On this day in History – Nov. 4 Novembro 4, 2006

• 1411 – Khalil Sultan dies (b. 1384). Ruler of Transoxonia
• 1448 – King Alphonso II of Naples was born (d. 1495)
• 1470 – King Edward V of England was born. One of the two princes in the Tower
• 1575 – Guido Reni was born (d. 1642). Italian painter.
• 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• 1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal.
• 1612 – Moscow Kitai-gorod taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1631 – Mary of Orange was born (d. 1660). Eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England
• 1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille dies (b. 1597). Belgian mathematician.
• 1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1742)
• 1669 – Johannes Cocceius dies (b. 1603). Dutch theologian.
• 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
• 1698 – Rasmus Bartholin dies (b. 1625). Danish physician and mathematician.
• 1702 – John Benbow dies (b. 1653). English admiral.
• 1704 – Andreas Acoluthus dies (b. 1654). German orientalist.
• 1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady was born. Author of hymn, “Rock of Ages”
• 1744 – Johann Bernoulli, III was born (d. 1807). Swiss mathematicien
• 1765 – Pierre Girard was born (d. 1836). French mathematician
• 1825 – The Erie Canal was completed with DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony.
• 1828 – António Coelho Lousada was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1836 – Henry J. Lutcher was born (d. 1912). Business leader.
• 1842 – Abraham Lincoln, future US President, married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1845 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was born. Indian revolutionary
• 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn dies (b. 1809). German composer.
• 1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont–Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
• 1857 – Fundação de São Carlos (S. Paulo – Brasil)
• 1859 – Clóvis Beviláqua was born in Viçosa (CE) (d. 1944). Brazilian jurist, journalist and historian. Author of the “Código Civil Brasileiro” (Brazilian Civil Code)
• 1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
• 1869 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.
• 1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak was born (d. 1920). Russian military commander.
• 1877 – A construção da Ponte de Dona Maria Pia é concluída.
• 1879 – Will Rogers was born (d. 1935). American humorist and entertainer.
• 1883 – Nikolaos Plastiras was born (d. 1953). Greek general and politician.
• 1884 – U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
• 1884 – Harry Ferguson was born (d. 1960). Aviator, plane and farm equipment designer (Ferguson Company).
• 1889 – Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
• 1890 – City & South London Railway: London‘s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
• 1890 – Klabund (Alfred Henschke) was born (d. 1928). German writer escritor alemão
• 1897 – Lorenzo Fernandez was born (d. 1948). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor
• 1899 – Sigmund Freud‘s The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
• 1899 – Nicolas Frantz was born (d. 1985). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1901 – Princess Bang-ja of Korea was born (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt foi reeleito presidente dos Estados Unidos da América. Eleito vice-presidente em 1900, tinha-se tornado presidente logo em 1901 devido ao assassinato do presidente McKinley.
• 1908 – Józef Rotblat was born (d. 2005). Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1909 – Skeeter Webb was born (d. 1986). Baseball player.
• 1910 – Torres Pastorinho was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist, historian and writer
• 1911 – O túmulo do faraó Tutankhamon foi descoberto, em Luxor no Egipto, pelo arqueólogo inglês Howard Carter.
• 1912 – Vadim Salmanov was born (d. 1978). Russian composer.
• 1913 – Gig Young was born (d. 1978). American actor.
• 1914 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1916 – Walter Cronkite was born. American news broadcaster
• 1918 – Art Carney was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1918 – Cameron Mitchell was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
• 1918 – The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1918 – Wilfred Owen dies (b. 1893). English poet.
• 1919 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
• 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in Tokyo.
• 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1922 – Benno Besson was born (d. 2006). Swiss actor.
• 1923 – Freddy Heineken was born (d. 2002). Dutch businessman.
• 1924 – Monsueto was born (d. 1973). Brazilian musician (Samba)
• 1924 – Howie Meeker was born. National Hockey League player, politician
• 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• 1924 – Gabriel Fauré dies (b. 1845). French composer
• 1928 – Arnold Rothstein (b. 1882), New York City‘s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.
• 1929 – Doris Roberts was born. American actress
• 1930 – Dick Groat was born. Baseball player
• 1930 – Buddy Bolden dies (b. 1877). American musician.
• 1932 – Thomas Klestil was born (d. 2004). President of Austria.
• 1933 – Tito Francona was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1937 – Michael Wilson was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 – Loretta Swit was born. American actress
• 1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
• 1941 – Manuel Rui was born in Huambo. Angolan poet.
• 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
• 1943 – Marlène Jobert was born. French actress
• 1944 – Linda Gary was born (d. 1995). American voice-actress.
• 1944 – Scherrie Payne was born. American singer (The Supremes)
• 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.
• 1946 – Laura Bush was born. First Lady of the United States
• 1948 – T. S. Eliot is announced that won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
• 1946 – Unesco is founded.
• 1948 – T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1948 – Truman is reelected President of United States
• 1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander dies (b. 1887). Baseball player.
• 1951 – Traian Băsescu was born. President of Romania
• 1952 – Dwight Eisenhower is elected President of United States.
• 1952 – U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1953 – Carlos Gutierrez was born. American politician.
• 1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder) was born. Motorsport driver
• 1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
• 1955 – Matti Vanhanen was born. Prime Minister of Finland
• 1955 – Cy Young dies (b. 1867). Baseball player
• 1956 – Jordan Rudess was born. American musician (Dream Theater)
• 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott was born (d. 1982). English guitarist (The Pretenders).
• 1956 – Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician
• 1956 – Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1957 – Shoghi Effendi dies (b. 1897). Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
• 1960 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable — the last film for both.
• 1960 – Marc Awodey was born. American artist and writer.
• 1961 – Edward Knight was born. American composer
• 1961 – Daron Hagen was born. American composer
• 1961 – Les Sampou was born. American musician
• 1961 – Nigel Worthington was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. American actor.
• 1961 – Kathy Griffin was born. American comedienne and actress
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Jeff Probst, American television host
• 1963 – Marc Déry, Québécois singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
• 1963 – Michel Therrien, National Hockey League head coach
• 1965 – Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey)
• 1965 – Wayne Static was born. American singer/guitarist (Static-X)
• 1966 – Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
• 1967 – Eric Karros was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 – Carlos Baerga was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1968 – Michel Kikoine dies (b. 1892). Belarusian painter.
• 1969 – Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. American actor.
• 1969 – Sean Jean “Diddy” Combs was born. American rapper.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
• 1972 – Luis Figo was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1972 – Tabassum Hashmi was born. Indian actress
• 1974 – M62 bomber jailed for life Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died. Her conviction was quashed 18 years later.
• 1974 – Portugal: Sede Nacional do Partido Popular sofre ataques, ameaças e assaltos por radicais de extrema-esquerda.
• 1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-in, The Mars Volta)
• 1975 – Eduard Kokcharov was born.Russian handball player
• 1976 – Mario Melchiot was born. Dutch football player
• 1976 – Bruno Junqueira was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1977 – Larry Bigbie was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – Carmen Cali was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – John Grabow was born. American baseball player
• 1979 – Audrey Hollander was born. American pornographic actress
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). 1979. Cerca de 500 jovens militantes iranianos invadiram a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos em Teerão, no Irão, e fizeram 90 reféns, incluindo 52 americanos, que mantiverram sequestrados durante 444 dias.
• 1980 – U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• 1980 – Elsie MacGill dies (b. 1905). Canadian aeronautical engineer.
• 1982 – Dominique Dunne dies (b. 1959). American actress.
• 1982 – Mother jailed in dingo baby trial
• 1985 – Marcell Jansen was born. German football player
• 1986 – Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
• 1986 – Alexz Johnson was born. Canadian singer and actress (Final Destination 3 ; Instant Star).
• 1986 – Kurt Hirsch dies (b. 1906). German mathematician.
• 1989 – The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
• 1990 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau was born. Canadian actor
• 1993 – Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1993 – Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993 – A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.
• 1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong‘s Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon. The wind was gusting to gale force at the time. It touched down more than 2/3 down the runway and was unable to stop before the runway ran out and the plane crashed into the sea. 22 people were injured.
• 1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
• 1994 – Fred Sonic Smith dies (b. 1949). American guitar player MC5
• 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
• 1995 – After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv‘s Kings Square, Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922) is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
• 1995 – Gilles Deleuze dies. French philosopher.
• 1995 – Paul Eddington dies. British actor.
• 1999 – Malcolm Marshall dies (b. 1958). West Indian cricketer
• 2001 – Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
• 2001 – The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
• 2001 – Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires é beatificado
• 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
• 2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
• 2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
• 2003 – The largest-ever solar flare is recorded
• 2003 – Richard Wollheim dies (b. 1923). British philosopher.
• 2004 – 12 French Soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
• 2005 – Nadia Anjuman dies (b. 1980). Afghan poet & journalist.
• 2005 – Sheree North dies (b. 1932). American actress and singer.
• R.C. Saints – November 4th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Charles Borromeo, St. Clarus, St. Birrstan, St. Vitalis, St. Emeric, St. Joannicus, St. Nicander and Hermas St. Modesta, St. Philologus and Patrobas, St. Pierius.
• Italy – celebration of victory in WWI, the date of the Armed Forces
• Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Qudrat (Power) – First day of the 13th month of the Bahá’í calendar
• Panama‘s Flag Day
• Russia – Day of People’s Unity (or National Unity Day), concides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.
• Tonga‘s National Day, from 2006.

