On this day in History – Dec. 5 Dezembro 4, 2006

• 0749 – Saint John of Damascus dies. Theologian.
• 1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1300).
• 1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China was born (d. 1402)
• 1443 – Pope Julius II was born (d. 1513)
• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witchhunts in European history.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
• 1495 – Nicolas Cleynaerts was born (d. 1542). Flemish grammarian.
• 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki was born (d. 1597). Japanese shogun.
• 1539 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini was born (d. 1604). Italian theologian.
• 1547 – Ubbo Emmius was born (d. 1625). Dutch historian and geographer.
• 1560 – Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.
• 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
• 1595 – Henry Lawes was born (d. 1662). English composer.
• 1624 – Gaspard Bauhin dies (b. 1560). Swiss botanist.
• 1654 – Jean François Sarrazin dies. French writer.
• 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer was born (d. 1724). English statesman.
• 1663 – Severo Bonini dies (b. 1582). Italian composer.
• 1687 – Francesco Geminiani was born (d. 1762). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1715 – Alexander Dalzeel, a Scottish privateer in French service, is executed in London, England.
• 1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye dies (b. 1685). New French explorer and trader.
• 1757 – In his greatest victory, Prussian King Frederick II (the Great) defeated the Austrians at Leuthen during the Seven Years’ War.
• 1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch dies (b. 1688). German composer.
• 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
• 1770 – James Stirling dies (b. 1692). Scottish mathematician.
• 1776 – A group of undergraduates at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia organize an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa. The first of the “Greek letter” societies formed in the US, members met regularly to write, debate, and socialize. They adopted an oath of secrecy, a code of laws, Latin and Greek mottoes, and an elaborate initiation rite.
• 1782 – Martin Van Buren was born (d. 1862). 8th President of the United States
• 1784 – Phillis Wheatley dies in Boston. She was the first African American woman poet of note in the United States
• 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria (b. 1756). Austrian composer
• 1792 – George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president.
• 1803 – Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev was born (d. 1873). Russian poet.
• 1815 – Maceió Brazilian city is founded.
• 1819 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg dies (b. 1750). German poet.
• 1820 – Afanasy Fet was born (d. 1892). Russian poet.
• 1822 – Elizabeth Cary Agassiz was born (d. 1907). American president of Radcliffe College
• 1830 – Christina Rossetti was born (d. 1894). British poet.
• 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
• 1839 – George Armstrong Custer was born (d. 1876). American general.
• 1841 – Marcus Daly was born (d. 1900). American mining tycoon.
• 1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
• 1855 – Clinton Hart Merriam was born (d. 1942). American ornithologist.
• 1859 – John Jellicoe was born (d. 1935). British admiral.
• 1863 – Paul Painlevé was born (d. 1933). French mathematician.
• 1867 – Józef Piłsudski was born (d. 1935). Polish revolutionary and statesman.
• 1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld was born (d. 1951). German physicist.
• 1869 – Ellis Parker Butler was born (d. 1937). American author.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas (père) dies. Writer
• 1870 – Vítězslav Novák was born (d. 1949). American composer.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas père dies (b. 1802). French writer.
• 1871 – Bill Pickett was born (d. 1932). American rodeo performer
• 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury was born (d. 1906). American chess player.
• 1872 – Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
• 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie was born (d. 1933). Canadian soldier.
• 1879 – Clyde Cessna was born (d. 1954). American airplane manufacturer.
• 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane was born (d. 1968). American writer and reporter.
• 1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow dies (b. 1804). American poet.
• 1890 – David Bomberg was born (d. 1957). British painter.
• 1890 – Fritz Lang was born (d. 1976). Film director.
• 1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil dies (b. 1825)
• 1892 – Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1892 – Ferdinand Schörner was born (d. 1973). German field marshal.
• 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox was born (d. 1969). American mathematicia.
• 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori was born (d. 1984). Austria-Hungarian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1897 – Nunnally Johnson was born (d. 1977). American screenwriter and producer.
• 1898 – Grace Moore was born (d. 1947). American soprano.
• 1898 – Josh Malihabadi was born (d. 1982). Urdu poet of India and Pakistan.
• 1899 – Henry Tate dies. English industrialist and philanthrope.
• 1901 – Walt Disney was born in Chicago, [d. 1966] American cartoonist and film producer, started an entertainment empire with his creation of animated movies and world-renowned amusement parks.
• 1901 – Milton H. Erickson was born (d. 1980). American psychiatrist
• 1901 – Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Bavaria (d. 1976). German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1902 – Strom Thurmond was born (d. 2003). American politician
• 1903 – Johannes Heesters was born. Dutch singer and actor
• 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell was born (d. 1969). British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1905 – Gus Mancuso was born (d. 1984). Baseball player.
• 1906 – Otto Preminger was born. American producer, director, and actor (He directed is first film The Great Love, in 1931 and a highly acclaimed play, Libel, in 1935; Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Exodus in 1960 …).
• 1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini was born (d. 1993). Italian physicist.
• 1910 – Abraham Polonsky was born (d. 1999). American screenwriter.
• 1911 – Turks defeated by Italian forces at Tripoli.
• 1911 – Władysław Szpilman was born. Polish pianist .
• 1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst was born (d. 1989). German author.
• 1917 – Sidónio Pais, embaixador de Portugal em Berlim de 1912 a 1916, na altura professor da escola de Guerra (Academia Militar), e major, chefiou uma revolução que o levará ao poder três dias depois. O movimento e a situação política que criou será conhecido pelo «Dezembrismo».
• 1925 – Władysław Reymont dies (b. 1867). Polish writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Claude Monet dies. French Impressionist painter
• 1926 – Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin is premiered.
• 1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej was born. King of Thailand
• 1930 – Raúl Brandão dies (b. 12 Mar 1867). Portuguese writer.
• 1931 – Vachel Lindsay dies (b. 1879). American poet.
• 1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow was born. American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) was born. American singer and pianist
• 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States..
• 1932 – The first Ford Model C and V-8 automobile was introduced on this day
• 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America
• 1934 – Joan Didion was born. American novelist
• 1934 – Humberto de Campos dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 25 Oct 1886 in Miritiba, today Humberto de Campos). Brazilian poet and writer.
• 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 1935 – Calvin Trillin was born. American writer.
• 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
• 1938 – J. J. Cale was born in Tusla, Oklahoma. American musician
• 1940 – Peter Pohl was born. Swedish writer
• 1940 – Jan Kubelík dies (b. 1880). Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist.
• 1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
• 1941 – In Battle of Moscow Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
• 1941 – John Steinbeck‘s book Sea of Cortez is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc (see Ed Ricketts) in Cannery Row).
• 1943 – Eva Joly was born. Norwegian-born French magistrate.
• 1944 – Jeroen Krabbé was born. Dutch actor.
• 1945 – Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1946 – José Carreras was born. Spanish tenor.
• 1946 – Andy Kim was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1947 – American boxer Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title against challenger Jersey Joe Walcott in New York City.
• 1947 – Egberto Gismonti was born. Brazilian composer and musician
• 1947 – Jim Messina was born. American musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• 1947 – Jim Plunkett was born. American football player.
• 1949 – Ângela Rô Rô was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1949 – Ray Comfort was born. New Zealand evangelist
• 1949 – Soeiro Pereira Gomes dies (b. 1909). Portuguese neo-realist writer (Esteiros) and comunist militant.
• 1950 – Camarón de la Isla was born (d. 1992). Spanish flamenco singer.
• 1950 – Osvaldo Golijov was born. Argentine-born composer
• 1950 – Shri Aurobindo dies (b. 1872). Indian guru.
• 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven was born. Belgian artist
• 1951 – Morgan Brittany was born. American actress
• 1951 – Abanindranath Tagore dies (b. 1871). Indian writer.
• 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson dies (b. 1889). American baseball player.
• 1952 – The Abbott and Costello Show debuts on America Television, starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. They made only 52 episodes, but the show appeared in reruns for decades.
• 1953 – Larry Zbyszko was born. American professional wrestler
• 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
• 1955 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott, (5 Dec 1955 – 21 Dec 1956).
• 1956 – Brian Backer was born. American actor
• 1956 – Krystian Zimerman was born. Polish pianist.
• 1957 – Art Monk was born. American football player
• 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
• 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK‘s first stretch of motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
• 1958 – Dean Erickson was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Jack Russell was born. American singer (Great White (band))
• 1962 – José Cura was born. Argentine tenor.
• 1963 – Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards was born. British skier.
• 1963 – Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji dies. Indian Hindu mystic.
• 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy dies (b. 1892). Prime Minister Pakistan.
• 1963 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann dies (b. 1905). German composer.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
• 1965 – Johnny Rzeznik was born. American singer (Goo Goo Dolls).
• 1965 – Joseph Erlanger was born (d. 1874). American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 – Patricia Kaas was born. French singer.
• 1966 – Sylvère Maes dies (b. 1909). Belgian cyclist.
• 1967 – Gary Allan was born. American singer.
• 1968 – Margaret Cho was born. American comedian and actress.
• 1968 – Lisa Marie was born. American model and actress.
• 1968 – Fred Clark dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1969 – Lewis Gordon Pugh was born. British swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
• 1969 – Morgan J. Freeman was born. American film director.
• 1970 – Kevin Haller was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1972 – Angela Shelton was born. American actress & writer
• 1972 – Mike Mahoney was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Cliff Floyd was born. Major League Baseball player
• 1973 – Shalom Harlow was born. Model
• 1973 – Lubos Motl was born. Czech physicist
• 1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
• 1975 – Ronnie O’Sullivan was born. British snooker player
• 1976 – United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
• 1976 – Amy Acker was born. American actress
• 1977 – Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt breaks all relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen.
• 1978 – USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”; In an effort to prop up an unpopular pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Afghan government agreeing to provide economic and military assistance.
• 1978 – European Monetary System is created
• 1979 – Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
• 1979 – Matteo Ferrari was born. Italian football player.
• 1979 – Niklas Hagman was born. Finnish hockey player.
• 1979 – Nick Stahl was born. Actor.
• 1979 – Sonia Delaunay dies. French artist.
• 1982 – Eddy Curry was born. American basketball player
• 1982 – Trai Essex was born. American football player
• 1983 – Robert Aldrich dies (b. 9 Aug 1918). American film director.
• 1984 – Chris Solinsky was born. American distance runner.
• 1984 – Adam Malik was born (d. 1917). Third Vice President of Indonesia.
• 1985 – Josh Smith was born. American basketball player
• 1985 – Frankie Muniz was born. American actor.
• 1986 – Sir Edward Youde dies (b. 1924). Governor of Hong Kong.
• 1988 – Ross Bagley was born. American actor.
• 1989 – Sir John Pritchard dies (b. 1921). British conductor.
• 1989 – Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão dies. Portuguese cultural animator.
• 1991 – Richard Speck who’d murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, died in prison a day short of his 50th birthday (b. 1941).
• 1992 – Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on eve of US troop arrival.
• 1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
• 1993 – Doug Hopkins dies (b. 1961). American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms)
• 1995 – Javier Salana, Spanish minister of Foreign Offices is elected UN general-secretary
• 1995 – Benfica is defeated by Bayen Munchen for Uefa Cup
• 2001 – Franco Rasetti dies (b. 1901). Italian physicist
• 2002 – At Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
• 2002 – Roone Arledge dies (b. 1931)., American sports broadcasting pioneer.
• 2002 – Ne Win dies (b. 1911). Burmese leader.
• 2003 – Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia.
• 2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
• 2005 – The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed in Baghdad.
• 2005 – The 2005 Southeast Asian Games end in Manila.
• 2005 – Frits Philips dies (b. 1905). Dutch industrialist and businessman from multinational Philips Electronics.
• 2005 – Edward L. Masry, the personal-injury lawyer portrayed by Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning movie “Erin Brockovich,” died in Thousand Oaks, California, at age 73
• 2005 – Kevin “Big Kev” Mc Quay dies (b. 1949). Australian businessman.
• International Volunteer Day
• R.C. Saints – formerly: Saint Sabas
• Austria – Krampus
• Belgium, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the UK – Saint Nicholas Eve (whom Dutch speakers call Sinterklaas, which became in other languages Santa Claus)
• Thailand – The King‘s Birthday, National Day, Father’s Day
• Day of the Ninja

