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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.
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1250 – Teresa of Portugal dies (b. 1181). Princess, daughter of D. Sancho I
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1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
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1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon dies (b. 1265)
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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.
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1629 – Piet Hein (Netherlands) dies (b. 1577). Naval commander and folk hero.
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1649 – Juan de Martínez Montañés dies. Spanish sculptor.
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1685 – The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.
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1704 – Tom Brown, dies (b. 1662). English satirist.
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1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, was born (d. 1833). Argentine leader.
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1794 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, dies (b. 1760). French Revolutionary leader
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1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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1812 – Ivan Goncharov was born (d. 1891). Russian author.
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1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time .
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1823 – Em Portugal, foi anulada a Constituição de 1822.
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1823 – Jesús Jiménez Zamora was born. President of Costa Rica (1863-1866 and 1868-1870)
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1824 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1769)
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1835 – William Cobbett dies (b. 1763). Journalist and author
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1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born. French physicist 1907 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.
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1854 – E.W. Scripps was born (d. 1926). Journalist, publisher.
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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.
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1861 – Trindade Coelho was born in Mogadouro (d. 18 Aug 1908). Portuguese writer and jurist.
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1868 – Miklós Horthy was born (d. 1957). Hungarian admiral and regent.
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1872 – Ana Osório was born. Portuguese writer.
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1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election
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1875 – António Feliciano de Castilho dies. Portuguese poet. /Morreu António Feliciano de Castilho. Poeta e escritor ultra-romântico português (n. 28 Jan 1800).
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1877- James Montgomery Flagg was born (d. 1960). Illustrator.
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1884 – Édouard Daladier was born (d. 1970). French Prime-Minister.
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1886 – Alexander Wetmore was born (d. 1978). Ornithologist.
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1896 – First film exibition in Portugal / Realizou-se a primeira exibição cinematográfica em Portugal
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1900 – Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
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1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova was born (d. 1918)
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1901 – Josip Murn – Aleksandrov dies (b. 1879). Slovenian poet.
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1902 – Samuel Butler dies (b. 1835). English writer
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1903 – Jeanette MacDonald was born (d. 1965). American actress and singer.
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1903 – Raymond Radiguet was born (d. 1923). French author.
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1904 – Keye Luke was born (d. 1991). Actor.
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1906 – Criação da Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol
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1906 – Helena D’Algy was born. Portuguese actress.
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1907 – Frithjof Schuon was born (d. 1998). Metaphysician, poet and painter.
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1908 – Bud Collyer was born (d. 1969). American game show host.
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1909 – Willi Kramp was born (d. 1986). Writer.
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1910 – E.G. Marshall was born (d. 1998). Actor.
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1913 – Sammy Cahn was born (d. 1993). Composer.
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1915 – Red Adair was born (d. 2004). American firefighter.
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1917 – Richard Bopone was born (d. 1981). Actor.
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1918 – Jerome Karle was born. Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer
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1918 – Franco Modigliani was born (d.2003). Economist.
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1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn dies (b. 1851). Dutch astronomer.
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1923 – Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets
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1924 – George Mikan was born (d. 2005). American professional basketball player.
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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).
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1928 – Roald Amundsen dies (b. 1872). Explorer.
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1929 – Jürgen Habermas was born. Sociologist and philosopher
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1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
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1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was born. President of Brazil
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1932 – Geoffrey Hill was born. English poet.
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1933 – Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do México.
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1935 – John Spencer was born. English snooker player .
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1935 – Carlos Ibarguren is elected to President of Argentine Academy of Letters
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1936 – Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author
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1937 – Gaston Doumergue dies (b. 1863). French statesman
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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.
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1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam
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1966 – Kurt Browning was born. Canadian figure skater
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1967 – Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
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1971 – Paul Karrer, dies (b. 1889). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1973 – Roger Delgado, dies (b. 1918). Actor.
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1975 – Martin St. Louis, was born. Hockey star
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1975 – Daron Malakian, was born. Rock musician.
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1980 – Kazimierz Kuratowski dies. Polish mathematician.
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1982 – John Cheever dies (b. 1912). Author.
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1983 – Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
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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
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1984 – Alan Berg dies murdered. Radio talk show host.
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1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.
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2000 – Nancy Marchand dies (b. 1928). Actress.
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2002 – Jack Buck dies (b. 1924). Major League Baseball announcer.
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2002 – Abertura da 4ª. Bienal Internacional de Roma
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2003 – Larry Doby dies (b. 1923). Baseball Hall of Famer.
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2005 – Syed Mushtaq Ali dies (b. 1914). Indian cricketer.
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Seychelles – National Day
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Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005
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Philippines – Independence Day
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Brazil – Chemist’s Day
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Father’s Day, US (2006)
On this day in History – Jun 18 Junho 18, 2006
On this day in History – Jun 12 Junho 12, 2006
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0816 – Pope Leo III dies.
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1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
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1360 – Nuno Álvares Pereira was born. Portuguese warrior.
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1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
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1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac dies (b. 1360). French military leader.
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1442 – Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
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1514 – Foi criada a diocese do Funchal
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1519 – Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1574)
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1526 – Marc-Antoine de Muret was born. Composer.
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1577 – Paul Guldin was born (d. 2 Nov 1643). Mathematicien. Gauldin Theorem: “If a plane figure is rotated about an axis in its plane then the volume of the solid body formed is equal to the product of the area with the distance travelled by the centre of gravity“.
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1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
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1675 – Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy dies (b. 1634)
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1701 – The Act of Settlement, the law that continues to regulate the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was passed by Parliament.
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1707 – Bahadur Shah I won the Mughal throne of India by defeating his brother ‘Azam Shah at the Battle of Jajau.
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1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe‘s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
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1780 – José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira was born (d. 1849). Portuguese politician.
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1827 – Johanna Spyri was born (d. 1901). Swiss author.
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1834 – Foi fundada a Associação Comercial de Lisboa.
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1845 – August Wilhelm von Schlegel dies in Bünn (b. 8 Sep 1767). German scholar and poet.
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1850 – Roberto Ívens was born. Portuguese explorer.
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1855 – Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss was born (d. 7 Jul 1900). German mathematician who was a founder member of the German Mathematical Society .
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1856 – José María Alfaro Zamora dies. President of Costa Rica (1842-1844 and 1846-1847)
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1861 – William Attewell, was born (d. 1927). Nottinghamshire bowler.
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1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
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1875 – Sam De Grasse was born (d. 1953). Actor.
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1875 – Publicado Zé Povinho, o personagem de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.
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1888 – Zymunt Janiszewski was born in Warsow (d. 3 Jan 1920). Polish mathematician.
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1890 – Egon Schiele was born (d. 1918). Painter and graphic artist.
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1892 – Djuna Barnes was born (d. 1982). Author.
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1896 – J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.
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1897 – Anthony Eden was born (d. 1977). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines‘ independence from Spain.
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1900 – Jean Frédéric Frenet dies (b. 7 Feb 1816). French mathematician.
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1903 – Emmett Hardy was born (d. 1925). Jazz musician.
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1905 – Ray Barbuti was born (d. 1988). American athlete.
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1915 – Christopher Mayhew was born (d. 1997). British politician.
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1915 – David Rockefeller was born. Banker.
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1916 – Ivan Tors was born (d. 1983). Movie producer.
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1916 – Irwin Allen was born (d. 1991). Movie producer.
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1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff was born (d. 2001). Movie producer.
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1919 – Uta Hagen was born (d. 2004). Actress.
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1920 – Dave Berg was born (d. 2002). Cartoonist for Mad Magazine.
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1921 – (some sources say 1919) – Vera Ralston was born in Prague (d. 9 Feb 2003). Actress.
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1921 – James Houston was born. Artist.
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1921 – Fundação do Figueirense Futebol Clube (Brasil).
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1921 – Luis García Berlanga was born in Valencia. Spanish film director.
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1924 – George H. W. Bush was born. Vice president of the United States (1981–89) and 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
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1926 – Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
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1928 – Vic Damone was born. Singer.
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1929 – Brigid Brophy was born. British writer .
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1930 – Otto Schenk was born. Actor and director.
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1930 – Jim Nabors was born. Actor and musician.
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1931 – Santiago Rusiñol dies. Spanish painter.
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1931 – Charlie Parker equals record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
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1932 – Rona Jaffe was born. Novelist
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1933 – Carmen Veronica was born in Recife. Brazilian actress.
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1935 – Christoph Meckel was born. Writer
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1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
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1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
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1941 – Chick Corea was born. Musician
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1941 – Marv Albert was born. Sportscaster
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1945 – Pat Jennings was born. Football player
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1945 – Boris Grigorievich Galerkin dies in Moscoe (b. 4 Mar 1871 in Polotsk, Belarus). Mathematician.
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1946 – Harry Glasper was born. Writer.
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1950 – João Freitas dies. Portuguese historian.
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1954 – Canonización de Domingo Savio por el papa Pío XII.
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1957 – Javed Miandad, was born. Great cricketer and coach, Pakistan national cricket team
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1957 – Jimmy Dorsey dies (b. 1904). American musician.
