1447 -
Chenghua was born [d. 1487]. Emperor of China
1565 -
Pope Pius IV [Gianangelo de' Medici], dies [b. 31.March.1499]
1608 -
John Milton was born in London [d. 1674]. One of the greatest poets of the English language
1641 -
Anton Van Dyck dies in London [b. 1599]; Flemish portrait-painter.
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX dies [b. 28 Jan 1600]
- 1706 - D. Pedro II of Portugal II dies [b. 1648]. King of Portugal (1683 - 1706).
1854 -
Almeida Garrett dies in Lisbon [b. 1799 in Oporto]. Portuguese writer, journalist and politician.
1854 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
1875 -
Antonio Borrero y Cortázar assumes the presidency of Ecuador
1900 - En France les femmes sont autorisées à exercer la profession d'avocat.
1907 - Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office; proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
1909 -
António Pedro was born in Cape Verde (d. 1966). Portuguese writer and plastic artist (surrealist painter).
1913 - O ministro dos negócios estrangeiros alemão, fazendo no Reichtag o discurso anual sobre política externa, torna pública a existência de negociações com a Grã-Bretanha sobre a divisão das colónias portuguesas pelas duas potências e prevê o êxito das mesmas
1917 - Forças turcas se rendem e o exercito inglês, liderado pelo General Allenby, ocupa Jerusalém
1930 - Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores. President of Guatemala (1983-1986)
1931 - Spain becomes a republic.
1940 - British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II.
1942 - The Aram Khachaturian ballet "Gayane," featuring the surging "Saber Dance," was first performed by the Kirov Ballet.
1947 - Steve Owens was born. Football player
1948 - A Assembleia Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) aprovou por unanimidade a Convenção para a Prevenção e o Castigo do Crime de Genocídio. A convenção entrou em funcionamento em 12 de Janeiro de 1951, quando foi ratificada por 20 países.
1949 -O governo nacionalista chinês, liderado por Chiang Kai-shek, se instala na Ilha de Formosa.
1958 -The anti-Communist
John Birch Society was formed in Indianopolis1961 - Tanganyika (now Tanzania) achieves independence.
1959 - Miguel Rovisco was born. Portuguese writer.
1962 - Julius Kambarage Nyerere is first president of newly formed Republic of Tanganyika.
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.
1965 - Nikolai V. Podgorny replaced Anastas I. Mikoyan as president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
1974 -Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during the war of independence.
1974 - Começo em Portugal do recenseamento eleitoral com vista à realização das primeiras eleições a realizar após o 25 de Abril.
1977 -
Clarice Lispector dies in Rio de Janeiro [b. 1920]. Ukranian-born, Brazilian writer.
1978 -
Eva Aichmajerova was born in Litoměřice, Československo. Model and actress.
1979 - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the religious broadcaster, died in New York City at age 84.
1984 - The five-day-old hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner that claimed the lives of two Americans ended as Iranian security men seized control of the plane, which was parked at Tehran airport.
1985 - O ex-presidente argentino Jorge Videla é condenado à prisão perpétua por ter liderado a “guerra suja” na qual milhares de pessoas desapareceram.
1992 - É aprovado no Brasil o Imposto Provisório sobre Movimentação Financeira (IPMF).
1993 - The Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.
1994 - Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.
1994 - Joaquim Chissano takes place as President of Mozambique
1996 - Archaeologist and anthropologist
Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.
1997 - In Russia 3 armed hijackers seized an Ilyushin-62 passenger plane from far east city of Magadan with at least 140 people onboard. They demanded $10 million and a flight to Switzerland.
1998 - In Angola Unita rebels advanced on Cuito after saying they had routed an attack by government forces on their southern stronghold.
2001 - In Uganda a gasoline truck crash killed 58 people near Iganga. Many of the victims had tried to gather up fuel when it ignited.
2002 -
Stan Rice dies [b. 1942]. American painter, educator, and poet.
2003 - A suicide bomber killed five victims outside an exclusive Moscow hotel
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