On this day in History – Dec. 5

• 0749 – Saint John of Damascus dies. Theologian.
• 1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1300).
• 1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China was born (d. 1402)
• 1443 – Pope Julius II was born (d. 1513)
• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witchhunts in European history.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
• 1495 – Nicolas Cleynaerts was born (d. 1542). Flemish grammarian.
• 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki was born (d. 1597). Japanese shogun.
• 1539 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini was born (d. 1604). Italian theologian.
• 1547 – Ubbo Emmius was born (d. 1625). Dutch historian and geographer.
• 1560 – Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.
• 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
• 1595 – Henry Lawes was born (d. 1662). English composer.
• 1624 – Gaspard Bauhin dies (b. 1560). Swiss botanist.
• 1654 – Jean François Sarrazin dies. French writer.
• 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer was born (d. 1724). English statesman.
• 1663 – Severo Bonini dies (b. 1582). Italian composer.
• 1687 – Francesco Geminiani was born (d. 1762). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1715 – Alexander Dalzeel, a Scottish privateer in French service, is executed in London, England.
• 1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye dies (b. 1685). New French explorer and trader.
• 1757 – In his greatest victory, Prussian King Frederick II (the Great) defeated the Austrians at Leuthen during the Seven Years’ War.
• 1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch dies (b. 1688). German composer.
• 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
• 1770 – James Stirling dies (b. 1692). Scottish mathematician.
• 1776 – A group of undergraduates at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia organize an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa. The first of the “Greek letter” societies formed in the US, members met regularly to write, debate, and socialize. They adopted an oath of secrecy, a code of laws, Latin and Greek mottoes, and an elaborate initiation rite.
• 1782 – Martin Van Buren was born (d. 1862). 8th President of the United States
• 1784 – Phillis Wheatley dies in Boston. She was the first African American woman poet of note in the United States
• 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria (b. 1756). Austrian composer
• 1792 – George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president.
• 1803 – Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev was born (d. 1873). Russian poet.
• 1815 – Maceió Brazilian city is founded.
• 1819 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg dies (b. 1750). German poet.
• 1820 – Afanasy Fet was born (d. 1892). Russian poet.
• 1822 – Elizabeth Cary Agassiz was born (d. 1907). American president of Radcliffe College
• 1830 – Christina Rossetti was born (d. 1894). British poet.
• 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
• 1839 – George Armstrong Custer was born (d. 1876). American general.
• 1841 – Marcus Daly was born (d. 1900). American mining tycoon.
• 1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
• 1855 – Clinton Hart Merriam was born (d. 1942). American ornithologist.
• 1859 – John Jellicoe was born (d. 1935). British admiral.
• 1863 – Paul Painlevé was born (d. 1933). French mathematician.
• 1867 – Józef Piłsudski was born (d. 1935). Polish revolutionary and statesman.
• 1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld was born (d. 1951). German physicist.
• 1869 – Ellis Parker Butler was born (d. 1937). American author.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas (père) dies. Writer
• 1870 – Vítězslav Novák was born (d. 1949). American composer.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas père dies (b. 1802). French writer.
• 1871 – Bill Pickett was born (d. 1932). American rodeo performer
• 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury was born (d. 1906). American chess player.
• 1872 – Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
• 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie was born (d. 1933). Canadian soldier.
• 1879 – Clyde Cessna was born (d. 1954). American airplane manufacturer.
• 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane was born (d. 1968). American writer and reporter.
• 1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow dies (b. 1804). American poet.
• 1890 – David Bomberg was born (d. 1957). British painter.
• 1890 – Fritz Lang was born (d. 1976). Film director.
• 1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil dies (b. 1825)
• 1892 – Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1892 – Ferdinand Schörner was born (d. 1973). German field marshal.
• 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox was born (d. 1969). American mathematicia.
• 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori was born (d. 1984). Austria-Hungarian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1897 – Nunnally Johnson was born (d. 1977). American screenwriter and producer.
• 1898 – Grace Moore was born (d. 1947). American soprano.
• 1898 – Josh Malihabadi was born (d. 1982). Urdu poet of India and Pakistan.
• 1899 – Henry Tate dies. English industrialist and philanthrope.
• 1901 – Walt Disney was born in Chicago, [d. 1966] American cartoonist and film producer, started an entertainment empire with his creation of animated movies and world-renowned amusement parks.
• 1901 – Milton H. Erickson was born (d. 1980). American psychiatrist
• 1901 – Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Bavaria (d. 1976). German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1902 – Strom Thurmond was born (d. 2003). American politician
• 1903 – Johannes Heesters was born. Dutch singer and actor
• 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell was born (d. 1969). British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1905 – Gus Mancuso was born (d. 1984). Baseball player.
• 1906 – Otto Preminger was born. American producer, director, and actor (He directed is first film The Great Love, in 1931 and a highly acclaimed play, Libel, in 1935; Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Exodus in 1960 …).
• 1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini was born (d. 1993). Italian physicist.
• 1910 – Abraham Polonsky was born (d. 1999). American screenwriter.
• 1911 – Turks defeated by Italian forces at Tripoli.
• 1911 – Władysław Szpilman was born. Polish pianist .
• 1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst was born (d. 1989). German author.
• 1917 – Sidónio Pais, embaixador de Portugal em Berlim de 1912 a 1916, na altura professor da escola de Guerra (Academia Militar), e major, chefiou uma revolução que o levará ao poder três dias depois. O movimento e a situação política que criou será conhecido pelo «Dezembrismo».
• 1925 – Władysław Reymont dies (b. 1867). Polish writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Claude Monet dies. French Impressionist painter
• 1926 – Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin is premiered.
• 1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej was born. King of Thailand
• 1930 – Raúl Brandão dies (b. 12 Mar 1867). Portuguese writer.
• 1931 – Vachel Lindsay dies (b. 1879). American poet.
• 1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow was born. American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) was born. American singer and pianist
• 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States..
• 1932 – The first Ford Model C and V-8 automobile was introduced on this day
• 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America
• 1934 – Joan Didion was born. American novelist
• 1934 – Humberto de Campos dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 25 Oct 1886 in Miritiba, today Humberto de Campos). Brazilian poet and writer.
• 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 1935 – Calvin Trillin was born. American writer.
• 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
• 1938 – J. J. Cale was born in Tusla, Oklahoma. American musician
• 1940 – Peter Pohl was born. Swedish writer
• 1940 – Jan Kubelík dies (b. 1880). Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist.
• 1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
• 1941 – In Battle of Moscow Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
• 1941 – John Steinbeck‘s book Sea of Cortez is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc (see Ed Ricketts) in Cannery Row).
• 1943 – Eva Joly was born. Norwegian-born French magistrate.
• 1944 – Jeroen Krabbé was born. Dutch actor.
• 1945 – Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1946 – José Carreras was born. Spanish tenor.
• 1946 – Andy Kim was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1947 – American boxer Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title against challenger Jersey Joe Walcott in New York City.
• 1947 – Egberto Gismonti was born. Brazilian composer and musician
• 1947 – Jim Messina was born. American musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• 1947 – Jim Plunkett was born. American football player.
• 1949 – Ângela Rô Rô was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1949 – Ray Comfort was born. New Zealand evangelist
• 1949 – Soeiro Pereira Gomes dies (b. 1909). Portuguese neo-realist writer (Esteiros) and comunist militant.
• 1950 – Camarón de la Isla was born (d. 1992). Spanish flamenco singer.
• 1950 – Osvaldo Golijov was born. Argentine-born composer
• 1950 – Shri Aurobindo dies (b. 1872). Indian guru.
• 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven was born. Belgian artist
• 1951 – Morgan Brittany was born. American actress
• 1951 – Abanindranath Tagore dies (b. 1871). Indian writer.
• 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson dies (b. 1889). American baseball player.
• 1952 – The Abbott and Costello Show debuts on America Television, starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. They made only 52 episodes, but the show appeared in reruns for decades.
• 1953 – Larry Zbyszko was born. American professional wrestler
• 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
• 1955 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott, (5 Dec 1955 – 21 Dec 1956).
• 1956 – Brian Backer was born. American actor
• 1956 – Krystian Zimerman was born. Polish pianist.
• 1957 – Art Monk was born. American football player
• 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
• 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK‘s first stretch of motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
• 1958 – Dean Erickson was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Jack Russell was born. American singer (Great White (band))
• 1962 – José Cura was born. Argentine tenor.
• 1963 – Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards was born. British skier.
• 1963 – Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji dies. Indian Hindu mystic.
• 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy dies (b. 1892). Prime Minister Pakistan.
• 1963 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann dies (b. 1905). German composer.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
• 1965 – Johnny Rzeznik was born. American singer (Goo Goo Dolls).
• 1965 – Joseph Erlanger was born (d. 1874). American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 – Patricia Kaas was born. French singer.
• 1966 – Sylvère Maes dies (b. 1909). Belgian cyclist.
• 1967 – Gary Allan was born. American singer.
• 1968 – Margaret Cho was born. American comedian and actress.
• 1968 – Lisa Marie was born. American model and actress.
• 1968 – Fred Clark dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1969 – Lewis Gordon Pugh was born. British swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
• 1969 – Morgan J. Freeman was born. American film director.
• 1970 – Kevin Haller was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1972 – Angela Shelton was born. American actress & writer
• 1972 – Mike Mahoney was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Cliff Floyd was born. Major League Baseball player
• 1973 – Shalom Harlow was born. Model
• 1973 – Lubos Motl was born. Czech physicist
• 1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
• 1975 – Ronnie O’Sullivan was born. British snooker player
• 1976 – United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
• 1976 – Amy Acker was born. American actress
• 1977 – Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt breaks all relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen.
• 1978 – USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”; In an effort to prop up an unpopular pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Afghan government agreeing to provide economic and military assistance.
• 1978 – European Monetary System is created
• 1979 – Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
• 1979 – Matteo Ferrari was born. Italian football player.
• 1979 – Niklas Hagman was born. Finnish hockey player.
• 1979 – Nick Stahl was born. Actor.
• 1979 – Sonia Delaunay dies. French artist.
• 1982 – Eddy Curry was born. American basketball player
• 1982 – Trai Essex was born. American football player
• 1983 – Robert Aldrich dies (b. 9 Aug 1918). American film director.
• 1984 – Chris Solinsky was born. American distance runner.
• 1984 – Adam Malik was born (d. 1917). Third Vice President of Indonesia.
• 1985 – Josh Smith was born. American basketball player
• 1985 – Frankie Muniz was born. American actor.
• 1986 – Sir Edward Youde dies (b. 1924). Governor of Hong Kong.
• 1988 – Ross Bagley was born. American actor.
• 1989 – Sir John Pritchard dies (b. 1921). British conductor.
• 1989 – Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão dies. Portuguese cultural animator.
• 1991 – Richard Speck who’d murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, died in prison a day short of his 50th birthday (b. 1941).
• 1992 – Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on eve of US troop arrival.
• 1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
• 1993 – Doug Hopkins dies (b. 1961). American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms)
• 1995 – Javier Salana, Spanish minister of Foreign Offices is elected UN general-secretary
• 1995 – Benfica is defeated by Bayen Munchen for Uefa Cup
• 2001 – Franco Rasetti dies (b. 1901). Italian physicist
• 2002 – At Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
• 2002 – Roone Arledge dies (b. 1931)., American sports broadcasting pioneer.
• 2002 – Ne Win dies (b. 1911). Burmese leader.
• 2003 – Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia.
• 2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
• 2005 – The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed in Baghdad.
• 2005 – The 2005 Southeast Asian Games end in Manila.
• 2005 – Frits Philips dies (b. 1905). Dutch industrialist and businessman from multinational Philips Electronics.
• 2005 – Edward L. Masry, the personal-injury lawyer portrayed by Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning movie “Erin Brockovich,” died in Thousand Oaks, California, at age 73
• 2005 – Kevin “Big Kev” Mc Quay dies (b. 1949). Australian businessman.
• International Volunteer Day
• R.C. Saints – formerly: Saint Sabas
• Austria – Krampus
• Belgium, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the UK – Saint Nicholas Eve (whom Dutch speakers call Sinterklaas, which became in other languages Santa Claus)
• Thailand – The King‘s Birthday, National Day, Father’s Day
• Day of the Ninja

