Nothingandall: On this day in History

0238 - Pupienus and Balbinus, die (assassinated). Roman emperors
1014 - Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
1030 - King Olaf II fought and died in the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1099 - Pope Urban II dies
1108 - King Philip I of France dies (b. 1081).
1507 - Martin Behaim, dies (b. 1459). Navigator and geographer.

1565 - Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1644 - Pope Urban VIII dies.
1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1801 - George Bradshaw, was born (d. 1853). English publisher.
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, was born (d. 1859). Historian and political scientist.
1833 - William Wilberforce, dies. Campaigner against slavery
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, was born (d. 1901). German linguist.
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, dies. Composer.

1846 - Princesa Isabel was born in Rio de Janeiro -Brazil (d. 14 Nov 1921).
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by police.
1849 - Max Nordau, was born (d. 1923). Author, philosopher and Zionist leader.
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1856 - Robert Schumann, dies. German composer
1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, was born (d. 1936). Russian composer.
1869 - Booth Tarkington, was born (d. 1946). Author.
1871 - Grigori Rasputin, was born (d. 1916). Russian spiritualist.
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, was born (d. 1942). Methodist minister, social worker, and politician.
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, was born (d. 1949). Actress
1878 - Don Marquis, was born. Author (d. 1937)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, was born (d. 1945). Italian dictator.
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was born (d. 1942). Colombian poet and writer.
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, was born (d. 1975). U.S. Navy Under Secretary.
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, was born (d. 1951). Composer.
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, dies (b. 1853). Dutch painter.
1892 - William Powell, was born (d. 1984). Actor.
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, was born (d. 1983) . British general.
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, was born (d. 1988). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1899 - The First Hague Convention was signed.
1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, was born (d. 1976). Swedish writer.
1905 - Clara Bow, was born (d. 1965). Actress.
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, was born (d. 1961). UN Secretary-General,.
1905 - Thelma Todd, was born (d. 1935). Actress.
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, was born. American poet
1906 - Diana Vreeland, was born (d. 1989). Fashion editor.
1907 - Melvin Belli, was born (d. 1996). Lawyer and actor.
1907- Sir Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts with the first scout camp at Brownsea Island.
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta was born (d. 1974). Mexican character actor (d. 1974)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, was born. Canadian actor
1926 - Don Carter was born. Bowler
1927 - Harry Mulisch, was born. Dutch author
1930 - Paul Taylor, was born. Dancer, choreographer
1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, US troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, was born. U.S. Senator
1935 - Peter Schreier, was born. German tenor
1938 - Peter Jennings, was born. Television news anchor.
1941 - David Warner, was born. Actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, was born. Actor
1943 - David Taylor, was born. English snooker player
1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1948 - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom.
1949 - Vida Blue, was born. Major League Baseball player
1951- Hozumi Shigeto, dies. Japanese author.
1953 - Ken Burns, was born. Television producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, was born. Musician (Rush)
1954 - Coen de Koning, dies. Dutch speed skater
1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK. 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1957 - Nelli Kim, was born. Soviet gymnast.

1957 - Nascimento do poeta português Luís Miguel Nava. O seu primeiro livro, Películas, publicado em 1979, recebeu o Prémio Revelação da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. Vulcão, de 1994, foi o seu último livro.
1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 - Ruud Janssen, was born. Teacher, writer, and artist
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, was born. Actor.
1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, was born. Author
1966 - Patrick Hogan, was born. Marathon runner
1966 - Martina McBride, was born. Country singer
1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst US naval disaster since World War II (134 American servicemen are killed, 62 injured, 21 planes are destroyed and 42 more are damaged).
1970 - John Barbirolli, dies. Conductor
1970 - George Szell, dies. Hungarian conductor
1972 - Wil Wheaton, was born. Actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, was born. Actor
1974 - Steve-O, was born. Musician and actor
1974 - Mama Cass Elliot, dies. musician
1974 - Erich Kästner, dies. German author
1975 - James Blish, dies. Science fiction writer
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one person and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
1979 - Bill Todman, dies. Game show producer
1979 - Abs Breen, was born. Singer.
1981 - Fernando Alonso,was born. Race car driver
1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
1981 - Robert Moses, dies (b. 1888). New York public works official.
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1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, dies. Physicist and inventor
1983 - David Niven, dies. Actor
1983 - Raymond Massey, dies. Actor
1983 - Luis Buñuel, dies. Director
1984 - Fred Waring,dies. Band leader, inventor.

1986 - Criação da Associação Portuguesa de Jovens Empresários - ANJE
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, dies (b. 1911). Chancellor of Austria
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a US federal court.

1998 - Morte de Jorge Pacheco Areco. Presidente do Uruguai (1967-1972)