On this day in History – Nov. 4

• 1411 – Khalil Sultan dies (b. 1384). Ruler of Transoxonia
• 1448 – King Alphonso II of Naples was born (d. 1495)
• 1470 – King Edward V of England was born. One of the two princes in the Tower
• 1575 – Guido Reni was born (d. 1642). Italian painter.
• 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• 1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal.
• 1612 – Moscow Kitai-gorod taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1631 – Mary of Orange was born (d. 1660). Eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England
• 1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille dies (b. 1597). Belgian mathematician.
• 1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1742)
• 1669 – Johannes Cocceius dies (b. 1603). Dutch theologian.
• 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
• 1698 – Rasmus Bartholin dies (b. 1625). Danish physician and mathematician.
• 1702 – John Benbow dies (b. 1653). English admiral.
• 1704 – Andreas Acoluthus dies (b. 1654). German orientalist.
• 1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady was born. Author of hymn, “Rock of Ages”
• 1744 – Johann Bernoulli, III was born (d. 1807). Swiss mathematicien
• 1765 – Pierre Girard was born (d. 1836). French mathematician
• 1825 – The Erie Canal was completed with DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony.
• 1828 – António Coelho Lousada was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1836 – Henry J. Lutcher was born (d. 1912). Business leader.
• 1842 – Abraham Lincoln, future US President, married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1845 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was born. Indian revolutionary
• 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn dies (b. 1809). German composer.
• 1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont–Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
• 1857 – Fundação de São Carlos (S. Paulo – Brasil)
• 1859 – Clóvis Beviláqua was born in Viçosa (CE) (d. 1944). Brazilian jurist, journalist and historian. Author of the “Código Civil Brasileiro” (Brazilian Civil Code)
• 1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
• 1869 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.
• 1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak was born (d. 1920). Russian military commander.
• 1877 – A construção da Ponte de Dona Maria Pia é concluída.
• 1879 – Will Rogers was born (d. 1935). American humorist and entertainer.
• 1883 – Nikolaos Plastiras was born (d. 1953). Greek general and politician.
• 1884 – U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
• 1884 – Harry Ferguson was born (d. 1960). Aviator, plane and farm equipment designer (Ferguson Company).
• 1889 – Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
• 1890 – City & South London Railway: London‘s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
• 1890 – Klabund (Alfred Henschke) was born (d. 1928). German writer escritor alemão
• 1897 – Lorenzo Fernandez was born (d. 1948). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor
• 1899 – Sigmund Freud‘s The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
• 1899 – Nicolas Frantz was born (d. 1985). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1901 – Princess Bang-ja of Korea was born (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt foi reeleito presidente dos Estados Unidos da América. Eleito vice-presidente em 1900, tinha-se tornado presidente logo em 1901 devido ao assassinato do presidente McKinley.
• 1908 – Józef Rotblat was born (d. 2005). Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1909 – Skeeter Webb was born (d. 1986). Baseball player.
• 1910 – Torres Pastorinho was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist, historian and writer
• 1911 – O túmulo do faraó Tutankhamon foi descoberto, em Luxor no Egipto, pelo arqueólogo inglês Howard Carter.
• 1912 – Vadim Salmanov was born (d. 1978). Russian composer.
• 1913 – Gig Young was born (d. 1978). American actor.
• 1914 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1916 – Walter Cronkite was born. American news broadcaster
• 1918 – Art Carney was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1918 – Cameron Mitchell was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
• 1918 – The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1918 – Wilfred Owen dies (b. 1893). English poet.
• 1919 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
• 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in Tokyo.
• 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1922 – Benno Besson was born (d. 2006). Swiss actor.
• 1923 – Freddy Heineken was born (d. 2002). Dutch businessman.
• 1924 – Monsueto was born (d. 1973). Brazilian musician (Samba)
• 1924 – Howie Meeker was born. National Hockey League player, politician
• 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• 1924 – Gabriel Fauré dies (b. 1845). French composer
• 1928 – Arnold Rothstein (b. 1882), New York City‘s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.
• 1929 – Doris Roberts was born. American actress
• 1930 – Dick Groat was born. Baseball player
• 1930 – Buddy Bolden dies (b. 1877). American musician.
• 1932 – Thomas Klestil was born (d. 2004). President of Austria.
• 1933 – Tito Francona was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1937 – Michael Wilson was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 – Loretta Swit was born. American actress
• 1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
• 1941 – Manuel Rui was born in Huambo. Angolan poet.
• 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
• 1943 – Marlène Jobert was born. French actress
• 1944 – Linda Gary was born (d. 1995). American voice-actress.
• 1944 – Scherrie Payne was born. American singer (The Supremes)
• 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.
• 1946 – Laura Bush was born. First Lady of the United States
• 1948 – T. S. Eliot is announced that won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
• 1946 – Unesco is founded.
• 1948 – T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1948 – Truman is reelected President of United States
• 1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander dies (b. 1887). Baseball player.
• 1951 – Traian Băsescu was born. President of Romania
• 1952 – Dwight Eisenhower is elected President of United States.
• 1952 – U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1953 – Carlos Gutierrez was born. American politician.
• 1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder) was born. Motorsport driver
• 1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
• 1955 – Matti Vanhanen was born. Prime Minister of Finland
• 1955 – Cy Young dies (b. 1867). Baseball player
• 1956 – Jordan Rudess was born. American musician (Dream Theater)
• 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott was born (d. 1982). English guitarist (The Pretenders).
• 1956 – Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician
• 1956 – Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1957 – Shoghi Effendi dies (b. 1897). Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
• 1960 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable — the last film for both.
• 1960 – Marc Awodey was born. American artist and writer.
• 1961 – Edward Knight was born. American composer
• 1961 – Daron Hagen was born. American composer
• 1961 – Les Sampou was born. American musician
• 1961 – Nigel Worthington was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. American actor.
• 1961 – Kathy Griffin was born. American comedienne and actress
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Jeff Probst, American television host
• 1963 – Marc Déry, Québécois singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
• 1963 – Michel Therrien, National Hockey League head coach
• 1965 – Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey)
• 1965 – Wayne Static was born. American singer/guitarist (Static-X)
• 1966 – Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
• 1967 – Eric Karros was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 – Carlos Baerga was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1968 – Michel Kikoine dies (b. 1892). Belarusian painter.
• 1969 – Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. American actor.
• 1969 – Sean Jean “Diddy” Combs was born. American rapper.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
• 1972 – Luis Figo was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1972 – Tabassum Hashmi was born. Indian actress
• 1974 – M62 bomber jailed for life Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died. Her conviction was quashed 18 years later.
• 1974 – Portugal: Sede Nacional do Partido Popular sofre ataques, ameaças e assaltos por radicais de extrema-esquerda.
• 1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-in, The Mars Volta)
• 1975 – Eduard Kokcharov was born.Russian handball player
• 1976 – Mario Melchiot was born. Dutch football player
• 1976 – Bruno Junqueira was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1977 – Larry Bigbie was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – Carmen Cali was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – John Grabow was born. American baseball player
• 1979 – Audrey Hollander was born. American pornographic actress
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). 1979. Cerca de 500 jovens militantes iranianos invadiram a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos em Teerão, no Irão, e fizeram 90 reféns, incluindo 52 americanos, que mantiverram sequestrados durante 444 dias.
• 1980 – U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• 1980 – Elsie MacGill dies (b. 1905). Canadian aeronautical engineer.
• 1982 – Dominique Dunne dies (b. 1959). American actress.
• 1982 – Mother jailed in dingo baby trial
• 1985 – Marcell Jansen was born. German football player
• 1986 – Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
• 1986 – Alexz Johnson was born. Canadian singer and actress (Final Destination 3 ; Instant Star).
• 1986 – Kurt Hirsch dies (b. 1906). German mathematician.
• 1989 – The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
• 1990 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau was born. Canadian actor
• 1993 – Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1993 – Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993 – A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.
• 1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong‘s Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon. The wind was gusting to gale force at the time. It touched down more than 2/3 down the runway and was unable to stop before the runway ran out and the plane crashed into the sea. 22 people were injured.
• 1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
• 1994 – Fred Sonic Smith dies (b. 1949). American guitar player MC5
• 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
• 1995 – After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv‘s Kings Square, Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922) is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
• 1995 – Gilles Deleuze dies. French philosopher.
• 1995 – Paul Eddington dies. British actor.
• 1999 – Malcolm Marshall dies (b. 1958). West Indian cricketer
• 2001 – Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
• 2001 – The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
• 2001 – Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires é beatificado
• 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
• 2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
• 2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
• 2003 – The largest-ever solar flare is recorded
• 2003 – Richard Wollheim dies (b. 1923). British philosopher.
• 2004 – 12 French Soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
• 2005 – Nadia Anjuman dies (b. 1980). Afghan poet & journalist.
• 2005 – Sheree North dies (b. 1932). American actress and singer.
• R.C. Saints – November 4th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Charles Borromeo, St. Clarus, St. Birrstan, St. Vitalis, St. Emeric, St. Joannicus, St. Nicander and Hermas St. Modesta, St. Philologus and Patrobas, St. Pierius.
• Italy – celebration of victory in WWI, the date of the Armed Forces
• Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Qudrat (Power) – First day of the 13th month of the Bahá’í calendar
• Panama‘s Flag Day
• Russia – Day of People’s Unity (or National Unity Day), concides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.
• Tonga‘s National Day, from 2006.

On this day in History – Nov. 4

• 1411 – Khalil Sultan dies (b. 1384). Ruler of Transoxonia
• 1448 – King Alphonso II of Naples was born (d. 1495)
• 1470 – King Edward V of England was born. One of the two princes in the Tower
• 1575 – Guido Reni was born (d. 1642). Italian painter.
• 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• 1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal.
• 1612 – Moscow Kitai-gorod taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1631 – Mary of Orange was born (d. 1660). Eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England
• 1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille dies (b. 1597). Belgian mathematician.
• 1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1742)
• 1669 – Johannes Cocceius dies (b. 1603). Dutch theologian.
• 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
• 1698 – Rasmus Bartholin dies (b. 1625). Danish physician and mathematician.
• 1702 – John Benbow dies (b. 1653). English admiral.
• 1704 – Andreas Acoluthus dies (b. 1654). German orientalist.
• 1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady was born. Author of hymn, “Rock of Ages”
• 1744 – Johann Bernoulli, III was born (d. 1807). Swiss mathematicien
• 1765 – Pierre Girard was born (d. 1836). French mathematician
• 1825 – The Erie Canal was completed with DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony.
• 1828 – António Coelho Lousada was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1836 – Henry J. Lutcher was born (d. 1912). Business leader.
• 1842 – Abraham Lincoln, future US President, married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1845 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was born. Indian revolutionary
• 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn dies (b. 1809). German composer.
• 1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont–Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
• 1857 – Fundação de São Carlos (S. Paulo – Brasil)
• 1859 – Clóvis Beviláqua was born in Viçosa (CE) (d. 1944). Brazilian jurist, journalist and historian. Author of the “Código Civil Brasileiro” (Brazilian Civil Code)
• 1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
• 1869 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.
• 1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak was born (d. 1920). Russian military commander.
• 1877 – A construção da Ponte de Dona Maria Pia é concluída.
• 1879 – Will Rogers was born (d. 1935). American humorist and entertainer.
• 1883 – Nikolaos Plastiras was born (d. 1953). Greek general and politician.
• 1884 – U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
• 1884 – Harry Ferguson was born (d. 1960). Aviator, plane and farm equipment designer (Ferguson Company).
• 1889 – Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
• 1890 – City & South London Railway: London‘s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
• 1890 – Klabund (Alfred Henschke) was born (d. 1928). German writer escritor alemão
• 1897 – Lorenzo Fernandez was born (d. 1948). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor
• 1899 – Sigmund Freud‘s The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
• 1899 – Nicolas Frantz was born (d. 1985). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1901 – Princess Bang-ja of Korea was born (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt foi reeleito presidente dos Estados Unidos da América. Eleito vice-presidente em 1900, tinha-se tornado presidente logo em 1901 devido ao assassinato do presidente McKinley.
• 1908 – Józef Rotblat was born (d. 2005). Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1909 – Skeeter Webb was born (d. 1986). Baseball player.
• 1910 – Torres Pastorinho was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist, historian and writer
• 1911 – O túmulo do faraó Tutankhamon foi descoberto, em Luxor no Egipto, pelo arqueólogo inglês Howard Carter.
• 1912 – Vadim Salmanov was born (d. 1978). Russian composer.
• 1913 – Gig Young was born (d. 1978). American actor.
• 1914 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1916 – Walter Cronkite was born. American news broadcaster
• 1918 – Art Carney was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1918 – Cameron Mitchell was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
• 1918 – The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1918 – Wilfred Owen dies (b. 1893). English poet.
• 1919 – Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
• 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in Tokyo.
• 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1922 – Benno Besson was born (d. 2006). Swiss actor.
• 1923 – Freddy Heineken was born (d. 2002). Dutch businessman.
• 1924 – Monsueto was born (d. 1973). Brazilian musician (Samba)
• 1924 – Howie Meeker was born. National Hockey League player, politician
• 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• 1924 – Gabriel Fauré dies (b. 1845). French composer
• 1928 – Arnold Rothstein (b. 1882), New York City‘s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.
• 1929 – Doris Roberts was born. American actress
• 1930 – Dick Groat was born. Baseball player
• 1930 – Buddy Bolden dies (b. 1877). American musician.
• 1932 – Thomas Klestil was born (d. 2004). President of Austria.
• 1933 – Tito Francona was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1937 – Michael Wilson was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 – Loretta Swit was born. American actress
• 1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
• 1941 – Manuel Rui was born in Huambo. Angolan poet.
• 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
• 1943 – Marlène Jobert was born. French actress
• 1944 – Linda Gary was born (d. 1995). American voice-actress.
• 1944 – Scherrie Payne was born. American singer (The Supremes)
• 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.
• 1946 – Laura Bush was born. First Lady of the United States
• 1948 – T. S. Eliot is announced that won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
• 1946 – Unesco is founded.
• 1948 – T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1948 – Truman is reelected President of United States
• 1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander dies (b. 1887). Baseball player.
• 1951 – Traian Băsescu was born. President of Romania
• 1952 – Dwight Eisenhower is elected President of United States.
• 1952 – U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1953 – Carlos Gutierrez was born. American politician.
• 1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder) was born. Motorsport driver
• 1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
• 1955 – Matti Vanhanen was born. Prime Minister of Finland
• 1955 – Cy Young dies (b. 1867). Baseball player
• 1956 – Jordan Rudess was born. American musician (Dream Theater)
• 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott was born (d. 1982). English guitarist (The Pretenders).
• 1956 – Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician
• 1956 – Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1957 – Shoghi Effendi dies (b. 1897). Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
• 1960 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable — the last film for both.
• 1960 – Marc Awodey was born. American artist and writer.
• 1961 – Edward Knight was born. American composer
• 1961 – Daron Hagen was born. American composer
• 1961 – Les Sampou was born. American musician
• 1961 – Nigel Worthington was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. American actor.
• 1961 – Kathy Griffin was born. American comedienne and actress
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Jeff Probst, American television host
• 1963 – Marc Déry, Québécois singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
• 1963 – Michel Therrien, National Hockey League head coach
• 1965 – Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey)
• 1965 – Wayne Static was born. American singer/guitarist (Static-X)
• 1966 – Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
• 1967 – Eric Karros was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 – Carlos Baerga was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1968 – Michel Kikoine dies (b. 1892). Belarusian painter.
• 1969 – Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. American actor.
• 1969 – Sean Jean “Diddy” Combs was born. American rapper.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
• 1972 – Luis Figo was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1972 – Tabassum Hashmi was born. Indian actress
• 1974 – M62 bomber jailed for life Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died. Her conviction was quashed 18 years later.
• 1974 – Portugal: Sede Nacional do Partido Popular sofre ataques, ameaças e assaltos por radicais de extrema-esquerda.
• 1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-in, The Mars Volta)
• 1975 – Eduard Kokcharov was born.Russian handball player
• 1976 – Mario Melchiot was born. Dutch football player
• 1976 – Bruno Junqueira was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1977 – Larry Bigbie was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – Carmen Cali was born. American baseball player
• 1978 – John Grabow was born. American baseball player
• 1979 – Audrey Hollander was born. American pornographic actress
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). 1979. Cerca de 500 jovens militantes iranianos invadiram a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos em Teerão, no Irão, e fizeram 90 reféns, incluindo 52 americanos, que mantiverram sequestrados durante 444 dias.
• 1980 – U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• 1980 – Elsie MacGill dies (b. 1905). Canadian aeronautical engineer.
• 1982 – Dominique Dunne dies (b. 1959). American actress.
• 1982 – Mother jailed in dingo baby trial
• 1985 – Marcell Jansen was born. German football player
• 1986 – Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
• 1986 – Alexz Johnson was born. Canadian singer and actress (Final Destination 3 ; Instant Star).
• 1986 – Kurt Hirsch dies (b. 1906). German mathematician.
• 1989 – The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
• 1990 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau was born. Canadian actor
• 1993 – Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1993 – Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993 – A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.
• 1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong‘s Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon. The wind was gusting to gale force at the time. It touched down more than 2/3 down the runway and was unable to stop before the runway ran out and the plane crashed into the sea. 22 people were injured.
• 1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
• 1994 – Fred Sonic Smith dies (b. 1949). American guitar player MC5
• 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
• 1995 – After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv‘s Kings Square, Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922) is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
• 1995 – Gilles Deleuze dies. French philosopher.
• 1995 – Paul Eddington dies. British actor.
• 1999 – Malcolm Marshall dies (b. 1958). West Indian cricketer
• 2001 – Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
• 2001 – The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
• 2001 – Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires é beatificado
• 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
• 2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
• 2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
• 2003 – The largest-ever solar flare is recorded
• 2003 – Richard Wollheim dies (b. 1923). British philosopher.
• 2004 – 12 French Soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
• 2005 – Nadia Anjuman dies (b. 1980). Afghan poet & journalist.
• 2005 – Sheree North dies (b. 1932). American actress and singer.
• R.C. Saints – November 4th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Charles Borromeo, St. Clarus, St. Birrstan, St. Vitalis, St. Emeric, St. Joannicus, St. Nicander and Hermas St. Modesta, St. Philologus and Patrobas, St. Pierius.
• Italy – celebration of victory in WWI, the date of the Armed Forces
• Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Qudrat (Power) – First day of the 13th month of the Bahá’í calendar
• Panama‘s Flag Day
• Russia – Day of People’s Unity (or National Unity Day), concides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.
• Tonga‘s National Day, from 2006.

