On this day in History - Aug 4
0946 - Pope Martin III dies
1060 - King Henry I of France (1027-60), dies (b. 1008) and Philip I becomes King of France.
1265 - Simon de Montfort dies killed at battle of Evesham (b. 1208). 6th Earl of Leicester.
1265 - Hugh le Despencer dies. 1st Baron le Despencer
1265 - Henry de Montfort dies.
1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria was born.
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia dies (b. 1289).
1521 - (Giambattista Castagna) Pope Urban VII was born (d. 1590)
1265 - Henry de Montfort dies.
1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria was born.
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia dies (b. 1289).
1521 - (Giambattista Castagna) Pope Urban VII was born (d. 1590)
1526 - Juan Sebastián Elcano dies (b. 1476). Spanish explorer.
1570 - Massacre of Famagusta.
1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. / Batalha de Alcácer-Quibir: o rei de Marrocos derrota o exército português e o rei Sebastião de Portugal desaparece para nunca mais ser visto. A coroa é herdada pelo seu tio-avô, o Cardeal D. Henrique, abrindo caminho a uma crise dinástica.
1598 - Death of William Cecil, English statesman.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1704 - During the War of the Spanish Succession an Anglo-Dutch force seizes the rock of Gibraltar.
1727 - Victor-Maurice dies (b. 1647). Comte de Broglie, French general.
1741 - Andrew Hamilton dies. American lawyer
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1745 - Nascimento, em Chaves, de Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho (m. 26 Jan 1812) . 1º. conde de Linhares - Portugal
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1755 - Nace en Francia, el físico, químico, ingeniero y pintor Nicolás-Jacques Conte, inventor del lápiz moderno.
1789 - The feudal system is abolished in France.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Warnham, near Horsham in Sussex (d. 1822). English poet.
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton was born (d.1865). Irish scientist.
1570 - Massacre of Famagusta.
1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. / Batalha de Alcácer-Quibir: o rei de Marrocos derrota o exército português e o rei Sebastião de Portugal desaparece para nunca mais ser visto. A coroa é herdada pelo seu tio-avô, o Cardeal D. Henrique, abrindo caminho a uma crise dinástica.
1598 - Death of William Cecil, English statesman.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1704 - During the War of the Spanish Succession an Anglo-Dutch force seizes the rock of Gibraltar.
1727 - Victor-Maurice dies (b. 1647). Comte de Broglie, French general.
1741 - Andrew Hamilton dies. American lawyer
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1745 - Nascimento, em Chaves, de Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho (m. 26 Jan 1812) . 1º. conde de Linhares - Portugal
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1755 - Nace en Francia, el físico, químico, ingeniero y pintor Nicolás-Jacques Conte, inventor del lápiz moderno.
1789 - The feudal system is abolished in France.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Warnham, near Horsham in Sussex (d. 1822). English poet.
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton was born (d.1865). Irish scientist.
1815 - Russell Sage was born (d. 1906). American financier.
1821 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824 - Battle of Cos fought between Turks and Greeks.
1834 - John Venn was born (d. 1923). British mathematician.
1839 - Walter Pater, English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of "art for art's sake" will become a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism, is born in Shadwell, London.
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born. Sexologist.
1841 - Nació em Quilmes Pcia de Buenos Aires, Guillermo Enrique Hudson (m. 18 Ago 1922). Escritor argentino, autor de "Allá lejos y hace tiempo", "La tierra purpúrea", "Mansiones verdes".
1849 - Morre Anita Garibaldi Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (n. 1821). "A Heroína dos Dois Mundos", companheira de Giuseppe Garibaldi
1851 - Un golpe militar encabezado por el general Muñoz derriba en Nicaragua al presidente Laureano Pineda.
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1859 Un grupo de soldados secuestra al presidente de Costa Rica Juan Mora Porras, trasladado por mar a Guatemala
1859 - Knut Hamsun was born in Lom (d. 1952). Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1920.
1865 - José María Cabral assume a presidência da República Dominicana
1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen dies in Copenhagen. Danish writer 1873), The author of 168 fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, dies in Copenhagen at 68
1875 - Italo Montemezzi was born. Italian composer.
1824 - Battle of Cos fought between Turks and Greeks.
1834 - John Venn was born (d. 1923). British mathematician.
1839 - Walter Pater, English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of "art for art's sake" will become a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism, is born in Shadwell, London.
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born. Sexologist.
1841 - Nació em Quilmes Pcia de Buenos Aires, Guillermo Enrique Hudson (m. 18 Ago 1922). Escritor argentino, autor de "Allá lejos y hace tiempo", "La tierra purpúrea", "Mansiones verdes".
