On this day in History - Apr 16

• 1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca to his Kingdom after the Trojan War.
• 0069 - Otho dies (b. 0032). Roman Emperor.
• 0556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 0744 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik dies. Umayyad caliph.
• 0778 - King Louis the Pious was born (d. 0840)
• 0924 - Berengar of Friuli dies. King of Italy
• 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
• 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev dies (b. 1050). Russian prince.
• 1118 - Adelaide del Vasto dies. Wife of Roger II of Sicily
• 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria dies.
• 1319 - King John II of France was born (d. 1364).
• 1495 - Petrus Apianus was born (d. 1557). German mathematician.
• 1502 - Américo Vespucio descubre las islas que luego los marinos del Saint Maló llamarían Malouines (Malvinas).
• 1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the estates of the empire.
• 1581 - O espanhol Felipe II é proclamado rei de Portugal .
• 1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
• 1635 - Frans van Mieris the Elder, was born (d. 12 Mar 1681). Baroque Dutch painter.
• 1645 - Tobias Hume dies. English composer.
• 1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart was born (d. 1708). French architect.
• 1647 - (infant baptism) Matthijs Naiveu (or Neveu) was born (d. 04 Jun 1726). Dutch painter .
• 1652 - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope, 1730-40 .
• 1660 - Hans Sloane was born (d. 1753). British collector, naturalist and physician.
• 1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax was born (d. 1715). British poet and statesman.
• 1682 - John Hadley was born (d. 1744). British inventor.
• 1687 - Gaspar Pieter Verbruggen dies (b. 08 Sep 1635). Flemish artist.
• 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham dies (b. 1628). English statesman.
• 1689 - Aphra Behn dies (b. ca.1640). English dramatist.
• 1705 - Isaac Newton is knighted. From then on, just call him Sir.
• 1728 - Joseph Black was born (d. 1799). Scottish chemost, discoverer of carbon dioxide and magnesium.
• 1730 - Henry Clinton was born (d. 1795). British general.
• 1746 - Second Jacobite Rebellion: Battle of Culloden - In Scotland, the last battle of the Jacobite Rising; the destruction of the Highland clans .
• 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was born (d. 1842). French painter.
• 1755 - Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was born (d. 30 Mar 1842)French Neoclassical painter specialized in portraits.
• 1763 - George Grenville assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro britânico .
• 1780 - The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
• 1782 - Giuseppe Vasi dies (b. 28 Aug 1710). Italian engraver and painter.
• 1783 - Christian Mayer dies (b. 1719). Czech astronomer.
• 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon dies (b. 1707). French naturalist.
• 1799 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
• 1800 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan was born (d. 1888). British soldier.
• 1812 - Martin von Molitor dies (b. 20 Feb 1759). Austrian artist.
• 1813 - Muere Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, mariscal de campo ruso que rechazó la invasión de Napoleón.
• 1817 - Martin Drölling, dies. French academic painter baptized as an infant on 19 Sep 1752.
• 1821 - Ford Maddox Brown was born (d. 11 Oct 1893). English Pre-Raphaelite painter.
• 1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein was born (d. 1852). German mathematician.
• 1825 - Johann Heinrich Füssli “Henry Fuseli”, was born (d. 07 Feb 1741). Swiss British Romantic painter, draftsman, and writer, active in England.
• 1825 - Nascimento de Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup. Primeiro-ministro da Dinamarca (1875-1994)
• 1828 - Francisco de Goya, [Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes] dies (b. 30 Mar 1746). Spanish painter. One of the great Spanish masters, known for such works as Nude Maja, Clothed Maja and Third of May, 1808 .
• 1838 - Ernest Solvay was born. Belgium chemist.
• 1844 - Anatole France was born (d. 1924). French writer, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in literature.
• 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti dies (b. 1763). Italian composer.
• 1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
• 1854 - Un terremoto destruye San Salvador. Se traslada la capital de forma provisional a Cojutepeque.
• 1855 - João Lúcio de Azevedo was born (d. 1933). Portuguese historian.
• 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville dies in Cannes (b. 1805). French historian.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
• 1862 - American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia became law.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg - 12 ships lead by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Only one ship was lost.
• 1865 - Henry George Chauvel was born (d. 1945). Australian general.
