Nothingandall: On this day in History

19 AC -Publio Virgilio Marón, dies. Poet.

0454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aetius in his own throne room.
0454 - Aetius dies. Roman general
0687 - Papa Cónon dies
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola dies. Estonian soldier.
1235 - André II of Hungary dies (b. 1175)

1327 - Edward II of England dies murdered by order of his wife (b. 1284)
1411 - Ricardo, Duque de York was born († 1411). Protagonist of the War of the Roses
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor was born in Innsbruck, Austria († 1493)

1452 - Girolamo Savonarola was born (d. 1498). Dominican priest and ruler of Florence.
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver dies. Spanish poet

1551 - Fundação da Universidade do México, a primeira do Novo Mundo.

1558 - Charles V, dies. King of Spain (Carlos I), Holy Roman Emperor.

1561 - Um devastador incendio destrói grande parte da cidade de Valladolid (Espanha).

1576 - Gerolamo Cardano dies (b. 1501). Italian mathematician.
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle dies (b. 1517). French church leader.
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières dies (b. 1543). Constable of France.
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard was born (d. 1694). English Catholic Cardinal.
1640 - Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans was born (d. 1701). Younger brother of Louis XIV of France.
1645 - Louis Joliet was born (d. 1700). Canadian explorer.
1667 - Nascia Dom Frei Bartolomeu do Pilar († 1773). Ordem das Carmelitas, 1º Bispo do Pará.
1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker dies (b. 1647). German writer.
1743 - Jai Singh II dies (b. 1688). King of Amber-Juiper.
1745 - Battle of Prestonpans - Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1748 - John Balguy dies (b. 1686). English philosopher.
1756 - John MacAdam was born (d. 1836). Scottish engineer and road-builder.

1761 - King George III of England was crowned.
1765 - Monsieur Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point
1792 - French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers dies (b. 1769). French general.
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon.

1831 - O Papa reconhece D. Miguel como rei de Portugal.
1832 - Sir Walter Scott dies (b. 1771). Scottish writer (Ivanhoe ; Rob Roy).
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan was born (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II was born (d. 1918). Ottoman Sultan.
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born (d. 1926). Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1913.
1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao

1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer dies (b. 1778). German philosopher.
1863 - John Bunny was born (d. 1915). American film comedian.
1866 - H. G. Wells was born (d. 1946). English writer.
1866 - Charles Nicolle was born (d. 1936). French bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1928.

1873 - Papa Jack Laine was born (d. 1966). American musician.
1874 - Gustav Holst was born (d. 1934). English composer.

1880 - Manuel Montt Torres dies. President of Chile.
1886 - Nasce Teichi Igarashi ( † 1787). Japonês que escalou o Mt Fuji aos 99 anos.

1895 - Juan de la Cierva was born. Aeronautical engineer who invented the autogyro.

1897 - The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter is published in the New York Sun.
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach dies (b. 1819). German historian.
1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1902 - Luis Cernuda was born (d. 1963). Spanish poet.
1904 - Chief Joseph dies (b. 1840). Nez Perce leader.

1908 - Pablo Sarasate dies. Violininst.
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah was born 1911 († 1972). Gana politician, founder of Pan-Africanism

1911 - Nascimento em Lisboa do actor Francisco Lopes Ribeiro, «Ribeirinho»

1912 - Chuck Jones was born (d. 2002). American animator and director of Warner Brothers cartoons Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
1915 - As pedras de Stonehange, na Inglaterra, são vendidas em leilão por £ 6,600 .

1917 - A Letónia proclama a sua independência.
1919 - Mario Bunge was born. Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman was born (d. 1988). Pakistani scholar.
1920 - Jay Ward was born (d. 1988). American animator.
1921 - Ammonium nitrate explosion at chemical storage facility in Oppau, Germany, 561 killed.
1926 - Donald A. Glaser was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1926 - Eliana Macedo was born († 1990). Brazilian actress.
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin dies (b. 1857). French telegraph engineer.
1929 - Bernard Williams was born (d. 2003). English philosopher.
1931 - Larry Hagman was born. American actor (Dallas - JR)
1934 - Rogério Fróes was born. Brazilian actor
1935 - Norma Bengell was born. Brazilian actress and film director.
1934 - Leonard Cohen was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
1935 - Henry Gibson was born. American actor.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic dies (b. 1874). Croatian writer.
1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.