On this day in History – Aug 16 Agosto 16, 2006

• 1027 – Giorgi I dies (b. 0998). King of Georgia.
• 1358 – Duke Albert II of Austria dies.
• 1443 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu dies (b. 1434). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1513 – King Henry VIII of England and his troops defeated the French in the Battle of the Spurs, at Guinigatte, NW France.
• 1519 – Después de fundar la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (hoy puerto de Veracruz), Hernán Cortés parte hacia Cempoala que él llamó Sevilla .
• 1570 – Cédula española establece la Inquisición en las colonias de América
• 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1632)
• 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère was born (d. 1696). French writer.
• 1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli was born (d. 9 Dec 1718). Italian cartographer and encylopedist.
• 1661 – Thomas Fuller dies. Churchman and historian
• 1678 – Andrew Marvel dies (b. 31 Mar 1621). English poet.
• 1681 – Nascimento de Bernardo Filipe Neri de Távora (m. 27 Abr 1744). 2º conde de Alvor – Portugal.
• 1682 – Louis, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 18 Feb 1712). Heir to the throne of France.
• 1705 – Jakob Bernoulli dies (b. 1654). Swiss mathematician and scientist.
• 1711 – A cidade do México é atingida por por um grande terramoto que causa consideráveis danos.
• 1716 – Toma posesión como el 36º virrey de la Nueva España, don Baltazar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, marqués de Valero, duque de Arión. Su mandato ha de prolongarse hasta octubre de 1722.
• 1732 – Portugal : Tem início a construção do Aqueduto das Águas Livres.
• 1733 – Matthew Tindal dies (b. 1657). English deist
• 1746 – Nascimento de Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (O Tiradentes) (m. 21 Abr 1792)
• 1773 – Publicação do Breve de Clemente XIV que dissolve a Companhia de Jesus em todo o mundo.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington – British forces are defeated by American troops.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• 1781 – O marquês de Pombal, afastado da corte desde 1777, é declarado culpado e merecedor de um castigo exemplar, no processo que Francisco José Caldeira Soares Galhardo Mendanha intentou contra ele, por motivo da Apologia, obra manuscrita que circulou pelo país a partir de 1779, e que defendia a política do marquês.
• 1788 – Morte de Francisco Xavier Alegre . Historiador e humanista mexicano. Jesuíta
• 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
• 1812 – España: en la Plaza Mayor de Madrid se proclama la Constitución promulgada por las Cortes de Cádiz.
• 1815 – Nascimento de São João Bosco em Becchi, Itália (m. 1888). Fundou os Salesianos em 1859.
• 1819 – Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England.
• 1821 – Arthur Cayley was born (d. 26 Jan 1895). British mathematicien.
• 1827 – Johan Siegwald Dahl, was born. Norwegian painter
• 1832 – Wilhelm Wundt was born (d. 31 Ago 1920). German philosopher and psycologist.
• 1840 – Jose Jacinto Milanés was born in Matanzas (d. 14 Nov 1863). Cuban poet.
• 1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• 1842 – Perú – O General Juan Crisóstomo Torrico se proclama-se Chefe da Nação
• 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann was born (d. 1921). French physicist. 1908 Physic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 1859 – Costa Rica: Escoltado por el Coronel Blanco, a la cabeza de 100 soldados y 10 oficiales, sale de San José (Costa Rica), con destino a Puntarenas, el depuesto Presidente Juan Rafel Mora Porras, para ser embarcado posteriormente camino al exilio.
• 1860 – Jules Laforgue was born (d. 29 Aug 1887). French poet.
• 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg was born (d. 17 Mar 1965). American coach.
• 1864 – John Chambliss dies. American Confederate general.
• 1867 – Nasce no Porto, António Pereira Nobre (m. 18 Mar 1900 de tuberculose). Poeta português. Formado em Direito na Sorbonne, fez uma “peregrinação” desesperada pelo mundo devido à sua doença. (“Só” – Paris 1892)
• 1868 – Bernarr McFadden was born (d. 12 Oct 1955). Publisher.
• 1869 – Batalha de Barreiro Grande, durante a guerra da Argentina, Uruguai e Brasil contra o Paraguai.
• 1869 – Morte do poeta português Faustino Xavier de Novais (irmão da futura esposa de Machado de Assis). É considerado o maior poeta satírico português depois de Nicolau Tolentino. Poeta portuense fixou-se no Brasil.
• 1884 – Hugo Gernsback was born (d. 19 Aug 1967). Luxembourg-born editor and publisher.
• 1886 – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa dies (b. 18 Feb 1836). Indian guru.
• 1887 – John Stith Pemberton dies. Inventor of Coca-Cola.
• 1888 – T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born (d. 19 May 1935). English writer and soldier.
• 1888 – Armand J. Piron was born (d. 1943). American musician.
• 1888 – Venezuela: El Presidente Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl ordena la fundación del Hospital Vargas de Caracas
• 1892 – Otto Messmer was born (d. 28 Oct 1983). American cartoonist.
• 1894 – George Meany was born (d. 10 Jan 1980). American labor union leader.
• 1895 – Albert Cohen was born in Corfu, Greece (d. 7 Oct 1981). Swiss novelist and diplomat. (Belle du Seigneur -1968).
• 1895 – Liane Haid was born (d. 28 Nov 2000). Austrian actress.
• 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike in Canada.
• 1899 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen dies (b. 31 Mar 1811). German chemist.
• 1900 – Eça de Queirós morre em Neuilly, França (n. 25 Nov 1845 na Póvoa do Varzim). Escritor português. É por muitos considerado o maior escritor realista português do século XIX. Ver biografia completa em Vidas Lusófonas
• 1902 – Georgette Heyer was born (d. 4 Jul 1974). English novelist.
• 1906 – Nasce em Málaga, Espanha, Oscarito (Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz) (m. 4 Ago 1970). Actor e comediante brasileiro. Formou uma dupla histórica com Grande Otelo.
• 1906 – A cidade de Valparaíso, no Chile, é atingida por um forte terramoto. Cerca de 1,5 mil pessoas morrem e a costa sobe 1,5 metro de altura.
• 1907 – James Hector dies. Geologist
• 1911 – Nace en Paraná, Entre Ríos, Luz Vieira Méndez (m. 1971). Educadora argentina.
• 1911 – E. F. Schumacher was born (d. 1977). German economist and statistician.
• 1913 – Menachem Begin was born (d. 1992). Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
• 1915 – World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
• 1918 – España: se crean los dos primeros Parques Nacionales españoles: el de Peña Santa (en Covadonga (Asturias)) y el de Ordesa (en el Pirineo oscense).
• 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
• 1920 – Charles Bukowski was born (d. 1994). American poet.
• 1921 – King Peter I of Serbia dies.
• 1923 – Shimon Peres was born. Israel’s eighth Prime Minister, co-laureate in 1994 with The Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1924 – Fess Parker was born. American actor
• 1923 – Millôr Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian writer and cartoonist.
• 1925 – Estréia em Nova York de “A quimera do ouro”, primeiro longa-metragem de Charles Chaplin.
• 1925 – Constituição do Primeiro Partido Comunista de Cuba
• 1926 – Artur Bual was born. Portuguese painter
• 1927 – Ramón Veloz was born in Havana (d. 16 Aug 1986). Cuban singer and musician
• 1927 – Osvaldo Rossler was born. Cuban singer, author and poet
• 1928 – Ann Blyth was born. American actress (The Merry Monahans, The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso, The Buster Keaton Story).
• 1928 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
• 1929 – Helmut Rahn was born (d. 2003). German footballer.
• 1930 – Robert Culp was born. American actor.
• 1930 – Nasce Glauce Rocha, em Campo Grande, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil (m. 12 Out 1971 em S. Paulo). Actriz brasileira
• 1930 – Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer
• 1930 – O general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 1930 – Se inaugura en los Estados Unidos el primer supermercado del mundo (King Kullen Grocery Company in New York).
• 1930 – The first colour sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks
• 1930 – Ted Hughes was born. English poet
• 1931 – Eydie Gorme was born. American singer
• 1933 – Julie Newmar was born. Actress
• 1936 – Encerram os Jogos Olímpicos de Berlim iniciados em 1 de Agosto. Portugal obteve uma medalha de bronze na modalidade de Hipismo, no concurso de obstáculos por equipas, através de Luís Mena e Silva, Domingos de Sousa Coutinho e José Beltrão.
• 1937 – Félix Paiva assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1937 – Rodolfo Chiari dies (b. 15 Nov 1869). President of Panamá (1924-1928).
• 1938 – Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado assume a presidência da República Dominicana que exerceu até à sua morte (7 Mar 1940).
• 1938 – Robert Johnson dies (b. 8 May 1911). Blues singer and guitarist
• 1938 – Andrej Hlinka dies (b. 27 Sep 1864). Slovak politician and priest.
• 1940 – Bruce Beresford was born. Australian film director
• 1946 – Lesley Ann Warren was born. American actress
• 1946 – Massoud Barzani was born. Iraqi Kurdish politician
• 1946 – The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 – Dumarsais Estimé assume a presidência do Haiti
• 1948 – Moria Casán (Ana María Casanova) was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian actress
• 1948 – Babe Ruth dies. Baseball player
• 1949 – Margaret Mitchell dies. Novelist
• 1950 – Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidad and Tobago athlete
• 1950 – Federico Chaves assume a presidência do Paraguai
• 1951 – Arnaldo Barsanti dies (b. 1889). Composer and musician ( “Anastasio el pollo”, “Echale aceite a la manija”, “Los invisibles”).
• 1951 – Muere Eduardo Chibás, líder del Partido del Pueblo Cubano, Ortodoxo
• 1952 – Reginald VelJohnson was born. American actor
• 1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford was born. French-born singer and actress
• 1953 – Federico Chávez toma posse como Presidente do Paraguai.
• 1954 – Sports Illustrated magazine is first published.
• 1954 – James Cameron was born. Canadian film director (Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2)
• 1955 – Nascimento Fernandes dies (b. 1881). Portuguese actor.
• 1956 – Bela Lugosi dies. Actor
• 1957 – Irving Langmuir dies (b. 1881). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1958 – Angela Bassett was born. American actress Waiting to Exhale, FX, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Malcolm X, Boyz N the Hood
• 1958 – Madonna was born. American singer (Material Girl, Like a Virgin) and actress (Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own).
• 1959 – Wanda Landowska dies (b. 1879), Polish harpsichordist.
• 1960 – Francisco Lauro dies. Musician (“Los Mendocinos”) Author tango “Perfidia”
• 1960 – Ausenda d’Oliveira dies in Lisbon (b. 20 Apr 1888 in Cantanhede). Portuguese actress.
• 1960 – Timothy Hutton was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom with Archbishop Makarios as president.
• 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). He sets unbeaten (as of 2003) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute; and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft, 614 mi/h (982 km/h).
• 1962 – The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
• 1963 – Restauración de la independencia en la República Dominicana.
• 1963 – Fernando Ponassi-Boutureira was born. Argentine-Italian architect
• 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d’état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• 1966 – Declaración de Bogotá firman presidentes y representantes de Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela y Perú.
• 1967 – Pamela Smart was born. American murderer
• 1967 – Ulrika Jonsson was born. Swedish-born television personality
• 1967 – René Magritte dies. Belgian painter.
• 1967 – Luis Antonio Eguiguren dies in Lima. Peruvian politician, historian and journalist.
• 1968 – Mateja Svet was born. Slovenian alpine skier
• 1971 – Mario Zanini dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 1972 – The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco‘s plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
• 1974 – Robin Hull was born. Finnish snooker player
• 1974 – Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer.
• 1975 – Vladimir Kuts dies (b. 1929). Soviet runner
• 1977 – Elvis Presley dies (b. 1935). American singer and actor
• 1979 – John Diefenbaker dies (b. 18 Sep 1875). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1980 – Robert Hardy was born. English bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
• 1980 – Vanessa Carlton was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist
• 1980 – Park Choong Hoon assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
• 1981 – Taylor Rain was born. American actress
• 1983 – Earl Averill dies (b. 1902). American baseball player
• 1984 – Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
• 1985 – Madonna-Sean Penn’s wedding.
• 1986 – Joaquín Balaguer assume (pela 3ª ?quinta vez) a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1987 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (the sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the aircraft flaps.
• 1987 – Kyal Marsh was born. Australian actor.
• 1989 – Amanda Blake dies (b. 1929). American actress
• 1990 – Paulino Vicente dies. Spanish painter.
• 1992 – El automovilista británico Nigel Mansell se consagra nuevo campeón del mundo de Fórmula 1.
• 1993 – The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is founded by Ian Murdo
• 1993 – Stewart Granger, dies in Santa Monica, California (b. 06 May 1913). English-born American actor.
• 1994 – Muere Manuel Jiménez de la Guardia, fundador del diario costarricense “La Nación”. Fue Ministro de Industria y Comercio de su país.
• 1994 – Joaquín Balaguer toma posse (7º. mandato) do cargo de Presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1996 – Leonel Fernández assume a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1997 – Hasta 220 personas son arrestadas en Alemania durante marchas para conmemorar al 10° aniversario de la muerte del líder nazi Rudolf Hess.
• 2000 – Hipólito Mejía assume a presidência da República Dominicana
• 2000 – Início do segundo mandato do presidente venezuelano Hugo Chávez
• 2002 – Martin Deutsch dies at 85. Physicist who discovered positronium
• 2002 – Abu Nidal dies (b. 1937). Palestinian terrorist, founder of Fatah – the Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah) well known as Abu Nidal Organization.
• 2003 – Idi Amin dies (b. 1925). Ugandan dictator (1971-1979)
• 2003 – Haroldo de Campos dies (b. 19 Aug 1929 in São Paulo). Brazilian poet and translator
• 2004 – Ivan Hlinka dies (b. 1950). Czech hockey coach.
• 2004 – Robert Quiroga dies ( 1969). American boxer
• 2005 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
• 2005 – Frère Roger of Taizé dies (b. 1915). Swiss monk and mystic.
• 2005 – Joe Ranft dies (b. 1960). Pixar animator.
• Feast day of St Stephen the Great
• Palio dell’Assunta in Siena