• 1866 - Jose de Diego was born (d. 17 Jul 1918). Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico; April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in honor of de Diego;
• 1867 - Wilbur Wright was born (d. 30 May 1912). One of the Wright Brothers. American pioneer pilot .
• 1871 - John Millington Synge was born (d. 24 Mar 1909). Irish playwright: The Playboy of the Western World, The Aran Islands, Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints.
• 1878 - Reginald Foster was born (d. 1914). Only man to captain England at both football and cricket.
• 1879 - Jacob Jan van der Maaten, dies (b. 1820). Dutch artist.
• 1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• 1883 - Paul Kruger becomes the first President of South Africa.
• 1886 - Ernst Thälmann was born (d. 1944). German politician .
• 1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski dies (b. 1845). Polish physicist.
• 1889 - Charlie Chaplin was born (d. 1977). Actor, writer and film producer .
• 1893 - Joseph Yasser was born. Composer.
• 1897 - Frederick William Winterbotham was born (d. 1990). Code breaker.
• 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay was born (d. 1983). Canadian actress.
• 1904 - Samuel Smiles dies (b. 1812). Scottish writer and reformer.
• 1905 - Frits Philips was born (d. 2005). Dutch businessman.
• 1908 - António Lopes Ribeiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. Apr 1975). Film director and producer (Director: Pai Tirano, O (1941) Amor de Perdição (1943) Frei Luís de Sousa (1950) Primo Basílio, O ; Producer : Amor de Perdição (1943); Aniki Bóbó (1942); Pátio das Cantigas, O (1942); Pai Tirano, O (1941) (producer) (1959). Brother of Francisco Ribeiro (Ribeirinho) - actor.
• 1912 - Harriett Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 1912 - Garth Williams was born (d. 1996). American illustrator.
• 1912 - Catherine Scorsese was born (d. 1997). Italian-American actress.
• 1913 - Les Tremayne (Henning) was born (d. 19 Dec 2003). Actor: The War of the Worlds, Francis Goes to West Point, The Slime People, I Love Melvin;
• 1914 - John Hodiak was born (d. 19 Oct 1955). American actor : The Miniver Story, Conquest of Cochise;
• 1914 - George William Hill dies (b. 1838). American astronomer.
• 1915 - Gerard McLarnon was born (d. 1997). Irish playwright and actor.
• 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich dies (b. 1841). Senator from Rhode Island.
• 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) from exile in Finland.
• 1918 - Spike Milligan was born (d. 2002). British comedian.
• 1919 - Merce Cunningham was born. American dancer and choreographer: films: Changing Steps, Beach Birds for Camera.
• 1919 - Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors during the Amritsar Massacre. By organizing this event, Gandhi indirectly opposed the British government by temporarily halting the economy (as no Hindus worked on that day).
• 1920 - Barry Nelson (Nielsen) was born. Actor: Airport, The Shining, Pete ’n’ Tillie, The Human Comedy, Island Claw, Shadow of the Thin Man.
• 1920 - Morte de Theodore Vail (milionário norte-americano - 1º presidente da AT&T) .
• 1921 - Sir Peter Ustinov was born (d. 28 Mar 2004). Academy Award-winning actor: Spartacus [1960], Topkapi [1964]; Quo Vadis, Death on the Nile, Beau Bummel, Logan's Run, Billy Budd. Film director.
• 1922 - Kingsley Amis was born (d. 22 Oct 1995). English author ( The Crime of the Century, Lucky Jim )
• 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
• 1923 - Bennie Green was born (d. 23 Mar 1977). Trombonist, lyricist: The Diamond and the Goose; journalist;
• 1924 - Henry Mancini, [Enrico Nicola Mancini] was born (d. 14 Jun 1994). Academy Award-winning composer: Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962], Breakfast at Tiffany’s score [1961], Victor/Victoria score [1982]; composed themes for The Pink Panther, Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn, Charade, NBC Mystery Movie, NBC Nightly News, Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet; 20 Grammy Awards;
• 1925 - the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia claims the lives of 150 and injures another 500.
• 1926 - Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
• 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger was born. Cardinal .
• 1927 - Edie Adams was born. American actress.
• 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI was born.
• 1927 - Peter Mark Richman was born. American actor.
