On this day in History - Apr. 04

• 0186 - Caracalla was born (d. 0217). Roman emperor.
• 0397 - St. Ambrose dies (b. c. 0340). Bishop of Milan.
• 0896 - Pope Formosus dies (b. 0816).
• 1284 - King Alfonso X of Castile dies (b. 1221) / Morre Alfonso X o Sabio de Castilla (n. 23 Nov 1221). Monarca e astrónomo espanhol que encorajou a preparação das tabelas planetárias revisadas (1252), publicou no dia de sua ascensão ao trono como rei de Castilha e León.
• 1292 - Pope Nicholas IV dies (b. 1227).
• 1305 - Jeanne of Navarre dies. Queen of Philip IV of France.
• 1460 - O Papa Pio II funda a Universidade de Basileia.
• 1492 - Ambrosius Blarer was born (d. 1564). German reformer.
• 1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach dies (b. 1460).
• 1541 - Ignatius of Loyola became the first superior-general of the Jesuits.
• 1566 - Daniele Ricciarelli da Volterra, dies (b. 1509). Italian Mannerist painter and sculptor. He is noted for his finely drawn, highly idealized figures done in the style of Michelangelo.
• 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
• 1588 - King Frederick II of Denmark dies (b. 1534).
• 1593 - Edward Nicholas was born (d. 1669). English statesman.
• 1609 - Charles de L'Ecluse dies (b. 1526). Flemish botanist.
• 1617 - John Napier dies (b. 1550). Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms.
• 1633 - Pieter Pieterszoon Lasman dies buried (b. 1583). Amsterdam Dutch painter and draftsman, specialized in religious, historical, and mythological scenes.
• 1643 - Simon Episcopius dies (b. 1583). Dutch theologian.
• 1646 - Antoine Galland was born (d. 1715). French archaeologist.
• 1648 - Grinling Gibbons was born (d. 1721). Master wood-worker.
• 1661 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven dies. Scottish soldier
• 1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was born (d. 11 Sep 1768). French astronomer / Nascia Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (m. 11 Set 1768). Astrónomo francês que propôs que a série de anéis (halos) coloridos observados ao redor do Sol são causados pela difração da luz solar através de gotículas de água / cristais de gelo em uma nuvem.
• 1693 - A Princesa D. Joana de Portugal, filha de D. Afonso V e D. Isabel, foi canonizada pelo Papa Inocêncio XII.
• 1701 - Joseph Haines dies. Entertainer and author.
• 1718 - Benjamin Kennicott was born (d. 1783). English churchman and Hebrew scholar.
• 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
• 1743 - Daniel Neal dies (b. 1678). English historian.
• 1758 - Pierre Paul Prud'hon was born (d. 16 Feb 1823). French Neoclassical painter and draftsman known for his softly modeled, emotionally Romantic style.
• 1758 - John Hoppner was born (d. 23 Jan 1810). English painter.
• 1761 - Theodore Gardelle dies (b. 1722). Swiss painter and enameler.
• 1766 - John Taylor dies (b. 1704). English classical scholar.
• 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith dies (b. 1728). Irish playwright.
• 1780 - Edward Hicks was born (d. 23 Aug 1849). Pennsylvania Folk artist, specialized in Animals.
• 1785 - O escritor português Barbosa du Bocage parte para a Índia .
• 1785 - Bettina von Arnim was born (d. 1859). German writer.
• 1791 - Em Paris, a igreja de Santa Genoveva é convertida num Panteão de Homens Ilustres .
• 1792 - James Sykes dies (b. 1725). American politician.
• 1802 - Dorothea Dix was born (d. 1887). American social activist.
• 1807 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande dies (b. 1732). French astronomer. / Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande (n. 11 Jul 1732). Astrónomo, nascido em Bourg-en-Bresse, França. Ele determinou a paralaxe da Lua em Berlim para a Academia Francesa (1751).
• 1809 - Benjamim Peirce was born (d. 06 Oct 1880). American mathematicien and astronomer / Nascia Benjamim Peirce (m. 06 Out 1880). Astrónomo, matemático e pedagogo americano que computou as perturbações gerais dos planetas Urano e Netuno .
• 1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
• 1812 - The territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state and will become known as Louisiana.
• 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
• 1814 - Thomas-Germain-Joseph Duvivier, dies (b. 30 Aug 1735). French artist.
• 1817 - André Masséna dies (b. 1758). French marshal.