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1962 – Three escape from Alcatraz. three inmates convicted of bank robbery are missing from America’s most notorious prison in California.
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1962 – Julio Cesar Chavez was born. Mexican boxeur who was World Champion.
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1962 – John Ireland dies (b. 1879). English composer.
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1963 – Medgar Evers dies (b. 1925). American civil rights activist.
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1963 – Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
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1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith.
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1964 – South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
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1966 – Hermann Scherchen dies (b. 1891). German conductor.
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1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
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1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet‘s atmosphere and successfully return data).
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1972 – Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies. Austrian biologist.
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1973 – Victor Ikpeba was born. Nigerian footballer.
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1973 – Fyssas Panagiotis was born. Greek footballer.
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1974 – Flávio da Conceição. Brazilian footballer.
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1974 – Jason Mewes was born. Actor.
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1974 – Hideki Matsui was born. Major League Baseball player.
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1975 – España: se inaugura en Barcelona la Fundació Miró.
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1975 – Gandhi found guilty of corruption : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is barred from holding office for six years after she being found guilty of electoral corruption.
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1978 – David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
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1978 – Guo Moruo dies (b. 1892). Chinese writer.
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1979 – Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
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1980 – Milburn Stone dies. Actor
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1980 – Masayoshi Ohira dies (b. 1910). Prime minister of Japan
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1980 – Egon Sharpe Pearson dies (b. 11 Aug 1895). English mathematician.
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1981 – Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
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1981 – Adriana Lima was born. Brazilian supermodel
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1982 – 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City‘s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.
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1982 – Marie Rambert dies. British ballet dancer and teacher.
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1982 – Karl von Frisch dies (b. 1886). Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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1983 – Norma Shearer dies (b. 1902). Canadian actress.
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1985 – Portugal (represented by Mario Soares) and 8 hours later Spain sign treaty of adhesion to European Economic Comunity.
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1985 – Marcela Paz (Esther Huneus de Claro) dies. Chilean writer.
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1985 – Loo-Keng Hua dies in Tokyo (b. 12 Nov 1910 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province, China Mathematician.
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1987 – The Central African Republic‘s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
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1987 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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1990 – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day).
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1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
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1991 – Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
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1991 – A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines – its first eruption in 600 years.
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1993 – The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the first annual of their live concert Weenie Roat with Terence Trent D’Arby, Dramarama, Gin Blossoms, The Lemonheads, The London Suede, The Posies, Rocket From the Crypt, Bettie Serveert, Stone Temple Pilots, The The and X.
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1993 – Presidencial elections in Nigeria. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (popularly known and called M. K. O.), an international businessman and politician, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated rival Alhaji Bashir Tofa, candidate of the National Republican Convention. After most of the results were announced, the election was annulled by military president Ibrahim Babangida
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1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
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1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson dies (b. 1959). American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson.
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1994 – Ronald Goldman dies (b. 1969). American actor and mode.
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1994 – At the Tony Awards, “Angels in America: Perestroika” won best play while “Passion” won best musical.
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1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli dies (b. 1920). Italian pianist
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1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
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1996 – Ilona Ference dies at 78. Actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night).
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1997 – Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
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1997 – The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
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1997 – Mary Robinson, Pres. of Ireland, was named the top human rights official for the United Nations.
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1998 – A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
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1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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2000 – Luis Figo scores one of the greatest goals of all time against England at the UEFA European Championship. Portugal won 3-2 after have being to lose 0-2
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2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
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2000 – Hafez-Al-Assad dies. King of Syria.
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2002 – Bill Blass dies (b. 1922). Fashion designer.
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2003 – Gregory Peck dies (b. 1916). American actor.
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2003 – Itamar Assumpção dies (b. 13 Sep 1949). Brazilian musician, poet and composer.
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2004 – The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the twelfth annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
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2004 – A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
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2004 – Portugal Euro 2004 begins with Open Cerimony in Dragão’s Stadium (Porto). Portugal lost in front Greece (1-2). Portugal reached the final against Greece and lost again (0-1). Começa em Portugal o Campeonato Europeu de Futebol
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Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
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United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch’s official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
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World Day Against Child Labor.
On this day in History – Jun 12
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0816 – Pope Leo III dies.
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1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
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1360 – Nuno Álvares Pereira was born. Portuguese warrior.
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1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
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1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac dies (b. 1360). French military leader.
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1442 – Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
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1514 – Foi criada a diocese do Funchal
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1519 – Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1574)
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1526 – Marc-Antoine de Muret was born. Composer.
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1577 – Paul Guldin was born (d. 2 Nov 1643). Mathematicien. Gauldin Theorem: “If a plane figure is rotated about an axis in its plane then the volume of the solid body formed is equal to the product of the area with the distance travelled by the centre of gravity“.
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1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
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1675 – Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy dies (b. 1634)
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1701 – The Act of Settlement, the law that continues to regulate the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was passed by Parliament.
-
1707 – Bahadur Shah I won the Mughal throne of India by defeating his brother ‘Azam Shah at the Battle of Jajau.
-
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe‘s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
-
1780 – José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira was born (d. 1849). Portuguese politician.
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1827 – Johanna Spyri was born (d. 1901). Swiss author.
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1834 – Foi fundada a Associação Comercial de Lisboa.
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1845 – August Wilhelm von Schlegel dies in Bünn (b. 8 Sep 1767). German scholar and poet.
-
1850 – Roberto Ívens was born. Portuguese explorer.
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1855 – Ernst Eduard Wiltheiss was born (d. 7 Jul 1900). German mathematician who was a founder member of the German Mathematical Society .
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1856 – José María Alfaro Zamora dies. President of Costa Rica (1842-1844 and 1846-1847)
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1861 – William Attewell, was born (d. 1927). Nottinghamshire bowler.
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1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
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1875 – Sam De Grasse was born (d. 1953). Actor.
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1875 – Publicado Zé Povinho, o personagem de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.
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1888 – Zymunt Janiszewski was born in Warsow (d. 3 Jan 1920). Polish mathematician.
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1890 – Egon Schiele was born (d. 1918). Painter and graphic artist.
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1892 – Djuna Barnes was born (d. 1982). Author.
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1896 – J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.
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1897 – Anthony Eden was born (d. 1977). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines‘ independence from Spain.
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1900 – Jean Frédéric Frenet dies (b. 7 Feb 1816). French mathematician.
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1903 – Emmett Hardy was born (d. 1925). Jazz musician.
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1905 – Ray Barbuti was born (d. 1988). American athlete.
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1915 – Christopher Mayhew was born (d. 1997). British politician.
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1915 – David Rockefeller was born. Banker.
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1916 – Ivan Tors was born (d. 1983). Movie producer.
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1916 – Irwin Allen was born (d. 1991). Movie producer.
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1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff was born (d. 2001). Movie producer.
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1919 – Uta Hagen was born (d. 2004). Actress.
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1920 – Dave Berg was born (d. 2002). Cartoonist for Mad Magazine.
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1921 – (some sources say 1919) – Vera Ralston was born in Prague (d. 9 Feb 2003). Actress.
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1921 – James Houston was born. Artist.
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1921 – Fundação do Figueirense Futebol Clube (Brasil).
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1921 – Luis García Berlanga was born in Valencia. Spanish film director.
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1924 – George H. W. Bush was born. Vice president of the United States (1981–89) and 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).
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1926 – Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
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1928 – Vic Damone was born. Singer.
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1929 – Brigid Brophy was born. British writer .
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1930 – Otto Schenk was born. Actor and director.
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1930 – Jim Nabors was born. Actor and musician.
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1931 – Santiago Rusiñol dies. Spanish painter.
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1931 – Charlie Parker equals record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
-
1932 – Rona Jaffe was born. Novelist
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1933 – Carmen Veronica was born in Recife. Brazilian actress.
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1935 – Christoph Meckel was born. Writer
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1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
-
1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
-
1941 – Chick Corea was born. Musician
-
1941 – Marv Albert was born. Sportscaster
-
1945 – Pat Jennings was born. Football player
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1945 – Boris Grigorievich Galerkin dies in Moscoe (b. 4 Mar 1871 in Polotsk, Belarus). Mathematician.
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1946 – Harry Glasper was born. Writer.
-
1950 – João Freitas dies. Portuguese historian.
-
1954 – Canonización de Domingo Savio por el papa Pío XII.
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1957 – Javed Miandad, was born. Great cricketer and coach, Pakistan national cricket team
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1957 – Jimmy Dorsey dies (b. 1904). American musician.
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1962 – Three escape from Alcatraz. three inmates convicted of bank robbery are missing from America’s most notorious prison in California.
-
1962 – Julio Cesar Chavez was born. Mexican boxeur who was World Champion.
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1962 – John Ireland dies (b. 1879). English composer.
-
1963 – Medgar Evers dies (b. 1925). American civil rights activist.
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1963 – Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
-
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron de la Beckwith.
-
1964 – South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.
-
1966 – Hermann Scherchen dies (b. 1891). German conductor.
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1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
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1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet‘s atmosphere and successfully return data).
