0845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under
Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1677 -
Wenzel Hollar dies (b. 13 Jul 1607). Bohemian etcher whose works are a rich source of information about the 17th century.
1698 - Mombaça foi conquistada pelos árabes .
1712 - Foi proibido o envio de degredados para o Brasil.
1749 - Morte de Manuel de Azevedo Fortes, engenheiro-mor do Reino, e matemático .
1791 - Um alvará anunciou a abertura de diversas estradas no reino português, incluindo a que ligaria Lisboa ao Porto.
1793 - Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born (d. 10 Dec 1864). American explorer and ethnologist noted for his discovery of the source of the Mississippi River (1832) in a lake in northern Minnesota which he named Lake Itasca, from the Latin words caput (head) and veritas (true).
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a device we commonly call the washing machine.
1798 - António de Araújo de Azevedo, diplomata português preso pelas autoridades da República francesa, é expulso de França.
1810 - Nascia o escritor
Alexandre Herculano. Historiador, poeta e romancista, preocupou-se sempre com a reconstituição histórica. Foi também um dos grandes nomes do Romantismo português.
1828 - William Thornton dies (b. 20 May 1759).British-born American architect, inventor, and public official, best known as the creator of the original design for the Capitol at Washington, D.C.
1837 - Willy Kühne was born (d. 10 June 1900). German physiologist known for his researches on vision and the chemical changes occurring in the retina under the influence of light.
1849 - Stephan Endlicher dies (b. 24 Jun 1804). Austrian botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification.
1866 - The first hospital ambulance went into service.
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen dies (b. 8 Dec 1795). Danish astronomer whose most important work was the improvement of the theories and tables of the orbits of the principal bodies in the solar system .
1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1887 - Nace en Lérida (España) el pintor de tipos populares, de aire primitivista, Miguel Antonio Viladrich. (m. 5 Jul de 1956 en Buenos Aires).
1890 -
Paul Whiteman,was born (d.29 Dec 1967). Bandleader (Washboard Blues, Ol’ Man River, Felix the Cat, Heartache, Ain’t Misbehavin’).
1892 - Corneille Heymans was born (d. 18 Jul 1968). Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for his discovery of the regulatory effect on respiration of sensory organs associated with the carotid artery in the neck and with the aortic arch leading from the heart.
1897 - Victor Mills was born (d. 1 Nov 1997). American chemical engineer who
invented Pampers disposable diapers.
1899 - Guglielmo Marconi first sent a wireless telegraph message between England and Europe.
1903 - Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot dies (b. 11 Sep 1845). French engineer who, in 1874, received a patent on a telegraph code that by the mid-20th century had supplanted Morse Code as the most commonly used telegraphic alphabet.
1904 - Werner Bahlsen, was born. Biscuit producer (d. 1985) .
1905 - The radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called "a system for transmitting intelligence." However, faxing did not become a practical mode of communication until the 1920s, and high-speed faxes were not available until the 1940s.
1910 - The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.
1914 -
Edmund Muskie, was born. United States politician (d. 1996)
1917 - Durante a I Guerra Mundial é fundado o Women's Army Auxiliary Corps .
1921 -
Dirk Bogarde,was born (d. 08 May 1999). English actor ( Death in Venice, The Vision, A Bridge Too Far,...).
1922 - Microfilm - Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm reading device.
1925 - Wilhelm Körner dies (b. 20 Apr 1839). German organic chemist who in 1874 showed how to determine the relative positions of two substituents, such as methyl, on the benzene ring.
1928 - Alexandre Grothendieck was born. German-French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work in algebraic geometry.
1929 - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador .
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman was born. American physicist who, together with Richard E. Taylor and Henry W. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1990 for their joint experimental confirmation of the fundamental particles known as quarks.
1932 - Fundação do Real Zaragoza Club de Fútbol .
1935 - Rocketry - Goddard used gyroscopes to control a rocket.
1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of
St. Nazaire.
1945 - Caíram sobre a Inglaterra os últimos rockets V-2 alemães.
1948 -
Dianne Weist,was born. Actress.(Academy Award-winning actress: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; Bullets over Broadway, Radio Days, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Footloose).
1949 - Josephine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, USA. Actress.
1956 - Nascimento em São Paulo - SP, Brasil, de
Zizi Possi (Maria Izildinha Possi), cantora da MPB.
1970 - Joe Cocker played his first American concert. He entertained fans at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York City.
1977 - Portugal pede formalmente a sua integração na Comunidade Económica Europeia (CEE).
1977 - 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win .
1979 -
Early election as Callaghan defeated Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a parliamentary vote of confidence by a minority of one - forcing him to call an early general election.
1982 - William Francis Giauque dies (b.12 May 1895). Canadian-born American physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949 for his studies of the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
1985 - Morre o pintor
Marc Chagall, em St. Paul de Vence, França (n. 7 Jul 1887).
1985 - Fallece en Buenos Aires el poeta, ensayista, pintor, ceramista y traductor Lysandro Z.D. Galtier ( "Luz de pampa" , "Penumbra lúcida" y ensayo "Carlos de Soussens y la bohemia porteña"). Nació en 6 Out 1901.
1994 - Silvio Berlusconi foi eleito primeiro-ministro italiano .
1993 - Muere en Buenos Aires el pintor vanguardista Alfredo Hlito (n. 1923).
1993 - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins .
1994 - Violence between Zulus and African National Congress supporters took the lives of 18 in Johannesburg.
1995 - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge .
1996 - Angelina Jolie gets married with Jonny Lee Miller.
1999 - Paraguay's President Raúl Cubas Grau resigned after protests inspired by the assassination of Vice-President Luis María Argaña on March 23. The nation's Congress had accused Cubas and his political associate, Gen. Lino César Oviedo, for Cubas' murder. Senate President Luis González Macchi took office as Paraguay's new chief executive.
2004 - Peter Ustinov dies in Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland (b. 16 Apr 1921). English actor.
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