• 1818 - The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
• 1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal was born (d. 1853) / Nascimento no Rio de Janeiro de Maria II de Portugal, filha de D. Pedro IV e da Imperatriz Maria Leopoldina.
• 1821 - Linus Yale was born born in Salisbury, New York (d. 24 Dec 1868). American inventor / Nascimento do inventor americano Linus Yale, responsável pela fechadura. (m. 24 Dec 1868).
• 1823 - Sir William Siemens was born in Lenthe, near Hanover (d. 19 Nov 1883). German engineer
• 1826 - Zénobe Gramme was born (d. 1901). Belgian engineer.
• 1841 - President William Henry Harrison dies (b. 1773) of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served.
• 1842 - Jean Moufot dies (b. 1784). French philosopher and mathematician.
• 1843 - Hans Richter was born in Raab, Gyoer (d. 5 Dec 1916). Hungarian conductor.
• 1843 - William Henry Jackson was born in Keeseville, New York (d. 30 Jun 1942) . American photographer.
• 1846 - Comte de Lautréamont was born (d. 1870). French writer.
• 1846 - Solomon Sibley dies (b. 1769). American Senator, Michigan Territory 1820-1823.
• 1849 - José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira dies. Portuguese statesman and politician.
• 1850 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
• 1861 - John McLean dies (b. 1785). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1864 - Alfredo Roque Gameiro was born. Portuguese wine.
• 1865 - American Civil War: A day after Union forces captured Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
• 1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. A design for a city gate to commemorate his escape was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition.
• 1870 - George Albert Smith was born (d. 1951). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .
• 1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies (b. 1802). German chemist and physicist.
  1871 - Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess dies (b. 29 Jul 1792). German artist.
• 1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé dies (b. 1826). French archaelogist and politician.
• 1875 - Pierre Monteux was born (d. 1964). French conductor.
• 1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck was born (d. 10 Oct 1958). French Fauvist painter.
• 1878 - Marie Isidore Henri Liénard de Saint-Délis was born (d. 15 Nov 1949). French painter.
• 1882 - Emil Filla was born (d. 07 Oct 1953). Czech painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and collector.
• 1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto was born (d. 1943). Japanese naval commander.
• 1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff dies (b.1860). Artist.
• 1885 - Arthur Murray was born (d. 1991). Dancer.
• 1887 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Medora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• 1887 - William Cumming Rose was born (d. 25 Sep 1985). American biochemist who researched the role of amino acids in nutrition determining which were essential, and calculated the minimum daily requirement for each of them.
• 1888 - Tris Speaker was born (d. 1958). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1895 - Arthur Murray was born (d. 1991). American dance teacher.
• 1898 - Agnes Ayres was born (d. 1940). American silent film actress, starred with Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik".
• 1902 - 100 years ago, British financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University.
• 1902 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin was born (d. 1969). French actress.
• 1905 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000.
• 1905 - Constantin Emile Meunier dies (b. 12 Apr 1831). Belgian sculptor and painter. He was one of the principal social-realist artists of the late19th century in Europe.
• 1906 - Bea Benaderet was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1906 - John Cameron Swayze was born (d. 1995). American journalist and television host.
• 1909 - Fundação do Sport Club Internacional, de Porto Alegre, Brasil.
• 1910 - Juri Pawlowitsch German was born (d. 1967). Writer.
• 1911 - Max Dupain was born (d. 1992). Australian photographer.
• 1913 - Frances Langford was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1914 - Marguerite Duras was born (d. 1996). Writer.
• 1914 - A Albânia decreta mobilização geral e ameaça entrar em guerra contra a Grécia.
• 1915 - Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield] was born (d. 30 Apr 1983). Blues singer, guitarrist ( Close to You, Baby Please Don’t Go, She’s Nineteen Years Old, I Can’t Be Satisfied, Honey Bee).
• 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme ends.
• 1919 - Sir William Crookes dies (b. 1832). Chemist and physicist.
• 1919 - Francisco Marto dies in Aljustrel (b. 11 Jun 1908). One of the Fatima vidents (Portugal). V. Os três pastorinhos de Fátima
• 1920 - Éric Rohmer was born. French film director.
• 1922 - Elmer Bernstein was born (d. 18 Aug 2004). American Academy Award -winning composer of film scores : Thoroughly Modern Millie [1967]; Sudden Fear, The Man with the Golden Arm, Ten Commandments, Sweet Smell of Success, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Walk on the Wild Side, The Magnificent Seven.
• 1922 - Dircinha Batista was born. Brazilian actress and singer.
• 1924 - Gil Hodges was born (d. 1972). Baseball player.