On this day in History – Dec. 5

• 0749 – Saint John of Damascus dies. Theologian.
• 1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1300).
• 1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China was born (d. 1402)
• 1443 – Pope Julius II was born (d. 1513)
• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witchhunts in European history.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
• 1495 – Nicolas Cleynaerts was born (d. 1542). Flemish grammarian.
• 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki was born (d. 1597). Japanese shogun.
• 1539 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini was born (d. 1604). Italian theologian.
• 1547 – Ubbo Emmius was born (d. 1625). Dutch historian and geographer.
• 1560 – Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.
• 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
• 1595 – Henry Lawes was born (d. 1662). English composer.
• 1624 – Gaspard Bauhin dies (b. 1560). Swiss botanist.
• 1654 – Jean François Sarrazin dies. French writer.
• 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer was born (d. 1724). English statesman.
• 1663 – Severo Bonini dies (b. 1582). Italian composer.
• 1687 – Francesco Geminiani was born (d. 1762). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1715 – Alexander Dalzeel, a Scottish privateer in French service, is executed in London, England.
• 1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye dies (b. 1685). New French explorer and trader.
• 1757 – In his greatest victory, Prussian King Frederick II (the Great) defeated the Austrians at Leuthen during the Seven Years’ War.
• 1758 – Johann Friedrich Fasch dies (b. 1688). German composer.
• 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
• 1770 – James Stirling dies (b. 1692). Scottish mathematician.
• 1776 – A group of undergraduates at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia organize an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa. The first of the “Greek letter” societies formed in the US, members met regularly to write, debate, and socialize. They adopted an oath of secrecy, a code of laws, Latin and Greek mottoes, and an elaborate initiation rite.
• 1782 – Martin Van Buren was born (d. 1862). 8th President of the United States
• 1784 – Phillis Wheatley dies in Boston. She was the first African American woman poet of note in the United States
• 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria (b. 1756). Austrian composer
• 1792 – George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president.
• 1803 – Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev was born (d. 1873). Russian poet.
• 1815 – Maceió Brazilian city is founded.
• 1819 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg dies (b. 1750). German poet.
• 1820 – Afanasy Fet was born (d. 1892). Russian poet.
• 1822 – Elizabeth Cary Agassiz was born (d. 1907). American president of Radcliffe College
• 1830 – Christina Rossetti was born (d. 1894). British poet.
• 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
• 1839 – George Armstrong Custer was born (d. 1876). American general.
• 1841 – Marcus Daly was born (d. 1900). American mining tycoon.
• 1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
• 1855 – Clinton Hart Merriam was born (d. 1942). American ornithologist.
• 1859 – John Jellicoe was born (d. 1935). British admiral.
• 1863 – Paul Painlevé was born (d. 1933). French mathematician.
• 1867 – Józef Piłsudski was born (d. 1935). Polish revolutionary and statesman.
• 1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld was born (d. 1951). German physicist.
• 1869 – Ellis Parker Butler was born (d. 1937). American author.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas (père) dies. Writer
• 1870 – Vítězslav Novák was born (d. 1949). American composer.
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas père dies (b. 1802). French writer.
• 1871 – Bill Pickett was born (d. 1932). American rodeo performer
• 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury was born (d. 1906). American chess player.
• 1872 – Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
• 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie was born (d. 1933). Canadian soldier.
• 1879 – Clyde Cessna was born (d. 1954). American airplane manufacturer.
• 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane was born (d. 1968). American writer and reporter.
• 1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow dies (b. 1804). American poet.
• 1890 – David Bomberg was born (d. 1957). British painter.
• 1890 – Fritz Lang was born (d. 1976). Film director.
• 1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil dies (b. 1825)
• 1892 – Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1892 – Ferdinand Schörner was born (d. 1973). German field marshal.
• 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox was born (d. 1969). American mathematicia.
• 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori was born (d. 1984). Austria-Hungarian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1897 – Nunnally Johnson was born (d. 1977). American screenwriter and producer.
• 1898 – Grace Moore was born (d. 1947). American soprano.
• 1898 – Josh Malihabadi was born (d. 1982). Urdu poet of India and Pakistan.
• 1899 – Henry Tate dies. English industrialist and philanthrope.
• 1901 – Walt Disney was born in Chicago, [d. 1966] American cartoonist and film producer, started an entertainment empire with his creation of animated movies and world-renowned amusement parks.
• 1901 – Milton H. Erickson was born (d. 1980). American psychiatrist
• 1901 – Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Bavaria (d. 1976). German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1902 – Strom Thurmond was born (d. 2003). American politician
• 1903 – Johannes Heesters was born. Dutch singer and actor
• 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell was born (d. 1969). British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1905 – Gus Mancuso was born (d. 1984). Baseball player.
• 1906 – Otto Preminger was born. American producer, director, and actor (He directed is first film The Great Love, in 1931 and a highly acclaimed play, Libel, in 1935; Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Exodus in 1960 …).
• 1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini was born (d. 1993). Italian physicist.
• 1910 – Abraham Polonsky was born (d. 1999). American screenwriter.
• 1911 – Turks defeated by Italian forces at Tripoli.
• 1911 – Władysław Szpilman was born. Polish pianist .
• 1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst was born (d. 1989). German author.
• 1917 – Sidónio Pais, embaixador de Portugal em Berlim de 1912 a 1916, na altura professor da escola de Guerra (Academia Militar), e major, chefiou uma revolução que o levará ao poder três dias depois. O movimento e a situação política que criou será conhecido pelo «Dezembrismo».
• 1925 – Władysław Reymont dies (b. 1867). Polish writer and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Claude Monet dies. French Impressionist painter
• 1926 – Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin is premiered.
• 1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej was born. King of Thailand
• 1930 – Raúl Brandão dies (b. 12 Mar 1867). Portuguese writer.
• 1931 – Vachel Lindsay dies (b. 1879). American poet.
• 1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow was born. American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) was born. American singer and pianist
• 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States..
• 1932 – The first Ford Model C and V-8 automobile was introduced on this day
• 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America
• 1934 – Joan Didion was born. American novelist
• 1934 – Humberto de Campos dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 25 Oct 1886 in Miritiba, today Humberto de Campos). Brazilian poet and writer.
• 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 1935 – Calvin Trillin was born. American writer.
• 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
• 1938 – J. J. Cale was born in Tusla, Oklahoma. American musician
• 1940 – Peter Pohl was born. Swedish writer
• 1940 – Jan Kubelík dies (b. 1880). Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist.
• 1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
• 1941 – In Battle of Moscow Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
• 1941 – John Steinbeck‘s book Sea of Cortez is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc (see Ed Ricketts) in Cannery Row).
• 1943 – Eva Joly was born. Norwegian-born French magistrate.
• 1944 – Jeroen Krabbé was born. Dutch actor.
• 1945 – Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1946 – José Carreras was born. Spanish tenor.
• 1946 – Andy Kim was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1947 – American boxer Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title against challenger Jersey Joe Walcott in New York City.
• 1947 – Egberto Gismonti was born. Brazilian composer and musician
• 1947 – Jim Messina was born. American musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• 1947 – Jim Plunkett was born. American football player.
• 1949 – Ângela Rô Rô was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1949 – Ray Comfort was born. New Zealand evangelist
• 1949 – Soeiro Pereira Gomes dies (b. 1909). Portuguese neo-realist writer (Esteiros) and comunist militant.
• 1950 – Camarón de la Isla was born (d. 1992). Spanish flamenco singer.
• 1950 – Osvaldo Golijov was born. Argentine-born composer
• 1950 – Shri Aurobindo dies (b. 1872). Indian guru.
• 1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven was born. Belgian artist
• 1951 – Morgan Brittany was born. American actress
• 1951 – Abanindranath Tagore dies (b. 1871). Indian writer.
• 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson dies (b. 1889). American baseball player.
• 1952 – The Abbott and Costello Show debuts on America Television, starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. They made only 52 episodes, but the show appeared in reruns for decades.
• 1953 – Larry Zbyszko was born. American professional wrestler
• 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
• 1955 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott, (5 Dec 1955 – 21 Dec 1956).
• 1956 – Brian Backer was born. American actor
• 1956 – Krystian Zimerman was born. Polish pianist.
• 1957 – Art Monk was born. American football player
• 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
• 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK‘s first stretch of motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
• 1958 – Dean Erickson was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Jack Russell was born. American singer (Great White (band))
• 1962 – José Cura was born. Argentine tenor.
• 1963 – Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards was born. British skier.
• 1963 – Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji dies. Indian Hindu mystic.
• 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy dies (b. 1892). Prime Minister Pakistan.
• 1963 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann dies (b. 1905). German composer.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
• 1965 – Johnny Rzeznik was born. American singer (Goo Goo Dolls).
• 1965 – Joseph Erlanger was born (d. 1874). American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 – Patricia Kaas was born. French singer.
• 1966 – Sylvère Maes dies (b. 1909). Belgian cyclist.
• 1967 – Gary Allan was born. American singer.
• 1968 – Margaret Cho was born. American comedian and actress.
• 1968 – Lisa Marie was born. American model and actress.
• 1968 – Fred Clark dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1969 – Lewis Gordon Pugh was born. British swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
• 1969 – Morgan J. Freeman was born. American film director.
• 1970 – Kevin Haller was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1972 – Angela Shelton was born. American actress & writer
• 1972 – Mike Mahoney was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Cliff Floyd was born. Major League Baseball player
• 1973 – Shalom Harlow was born. Model
• 1973 – Lubos Motl was born. Czech physicist
• 1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
• 1975 – Ronnie O’Sullivan was born. British snooker player
• 1976 – United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
• 1976 – Amy Acker was born. American actress
• 1977 – Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt breaks all relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen.
• 1978 – USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”; In an effort to prop up an unpopular pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Afghan government agreeing to provide economic and military assistance.
• 1978 – European Monetary System is created
• 1979 – Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
• 1979 – Matteo Ferrari was born. Italian football player.
• 1979 – Niklas Hagman was born. Finnish hockey player.
• 1979 – Nick Stahl was born. Actor.
• 1979 – Sonia Delaunay dies. French artist.
• 1982 – Eddy Curry was born. American basketball player
• 1982 – Trai Essex was born. American football player
• 1983 – Robert Aldrich dies (b. 9 Aug 1918). American film director.
• 1984 – Chris Solinsky was born. American distance runner.
• 1984 – Adam Malik was born (d. 1917). Third Vice President of Indonesia.
• 1985 – Josh Smith was born. American basketball player
• 1985 – Frankie Muniz was born. American actor.
• 1986 – Sir Edward Youde dies (b. 1924). Governor of Hong Kong.
• 1988 – Ross Bagley was born. American actor.
• 1989 – Sir John Pritchard dies (b. 1921). British conductor.
• 1989 – Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão dies. Portuguese cultural animator.
• 1991 – Richard Speck who’d murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, died in prison a day short of his 50th birthday (b. 1941).
• 1992 – Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on eve of US troop arrival.
• 1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
• 1993 – Doug Hopkins dies (b. 1961). American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms)
• 1995 – Javier Salana, Spanish minister of Foreign Offices is elected UN general-secretary
• 1995 – Benfica is defeated by Bayen Munchen for Uefa Cup
• 2001 – Franco Rasetti dies (b. 1901). Italian physicist
• 2002 – At Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
• 2002 – Roone Arledge dies (b. 1931)., American sports broadcasting pioneer.
• 2002 – Ne Win dies (b. 1911). Burmese leader.
• 2003 – Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia.
• 2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
• 2005 – The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed in Baghdad.
• 2005 – The 2005 Southeast Asian Games end in Manila.
• 2005 – Frits Philips dies (b. 1905). Dutch industrialist and businessman from multinational Philips Electronics.
• 2005 – Edward L. Masry, the personal-injury lawyer portrayed by Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning movie “Erin Brockovich,” died in Thousand Oaks, California, at age 73
• 2005 – Kevin “Big Kev” Mc Quay dies (b. 1949). Australian businessman.
• International Volunteer Day
• R.C. Saints – formerly: Saint Sabas
• Austria – Krampus
• Belgium, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the UK – Saint Nicholas Eve (whom Dutch speakers call Sinterklaas, which became in other languages Santa Claus)
• Thailand – The King‘s Birthday, National Day, Father’s Day
• Day of the Ninja

On this day in History – Dec. 2 Dezembro 2, 2006

• 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John of Ruysbroeck dies. Flemish mystic
• 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1455 – D. Isabel dies. Queen of Portugal.
• 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria dies (b. 1418)
• 1469 – Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici dies (b. 1416). Ruler of Florence.
• 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba dies (b. 1453). Spanish general and statesman.
• 1547 – Hernán Cortés dies (b. 1485). Spanish explorer and conqueror.
• 1552 – Francis Xavier dies (b. 1506). Spanish Catholic missionary.
• 1578 – Agostino Agazzari was born (d. 1640). Italian composer and music theorist.
• 1594 – Gerardus Mercator dies (b. 1512). Flemish cartographer.
• 1615 – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon dies. French general
• 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet dies (b. 1588). French socialite.
• 1694 – William Shirley was born (d. 1771). Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
• 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget dies (b. 1622). French artist.
• 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak was born (d. 1759). Croatian explorer
• 1710 – Bertinazzi was born (d. 1783). Italian actor and writer.
• 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel dies (b. 1634). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1723 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1674). Regent of France.
• 1726 – Samuel Penhallow dies (b. 1665). English-born American colonist and historian.
• 1738 – Richard Montgomery was born (d. 1775). Irish-born American soldier.
• 1747 – Vincent Bourne dies (b. 1695). English classical scholar.
• 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1662). English politician.
• 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1760 – John Breckinridge was born (d. 1806). American politician.
• 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola dies (b. 1720). German composer and organist.
• 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years by Pope Pius VII.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo–Austrian force.
• 1814 – Marquis de Sade dies (b. 1740). French writer.
• 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel was born (d. 1895). German historian.
• 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was born (d. 1891).
• 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko dies (b. 1768). Polish general and politician.
• 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was born (d. 1904). French statesman
• 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
• 1849 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen dies (b. 1792). Queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• 1851 – Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1852 – Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
• 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged in Charlestown, Virginia, for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• 1859 – John Brown dies (hanged) (b. 1800). American abolitionist.
• 1859 – Georges Seurat was born (d. 1891). French painter and founder of Neoimpressionism
• 1860 – Alfred Bunn dies (b. 1796). British theatrical manager.
• 1861 – The small Oregon town of Champoeg is flooded by the Willamette River. No deaths occurred.
• 1863 – Charles Ringling was born (d. 1926). American circus owner.
• 1867 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1877 – French physicist Louis Paul Cailletet liquefies oxygen; he later liquefies hydrogen, nitrogen, and air.
• 1884 – Ruth Draper was born in New York City. American monologuist and monodramatist
• 1885 – George Richards Minot was born (d. 1950). American physician and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 – Otto Dix was born (d. 1969). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 – Leo Ornstein was born (d. 2002). Russian-born American composer and pianist.
• 1892 – Jay Gould dies (b. 1836). American entrepreneur.
• 1895 – Harriet Cohen was born (d. 1967). British pianist.
• 1898 – Indra Lal Roy was born (d. 1918). Indian pilot.
• 1899 – John Barbirolli was born (d. 1970). British conductor.
• 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
• 1901 – Raimundo Orsi was born (d. 1986). Argentinian/Italian international footballer and World Cup winner.
• 1906 – Peter Goldmark was born (d. 1977). Hungarian-born American Columbia Records engineer.
• 1914 – Adolph Green was born (d. 2002). American composer.
• 1914 – Ray Walston was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1918 – Edmond Rostand dies (b. 1868). French poet.
• 1923 – Maria Callas was born (d. 1977). American soprano.
• 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr. was born. American politician.
• 1924 – Kazimieras Būga dies (b. 1879). Lithuanian philologist.
• 1925 – Julie Harris was born. American actress.
• 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1930 – Gary Becker was born. American economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1931 – Edwin Meese was born. American politician.
• 1931 – Vincent d’Indy dies (b. 1851). French composer.
• 1932 – Vítor Crespo was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1933 – Michael Larrabee was born (d. 2003).American athlete.
• 1933 – K.Veeramani was born. Indian leader of Dravidar Kazhagam.
• 1934 – Andre Rodgers was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1935 – David Hackett Fischer was born. American historian.
• 1936 – John Ringling dies (b. 1866). American circus owner.
• 1938 – Aurelio Mosquera Narváez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador.
• 1939 – Yael Dayan was born. Palestinian-born Israeli writer and politician.
• 1939 – Harry Reid was born. American politician.
• 1939 – New York City‘s La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1940 – Sanches Osório was born. Portuguese militar. Important revolutionary personality on 25 April 1974 movement.
• 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 – Wayne Allard was born. American politician.
• 1943 – Nordahl Grieg dies (b. 1902). Norwegian author and journalist.
• 1944 – Botho Strauß was born. German author.
• 1944 – Josef Lhévinne dies (b. 1874). Russian pianist.
• 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies (b. 1876). Italian fascist.
• 1945 – Pedras Rubras Airport (Portugal) is inaugurated.
• 1945 – Penelope Spheeris was born. American film director
• 1946 – British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
• 1946 – Gianni Versace was born (d. 1997). Italian fashion designer.
• 1946 – John Banks was born. New Zealand politician
• 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1950 – Dinu Lipatti dies (b. 1917). Romanian pianist.
• 1952 – Michael McDonald was born. American musician.
• 1954 – Dan Butler was born. American actor.
• 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
• 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC.
• 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten was born. Norwegian politician.
• 1957 – Harrison Ford dies (b. 1884). American actor.
• 1957 – Manfred Sakel dies (b. 1902). Polish psychiatrist.
• 1960 – Rick Savage was born. British bassist (Def Leppard) .
• 1961 – In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
• 1962 – Tracy Austin was born. American tennis player.
• 1963 – Thomas J. Hicks dies (b. 1875). British-born American marathon runner and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1963 – Sabu Dastagir dies (b. 1924). Indian-born American actor.
• 1968 – Lucy Liu was born. American actress.
• 1968 – Nate Mendel was born. American bassist (Foo Fighters).
• 1968 – Chris Wedge was born. American animator.
• 1968 – Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson) dies (b. 1902). Estonian painter.
• 1969 – Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov dies (b. 1881). Russian politician.
• 1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman was born.American comedian.
• 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1971 – Francesco Toldo was born in Padova. Italian football player (goal-keeper) Internazionale
• 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1972 – Edson Carneiro dies (b. 1912). Brazilian writer.
• 1973 – Monica Seles was born. Yugoslav-born American tennis player.
• 1973 – Jan Ullrich was born. German cyclist.
• 1973 – Virgínia Rau dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1974 – Max Weber dies (b. 1897). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
• 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
• 1976 – Danny Murtaugh dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 1978 – Nelly Furtado was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld was born. German singer and actress.
• 1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
• 1980 – Romain Gary dies (b. 1914). Russian-born French writer.
• 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali dies (b. 1905). Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1981 – Britney Spears was born. American singer.
• 1982 – Marty Feldman dies (b. 1933). British comedian.
• 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1983 – Fifi d’Orsay dies (b. 1904). Canadian actress.
• 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce dies (b. 1914). American gangster.
• 1985 – Philip Larkin dies (b. 1922). English writer and jazz critic.
• 1986 – Desi Arnaz dies (b. 1917). Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer.
• 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir dies (b. 1906). French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1970.
• 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich dies (b. 1914). Russian physicist.
• 1987 – Juan Alberto Melgar Castro dies. President of Honduras (1975-1978) .
• 1988 – Tata Giacobetti dies. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) .
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 – A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 1990 – António Dacosta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 – Aaron Copland dies (b. 1900). American composer.
• 1990 – Robert Cummings dies (b. 1908). American film and television actor.
• 1991 – Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
• 1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
• 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1993 – Pablo Escobar dies (b. 1949). Colombian drug dealer.
• 1995 – Robertson Davies dies (b. 1913). Canadian novelist.
• 1997 – Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree) dies (b. 1930). British professional wrestler.
• 1998 – D. Américo do Couto Oliveira dies. Portuguese bishop (Bishop of Lamego).
• 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2000 – The Smashing Pumpkins perform for the last time at The Metro in Chicago.
• 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2002 – Ivan Illich dies (b. 1926). Austrian priest and philosopher.
• 2002 – Arno Peters dies (b. 1916). German historian.
• 2003 – Alan Davidson dies (b. 1924). British author.
• 2004 – Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News.
• 2004 – Mona Van Duyn dies (b. 1921). American poet.
• 2004 – Alicia Markova dies (b. 1910). British ballerina.
• 2005 – New German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first official visit to Poland on Friday against the backdrop of simmering resentment about a controversial World War II memorial project.
• 2005 – Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is launched in Europe.
• 2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen (b. 1980) is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
• 2005 – Kenneth Boyd (b. 1948) becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
• 2005 – Malik Joyeux dies. Tahiti born surfer, tragically died at the world’s most dangerous break, Pipeline, Hawaii.
• Feast day of St Bibiana.
• Laos – National Day
• United Arab Emirates – National Day (independence from Britain, 1971)
• International Day for the day Abolition of Slavery – United Nations

