes).
• 1949 – Bill Wallace was born. Canadian musician (The Guess Who).
• 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh was born. American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
• 1950 – Thomas Gottschalk was born. German TV show host.
• 1950 – Rodney Milburn was born (d. 1997). American athlete.
• 1952 – George Strait was born. American country musician.
• 1952 – Diane Duane was born. American writer.
• 1952 – Jeana Yeager was born. American aviator.
• 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California).
• 1954 – European Convention on Human Rights went into effect.
• 1954 – Eric Gerets was born. Belgian football player.
• 1955 – Chow Yun-Fat was born. Hong-Kong actor.
• 1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune dies (b. 1875). American educator and activist.
• 1956 – Maurice Tate dies (b. 1895). English cricketer.
• 1957 – Ouezzin Coulibaly assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Burkina Fasso.
• 1957 – Michael Cretu was born. German musician (Enigma).
• 1958 – Ahmad Mukhtar Baban assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro do Iraque.
• 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
• 1958 – Toyah Willcox was born. English actor and singer.
• 1959 – Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d’Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
• 1959 – Jay Wells was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1960 – Jari Kurri was born. Finnish hockey player.
• 1960 – Yannick Noah was born. French tennis player.
• 1961 – Eucanaã Ferraz was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian poet.
• 1962 – Mike Whitmarsh was born. American volleyball player.
• 1962 – Mike Darnell was born. American television executive.
• 1962 – Nanne Grönvall was born. Swedish singer.
• 1962 – Sandra Cretu was born. German singer
• 1963 – Sukarno assume a presidência vitalícia da Indonésia.
• 1963 – Ernie Davis dies (b. 1939). American football player.
• 1965 – Ingo Schwichtenberg was born (d. 1995). German drummer.
• 1966 – Michael Tait was born. American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
• 1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen was born. German F1 driver
• 1967 – Andy Clyde dies (b. 1892). American actor.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches.
• 1969 – Martika was born. Cuban-American singer .
• 1970 – Tina Fey was born. American comedienne, actress.
• 1970 – Daniel Sonenberg was born. American composer and performer.
• 1971 – Bulgarian constitution went into effect.
• 1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh dies (b. 1908). Russian mathematician.
• 1971 – Brad Friedel was born. American soccer player.
• 1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh dies (b. 1908). Russian mathematician.
• 1972 – Turner Stevenson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1973 – Brian Heffron was born. Wrestler better known as the “Blue Meanie”.
• 1973 – Dario Franchitti was born. Scottish racecar driver.
• 1973 – Jeannette Rankin dies (b. 1880). First woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• 1974 – Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
• 1974 – Felipe Folgosi was born. Actor.
• 1974 – Nelson Figueroa was born. American baseball player
• 1975 – John Higgins was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1975 – Jack Johnson was born. American musician.
• 1975 – Peter Iwers was born. Swedish bass player (In Flames).
• 1975 – Aníbal Troilo dies in Buenos Aires (b. 11 Jul 1914). Argentine musician, composer and conductor.
• 1975 – Leroy Anderson dies (b. 1908). American composer.
• 1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky was born. Ukrainian ice hockey player
• 1977 – A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164.
• 1977 – Menachem Begin became Israel’s Prime Minister.
• 1977 – Lee Hendrie was born. English footballer.
• 1977 – Danny Mills was born. English footballer.
• 1978 – Ricardo Carvalho was born. Portuguese footballer. Former European Champion by FC Porto and playing now for Chelsea.
• 1978 – Helton da Silva Arruda was born. Brazilian football player (goalkeeper of FC Porto)
• 1978 – Italy legalized abortion.
• 1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski was born. Polish footballer.
• 1979 – Michal Martikán was born. Slovak slalom canoiest.
• 1979 – Julián Speroni was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1980 – 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
• 1980 – Former president Fernando Belaunde Terry was elected President of Peru. Democracy was restored and the media was free again.
• 1980 – Ian Curtis (b. 1956), Joy Division singer, committed suicide in his own house.
• 1980 – Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
• 1980 – Ali Zafar was born. Pakistani singer and model
• 1980 – Aileen Campbell was born. Scottish Politician
• 1980 – Jeff Roehl was born. American football player.
• 1980 – Harry Truman dies (b. 1896) victim of Mount St. Helens eruption
• 1980 – David A. Johnston (b. 1949), a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption
• 1980 – Reid Blackburn (b. 1952), a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption.
• 1981 – Mahamadou Diarra was born. Malian footballer.
• 1981 – Arthur O’Connell dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1981 – Duarte António Borges Coutinho dies. Football executive who was President of Benfica (1969-1976).