• 1928 - Maya Angelou was born. American poet and novelist.
• 1929 - Karl Benz dies (d. 1844). German enginneer, automobile pioneer.
• 1931 - André Michelin dies (b. 16 Jan 1853). French tyre manufacturer.
• 1931 - Bobby Ray Inman was born. American admiral and intelligence director.
• 1932 - Richard Lugar was born. American politician.
• 1932 - Anthony Perkins was born (d. 12 Sep 1992). American actor : Psycho series, The Sins of Dorian Gray, Mahogany, Murder on the Orient Express, On the Beach, Desire Under the Elms, Friendly Persuasion.
• 1932 - Andrei Tarkovsky was born (d. 1986). Russian film director.
• 1932 - Professor C.G. King of the University of Pittsburgh isolated vitamin C after five years of research.
• 1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald dies (born 2 Sep 1853). German chemist who almost single-handedly organized physical chemistry into a nearly independent branch of chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibrium, and reaction velocities.
• 1933 - In the USA, 73 people died when the helium-filled airship Akron crashed into the sea off the New Jersey coast.
• 1934 - Clive Davis was born. American record producer.
• 1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti was born (d. 01 Sep 1989). American University President ( Yale Univ.) and baseball commissioner who banned Pete Rose.
• 1939 - Hugh Masekela was born. Musician, trumpet:" Grazing in the Grass".
• 1939 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
• 1940 - Sharon Sheeley was born. American songwriter.
• 1941 - Mussum was born (d. 1941). Brazilian musician, actor and comedian.
• 1942 - Kitty Kelley was born. American writer.
• 1942 - Elizabeth Levy was born. American author of childrens' books.
• 1944 - Craig T. Nelson was born. American actor (Coach, The District, The Incredibles) .
• 1944 - Lili Caneças was born. Portuguese Jet Set queen.
• 1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit was born. French political activist.
• 1945 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.
• 1946 - Dave Hill was born. English guitarist (Slade).
• 1947 - Stephen Kerton was born. Banking wizard, wide-screen tv patron .
• 1947 - Luke Halpin was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Wiranto was born. Indonesian general.
• 1948 - Abdullah Öcalan was born. Kurdish leader.
• 1948 - Derek Thompson was born. Northern Irish actor.
• 1948 - Dan Simmons was born. American writer.
• 1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Portugal is one of them.
• 1949 - Nascia Shing-Tung Yau. Matemático Chinês premiado com a Fields Medal em 1983 pelo seu trabalho em equações diferencial parciais e geometria diferencial.
• 1950 - Christine Lahti was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Al Christie dies (b. 1881). Early Hollywood director/producer.
• 1951 - George Albert Smith dies (b. 1870). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1951 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
• 1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann was born. German high jumper.
• 1953 - Robert Bertrand was born. Canadian politician.
• 1954 - Maestro Arturo Toscanini conducted his last concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Toscanini ended a 17-year association with the orchestra.
• 1956 - David E. Kelley was born. American writer, television producer.
• 1957 - Aki Kaurismäki was born. Finnish film-director.
• 1957 - Severiano Ballesteros was born. Spanish professional golf player.
• 1957 - Aki Kaurismäki was born. Finnish film director
• 1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano was born. Japanese television performer and musician (Rats & Star).
• 1957 - Kelso was born. American racehorse.
• 1958 - Nascimento de Cazuza(Agenor Miranda de Araújo Neto), cantor da MPB, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1958 - Mary-Margaret Humes was born. American soap opera actress.
• 1958 - Don Bliss was born. Actor, Theater Educator, Writer and Congregational Pastor.
• 1960 - Jane Eaglin was born. English soprano .
• 1960 - Hugo Weaving was born. Australian actor .
• 1960 - José Peseiro was born. Portuguese football coach (ex- Sporting Club de Portugal).
• 1960 - Hugo Weaving was born. Actor .
• 1960 - 32nd Annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles. Ben-Hur, won eleven Academy Awards namely the Best Picture of 1959, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Charlton Heston); Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith). The best actress went to (Simone Signoret). The Best Supporting Actress award went to Shelley Winters for her performance in The Diary of Anne Frank, her second Oscar.
• 1963 - Dale Hawerchuk was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 - Jack Del Rio was born. American football player and coach.
• 1963 - Graham Norton was born. Talk show host.
• 1964 - The Beatles occupy all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
• 1964 - João Goulart es-presidente do Brasil exila-se no Uruguai.