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1972 – Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies. Austrian biologist.
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1973 – Victor Ikpeba was born. Nigerian footballer.
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1973 – Fyssas Panagiotis was born. Greek footballer.
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1974 – Flávio da Conceição. Brazilian footballer.
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1974 – Jason Mewes was born. Actor.
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1974 – Hideki Matsui was born. Major League Baseball player.
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1975 – España: se inaugura en Barcelona la Fundació Miró.
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1975 – Gandhi found guilty of corruption : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is barred from holding office for six years after she being found guilty of electoral corruption.
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1978 – David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
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1978 – Guo Moruo dies (b. 1892). Chinese writer.
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1979 – Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
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1980 – Milburn Stone dies. Actor
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1980 – Masayoshi Ohira dies (b. 1910). Prime minister of Japan
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1980 – Egon Sharpe Pearson dies (b. 11 Aug 1895). English mathematician.
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1981 – Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
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1981 – Adriana Lima was born. Brazilian supermodel
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1982 – 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City‘s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.
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1982 – Marie Rambert dies. British ballet dancer and teacher.
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1982 – Karl von Frisch dies (b. 1886). Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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1983 – Norma Shearer dies (b. 1902). Canadian actress.
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1985 – Portugal (represented by Mario Soares) and 8 hours later Spain sign treaty of adhesion to European Economic Comunity.
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1985 – Marcela Paz (Esther Huneus de Claro) dies. Chilean writer.
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1985 – Loo-Keng Hua dies in Tokyo (b. 12 Nov 1910 in Jintan, Jiangsu Province, China Mathematician.
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1987 – The Central African Republic‘s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
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1987 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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1990 – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty (see Russia Day).
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1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
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1991 – Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first National Basketball Association championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
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1991 – A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines – its first eruption in 600 years.
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1993 – The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the first annual of their live concert Weenie Roat with Terence Trent D’Arby, Dramarama, Gin Blossoms, The Lemonheads, The London Suede, The Posies, Rocket From the Crypt, Bettie Serveert, Stone Temple Pilots, The The and X.
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1993 – Presidencial elections in Nigeria. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (popularly known and called M. K. O.), an international businessman and politician, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated rival Alhaji Bashir Tofa, candidate of the National Republican Convention. After most of the results were announced, the election was annulled by military president Ibrahim Babangida
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1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
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1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson dies (b. 1959). American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson.
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1994 – Ronald Goldman dies (b. 1969). American actor and mode.
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1994 – At the Tony Awards, “Angels in America: Perestroika” won best play while “Passion” won best musical.
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1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli dies (b. 1920). Italian pianist
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1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
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1996 – Ilona Ference dies at 78. Actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night).
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1997 – Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
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1997 – The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
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1997 – Mary Robinson, Pres. of Ireland, was named the top human rights official for the United Nations.
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1998 – A jury in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, convicts 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
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1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enter the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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2000 – Luis Figo scores one of the greatest goals of all time against England at the UEFA European Championship. Portugal won 3-2 after have being to lose 0-2
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2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
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2000 – Hafez-Al-Assad dies. King of Syria.
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2002 – Bill Blass dies (b. 1922). Fashion designer.
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2003 – Gregory Peck dies (b. 1916). American actor.
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2003 – Itamar Assumpção dies (b. 13 Sep 1949). Brazilian musician, poet and composer.
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2004 – The Los Angeles radio station KROQ opens the twelfth annual of their live concert Weenie Roast with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
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2004 – A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
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2004 – Portugal Euro 2004 begins with Open Cerimony in Dragão’s Stadium (Porto). Portugal lost in front Greece (1-2). Portugal reached the final against Greece and lost again (0-1). Começa em Portugal o Campeonato Europeu de Futebol
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Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
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United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch’s official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
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World Day Against Child Labor.
On this day in History – Jun 8 Junho 8, 2006
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0068 – The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
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0218 – Macrinus dies (b. c. 0165). Roman Emperor .
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0536 – St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
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1042 – Harthacanute dies (b. 1018). King of England.
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1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born (d. 1712). Scientist.
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1662 – Morte de Henrique Dias, o herói da guerra contra os holandeses, em Recife-PE.
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1671 – Tomaso Albinoni was born in Venice, Italy. Composer
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1695 – Morria Christian Huygens (n. 14 Abr 1629). Matemático, físico e astrónomo holandês criador da teoria de onda da luz; descobriu a verdadeira forma dos anéis de Saturno, e fez contribuições originais à ciência da dinâmica – o estudo da acção de forças em corpos.
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1724 – John Smeaton was born (d. 1794). Civil engineer .
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1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro was born. (d. 1795). Adventurer.
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1769 – Alvará que cria uma fábrica de louça fina em Lisboa.
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1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
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1795 – King Louis XVII of France dies (b. 1785)
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1809 – Thomas Paine dies (b. 1737). American revolutionary and writer: Common Sense
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1810 – Robert Schumann was born (d. 1856). Composer.
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1845 – Andrew Jackson dies (b. 1767). 7th President of the United States .
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1847 – Ida McKinley was born (d. 1907). Former First Lady of the United States.
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1857 – Douglas William Jerrold dies (b. 1803). British dramatic playwright and political satirist
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George McClellan.
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1866 – The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
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1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Park, Wisconsin (d. 1959). American architect.
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1876 – George Sand dies (b. 1804). French author.
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1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar was born (d. 1987). Author.
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1903 – Ralph Yarborough was born (d. 1996). U.S. Senator and Texas politician.
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1904 – Carmen Santos [Maria do Carmo Santos Gonçalves} was born in Vila Flor, Distrito de Bragança, Portugal (m. 14 Set 1952 no de Janeiro, Brazil). Producer, she founded in 1933 the production company Brasil Vox Filmes, Rio de Janeiro, later called Brasil VitaFilmes.
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1910 – John W. Campbell Jr. was born (d. 1971). Science fiction writer, publisher, editor.
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1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
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1916 – Francis Crick was born. Scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA
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1917 – Byron White was born (d. 2002). Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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1918 – Robert Preston was born (d. 1987). Actor.
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1921 – Alexis Smith was born (d. 1993). Canadian actress.
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1924 – Lyn Nofziger was born. Political operative
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1924 – George Leigh Mallory (b. 1886) and Andrew Irvine (b. 1902), die. Mountaineers
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1925 – Barbara Bush was born. Former First Lady of the United States (to 41st President, George Bush, mother to 43rd President George W. Bush)
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1927 – LeRoy Neiman was born. Painter
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1929 – Jerry Stiller was born. Comedian, actor
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1929 – Bliss Carman dies (b. 1861). Poet.
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1930 – Robert Aumann was born. German-born mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics
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1933 – Joan Rivers was born. Comedienne, author
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1934 – Millicent Martin was born. Singer, actress
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1936 – James Darren was born. Actor, singer
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1940 – Nancy Sinatra was born. Singer
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1941 – Fuzzy Haskins was born. Musician (“P Funk“)
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1944 – Boz Scaggs was born. Singer, songwriter
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1948 – Jürgen von der Lippe was born. German show master
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1944 – Boz Scaggs was born. Singer, songwriter.
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1946 – Nascimento, em Odemira, de Camacho Costa (m. 1 Mar 2003 em Lisboa). Grande actor português.
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1948 – Jürgen von der Lippe was born. German show master
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1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
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1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
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1949 – Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
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1950 – Sonia Braga was born. Brazilian actress.
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1950 – Inicio da Guerra da Coreia
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1951 – José Jorge Letria was born. Portuguese writer and journalist.
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1951 – Bonnie Tyler was born. Singer, guitarist
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1953 – Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
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1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
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1955 – Griffin Dunne was born. Actor
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1955 – Tim Berners-Lee was born. Inventor of the World Wide Web
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1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans was born. Comedian, actor, director .
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1958 – Portugal – O almirante Américo Tomás é eleito presidente da república. Humberto Delgado é o candidato da oposição vencido. A fraude eleitoral parece ter sido maciça.
- 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
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1960 – Mick Hucknall was born. Singer/songwriter (“Simply Red“) .
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1960 – Agostinho Neto, futuro presidente de Angola, é preso em Angola
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1962 – Nick Rhodes was born. Musician (“Duran Duran“)
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1963 – Ward charged over ‘immoral earnings’ Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, is arrested and charged with living on immoral earnings
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1966 – One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
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1966 – Julianna Margulies was born. Actress (ER)
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1966 – Anton Melik dies (b. 1890). Slovene geographer .
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1967 – 6-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
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1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
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1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
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1969 – After the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cancels the program, the last Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs.
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1969 – Robert Taylor dies (b. 1911). Actor.
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1970 – Abraham Maslow dies (b. 1908). Psychologist.
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1970 – Kelli Williams was born. Actress (The Practice)
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1970 – Seu Jorge was born . Brazilien musician and actor
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1971 – Troy Vincent was born. American football player
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1976 – Lindsay Davenport was born in Palos Verdes, California, USA. Tennis player.
