Nothingandall: On this day in History

0195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China dies (b. 256 BC or 247 BC)
0193 - Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is assassinated in his palace.
1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden - Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
1485 - Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 - Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
1641 - Tratado de aliança e confederação entre D. João IV e o rei de França.
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.
1765 - Christiane Vulpius, was born (d. 1816). Wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, was born (d. 1831). Prussian general.
1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, was born. Austrian playwright
1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States.
1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States.
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, was born (d. 24 Aug 1832). French physicist: pioneer in thermodynamics: discovered the 2nd law of thermodynamics;

1801 - Brigham Young, was born (d. 1877). Mormon church leader and American western settler.
1804 - Mikhail Glinka, was born (d. 1857). Russian composer.
1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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'.
1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1815- Philip Kearny, was born (d. 1862). American general.
1826 - Carl Bechstein, was born (d. 1900). Piano manufacturer.
1831 - John Bell Hood, was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
1843 - Dr Henry Faulds, was born (d. 1930). Scottish fingerprinting pioneer.
1846 - Pope Gregory XVI dies (b. 1765)
1847 - Zeta Psi Fraternity is founded.
1851 - Nasce Isaac Peral, inventor espanhol do submarino.
1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.

1859 -Nasce em Ponte de Lima o poeta António Feijó (m. Estocolmo 1917)
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Both sides claim victory.~
1868 - James Buchanan, dies (b. 1791). 15th President of the United States.
1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1876 - Hristo Botev, dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
1878 - John Masefield, was born (d. 1967). English novelist and Poet Laureate.
1879 - Eugene Louis Napoleon, Prince of France killed in the Zulu Wars
1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, was born. English writer and linguist.
1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi morre em Itália.
1890 - Frank Morgan, was born (d. 1949). American actor.
1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1890 - Por suicídio morreu o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco, (n. 1825) autor de obras como Doze Casamentos Felizes e Amor de Perdição.

1897 - General José Maria Reina Barrios assume a Presidencia da Guatemala e instala um regime ditatorial

1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1898 - Molly Picon, was born (d. 1992). Actress.
1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, was born (d. 1963). Mathematician.
1901 - John Van Druten, was born (d. 1957). English screen writer.

1906 - Fundação do Club Atlético Talleres - Argentina
1907 - 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.
1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world's fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England
1917 - William S. Knowles, was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins -
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills at least 85 people.
1921 - Nelson Riddle, was born (d. 1985). Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, arranger.
1922 - Joan Caulfield, was born. Actress.
1922 - Povel Ramel, was born. Swedish musician
1922 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
1924 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr., was born. American clergyman
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.
1926 - Andy Griffith, was born. American actor.

1926 - Ignacy Mocicki was elected president of Poland.
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];

1927 - J. B. Bury, dies (b. 1861). Irish historian.
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, was born. Cosmonaut.
1930 - Edward Woodward, was born. English actor
1933 - Charles Wilson, was born. American politician
1934 - Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), was born. American singer
1935 - First driving tests introduced in Britain.

1935 - Fernand Bouisson assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França
1936 - Gerald Scarfe, was born. British cartoonist and illustrator
1933 - Inauguração da Exposição Universal de Chicago.
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)
1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
1938 - Protective baseball helmets were worn by batters for the very first time.
1939 - Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
1939 - Jackie Stewart, was born. British Formula One champion
1940 - René Auberjonois, was born. American actor

1940 - Kip Thorne, was born. American physicist .

1941 - Germany banned all Catholic publications.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends - Crete capitulates to Germany.
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.
1943 - Leslie Howard, dies (b. 1893). English actor.
1944 - O governo português suspende as exportações de volfrâmio para os países em guerra. A decisão prejudica sobretudo a Alemanha.

1944 - Ivan Ivanov Bagrianov assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária
1945 - Frederica von Stade, was born. American mezzo-soprano
1946 - Brian Cox, was born. Scottish actor
1946 - Ion Antonescu, dies (b. 1882). Romanian prime minister and dictator.
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, was born. British actor
1947 - Ron Wood, was born. English guitarist, ("The Rolling Stones" and the "Jeff Beck Group")
1948 - Tomás Halík, was born. Czech priest, scholar and public intellectual
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, dies. American blues musician.
1953 - Foi inaugurada a TAP - Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa
1954 - The Peanuts comic strip character Linus van Pelt is shown with a security blanket for the first time.

1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1956 - Lisa Hartman was born. American actress
1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1959 - Martin Brundle, was born. British Formula One driver
1959 - Sax Rohmer, dies (b. 1883). English author.
1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 - Lester Patrick, dies (b. 1883). Ice hockey star.

1960 - Morte de Teodoro Picado Michalski. Presidente da Costa Rica (1944-1948)
1961 - Paul Coffey, was born. Canadian hockey star
1965 - Nigel Short, was born. English chess player
1965 - Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, dies (b. 1873). American jazz musician.
1967 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1968 - Jason Donovan, was born. Australian actor
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. She also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
1970 - Alexi Lalas, was born. American football player.
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.
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, dies (b. 1892). American theologist.
1973 - Adam Garcia, was born. Australian actor
1973 - Heidi Klum, was born. German supermodel
1973 - Derek Lowe, was born. American baseball pitcher .
1973 - É proclamada a República na Grécia, presidida pelo general Papadopoulos de forma provisória.
1974 - Alanis Morissette, was born. Canadian singer
1974 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people.
1977 - Danielle Harris, was born. American voice actress
1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.

1978 - Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol na Argentina
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith and changing its name to Zimbabwe
1980 - The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1980 - Oliver James, was born. British actor
1980 - Rube Marquard, dies (b. 1886). American Baseball Hall of Famer.
1981 - Carl Vinson, dies (b. 1883). United States Congressman.
1981 - Carlos Zambrano, was born,. Venezuelan baseball pitcher
1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, was born. Belgian tennis player
1984 - Nat Nelson, dies. Singer.

1984 - José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência de El Salvador
1987 - Realizou-se, pela primeira vez em Portugal, um transplante terapêutico da medula.
1987 - Rashid Karami, 10 time Prime Minister of Lebanon, dies at 65
1987 - Errol W Barrow Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1989 - Em Portugal, foi aprovada a Segunda Revisão Constitucional
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.

1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1994 - Frances Heflin, dies (b. 1923). American soap opera actress.

1996 - Morte de Neelam Sanjiva Reddy .Presidente da Índia (1977 - 1982)
1997 - Morre Georgos Livanos, armador grego e um dos dez homens mais ricos do mundo.
1999 - DeForest Kelley, dies (b. 1920). American actor.

2000 - The Expo 2000 opened in Hanover (Germany) and ran to Oct 31.
2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 - Hank Ketcham, dies. American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
2001 - King Birendra (b. 1945), Queen Aiswarya o 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.

2002 - Hansie Cronje, dies (b. 1969). South African cricketer.

2002 - A Selecção da Alemanhderrota a Arábia Saudita por 8-0 para o Campeomnato do Mundo de Futebol 2002.

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.
2003 - Gerhard Rentzsch dies. Radio play author
2004 - William Manchester, dies. American biographer, novelist
2004 - Satomi Mitarai, dies. Japanese student, murdered by a classmate .

2004 - Realiza-se em Bona - Alemanha a Conferência Mundial sobre Energias Renováveis

2004 - A australiana Jennifer Hawkins é eleita Miss Universo 2004 no Equador