Nothingandall: On this day in History

0514 - Eleição do Papa Hormisdas.
0827 - Eleição do Papa Gregório IV
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism/ 1378 - Eleição do Antipapa Clemente VII em oposição a Urbano VI: início do Cisma do Ocidente
1384 - Luís I, Duque de Anjou e King of Naples, dies (b. 1339)
1460 - Gilles Binchois dies. Flemish composer.
1486 - Nasce Artur, Príncipe de Gales, filho mais velho de Henrique VII de Inglaterra († 1502)

1519 - Fernão de Magalhães, com uma pequena armada de cinco naus, parte de Sevilha para a sua viagem de circum-navegação.

1540 - Realiza-se o primeiro auto-de-fé da Inquisição em Portugal.
1586 - Chidiock Tichborne dies executed (b. 1558). English conspirator and poet.
1590 - Lodovico Agostini dies (b. 1534). Italian composer.
1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
1599 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel was born (d. 1623). German protestant military leader.
1625 - Heinrich Meibom dies (b. 1555). German historian and critic.
1627 - Jan Gruter dies (b. 1560). Dutch critic.
1630 - Claudio Saracini dies (b. 1586). Italian composer.
1638 - Maria Teresa de Espanha († 1683)
1639 - Johannes Meursius dies (b. 1579). Dutch classical scholar.
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland dies. English politician and writer
1721 - Thomas Doggett dies. Irish actor.
1726 - Coroação do Papa João XXI
1737 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

1761 - Realiza-se o último auto-de-fé da Inquisição em Portugal.
1767 - Nasce Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia, compositor brasileiro e mestre da capela real da corte no exílio († 1830)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was born (d. 1852). Russian naval officer and explorer.
1803 - Robert Emmet dies (b. 1780). Irish patriot.
1819 -Théodore Chassériau was born. French painter.
1819 - Abade Faria dies (b. 1746). Portuguese scientist.
1823 - Daniel Steibelt
1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, foi um dos presidente da Liga Lombarda pela Paz e vencedor do Prémio Nobel da Paz de 1907 († 1918)
1835 - Entrada em Porto Alegre pelos Farroupilhas (início da Revolução Farroupilha)
1840 - Morte do ditador paraguaio Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
1842 - Sir James Dewar was born (d. 1923). Scottish chemist.
1852 - Philander Chase dies (b. 1775). American university founder.
1853 - Chulalongkorn was born (d. 1910). King of Thailand.
1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea
1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
1861 - Herbert Putnam was born (d. 1955). Librarian of Congress.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga ends.
1863 - Jacob Grimm dies (b. 1785). German folklorist.
1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy
1873 - Sidney Olcott was born (d. 1949). Canadian film director.
1873 - Ferenc Szisz was born (d. 1944). Hungarian-born race car driver.
1878 - Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. (d. 1968). American writer and politician. 1942 Pulitzer Prize for the novel Dragon's Teeth
1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
1888 - Eça de Queiroz é nomeado cônsul em Paris
1889 - Charles Reidpath was born (d. 1975). American athlete.
1890 - Jelly Roll Morton was born (d. 1941). American composer.
1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1896 - Eduardo Gomes, militar e político brasileiro († 1981)
1897 - Nascimento de Humberto de Alencar de Castelo Branco. Presidente brasileiro (1964-1967)
1898 - Santos Dumont realiza primeiro vôo de um balão com propulsão própria.
1898 - Theodor Fontane dies (b. 1819). German writer.
1900 - Castello Branco, (Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco) was born in Messejana (CE).(† 1967). 35th President of Brazil.
1900 - Carlos Carneiro was born (d. 10 Out 1971). Portuguese painter.

1902 - Stevie (Margaret Florence) Smith was born in Hull, Yorkshire. Poet (Not Waving But Drowning).
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate dies (b. 1844). Spanish violinist and composer.
1917 - Red Auerbach was born. American basketball coach and executive
1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1920 - Dan Andersson, dies in Stockholm. Popular Swedish poet of working-class literature [Kolarhistorier (1914, "Charcoal Burner's Tales") and Kolvaktarens visor (1915, "Charcoal Watcher's Songs"), published in English as Charcoal Burner's Ballad & Other Poems in 1943]

1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little was born (d. 1997). Irish-born poet.
1924 - Gogi Grant was born. American singer.

