1076 - Willem bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies.
1554 -
Naufrágio do galeão português São Bento
.
1605 -
Pope Leo XI [Alessandro O de' Medici] dies (b. 1535). Italian Pope.
1656 - Gerard van Honthorst, "Gherardo della Notte", dies (b. 04 Nov 1592). Dutch painter and draftsman addicted to night scenes
1695 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [Asbaje] Mexican poetress/nun, dies at 44 .
1733 - Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter was born (d. 12 Nov 1806). German botanist who was a pioneer in the study of plant hybrids. He was first to develop a scientific application of the discovery, made in 1694 by the German botanist Rudolph Jacob Camerarius, of sex in plants.
1737 -
Edward Gibbon was born (d. 16 Jan 1794). Historian, author "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
1791 -
Samuel F. B. Morse was born (d. 2 Apr 1872). Painter and Inventor. Morse was a well-known painter who gained a wide reputation as a portrait artist.was a founder of the National Academy of Design in 1826 and became professor of painting and sculpture at New York University in 1832-a position he held until his death in 1872. Morse invented the first practical recording telegraph in America and developed the
Morse code, revolutionizing communication.
1813 -
Zebulon Pike, dies (b. 1779). Mountain man, explorer.
1820 -
Herbert Spencer, was born (d. 8 Dec 1903). English sociologist and
philosopher who was an early adherent of evolutionary theory.
1829 - Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier, was born (d. 25 Apr 1898). Swiss painter.
1834 - Thomas Stothard, dies (b. 17 Aug 1755). English
Neoclassical painter, designer, and illustrator.
1840 -
Edward Whymper was born. Mountain climber, writer, and illustrator.
1840 - Niccolò Paganini dies. Violinist.
1856 - Richard Thomas Moynan, was born (d. 10 Apr 1906). British artist.
1859 - "Pomona" sank in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard.
1861 - After Virginia secedes from the United States, West Virginia secedes from Virginia and forms its own state.
1865 -Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz was born (d. 10 May 1936). Russian anthropologist whose study of the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia ranks among the classic works of ethnography .
1875 - Maurice de Broglie was born (d.1 4 Jul 1960). French physicist who made many
contributions to the study of X rays .
1878 - Charles Victor Thirion, dies (b. 30 Mar 1833). French artist.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers was born (d. 29 Apr 1937). American
chemist who
developed nylon (1935), the first synthetic polymer fibre to be spun from a melt.
1896 -
Rogers Hornsby was born (d. 1963). Baseball player and manager.
1898 - Matanzas Mule Day, the day during the Spanish-American War (1898) that the U.S. bombarded Matanzas, Cuba, resulting in one lone casualty—a mule.
1900 -
Walter Lantz was born (d. 1994). American
cartoonist, who created the fun-loving slighly maniac bird Woody Woodpecker. Academy Award winning animator.
1903 - Hans Walter Kosterlitz was born (d. 26 Oct 1996). German-born British pharmacologist who had already retired from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, when he discovered (1975), with John Hughes, enkephalins, two potent naturally occurring opiates in the brain.
1911 - Nelson Werneck was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 13 Jan 1999). Brazilian writer, historian and marxist politician
1913 -
Philip Hauge Abelson was born (d. 1 Aug2004).US
Physicist, co-discoverer (with the U.S. physicist Edwin M. McMillan) of
Neptunium. He proposed the gas diffusion process for separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 which was essential to the development of the atomic bomb.
1921 -
Arthur Mold dies (b. 1863). Controversial Lancashire fast
bowler and alleged "chucker".
1922 -
Jack Klugman was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders: Blacklist [1963-1964], The Odd Couple [1970-1971, 1972-1973]; Quincy, M.E., Twelve Angry Men, Days of Wine and Roses, Goodbye Columbus.
1924 - Inauguración del estadio de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. Enfrenta a Estudiantil Porteño, a quien le gana 3 - 0.
1925 - Raymundo Faoro was born (d. 15 May 2003). Brazilian historian and writer.
1927 - Mauricio Borensztein, "Tato Bores" was born. Actor and comedian.
1932 -
Anouk Aimée (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus) was born. Actress:
La Dolce Vita, Lola, A Man and a Woman, Dr. Bethune, Ready to Wear 1932 -
Hart Crane dies drowned after jumping from a steamer while en route to New York (
suicide) (b. 1899). Writer.
1933 - Se firma el Pacto Roca-Runciman entre Argentina y Gran Bretaña, por el que este último país se compromete a comprar carne argentina a cambio de la protección a empresas británicas en el país americano .
1933 - Se estrena "Tango", de Luis Moglia Barth, primera película sonora del cine argentino.
1933 - Rafael Guillén was born. Spanish poet.
1935 - Brussel's World Expo opens.
1936 -
Karl Pearson dies (b. 27 Mar 1857). English mathematician, one of the founders of modern statistics. From 1893 to 1912 he wrote a series of 18 papers entitled Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution, which contained much of his most valuable work, including the chi-square test of statistical significance.
1937 - In the United States, the first social security checks were distributed.
1937 -
Sandy Dennis was born in Nebraska (d. 2 Mar 1992). Academy Award-winning actress:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]; The Execution, Splendor in the Grass; 1938 - Es creada la Asociación Uruguaya de Jugadores Profesionales con la supervisión of José Nasazzi, quien actuará como Presidente.