On this day in History – Aug 16

• 1027 – Giorgi I dies (b. 0998). King of Georgia.
• 1358 – Duke Albert II of Austria dies.
• 1443 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu dies (b. 1434). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1513 – King Henry VIII of England and his troops defeated the French in the Battle of the Spurs, at Guinigatte, NW France.
• 1519 – Después de fundar la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (hoy puerto de Veracruz), Hernán Cortés parte hacia Cempoala que él llamó Sevilla .
• 1570 – Cédula española establece la Inquisición en las colonias de América
• 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1632)
• 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère was born (d. 1696). French writer.
• 1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli was born (d. 9 Dec 1718). Italian cartographer and encylopedist.
• 1661 – Thomas Fuller dies. Churchman and historian
• 1678 – Andrew Marvel dies (b. 31 Mar 1621). English poet.
• 1681 – Nascimento de Bernardo Filipe Neri de Távora (m. 27 Abr 1744). 2º conde de Alvor – Portugal.
• 1682 – Louis, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 18 Feb 1712). Heir to the throne of France.
• 1705 – Jakob Bernoulli dies (b. 1654). Swiss mathematician and scientist.
• 1711 – A cidade do México é atingida por por um grande terramoto que causa consideráveis danos.
• 1716 – Toma posesión como el 36º virrey de la Nueva España, don Baltazar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, marqués de Valero, duque de Arión. Su mandato ha de prolongarse hasta octubre de 1722.
• 1732 – Portugal : Tem início a construção do Aqueduto das Águas Livres.
• 1733 – Matthew Tindal dies (b. 1657). English deist
• 1746 – Nascimento de Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (O Tiradentes) (m. 21 Abr 1792)
• 1773 – Publicação do Breve de Clemente XIV que dissolve a Companhia de Jesus em todo o mundo.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington – British forces are defeated by American troops.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• 1781 – O marquês de Pombal, afastado da corte desde 1777, é declarado culpado e merecedor de um castigo exemplar, no processo que Francisco José Caldeira Soares Galhardo Mendanha intentou contra ele, por motivo da Apologia, obra manuscrita que circulou pelo país a partir de 1779, e que defendia a política do marquês.
• 1788 – Morte de Francisco Xavier Alegre . Historiador e humanista mexicano. Jesuíta
• 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
• 1812 – España: en la Plaza Mayor de Madrid se proclama la Constitución promulgada por las Cortes de Cádiz.
• 1815 – Nascimento de São João Bosco em Becchi, Itália (m. 1888). Fundou os Salesianos em 1859.
• 1819 – Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England.
• 1821 – Arthur Cayley was born (d. 26 Jan 1895). British mathematicien.
• 1827 – Johan Siegwald Dahl, was born. Norwegian painter
• 1832 – Wilhelm Wundt was born (d. 31 Ago 1920). German philosopher and psycologist.
• 1840 – Jose Jacinto Milanés was born in Matanzas (d. 14 Nov 1863). Cuban poet.
• 1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• 1842 – Perú – O General Juan Crisóstomo Torrico se proclama-se Chefe da Nação
• 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann was born (d. 1921). French physicist. 1908 Physic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 1859 – Costa Rica: Escoltado por el Coronel Blanco, a la cabeza de 100 soldados y 10 oficiales, sale de San José (Costa Rica), con destino a Puntarenas, el depuesto Presidente Juan Rafel Mora Porras, para ser embarcado posteriormente camino al exilio.
• 1860 – Jules Laforgue was born (d. 29 Aug 1887). French poet.
• 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg was born (d. 17 Mar 1965). American coach.
• 1864 – John Chambliss dies. American Confederate general.
• 1867 – Nasce no Porto, António Pereira Nobre (m. 18 Mar 1900 de tuberculose). Poeta português. Formado em Direito na Sorbonne, fez uma “peregrinação” desesperada pelo mundo devido à sua doença. (“Só” – Paris 1892)
• 1868 – Bernarr McFadden was born (d. 12 Oct 1955). Publisher.
• 1869 – Batalha de Barreiro Grande, durante a guerra da Argentina, Uruguai e Brasil contra o Paraguai.
• 1869 – Morte do poeta português Faustino Xavier de Novais (irmão da futura esposa de Machado de Assis). É considerado o maior poeta satírico português depois de Nicolau Tolentino. Poeta portuense fixou-se no Brasil.
• 1884 – Hugo Gernsback was born (d. 19 Aug 1967). Luxembourg-born editor and publisher.
• 1886 – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa dies (b. 18 Feb 1836). Indian guru.
• 1887 – John Stith Pemberton dies. Inventor of Coca-Cola.
• 1888 – T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born (d. 19 May 1935). English writer and soldier.
• 1888 – Armand J. Piron was born (d. 1943). American musician.
• 1888 – Venezuela: El Presidente Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl ordena la fundación del Hospital Vargas de Caracas
• 1892 – Otto Messmer was born (d. 28 Oct 1983). American cartoonist.
• 1894 – George Meany was born (d. 10 Jan 1980). American labor union leader.
• 1895 – Albert Cohen was born in Corfu, Greece (d. 7 Oct 1981). Swiss novelist and diplomat. (Belle du Seigneur -1968).
• 1895 – Liane Haid was born (d. 28 Nov 2000). Austrian actress.
• 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike in Canada.
• 1899 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen dies (b. 31 Mar 1811). German chemist.
• 1900 – Eça de Queirós morre em Neuilly, França (n. 25 Nov 1845 na Póvoa do Varzim). Escritor português. É por muitos considerado o maior escritor realista português do século XIX. Ver biografia completa em Vidas Lusófonas
• 1902 – Georgette Heyer was born (d. 4 Jul 1974). English novelist.
• 1906 – Nasce em Málaga, Espanha, Oscarito (Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz) (m. 4 Ago 1970). Actor e comediante brasileiro. Formou uma dupla histórica com Grande Otelo.
• 1906 – A cidade de Valparaíso, no Chile, é atingida por um forte terramoto. Cerca de 1,5 mil pessoas morrem e a costa sobe 1,5 metro de altura.
• 1907 – James Hector dies. Geologist
• 1911 – Nace en Paraná, Entre Ríos, Luz Vieira Méndez (m. 1971). Educadora argentina.
• 1911 – E. F. Schumacher was born (d. 1977). German economist and statistician.
• 1913 – Menachem Begin was born (d. 1992). Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
• 1915 – World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
• 1918 – España: se crean los dos primeros Parques Nacionales españoles: el de Peña Santa (en Covadonga (Asturias)) y el de Ordesa (en el Pirineo oscense).
• 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
• 1920 – Charles Bukowski was born (d. 1994). American poet.
• 1921 – King Peter I of Serbia dies.
• 1923 – Shimon Peres was born. Israel’s eighth Prime Minister, co-laureate in 1994 with The Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1924 – Fess Parker was born. American actor
• 1923 – Millôr Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian writer and cartoonist.
• 1925 – Estréia em Nova York de “A quimera do ouro”, primeiro longa-metragem de Charles Chaplin.
• 1925 – Constituição do Primeiro Partido Comunista de Cuba
• 1926 – Artur Bual was born. Portuguese painter
• 1927 – Ramón Veloz was born in Havana (d. 16 Aug 1986). Cuban singer and musician
• 1927 – Osvaldo Rossler was born. Cuban singer, author and poet
• 1928 – Ann Blyth was born. American actress (The Merry Monahans, The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso, The Buster Keaton Story).
• 1928 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
• 1929 – Helmut Rahn was born (d. 2003). German footballer.
• 1930 – Robert Culp was born. American actor.
• 1930 – Nasce Glauce Rocha, em Campo Grande, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil (m. 12 Out 1971 em S. Paulo). Actriz brasileira
• 1930 – Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer
• 1930 – O general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 1930 – Se inaugura en los Estados Unidos el primer supermercado del mundo (King Kullen Grocery Company in New York).
• 1930 – The first colour sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks
• 1930 – Ted Hughes was born. English poet
• 1931 – Eydie Gorme was born. American singer
• 1933 – Julie Newmar was born. Actress
• 1936 – Encerram os Jogos Olímpicos de Berlim iniciados em 1 de Agosto. Portugal obteve uma medalha de bronze na modalidade de Hipismo, no concurso de obstáculos por equipas, através de Luís Mena e Silva, Domingos de Sousa Coutinho e José Beltrão.
• 1937 – Félix Paiva assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1937 – Rodolfo Chiari dies (b. 15 Nov 1869). President of Panamá (1924-1928).
• 1938 – Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado assume a presidência da República Dominicana que exerceu até à sua morte (7 Mar 1940).
• 1938 – Robert Johnson dies (b. 8 May 1911). Blues singer and guitarist
• 1938 – Andrej Hlinka dies (b. 27 Sep 1864). Slovak politician and priest.
• 1940 – Bruce Beresford was born. Australian film director
• 1946 – Lesley Ann Warren was born. American actress
• 1946 – Massoud Barzani was born. Iraqi Kurdish politician
• 1946 – The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 – Dumarsais Estimé assume a presidência do Haiti
• 1948 – Moria Casán (Ana María Casanova) was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian actress
• 1948 – Babe Ruth dies. Baseball player
• 1949 – Margaret Mitchell dies. Novelist
• 1950 – Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidad and Tobago athlete
• 1950 – Federico Chaves assume a presidência do Paraguai
• 1951 – Arnaldo Barsanti dies (b. 1889). Composer and musician ( “Anastasio el pollo”, “Echale aceite a la manija”, “Los invisibles”).
• 1951 – Muere Eduardo Chibás, líder del Partido del Pueblo Cubano, Ortodoxo
• 1952 – Reginald VelJohnson was born. American actor
• 1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford was born. French-born singer and actress
• 1953 – Federico Chávez toma posse como Presidente do Paraguai.
• 1954 – Sports Illustrated magazine is first published.
• 1954 – James Cameron was born. Canadian film director (Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2)
• 1955 – Nascimento Fernandes dies (b. 1881). Portuguese actor.
• 1956 – Bela Lugosi dies. Actor
• 1957 – Irving Langmuir dies (b. 1881). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1958 – Angela Bassett was born. American actress Waiting to Exhale, FX, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Malcolm X, Boyz N the Hood
• 1958 – Madonna was born. American singer (Material Girl, Like a Virgin) and actress (Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own).
• 1959 – Wanda Landowska dies (b. 1879), Polish harpsichordist.
• 1960 – Francisco Lauro dies. Musician (“Los Mendocinos”) Author tango “Perfidia”
• 1960 – Ausenda d’Oliveira dies in Lisbon (b. 20 Apr 1888 in Cantanhede). Portuguese actress.
• 1960 – Timothy Hutton was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom with Archbishop Makarios as president.
• 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). He sets unbeaten (as of 2003) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute; and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft, 614 mi/h (982 km/h).
• 1962 – The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
• 1963 – Restauración de la independencia en la República Dominicana.
• 1963 – Fernando Ponassi-Boutureira was born. Argentine-Italian architect
• 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d’état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• 1966 – Declaración de Bogotá firman presidentes y representantes de Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela y Perú.
• 1967 – Pamela Smart was born. American murderer
• 1967 – Ulrika Jonsson was born. Swedish-born television personality
• 1967 – René Magritte dies. Belgian painter.
• 1967 – Luis Antonio Eguiguren dies in Lima. Peruvian politician, historian and journalist.
• 1968 – Mateja Svet was born. Slovenian alpine skier
• 1971 – Mario Zanini dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 1972 – The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco‘s plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
• 1974 – Robin Hull was born. Finnish snooker player
• 1974 – Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer.
• 1975 – Vladimir Kuts dies (b. 1929). Soviet runner
• 1977 – Elvis Presley dies (b. 1935). American singer and actor
• 1979 – John Diefenbaker dies (b. 18 Sep 1875). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1980 – Robert Hardy was born. English bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
• 1980 – Vanessa Carlton was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist
• 1980 – Park Choong Hoon assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
• 1981 – Taylor Rain was born. American actress
• 1983 – Earl Averill dies (b. 1902). American baseball player
• 1984 – Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
• 1985 – Madonna-Sean Penn’s wedding.
• 1986 – Joaquín Balaguer assume (pela 3ª ?quinta vez) a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1987 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (the sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the aircraft flaps.
• 1987 – Kyal Marsh was born. Australian actor.
• 1989 – Amanda Blake dies (b. 1929). American actress
• 1990 – Paulino Vicente dies. Spanish painter.
• 1992 – El automovilista británico Nigel Mansell se consagra nuevo campeón del mundo de Fórmula 1.
• 1993 – The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is founded by Ian Murdo
• 1993 – Stewart Granger, dies in Santa Monica, California (b. 06 May 1913). English-born American actor.
• 1994 – Muere Manuel Jiménez de la Guardia, fundador del diario costarricense “La Nación”. Fue Ministro de Industria y Comercio de su país.
• 1994 – Joaquín Balaguer toma posse (7º. mandato) do cargo de Presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1996 – Leonel Fernández assume a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1997 – Hasta 220 personas son arrestadas en Alemania durante marchas para conmemorar al 10° aniversario de la muerte del líder nazi Rudolf Hess.
• 2000 – Hipólito Mejía assume a presidência da República Dominicana
• 2000 – Início do segundo mandato do presidente venezuelano Hugo Chávez
• 2002 – Martin Deutsch dies at 85. Physicist who discovered positronium
• 2002 – Abu Nidal dies (b. 1937). Palestinian terrorist, founder of Fatah – the Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah) well known as Abu Nidal Organization.
• 2003 – Idi Amin dies (b. 1925). Ugandan dictator (1971-1979)
• 2003 – Haroldo de Campos dies (b. 19 Aug 1929 in São Paulo). Brazilian poet and translator
• 2004 – Ivan Hlinka dies (b. 1950). Czech hockey coach.
• 2004 – Robert Quiroga dies ( 1969). American boxer
• 2005 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
• 2005 – Frère Roger of Taizé dies (b. 1915). Swiss monk and mystic.
• 2005 – Joe Ranft dies (b. 1960). Pixar animator.
• Feast day of St Stephen the Great
• Palio dell’Assunta in Siena