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1977 – Kanye West was born. Rapper, producer
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1978 – Matthew Bellamy was born. Musician (“Muse“) .
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1978 – Woman takes world sailing record Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days.
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1979 – Herb Polesie dies. Playwright.
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1980 – Nascimento de Manduca. Jogador brasileiro de futebol que representa actualmente o Benfica (Portugal).
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1981 – Acidente ferroviário na India, ao tentar evitar-se o atropelamento de uma vaca. Cerca de 3.000 muertos.
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1982 – Satchel Paige dies (b. 1906). Baseball player.
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1982 – Nadia Petrova was born. Russian tennis player
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1982 – Fifty die in Argentine air attack -Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships in the Falklands
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1982 – President Reagan became the first American president to address a joint session of Britain’s Parliament.
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1983 – Kim Clijsters was born. Belgian tennis player
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1983 – Satchel Paige dies. Great baseball player
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1989 – Tony de Matos dies. Portuguese singer.
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1992 – The first World Ocean Day celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil .
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1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
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1998 – Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
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1998 – Sani Abacha dies (b. 1904). President of Nigeria.
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1999 – War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country’s illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national produt
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1999 – Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action.
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2000 – Jeff MacNelly dies. Political cartoonist
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2001 – Popular editorial site suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, “Gone Fishin”.
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2001 – Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls.
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2004 – First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
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2004 – Mack Jones dies (b. 1938). Major League Baseball player.
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2004 – Leopoldo Zea dies. Mexican philosopher.
On this day in History – Jun 1 Junho 1, 2006
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0195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
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1076 – Prince Mstislav of Kiev was born (d. 1132).
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1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
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1300 – Thomas of Brotherton was born (d. 1338). 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
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1480 – Tiedemann Giese was born (d. 1550). Polish Catholic bishop.
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1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach was born (d. 1567). German adventurer.
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1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1612). English statesman and spymaster.
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1633 – Geminiano Montanari was born (d. 1687). Italian astronomer.
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1641 – Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
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1653 – Georg Muffat was born (d. 1704). French composer.
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1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
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1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was born (d. 1755). Italian archaeologist.
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1765 – Christiane Vulpius was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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1771 – Ferdinando Paer was born (d. 1839). Italian composer.
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1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
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1780 – Carl von Clausewitz was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
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1790 – Ferdinand Raimund was born (d. 1836). Austrian playwright
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1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;
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1801 – Brigham Young was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
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1804 – Mikhail Glinka was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
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1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, ‘Don’t give up the ship’.
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1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1815 – Philip Kearny was born (d. 1862). American general.
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1815 – King Otto of Greece was born (d. 1862).
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1826 – Carl Bechstein was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
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1831 – John Bell Hood was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
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1843 – Dr Henry Faulds was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
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1846 – Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
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1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
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1851 – Nasce Isaac Peral, inventor espanhol do submarino.
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1859 – António Feijó was born (d. 1917). Portuguese poet. / Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
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1868 – James Buchanan dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
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1876 – Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
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1878 – John Masefield was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
- 1879 – Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
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1881 – Charles Kay Ogden was born. English writer and linguist.
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1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Italy.
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1890 – Frank Morgan was born (d. 1949). American actor.
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1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1890 – Camilo Castelo Branco commites suicide (b. 1825). Portuguese writer/ Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco (n. 1825), autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.
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1893 – Silva Porto dies. Portuguese painter.
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1897 – General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial
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1898 – Molly Picon was born (d. 1992). American actress.
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1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh was born (d. 1963). English mathematician.
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1901 – John Van Druten was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.
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1906 – Fundação do Club Atlético Talleres – Argentina
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1907 – Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day’s bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
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1910 – Robert Falcon Scott‘s South Pole expedition leaves England
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1917 – William S. Knowles was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
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1921 – Nelson Riddle was born (d. 1985). American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
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1922 – Joan Caulfield was born. Actress.
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1922 – Povel Ramel was born. Swedish musician
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1922 – Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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1924 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born. American clergyman
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1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
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1926 – Andy Griffith was born. American actor.
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1926 – Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
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1926 – Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortensen] was born in Los Angeles (d. 05 Aug 1962). American actress ( Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952];
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1927 – J. B. Bury dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
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1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski was born. Cosmonaut.
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1928 – Bob Monkhouse was born (d. 2003). English comedian and game show host.
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1930 – Edward Woodward was born. English actor.
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1930 – Maria de Lurdes Modesto was born. Portuguese chef and publicist.
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1930 – Eugénio Tavares dies. Cape-Verdean poet.
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1933 – Charles Wilson was born. American politician
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1935 – First driving tests introduced in Britain.
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1933 – Inauguração da Exposição Universal de Chicago.
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1937 – Morgan Freeman was born. American actor ( Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha)
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1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
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1939 – Cleavon Little was born (d. 1992). American actor
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1940 – René Auberjonois was born. American actor
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1940 – Kip Thorne was born. American physicist .
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1941 – Germany banned all Catholic publications.
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1942 – World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
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1943 – A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
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1943 – Leslie Howard dies (b. 1893). English actor.
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1944 – O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.
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1945 – Frederica von Stade was born. American mezzo-soprano
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1946 – Brian Cox was born. Scottish actor
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1946 – Ion Antonescu dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
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1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson dies. American blues musician.
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1948 – Viana da Mota dies. Portuguese composer and pianist.
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1953 – Foi inaugurada a TAP – Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
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1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.
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1954 – Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
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1956 – Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
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1958 – Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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1958 – Ahron Bregman was born. Author and Journalist, Arab-Israeli conflict
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1959 – Sax Rohmer dies (b. 1883). English author.
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1959 – Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
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1960 – Lester Patrick dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.
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1961 – Paul Coffey was born. Canadian hockey star
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1965 – Nigel Short was born. English chess player
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1965 – Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
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1966 – Papa Jack Laine dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
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1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
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1967 – Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
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1968 – Jason Donovan was born. Australian actor
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1968 – Helen Keller dies (b. 1880). American humanitarian. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. he also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
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1970 – Alexi Lalas was born. American football player.
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1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
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1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
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1973 – Adam Garcia was born. Australian actor
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1973 – Heidi Klum was born. German supermodel
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1973 – Derek Lowe was born. American baseball pitcher.
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1973 – É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
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1974 – Alanis Morissette was born. Canadian singer
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1975 – James Storm was born. American professional wrestler
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1977 – Danielle Harris was born. American voice actress
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1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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1980 – Oliver James was born. British actor
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1980 – Rube Marquard dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
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1981 – Carlos Zambrano was born. Venezuelan baseball pitcher
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1982 – Justine Henin-Hardenne was born. Belgian tennis player
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1984 – Nat Nelson dies. Singer.
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1984 – José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência de El Salvador
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1987 – Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
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1987 – Rashid Karami dies at 65. 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon.
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1987 – Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
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1989 – Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
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1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation’s stockpiles.
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1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
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1994 – Frances Heflin dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.
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1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dies. President of India (1977 – 1982)
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1997 – Morre Georgos Livanos, armador grego e um dos dez homens mais ricos do mundo.
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1999 – DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
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2000 – The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
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2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
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2001 – Hank Ketcham dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
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2001 – King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya and other ten members of Royal Family of Nepal die shot by Prince Dipendra, during a dinner, before shooting himself . There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
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2002 – Hansie Cronje dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.
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2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
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2003 – Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author.
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2004 – William Manchester dies (b. 1922). American biographer and novelist.
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2005 – George Mikan dies (b. 1924). American basketball player.
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2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
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Children’s Day in some countries
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Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
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Kenya Madaraka Day 1963
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Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Carna
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Samoa – Independence Day 1962
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Tunisia – Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959
On this day in History – Jun 1
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0195 BC – Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
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1076 – Prince Mstislav of Kiev was born (d. 1132).
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1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden – Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
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1300 – Thomas of Brotherton was born (d. 1338). 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
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1480 – Tiedemann Giese was born (d. 1550). Polish Catholic bishop.
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1485 – Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach was born (d. 1567). German adventurer.
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1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1612). English statesman and spymaster.
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1633 – Geminiano Montanari was born (d. 1687). Italian astronomer.
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1641 – Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
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1653 – Georg Muffat was born (d. 1704). French composer.
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1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.
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1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei was born (d. 1755). Italian archaeologist.
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1765 – Christiane Vulpius was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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1771 – Ferdinando Paer was born (d. 1839). Italian composer.
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1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
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1780 – Carl von Clausewitz was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
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1790 – Ferdinand Raimund was born (d. 1836). Austrian playwright
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1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;
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1801 – Brigham Young was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
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1804 – Mikhail Glinka was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
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1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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1813 – The United States Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, ‘Don’t give up the ship’.
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1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1815 – Philip Kearny was born (d. 1862). American general.
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1815 – King Otto of Greece was born (d. 1862).
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1826 – Carl Bechstein was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
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1831 – John Bell Hood was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
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1843 – Dr Henry Faulds was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
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1846 – Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
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1847 – Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
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1851 – Nasce Isaac Peral, inventor espanhol do submarino.
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1859 – António Feijó was born (d. 1917). Portuguese poet. / Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
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1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Both sides claim victory.