On this day in History – Dec. 2

• 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John of Ruysbroeck dies. Flemish mystic
• 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1455 – D. Isabel dies. Queen of Portugal.
• 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria dies (b. 1418)
• 1469 – Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici dies (b. 1416). Ruler of Florence.
• 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba dies (b. 1453). Spanish general and statesman.
• 1547 – Hernán Cortés dies (b. 1485). Spanish explorer and conqueror.
• 1552 – Francis Xavier dies (b. 1506). Spanish Catholic missionary.
• 1578 – Agostino Agazzari was born (d. 1640). Italian composer and music theorist.
• 1594 – Gerardus Mercator dies (b. 1512). Flemish cartographer.
• 1615 – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon dies. French general
• 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet dies (b. 1588). French socialite.
• 1694 – William Shirley was born (d. 1771). Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
• 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget dies (b. 1622). French artist.
• 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak was born (d. 1759). Croatian explorer
• 1710 – Bertinazzi was born (d. 1783). Italian actor and writer.
• 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel dies (b. 1634). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1723 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1674). Regent of France.
• 1726 – Samuel Penhallow dies (b. 1665). English-born American colonist and historian.
• 1738 – Richard Montgomery was born (d. 1775). Irish-born American soldier.
• 1747 – Vincent Bourne dies (b. 1695). English classical scholar.
• 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1662). English politician.
• 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1760 – John Breckinridge was born (d. 1806). American politician.
• 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola dies (b. 1720). German composer and organist.
• 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years by Pope Pius VII.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo–Austrian force.
• 1814 – Marquis de Sade dies (b. 1740). French writer.
• 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel was born (d. 1895). German historian.
• 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was born (d. 1891).
• 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko dies (b. 1768). Polish general and politician.
• 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was born (d. 1904). French statesman
• 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
• 1849 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen dies (b. 1792). Queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• 1851 – Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1852 – Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
• 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged in Charlestown, Virginia, for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• 1859 – John Brown dies (hanged) (b. 1800). American abolitionist.
• 1859 – Georges Seurat was born (d. 1891). French painter and founder of Neoimpressionism
• 1860 – Alfred Bunn dies (b. 1796). British theatrical manager.
• 1861 – The small Oregon town of Champoeg is flooded by the Willamette River. No deaths occurred.
• 1863 – Charles Ringling was born (d. 1926). American circus owner.
• 1867 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1877 – French physicist Louis Paul Cailletet liquefies oxygen; he later liquefies hydrogen, nitrogen, and air.
• 1884 – Ruth Draper was born in New York City. American monologuist and monodramatist
• 1885 – George Richards Minot was born (d. 1950). American physician and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 – Otto Dix was born (d. 1969). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 – Leo Ornstein was born (d. 2002). Russian-born American composer and pianist.
• 1892 – Jay Gould dies (b. 1836). American entrepreneur.
• 1895 – Harriet Cohen was born (d. 1967). British pianist.
• 1898 – Indra Lal Roy was born (d. 1918). Indian pilot.
• 1899 – John Barbirolli was born (d. 1970). British conductor.
• 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
• 1901 – Raimundo Orsi was born (d. 1986). Argentinian/Italian international footballer and World Cup winner.
• 1906 – Peter Goldmark was born (d. 1977). Hungarian-born American Columbia Records engineer.
• 1914 – Adolph Green was born (d. 2002). American composer.
• 1914 – Ray Walston was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1918 – Edmond Rostand dies (b. 1868). French poet.
• 1923 – Maria Callas was born (d. 1977). American soprano.
• 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr. was born. American politician.
• 1924 – Kazimieras Būga dies (b. 1879). Lithuanian philologist.
• 1925 – Julie Harris was born. American actress.
• 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1930 – Gary Becker was born. American economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1931 – Edwin Meese was born. American politician.
• 1931 – Vincent d’Indy dies (b. 1851). French composer.
• 1932 – Vítor Crespo was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1933 – Michael Larrabee was born (d. 2003).American athlete.
• 1933 – K.Veeramani was born. Indian leader of Dravidar Kazhagam.
• 1934 – Andre Rodgers was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1935 – David Hackett Fischer was born. American historian.
• 1936 – John Ringling dies (b. 1866). American circus owner.
• 1938 – Aurelio Mosquera Narváez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador.
• 1939 – Yael Dayan was born. Palestinian-born Israeli writer and politician.
• 1939 – Harry Reid was born. American politician.
• 1939 – New York City‘s La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1940 – Sanches Osório was born. Portuguese militar. Important revolutionary personality on 25 April 1974 movement.
• 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 – Wayne Allard was born. American politician.
• 1943 – Nordahl Grieg dies (b. 1902). Norwegian author and journalist.
• 1944 – Botho Strauß was born. German author.
• 1944 – Josef Lhévinne dies (b. 1874). Russian pianist.
• 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies (b. 1876). Italian fascist.
• 1945 – Pedras Rubras Airport (Portugal) is inaugurated.
• 1945 – Penelope Spheeris was born. American film director
• 1946 – British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
• 1946 – Gianni Versace was born (d. 1997). Italian fashion designer.
• 1946 – John Banks was born. New Zealand politician
• 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1950 – Dinu Lipatti dies (b. 1917). Romanian pianist.
• 1952 – Michael McDonald was born. American musician.
• 1954 – Dan Butler was born. American actor.
• 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
• 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC.
• 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten was born. Norwegian politician.
• 1957 – Harrison Ford dies (b. 1884). American actor.
• 1957 – Manfred Sakel dies (b. 1902). Polish psychiatrist.
• 1960 – Rick Savage was born. British bassist (Def Leppard) .
• 1961 – In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
• 1962 – Tracy Austin was born. American tennis player.
• 1963 – Thomas J. Hicks dies (b. 1875). British-born American marathon runner and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1963 – Sabu Dastagir dies (b. 1924). Indian-born American actor.
• 1968 – Lucy Liu was born. American actress.
• 1968 – Nate Mendel was born. American bassist (Foo Fighters).
• 1968 – Chris Wedge was born. American animator.
• 1968 – Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson) dies (b. 1902). Estonian painter.
• 1969 – Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov dies (b. 1881). Russian politician.
• 1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman was born.American comedian.
• 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1971 – Francesco Toldo was born in Padova. Italian football player (goal-keeper) Internazionale
• 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1972 – Edson Carneiro dies (b. 1912). Brazilian writer.
• 1973 – Monica Seles was born. Yugoslav-born American tennis player.
• 1973 – Jan Ullrich was born. German cyclist.
• 1973 – Virgínia Rau dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1974 – Max Weber dies (b. 1897). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
• 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
• 1976 – Danny Murtaugh dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 1978 – Nelly Furtado was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld was born. German singer and actress.
• 1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
• 1980 – Romain Gary dies (b. 1914). Russian-born French writer.
• 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali dies (b. 1905). Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1981 – Britney Spears was born. American singer.
• 1982 – Marty Feldman dies (b. 1933). British comedian.
• 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1983 – Fifi d’Orsay dies (b. 1904). Canadian actress.
• 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce dies (b. 1914). American gangster.
• 1985 – Philip Larkin dies (b. 1922). English writer and jazz critic.
• 1986 – Desi Arnaz dies (b. 1917). Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer.
• 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir dies (b. 1906). French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1970.
• 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich dies (b. 1914). Russian physicist.
• 1987 – Juan Alberto Melgar Castro dies. President of Honduras (1975-1978) .
• 1988 – Tata Giacobetti dies. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) .
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 – A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 1990 – António Dacosta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 – Aaron Copland dies (b. 1900). American composer.
• 1990 – Robert Cummings dies (b. 1908). American film and television actor.
• 1991 – Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
• 1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
• 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1993 – Pablo Escobar dies (b. 1949). Colombian drug dealer.
• 1995 – Robertson Davies dies (b. 1913). Canadian novelist.
• 1997 – Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree) dies (b. 1930). British professional wrestler.
• 1998 – D. Américo do Couto Oliveira dies. Portuguese bishop (Bishop of Lamego).
• 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2000 – The Smashing Pumpkins perform for the last time at The Metro in Chicago.
• 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2002 – Ivan Illich dies (b. 1926). Austrian priest and philosopher.
• 2002 – Arno Peters dies (b. 1916). German historian.
• 2003 – Alan Davidson dies (b. 1924). British author.
• 2004 – Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News.
• 2004 – Mona Van Duyn dies (b. 1921). American poet.
• 2004 – Alicia Markova dies (b. 1910). British ballerina.
• 2005 – New German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first official visit to Poland on Friday against the backdrop of simmering resentment about a controversial World War II memorial project.
• 2005 – Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is launched in Europe.
• 2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen (b. 1980) is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
• 2005 – Kenneth Boyd (b. 1948) becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
• 2005 – Malik Joyeux dies. Tahiti born surfer, tragically died at the world’s most dangerous break, Pipeline, Hawaii.
• Feast day of St Bibiana.
• Laos – National Day
• United Arab Emirates – National Day (independence from Britain, 1971)
• International Day for the day Abolition of Slavery – United Nations

