Nothingandall: On this day in History

0066 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians beat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai.
1253 - Dogen dies (b. 1200). Japanese Zen Buddhist.
1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1281)
1515 - Anne of Cleves was born (d. 1557). Queen (4th wife) of Henry VIII of England.
1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan dies (b. 1465)

1529 -Portugal e Espanha assinam o tratado e Saragoça sobre as ilhas Molucas.
1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin was born (d. 1590). German philologist and poet.
1554 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was born. Spanish conquistador.
1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado dies. Spanish explorer.
1593 - Matthäus Merian was born (d. 1650). Swiss engraver.
1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
1601 - Anne of Austria was born (d. 1666). Queen of Louis XIII of France.
1606 - Li Zicheng was born (d. 1645). Chinese rebel.
1607 - Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1535). Italian painter.

1644 - Jacques Echard was born. French historian.
1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer dies (b. 1607). German poet.
1662 - John Biddle dies (b. 1615). English theologian.
1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes was born (d. 1747). German poet.
1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1694 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was born (d. 1773). English statesman and man of letters.
1703 - Vincenzo Viviani dies (b. 1622). Italian mathematician and scientist.

1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard was born (d. 22 Sep 1715). French geologist and mineralogist who made the first survey to make a geologically map of France and to study the exposed rock strata of the Paris Basin.
1741 - Peter Simon Pallas was born (b. 1811). German zoologist.

1750 - Christian Konrad Sprengel was born (d. 7 Apr 1816). German botanist and teacher whose studies of sex in plants led him to a general theory of fertilization which, basically, is accepted today.

1767 - Nascimento, no Rio de Janeiro, de José Maurício (Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia). Compositor erudito clássico.

1769 - Louis Puissant was born. French mathematicien.

1774 - Pope Clement XIV dies (b. 1705)
1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1777 - John Bartram dies (b. 1699). American botanist.
1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1788 - Theodore Edward Hook was born (d. 1841). English author.
1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General established.
1791 - Michael Faraday was born (d. 1867). English scientist.

1792 - French Republic is proclaimed / É proclamada a República Francesa.

1800 - George Bentham was born (d. 10 Sep 1844). British botanist whose classification of seed plants (Spermatophyta), based on an exhaustive study of all known species, served as a foundation for modern systems of vascular plant taxonomy.
1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach was born (d. 1897). German historian.
1828 - Shaka Zulu dies murdered. Zulu leader / Shaka, chefe dos Zulus, e fundador do Império dos Zulus, no sul da África, é assassinado pelos seus dois meios-irmãos.

1830 - Juan José Flores assume a presidência do Equador
1852 - William Tierney Clark dies (b. 1783). English civil engineer.
1862 - Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé dies (b. 1801). Swiss Federal Councilor.

1877 - Victor Ernest Shelford was born (d. 27 Dec 1968). American zoologist and the most prominent animal ecologist of his generation who was primarily responsible for introducing animals into studies of climax communities and the successions leading to them.
1878 - Yoshida Shigeru was born (d. 1967). Prime Minister of Japan.
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst was born (d. 1958). English suffragist.
1881 - Solomon L. Spink dies (b. 1831). U.S. Congressman from Illinois.

1882 - Sir George Stapledon was born (d. 16 Sep 1960). British agriculturalist and pioneer in the development of grassland science.
1885 - Erich von Stroheim was born (d. 1957). Austrian-born actor, writer, and director.
1885 - Ben Chifley was born (d. 1951). Prime Minister of Australia.
1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
1895 - Paul Muni was born (d. 1967). Polish-born actor.
1898 - Katherine Alexander was born (d. 1981). American actress.
1900 - William Spratling was born (d. 1967). American silversmith.
1902 - John Houseman was born (d. 1988). Romanian-born actor and producer.
1904 - Joseph Valachi was born (d. 1971). American gangster.
1905 - Eugen Sänger was born (d. 10 Feb 1964). German rocket propulsion engineer whose projected "antipodal bomber," with a range far greater than that made possible by its fuel capacity alone, greatly interested the major Western governments and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is recognised.

1910 - Justo Sierra cria a Universidad Nacional de México
1912 - Martha Scott was born (d. 2003). American actress.
1915 - Arthur Lowe was born (d. 1982). British actor.
1918 - Henryk Szeryng was born (d. 1988). Polish-born violinist.
1920 - William H. Riker was born (d. 1993). American political scientist.
1922 - Chen Ning Yang was born. Chinese-bornAmerican physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee, for a ground-breaking theory that the weak force between elementary particles did not conserve parity, thus violating a previously accepted law of physics.
1923 - Dannie Abse was born. Welsh poet and writer
1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher was born. English novelist
1924 - Charles Keeping was born (d. 1988). British illustrator.
1927 - Tommy Lasorda was born. Baseball manager.
1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1928 - James Lawson was born. American minister and civil rights activist
1931 - Fay Weldon was born. British feminist author
1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, was born (d. 2003). British politician.
1932 - Ingemar Johansson was born. Swedish boxer
1934 - Lute Olson was born. American basketball coach
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1938 - Gene Mingo was born. American football player
1942 - David Stern was born. American basketball commissioner.