1938 - Geraldine Apponyi was the first American woman to become a Queen. She married King Zog of Albania.
- 1940 - Com a presença do Presidente do Brasil Getúlio Vargas, é inaugurado o Estádio Municipal de Pacaembú.
1940 - En Buenos Aires, es inaugurado el estadio de Argentinos Juniors .
1940 - Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp .
1942 - Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1942 - Bob Foster was born. International Boxing Hall of Famer: light heavyweight champion [1968-74]: won 56 of 65 professional fights.
1945 - 2nd Republic of Austria forms.
1945 - Italian partisans captured Mussolini.
1950 - The modern state of Israel was officially recognized by the British government.
1951 - Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1952 - Ari Vatanen was born. Finnish race car driver.
1953 - 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP.
1955 - Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables, Florida, actress, Paper Dolls, The Rousters
1956 - El gobierno de la Revolución Libertadora anula la Constitución de 1949 y reimplanta la de 1853, por decreto-ley del presidente Pedro E. Aramburu.
1959 -
Sheena Easton [Sheena Shirley Orr] was born. Singer: Modern Girl, Morning Train, One Man Woman, When He Shines, For Your Eyes Only, We Got Tonight, Strut, Sugar Walls .
1959 - Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China.
1960 -
Togo gains independence from
French-administered UN trusteeship.
1960 - 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee.
1960 - South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns.
1961 - La NASA lanza el satélite Explorer 11.
1962 - El nadador Luis Alberto Nicolao - de solo 17 años - obtiene un resonante triunfo en Río de Janeiro: en 57¨ supera el récord mundial de los 1000 metros estilo mariposa.
1968 - Muhammad Ali’s successor was finally decided after an eight-month runoff. Jimmy Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry of Atascadero, CA for the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight title.
1968 - Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands.
1968 - Jimmy Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry of Atascadero, CA for the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight title.
1969 -
Mica Paris was born. UK singer and presenter.
1970 - The discovery of hahnium, element 105, was announced at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The work was done by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, California .
1972 - La Apolo 16 retorna a la Tierra.
1974 - Portugal: na sequência da Revolução de 25 de Abril é apresentado o Programa do Movimento das Forças Armadas.
1974 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107.
1975 - Patrícia de Sabrit was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress and model
1976 - Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi.
1977 - Rafael Alberti regresa a España después de 38 años de exilio.
1977
- Portugal assina a European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance.
1978 - Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered.
1978 - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup.
1981 - Former Beatle Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach at the Marylebone Registry Office in London. Paul McCartney and wife Linda, George Harrison and Harry Nilsson were in attendance.
1983 - Ariel Geltman Graynor was born in Boston, Massachussetes, USA. Actress.
- 1986 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
1987 - Austrian president
Kurt Waldheim was barred from entering the United States. He was accused of aiding in the execution of thousands of Jews in World War II.
1987 - Lucas Salatta was born in São Paulo. Brazilian swimmer.
1989 - Muere Raúl Sendic, fundador y dirigente de los tupamaros uruguayos.
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita dies (b. 27 Nov 1894). Japanese industrialist who founded the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., the largest manufacturer of consumer electric appliances in the world.
1989 - Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500 .
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally Montenegro.
1992 - Portuguese architect Siza Vieira is laureate with
The Pritzker Architecture Prize. ("The architecture of Alvaro Siza is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. Each line and curve is placed with skill and sureness..." (citation for the Prize).
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1992 - Gerard K. O'Neill dies (b. 6 Feb 1927). American physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring and was a leading advocate of space colonization. He experimented with ways to increase the energy output of particle accelerators .
1998 -
Carlos Castañeda dies in Los Angeles (b. 25 Dez 1925). Peruvian born /USA author.
1999 -
Al Hirt, "The King of the Trumpet," dies in New Orleans at age 76 (b. 1922). Musician.
1999 -Rolf William Landauer dies (b. 4 Feb 1927). German-born American physicist whose discovery of what came to be known as Landauer's principle (that the erasing of computer information causes a loss of energy) led to the development of more efficient computers.
1999 - Mark David Weiser dies (b.23 July 1952). American computer
scientist and visionary who developed the pioneering idea for what he referred to as "ubiquitous computing," He coined that term in 1988 to describe a future in which PC's will be replaced with tiny computers embedded in everyday "smart" devices
2000 - In Uganda workers in Ggaba, a residential area south of Kampala, exhumed the bodies of 55 more people associated with the Movement for the Restoration of Ten Commandments. Total deaths stood at 979.
2002 - Ruth Handler dies aged 85. Co-founder of Mattel and creator of the Barbie doll (1959).
2002 -
O Sporting empata (2 x 2) com o Vitória de Setúbal e vence o título português de futebol 2001/2002 .
2003 - In Argentina former President Carlos Menem (72) finished first in presidential elections but failed to win an outright victory in his comeback bid, setting up a runoff vote with Nestor Kirchner, governor of Patagonia.
2003 -In Beijing theaters, cafes and karaoke bars were closed as 126 new SARS cases were reported. Total confirmed cases in China rose to 2,914 with 131 deaths. 26 of China's 31 provinces were infected.
2004 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU officials signed an accord extending the EU-Russia partnership accord to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta, which join May 1.
Slovenia: Day of Uprising Against Occupation .