On this day in History – Dec. 2

• 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John of Ruysbroeck dies. Flemish mystic
• 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1455 – D. Isabel dies. Queen of Portugal.
• 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria dies (b. 1418)
• 1469 – Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici dies (b. 1416). Ruler of Florence.
• 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba dies (b. 1453). Spanish general and statesman.
• 1547 – Hernán Cortés dies (b. 1485). Spanish explorer and conqueror.
• 1552 – Francis Xavier dies (b. 1506). Spanish Catholic missionary.
• 1578 – Agostino Agazzari was born (d. 1640). Italian composer and music theorist.
• 1594 – Gerardus Mercator dies (b. 1512). Flemish cartographer.
• 1615 – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon dies. French general
• 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet dies (b. 1588). French socialite.
• 1694 – William Shirley was born (d. 1771). Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
• 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget dies (b. 1622). French artist.
• 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak was born (d. 1759). Croatian explorer
• 1710 – Bertinazzi was born (d. 1783). Italian actor and writer.
• 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel dies (b. 1634). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1723 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1674). Regent of France.
• 1726 – Samuel Penhallow dies (b. 1665). English-born American colonist and historian.
• 1738 – Richard Montgomery was born (d. 1775). Irish-born American soldier.
• 1747 – Vincent Bourne dies (b. 1695). English classical scholar.
• 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1662). English politician.
• 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1760 – John Breckinridge was born (d. 1806). American politician.
• 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola dies (b. 1720). German composer and organist.
• 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years by Pope Pius VII.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo–Austrian force.
• 1814 – Marquis de Sade dies (b. 1740). French writer.
• 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel was born (d. 1895). German historian.
• 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was born (d. 1891).
• 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko dies (b. 1768). Polish general and politician.
• 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was born (d. 1904). French statesman
• 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
• 1849 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen dies (b. 1792). Queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• 1851 – Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1852 – Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
• 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged in Charlestown, Virginia, for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• 1859 – John Brown dies (hanged) (b. 1800). American abolitionist.
• 1859 – Georges Seurat was born (d. 1891). French painter and founder of Neoimpressionism
• 1860 – Alfred Bunn dies (b. 1796). British theatrical manager.
• 1861 – The small Oregon town of Champoeg is flooded by the Willamette River. No deaths occurred.
• 1863 – Charles Ringling was born (d. 1926). American circus owner.
• 1867 – In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1877 – French physicist Louis Paul Cailletet liquefies oxygen; he later liquefies hydrogen, nitrogen, and air.
• 1884 – Ruth Draper was born in New York City. American monologuist and monodramatist
• 1885 – George Richards Minot was born (d. 1950). American physician and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 – Otto Dix was born (d. 1969). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 – Leo Ornstein was born (d. 2002). Russian-born American composer and pianist.
• 1892 – Jay Gould dies (b. 1836). American entrepreneur.
• 1895 – Harriet Cohen was born (d. 1967). British pianist.
• 1898 – Indra Lal Roy was born (d. 1918). Indian pilot.
• 1899 – John Barbirolli was born (d. 1970). British conductor.
• 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
• 1901 – Raimundo Orsi was born (d. 1986). Argentinian/Italian international footballer and World Cup winner.
• 1906 – Peter Goldmark was born (d. 1977). Hungarian-born American Columbia Records engineer.
• 1914 – Adolph Green was born (d. 2002). American composer.
• 1914 – Ray Walston was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1918 – Edmond Rostand dies (b. 1868). French poet.
• 1923 – Maria Callas was born (d. 1977). American soprano.
• 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr. was born. American politician.
• 1924 – Kazimieras Būga dies (b. 1879). Lithuanian philologist.
• 1925 – Julie Harris was born. American actress.
• 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1930 – Gary Becker was born. American economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1931 – Edwin Meese was born. American politician.
• 1931 – Vincent d’Indy dies (b. 1851). French composer.
• 1932 – Vítor Crespo was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1933 – Michael Larrabee was born (d. 2003).American athlete.
• 1933 – K.Veeramani was born. Indian leader of Dravidar Kazhagam.
• 1934 – Andre Rodgers was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1935 – David Hackett Fischer was born. American historian.
• 1936 – John Ringling dies (b. 1866). American circus owner.
• 1938 – Aurelio Mosquera Narváez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador.
• 1939 – Yael Dayan was born. Palestinian-born Israeli writer and politician.
• 1939 – Harry Reid was born. American politician.
• 1939 – New York City‘s La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1940 – Sanches Osório was born. Portuguese militar. Important revolutionary personality on 25 April 1974 movement.
• 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 – Wayne Allard was born. American politician.
• 1943 – Nordahl Grieg dies (b. 1902). Norwegian author and journalist.
• 1944 – Botho Strauß was born. German author.
• 1944 – Josef Lhévinne dies (b. 1874). Russian pianist.
• 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies (b. 1876). Italian fascist.
• 1945 – Pedras Rubras Airport (Portugal) is inaugurated.
• 1945 – Penelope Spheeris was born. American film director
• 1946 – British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
• 1946 – Gianni Versace was born (d. 1997). Italian fashion designer.
• 1946 – John Banks was born. New Zealand politician
• 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1950 – Dinu Lipatti dies (b. 1917). Romanian pianist.
• 1952 – Michael McDonald was born. American musician.
• 1954 – Dan Butler was born. American actor.
• 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
• 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC.
• 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten was born. Norwegian politician.
• 1957 – Harrison Ford dies (b. 1884). American actor.
• 1957 – Manfred Sakel dies (b. 1902). Polish psychiatrist.
• 1960 – Rick Savage was born. British bassist (Def Leppard) .
• 1961 – In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
• 1962 – Tracy Austin was born. American tennis player.
• 1963 – Thomas J. Hicks dies (b. 1875). British-born American marathon runner and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1963 – Sabu Dastagir dies (b. 1924). Indian-born American actor.
• 1968 – Lucy Liu was born. American actress.
• 1968 – Nate Mendel was born. American bassist (Foo Fighters).
• 1968 – Chris Wedge was born. American animator.
• 1968 – Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson) dies (b. 1902). Estonian painter.
• 1969 – Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov dies (b. 1881). Russian politician.
• 1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman was born.American comedian.
• 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1971 – Francesco Toldo was born in Padova. Italian football player (goal-keeper) Internazionale
• 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1972 – Edson Carneiro dies (b. 1912). Brazilian writer.
• 1973 – Monica Seles was born. Yugoslav-born American tennis player.
• 1973 – Jan Ullrich was born. German cyclist.
• 1973 – Virgínia Rau dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1974 – Max Weber dies (b. 1897). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
• 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
• 1976 – Danny Murtaugh dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 1978 – Nelly Furtado was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld was born. German singer and actress.
• 1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
• 1980 – Romain Gary dies (b. 1914). Russian-born French writer.
• 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali dies (b. 1905). Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1981 – Britney Spears was born. American singer.
• 1982 – Marty Feldman dies (b. 1933). British comedian.
• 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1983 – Fifi d’Orsay dies (b. 1904). Canadian actress.
• 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce dies (b. 1914). American gangster.
• 1985 – Philip Larkin dies (b. 1922). English writer and jazz critic.
• 1986 – Desi Arnaz dies (b. 1917). Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer.
• 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir dies (b. 1906). French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1970.
• 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich dies (b. 1914). Russian physicist.
• 1987 – Juan Alberto Melgar Castro dies. President of Honduras (1975-1978) .
• 1988 – Tata Giacobetti dies. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) .
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 – A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 1990 – António Dacosta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 – Aaron Copland dies (b. 1900). American composer.
• 1990 – Robert Cummings dies (b. 1908). American film and television actor.
• 1991 – Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
• 1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
• 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1993 – Pablo Escobar dies (b. 1949). Colombian drug dealer.
• 1995 – Robertson Davies dies (b. 1913). Canadian novelist.
• 1997 – Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree) dies (b. 1930). British professional wrestler.
• 1998 – D. Américo do Couto Oliveira dies. Portuguese bishop (Bishop of Lamego).
• 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2000 – The Smashing Pumpkins perform for the last time at The Metro in Chicago.
• 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2002 – Ivan Illich dies (b. 1926). Austrian priest and philosopher.
• 2002 – Arno Peters dies (b. 1916). German historian.
• 2003 – Alan Davidson dies (b. 1924). British author.
• 2004 – Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News.
• 2004 – Mona Van Duyn dies (b. 1921). American poet.
• 2004 – Alicia Markova dies (b. 1910). British ballerina.
• 2005 – New German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first official visit to Poland on Friday against the backdrop of simmering resentment about a controversial World War II memorial project.
• 2005 – Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is launched in Europe.
• 2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen (b. 1980) is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
• 2005 – Kenneth Boyd (b. 1948) becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
• 2005 – Malik Joyeux dies. Tahiti born surfer, tragically died at the world’s most dangerous break, Pipeline, Hawaii.
• Feast day of St Bibiana.
• Laos – National Day
• United Arab Emirates – National Day (independence from Britain, 1971)
• International Day for the day Abolition of Slavery – United Nations