• 1981 – William Saroyan dies (b. 1908). American author.
• 1982 – Eric West was born. American singer and actor.
• 1982 – Jason Brown was born. English-born footballer.
• 1983 – In Ireland, scene of remarkable pirate radio broadcasting during the decade, the Government launched a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
• 1983 – Sri Lanka impose a State of Emergency after election violence .
• 1983 – Gary O’Neil was born. English footballer.
• 1983 – Luis Terrero was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Vince Young was born. American football player
• 1984 – Scarlett Keegan was born. Playboy Playmate
• 1984 – Joakim Soria was born. Mexican baseball player
• 1984 – Niki Terpstra was born. Dutch cyclist
• 1986 – Ryan Lamb was born. English rugby union player
• 1987 – Luisana Lopilato was born. Argentine actress and model
• 1988 – Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen .
• 1988 – Ryan Cooley was born. Canadian television actor.
• 1988 – Daws Butler dies (b. 1916). American voice actor.
• 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record – 515.3km/h – superseding the previous record of 406.9km/h set by the German InterCityExperimental train.
• 1990 – Jill Ireland dies of cancer (b. 1936). British actress (Carry on Nurse, Family).
• 1990 – Both Germanys sign a monetary union treaty.
• 1991 – Helen Sharman from Sheffield becomes the first Briton to orbit in Space
• 1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland however it is unrecognised by the international community.
• 1992 – The Archivist of the United States issues a proclamation to officially announce that the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been ratified, despite more than 200 years for completion of the ratification process by the state legislatures.
• 1992 – Spencer Breslin was born. American actor
• 1992 – Marshall Thompson dies (b. 1925). American actor.
• 1992 – Skip Stephenson dies (b. 1940). American TV personality.
• 1993 – Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty.
• 1994 – AC Milan wins Champions Europe Cup defeating Barcelona 4-0.
• 1995 – Alain Juppé becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery dies in Los Angeles (b. 1933). American actress. (Bewitched).
• 1995 – Elisha Cook Jr. dies (b. 1903). American actor.
• 1995 – Alexander Godunov dies (b. 1949). Russian ballet dancer and actor.
• 1996 – Cruyff é destituído do cargo de treinador do F.C. Barcelona após 8 temporadas.
• 1997 – The 50th Cannes Film Festival awarded Golden Palms to Japanese director Shohei Imamura for “The Eel” and Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami for “The Taste of Cherry.”
• 1997 – Alana Etheridge was born. American actress.
• 1997 – Bridgette Andersen dies (b. 1975). American actress.
• 1998 – United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
• 1999 – Augustus Pablo dies (b. 1954). Jamaican singer.
• 1999 – Betty Robinson dies (b. 1911). American Olympic runner.
• 2000 – In the Dominican Republic Hipolito Mejia was declared the winner in the presidential race after his opponents withdrew.
• 2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik dies (b. 1946). Russian musician and arranger.
• 2000 – Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi dies. Muslim scholar.
• 2002 – Davey Boy Smith dies (b. 1962). English professional wrestler.
• 2003 – Argentinian tennist Guillermo Coria wins Hamburg Master Series.
• 2003 – Anna Santisteban dies (b. 1914). Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (Organizer of the Miss Universe contest).
• 2003 – Barb Tarbox dies (b. 1961). Canadian anti-smoking crusader.
• 2004 – Randy Johnson pitches a perfect game for the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. the Atlanta Braves.
• 2004 – Pres. Bush formally nominate Alan Greenspan for a 5th 4-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
• 2004 – Elvin Jones dies in New Jersey (b. 1927). Renowned jazz drummer and member of John Coltrane’s quartet who also played alongside Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, died in new Jersey.
• 2004 – Serge Turgeon dies (b. 1946). Quebec actor and union leader.
• 2005 – Sporting loses The Uefa Cup at their own Stadium, against CSKA Moscow: Sporting 1 – 3 CSKA Moscow
• 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
• 2006 – Andrew Martinez dies (b. 1972). U.C. Berkeley‘s “Naked Guy”.
• 2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes dies (b. 1932). French physicist.
• 2007 – Yoyoy Villame dies (b. 1932). Philippine novelty singer and movie actor.
• 2008 – Joseph Pevney dies (b. 1911). American television director.
• International Museum Day
• Flag Day in Haiti.
• World AIDS Vaccine Day.
• Haiti: Flag Day
• Somaliland: Independence Day
• Turkmenistan: Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day
• Uruguay: Battle of Las Piedras Day
• Canada: Victoria Day