Nothingandall: On this day in History

1129 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan dies (b. 1053)
1304 - Pope Benedict XI, dies (possibly poisoned) (b. 1240)
1307 - Edward I dies (b. 1239). King of England (1272-1307).
1415 - John Huss, dies burned at Constance.
1456 - Joan of Arc is acquitted of heresy even though she had already been burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431
1497 - Sai de Lisboa a frota comandada por Vasco da Gama, que chegará a Índia depois de dois anos de navegação.
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, dies (b. 1520). Queen of James V of Scotland
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1572 - Sigismund II Augustus, dies (b. 1520). King of Poland.
1573 - Muere el arquitecto Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola
1592 - Thomas, Earl of Arundel, was born. Collector of ancient sculptures
1697 - Dr. John Eachard, dies in Cambridge.
1713 - Bishop Compton, dies.

1740 - Claudius Amyand dies. English surgeon whose name is remembered in the term "Amyand's hernia" for an inguinal hernia with an appendix involved
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, was born (d. 7 Aug 1834). French inventor.
1791 - Dr. Thomas Blacklock, 'the blind poet,' dies in Edinburgh
1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Kingdom of Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dies in London (b. 1751). Irish playwright and politician.

1816 - Rudolf Wolf was born (d. 6 Dec 1893). Swiss astronomer and astronomical historian
1843 - Camillo Golgi was born (d. 21 Jan 1926). Italian physician and cytologist who, in 1873, published his key discovery, the use of silver salts to stain samples for microscope slides. Investigations into the fine structure of the nervous system earned him (with the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal) the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

1846 - Mexican War: Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
1848 - Nascimento de Rodrigues Alves (presidente brasileiro 1902-1906)
1854 - Muere el físico Georg Simon Ohm.
1858 - Nasce o escritor e filólogo José Leite de Vasconcelos.
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, was born (d. 1920). Writer.
1860 - Gustav Mahler, was born in Kalishat, Bohemia (†18 May 1911). Austrian composer and conductor of the Vienna State Opera House. The Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony was used In Luchino Visconti's film version of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice"
1865 - Civil War: 4 conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln are hanged; Mary E. Surratt, Lewis T. Powell, David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt.
1877 - Brito Capelo e Serpa Pinto iniciam expedição à África Central
1880 - Lydia Child, dies (b. 1802). American novelist and abolitionist.
1883 - Toivo Kuula, was born. Finish composer
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, was born (d. 1958). German dramatist and narrator.
1887 - Marc Chagall, was born in Vitebsk, Belarus (d. 28 Mar 1985). Belorussian-born French painter. Chagall was distinguished for his surrealistic inventiveness. He is recognized as one of the most significant painters and graphic artists of the 20th century. His work included "Les Amoureux" (The Lovers - 1916), a portrait of himself and his wife, sold in 1996 for $4.2 mil; Red Nude Sitting Up, Moi et le Village, Bride with a Fan, The Cattle Dealer, Jew at Prayer, Bella with a White Collar, The Spoonful of Milk. In 1997 Mikhail Guerman published "Marc Chagall: The Land of My Heart - Russia."
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, was born (d. 1981). Croatian writer.
1893 - Guy De Maupassant dies.
1894 - Muere en Tixtla, Guerrero, donde naciera en 1818, el valiente general liberal Don Vicente Jiménez
1898 - History of United States imperialism: President of the United States William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1899 - George Cukor, was born (d. 24 Jan 1983). American director (My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Born Yesterday, Love Among the Ruins, The Philadelphia Story). Was voted the 18th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, was born (d. 13 Nov 1974). Italian director (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief); actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, was born (d. 1978). Actor.
1901 - Sam Katzman, was born (d. 1973). American film producer.
1901 - Johanna Spyri, dies (b. 1827). Swiss author.
1902 - Nace el cineasta Vitorio de Sica.
1906 - William Feller, was born (d. 1970). Croatian mathematician.
1906 - Leroy Satchel Paige, was born (d. 1982). Baseball player.
1907 - Robert Heinlein, was born (d. 1988). American science fiction writer.
1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, was born. Italian-born Pulitzer prize wining-opera composer : The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955]
1915 - Ruth Ford was born. Actress (The Woman Who Came Back, The Lady is Willing, The Eyes of the Amaryllis).
1915 - Yul Brynner, was born (d. 1985). Russian-born actor.
1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the tsar.
1919 - Jon Pertwee, was born (d. 1996). British actor.
1919 - William Moses Kunstler, was born (d. 14 Sep 1995). Defense attorney ( Tom Hayden, Chicago Seven, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis, John Gotti, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman).