1942 - Portugal: Aparecimento nas bancas do primeiro número do jornal «Diário Popular».
1943 - Toni Basil was born. American singer, dancer, and choreographer.

1945 - Nascimento, no Rio de Janeiro, de Gonzaguinha (Luiz Gonzaga Nascimento Filho). Cantor e compositor da MPB (música popular brasileira)

1946 - King Sunny Ade was born. Nigerian singer
1948 - Denis Burke was born. Australian politician

1948 - Jim Byrnes was born. American actor and musician

1948 - Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey dies (b. 8 Aug 1863). American ornithologist and author of popular field guides.
1949 - The Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.

1950 - Merritt Lyndon Fernald dies (b. 5 Oct 1873) American botanist noted for his comprehensive study of the flora of the northeastern United States.
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1951 - David Coverdale was born. English singer
1952 - Bob Goodlatte was born. U.S. Congressman from Virginia
1952 - Paul Le Mat was born. American actor
1954 - Shari Belafonte was born. American singer
1955 - In Great Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1956 - Debby Boone was born. American singer
1956 - Masayuki Suzuki was born. Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
1956 - Frederick Soddy dies (b. 2 Sep 1877). English chemist and physicist who received The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921 for investigating radioactive substances.

1957 - Toyoda Soemu dies (b. 1885). Japanese admiral.
1957 - Nick Cave was born. Australian musician.

1957 - François Duvalier (Papa Doc) é eleito para a presidência do Haiti
1958 - Joan Jett was born. American musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli was born. Italian tenor
1959 - Tai Babilonia was born. American figure skater
1960 - Mali gains independence from France.

1960 - Melanie Klein dies (b. 30 Mar 1982). Austrian-born, English psychoanalyst known for her work with young children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child's unconscious fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age.
1961 - Scott Baio was born. American actor
1961 - Bonnie Hunt was born. American actress.
1961 - Marion Davies dies (b. 1897). American actress.

1963 - Em Portugal, um decreto-lei estabelece a idade da reforma em 65 anos para os homens e 62 para as mulheres.
1965 - Tony Drago was born. Maltese snooker player
1965 - The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.

1965 - Othmar Ammann dies (b. 26 Mar 1876). Swiss-born American engineer and designer of numerous long suspension bridges as the New York Port Authority's Chief Engineer (1929), including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge over New York harbour, at its completion (1965) the longest single span in the world.
1966 - Stefan Rehn was born. Swedish footballer
1967 - Félix Savón was born. Cuban boxer
1968 - Mike Richter was born. American hockey player
1970 - Mike Matheny was born. baseball player
1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

1970 - Emmanuel Petit was born. French football player.

1970 - Alice Hamilton dies (b. 27 Feb 1869). American pathologist, known for her research on industrial diseases.
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway was born.
1971 - Chesney Hawkes was born. British singer.

1972 - Eric Freire Gomes (Gaúcho) was born in Recife. Brazilian football player (Now he plays for Rio Ave)

1973 - Paulo R. Costinha Melo Castro (Costinha) was born in Braga. Portuguese football player (goalkeeper of U. Leiria).
1974 - Bob Sapp was born. American boxer and kickboxer
1975 - Mystikal was born. American rapper
1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1976 - Ronaldo was born. Brazilian footballer.

1976 - Portugal é admitido no Conselho da Europa.
1978 - Harry Kewell was born. Australian footballer
1979 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

1979 - Otto Robert Frisch dies (b. 1 Oct 1904) Austrian-British nuclear physicist, born in Vienna, who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, described the division of neutron-bombarded uranium into lighter elements.
1980 - Iraq invades Iran.

1980 - Fernanda Tavares was born. Brazilian model.
1981 - Rocco Baldelli was born. Baseball player
1981 - Adam Lazzara was born. American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1982 - Billie Piper was born. English singer and actress
1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois, United States.
1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
1987 - Tom Felton was born. English actor.
1987 - Dan Rowan dies (b. 1922). American actor and comedian.
1989 - Irving Berlin dies (b. 1888). American songwriter.
1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.

1991 - Riccardo Patrese (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prémio de Estoril (Portugal) em Fórmula 1.

1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1993 - Maurice Abravanel dies (b. 1903). Greek-born conductor.

1995 - Estreia do filme de Manuel de Oliveira, O Convento, com John Malkovitch e Catherine Deneuve
1996 - Dorothy Lamour dies (b. 1914). American actress.
1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
1999 - George C. Scott dies (b. 1927). American actor.
2001 - Isaac Stern dies (b. 1920). Ukrainian violinist.
2002 - Jan de Hartog dies (b. 1914). Dutch-born writer.
2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2003 - Gordon Jump dies (b. 1932). American television actor.
2003 - Hugo Young dies (b. 1938). British journalist.

Dia da Juventude no Brasil.