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1868 – James Buchanan dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
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1876 – Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
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1878 – John Masefield was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
- 1879 – Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
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1881 – Charles Kay Ogden was born. English writer and linguist.
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1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Italy.
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1890 – Frank Morgan was born (d. 1949). American actor.
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1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1890 – Camilo Castelo Branco commites suicide (b. 1825). Portuguese writer/ Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco (n. 1825), autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.
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1893 – Silva Porto dies. Portuguese painter.
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1897 – General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial
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1898 – Molly Picon was born (d. 1992). American actress.
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1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh was born (d. 1963). English mathematician.
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1901 – John Van Druten was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.
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1906 – Fundação do Club Atlético Talleres – Argentina
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1907 – Cricket: Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day’s bowling, and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
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1910 – Robert Falcon Scott‘s South Pole expedition leaves England
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1917 – William S. Knowles was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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1918 – World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
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1921 – Nelson Riddle was born (d. 1985). American Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
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1922 – Joan Caulfield was born. Actress.
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1922 – Povel Ramel was born. Swedish musician
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1922 – Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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1924 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born. American clergyman
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1925 – Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stood till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.
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1926 – Andy Griffith was born. American actor.
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1926 – Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
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1926 – Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortensen] was born in Los Angeles (d. 05 Aug 1962). American actress ( Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, The Misfits, Scudda-Hoo!Scudda-Hay!; famous centerfold: Playboy [1952];
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1927 – J. B. Bury dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
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1928 – Georgi Dobrovolski was born. Cosmonaut.
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1928 – Bob Monkhouse was born (d. 2003). English comedian and game show host.
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1930 – Edward Woodward was born. English actor.
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1930 – Maria de Lurdes Modesto was born. Portuguese chef and publicist.
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1930 – Eugénio Tavares dies. Cape-Verdean poet.
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1933 – Charles Wilson was born. American politician
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1935 – First driving tests introduced in Britain.
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1933 – Inauguração da Exposição Universal de Chicago.
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1937 – Morgan Freeman was born. American actor ( Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad, Deep Impact; director: Bopha)
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1938 – Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
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1939 – Cleavon Little was born (d. 1992). American actor
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1940 – René Auberjonois was born. American actor
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1940 – Kip Thorne was born. American physicist .
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1941 – Germany banned all Catholic publications.
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1942 – World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
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1943 – A civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
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1943 – Leslie Howard dies (b. 1893). English actor.
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1944 – O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.
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1945 – Frederica von Stade was born. American mezzo-soprano
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1946 – Brian Cox was born. Scottish actor
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1946 – Ion Antonescu dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
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1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson dies. American blues musician.
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1948 – Viana da Mota dies. Portuguese composer and pianist.
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1953 – Foi inaugurada a TAP – Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
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1954 – The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.
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1954 – Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
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1956 – Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
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1958 – Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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1958 – Ahron Bregman was born. Author and Journalist, Arab-Israeli conflict
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1959 – Sax Rohmer dies (b. 1883). English author.
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1959 – Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
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1960 – Lester Patrick dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.
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1961 – Paul Coffey was born. Canadian hockey star
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1965 – Nigel Short was born. English chess player
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1965 – Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
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1966 – Papa Jack Laine dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
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1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
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1967 – Don Dunstan becomes Premier of South Australia
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1968 – Jason Donovan was born. Australian actor
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1968 – Helen Keller dies (b. 1880). American humanitarian. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. he also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
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1970 – Alexi Lalas was born. American football player.
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1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
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1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
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1973 – Adam Garcia was born. Australian actor
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1973 – Heidi Klum was born. German supermodel
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1973 – Derek Lowe was born. American baseball pitcher.
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1973 – É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
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1974 – Alanis Morissette was born. Canadian singer
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1975 – James Storm was born. American professional wrestler
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1977 – Danielle Harris was born. American voice actress
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1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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1980 – Oliver James was born. British actor
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1980 – Rube Marquard dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
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1981 – Carlos Zambrano was born. Venezuelan baseball pitcher
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1982 – Justine Henin-Hardenne was born. Belgian tennis player
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1984 – Nat Nelson dies. Singer.
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1984 – José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência de El Salvador
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1987 – Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
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1987 – Rashid Karami dies at 65. 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon.
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1987 – Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
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1989 – Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
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1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation’s stockpiles.
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1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
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1994 – Frances Heflin dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.
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1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dies. President of India (1977 – 1982)
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1997 – Morre Georgos Livanos, armador grego e um dos dez homens mais ricos do mundo.
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1999 – DeForest Kelley dies (b. 1920). American actor.
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2000 – The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
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2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
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2001 – Hank Ketcham dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
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2001 – King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya and other ten members of Royal Family of Nepal die shot by Prince Dipendra, during a dinner, before shooting himself . There was an apparent dispute over his upcoming marriage.
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2002 – Hansie Cronje dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.
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2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.
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2003 – Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author.
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2004 – William Manchester dies (b. 1922). American biographer and novelist.
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2005 – George Mikan dies (b. 1924). American basketball player.
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2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
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Children’s Day in some countries
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Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
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Kenya Madaraka Day 1963
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Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Carna
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Samoa – Independence Day 1962
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Tunisia – Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959
On this day in History – May 31 Maio 31, 2006
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0455 – Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
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0455 – Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
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1048 – Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
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1162 – Nascimento do conquistador mongol Gengis Khan.
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1223 – Battle of the Kalka River between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and East Slavic warriors.
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1232 – O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
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1246 – Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England .
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1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Ashikaga shogun.
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1443 – Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
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1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
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1535 – Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
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1557 – Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
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1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
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1582 – Rei Felipe II assina alvará ordenado pagamento de pensão à mãe de Luíz Vaz de Camões
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1594 – Jacobo Robusti Tintoretto dies. Italian painter.
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1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680)
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1640 – Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland was born (d. 1673)
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1656 – Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
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1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
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1680 – Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). Clergyman.
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1727 – Criação do Royal Bank of Scotland.
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1740 – King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
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1747 – Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
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1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
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1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
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1754 – Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
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1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
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1773 – Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
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1775 – Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
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1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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1790 – The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
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1790 – Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
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1799 – Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
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1801 – Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
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1809 – Joseph Haydn died in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
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1809 – Jean Lannes died (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
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1819 – Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet ( Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain! )
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1831 – Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). Mechanical engineer.
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1832 – Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). Mathematician.
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1837 – Joseph Grimaldi dies at 57. Greatest clown (king of pantomime).
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1838 – Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
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1842 – “Pour le Mérite” extended
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1846 – Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
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1847 – Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
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1847 – Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
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1848 – Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). Writer.
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1852 – Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
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1857 – Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
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1860 – Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
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1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Seven Pines.
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1863 – Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
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1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
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1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O’Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
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1872 – Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
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1874 – Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
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1875 – Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
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1876 – Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
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1878 – Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
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1879 – Madison Square Garden opens its doors
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1880 – The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
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1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). Finnish president .
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1884 – John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
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1887 – Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
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1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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1892 – Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
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1892 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
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1894 – Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for “Allen’s Alley” radio program, 1932-49.
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1894 – Konstantin Stoilov Konstantinov assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária
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1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking,” 1952.
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1901 – Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby)
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1902 – Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
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1908 – Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna; inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame [1992];
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1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
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1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
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1911 – Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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1912 – Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
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1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
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1916 – World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
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1921 – Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
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1921 – Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
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1922 – Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor ( A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
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1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
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1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an “integral part of the Republic of China“, whose “sovereignty” therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
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1924 – Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
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1926 – Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
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1926 – James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
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1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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1928 – É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
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1928 – Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
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1929 – Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
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1930 – Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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1931 – Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
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1935 – Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
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1938 – Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
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1938 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
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1938 – John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1938 – Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer (“Peter, Paul and Mary“)
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1939 – Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
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1941 – Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
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1943 – Sharon Gless, was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
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1943 – Joe Namath was born. American football star.
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1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). Film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
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1947 – MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
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1947 – Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
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1948 – José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
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1948 – Syngman Rhee assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
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1948 – John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
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1949 – A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
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1949 – Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore], was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
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1950 – Gregory Harrison was born. Actor.
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1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
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1957 – Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
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1959 – Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
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1960 – Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
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1960 – Chris Elliott was born. Comedian.
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1961 – Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
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1961 – Lea Thompson was born. Actress.
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1961 – Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
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1961 – Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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1962 – Corey Hart was born. Singer/songwriter.
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1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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1962 – Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
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1963 – Wesley Willis was born. Musician.
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1965 – Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
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1966 – Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
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1967 – The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
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1969 – Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records
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1970 – Início do Campeonato Mundial de Futebol realizado no México.
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1970 – An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead.
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1972 – Official IRA declares ceasefire : The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
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1974 – William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got
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1975 – Constituição da Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).
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1976 – Invasão e ocupação de Timor Leste pela Indonésia.
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1976 – Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
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1976 – Colin Farrell was born. Actor.
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1976 – Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
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1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
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1977 – William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
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1977 – Scott Klopfenstein was born. Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)
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1981 – Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
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1983 – Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
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1984 – Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
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1985 – The US-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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1990 – A little summer replacement TV show named Seinfeld debuted
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1990 – The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or “mad cow” disease.