On this day in History – Nov. 30 Novembro 30, 2006

• 0539 – Gregory of Tours was born (d. 0594). French bishop and historian.
• 1016 – Edmund II of England dies
• 1340 – John, Duke of Berry was born (d. 1416). Son of John II of France
• 1364 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel was born (d. 1390). English soldier.
• 1466 – Andrea Doria was born (d. 1560). Italian naval leader.
• 1508 – Andrea Palladio was born (d. 1580). Italian architect.
• 1554 – Philip Sidney was born (d. 1586). English courtier, soldier, and writer.
• 1580 – Richard Farrant dies. English composer
• 1594 – John Cosin was born (d. 1672). English clergyman.
• 1603 – William Gilbert died (born 24 May 1544). English scientist, the “father of electrical studies” and a pioneer researcher into magnetism, who spent years investigating magnetic and electrical attractions
• 1625 – Jean Domat was born (d. 1696). French jurist.
• 1626 – Thomas Weelkes dies. English composer
• 1637 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was born (d. 1698). French historian.
• 1654 – John Selden dies (b. 1584). English jurist and oriental scholar
• 1667 – Jonathan Swift was born (d. 1745). Irish writer and satirist.
• 1670 – John Toland was born (d. 1722). Irish philosopher.
• 1675 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore dies (b. 1605). Governor of Maryland.
• 1683 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller was born (d. 1744). Austrian field marshal.
• 1703 – Nicolas de Grigny dies (b. 1672). French organist and composer.
• 1705 – Catherine of Braganza dies (b. 1638). Wife of Charles II of England.
• 1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden dies killed during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, east of Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden’s “Age of Greatness.” (b. 1682)
• 1719 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was born (d. 1772). Princess of Wales.
• 1722 – Theodore Gardelle was born (d. 1761). Swiss painter and enameler.
• 1723 – William Livingston was born (d. 1790). Revolutionary Governor of New Jersey.
• 1756 – Ernst Chladni was born (d. 1827). German physicist.
• 1761 – John Dollond dies (b. 1706). British optician
• 1765 – George Glas dies (b. 1725). British merchant and adventurer
• 1768 – Jędrzej Śniadecki was born (d. 1837). Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist
• 1781 – Alexander Berry was born (d. 1873). British adventurer.
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
• 1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg–Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
• 1796 – Carl Loewe was born (d. 1869). German composer.
• 1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1804 – The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1810 – Oliver Winchester was born (d. 1880). American gunsmith.
• 1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann was born (d. 1890). French poet.
• 1813 – Charles-Valentin Alkan was born (d. 1888). French composer.
• 1817 – Theodor Mommsen was born (d. 1903). German author and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1821 – Frederick Temple was born (d. 1902). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1830 – Pope Pius VIII dies (b. 1761)
• 1835 – Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorn Clemens] was born in Florida (d. 1910). American writer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
• 1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish was born (d. 1882). British politician.
• 1839 – Guilherme de Azevedo was born in Santarém (d. 1882). Portuguese writer.
• 1840 – Henry Birks was born (d. 1928). Canadian businessman.
• 1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was born (d. 1909). Brazilian president.
• 1853 – Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.
• 1857 – José de Sampaio Bruno was born. Portuguese essayst and politician.
• 1857 – Bobby Abel was born (d. 1936). English test cricketer.
• 1858 – Jagdish Chandra Bose was born (d. 1937). Indian Physicist.
• 1863 – Andres Bonifacio was born (d. 1897). Head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK)
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
• 1868 – A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
• 1869 – Gustaf Dalén was born (d. 1937). Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England (0-0) .
• 1874 – Sir Winston Churchill was born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery was born (d. 1942). Canadian author.
• 1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian was born (d. 1977). British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 – Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum novarum” published.
• 1898 – Firpo Marberry was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
• 1900 – Oscar Wilde dies in Paris (b. 1854). Irish writer.
• 1901 – Edward John Eyre dies (b. 1815). British explorer.
• 1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
• 1904 – Clyfford Still was born (d. 1980). American painter.
• 1907 – Jacques Barzun was born. French-born historian and author.
• 1909 – Robert Nighthawk was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1912 – Gordon Parks was born. American director and writer.
• 1915 – Brownie McGhee was born (d. 1996). American blues musician.
• 1915 – Henry Taube was born (d. 2005). Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1918 – Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom. Learn more about Iceland.
• 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1920 – Virginia Mayo was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky dies (b. 1867). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1924 – Shirley Chisholm was born. American politician.
• 1924 – Allan Sherman was born (d. 1973). American comedian.
• 1926 – Richard Crenna was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1927 – Robert Guillaume was born. American actor.
• 1929 – Dick Clark was born. American television host.
• 1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney was born. American children’s television pioneer.
• 1930 – G. Gordon Liddy was born. Watergate operative
• 1931 – Jack Ging was born. American actor.
• 1931 – Bill Walsh was born. American football coach.
• 1932 – Bob Moore was born. American bassist and orchestra leader
• 1933 – Sir Arthur Currie dies (b. 1875). Canadian general.
• 1935 – Fernando Pessoa dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Jun 1888). Portuguese poet. He used several heteronimous: Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis e Álvaro de Campos.
• 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire. It was the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years.
• 1936 – Abbie Hoffman was born (d. 1989). American activist.
• 1936 – Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was born. Russian mathematician
• 1937 – Paul Stookey was born. American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
• 1937 – Frank Ifield was born. Australian/British singer
• 1937 – Ridley Scott was born. British film director.
• 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1940 – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1942 – World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
• 1943 – Etty Hillesum dies executed (b. 1914). Dutch diarist.
• 1943 – Terrence Malick was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1945 – Roger Glover was born. British bassist (Deep Purple)
• 1947 – David Mamet was born. American playwright.
• 1951 – Christian Bernard was born. Mystic.
• 1951 – June Chadwick was born. British actress.
• 1952 – Mandy Patinkin was born. American actor and singer.
• 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1953 – June Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 1953 – Francis Picabia dies (b. 1857). French painter and poet.
• 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
• 1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler dies (b. 1886). German conductor.
• 1955 – Josip Solcer-Slavenski dies (b. 1896). Croatian composer.
• 1955 – Billy Idol was born. British musician.
• 1957 – Colin Mochrie was born. British-born Canadian comedian.
• 1957 – Andrew Calhoun was born. American musician.
• 1957 – Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 .
• 1957 – Beniamino Gigli dies (b. 1890). Italian tenor.
• 1958 – Juliette Bergmann was born. Dutch bodybuilder.
• 1958 – Stacey Q was born. American dance-pop singer
• 1958 – Hubert Wilkins dies (b. 1888). Australian polar explorer.
• 1959 – Lorraine Kelly was born. British presenter and journalist
• 1960 – Rich Fields was born. TV personality
• 1960 – Gary Lineker was born. English international footballer.
• 1960 – Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
• 1962 – Bo Jackson was born. American football and baseball player.
• 1962 – Daniel Keys Moran was born. American writer.
• 1962 – The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
• 1964 – Jushin Liger was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1965 – Aldair was born. Brazilian international footballer
• 1965 – Ben Stiller was born. American actor and writer.
• 1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 – Ed Kemper was born.American actor
• 1966 – Mika Salo was born. Finnish Formula 1 Driver
• 1967 – The People’s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
• 1967 – Patrick Kavanagh dies (b. 1904). Irish poet.
• 1968 – Des’ree dies. British soul/pop singer
• 1968 – Laurent Jalabert dies. French cyclist
• 1969 – Marc Goossens dies. Belgian racing driver
• 1971 – Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
• 1971 – Ray Durham was born. American baseball player
• 1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
• 1972 – Abel Xavier was born. Portuguese international footballer.
• 1973 – Jason Reso was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 – John Moyer was born. American bassist (Disturbed)
• 1974 – Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia‘s Afar Depression.
• 1975 – Ben Thatcher was born. Welsh international football player.
• 1975 – Mindy McCready was born. American musican.
• 1976 – Josh Lewsey was born. England national and London Wasps Rugby union player
• 1977 – Sophia de Mello Breyner, Portuguese poetess is laureate with The Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize.
• 1978 – Clay Aiken was born. American singer.
• 1978 – Gael Garcia Bernal was born. Mexican actor
• 1979 – Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
• 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
• 1981 – Rich Harden was born. Canadian baseball player
• 1982 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
• 1982 –Elisha Cuthbert was born. Canadian actress.
• 1984 – Naima Mora was born in Detroit. American model.
• 1984 – Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch football player
• 1984 – Alan Hutton was born. Scottish football player
• 1985 – Kaley Cuoco was born. American actress.
• 1986 – Jordan Farmar was born. American basketball player
• 1987 – Ian Hecox was born. American comedian and co-founder of Smosh
• 1987 – Dougie Poynter was born. British singer and bassist (McFly)
• 1987 – Simon Carmiggelt dies (b. 1913). Dutch journalist and writer.
• 1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
• 1988 – Eduardo Lourenço, Portuguese essayist wins the 1988 Charles Veillon Essay Prize.
• 1988 – Henrique Medina dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen (b. 1930) is murdered by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 1989 – Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos‘s first victim.
• 1989 – Carlos Alexandre dies (b. 1957). Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1989 – India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns.
• 1990 – Portugal: The last number of the newspaper ” Diário de Lisboa” ( founded in 7 Apr 1921) is published.
• 1990 – Magnus Carlsen was born. Norwegian chess player.
• 1991 – Carnell Breeding was born. Member of the boy band B5
• 1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1993 – Sebastian Kappen dies (b. 1924). Indian theologian.
• 1993 – David Houston dies (b. 1938). American country music singer.
• 1994 – Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
• 1994 – Nyjah Huston was born. Skateboarder
• 1994 – Guy Debord dies (b. 1931). French writyer and filmmaker.
• 1995 – Fernando Assis Pacheco dies (b. 1937). Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1996 – A block of gray sandstone known as the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken to England as war booty by King Edward I.
• 1996 – Tiny Tim dies (b. 1932). American entertainer.
• 1997 – Diana Almeida, 14 years old, Portuguese model, wins the Super Model of the World.
• 1997 – Kathy Acker dies (b. 1947). American author
• 1997 – Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
• 1998 – Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 – In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
• 1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• 1999 – Charlie Byrd dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
• 2000 – The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
• 2001 – Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky.; he had lived with the device for 151 days.
• 2002 – Tim Woods dies (b. 1934). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 – Gertrude Ederle dies (b. 1906). American swimmer
• 2004 – Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television’s all-time biggest game show haul.
• 2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
• 2004 – Portuguese President, Jorge Sampaio, announces the decision to dissolve The Republic Assembly falling the Santana Lopes’ government
• 2004 – Pierre Berton dies (b. 1920). Canadian author.
• 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.
• 2005 – Jean Parker dies (b. 1915). American actress.
• R.C. Saints – Saint Andrew the apostle.
• Barbados – Independence Day (from Britain, 1966) .
• Philippines – Andres Bonifacio Day .
• Official End of the Hurricane Season .
• Cities for Life Day. 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty.
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal em Mesão Frio / Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Mesão Frio

On this day in History – Nov. 25 Novembro 25, 2006

• 0311 – Peter of Alexandria dies. Christian martyr.
• 1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland dies killed. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, inherits the throne ahead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter.
• 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin (b. 1104), son of Henry I of England.
• 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
• 1185 – Pope Lucius III dies
• 1326 – Prince Koreyasu dies (b. 1264). Japanese shogun
• 1374 – Philip II of Taranto dies (b. 1329). Emperor of Costantinople
• 1456 – Jacques Cœur dies. French merchant.
• 1491 – The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
• 1501 – Yi Hwang was born (d. 1570). Confucian scholar.
• 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scottish.
• 1560 – Andrea Doria dies (b. 1466). Italian naval leader.
• 1562 – Félix Lope de Vega was born in Madrid (d. 1635). Spanish playwright and poet.
• 1577 – Piet Hein was born (d. 1629). Dutch naval commander and folk hero
• 1609 – Henrietta Maria was born (d. 1669). Queen of Charles I of England
• 1626 – Edward Alleyn dies (b. 1566). English actor.
• 1638 – Catherine of Braganza was born (d. 1705). Queen of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal and D. Luisa Francisco de Gusmão.
• 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
• 1686 – Nicolas Steno dies (b. 1638). Danish geologist.
• 1694 – Ismael Bullialdus dies (b. 1605). French astronomer.
• 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies (b. 1643). First native Mayor of New York.
• 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
• 1703 – Jean-François Séguier was born (d. 1784). French astronomer and botanist
• 1712 – Charles-Michel de l’Épée was born (d. 1789). French philanthropist and developer of ‘Signed French’
• 1714 – Yoriyuki Arima was born (d. 1783). Japanese mathematician.
• 1748 – Isaac Watts dies (b. 1674). British hymnwriter.
• 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel dies (b. 1687). German musician.
• 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
• 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was born (d. 1856). British Christian writer
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1785 – Richard Glover dies (b. 1712). British poet.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia.
• 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer was born (d. 1878). German physician and physicist.
• 1817 – John Bigelow was born (d. 1911). American statesman and author.
• 1835 – Andrew Carnegie was born (d. 1919). British-born industrialist and philanthropist
• 1839 – Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a 40 foot storm surge, literally wiping out the port city of Coringa, never to be entirely rebuilt again. Powerful winds level everything in sight, the storm wave sweeps inland tens of miles, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster, making this one of history’s greatest catastrophes.
• 1841 – Ernst Schröder was born (d. 1902). German mathematician.
• 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot was born (d. 1919). American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot
• 1844 – Karl Benz was born (d. 1929). German mechanical engineer who designed and built in 1885 the world’s first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
• 1845 – José Maria Eça de Queiroz was born in Póvoa de Varzim (d. 1900). Portuguese writer. His works include “O Crime do Padre Amaro” (1875), “O Primo Basílio” (1878), “Os Maias” (1888), A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1894), this one published after his death.
• 1846 – Carry Nation was born in Garrard County, Kentucky (d. 1911). American temperance advocate.
• 1858 – Alfred Capus was born (d. 1922). French author.
• 1862 – Ethelbert Nevin was born (d. 1901). American pianist and composer.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• 1865 – Heinrich Barth dies (b. 1821). German explorer.
• 1867 – Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
• 1869 – Ben Lindsey was born (d. 1934). American judge and social reformer.
• 1870 – Winthrop Ames was born (d. 1937). American theatrical director.
• 1874 – Joe Gans was born (d. 1910). American boxer.
• 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
• 1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife‘s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1881 – Angelo Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte, Italy (d. 1963). In 1958 he become Pope John XXIII.
• 1881 – Theobald Boehm dies (b. 1794). German inventor of the modern flute.
• 1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis was born (d. 1939). American mystic.
• 1883 – Merrill C. Meigs was born (d. 1968). American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter
• 1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe dies (b. 1818). German chemist.
• 1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain dies (b. 1857)
• 1885 – Thomas Hendricks dies (b. 1819). Vice President of the United States.
• 1886 – Patricio Escobar Cáceres sworn as President of Paraguay.
• 1887 – Nikolai Vavilov was born (d. 1943). Russian physicist.
• 1890 – Juan Gualberto González becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg was born (d. 1918). English war poet and artist.
• 1893 – António Guilhermino Dias, Portuguese actor, dies on stage at Teatro do Princípe Real – Porto
• 1894 – Juan Bautista Luis Egusquiza Isasi becomes President of Paraguay
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda was born. President of Czechoslovakia (1968-1975
• 1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer was born (d. 1986). American writer.
• 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff was born (d. 1991). German conductor.
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda was born (d. 1979). President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1896 – Virgil Thomson was born (d. 1989). American composer and music critic
• 1897 – Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.
• 1898 – Emilio Aceval Marín becomes President of Paraguay
• 1900 – Rudolf Hoess was born (d. 1947). Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
• 1902 – Juan Antonio Escurra becomes President of Paraguay
• 1902 – Eddie Shore was born (d. 1985). National Hockey League defenseman.
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
• 1904 – Toni Ortelli was born (d. 2000). Italian composer and alpinist.
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
• 1904 – Pa Kin was born. Chinese writer.
• 1904 – Ba Jin was born (d. 2005). Chinese novelist
• 1905 – The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway
• 1906 – Benigno Asunción Ferreira becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1910 – Manuel Gondra Pereira becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1913 – Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1913 – Lewis Thomas was born (d. 1993). American physician and essayist.
• 1914 – Joe DiMaggio was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
• 1915 – Augusto Pinochet was born. Chilean politician
• 1917 – Russia holds its last free election for more than 50 years.
• 1920 – Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail was born (d. 2000). King of Malaysia.
• 1920 – Ricardo Montalban was born. Mexican actor
• 1920 – Noel Neill was born. American actress
• 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet dies (b. 1892). Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer.
• 1922 – Gloria Lasso was born (d. 2005). French-Spanish singer.
• 1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto was born. Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
• 1925 – Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1926 – The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1926 – Poul Anderson was born (d. 2001). American writer.
• 1933 – Kathryn Grant was born. American actress
• 1935 – Iyasu V dies. Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-1916)
• 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take “to safeguard their common interests” in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
• 1940 – Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film “Knock Knock“.
• 1940 – Reinhard Furrer was born (d. 1995). American physicist and astronaut
• 1940 – Joe Gibbs was born. American football coach.
• 1941 – Percy Sledge was born. American musician
• 1942 – Bob Lind was born. American folk singer and songwriter
• 1942 – Alfredo Carneiro da Cunha dies in Lisbon (b. in Fundão, 21 Dec 1863). Portuguese poet and journalist.
• 1943 – Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
• 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers.
• 1944 – Ben Stein was born. American actor, game show host, and political consultant
• 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis dies (b. 1866). Baseball commissioner.
• 1946 – Slim Borgudd was born in Borgholm, Kalmar. Swedish F1 car racer (1981 – 1982 : 10 GP).
• 1947 – John Larroquette was born. American actor
• 1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue dies (b. 1876). French poet.
• 1948 – Jacques P. Dupuis was born. French Canadian politician
• 1950 – The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
• 1950 – The “Storm of the Century”, a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
• 1950 – The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
• 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen dies (b. 1873). Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1951 – Bucky Dent was born. American baseball player
• 1951 – Bill Morrissey was born. American musician
• 1952 – Imran Khan was born. Pakistani cricketer
• 1952 – Agatha Christie‘s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 1953 – The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition, losing to Hungary.
• 1953 – Jeffrey Skilling was born. Former CEO of Enron
• 1953 – Graham Eadie was born. Australian rugby league player
• 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 1958 – Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community.
• 1958 – Irene Lisboa dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1959 – Charles Kennedy was born. British politician.
• 1959 – Steve Rothery was born. British guitarist (Marillion)
• 1959 – Gérard Philipe dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 1960 – Amy Grant was born. American singer
• 1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born (d. 1999). American publisher.
• 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1962 – Gilbert Delorme was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1963- President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1963 – Bernie Kosar was born. American football player
• 1963 – Sorin Cerin was born. Romanian philosopher
• 1965 – Cris Carter was born. American football player
• 1965 – Dame Myra Hess dies (b. 1890). British pianist.
• 1965 – Dougray Scott was born. Scottish television and film actor
• 1965 – Ana Paula Padrão was born. Brazilian journalist.
• 1966 – Tim Armstrong was born. American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
• 1967 – Ossip Zadkine dies in Paris (b. 1890). Russian painter.
• 1968 – Jill Hennessy was born. Canadian actress
• 1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy was born. Canadian actress and talk show host
• 1968 – Erick Sermon was born. American rap music artist
• 1968 – Galin Nikov was born. Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1968 – Upton Sinclair dies (b. 1878). American journalist, politician, and writer.
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima dies (b. 1925). Japanese writer.
• 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
• 1971 – Christina Applegate was born. American actress
• 1971 – Magnus Arvedson was born. Swedish hockey player
• 1971 – Paulo Torres was born. Portuguese football player, World Champion (under 21) and football coach.
• 1972 – Henri Coanda dies (b. 1886). Romanian aerodynamics pioneer.
• 1973 – Laurence Harvey dies (b. 1928). Lithuanian-born actor.
• 1973 – Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
• 1974 – Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). British singer and songwriter.
• 1974 – U Thant dies (b. 1909). Burmese UN Secretary-General
• 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
• 1975 – Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
• 1975 – Politic- militar confrontation that would go be known by the name of the date “25 de Novembro” It was an important day for the normalization of portuguese democratic life after the revolutionary process following 25 th April (Revolução dos Cravos) that ended the fascist politic regimen.
• 1976 – Donovan McNabb was born. American football player
• 1978 – Shina Ringo was born. Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter
• 1978 – American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
• 1978 – Taís Araujo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 – Thea Gilmore was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1980 – No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard regains the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a bout against Roberto Duran.
• 1980 – Josh Lomberger was born. American professional wrestling backstage interviewer.
• 1981 – Xabi Alonso was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1981 – Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush were born. Daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
• 1981 – Jared Jeffries was born. American basketball player
• 1981 – Jack Albertson dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid‘s Do They Know It’s Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1984 – A KCR train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling.
• 1985 – Ray Jablonski dies (b. 1923). American baseball player.
• 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1986 – Amber Hagerman was born (d. 1996). American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system.
• 1987 – Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
• 1987 – Harold Washington dies (b. 1922). Mayor of Chicago.
• 1989 – Alva R. Fitch dies (b. 1907). American World War II and Korean soldier.
• 1990 – Lech Walesa wins in Poland’s 1st popular election
• 1992 – The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
• 1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
• 1992 – Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas becomes President of Lithuania. Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas is the Prime Minister.
• 1993 – Portugal: Manuel Lopes is considered guilty about the case of the assassination of João Champalimaud and is sentenced to 18 years of prison.
• 1993 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter receives the Prize ” Montaigne 1993″ , from the Foundation FVS ( Hamburg).
• 1994 – Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
• 1996 – An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
• 1997 – Barbara dies (b. 1930). French singer.
• 1998 – Flip Wilson dies (b. 1933). American actor and comedian.
• 1998 – Nelson Goodman dies (b. 1906). American philosopher.
• 1999 – International day to eliminate violence against women. The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. The resolution, which was introduced by the Dominican Republic, marked the anniversary of the death of three sisters, Maria, Teresa, and Minerva Mirabel, who were brutally murdered there in 1961
• 1999 – Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
• 2000 – 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
• 2001 – CIA officer Johnny ”Mike” Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America’s first combat casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan.
• 2002 – US President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law.
• 2002 – Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov
• 2002 – Karel Reisz dies (b. 1926). Czech theatre director.
• R.C. Saints – Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
• 2003 – Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen’s coast.
• 2004 – Begins today the trial of the case “Casa Pia” (Portugal)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
• Surinam – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
• In 2003, celebration of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle)
• 2004 – Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic’s spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.
• 2005 – George Best dies (b. 1946). Northern Irish football player.
• 2005 – Richard Burns dies (b. 1971). English rally driver.
• R.C. Saints – Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
• Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On this day in History – Nov. 25