On this day in History – Aug 14 Agosto 14, 2006

• 0582 – Morre o segundo imperador romano, Tibério.
• 1040 – King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth
• 1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the Three Sacred Treasures and flee to Western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 25, 1183).
• 1385 – 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of Aljubarrota / Batalha de Aljubarrota entre tropas portuguesas comandadas por João I de Portugal, Mestre de Aviz e D. Nuno Alvares Pereira e castelhanas lideradas por João I de Castela. A vitória portuguesa garante a independência e coloca um fim à Crise de 1383-1385
• 1433 – King John I of Portugal dies
• 1464 – Pope Pius II dies (b. 18 Oct 1405)
• 1473 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury was born. Daughter of George, Duke of Clarence
• 1498 – Cristóvão Colombo descobre, durante sua terceira viagem, a Ilha Margarita, no litoral venezuelano. A ilha é conhecida por suas pescarias de pérolas.
• 1502 – Em sua quarta e última viagem, Colombo desembarca em Honduras e se credita a ele o nome do país. Quando Colombo pisou no país, ele deu o nome Honduras devido à profundidade do mar próximo da costa.
• 1552 – Paolo Sarpi was born (d. 14 Jan 1623). Venetian patriot and scholar
• 1556 – Os portugueses se estabelecem definitivamente na China, próximo de Cantão, onde fundam Macau.
• 1575 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was born. Spanish writer.
• 1598 – Irish under Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of the Yellow Ford.
• 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon was born (d. 1965). Archbishop of Paris
• 1642 – Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 31 Oct 1723)
• 1653 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle was born (d. 1688). English statesman.
• 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia was born (d. 1740)
• 1691 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel dies (b. 1630). Irish rebel.
• 1704 – Roland Laporte dies (b. 1675). French protestant leader.
• 1740 – Pope Pius VII (Luigi Barnabà Chiaramonti) was born (d. 1823).
• 1754 – Morte de D. Maria Ana de Áustria (esposa de D. João V)
• 1784 – Nathaniel Hone dies (b. 1718). Irish-born painter
• 1727 – William Croft dies (b. 1678). English composer
• 1802 – Letitia Landon was born (d. 15 Oct 1838). English poet and novelist
• 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born (d. 1902). German psychologist
• 1842 – Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma
• 1846 – The Cape ?Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
• 1848 – Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress .
• 1850 – Morte de José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado. Presidente da Costa Rica (1833-1835 e 1845-1846)
• 1851 – Doc Holliday was born (d. 1887). American gambler and gunfighter.
• 1854 – Morte do toureiro espanhol Manuel Trigo
• 1860 – Ernest Thompson Seton was born (d. 23 Oct 1946). British/Canadian naturalist and writer; helped found the Boy Scouts of America
• 1861 – Herbert Putnam was born (d. 1955). Librarian of Congress
• 1863 – Ernest Thayer was born (d. 21 Aug 1940). American poet. “Casey at the Bat”
• 1867 – John Galsworthy was born (b. 31 Jan 1933). English author. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. The Forsyte Saga;
• 1870 – Admiral David G. Farragut dies (b. 1801). American Navy’s first four-star admiral.
• 1880 – Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
• 1881 – O investigador cubano Carlos Finlay descobre o mosquito propagador do paludismo
• 1882 – Gisela Richter was born (d. 1972). Art historian.
• 1885 – Japan’s first patent is issued to a man who invented rust-proof paint.
• 1886 – Arthur J. Dempster was born (d. 11 Mar 1950). American physicist who built the first device for measuring charged particles.
• 1886 – Morte do matemático francês Edmond Nicolas Laguerre
• 1890 – É inaugurado o Coliseu dos Recreios de Lisboa.
• 1893 – France introduces motor vehicle registration
• 1900 – Beijing occupied by joint European–Japanese–United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China.
• 1901 – First powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• 1903 – Eduardo Mallea was born (d. 12 Nov 1982). Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer
• 1908 – First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England
• 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer was born (d. 19 Aug 1955). French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer
• 1911 – Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center
• 1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye‘s death.
• 1912 – United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.
• 1913 – (Franck) Frank Pourcel was born (d. 12 Nov 2000). Composer, violinist: group: The French Fiddles: Only You.
• 1914 – Fundação do Portimonense Sporting Clube
• 1915 – Max Klein was born (d. 20 May 1993). American painter; invented “paint by numbers”
• 1917 – China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I
• 1920 – Nehemiah Persoff was born. Actor.
• 1920 – Começam os VII Jogos Olímpicos, em Antuérpia (Bélgica). Participaram 29 países, totalizando 2.543 homens e 64 mulheres.
• 1921 – Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
• 1925 – Russell Baker was born. US columnist and journalist.
• 1925 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
• 1926 – René Goscinny was born (d. 1977). French comic-strip author.
• 1926 – Lina Wertmüller was born. Director.
• 1926 – Alice Ghostley was born. Actress
• 1926 – Buddy Greco was born. Singer: Mr. Lonely, The Lady is a Tramp, I Ran All the Way Home; musician: piano
• 1928 – César de Oliveira was born. Portuguese argumentist.
• 1930 – Earl Weaver was born. Baseball Hall of Fame manager
• 1931 – Frederic Raphael was born.
• 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²).
• 1935 – United States Social Security Act passed, creating a government pension system for the retired
• 1935 – John Brodie was born. Football player
• 1936 – Tropas rebeldes vindas do Norte de África, dirigidas superiormente pelo general Francisco Franco, e comandadas localmente pelo coronel Juan Yague, tomam Badajoz, unindo as duas áreas que se revoltaram contra o governo republicano espanhol, e que deram origem à Guerra Civil espanhola
• 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
• 1940 – Dash Crofts was born. Musician
• 1941 – David Crosby was born. Guitarist, songwriter: Immigration Man; groups: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children, Woodstock; Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
• 1941 – Connie Smith was born. Country singer.
• 1941 – World War II – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
• 1941 – Paul Sabatier dies (b. 1854). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1912
• 1943 – Joe Kelley dies (b. 1871). Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1943 – Jimmy Johnson was born. American football player and broadcaster
• 1945 – Steve Martin was born. Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1968-69]; Comedian and actor All of Me, Roxanne, L.A. Story, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Three Amigos, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live
• 1945 – Wim Wenders was born. German film director
• 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender.
• 1945 – Marechal Pétain é condenado à morte por um tribunal francês.
• 1946 – Antonio Fargas was born. American actor
• 1946 – Susan Saint James was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: The Name of the Game [1968-69]; McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Carbon Copy, Love at First Bite, Desperate Women
• 1947 – Danielle Steel was born. Novelist
• 1947 – Larry Graham was born. Singer, musician.
• 1947 – Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom
• 1950 – Terry Adams was born. Rock singer-musician (NRBQ)
• 1950 – Gary Larson was born. Cartoonist (”Far Side”)
• 1950 – Bob Backlund was born. Professional wrestler.
• 1951 – William Randolph Hearst dies. Newspaper magnate
• 1952 – Carl Lumbly was born. Actor
• 1952 – Debbie Meyer was born. Swimmer
• 1953 – James Horner was born. Academy Award-winning composer
• 1953 – Zaira Zambelli was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1954 – Mark Fidrych was born. Baseball player.
• 1955 – Herbert Putnam dies. Librarian of Congress
• 1956 – Bertolt Brecht dies (b. 1898). German poet and playwright.
• 1956 – Rusty Wallace was born. American race car driver
• 1956 – Jackee Harry was born. Actress
• 1958 – Frédéric Joliot dies (b. 1900). French physicist, recipient in 1935 of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1958 – Mary Ritter Beard dies.
• 1959 – Marcia Gay Harden was born. Academy Award-winning actress
• 1959 – Earvin “Magic” Johnson was born. Basketball player
• 1960 – Sarah Brightman was born. British singer.
• 1960 – Jack Brabham (Equipe Cooper) vence o Grande Prémio do Porto em Formula 1
• 1960 – Jaime Cortesão dies in Lisbon (b. in Ança, Cantanhede on 29 Apr 1884). Portuguese politician and poet.
• 1961 – Susan Olsen was born. Actress (”The Brady Bunch”)
• 1964 – Brannon Braga was born. Writer, director
• 1965 – Emmanuelle Béart was born in Saint Tropez. French actress
• 1966 – Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. American Academy Award-winning actress. Monster’s Ball [2001]; Living Dolls, Knots Landing, Boomerang, Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah, Executive Decision, Bulworth, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, X-Men; first runner-up: Miss USA [1986]
• 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
• 1968 – Catherine Bell was born. British actress and model. JAG, Mother of the Bride, Crash Dive, Black Thunder, The Time Shifters
• 1969 – United Kingdom troops deploy in Northern Ireland.
• 1970 – Kevin Cadogan was born. Rock musician
• 1971 – Scott Michael Campbell was born. Actor
• 1971 – Bahrain declares its independence from United Kingdom
• 1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156
• 1972 – Lalanya Masters was born. Actress
• 1973 – Rana Faheem Aslam was born. Pakistani journalist
• 1973 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
• 1973 – Jared Borgetti was born. Mexican football player.
• 1973 – Jay-Jay Okocha was born. Nigerian football player.
• 1973 – Kieren Perkins was born. Australian swimmer
• 1975 – Murilo Mendes dies in Lisbon (b. 18 May 1901 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais). Brazilian poet.
• 1976 – Alex Albrecht was born. Co-host of The Screen Savers.
• 1976 – Women for peace. In the Northern Irish city of Belfast 10000 Catholic and Protestant women held a demonstration calling for an end to the Northern Irish civil war. The march was initiated by the multi religious organisation, “Mothers for Peace”. The co-founders, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for their commitment.
• 1976 – The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
• 1977 – Juan Pierre was born. Baseball player
• 1977 – Philip Stamper was born. Pro wrestler, actor
• 1980 – Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
• 1983 – Morte de Alceu Amoroso Lima (Tristão de Ataíde). Educador, crítico literário, professor, pensador, escritor e membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• 1983 – Mila Kunis was born. Television actress.
• 1983 – Elena Baltacha was born. Ukrainian-born, British tennis player
• 1986 – Terin Humphrey was born. United States Olympic gymnast in 2004.
• 1988 – Enzo Ferrari dies (b. 1898). Italian car maker.
• 1992 – John Sirica dies (b. 1904). American judge.
• 1994 – Elias Canetti dies (b. 1905). Bulgarian-born British novelist.Nobel Prize in 1981
• 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal”, is captured.
• 1994 – Nick Price won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Tulsa, Oklahoma in record fashion. He finished at 11-under-par 269 for 72 holes, six strokes ahead of Corey Pavin
• 1994 – Elias Canetti dies (b. 1905). British-Austrian novelist.
• 1995 – Fernando Galhano dies. Portuguese ethnologist.
• 1996 – The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
• 2002 – Dave Williams dies. Singer (Drowning Pool)
• 2003 – Helmut Rahn dies (b. 1929). German footballer
• 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
• 2004 – Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500.00 or less.
• 2004 – Czeslaw Milosz dies (b. 1911). Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2005 – Coo Coo Marlin dies b. 1932). American race car driver.
• 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
• 2006 – The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict cease fire goes into effect.
• Pakistan – PakistIndependence Day
• United States of America – National Code Talkers Day
• Paraguay – Flag Day.