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1991 – São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
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1994 – Morte do barão Marcel Bich. Criador das canetas Bic.
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1994 – O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
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1996 – Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
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1996 – Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
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1996 – Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American LSD advocate.
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1997 – Canada‘s Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
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2000 – Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). Musician.
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2000 – Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). Vocalist.
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2001 – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country’s biggest political scandal in recent history.
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2001 – Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
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2002 – The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
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2002 – Portugal ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.
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2002 – Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
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2003 – The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
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2003 – Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
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2004 – A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
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2004 – Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). Punk rock guitarist.
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2004 – Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
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2005 – W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
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Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
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The Godiva procession
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Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)
On this day in History – May 31
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0455 – Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
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0455 – Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
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1048 – Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
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1162 – Nascimento do conquistador mongol Gengis Khan.
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1223 – Battle of the Kalka River between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and East Slavic warriors.
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1232 – O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
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1246 – Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England .
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1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Ashikaga shogun.
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1443 – Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
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1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
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1535 – Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
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1557 – Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
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1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
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1582 – Rei Felipe II assina alvará ordenado pagamento de pensão à mãe de Luíz Vaz de Camões
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1594 – Jacobo Robusti Tintoretto dies. Italian painter.
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1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680)
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1640 – Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland was born (d. 1673)
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1656 – Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
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1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
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1680 – Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). Clergyman.
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1727 – Criação do Royal Bank of Scotland.
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1740 – King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
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1747 – Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
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1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
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1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
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1754 – Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
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1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
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1773 – Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
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1775 – Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
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1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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1790 – The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
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1790 – Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
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1799 – Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
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1801 – Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
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1809 – Joseph Haydn died in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
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1809 – Jean Lannes died (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
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1819 – Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet ( Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain! )
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1831 – Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). Mechanical engineer.
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1832 – Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). Mathematician.
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1837 – Joseph Grimaldi dies at 57. Greatest clown (king of pantomime).
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1838 – Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
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1842 – “Pour le Mérite” extended
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1846 – Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
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1847 – Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
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1847 – Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
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1848 – Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). Writer.
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1852 – Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
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1857 – Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
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1860 – Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
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1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Seven Pines.
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1863 – Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
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1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
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1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O’Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
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1872 – Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
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1874 – Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
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1875 – Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
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1876 – Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
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1878 – Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
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1879 – Madison Square Garden opens its doors
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1880 – The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
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1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). Finnish president .
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1884 – John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
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1887 – Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
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1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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1892 – Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
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1892 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
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1894 – Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for “Allen’s Alley” radio program, 1932-49.
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1894 – Konstantin Stoilov Konstantinov assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária
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1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking,” 1952.
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1901 – Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby)
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1902 – Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
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1908 – Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna; inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame [1992];
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1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
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1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
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1911 – Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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1912 – Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
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1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
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1916 – World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
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1921 – Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
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1921 – Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
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1922 – Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor ( A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
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1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
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1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an “integral part of the Republic of China“, whose “sovereignty” therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
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1924 – Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
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1926 – Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
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1926 – James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
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1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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1928 – É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
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1928 – Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
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1929 – Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
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1930 – Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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1931 – Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
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1935 – Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
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1938 – Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
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1938 – Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
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1938 – John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1938 – Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer (“Peter, Paul and Mary“)
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1939 – Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
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1941 – Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
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1943 – Sharon Gless, was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
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1943 – Joe Namath was born. American football star.
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1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). Film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
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1947 – MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
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1947 – Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
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1948 – José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
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1948 – Syngman Rhee assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
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1948 – John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
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1949 – A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
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1949 – Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore], was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
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1950 – Gregory Harrison was born. Actor.
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1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
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1957 – Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
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1959 – Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
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1960 – Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
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1960 – Chris Elliott was born. Comedian.
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1961 – Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
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1961 – Lea Thompson was born. Actress.
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1961 – Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
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1961 – Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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1962 – Corey Hart was born. Singer/songwriter.
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1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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1962 – Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
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1963 – Wesley Willis was born. Musician.
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1965 – Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
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1966 – Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
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1967 – The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
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1969 – Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records
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1970 – Início do Campeonato Mundial de Futebol realizado no México.
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1970 – An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead.
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1972 – Official IRA declares ceasefire : The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
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1974 – William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got
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1975 – Constituição da Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).
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1976 – Invasão e ocupação de Timor Leste pela Indonésia.
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1976 – Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
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1976 – Colin Farrell was born. Actor.
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1976 – Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
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1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
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1977 – William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
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1977 – Scott Klopfenstein was born. Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)
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1981 – Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
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1983 – Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
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1984 – Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
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1985 – The US-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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1990 – A little summer replacement TV show named Seinfeld debuted
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1990 – The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or “mad cow” disease.
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1991 – São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
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1994 – Morte do barão Marcel Bich. Criador das canetas Bic.
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1994 – O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
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1996 – Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
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1996 – Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
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1996 – Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American LSD advocate.
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1997 – Canada‘s Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
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2000 – Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). Musician.
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2000 – Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). Vocalist.
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2001 – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country’s biggest political scandal in recent history.
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2001 – Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
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2002 – The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
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2002 – Portugal ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.
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2002 – Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
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2003 – The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
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2003 – Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
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2004 – A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
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2004 – Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). Punk rock guitarist.
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2004 – Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
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2005 – W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
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Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
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The Godiva procession
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Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)
On this day in History – May 13 Maio 13, 2006
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0535 – St. Agapitus I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
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1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. In Florence the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) had led the burning of musical instruments, books and priceless works of art. He preached against corruption in the Church and civil government.
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1524 – Arriban al islote de San Juan de Ulúa en la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, los primeros misioneros llegados a estas tierras del Nuevo Mundo. Son doce franciscanos encabezados por los frailes Martín de Valencia, García de Cisneros y Toribio de Paredes o Benavente.
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1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
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1598 – Enrique IV de Francia promulga el Edicto de Nantes que garantiza la tolerancia religiosa.
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1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
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1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
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1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, dies (b. 1547). Dutch statesman.
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1643 – Chile: el terremoto de Santiago siega la vida a la tercera parte de la población.
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1648 – Asume el gobierno de la Nueva España, Marcos de Torres y Rueda, obispo de Yucatán, con el nombramiento de gobernador o presidente de la Audiencia, y quien sustituye al 19º virrey García Sarmiento de Sotomayor.
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1655 – Pope Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] was born (d. 1724). 244th Roman Catholic Pope (1721-24).
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1695 – Pierre-François Mignard I “le Romain”, dies (b. 17 Nov 1612). French Baroque painter.
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1699 – Nasce Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Conde de Oeiras e Marquês de Pombal, was born (d. 1782). Primeiro ministro português no reinado de D. José. Portuguese prime minister.
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1714 – Es aprobada por el Rey Felipe V la Fundación de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua.
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1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was born (d. 1780). Wife of Napoleon.
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1732 – Theodor Schwarzkopf (72), composer, died.
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1765 – Nasceu o pintor português Vieira Portuense.
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1767 – Nascia o que viria a ser o Rei D. João VI de Portugal (1816-1826) .
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1776 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, was born. Portuguese composer.
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1777 – Portugal – Aclamação de D. Maria I no Terreiro do Paço.
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1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
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1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
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1792 – Giovanni-Maria Mastaia-Ferretti, later Pope Pius IX -“Pio Nono” (1846-78), was born at Sinigaglia (d. 1878).
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1797 – A Real Biblioteca Pública da Corte e do Reino, de Lisboa, abriu ao público.
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1797 – O Teatro de S. João é inaugurado no Porto.
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1811 – Criação da Biblioteca Nacional, no Rio de Janeiro – Brasil. Um símbolo da cultura e da educação desta nação;
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1830 – Ecuador gains its independence with Juan Jose Flores as first President.
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1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, was born (d. 1894). Three-time governor of North Carolina.
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1832 – Muere el naturalista Georges de Cuvier.
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1835 – John Nash, dies (b. 1752). Architect.
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1837 – Portugal – Conspiração das Marnotas. Tentativa de sublevação miguelista. As forças concentradas nesta localidade, perto de Loures, de 13 para 14 de Maio dirigiram-se para Salvaterra e entraram a 15 em Samora Correia onde aclamaram D. Miguel. A revolta foi sufocada rapidamente.
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1840 – Alphonse Daudet, was born (d. 1897). French novelist.
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1842 – Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, was born. Composer (d. 1900).
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1844 – España: creación de la Guardia Civil.
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1848 – First performance of Finland‘s national anthem.
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1854- Nace el educador y poeta argentino “Almafuerte” (apodo de Pedro Bonifacio Palacios).
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1855 – Ludwig Deutsch, was born (d. 1935). Austrian French academic painter specialized in Orientalism.
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1857 – Sir Ronald Ross, was born (d. 16 Sep 1932). British bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine -1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles.
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1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a “proclamation of neutrality” which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
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1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
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1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee‘s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Union victory.
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1867 – Sir Frank William Brangwyn was born (d. 11 Jun 1956). English painter and graphic artist.
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1867 – Nace el historiador y filólogo Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1882 – Georges Braque, was born in Argenteuil, near Paris (d. 31 Aug 1963). French Cubist and Fauvist painter, collagist, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor. [Viaduct à l’Estaque; Le Chaudron ; Fenêtres: Oiseaux Gris; Grand Nude ]. -
1881 – Nascimento de Lima Barreto (m. 1922). Escritor brasileiro (O triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma) .