• 0311 – Peter of Alexandria dies. Christian martyr.
• 1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland dies killed. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, inherits the throne ahead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter.
• 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin (b. 1104), son of Henry I of England.
• 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
• 1185 – Pope Lucius III dies
• 1326 – Prince Koreyasu dies (b. 1264). Japanese shogun
• 1374 – Philip II of Taranto dies (b. 1329). Emperor of Costantinople
• 1456 – Jacques Cœur dies. French merchant.
• 1491 – The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
• 1501 – Yi Hwang was born (d. 1570). Confucian scholar.
• 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scottish.
• 1560 – Andrea Doria dies (b. 1466). Italian naval leader.
• 1562 – Félix Lope de Vega was born in Madrid (d. 1635). Spanish playwright and poet.
• 1577 – Piet Hein was born (d. 1629). Dutch naval commander and folk hero
• 1609 – Henrietta Maria was born (d. 1669). Queen of Charles I of England
• 1626 – Edward Alleyn dies (b. 1566). English actor.
• 1638 – Catherine of Braganza was born (d. 1705). Queen of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal and D. Luisa Francisco de Gusmão.
• 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
• 1686 – Nicolas Steno dies (b. 1638). Danish geologist.
• 1694 – Ismael Bullialdus dies (b. 1605). French astronomer.
• 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies (b. 1643). First native Mayor of New York.
• 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
• 1703 – Jean-François Séguier was born (d. 1784). French astronomer and botanist
• 1712 – Charles-Michel de l’Épée was born (d. 1789). French philanthropist and developer of ‘Signed French’
• 1714 – Yoriyuki Arima was born (d. 1783). Japanese mathematician.
• 1748 – Isaac Watts dies (b. 1674). British hymnwriter.
• 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel dies (b. 1687). German musician.
• 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
• 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was born (d. 1856). British Christian writer
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1785 – Richard Glover dies (b. 1712). British poet.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia.
• 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer was born (d. 1878). German physician and physicist.
• 1817 – John Bigelow was born (d. 1911). American statesman and author.
• 1835 – Andrew Carnegie was born (d. 1919). British-born industrialist and philanthropist
• 1839 – Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a 40 foot storm surge, literally wiping out the port city of Coringa, never to be entirely rebuilt again. Powerful winds level everything in sight, the storm wave sweeps inland tens of miles, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster, making this one of history’s greatest catastrophes.
• 1841 – Ernst Schröder was born (d. 1902). German mathematician.
• 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot was born (d. 1919). American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot
• 1844 – Karl Benz was born (d. 1929). German mechanical engineer who designed and built in 1885 the world’s first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
• 1845 – José Maria Eça de Queiroz was born in Póvoa de Varzim (d. 1900). Portuguese writer. His works include “O Crime do Padre Amaro” (1875), “O Primo Basílio” (1878), “Os Maias” (1888), A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1894), this one published after his death.
• 1846 – Carry Nation was born in Garrard County, Kentucky (d. 1911). American temperance advocate.
• 1858 – Alfred Capus was born (d. 1922). French author.
• 1862 – Ethelbert Nevin was born (d. 1901). American pianist and composer.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• 1865 – Heinrich Barth dies (b. 1821). German explorer.
• 1867 – Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
• 1869 – Ben Lindsey was born (d. 1934). American judge and social reformer.
• 1870 – Winthrop Ames was born (d. 1937). American theatrical director.
• 1874 – Joe Gans was born (d. 1910). American boxer.
• 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
• 1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife‘s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1881 – Angelo Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte, Italy (d. 1963). In 1958 he become Pope John XXIII.
• 1881 – Theobald Boehm dies (b. 1794). German inventor of the modern flute.
• 1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis was born (d. 1939). American mystic.
• 1883 – Merrill C. Meigs was born (d. 1968). American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter
• 1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe dies (b. 1818). German chemist.
• 1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain dies (b. 1857)
• 1885 – Thomas Hendricks dies (b. 1819). Vice President of the United States.
• 1886 – Patricio Escobar Cáceres sworn as President of Paraguay.
• 1887 – Nikolai Vavilov was born (d. 1943). Russian physicist.
• 1890 – Juan Gualberto González becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg was born (d. 1918). English war poet and artist.
• 1893 – António Guilhermino Dias, Portuguese actor, dies on stage at Teatro do Princípe Real – Porto
• 1894 – Juan Bautista Luis Egusquiza Isasi becomes President of Paraguay
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda was born. President of Czechoslovakia (1968-1975
• 1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer was born (d. 1986). American writer.
• 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff was born (d. 1991). German conductor.
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda was born (d. 1979). President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1896 – Virgil Thomson was born (d. 1989). American composer and music critic
• 1897 – Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.
• 1898 – Emilio Aceval Marín becomes President of Paraguay
• 1900 – Rudolf Hoess was born (d. 1947). Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
• 1902 – Juan Antonio Escurra becomes President of Paraguay
• 1902 – Eddie Shore was born (d. 1985). National Hockey League defenseman.
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
• 1904 – Toni Ortelli was born (d. 2000). Italian composer and alpinist.
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
• 1904 – Pa Kin was born. Chinese writer.
• 1904 – Ba Jin was born (d. 2005). Chinese novelist
• 1905 – The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway
• 1906 – Benigno Asunción Ferreira becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1910 – Manuel Gondra Pereira becomes President of Paraguay.
• 1913 – Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1913 – Lewis Thomas was born (d. 1993). American physician and essayist.
• 1914 – Joe DiMaggio was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
• 1915 – Augusto Pinochet was born. Chilean politician
• 1917 – Russia holds its last free election for more than 50 years.
• 1920 – Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail was born (d. 2000). King of Malaysia.
• 1920 – Ricardo Montalban was born. Mexican actor
• 1920 – Noel Neill was born. American actress
• 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet dies (b. 1892). Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer.
• 1922 – Gloria Lasso was born (d. 2005). French-Spanish singer.
• 1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto was born. Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
• 1925 – Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1926 – The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1926 – Poul Anderson was born (d. 2001). American writer.
• 1933 – Kathryn Grant was born. American actress
• 1935 – Iyasu V dies. Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-1916)
• 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take “to safeguard their common interests” in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
• 1940 – Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film “Knock Knock“.
• 1940 – Reinhard Furrer was born (d. 1995). American physicist and astronaut
• 1940 – Joe Gibbs was born. American football coach.
• 1941 – Percy Sledge was born. American musician
• 1942 – Bob Lind was born. American folk singer and songwriter
• 1942 – Alfredo Carneiro da Cunha dies in Lisbon (b. in Fundão, 21 Dec 1863). Portuguese poet and journalist.
• 1943 – Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
• 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers.
• 1944 – Ben Stein was born. American actor, game show host, and political consultant
• 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis dies (b. 1866). Baseball commissioner.
• 1946 – Slim Borgudd was born in Borgholm, Kalmar. Swedish F1 car racer (1981 – 1982 : 10 GP).
• 1947 – John Larroquette was born. American actor
• 1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue dies (b. 1876). French poet.
• 1948 – Jacques P. Dupuis was born. French Canadian politician
• 1950 – The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
• 1950 – The “Storm of the Century”, a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
• 1950 – The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
• 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen dies (b. 1873). Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1951 – Bucky Dent was born. American baseball player
• 1951 – Bill Morrissey was born. American musician
• 1952 – Imran Khan was born. Pakistani cricketer
• 1952 – Agatha Christie‘s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 1953 – The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition, losing to Hungary.
• 1953 – Jeffrey Skilling was born. Former CEO of Enron
• 1953 – Graham Eadie was born. Australian rugby league player
• 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 1958 – Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community.
• 1958 – Irene Lisboa dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1959 – Charles Kennedy was born. British politician.
• 1959 – Steve Rothery was born. British guitarist (Marillion)
• 1959 – Gérard Philipe dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 1960 – Amy Grant was born. American singer
• 1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born (d. 1999). American publisher.
• 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1962 – Gilbert Delorme was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1963- President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1963 – Bernie Kosar was born. American football player
• 1963 – Sorin Cerin was born. Romanian philosopher
• 1965 – Cris Carter was born. American football player
• 1965 – Dame Myra Hess dies (b. 1890). British pianist.
• 1965 – Dougray Scott was born. Scottish television and film actor
• 1965 – Ana Paula Padrão was born. Brazilian journalist.
• 1966 – Tim Armstrong was born. American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
• 1967 – Ossip Zadkine dies in Paris (b. 1890). Russian painter.
• 1968 – Jill Hennessy was born. Canadian actress
• 1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy was born. Canadian actress and talk show host
• 1968 – Erick Sermon was born. American rap music artist
• 1968 – Galin Nikov was born. Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1968 – Upton Sinclair dies (b. 1878). American journalist, politician, and writer.
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima dies (b. 1925). Japanese writer.
• 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
• 1971 – Christina Applegate was born. American actress
• 1971 – Magnus Arvedson was born. Swedish hockey player
• 1971 – Paulo Torres was born. Portuguese football player, World Champion (under 21) and football coach.
• 1972 – Henri Coanda dies (b. 1886). Romanian aerodynamics pioneer.
• 1973 – Laurence Harvey dies (b. 1928). Lithuanian-born actor.
• 1973 – Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
• 1974 – Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). British singer and songwriter.
• 1974 – U Thant dies (b. 1909). Burmese UN Secretary-General
• 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
• 1975 – Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
• 1975 – Politic- militar confrontation that would go be known by the name of the date “25 de Novembro” It was an important day for the normalization of portuguese democratic life after the revolutionary process following 25 th April (Revolução dos Cravos) that ended the fascist politic regimen.
• 1976 – Donovan McNabb was born. American football player
• 1978 – Shina Ringo was born. Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter
• 1978 – American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
• 1978 – Taís Araujo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 – Thea Gilmore was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1980 – No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard regains the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a bout against Roberto Duran.
• 1980 – Josh Lomberger was born. American professional wrestling backstage interviewer.
• 1981 – Xabi Alonso was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1981 – Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush were born. Daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
• 1981 – Jared Jeffries was born. American basketball player
• 1981 – Jack Albertson dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid‘s Do They Know It’s Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1984 – A KCR train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling.
• 1985 – Ray Jablonski dies (b. 1923). American baseball player.
• 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1986 – Amber Hagerman was born (d. 1996). American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system.
• 1987 – Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
• 1987 – Harold Washington dies (b. 1922). Mayor of Chicago.
• 1989 – Alva R. Fitch dies (b. 1907). American World War II and Korean soldier.
• 1990 – Lech Walesa wins in Poland’s 1st popular election
• 1992 – The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
• 1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
• 1992 – Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas becomes President of Lithuania. Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas is the Prime Minister.
• 1993 – Portugal: Manuel Lopes is considered guilty about the case of the assassination of João Champalimaud and is sentenced to 18 years of prison.
• 1993 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter receives the Prize ” Montaigne 1993″ , from the Foundation FVS ( Hamburg).
• 1994 – Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
• 1996 – An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
• 1997 – Barbara dies (b. 1930). French singer.
• 1998 – Flip Wilson dies (b. 1933). American actor and comedian.
• 1998 – Nelson Goodman dies (b. 1906). American philosopher.
• 1999 – International day to eliminate violence against women. The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. The resolution, which was introduced by the Dominican Republic, marked the anniversary of the death of three sisters, Maria, Teresa, and Minerva Mirabel, who were brutally murdered there in 1961
• 1999 – Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
• 2000 – 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
• 2001 – CIA officer Johnny ”Mike” Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America’s first combat casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan.
• 2002 – US President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law.
• 2002 – Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov
• 2002 – Karel Reisz dies (b. 1926). Czech theatre director.
• R.C. Saints – Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
• 2003 – Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen’s coast.
• 2004 – Begins today the trial of the case “Casa Pia” (Portugal)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
• Surinam – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
• In 2003, celebration of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle)
• 2004 – Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic’s spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.
• 2005 – George Best dies (b. 1946). Northern Irish football player.
• 2005 – Richard Burns dies (b. 1971). English rally driver.
• R.C. Saints – Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
• Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On this day in History – Nov. 5 Novembro 5, 2006

