0450 -
Theodosius II dies (b. 0401). Emperor of the East (408–50), son and successor of Arcadius
1057 -
Pope Victor II dies (b. 1018)
1148 - Crusaders outside of Damascus retreat - end of the 2nd Crusade
1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, was born. Muslim mystic, philosopher
1230 -
Leopold VI of Austria dies (b. 1176)
1330 - Serbians defeat Bulgarians, and kill Czar Michael Sisman of Bulgaria
1458 - Jacopo Sannazaro was born. Italian poet
(Arcadia)
1480 - Turks make a sneak attack on Rhodes
1491 - Henry VIII, was born. King of England
1493 - Great fire in
Moscow1540 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of
Henry VIII of England,
Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of
treason. Henry marries his fifth wife,
Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1565 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, orders her heralds to publish that Lord Darnley is to be "named and styled King"
1576 - Frobisher's expedition reaches Labrador
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1588 - English fireships burn the Spanish Armada
1609 - Bermuda discovered by Admiral George Somers
1611 - Surrender of Kalmar Castle, Sweden
1615 - Champlain discovers Lake Huron
1637 - Riot in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in protest against the use of the Book of Common Prayer
1650 - Cromwell reaches Edinburgh
1655 -
Cyrano de Bergerac, dies (b. 1619). French poet.
1659 -
Charles Ancillon, was born (d. 1715). French Huguenot pastor.
1667 -
Abraham Cowley, dies (b. 1618). English poet. Abraham Cowley--"that incomparable poet and virtuous man" to John Evelyn--dies in Chertsey, Surrey, at 48, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
1685 -
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, dies (b. 1618). English statesman.
1718 -
Etienne Baluze, dies (b. 1630). French scholar.
1741 -
Antonio Vivaldi, dies (b. 1678). Italian composer.
1746 - Thomas Heyward soldier, signed Declaration of Independance
1750 -
Philipe Fabre d'Églantine was born in Carcassonne, France (d. 5 Apr 1794). French political dramatic satirist and prominent figure in the French Revolution. First an actor, he will later become a poet, best known for his song, "Il pleut, il pleut, bergere," still sung by French children today.
1750 -
Johann Sebastian Bach, dies (b. 21 Mar 1685). German composer.
1762 -
George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, dies (b. 1691). English politician.
1794 -
Maximilien Robespierre, dies (b. 1758). French Revolutionary leader.
1794 -
Louis de Saint-Just, dies (b. 1867). French Revolutionary leader.
1794 -
Maximilien Robespierre is
guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the
French Revolution.
1804 -
Ludwig Feuerbach, was born (d. 1872). German philosopher.
1814 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, already married to the former Harriet Westbrook, elopes to France with Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin). (Harriet's suicide in 1816 will free him to wed Mary.)
1817 -
Jane Austen, dies (b. 1775). British novelist
1818 -
Gaspard Monge, dies ( born 9 May 1746). French mathematicien
1821 -
Peru declares independence from
Spain.
1842 -
Clemens Brentano, dies (b. 1778). German poet.
1844 -
Joseph Bonaparte, dies (b. 1768). Older brother of
Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain.
1844 -
Gerard Manley Hopkins, was born in Stratford, Essex (d. 1889). English poet. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
1851 -
Manuel Querino, was born (d. 1923). Brazilian historian.
1859 - Balington Booth was born. Founder of Volunteers of America
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Ezra Church begins -
Confederate troops led by General
John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive
Union forces under General
William T. Sherman from
Atlanta, Georgia.
1866 - The
Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of
weights and measures in the
United States.
1866 -
Beatrix Potter was born (d. 1943). English author, Children's writer and illustrator. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1867 -
Charles Dillon Perrine was born (d. 1951). Astronomer.
1868 - The
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing
African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the
United States due process of law.
1873 - The Japanese government implements land and tax reform as part of the
Meiji Restoration reforms.
1874 -
Ernst Cassirer, was born (d. 1945). Philosopher.
1878 - Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigaoka peak, and he names the mountain the
Japanese Alps, a name that eventually spreads to the entire mountain range.