• 1965 - Robert Downey Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1966 - Nancy McKeon was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. dies assassinated. The American black civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King was shot dead in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions (Nobel Prize in Peace 1964).
• 1968 - Jennifer Lynch was born. American director.
• 1968 - Morte de Assis Chateaubriand (Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo), membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras e expoente do mundo jornalístico brasileiro, em São Paulo-SP.
• 1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
• 1969 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is cancelled after the brothers failed to submit an episode before its broadcast date.
• 1969 - Rómulo Gallegos dies. Venezuelan novelist and politician.
• 1970 - Barry Pepper was born. Canadian actor.
• 1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. dies. American politician.
• 1972 - Stefan Wolpe dies (b. 1902). Composer.
• 1972 - Xenia Seeberg was born in Niederrhein, Germany. Model. Actress.
• 1972 - Isabelle Brinkman was born. Dutch television presenter and radio personality.
• 1973 - The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
• 1973 - Em Portugal tem lugar o 3.º Congresso da Oposição Democrática.
• 1973 - David Blaine was born. American illusionist.
• 1974 - Dave Mirra was born. American Extreme sports champion.
• 1975 - Scott Rolen was born. Baseball player.
• 1975 - Delphine Arnault was born. Billionaire French businesswoman.
• 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans. 172 people are killed.
• 1976 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
• 1978 - Começou a Guerra Civil em Angola.
• 1978 - O escritor cubano Alejo Carpentier recebe em Madrid o Premio Cervantes de Literatura.
• 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed, hanged in spite of international calls for clemency.
• 1979 - Heath Ledger was born. Australian actor.
• 1979 - Ali Bhutto dies executed (b. 1928). President and Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1979 - Natasha Lyonne was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Björn Wirdheim was born. Swedish race car driver.
• 1980 - Red Sovine dies. Country music entertainer .
• 1981 - Henry Cisneros became the first Mexican-American elected mayor of a major U.S. city - San Antonio, Texas.
• 1981 - In Dublin, Ireland, Bucks Fizz win the twenty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Making Your Mind Up".
• 1981 - Natasha Lyonne was born. Actress.
• 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
• 1983 - Gloria Swanson dies (b. 1897). Actress.
• 1984 - Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, begins writing in his secret diary.
• 1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
• 1984 - Portugal: A escritora portuguesa Alice Vieira é agraciada com o Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian para obras infantis, pelo seu livro Este Rei Que Eu Escolhi.
• 1987 - C.L. Moore dies (b. 1911). Science fiction writer.
• 1988 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• 1990 - Em El Salvador governo e guerrilha selam um acordo de paz.
• 1991 - H. John Heinz III dies (b. 1938). Member of the U.S. Senate in a plane crash.
• 1991 - Jamie Spears was born. American television show host.
• 1991 - Forrest Towns dies (b. 1914). American hurdler.
• 1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
• 1992 - Sali Berisha became the first non-Marxist president of Albania since World War II.
• 1992 - Alexa Nikolas was born. American actress on the show Zoey 101
• 1993 - Alfred Mosher Butts dies (b. 13 Apr 1899). Architect, artist and photographer, who invented the board game Scrabble.
• 1994 - Netscape Communications Corporation is founded (under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation") by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
• 1994 - Kurt Cobain dies. Rock Star, lead singer of Nirvana.
• 1995 - Kenny Everett dies. British television and radio broadcaster .
• 1996 - Barney Ewell dies (b. 1918). American athlete.
• 1996 - Larry LaPrise dies (b. 1913). Songwriter.
• 1997 - 21 países do Conselho da Europa subsscrevem a Convenção sobre Direitos Humanos e Biomedicina, que inclui a proibição de clonar seres humanos.
• 1998 - Inaugurada a Ponte Vasco da Gama, em Lisboa, a maior ponte da Europa.
• 1999 - Early Wynn dies (b. 1920). Baseball Hall of Famer .
• 2000 - Spring freeze brings chaos - Severe weather forces the closure of Luton airport as blizzards and flooding cause widespread chaos.
• 2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, film stuntman, died while filming xXx (movie).
• 2003 - Resortes (Adalberto Martinez Chavez) dies. Legendary Mexican comedian.
• 2003 - Sammy Sosa becomes the 18th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 2004 - Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army stage an uprising in several towns and cities in Iraq after the Coalition's closure of Sadr's al-Hawza newspaper.
• 2004 - Casey Sheehan dies (b. 1979). American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan
• 2005 - Edward Bronfman dies (b. 1924). Canadian Businessmen.