On this day in History – Aug 10 Agosto 10, 2006

• 612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
• 612 BC – Sinsharishkun dies. Assyrian king
• 0258 – Saint Lawrence dies. Martyr
• 0955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
• 0997 – Las tropas de Almanzor saquean y destruyen la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, llevándose como recompensa las campanas de la ciudad.
• 1267 – James II of Aragon was born (d. 1327) .
• 1382 – Tratado de paz entre D. Fernando e João I de Castela
• 1397 – Albert II of Habsburg was born. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1415 – Frota portuguesa com 50 mil soldados chega em Ceuta
• 1500 – Diego Diaz, explorador português, é o primeiro europeu a desembarcar na ilha de Madagascar, situada no Oceano Índico.
• 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Malaca.
• 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan‘s 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1520 – Madeleine de Valois was born (d. 1537). Queen of James V of Scotland.
• 1557 – Batalla de San Quintín: Las tropas españolas de Felipe II derrotan a las francesas de Enrique II.
• 1608 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1645 – Eusebio Kino was born (d. 1711). Italian Catholic missionary
• 1647 – Rodrigo Caro dies. Spanish writer.
• 1653 – Maarten Tromp dies. Dutch admiral .
• 1678 – A paz de Nimega põe fim à guerra que Luis XIV da França travava contra Espanha, Holanda, estados alemães e Dinamarca
• 1716 – Eugenius Bulgaris was born (d. 10 Jun 1806). Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
• 1723 – Guillaume Dubois dies (b. 1656). French cardinal and statesman.
• 1759 – Fernando VI of Spain, dies.
• 1759 – Carlos III es proclamado rey de España.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1809 – Quito, now the [[capital] of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1813 – Se funda el Instituto Nacional de Chile, actual Instituto Nacional Gral. José Miguel Carrera.
• 1806 – Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1821 – Jay Cooke was born (d. 18 Feb 1905). American financier
• 1823 – Charles Keene was born (d. 4 Jan 1891). English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
• 1823 – Antonio Gonçalves Dias was born (d. 1864). Brazilian poet. “I Juca Pirama”, “Canção do Exílio”.
• 1837 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1839 – John St Aubyn dies. British fossil collector
• 1843 – Joseph McKenna was born (d. 21 Nov 1926). American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925)
• 1844 – Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Peru
• 1845 – Abai Kunanbaev was born (d. 1904). Kazak poet.
• 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
• 1856 – In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson’s Creek – The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• 1862 – Shusaku Honinbo dies. Go player
• 1865 – Aleksandr Glazunov was born (d. 21 Mar 1936). Russian symphonic composer
• 1869 – Laurence Binyon was born (d. 1943). British poet
• 1869 – Gabriel García Moreno assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1872 – Bill Johnson was born (d. 1972). Jazz musician.
• 1874 – Herbert Hoover was born (d. 20 Oct 1964). 31st President of the United States
• 1875 – Karl Andree dies (b. 1808). German geographer
• 1877 – Frank Marshall was born (d. 1944). Chess player.
• 1878 – Alfred Döblin was born (d. 1957). German writer.
• 1880 – Robert L. Thornton was born. American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
• 1890 – Nascimento de Béchara El-Khoury. Presidente do Líbano (1943-1952)
• 1890 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru enquanto Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel Salazar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 26 May 1973). Russian-born French sculptor.
• 1893 – Douglas Stuart Moore was born (d. 25 Jul 1969). American composer of folk operas
• 1893 – At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel‘s prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
• 1894 – Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born (d. 16 Aug 1946). Latvian-born American labor leader
• 1896 – Otto Lilienthal dies. Aviation pioneer.
• 1898 – Jack Haley was born (d. 1979). Actor.
• 1900 – Arthur Espie Porritt was born. New Zealand politician and athlete
• 1900 – Wolfgang Pauli was born (d. 1958). Physicist.
• 1902 – Norma Shearer was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1902 – Curt Siodmak was born (d. 2000). Science fiction author.
• 1903 – Morrem 84 pessoas num acidente de metro em Paris.
• 1904 – Nascimento de Clemente Yerovi Indaburu . Presidente do Equador em 1966
• 1904- Fundação do Club Sport Costarricense – Costa Rica
• 1905 – Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
• 1905 – Eugene Dennis was born (d. 31 Jan 1961). American Communist Party leader and labor organizer
• 1909 – Leo Fender was born (d. 21 Mar 1991). American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments .
• 1912 – Jorge Amado was born. Brazilian novelist.
• 1912 – Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno assume a presidência do Equador
• 1913 – Wolfgang Paul was born (d. 1993). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1913 – Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI‘s representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• 1921 – Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará (d. Lisbon, 1 Jul 1981). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1922 – Rui Knopfli was born. Mozambican poet.
• 1923 – Rhonda Fleming was born. Actress .
• 1923 – Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida dies (b. 1863). Spanish painter.
• 1924 – Carlos Castro Saavedra was born. Colombian writer and poet
• 1928 – Jimmy Dean was born. Singer.
• 1932 – Rin Tin Tin dies in Los Angeles, California (b. 1918). French actor.
• 1932 – A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 – Intento de golpe de estado en España, protagonizado por el general Sanjurjo, denominado la “sanjurjada”. Tras intentar huir a Portugal, es detenido en Huelva, juzgado y condenado a muerte, el Presidente de la República le conmuta la pena por cadena perpetua. En 1934, es amnistiado por el gobierno del partido radical y se traslada a Portugal, donde moriría en accidente de aviación al tratar de volver a España para encabezar la sublevación que dio origen a la guerra civil.
• 1933 – Doyle Brunson was born. Professional poker player.
• 1934 – Manuel Ríos was born. Spanish writer.
• 1938 – Manuel María Borrero González assume a presidência do Equador
• 1939 – Kate O’Mara was born. British actress
• 1940 – Julio Enrique Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1940 – Bobby Hatfield was born (d. 2003). American singer (Righteous Brothers)
• 1943 – Ronnie Spector was born. Singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
• 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 1945 – Robert Goddard dies. Rocket scientist
• 1946 – James Reynolds was born Actor (”Days of Our Lives”)
• 1947 – Ian Anderson was born. Musician (Jethro Tull) .
• 1948 – Patti Austin was born. Singer
• 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
• 1948 – Montague Summers dies (b. 1880). English writer.
• 1949 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishement with the United States Department of Defense.
• 1949 – Gene Johnson was born. Country musician (Diamond Rio)
• 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly was born. Actor.
• 1952 – Entra em vigor a Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço (CECA).
• 1954 – At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 – Indonesia proclama su independencia y se desvincula de Holanda.
• 1956 – Fafá de Belém was born in Belém do Pará. Brazilian singer.
• 1959 – Rosanna Arquette was born. Actress.
• 1959 – Né Ladeiras was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1959 – Inauguração, em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Brasil).
• 1960 – Antonio Banderas was born. Spanish actor.
• 1961 – Jon Farriss was born. Rock musician (INXS) .
• 1961 – Dinamarca apresenta pedido de adesão as Comunidades Européias
• 1962 – Julia Fordham was born. Singer.
• 1963 – Andrew Sullivan was born. Journalist.
• 1963 – Estes Kefauver dies. U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
• 1963 – João Baião was born at Buraca. Portuguese actor and TV star (“Big show Sic”).
• 1964 – Afonso Eduardo Reidy dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1964 – Neneh Cherry was born. Singer
• 1964 – Aaron Hall was born. Singer
• 1965 – Claudia Christian was born. Actress
• 1965 – Mike Smith was born. Hall of Fame jockey
• 1965 – John Starks was born. Basketball player
• 1967 – Todd Nichols was born. Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
• 1967 – Riddick Bowe was born. Boxer
• 1967 – Lorraine Pearson was born. Musician (Five Star)
• 1968 – Michael Bivins was born. Singer-producer
• 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson‘s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 1969 -presidente da Zâmbia, Kenneth Kaunda, anuncia a nacionalização das companhias mineiras de cobre indispensáveis para a economia do país.
• 1971 – Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1971 – Justin Theroux was born. Actor.
• 1971 – Roy Keane was born., Irish footballer
• 1971 – Fábio Assunção was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1972 – Angie Harmon was born. Model and actress
• 1973 – Jennifer Hanson was born. Country singer
• 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year’s period.
• 1979 – JoAnna Garcia was born. Actress.
• 1979 – Jaime Roldós Aguilera assume a presidência do Equador
• 1979 – Walter Gerlach dies (b. 1889). German physicist.
• 1980 – Yahya Khan dies (b. 1917). President of Pakistan
• 1981 – The head of John Walsh‘s son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children’s Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America’s Most Wanted.
• 1981 – Natsumi Abe was born. Japanese singer and actress
• 1982 – Devon Aoki was born. Supermodel and actress
• 1982 – Abel Manta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1983 – Morte de José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo. Primeiro-ministro de Portugal (1975-1976)
• 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin was born. Professional ice hockey player
• 1988 – Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
• 1988 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1989 – O descarrilamento de um comboio nas proximidades de Guamuchil, estado mexicano de Sinaloa, deixa pelo menos 108 mortos, 20 desaparecidos e 198 feridos.
• 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• 1993 – Øystein Aarseth dies. Musician (Mayhem)
• 1994 – President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
• 1995 – José Valente dies. Portuguese economist.
• 1996 – Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz assume a presidência do Equador
• 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow dies. Composer.
• 1998 – Jamil Mahuad assume a presidência do Equador
• 1999 – Morre, em Sintra, Ernesto de Melo Antunes (n. 2 Out 1933). Militar e político português ideólogo da “Revolução dos Cravos”. Foi o principal autor do documento O Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Nação e do programa do MFA. Foi Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros durante os Governos Provisórios e o primeiro subscritor do Documento dos Nove no Verão quente de 1975.
• 2002 – Nicolas Cage / Lisa Marie Presley wedding
• 2002 – Kristen Nygaard dies. Computer scientist
• 2003 – Carmita Jimenez dies. Puerto Rican singer.
• 2003 – Xenia Seeberg / Sven Martinek wedding.
• 2003 – Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
• 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
• 2005 – Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2005 – Rui Silva wins for Portugal the bronze medal in 1500 m in The World Championships in Helsinki.
• Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Ops
• Ancient Latvia – Labrenca Diena held
• Independence Day in Ecuador – Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.