1849 - Morre Anita Garibaldi Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (n. 1821). "A Heroína dos Dois Mundos", companheira de Giuseppe Garibaldi
1851 - Un golpe militar encabezado por el general Muñoz derriba en Nicaragua al presidente Laureano Pineda.
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1859 Un grupo de soldados secuestra al presidente de Costa Rica Juan Mora Porras, trasladado por mar a Guatemala
1859 - Knut Hamsun was born in Lom (d. 1952). Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1920.
1865 - José María Cabral assume a presidência da República Dominicana
1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen dies in Copenhagen. Danish writer 1873), The author of 168 fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, dies in Copenhagen at 68
1875 - Italo Montemezzi was born. Italian composer.
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto. Japanese Admiral during WWII: planned attack on Pearl Harbor; killed when U.S. 13th Air Force shot down his plane Apr 18, 194
1886 - Se promulga la primera Constitución de Colombia.
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1894 - Cerca de Elche (Alicante) España, es descubierto el busto conocido como "Dama de Elche".
1886 - Se promulga la primera Constitución de Colombia.
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1894 - Cerca de Elche (Alicante) España, es descubierto el busto conocido como "Dama de Elche".
1894 - Nascimento de Carlos Luz (Carlos Coimbra da Luz ), 27º Presidente do Brasil (08 a 11 Nov 1955), em Três Corações-MG, no ano de 1894;
1896 - Nace en Buenos Aires José Fioravanti, escultor y autor de los monumentos a Roque Sáenz Peña, Nicolás Avellaneda y Simón Bolívar, entre otros. Su estilo es de un clasicismo moderno, expresivo y sintético. Murió en Buenos Aires en octubre de 1977.
1896 - Nascimento de José Domingo Gómez Rojas (d. 29 Set 1920). Escritor chileno
1899 - Ezra Taft Benson was born (d. 1994). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born (d. 2002). Queen Mother of the United Kingdom / A Rainha Mãe de Inglaterra, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), nasce em Inglaterra.
1900 - Nascimento, em Pergamino, província de Buenos Aires, de Arturo Umberto Illia Francesconi. Presidente da Argentina (1963-1966)
1901 - Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans (d. 1971). Jazz musician, trumpeter virtuoso, singer and bandleader.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 - Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice was elected Pope Pius X.
1904 - Witold Gombrowicz was born (d. 1969). Polish novelist and dramatist.
1896 - Nace en Buenos Aires José Fioravanti, escultor y autor de los monumentos a Roque Sáenz Peña, Nicolás Avellaneda y Simón Bolívar, entre otros. Su estilo es de un clasicismo moderno, expresivo y sintético. Murió en Buenos Aires en octubre de 1977.
1896 - Nascimento de José Domingo Gómez Rojas (d. 29 Set 1920). Escritor chileno
1899 - Ezra Taft Benson was born (d. 1994). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born (d. 2002). Queen Mother of the United Kingdom / A Rainha Mãe de Inglaterra, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), nasce em Inglaterra.
1900 - Nascimento, em Pergamino, província de Buenos Aires, de Arturo Umberto Illia Francesconi. Presidente da Argentina (1963-1966)
1901 - Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans (d. 1971). Jazz musician, trumpeter virtuoso, singer and bandleader.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 - Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice was elected Pope Pius X.
1904 - Witold Gombrowicz was born (d. 1969). Polish novelist and dramatist.
1904 - Un grupo de jugadores del Club Maipú deciden formar un club, que sería el Club Independiente de Avellaneda. La acción la toman, disgustados por la separación del equipo del back Marcelo Degiorgi. Posteriormente la fecha oficial de fundación quedaría como el 1 de enero de 1905
1905 - Se funda el Club Estudiantes de la Plata. Ganó a fines de la década del 60, el campeonato de la AFA, la Copa Libertadores y la Copa Intercontinental.
1906 - Marie-José Van Sachsen Coburg-Gotha was born (d. 2001). Last Queen of Italy.
1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher was born (d. 1973). Zoologist.
1908 - Kurt Eichhorn was born. Conductor.
1909 - Glenn Cunningham was born. Athlete.
1909 - Otto Steiger was born. Writer.
1909 - Nasce em São Paulo, Roberto Burle Marx, arquitecto paisagista brasileiro.
1910 - William Schuman was born (d. 15 Fev 1992). Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song [1943]; President: Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1905 - Se funda el Club Estudiantes de la Plata. Ganó a fines de la década del 60, el campeonato de la AFA, la Copa Libertadores y la Copa Intercontinental.