1942 - Nascia, António Pacheco de Sousa Franco, professor universitário e jurista português.
1944 - Fannie Flagg was born. American actress and novelist
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer was born. American film and television producer
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger was born. Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Stephen King was born. American author
1947 - Marsha Norman was born. American playwright
1948 - Don Felder was born. Guitarist and vocalist of the group The Eagles
1949 - Artis Gilmore was born. American basketball player
1949 - Independência de Taiwan.
1950 - Charles Clarke was born. British politician
1950 - Bill Murray was born. American actor.
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov was born. Chechen rebel leader
1952 - Neil Peart was born. Canadian drummer (Rush)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk was born. Dutch race car driver.
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto dies (b. 1858). Japanese inventor.
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki was born. Finnish director

1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, was assassinated by Roliberto Lopez.
1957 - Ethan Coen was born. American film director.
1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway dies (b. 1872).
1959 - Dave Coulier was born. American actor
1960 - David James Elliott was born. Canadian actor
1961 - Nancy Travis was born. American actress
1962 - Rob Morrow was born. American actor
1963 - Cecil Fielder was born. Baseball player
1963 - Curtly Ambrose was born. West Indian cricketer.
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom

1964 - Jorge Drexler was born. Uruguyan musician.
1965 - Cheryl Hines was born. American actress
1965 - Singapura, Gâmbia e Ilhas Maldivas são admitidas como Estados-Membros da ONU
1967 - Tyler Stewart was born. Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1967 - Faith Hill was born. American singer
1968 - Ricki Lake was born. American actress and talk show hostess
1970 - Monday Night Football premieres.
1971 - Bahrein, Butão e Qatar são admitidos como Estados-Membros da ONU
1971 - Luke Wilson was born. American actor
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro was born. Dominican-born actor.
1971 - Bernardo Houssay dies (b. 1887). Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1947.
1972 - Jon Kitna was born. American football player
1972 - David Silveria was born. American drummer (KoЯn)
1972 - Liam Gallagher was born. British singer (Oasis)
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.

1973 - Daniel Guzmán was born. Spanish actor and film director.
1974 - A Sonda Mariner 10 passa pela segunda vez perto do planeta Mercúrio
1974 - Jacqueline Susann dies (b. 1918). American novelist (Valley of the Dolls).
1974 - Walter Brennan dies (b. 1894). American actor.
1975 - Doug Davis was born. baseball player
1975 - Nasce Acelino Freitas, o Popó. Pugilista brasileiro
1976 - As Ilhas Seychelles são admitidas como Estado-Membro da ONU
1979 - Chris Gayle was born. West Indian cricketer
1980 - Kareena Kapoor was born. Indian actress
1981 - Nicole Richie was born. American actress.
1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1983 - Maggie Grace was born. American actress
1983 - Hart Hancock, American musician (Amphoteric
1984 - Brunei é admitidos como Estado-Membro da ONU

1985 - Xavier Zubiri dies. Spanish philosopher.

1986 - In the 38th Emmy Awards the winners included Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey and Michael J. Fox
1987 - Jaco Pastorius dies (b. 1951). American bassist

1988 - Morre Arminda Correia (n. 1903). Cantora lírica portuguesa.
1991 - Armenia granted independence from Soviet Union.
1992 - Um terremoto de 7.7 graus na escala de Richter abala a Nicarágua
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1993 - Grunge rock band Nirvana releases its album In Utero.
1995 - Rudy Perpich dies (b. 1928). American politician.
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner dies (b. 1959). American athlete winner of 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in central Taiwan, caused about 2,400 people dead.
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly
2002 - International Day of Peace recognized by the United Nations as a full day of ceasefire and nonviolence.
2002 - Robert L. Forward dies (b. 1932). American physicist and writer.
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

2003 - At the 55th Annual Emmy Awards "The West Wing" won for best drama.
2004 - Green Day releases their grammy winning album American Idiot
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman dies (b. 1939). American naturalist and educator.