On this day in History – Aug 10

• 612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
• 612 BC – Sinsharishkun dies. Assyrian king
• 0258 – Saint Lawrence dies. Martyr
• 0955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
• 0997 – Las tropas de Almanzor saquean y destruyen la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, llevándose como recompensa las campanas de la ciudad.
• 1267 – James II of Aragon was born (d. 1327) .
• 1382 – Tratado de paz entre D. Fernando e João I de Castela
• 1397 – Albert II of Habsburg was born. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1415 – Frota portuguesa com 50 mil soldados chega em Ceuta
• 1500 – Diego Diaz, explorador português, é o primeiro europeu a desembarcar na ilha de Madagascar, situada no Oceano Índico.
• 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Malaca.
• 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan‘s 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1520 – Madeleine de Valois was born (d. 1537). Queen of James V of Scotland.
• 1557 – Batalla de San Quintín: Las tropas españolas de Felipe II derrotan a las francesas de Enrique II.
• 1608 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1645 – Eusebio Kino was born (d. 1711). Italian Catholic missionary
• 1647 – Rodrigo Caro dies. Spanish writer.
• 1653 – Maarten Tromp dies. Dutch admiral .
• 1678 – A paz de Nimega põe fim à guerra que Luis XIV da França travava contra Espanha, Holanda, estados alemães e Dinamarca
• 1716 – Eugenius Bulgaris was born (d. 10 Jun 1806). Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
• 1723 – Guillaume Dubois dies (b. 1656). French cardinal and statesman.
• 1759 – Fernando VI of Spain, dies.
• 1759 – Carlos III es proclamado rey de España.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1809 – Quito, now the [[capital] of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1813 – Se funda el Instituto Nacional de Chile, actual Instituto Nacional Gral. José Miguel Carrera.
• 1806 – Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1821 – Jay Cooke was born (d. 18 Feb 1905). American financier
• 1823 – Charles Keene was born (d. 4 Jan 1891). English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
• 1823 – Antonio Gonçalves Dias was born (d. 1864). Brazilian poet. “I Juca Pirama”, “Canção do Exílio”.
• 1837 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1839 – John St Aubyn dies. British fossil collector
• 1843 – Joseph McKenna was born (d. 21 Nov 1926). American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925)
• 1844 – Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Peru
• 1845 – Abai Kunanbaev was born (d. 1904). Kazak poet.
• 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
• 1856 – In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson’s Creek – The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• 1862 – Shusaku Honinbo dies. Go player
• 1865 – Aleksandr Glazunov was born (d. 21 Mar 1936). Russian symphonic composer
• 1869 – Laurence Binyon was born (d. 1943). British poet
• 1869 – Gabriel García Moreno assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1872 – Bill Johnson was born (d. 1972). Jazz musician.
• 1874 – Herbert Hoover was born (d. 20 Oct 1964). 31st President of the United States
• 1875 – Karl Andree dies (b. 1808). German geographer
• 1877 – Frank Marshall was born (d. 1944). Chess player.
• 1878 – Alfred Döblin was born (d. 1957). German writer.
• 1880 – Robert L. Thornton was born. American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
• 1890 – Nascimento de Béchara El-Khoury. Presidente do Líbano (1943-1952)
• 1890 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru enquanto Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel Salazar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 26 May 1973). Russian-born French sculptor.
• 1893 – Douglas Stuart Moore was born (d. 25 Jul 1969). American composer of folk operas
• 1893 – At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel‘s prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
• 1894 – Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born (d. 16 Aug 1946). Latvian-born American labor leader
• 1896 – Otto Lilienthal dies. Aviation pioneer.
• 1898 – Jack Haley was born (d. 1979). Actor.
• 1900 – Arthur Espie Porritt was born. New Zealand politician and athlete
• 1900 – Wolfgang Pauli was born (d. 1958). Physicist.
• 1902 – Norma Shearer was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1902 – Curt Siodmak was born (d. 2000). Science fiction author.
• 1903 – Morrem 84 pessoas num acidente de metro em Paris.
• 1904 – Nascimento de Clemente Yerovi Indaburu . Presidente do Equador em 1966
• 1904- Fundação do Club Sport Costarricense – Costa Rica
• 1905 – Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
• 1905 – Eugene Dennis was born (d. 31 Jan 1961). American Communist Party leader and labor organizer
• 1909 – Leo Fender was born (d. 21 Mar 1991). American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments .
• 1912 – Jorge Amado was born. Brazilian novelist.
• 1912 – Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno assume a presidência do Equador
• 1913 – Wolfgang Paul was born (d. 1993). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1913 – Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI‘s representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• 1921 – Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará (d. Lisbon, 1 Jul 1981). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1922 – Rui Knopfli was born. Mozambican poet.
• 1923 – Rhonda Fleming was born. Actress .
• 1923 – Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida dies (b. 1863). Spanish painter.
• 1924 – Carlos Castro Saavedra was born. Colombian writer and poet
• 1928 – Jimmy Dean was born. Singer.
• 1932 – Rin Tin Tin dies in Los Angeles, California (b. 1918). French actor.
• 1932 – A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 – Intento de golpe de estado en España, protagonizado por el general Sanjurjo, denominado la “sanjurjada”. Tras intentar huir a Portugal, es detenido en Huelva, juzgado y condenado a muerte, el Presidente de la República le conmuta la pena por cadena perpetua. En 1934, es amnistiado por el gobierno del partido radical y se traslada a Portugal, donde moriría en accidente de aviación al tratar de volver a España para encabezar la sublevación que dio origen a la guerra civil.
• 1933 – Doyle Brunson was born. Professional poker player.
• 1934 – Manuel Ríos was born. Spanish writer.
• 1938 – Manuel María Borrero González assume a presidência do Equador
• 1939 – Kate O’Mara was born. British actress
• 1940 – Julio Enrique Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1940 – Bobby Hatfield was born (d. 2003). American singer (Righteous Brothers)
• 1943 – Ronnie Spector was born. Singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
• 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 1945 – Robert Goddard dies. Rocket scientist
• 1946 – James Reynolds was born Actor (”Days of Our Lives”)
• 1947 – Ian Anderson was born. Musician (Jethro Tull) .
• 1948 – Patti Austin was born. Singer
• 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
• 1948 – Montague Summers dies (b. 1880). English writer.
• 1949 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishement with the United States Department of Defense.
• 1949 – Gene Johnson was born. Country musician (Diamond Rio)
• 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly was born. Actor.
• 1952 – Entra em vigor a Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço (CECA).
• 1954 – At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 – Indonesia proclama su independencia y se desvincula de Holanda.
• 1956 – Fafá de Belém was born in Belém do Pará. Brazilian singer.
• 1959 – Rosanna Arquette was born. Actress.
• 1959 – Né Ladeiras was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1959 – Inauguração, em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Brasil).
• 1960 – Antonio Banderas was born. Spanish actor.
• 1961 – Jon Farriss was born. Rock musician (INXS) .
• 1961 – Dinamarca apresenta pedido de adesão as Comunidades Européias
• 1962 – Julia Fordham was born. Singer.
• 1963 – Andrew Sullivan was born. Journalist.
• 1963 – Estes Kefauver dies. U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
• 1963 – João Baião was born at Buraca. Portuguese actor and TV star (“Big show Sic”).
• 1964 – Afonso Eduardo Reidy dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1964 – Neneh Cherry was born. Singer
• 1964 – Aaron Hall was born. Singer
• 1965 – Claudia Christian was born. Actress
• 1965 – Mike Smith was born. Hall of Fame jockey
• 1965 – John Starks was born. Basketball player
• 1967 – Todd Nichols was born. Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
• 1967 – Riddick Bowe was born. Boxer
• 1967 – Lorraine Pearson was born. Musician (Five Star)
• 1968 – Michael Bivins was born. Singer-producer
• 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson‘s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 1969 -presidente da Zâmbia, Kenneth Kaunda, anuncia a nacionalização das companhias mineiras de cobre indispensáveis para a economia do país.
• 1971 – Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1971 – Justin Theroux was born. Actor.
• 1971 – Roy Keane was born., Irish footballer
• 1971 – Fábio Assunção was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1972 – Angie Harmon was born. Model and actress
• 1973 – Jennifer Hanson was born. Country singer
• 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year’s period.
• 1979 – JoAnna Garcia was born. Actress.
• 1979 – Jaime Roldós Aguilera assume a presidência do Equador
• 1979 – Walter Gerlach dies (b. 1889). German physicist.
• 1980 – Yahya Khan dies (b. 1917). President of Pakistan
• 1981 – The head of John Walsh‘s son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children’s Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America’s Most Wanted.
• 1981 – Natsumi Abe was born. Japanese singer and actress
• 1982 – Devon Aoki was born. Supermodel and actress
• 1982 – Abel Manta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1983 – Morte de José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo. Primeiro-ministro de Portugal (1975-1976)
• 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin was born. Professional ice hockey player
• 1988 – Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
• 1988 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1989 – O descarrilamento de um comboio nas proximidades de Guamuchil, estado mexicano de Sinaloa, deixa pelo menos 108 mortos, 20 desaparecidos e 198 feridos.
• 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• 1993 – Øystein Aarseth dies. Musician (Mayhem)
• 1994 – President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
• 1995 – José Valente dies. Portuguese economist.
• 1996 – Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz assume a presidência do Equador
• 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow dies. Composer.
• 1998 – Jamil Mahuad assume a presidência do Equador
• 1999 – Morre, em Sintra, Ernesto de Melo Antunes (n. 2 Out 1933). Militar e político português ideólogo da “Revolução dos Cravos”. Foi o principal autor do documento O Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Nação e do programa do MFA. Foi Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros durante os Governos Provisórios e o primeiro subscritor do Documento dos Nove no Verão quente de 1975.
• 2002 – Nicolas Cage / Lisa Marie Presley wedding
• 2002 – Kristen Nygaard dies. Computer scientist
• 2003 – Carmita Jimenez dies. Puerto Rican singer.
• 2003 – Xenia Seeberg / Sven Martinek wedding.
• 2003 – Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
• 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
• 2005 – Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2005 – Rui Silva wins for Portugal the bronze medal in 1500 m in The World Championships in Helsinki.
• Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Ops
• Ancient Latvia – Labrenca Diena held
• Independence Day in Ecuador – Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.