1926 - Nasce Noémia de Sousa. Poetisa moçambicana.
1927 - Johnny Dankworth was born. English musician and composer
1927 - Rachel Roberts was born (d. 1980). English actress.
1928 - Joyce Brothers was born. American psychologist and advice columnist
1929 - Anne Meara was born. American comic and actress.
1929 - Lançamento da chapa Aliança Liberal, tendo Getúlio Vargas como candidato a presidente. 1932 - Wovoka dies. Paiute visionary.
1934 - Sophia Loren was born. Italian actress.

1934 - Morre Francisco Grandela. Comerciante português.
1937 - Monica Zetterlund was born (d. 2005). Swedish actress and singer.
1945 - Augusto Fragoso dies (b. 1869). 19º Presidente of Brazil
1946 - First Cannes Film Festival
1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia dies (b. 1882). Mayor of New York City.
1947 - Chuck Panozzo was born. American musician (Styx)
1948 - George R. R. Martin was born. American writer.
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas dies (b. 1901). Greek composer.
1951 - Guy Lafleur was born. Canadian hockey player
1954 - First program compiled from FORTRAN runs.
1954 - New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
1956 - Gary Cole was born. American actor.
1957 - Jean Sibelius dies (b. 1865). Finnish composer.
1957 - Sabine Christiansen was born. German actress

1960 - Benim, Burkina Faso, Camarões, Chipre, Congo, República Democrática do Congo, Costa do Marfim, Gabão, Madagascar, Nigéria, República Centro-Africana, Somália, Chade e Togo são admitidos como Estados-Membro da ONU
1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

1964 - Herbert Clark Hoover dies. American politician.
1965 - Robert Rusler was born. American actor.
1966 - Guiana é admitida como Estado-Membro da ONU
1967 - Kristen Johnston was born. American actress
1968 - Leah Pinsent was born. Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell was born (d. 2004). American race car driver.
1971 - Henrik Larsson was born. Swedish footballer.
1971 - Giorgos Seferis dies (b. 1900). Greek poet.
1973 - Jim Croce dies (b. 1943). American singer and songwriter.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.
1975 - Asia Argento was born. Italian actress.
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya was born. Colombian race car driver.
1975 - Saint-John Perse dies (b. 1887). French diplomat and poet.
1976 - Yui Horie was born. Japanese voice actress and singer.

1976 - Derrota do Partido Social Democrrata da Suécia após 44 anos no poder
1977 - Namie Amuro was born. Japanese singer.
1977 - Djibouti e Vietnã são admitidos como Estados-Membro da ONU
1978 - Jason Bay was born. Canadian Major League Baseball player
1978 - Sarit Hadad was born. Israeli singer

1979 - Em Portugal (em termos legais) é garantido às mulheres a igualdade de oportunidades e de tratamento no trabalho e no emprego em relação aos homens .
1979 - Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
1981 - A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1981 - Feliciano López was born. Spanish tennis player.
1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people.

1994 - Sophia de Mello Breyner é agraciada com o Prémio Vida Literária pela APE.
1996 - Paul Erdős dies (b. 1913). Hungarian mathematician.
2000 - Gherman Titov dies (b. 1935). Cosmonaut.
1998 - Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
1998 - Fundação do Centro Cultural de Ceilândia
1999 - Libertação do Timor-Leste pelas forças da ONU

2000 - Nuno Delgado, judoca português, consegue a primeira medalha olímpica (bronze) naquela modalidade para Portugal.
2003 - A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union
2003 - A civil unrest broke in Malé following the death of Hassan Evan Naseem, a prisoner.
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn dies (b. 1941). British politician.
2003 - Simon Muzenda dies (b. 1922). Zimbabwe politician.
2004 - Townsend Hoopes dies (b. 1922). American politician.
2004 - Brian Clough dies (b. 1935). English footballer and football manager.