• 1271 – Mahmud Ghazan was born (d. 1304). Persian ruler
• 1414 – Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
• 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli dies (b. 1474). Italian painter.
• 1522 – Andrés Amaral dies. Caballero portugués y canciller de la orden de San Juan de Jerusalén.
• 1530 – St. Felix’s Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
• 1549 – Philippe de Mornay was born (d. 1623). French writer
• 1556 – Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India.
• 1559 – Kano Motonobu dies (b. 1476). Japanese painter.
• 1592 – Charles Chauncy was born (d. 1672). English-born president of Harvard College
• 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building
• 1613 – Isaac de Benserade was born (d. 1691), French poet
• 1615 – Ibrahim I was born (d. 1648). Ottoman Sultan
• 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle dies (d. 1599). English socialite.
• 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes dies (b. 1591). French Jesuit missionay.
• 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born (d. 1719). German painter.
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
• 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield dies. French-born English politician.
• 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini dies (b. 1633). Italian physician.
• 1742 – Richard Cosway was born (d. 1821). English artist.
• 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker dies (b. 1670). German classical scholar.
• 1757 – Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeated the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Battle of Rossbach.
• 1758 – Hans Egede dies (b. 1686). Lutheran missionary.
• 1780 – French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
• 1807 – Angelica Catharina Maria Anna Kauffman dies (b. 30 Oct 1740). Swiss Neoclassical painter and etcher
• 1815 – Martins Pena was born (d. 1848). Brazilian dramatist and diplomat.
• 1836 – Karel Hynek Mácha dies (b. 1810). Czech poet.
• 1838 – The United States of Central America began to disintegrate when Honduras separated from the federation.
• 1849 – Rui Barbosa was born (d. 1923). Brazilian statesman and writer.
• 1854 – The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War / Batalha de Inkerman, durante a Guerra da Crimeia. A vitória das forças britânicas sobre as russas, permitiu a realização do cerco a Sebastopol.
• 1854 – Paul Sabatier was born (d. 1941). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1912.
• 1855 – Eugene V. Debs was born (d. 1926). American socialist leader.
• 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort was born (d. 1913). French meteorologist.
• 1857 – Ida Tarbell was born (d. 1944). American journalist.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
• 1862 – Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
• 1867 – Nasce Eugénio Tavares, poeta cabo-verdiano.
• 1872 – Women’s suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• 1873 – Howard Carter was born († 1939) . British archeologist.
• 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell dies (b. 1831). Scottish physicist.
• 1881 – Robert Mallet dies (b. 3 Jun 1810). Irish engineer and geologist
• 1885 – Will Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
• 1890 – Jan Zrzavý was born (d. 1977). Czech painter.
• 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane was born (d. 1964). Scottish geneticist.
• 1893 – Sobral Pinto (Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto) was born in Barbacena- MG (d. 1991). Brazilian jurist
• 1895 – Walter Gieseking was born (d. 1956). French conductor.
• 1895 – Charles MacArthur was born (d. 1956). American author.
• 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• 1897 – Brasil: Presidente Prudente de Morais sofre atentado
• 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr. was born (d. 1972). American politician.
• 1905 – Joel McCrea was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple was born (d. 2004). American astronomer
• 1911 – Roy Rogers was born (d. 1998). American actor.
• 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
• 1912 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
• 1913 – The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.
• 1913 – United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1913 – Vivien Leigh was born (d. 1967). American actress ( Gone With Wind, Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn )
• 1914 – August Weismann dies (b. 1834). German biologist.
• 1916 – Madeleine Robinson was born (d. 1 Aug 2004). French actress.
• 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
• 1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police
• 1917 – O Comando do Corpo Expedicionário Português assumiu a responsabilidade da defesa do Sector Português na frente ocidental durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Estava subordinado ao 1.º Exército britânico, comandado pelo general Horne.
• 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• 1917 – Filinto Ramalho was born in Vouzela (d. 2001). Prior of Sacavém (Portugal)
• 1919 – Félix Gaillard d’Aimé was born (d. 10 Jul 1970). French politician
• 1920 – Douglass North was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate .
• 1921 – Fawzia of Egypt was born. Queen of Iran.
• 1930 – Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
• 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman dies (b. 1858). Dutch physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929.
• 1931 – Ike Turner was born. American musician.
• 1933 – Paulo César Saraceni was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor and director.
• 1933 – Texas Guinan dies (b. 1884). American saloon keeper, actress, and musician.
• 1935 – Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
• 1937 – World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people.
• 1937 – Rui Claumann was born (d. 1987). Brazilian actor.
• 1938 – Enéas Carneiro was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1938 – Joe Dassin was born (d. 20 Aug 1980). French singer.
• 1940 – U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States‘ first third-term president.
• 1941 – Art Garfunkel was born. American musician.
• 1941 – Elke Sommer was born. German actress.
• 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen dies (b. 1905). Finnish pacifist.
• 1942 – George M. Cohan dies (b. 1878). American musician, actor, writer, and composer.
• 1943 – Sam Shepard was born. American playwright and actor .
• 1944 – British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang.
• 1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
• 1946 – United States: Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
• 1946 – Herman Brood was born. Dutch musician and artist.
• 1946 – Gram Parsons was born (d. 1973). American musician.
• 1947 – Peter Noone was born. English musician and actor.
• 1948 – Peter Hammill was born. English rock musician and singer. Founder of Van der Graaf Generator
• 1948 – William Daniel Phillips was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate .
• 1949 – Armin Shimerman was born. American actor.
• 1951 – I Love Lucy airs for the first time.
• 1951 – Reggie Walker dies (b. 1889). South African athlete.
• 1952 – Bill Walton was born. American basketball player and commentator.
• 1953 – Nobel prize for physics awarded on Frederik Zernicke
• 1953 – Dimite en Israel el primer ministro, David Ben Gurión.
• 1955 – Bernard Chazelle was born. French-born computer scientist.
• 1955 – Maurice Utrillo dies (b. 1883). French artist.
• 1956 – Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician.
• 1958 – Robert Patrick was born. American actor.
• 1959 – Bryan Adams was born. Canadian musician.
• 1960 – Tilda Swinton was born. American actress.
• 1960 – Mack Sennett dies (b. 1880). Canadian producer and director.
• 1960 – Ward Bond dies (b. 1903). American actor.
• 1962 – A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on Svalbard, leading the Norweigian government to close the mine.
• 1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer receives The Nobel Prize for Physics
• 1963 – Tatum O’Neal was born. American actress.
• 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin was born. French football player.
• 1964 – The Nobel Physics Prize is announced to go to Townes, Basov, and Prokhorov “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.”
• 1965 – State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later)
• 1965 – Famke Janssen was born. Danish model and actress.
• 1967 – Un golpe de Estado militar en Yemen derroca al mariscal ‘Abd Allah as-Sallal.
• 1968 – Aitana Sanchez-Gijon was born. Spanish actress.
• 1968 – U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
• 1968 – The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
• 1969 – In Chicago, Illinois, Bobby Seale [22 Oct 1936~], the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court
• 1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• 1971 – Corin Nemec was born. American actor.
• 1973 – Johnny Damon was born. Baseball player.
• 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 – Ryan Adams was born. American musician.
• 1974 – Stafford Repp dies (b. 1918). American actor.
• 1975 – Lionel Trilling dies (b. 1905). American critic and writer.
• 1975 – Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution
• 1975 – The Travis Walton abduction happens.
• 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum dies (b. 1909). American microbiologist.
• 1975 – Angela Gossow was born. German singer (Arch Enemy).
• 1977 – Richard Wright was born. English football player.
• 1977 – René Goscinny dies (b. 1926). French comic book writer.
• 1977 – Guy Lombardo dies (b. 1902). Canadian conductor.
• 1977 – Jodi Webb was born. Miss Utah Teen USA 1996
• 1978 – Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
• 1979 – Al Capp dies (b. 1909). American cartoonist .
• 1979 – Franz Black was born. Underground Rapper (NYC)-(Brothers East).
• 1979 – The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
• 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be “the great Satan”.
• 1980 – Christoph Metzelder was born. German football player
• 1981 – Javier Pereira was born. Spanish writer.
• 1982 – Inauguração da hidrelétrica de Itaipú na fronteira entre o Brasil e o Paraguai, a maior do mundo na época.
• 1982 – Jacques Tati dies (b. 1908). French actor and director.
• 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball dies (b. 1895). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1985 – Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director
• 1985 – Reliquary of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of Bečov Castle.
• 1986 – BoA was born. Korean singer.
• 1986 – USS Rentz (FFG-46), USS Reeves (DLG-24) and USS Oldendorf (DD-972) visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China—the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
• 1987 – Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.
• 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz dies (b. 1903). Russian pianist.
• 1989 – 19th New York City Women’s Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
• 1989 – 20th New York City Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
• 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane (b. 1932), founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
• 1991 – Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
• 1991 – Robert Maxwell dies at 68. Slovakian-born billionaire publisher (New York Daily News). His body is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands
• 1991 – Fred MacMurray dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1992 – La poetisa cubana Dulce María Loynaz es galardonada con el Premio Miguel de Cervantes de Literatura
• 1992 – Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to win Chess title in Belgrade
• 1992 – In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.
• 1992 – Arpad Elo dies (b. 1903). American physicist and chess player.
• 1994 – El ciclista suizo Tony Rominger bate el récord de la hora, con 55,291 km.
• 1994 – A letter by former US President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer’s disease.
• 1994 – El Parque de Doñana en Huelva declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
• 1994 – Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing‘s oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer.
• 1994 – At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
• 1995 – Ernest Gellner dies (b. 1925). Antropologist, sociologist and philosopher
• 1995 – An endless procession of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who’d been assassinated the night before.
1996 – U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
• 1996 – President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved National Assembly of Pakistan.
• 1996 – Eddie Harris dies b. 1934. American saxophonist.
• 1997 – James Robert Baker dies (b. 1946). American novelist, screenwriter.
• 1997 – Isaiah Berlin dies (b. 1909). Latvian-born historian of ideas.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 – The journal Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered a son, Eston Hemings Jefferson, by his slave Sally Hemings.
• 1998 – Fernando Brochado Coelho dies. Portuguese politician, founder of PPD (Patido Popular Democrático).
• 1999 – United States v. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had “monopoly power”.
• 2000 – Abdelkhader El Mouaziz won the New York City Marathon, finishing in 2:10:09 and becoming the first Moroccan champion. Ludmila Petrova became the first Russian champion, winning the women’s division in 2:25:45.
• 2000 – Emperor Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
• 2000 – Victor Grinich dies (b. 1924). American businessman.
• 2000 – Jimmie Davis dies (b. 1899). Singer and politician.
• 2001 – Roy Boulting dies (b. 1913). English film director and producer
• 2001 – Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch dies (b. 26 Nov 1910). French politician
• 2002 – Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon [27 Feb 1928 – 2007] announces early general elections. They will be held on 28 January 2003.
• 2003 – Bobby Hatfield dies (b. 1940), American singer (Righteous Brothers)
• 2003 – The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
• 2005 – Rod Donald dies (b. 1957). New Zealand environmentalist
• 2005 – John Fowles dies (b. 1926). English writer.
• 2006 – Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
• R.C. Saints – November 5th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Bertilia, St. Dominator, St. Domninus, St. Elizabeth, St. Felix and Eusebius, St. Fibitius, St. Galation, St. Aetus, St. Magnus, St. Sylvia, Pope Zacharias
• Ancient Latvia – the festival Katrina
• United Kingdom and New Zealand – Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.
• Dia Nacional da Cultura (no Brasil)
• Dia do Cinema Brasileiro