On this day in History – Aug 10

• 612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
• 612 BC – Sinsharishkun dies. Assyrian king
• 0258 – Saint Lawrence dies. Martyr
• 0955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
• 0997 – Las tropas de Almanzor saquean y destruyen la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, llevándose como recompensa las campanas de la ciudad.
• 1267 – James II of Aragon was born (d. 1327) .
• 1382 – Tratado de paz entre D. Fernando e João I de Castela
• 1397 – Albert II of Habsburg was born. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1415 – Frota portuguesa com 50 mil soldados chega em Ceuta
• 1500 – Diego Diaz, explorador português, é o primeiro europeu a desembarcar na ilha de Madagascar, situada no Oceano Índico.
• 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Malaca.
• 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan‘s 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1520 – Madeleine de Valois was born (d. 1537). Queen of James V of Scotland.
• 1557 – Batalla de San Quintín: Las tropas españolas de Felipe II derrotan a las francesas de Enrique II.
• 1608 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1645 – Eusebio Kino was born (d. 1711). Italian Catholic missionary
• 1647 – Rodrigo Caro dies. Spanish writer.
• 1653 – Maarten Tromp dies. Dutch admiral .
• 1678 – A paz de Nimega põe fim à guerra que Luis XIV da França travava contra Espanha, Holanda, estados alemães e Dinamarca
• 1716 – Eugenius Bulgaris was born (d. 10 Jun 1806). Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
• 1723 – Guillaume Dubois dies (b. 1656). French cardinal and statesman.
• 1759 – Fernando VI of Spain, dies.
• 1759 – Carlos III es proclamado rey de España.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1809 – Quito, now the [[capital] of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1813 – Se funda el Instituto Nacional de Chile, actual Instituto Nacional Gral. José Miguel Carrera.
• 1806 – Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1821 – Jay Cooke was born (d. 18 Feb 1905). American financier
• 1823 – Charles Keene was born (d. 4 Jan 1891). English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
• 1823 – Antonio Gonçalves Dias was born (d. 1864). Brazilian poet. “I Juca Pirama”, “Canção do Exílio”.
• 1837 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1839 – John St Aubyn dies. British fossil collector
• 1843 – Joseph McKenna was born (d. 21 Nov 1926). American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925)
• 1844 – Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Peru
• 1845 – Abai Kunanbaev was born (d. 1904). Kazak poet.
• 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
• 1856 – In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson’s Creek – The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• 1862 – Shusaku Honinbo dies. Go player
• 1865 – Aleksandr Glazunov was born (d. 21 Mar 1936). Russian symphonic composer
• 1869 – Laurence Binyon was born (d. 1943). British poet
• 1869 – Gabriel García Moreno assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1872 – Bill Johnson was born (d. 1972). Jazz musician.
• 1874 – Herbert Hoover was born (d. 20 Oct 1964). 31st President of the United States
• 1875 – Karl Andree dies (b. 1808). German geographer
• 1877 – Frank Marshall was born (d. 1944). Chess player.
• 1878 – Alfred Döblin was born (d. 1957). German writer.
• 1880 – Robert L. Thornton was born. American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
• 1890 – Nascimento de Béchara El-Khoury. Presidente do Líbano (1943-1952)
• 1890 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru enquanto Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel Salazar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 26 May 1973). Russian-born French sculptor.
• 1893 – Douglas Stuart Moore was born (d. 25 Jul 1969). American composer of folk operas
• 1893 – At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel‘s prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
• 1894 – Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born (d. 16 Aug 1946). Latvian-born American labor leader
• 1896 – Otto Lilienthal dies. Aviation pioneer.
• 1898 – Jack Haley was born (d. 1979). Actor.
• 1900 – Arthur Espie Porritt was born. New Zealand politician and athlete
• 1900 – Wolfgang Pauli was born (d. 1958). Physicist.
• 1902 – Norma Shearer was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1902 – Curt Siodmak was born (d. 2000). Science fiction author.
• 1903 – Morrem 84 pessoas num acidente de metro em Paris.
• 1904 – Nascimento de Clemente Yerovi Indaburu . Presidente do Equador em 1966
• 1904- Fundação do Club Sport Costarricense – Costa Rica
• 1905 – Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
• 1905 – Eugene Dennis was born (d. 31 Jan 1961). American Communist Party leader and labor organizer
• 1909 – Leo Fender was born (d. 21 Mar 1991). American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments .
• 1912 – Jorge Amado was born. Brazilian novelist.
• 1912 – Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno assume a presidência do Equador
• 1913 – Wolfgang Paul was born (d. 1993). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1913 – Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI‘s representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• 1921 – Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará (d. Lisbon, 1 Jul 1981). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1922 – Rui Knopfli was born. Mozambican poet.
• 1923 – Rhonda Fleming was born. Actress .
• 1923 – Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida dies (b. 1863). Spanish painter.
• 1924 – Carlos Castro Saavedra was born. Colombian writer and poet
• 1928 – Jimmy Dean was born. Singer.
• 1932 – Rin Tin Tin dies in Los Angeles, California (b. 1918). French actor.
• 1932 – A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 – Intento de golpe de estado en España, protagonizado por el general Sanjurjo, denominado la “sanjurjada”. Tras intentar huir a Portugal, es detenido en Huelva, juzgado y condenado a muerte, el Presidente de la República le conmuta la pena por cadena perpetua. En 1934, es amnistiado por el gobierno del partido radical y se traslada a Portugal, donde moriría en accidente de aviación al tratar de volver a España para encabezar la sublevación que dio origen a la guerra civil.
• 1933 – Doyle Brunson was born. Professional poker player.
• 1934 – Manuel Ríos was born. Spanish writer.
• 1938 – Manuel María Borrero González assume a presidência do Equador
• 1939 – Kate O’Mara was born. British actress
• 1940 – Julio Enrique Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador
• 1940 – Bobby Hatfield was born (d. 2003). American singer (Righteous Brothers)
• 1943 – Ronnie Spector was born. Singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
• 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 1945 – Robert Goddard dies. Rocket scientist
• 1946 – James Reynolds was born Actor (”Days of Our Lives”)
• 1947 – Ian Anderson was born. Musician (Jethro Tull) .
• 1948 – Patti Austin was born. Singer
• 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
• 1948 – Montague Summers dies (b. 1880). English writer.
• 1949 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishement with the United States Department of Defense.
• 1949 – Gene Johnson was born. Country musician (Diamond Rio)
• 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly was born. Actor.
• 1952 – Entra em vigor a Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço (CECA).
• 1954 – At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 – Indonesia proclama su independencia y se desvincula de Holanda.
• 1956 – Fafá de Belém was born in Belém do Pará. Brazilian singer.
• 1959 – Rosanna Arquette was born. Actress.
• 1959 – Né Ladeiras was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1959 – Inauguração, em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Brasil).
• 1960 – Antonio Banderas was born. Spanish actor.
• 1961 – Jon Farriss was born. Rock musician (INXS) .
• 1961 – Dinamarca apresenta pedido de adesão as Comunidades Européias
• 1962 – Julia Fordham was born. Singer.
• 1963 – Andrew Sullivan was born. Journalist.
• 1963 – Estes Kefauver dies. U.S. Senator from Tennessee.
• 1963 – João Baião was born at Buraca. Portuguese actor and TV star (“Big show Sic”).
• 1964 – Afonso Eduardo Reidy dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1964 – Neneh Cherry was born. Singer
• 1964 – Aaron Hall was born. Singer
• 1965 – Claudia Christian was born. Actress
• 1965 – Mike Smith was born. Hall of Fame jockey
• 1965 – John Starks was born. Basketball player
• 1967 – Todd Nichols was born. Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
• 1967 – Riddick Bowe was born. Boxer
• 1967 – Lorraine Pearson was born. Musician (Five Star)
• 1968 – Michael Bivins was born. Singer-producer
• 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson‘s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 1969 -presidente da Zâmbia, Kenneth Kaunda, anuncia a nacionalização das companhias mineiras de cobre indispensáveis para a economia do país.
• 1971 – Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1971 – Justin Theroux was born. Actor.
• 1971 – Roy Keane was born., Irish footballer
• 1971 – Fábio Assunção was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1972 – Angie Harmon was born. Model and actress
• 1973 – Jennifer Hanson was born. Country singer
• 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year’s period.
• 1979 – JoAnna Garcia was born. Actress.
• 1979 – Jaime Roldós Aguilera assume a presidência do Equador
• 1979 – Walter Gerlach dies (b. 1889). German physicist.
• 1980 – Yahya Khan dies (b. 1917). President of Pakistan
• 1981 – The head of John Walsh‘s son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children’s Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America’s Most Wanted.
• 1981 – Natsumi Abe was born. Japanese singer and actress
• 1982 – Devon Aoki was born. Supermodel and actress
• 1982 – Abel Manta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1983 – Morte de José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo. Primeiro-ministro de Portugal (1975-1976)
• 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin was born. Professional ice hockey player
• 1988 – Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
• 1988 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1989 – O descarrilamento de um comboio nas proximidades de Guamuchil, estado mexicano de Sinaloa, deixa pelo menos 108 mortos, 20 desaparecidos e 198 feridos.
• 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• 1993 – Øystein Aarseth dies. Musician (Mayhem)
• 1994 – President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
• 1995 – José Valente dies. Portuguese economist.
• 1996 – Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz assume a presidência do Equador
• 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow dies. Composer.
• 1998 – Jamil Mahuad assume a presidência do Equador
• 1999 – Morre, em Sintra, Ernesto de Melo Antunes (n. 2 Out 1933). Militar e político português ideólogo da “Revolução dos Cravos”. Foi o principal autor do documento O Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Nação e do programa do MFA. Foi Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros durante os Governos Provisórios e o primeiro subscritor do Documento dos Nove no Verão quente de 1975.
• 2002 – Nicolas Cage / Lisa Marie Presley wedding
• 2002 – Kristen Nygaard dies. Computer scientist
• 2003 – Carmita Jimenez dies. Puerto Rican singer.
• 2003 – Xenia Seeberg / Sven Martinek wedding. See here large photo of Xenia Seeberg
• 2003 – Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
• 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
• 2005 – Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2005 – Rui Silva wins for Portugal the bronze medal in 1500 m in The World Championships in Helsinki.
• Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Ops
• Ancient Latvia – Labrenca Diena held
• Independence Day in Ecuador – Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.

On this day in History – Jun 18 Junho 18, 2006

• 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon’s distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
• 1250 – Teresa of Portugal dies (b. 1181). Princess, daughter of D. Sancho I
• 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
• 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon dies (b. 1265)
• 1429 – The French, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, crush the English under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. It came to be recognized as the war’s turning point.
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden dies. painter.
• 1629 – Piet Hein (Netherlands) dies (b. 1577). Naval commander and folk hero.
• 1649 – Juan de Martínez Montañés dies. Spanish sculptor.
• 1685 – The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.
• 1704 – Tom Brown, dies (b. 1662). English satirist.
• 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, was born (d. 1833). Argentine leader.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1794 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, dies (b. 1760). French Revolutionary leader
• 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov was born (d. 1891). Russian author.
• 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time .
• 1823 – Em Portugal, foi anulada a Constituição de 1822.
• 1823 – Jesús Jiménez Zamora was born. President of Costa Rica (1863-1866 and 1868-1870)
• 1824 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1769)
• 1835 – William Cobbett dies (b. 1763). Journalist and author
• 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born. French physicist 1907 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.
• 1845 – José Joaquín de Olmedo assume a presidência do Equador
• 1849 – António Bernardo da Costa Cabral assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1854 – E.W. Scripps was born (d. 1926). Journalist, publisher.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1861 – Trindade Coelho was born in Mogadouro (d. 18 Aug 1908). Portuguese writer and jurist.
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy was born (d. 1957). Hungarian admiral and regent.
• 1872 – Ana Osório was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election
• 1875 – António Feliciano de Castilho dies. Portuguese poet. /Morreu António Feliciano de Castilho. Poeta e escritor ultra-romântico português (n. 28 Jan 1800).
• 1877- James Montgomery Flagg was born (d. 1960). Illustrator.
• 1884 – Édouard Daladier was born (d. 1970). French Prime-Minister.
• 1886 – Alexander Wetmore was born (d. 1978). Ornithologist.
• 1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia
• 1896 – First film exibition in Portugal / Realizou-se a primeira exibição cinematográfica em Portugal
• 1900 – Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova was born (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Josip Murn – Aleksandrov dies (b. 1879). Slovenian poet.
• 1902 – Samuel Butler dies (b. 1835). English writer
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald was born (d. 1965). American actress and singer.
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet was born (d. 1923). French author.
• 1904 – Keye Luke was born (d. 1991). Actor.
• 1906 – Criação da Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol
• 1906 – Helena D’Algy was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1907 – Frithjof Schuon was born (d. 1998). Metaphysician, poet and painter.
• 1908 – Bud Collyer was born (d. 1969). American game show host.
• 1909 – Willi Kramp was born (d. 1986). Writer.
• 1910 – E.G. Marshall was born (d. 1998). Actor.
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn was born (d. 1993). Composer.
• 1915 – Red Adair was born (d. 2004). American firefighter.
• 1917 – Richard Bopone was born (d. 1981). Actor.
• 1918 – Jerome Karle was born. Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer
• 1918 – Franco Modigliani was born (d.2003). Economist.
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn dies (b. 1851). Dutch astronomer.
• 1923 – Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets
• 1924 – George Mikan was born (d. 2005). American professional basketball player.
• 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen dies (b. 1872). Explorer.
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas was born. Sociologist and philosopher
• 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was born. President of Brazil
• 1932 – Geoffrey Hill was born. English poet.
• 1933 – Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do México.
• 1935 – John Spencer was born. English snooker player .
• 1935 – Carlos Ibarguren is elected to President of Argentine Academy of Letters
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author
• 1937 – Gaston Doumergue dies (b. 1863). French statesman
• 1937 – Wray Carlton was born. American football player
• 1937 – Gail Godwin was born. Author
• 1937 – Vitali Zholobov was born. Cosmonaut
• 1938 – Kevin Murray was born. Australian rules footballer
• 1939 – Lou Brock was born. Baseball star
• 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle
• 1942 – Roger Ebert was born. Film reviewer
• 1942 – Sir Paul McCartney, was born. Singer and songwriter (Beatles and Wings)
• 1942 – Hans Vonk, was born (d.2004). Conductor .
• 1942 – Celly Campelo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian rock musician.
• 1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason
• 1946 – Maria Betânia was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1946 – Lídia Jorge was born. portuguese writer.
• 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg was born. Author and illustrator
• 1949 – Prince Lincoln Thompson was born (d. 1990). Musician
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini was born. Italian actress.
• 1952 – Carol Kane was born. Actress
• 1953 – The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished. Muhammad Aguib is the first President.
• 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129
• 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1959 – Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital’s director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore dies (b. 1879). Actress
• 1961 – Andrés Galarraga was born. Baseball player
• 1963 – Bruce Smith was born. American football player.
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz dies. mexican actor.
• 1964 – Uday Hussein was born (d. 2003) Iraqi leader.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam
• 1966 – Kurt Browning was born. Canadian figure skater
• 1967 – Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
• 1971 – Paul Karrer, dies (b. 1889). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1973 – Roger Delgado, dies (b. 1918). Actor.
• 1975 – Martin St. Louis, was born. Hockey star
• 1975 – Daron Malakian, was born. Rock musician.
• 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1980 – Kazimierz Kuratowski dies. Polish mathematician.
• 1982 – John Cheever dies (b. 1912). Author.
• 1983 – Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
• 1984 – Major clash between about 5,000 Police and a similar number of Miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire during the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave
• 1984 – Alan Berg dies murdered. Radio talk show host.
• 1989 – Giscard d’Estaing (França) é eleito para o Parlamento Europeu
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand dies (b. 1928). Actress.
• 2001 – Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
• 2002 – Jack Buck dies (b. 1924). Major League Baseball announcer.
• 2002 – Abertura da 4ª. Bienal Internacional de Roma
• 2003 – Larry Doby dies (b. 1923). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 2005 – Syed Mushtaq Ali dies (b. 1914). Indian cricketer.
• Seychelles – National Day
• Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005
• Philippines – Independence Day
• Brazil – Chemist’s Day
• Father’s Day, US (2006)