1906 - Marie-José Van Sachsen Coburg-Gotha was born (d. 2001). Last Queen of Italy.
1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher was born (d. 1973). Zoologist.
1908 - Kurt Eichhorn was born. Conductor.
1909 - Glenn Cunningham was born. Athlete.
1909 - Otto Steiger was born. Writer.
1909 - Nasce em São Paulo, Roberto Burle Marx, arquitecto paisagista brasileiro.
1910 - William Schuman was born (d. 15 Fev 1992). Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song [1943]; President: Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov was born (d. 1999). Mathematician, physicist, philosopher and a mountaineer.
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg was born Stockholm (d. 17 Jul 1947). Swedish diplomat and humanitarium.
1913 - Robert Hayden was born (d. 1980). Poet. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress .
1914 - World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Germany and the United States proclaims neutrality.
1919 - É inaugurado em Paris o Museu Rodin, de esculturas.
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg was born Stockholm (d. 17 Jul 1947). Swedish diplomat and humanitarium.
1913 - Robert Hayden was born (d. 1980). Poet. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress .
1914 - World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Germany and the United States proclaims neutrality.
1919 - É inaugurado em Paris o Museu Rodin, de esculturas.
1920 - Helen Thomas was born. White House correspondent.
1921 - Maurice Richard was born (d. 2000). Hockey player.
1926 - Julio Alfredo Egea was born. Spanish poet.
1927 - Jess Thomas was born (d. 1993). American tenor.
1929 - Yasser Arafat was born (d. 2004). Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1929 - Kishore Kumar was born (d. 1987). Indian singer and actor.
1930 - Götz Friedrich was born (d. 2000). Opera director.
1930 - Siegfried Wagner dies. German composer.
1932 - Hans Jürgen Fröhlich was born. Writer.
1932 - Guillermo Mordillo was born. Graphic artist and cartoonist
1934 - Muere Marie Curie, investigadora polaca, descubridora del radio y premio Nobel de Física.
1936 - Assia Djebar was born. Member of the Académie française
1937 - David Bedford was born. Musician
1938 - Pearl White dies. Actress
1943 - Bjørn Wirkola was born. Norwegian ski jumper
1944 - Richard Belzer was born. Actor and comedian
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1946 Gabriel Videla es elegido presidente de Chile.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1947 - Klaus Schulze was born. Composer, performer
1926 - Julio Alfredo Egea was born. Spanish poet.
1927 - Jess Thomas was born (d. 1993). American tenor.
1929 - Yasser Arafat was born (d. 2004). Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1929 - Kishore Kumar was born (d. 1987). Indian singer and actor.
1930 - Götz Friedrich was born (d. 2000). Opera director.
1930 - Siegfried Wagner dies. German composer.
1932 - Hans Jürgen Fröhlich was born. Writer.
1932 - Guillermo Mordillo was born. Graphic artist and cartoonist
1934 - Muere Marie Curie, investigadora polaca, descubridora del radio y premio Nobel de Física.
1936 - Assia Djebar was born. Member of the Académie française
1937 - David Bedford was born. Musician
1938 - Pearl White dies. Actress
1943 - Bjørn Wirkola was born. Norwegian ski jumper
1944 - Richard Belzer was born. Actor and comedian
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1946 Gabriel Videla es elegido presidente de Chile.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1947 - Klaus Schulze was born. Composer, performer
1951 - Barcelona de Guayaquil debuta en la Liga de la Asociación del Fútbol del Guayas (fundada en 1950) ante Río Guayas empatando a 1 gol. Este es el primer partido de Barcelona en una liga profesional.
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton was born. Actor, writer.
1955 - Carmem Miranda sofre um ataque do coração. Morreria no dia seguinte.
1957 - Morte de Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa. Presidente brasileiro (1926-1930)
1958 - Mary Decker was born. Slaney, track star
1960 - Dean Malenko was born. Professional wrestler
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born. Spanish Prime Minister
1961 - Barack Obama was born. American politician
1962 - Roger Clemens was born. Baseball player
1962 - Nelson Mandela, lutador contra o Apartheid na República da África do Sul, é preso.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats.
1967 - Mike Marsh was born. American athlete
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg was born. Model
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1970 - Michael DeLuise was born. American actor
1971 - Jeff Gordon was born. Race car driver
1972 - Muere en Buenos Aires la poetisa y prosista Norah Lange, autora, entre otras obras, de "La calle de la tarde", "Antes que mueran", "Personas en la sala" y "Cuadernos de infancia". Estuvo casada con Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967). Nació en Buenos Aires, en el barrio de Villa Mazzini, en 1906.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen won the release of five imprisoned comrades and flew with them to Libya.