1881 - American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore.
1887 -
Marcel Duchamp, was born (d. 1968). French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase).
1891 - Joe E. (Evan) Brown (comedian, actor: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1901 - Rudy (Hubert) Vallee was born. Singer: (My Time is Your Time)
1902 -
Karl Popper was born (d. 1994). Philosopher of science.
1904 -
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, was born (d. 1990). Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate.
1904 - Fundação do Club Ferro Carril Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1907 - Dolf Sternberger, was born (d. 1989). Publicist.
1907 -
Earl S. Tupper, was born in New Hampshire (d. 5 Oct 1983). American inventor (Tupperware).
1909 -
Malcolm Lowry, was born (d. 1957). Novelist and poet (Under the Volcano)
1914 - Carmen Dragon, was born (d. 1984). Composer.
1914 -
World War I begins:
Austria-Hungary declares war on
Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on
July 23 following the killing of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of
war.
1915 -
Charles Townes, was born. Americn physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1915 -
Frankie Yankovic, was born (d. 1998). "Polka King". Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion:
Just Because 1915 - Charles Hard Townes was born. American physicist, joint winner with the Soviet physicists Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Nikolay G. Basov of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser.
1916 -
David Brown, was born. American film producer.
1919 - Epitácio Pessoa toma posse da presidência da República do Brasil.
1920 - Andrew V. McLaglen was born. Movie director.
1920 - Nasce em Lisboa, na Madragoa,
Sidónio Muralha (m. 1982). Poeta português um dos precursores do neo-realismo português.É considerado um dos maiores poetas para crianças da língua portuguesa.
1922 -
Jacques Piccard, was born. French undersea explorer.
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg was born. American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. Co-winner (with D. Carleton Gajdusek) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976, for their work on the origins and spread of infectious viral.
1927 -
John Ashbery, was born. Poet.
1929 -
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, [Jacqueline Lee Bouvier] was born (d. 1994). American wife of 35th U. S. Presidennt
John F. Kennedy ; wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing)
1931 - Darryl Hickman was born. Actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
1932 - US President
Herbert Hoover orders the
United States Army to forcibly evict the "
Bonus Army" of
World War I veterans gathered in
Washington, DC.
1934 -
Jacques d'Amboise, was born. Dancer and choreographer.
1934 -
Marie Dressler, dies (b. 1868). Actress.
1936 -
Garfield Sobers, was born. Cricketer.
1936 - Morte do padre espanhol
Pedro Poveda Castroverde - (canonizado em 04 Mai 2003)
1937 -
Peter Duchin, was born. Pianist and bandleader
1938 - Alberto Fujimori was born. President of Peru
1938 -Morte de
Lampião (
Capitão Virgolino Ferreira), conhecido como '
O Rei do Cangaço', no ano 1940 -
Philip Proctor, was born. Comedian
1941 -
Riccardo Muti, was born in Naples. Italian conductor
1942 -
World War II:
USSR leader
Joseph Stalin issues
Order No. 227 in response to alarming
German advances into
Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
1942 -
William Matthew Flinders Petrie, dies (b. 1853). English Egyptologist.
1943 -
World War II:
Operation Gomorrah - The
British bomb
Hamburg causing a
firestorm that kills 42,000
German civilians.
1943 -
Bill Bradley, was born. Basketball player and U.S. Senator
1945 -
Jim Davis, was born. Cartoonist
1945 -
Richard Wright was born. Keyboard player with
Pink Floyd1945 - "Garfield" creator Jim Davis was born.
1945 - A
US Army bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the
Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
1945 -
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero asume la presidencia del
Perú1946 - Linda Kelsey was born. Actress ( Lou Grant, Day by Day)
1946 - Jonathan Edwards was born. Singer
1947 - Barbara Ferrell was born. U.S. National Track & Field Hall of Famer:
Olympic medalist: silver: 100 meter dash, gold: 4x100 meter relay [1968]; gold medalist: Pan American Games: 100 meters [1967]; tied world record twice: 100 meters [11.1 seconds [1967])1948 - Georgia Bright Engel was born. Actress.