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1883 – Nascimento de George Nicholas Papanicolaou. Citologista e patologista grego.
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1884 – Cyrus McCormick, dies (b. 1809). Inventor.
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Nascimento de Murilo Mendes (Murilo Monteiro Mendes), poeta brasileiro, em Juiz Fora-MG, no ano de 1901;
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1898 – Nascimento de Aurora Celeste. Actriz portuguesa [Aldeia da Roupa Branca (1938)
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1899 – Nascimento de Sarah Afonso (m. 1983). Pintora portuguesa.Casou em 1932 com Almada Negreiros .
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1901 – Murilo Mendes was born. Brazilian poet.
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1905 – Fundação do Sport Clube do Recife, Brasil.
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1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, was born in London, England, UK (d. 19 Apr 1989). Author (Rebecca).
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1911 – Después de atacar las poblaciones de Axochiapan, Chinameca y Jonacatepec, del Estado de Morelos, las fuerzas revolucionarias de Emiliano Zapata se concentran en Cuautla e inician el ataque y sitio contra las fuerzas federales del dictador Porfirio Díaz.
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1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
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1913 – Nascimento em Torres Novas de Pedro Navarro. Actor português. Sol e Toiros (1949) Intramuros (1964) Via Macau (1966) Brides of Blood (1968)
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1916 – Sholom Aleichem, dies (b. 1859). Author.
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1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal / Três crianças (pastorinhos) declaram ter visto uma aparição da Virgem Maria sobre uma azinheira, na Cova da Iria, perto de Fátima, Portugal.
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1923 – Bea Arthur was born. Actress.
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1923 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours).
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1926 – Wallace Breem was born. Author.
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1927 – Herbert Ross was born (d. 2001). Director.
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1928 – Nascimento em Macaé – RJ de Ângela Maria (Abelim Maria da Cunha), atriz brasileira e grande cantora da MPB.
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1930 – Nasce Manuel Marulanda “Tirofijo”, líder das Forças Revolucionárias da Colômbia.
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1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, dies (born 10 Oct 1861). Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14). For his relief work after World War I he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace – 1922.
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1931 – Paul Doumer elected President of France.
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1934 – Adolf Muschg was born. Author.
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1934 – Leon Wagner was born (d. 2004). MLB All-Star.
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1937 – Roch Carrier was born. Canadian novelist and National Librarian .
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1937 – Roger Zelazny was born (d. 1995). Science fiction author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber).
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1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume dies. Swiss phisycian Phisician Nobel Prize -1920.
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1939 – Harvey Keitel was born in Brooklin, New York – USA. Actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs).
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1940 – Bruce Chatwin was born (d. 1989). British travel writer and novelist.
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1940 – World War II: Germany‘s conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River.
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1940 – Churchill In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told to the House of Commons “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
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1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
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1941 – Ritchie Valens was born (d. 1959). Singer.
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1941 – Senta Berger was born. Actress.
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1942 – En aguas del Golfo de México, un submarino alemán ataca y hunde al barco petrolero mexicano “Potrero del Llano”.
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1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
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1944 – Armistead Maupin was born. Author .
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1945 – Tubby Hall dies (b. 1895). Jazz musician.
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1946 – US condemned 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.
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1947 – Stephen R. Donaldson was born. Author.
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1947 – Fundação do Comerciário Futebol Clube de Criciuma, que mudou de nome em 13. Mar. 1978 para Criciuma Esporte Clube.
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1948 – Fundación del Club de Deportes Caldas, que en su historia tendría los siguientes nombres: Deportivo Atlético, Once Phillips, Varta y Cristal Caldas. Actualmente se llama Club Deportivo Once Caldas de Manizales, Colombia, campeón de la Libertadores en 2004.
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1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
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1950 – Steveland Morris Hardaway (Stevie Wonder), was born prematurely, on this day in Saginaw. Singer, pianist, bassist, drummer and activist for civil rights, campaigns against cancer, AIDS, drunk driving and the plight of Ethiopians. One Oscar and at least sixteen Grammy Awards earned.
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1952 – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became premier of India.
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1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon‘s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
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1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France .
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1958 – Velcro‘s trade mark is registered.
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1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, World’s 7th-highest mountain.
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1961 – Dennis Rodman was born. Basketball player, actor.
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1961 – Gary Cooper dies (b. 1901). Two time Academy award winning actor (High Noon).
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1962 – Franz Kline dies (b.1910). American painter of abstract expressionist style .
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1964 – Egipto: inaugurada la faraónica presa de Asuán.
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1965 – Desaparece el oftalmólogo Ignacio Barraquer.
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1966 – Darius Rucker was born. Hootie & The Blowfish frontman.
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1966 – Morreu o musicólogo português Mário Luis Sampaio Ribeiro.
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1967 – Chuck Schuldiner was born (d. 2001). American musician.
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1968 – 1,000,000 French demonstrated against De Gaulle & Pompidou.
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1974 – Jaime Torres Bidet dies (b. 17 Apr 1902). Mexican writer.
- 1975 – Bob Wills dies (b. 1905). Country musician.
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1977 – España: la Pasionaria regresa del exilio.
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1977 – Samantha Morton was born in Nottingham, England. Movie star, actress.
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1977 – Mário de Castro dies. Portuguese writer
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1978 – Mike Bibby was born. Basketball player.
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1978 – Barry Zito was born. Baseball pitcher.
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1978 – Jim Jones dies (b. 1931). Religious leader (The Peopl’s Temple).
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1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden was born.
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1981 – Sunny Leone, was born- Penthouse Magazine‘s pet of the Year, 2003 .
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1981 – Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Uefa Cup Winners Cup beating Karl Zeiss Jena 2 -1.
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1982 – Soyuz T-5 was launched. Berezovoi & Lebedev spent the next 211 days in space.
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1985 – The Mayor of Philadelphia orders police to storm the radical group’s MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
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1987 – Ajax wins 27th Uefa Cup Winners Cup beating Leipzig 1-0.
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1992 – Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup Ajax – Torino 0 -0 (2-2 agregate). Match decided on away goals.
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1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing “Nocturne”.
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1995 – Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe.
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1998 – Following India‘s second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
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1999 – Gene Sarazen, dies (b. 1902). Golfer.
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1999 – Ecuador and Peru signed a treaty settling their 50-year border dispute over a 50 mile stretch in the Amazon jungle.
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2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing “Fly On The Wings of Love”.
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2001 – R.K. Narayan, dies (b. 1906). Indian novelist.
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2001 – O multi-milionário Silvio Berlusconi vence as eleições para primeiro-ministro da Itália.
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2003 – John Savage, dies. Former Premier of Nova Scotia.
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2003 – In eastern China a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing at least 63 miners and leaving 23 others missing 1,500 feet underground.
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Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Anglican) .
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Devoção a N. Senhora de Fátima no Santuário de Fátima – Portugal em comemoração da sua Aparição.
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Ecuador – Día de independencia.
On this day in History – May 13
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0535 – St. Agapitus I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
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1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. In Florence the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) had led the burning of musical instruments, books and priceless works of art. He preached against corruption in the Church and civil government.
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1524 – Arriban al islote de San Juan de Ulúa en la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, los primeros misioneros llegados a estas tierras del Nuevo Mundo. Son doce franciscanos encabezados por los frailes Martín de Valencia, García de Cisneros y Toribio de Paredes o Benavente.
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1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
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1598 – Enrique IV de Francia promulga el Edicto de Nantes que garantiza la tolerancia religiosa.
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1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
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1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
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1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, dies (b. 1547). Dutch statesman.
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1643 – Chile: el terremoto de Santiago siega la vida a la tercera parte de la población.
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1648 – Asume el gobierno de la Nueva España, Marcos de Torres y Rueda, obispo de Yucatán, con el nombramiento de gobernador o presidente de la Audiencia, y quien sustituye al 19º virrey García Sarmiento de Sotomayor.
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1655 – Pope Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] was born (d. 1724). 244th Roman Catholic Pope (1721-24).
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1695 – Pierre-François Mignard I “le Romain”, dies (b. 17 Nov 1612). French Baroque painter.
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1699 – Nasce Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Conde de Oeiras e Marquês de Pombal, was born (d. 1782). Primeiro ministro português no reinado de D. José. Portuguese prime minister.
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1714 – Es aprobada por el Rey Felipe V la Fundación de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua.
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1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was born (d. 1780). Wife of Napoleon.
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1732 – Theodor Schwarzkopf (72), composer, died.
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1765 – Nasceu o pintor português Vieira Portuense.
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1767 – Nascia o que viria a ser o Rei D. João VI de Portugal (1816-1826) .
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1776 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, was born. Portuguese composer.
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1777 – Portugal – Aclamação de D. Maria I no Terreiro do Paço.
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1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
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1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
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1792 – Giovanni-Maria Mastaia-Ferretti, later Pope Pius IX -“Pio Nono” (1846-78), was born at Sinigaglia (d. 1878).