1976 - Se publica en España un Real Decreto por el que se concede la amnistía a los condenados por actividades políticas que durante el régimen del recién desaparecido general Franco habían sido considerados delictivas.
1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson dies. Lord Thomson of Fleet, publisher.
1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, dies. English physician Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932.
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1977 - Raquel de Queiroz é eleita a primeira mulher para a Academia Brasileira de Letras
1981 - Melvyn Douglas dies. Actor
1982 - Morte do poeta uruguaio Carlos Sabat Ercarty
1983 - Italy elects first socialist prime minister since 1946
1983 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1990 - Muere el industrial italiano Ettore Maserati, creador de la famosa escudería Maserati de Fórmula 1. Con esta marca de automóviles Juan Manuel Fangio ganó su quinto campeonato de Formula 1 en 1957.
1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa.
1992 - Matsumoto Seichō dies (b. 1909). Author.
1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1994 - Morte de Giovanni Spadolini. Político italiano.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 - Terminan los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta, EE.UU.
1997 - Jeanne Calment dies in Arles, France (b. 1875). Oldest documented human being.
1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
1998 - Yuri Artyukhin dies. Cosmonaut
1999 - Victor Mature dies. Actor
2001 - Lorenzo Music dies. Actor, writer, producer
2002 - Carmen Silvera dies. British actress.
2002 - Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada é reeleito presidente da Bolívia.
2002 - O Paysandu (PA) vence o Cruzeiro e conquista a Copa dos Campeões do Brasil
2003 - Portugal decreta estado de calamidade pública devido aos incêndios nas florestas
Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution
Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re
Dia do padre (Brasil)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton was born. Actor, writer.
1955 - Carmem Miranda sofre um ataque do coração. Morreria no dia seguinte.
1957 - Morte de Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa. Presidente brasileiro (1926-1930)
1958 - Mary Decker was born. Slaney, track star
1960 - Dean Malenko was born. Professional wrestler
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born. Spanish Prime Minister
1961 - Barack Obama was born. American politician
1962 - Roger Clemens was born. Baseball player
1962 - Nelson Mandela, lutador contra o Apartheid na República da África do Sul, é preso.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats.
1967 - Mike Marsh was born. American athlete
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg was born. Model
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1970 - Michael DeLuise was born. American actor
1971 - Jeff Gordon was born. Race car driver
1972 - Muere en Buenos Aires la poetisa y prosista Norah Lange, autora, entre otras obras, de "La calle de la tarde", "Antes que mueran", "Personas en la sala" y "Cuadernos de infancia". Estuvo casada con Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967). Nació en Buenos Aires, en el barrio de Villa Mazzini, en 1906.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen won the release of five imprisoned comrades and flew with them to Libya.
1976 - Se publica en España un Real Decreto por el que se concede la amnistía a los condenados por actividades políticas que durante el régimen del recién desaparecido general Franco habían sido considerados delictivas.
1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson dies. Lord Thomson of Fleet, publisher.
1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, dies. English physician Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932.
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1977 - Raquel de Queiroz é eleita a primeira mulher para a Academia Brasileira de Letras
1981 - Melvyn Douglas dies. Actor
1982 - Morte do poeta uruguaio Carlos Sabat Ercarty
1983 - Italy elects first socialist prime minister since 1946
1983 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1990 - Muere el industrial italiano Ettore Maserati, creador de la famosa escudería Maserati de Fórmula 1. Con esta marca de automóviles Juan Manuel Fangio ganó su quinto campeonato de Formula 1 en 1957.
1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa.
1992 - Matsumoto Seichō dies (b. 1909). Author.
1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1994 - Morte de Giovanni Spadolini. Político italiano.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 - Terminan los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta, EE.UU.
1997 - Jeanne Calment dies in Arles, France (b. 1875). Oldest documented human being.
1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
1998 - Yuri Artyukhin dies. Cosmonaut
1999 - Victor Mature dies. Actor
2001 - Lorenzo Music dies. Actor, writer, producer
2002 - Carmen Silvera dies. British actress.
2002 - Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada é reeleito presidente da Bolívia.
2002 - O Paysandu (PA) vence o Cruzeiro e conquista a Copa dos Campeões do Brasil
2003 - Portugal decreta estado de calamidade pública devido aos incêndios nas florestas
Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution
Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re
Dia do padre (Brasil)
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