(The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Coach)
1948 - Sally (Ann) Struthers. Emmy Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1971-72, 1978] promoter of the Christian Children's Fund) .
1948 - O Congresso da FIFA realizado em Londres, designa o Brasil como sede do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 1950
1949 - Vida Blue was born. Baseball: Cy Young Award [1971])
1949 - Peter Doyle was born. Singer: group: The New Seekers: I'd like to Teach the World to Sing, Look What They've Done to My Song Ma)
1949 -
Steve Peregrin Took, was born (d. 1980). Singer and songwriter.
1950 -
Manuel A. Odría asume la presidencia del
Perú1951 - The Walt Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, was released by RKO Pictures.
1951 -
Santiago Calatrava was born in Valencia. Spanish well-known architect who has designed the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
1952 -
Yoshitaka Amano, was born. Japanese artist.
1954 - Gerd Faltings was born. German
mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal, the highest honour that a young mathematician can receive, in 1986, primarily for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture which he achieved using methods of arithmetic algebraic geometry.
1954 - Hugo Chavez was born in Sabaneta, Venezuela. President of Venezuela (1999-2004)
1954 -
Manuel Prado Ugarteche assume, pela segunda vez, a Presidencia do
Perú1957 -
Edith Abbott, dies (b. 1876). Social worker, educator, and author.
1958 -
Terry Fox, was born (d. 1981). Cancer activist.
1962 -
Rachel Sweet, was born. Singer
1963 - Michael Hayden was born. Actor ("Murder One")
1963 -
Fernando Belaúnde Terry asume la presidencia del
Perú1964 -
Ian Livingston, was born. British businessman
1965 -
Vietnam War: US President
Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of
United States troops in
South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1965 -
Lori Loughlin, was born. Actress.
1965 -
Edogawa Ranpo, dies (b. 1894). Japanese author of detective novels.
1966 - Miguel Angel Nadal was born. Spanish football (soccer) player.
1968 -
Otto Hahn, dies (b. 8 Mar1879). German chemist,
Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate in 1994 shared with the radiochemist Fritz Strassmann. He also shared the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 with Strassmann and Lise Meitner.
1969 -
Frank Loesser, dies (b. 1910). Composer.
1971 -
Myril Hoag, dies (b. 1908). Baseball player.
1972 -
Helen Traubel, dies (b. 1903). American soprano.
1972 -
Elizabeth Berkley, was born. Actress
(Saved by the Bell, The First Wives Club, Random Encounter, Any Given Sunday, Africa, The Elevator, Soulmates)
1973 -
Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see
The Band, The
Allman Brothers Band, and the
Grateful Dead.
1975 -
Leonor Watling was born. Spanish actress.
1976 -
Jacoby Shaddix, was born. Singer, Papa Roach
1976 - The
Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2
magnitude flattens
Tangshan,
China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1977 -
Emanuel Ginóbili, was born. Argentine basketball player
1979 -
Birgitta Haukdal, was born. Icelandic singer
1980 -
Fernando Belaúnde Terry asume, por segunda vez, la presidencia del
Perú.
1982 -
Keith Green, dies (b. 1953). American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist.
1983 - O Grémio de Porto Alegre vence em casa o Peñarol do Uruguay por 2 -1 e conquista a Taça Libertadores. No jogo da 1ª. mão o resultado tinha sido um empate 1-1.
1984 - The 23rd Summer Olympic Games opened at the Los Angeles Coliseum in Southern California this day. Peter V. Uberroth, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, welcomed 7,800 athletes from 140 nations during the 3-1/2 hour opening ceremonies
1985 -
Alan García Pérez asume la presidencia del
Perú.
1988 - Actor Jonathan Osser was born. Actor "Hiller and Diller"
1990 -
Alberto Fujimori becomes president of
Peru1992 -
Mary J. Blige releases her album
What's the 411?. It is considered the album that started the new subgenre,
hip-hop soul (also see
1992 in music).
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