1920 - Radio compass - a device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia on this day.
1921 - Ezzard Charles was born (d. 27 May 1975). International Boxing Hall of Famer: world heavyweight champion [1949-51]; bouts: 122: won 96, lost 25, drew 1, 59 KOs;
1922 - Pierre Cardin, was born. French fashion designer.
1923 - Morte em Lisboa do poeta português (Abílio Manuel de) Guerra Junqueiro (n. 1850 em Freixo de Espada à Cinta).
1924 - Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1925 - Yvonne Mitchell was born. English actress.

1927 - Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler dies (b. 16 Mar 1846). Swedish mathematician who founded the international mathematical journal Acta Mathematica and whose contributions to mathematical research helped advance the Scandinavian school of mathematics.
1927 - Doc Severinsen, was born. American composer and musician- trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras;
1928 - Vince Edwards (Vincent Edward Zoino) was born (d. 11 Mar 1996). Actor: Ben Casey, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Three Faces of Eve, Motorama;
1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, dies (b. 22 May 1859). Scottish novelist and author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery novels. Doyle was an eye doctor. In 1999 Daniel Stashower published "Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle."
1933 - Murray Halberg, was born. New Zealand runner
1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, was born. First chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
1940 - Ringo Starr, was born. English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by the Nazis.
1941 - Bill Oddie, was born. English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, was born. Australian actress
1945 - Michael Ancram, was born. British politician.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
1947 - Howard Rheingold was born. American author
1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.
1949 - Shelley Duvall, was born. American actress (Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller).
1949 - Jack Webb’s Dragnet was first heard on NBC radio this day. The program was the first to dramatize cases from actual police files.
1949 - Bunk Johnson, dies (b. 1879 or 18889 ?). American jazz musician.
1953 - Chile passa a ser membro da UNESCO
1954 - In Memphis, Tennessee,WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record.
1956 - Gottfried Benn, dies (b. 1886). German poet.
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occulted the star Regulus. The rare event which will next occur on October 1, 2044 was used for determining the Venus diametre and the structure of Venus' atmospherer.
1959 - Nascimento de Alessandro Nannini . Piloto italiano de Fórmula.
1959 - Ben Linder, was born (d. 1987). American engineer .
1960 - Fidel Castro anuncia a estatização de todas as empresas americanas em Cuba.
1964 - Lillian Copeland, dies (b. 1904). American athlete.
1965 - Moshe Sharett, dies (b. 1894). Second Prime Minister of Israel.
1966 - Gundula Krause, was born. German folk violinist
1967 - Jackie Neal, was born. American blues singer.
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" was released.
1967 - Vivien Leigh, dies (b. 1913). American actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind).
1969 - Joe Sakic, was born. Canadian hockey player
1969 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, dies (b. 1925). Canadian writer.
1971 - Ub Iwerks, dies (b. 1901). American artist, director, and cartoonist.
1972 - King Talal, dies (b. 1909). King of Jordan.
1972 - Athenagoras, dies (b. 1886). Patriarch of Constantinople.
1973 - Veronica Lake, dies (b. 1919). American actress.
1973 - Max Horkheimer, dies (b. 1895). German philosopher and sociologist.
1974 - Karlis Skrastins, was born. Latvian-born hockey player
1975 - Michael Voss, was born. Australian Rules footballer.
1976 - First Women’s Shelter .
1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. Peter Kenilorea is the Prime-Minister
1980 - Michelle Kwan, was born. American figure skater
1980 - Deidre Downs, was born. Miss America
1980 - Dore Schary, dies (b. 1905). American film producer, writer.
1980 - Líbano: 500 muertos en el asalto de las sedes del Partido Nacional Liberal por las Falanges.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
1985 - Boris Becker aged 17 won the Wimbledon tennis title by defeating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Becker became the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the title in the 108-year history of Wimbledon.
1990 - Bill Cullen, dies (b. 1920). American game show host.
1990 - Martina Navratilova captured a record-breaking ninth women’s title at Wimbledon, outplaying Zina Garrison, 6-4, 6-1.
1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1991 - Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.
1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
1996 - Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek won the Wimbledon men's title, defeating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
1996 - In Ecuador lawyer Abdala Bucaram, aka El Loco, was elected president with 54% of the vote. He led the center-left Roldosista party
1998 - In Italy Silvio Berlusconi, media tycoon and former prime minister, was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for bribing tax officials.
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., dies (b. 1969). American race car driver.
2001 - Casamento da atriz Drew Barrymore com Tom Green
2002 - Lleyton Hewitt crushed David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon final to win his second Grand Slam title.
2003 - Izhak Graziani, dies (b. 1924). Bulgarian-born conductor.
2003 - Hilary Lunke won the U.S. Women's Open.
2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expires.