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1797 – A Real Biblioteca Pública da Corte e do Reino, de Lisboa, abriu ao público.
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1797 – O Teatro de S. João é inaugurado no Porto.
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1811 – Criação da Biblioteca Nacional, no Rio de Janeiro – Brasil. Um símbolo da cultura e da educação desta nação;
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1830 – Ecuador gains its independence with Juan Jose Flores as first President.
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1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, was born (d. 1894). Three-time governor of North Carolina.
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1832 – Muere el naturalista Georges de Cuvier.
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1835 – John Nash, dies (b. 1752). Architect.
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1837 – Portugal – Conspiração das Marnotas. Tentativa de sublevação miguelista. As forças concentradas nesta localidade, perto de Loures, de 13 para 14 de Maio dirigiram-se para Salvaterra e entraram a 15 em Samora Correia onde aclamaram D. Miguel. A revolta foi sufocada rapidamente.
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1840 – Alphonse Daudet, was born (d. 1897). French novelist.
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1842 – Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan, was born. Composer (d. 1900).
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1844 – España: creación de la Guardia Civil.
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1848 – First performance of Finland‘s national anthem.
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1854- Nace el educador y poeta argentino “Almafuerte” (apodo de Pedro Bonifacio Palacios).
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1855 – Ludwig Deutsch, was born (d. 1935). Austrian French academic painter specialized in Orientalism.
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1857 – Sir Ronald Ross, was born (d. 16 Sep 1932). British bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine -1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles.
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1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a “proclamation of neutrality” which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
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1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
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1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee‘s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Union victory.
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1867 – Sir Frank William Brangwyn was born (d. 11 Jun 1956). English painter and graphic artist.
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1867 – Nace el historiador y filólogo Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1882 – Georges Braque, was born in Argenteuil, near Paris (d. 31 Aug 1963). French Cubist and Fauvist painter, collagist, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor. [Viaduct à l’Estaque; Le Chaudron ; Fenêtres: Oiseaux Gris; Grand Nude ]. -
1881 – Nascimento de Lima Barreto (m. 1922). Escritor brasileiro (O triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma) .
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1883 – Nascimento de George Nicholas Papanicolaou. Citologista e patologista grego.
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1884 – Cyrus McCormick, dies (b. 1809). Inventor.
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Nascimento de Murilo Mendes (Murilo Monteiro Mendes), poeta brasileiro, em Juiz Fora-MG, no ano de 1901;
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1898 – Nascimento de Aurora Celeste. Actriz portuguesa [Aldeia da Roupa Branca (1938)
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1899 – Nascimento de Sarah Afonso (m. 1983). Pintora portuguesa.Casou em 1932 com Almada Negreiros .
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1901 – Murilo Mendes was born. Brazilian poet.
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1905 – Fundação do Sport Clube do Recife, Brasil.
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1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, was born in London, England, UK (d. 19 Apr 1989). Author (Rebecca).
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1911 – Después de atacar las poblaciones de Axochiapan, Chinameca y Jonacatepec, del Estado de Morelos, las fuerzas revolucionarias de Emiliano Zapata se concentran en Cuautla e inician el ataque y sitio contra las fuerzas federales del dictador Porfirio Díaz.
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1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
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1913 – Nascimento em Torres Novas de Pedro Navarro. Actor português. Sol e Toiros (1949) Intramuros (1964) Via Macau (1966) Brides of Blood (1968)
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1916 – Sholom Aleichem, dies (b. 1859). Author.
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1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal / Três crianças (pastorinhos) declaram ter visto uma aparição da Virgem Maria sobre uma azinheira, na Cova da Iria, perto de Fátima, Portugal.
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1923 – Bea Arthur was born. Actress.
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1923 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours).
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1926 – Wallace Breem was born. Author.
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1927 – Herbert Ross was born (d. 2001). Director.
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1928 – Nascimento em Macaé – RJ de Ângela Maria (Abelim Maria da Cunha), atriz brasileira e grande cantora da MPB.
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1930 – Nasce Manuel Marulanda “Tirofijo”, líder das Forças Revolucionárias da Colômbia.
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1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, dies (born 10 Oct 1861). Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14). For his relief work after World War I he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace – 1922.
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1931 – Paul Doumer elected President of France.
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1934 – Adolf Muschg was born. Author.
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1934 – Leon Wagner was born (d. 2004). MLB All-Star.
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1937 – Roch Carrier was born. Canadian novelist and National Librarian .
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1937 – Roger Zelazny was born (d. 1995). Science fiction author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber).
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1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume dies. Swiss phisycian Phisician Nobel Prize -1920.
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1939 – Harvey Keitel was born in Brooklin, New York – USA. Actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs).
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1940 – Bruce Chatwin was born (d. 1989). British travel writer and novelist.
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1940 – World War II: Germany‘s conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River.
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1940 – Churchill In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told to the House of Commons “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
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1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
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1941 – Ritchie Valens was born (d. 1959). Singer.
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1941 – Senta Berger was born. Actress.
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1942 – En aguas del Golfo de México, un submarino alemán ataca y hunde al barco petrolero mexicano “Potrero del Llano”.
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1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
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1944 – Armistead Maupin was born. Author .
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1945 – Tubby Hall dies (b. 1895). Jazz musician.
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1946 – US condemned 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.
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1947 – Stephen R. Donaldson was born. Author.
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1947 – Fundação do Comerciário Futebol Clube de Criciuma, que mudou de nome em 13. Mar. 1978 para Criciuma Esporte Clube.
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1948 – Fundación del Club de Deportes Caldas, que en su historia tendría los siguientes nombres: Deportivo Atlético, Once Phillips, Varta y Cristal Caldas. Actualmente se llama Club Deportivo Once Caldas de Manizales, Colombia, campeón de la Libertadores en 2004.
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1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
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1950 – Steveland Morris Hardaway (Stevie Wonder), was born prematurely, on this day in Saginaw. Singer, pianist, bassist, drummer and activist for civil rights, campaigns against cancer, AIDS, drunk driving and the plight of Ethiopians. One Oscar and at least sixteen Grammy Awards earned.
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1952 – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became premier of India.
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1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon‘s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
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1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France .
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1958 – Velcro‘s trade mark is registered.
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1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, World’s 7th-highest mountain.
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1961 – Dennis Rodman was born. Basketball player, actor.
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1961 – Gary Cooper dies (b. 1901). Two time Academy award winning actor (High Noon).
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1962 – Franz Kline dies (b.1910). American painter of abstract expressionist style .
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1964 – Egipto: inaugurada la faraónica presa de Asuán.
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1965 – Desaparece el oftalmólogo Ignacio Barraquer.
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1966 – Darius Rucker was born. Hootie & The Blowfish frontman.
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1966 – Morreu o musicólogo português Mário Luis Sampaio Ribeiro.
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1967 – Chuck Schuldiner was born (d. 2001). American musician.
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1968 – 1,000,000 French demonstrated against De Gaulle & Pompidou.
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1974 – Jaime Torres Bidet dies (b. 17 Apr 1902). Mexican writer.
- 1975 – Bob Wills dies (b. 1905). Country musician.
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1977 – España: la Pasionaria regresa del exilio.
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1977 – Samantha Morton was born in Nottingham, England. Movie star, actress.
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1977 – Mário de Castro dies. Portuguese writer
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1978 – Mike Bibby was born. Basketball player.
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1978 – Barry Zito was born. Baseball pitcher.
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1978 – Jim Jones dies (b. 1931). Religious leader (The Peopl’s Temple).
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1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden was born.
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1981 – Sunny Leone, was born- Penthouse Magazine‘s pet of the Year, 2003 .
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1981 – Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Uefa Cup Winners Cup beating Karl Zeiss Jena 2 -1.
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1982 – Soyuz T-5 was launched. Berezovoi & Lebedev spent the next 211 days in space.
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1985 – The Mayor of Philadelphia orders police to storm the radical group’s MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
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1987 – Ajax wins 27th Uefa Cup Winners Cup beating Leipzig 1-0.
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1992 – Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup Ajax – Torino 0 -0 (2-2 agregate). Match decided on away goals.
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1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing “Nocturne”.
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1995 – Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe.
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1998 – Following India‘s second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
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1999 – Gene Sarazen, dies (b. 1902). Golfer.
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1999 – Ecuador and Peru signed a treaty settling their 50-year border dispute over a 50 mile stretch in the Amazon jungle.
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2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing “Fly On The Wings of Love”.
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2001 – R.K. Narayan, dies (b. 1906). Indian novelist.
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2001 – O multi-milionário Silvio Berlusconi vence as eleições para primeiro-ministro da Itália.
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2003 – John Savage, dies. Former Premier of Nova Scotia.
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2003 – In eastern China a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing at least 63 miners and leaving 23 others missing 1,500 feet underground.
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Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Anglican) .
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Devoção a N. Senhora de Fátima no Santuário de Fátima – Portugal em comemoração da sua Aparição.
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Ecuador – Día de independencia.