• 1927 - Gaston Leroux dies (b. 1868). French author.
• 1928 - Dick "Night Train" Lane was born (d. 2002). American football player.
• 1929 - Roy Hamilton was born (d. 20 Jul 1969). Singer: You’ll Never Walk Alone, If I Loved You, Ebb Tide, Unchained Melody, Don’t Let Go, You Can Have Her;
• 1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui dies. Peruvian journalist and writer .
• 1930 - Herbie Mann was born (d. 1 Jul 2003). American jazz musician, flautist: Hijack, Superman, Comin’ Home Baby, Bang! Bang!, Violets Don’t be Blue;
• 1931 - Edie Adams (Elizabeth Edith Enke) was born. Actress: The Apartment, The Oscar, Love with the Proper Stranger, The Ernie Kovacs Show; spokesperson for Muriel Cigars: “Hey big spender, spend a little time with me.” .
• 1932 - Walter Launt Palmer dies (b. 01 Aug 1854). US painter, son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer.
• 1933 - Ike Pappas was born. Newsman: CBS News.
• 1933 - Joan Bakewell was born. British broadcaster
• 1935 - Bobby Vinton [Stanley Vintulla] was born. Singer: Roses are Red [My Love], Blue on Blue, Blue Velvet, Mr. Lonely, There! I’ve Said It Again, My Melody of Love .
• 1935 - Sarah Kirsch was born. German poet.
• 1935 - Radio program Fibber McGee and Molly debuts.
• 1937 - Joseph Whipp was born. American actor
• 1938 - Steve Bloomer dies (b. 1874). English footballer.
• 1939 - Dusty Springfield [Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien] was born in Hampstead, London, England, UK (d. 02 Mar 1999). Singer: Wishin’ and Hopin’, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, The Look of Love, Son-of-a-Preacher Man, The Windmills of Your Mind, A Brand New Me; group: The Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [15- Mar-99];
• 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark was born.
• 1940 - Javier Adúriz was born. Argentine poet.
• 1941 - Émile Bernard, dies (b. 28 Apr 1868). French painter and writer .
• 1942 - Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg was biorn. Baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [Cy Young Award: 1967/World Series: 1967/all-star: 1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies .
• 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD .
• 1945 - WWII: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin .
• 1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc (Colditz Castle).
• 1945 - German troops in Groningen surrender.
• 1945 - German ship Goya, overfilled with refugees, sinks after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 7,000 people.
• 1945 - Red Army begins Battle of Berlin .
• 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet dies (b. 1884). Pioneer automobile racer and designer.
• 1946 - Margot Adler was born. American journalist
• 1947 - Gerry Rafferty was born. British musician and songwriter.
• 1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) was born. American basketball Hall of Famer: LA Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks: NBA career record: games played [1.560], points [38,387], field goals [15,387], blocked shots [3,189] cameo role: Airplane!
• 1947 - Gerry Rafferty was born. British musician and songwriter: Stuck in the Middle with You, Star, Baker Street
• 1948 - Instituída a O.C.D.E. - Organização Europeia de Cooperação Económica .
• 1948 - Elpidio Quirino y Rivera assume a presidência das Filipinas .
• 1949 - Dave Garroway moves to television from radio to host the musical-variety show Garroway at Large.
• 1949 - Bill Spooner was born. Musician: guitar: group: The Tubes: LPs: Young and Rich, T.R.A.S.H., Love Bomb.
• 1951 - O submarino inglês Affray afunda no Canal da Mancha (75 vítimas).
• 1951 - Pierre Toutain-Dorbec was born. French photographer, painter, sculptor
• 1951 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu was born. Romanian writer and photographer
• 1951 - Björgvin Halldórsson was born. Icelandic singer
• 1952 - Bill Belichick was born. American football coach
• 1952 - Billy West was born. American voice actor
• 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Brittania.
• 1953 - Jay O. Sanders was born. Actor: Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Crime Story, Aftermash .
• 1953 - A fire at a Chicago metalworking plant kills 35 people.
• 1953 - J. Neil Schulman was born. American science fiction writer and activist.
• 1953 - Diogo Dória was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1954 - Ellen Barkin was born in Bronx, New York. American Emmy Award-winning actress: Before Women Had Wings [1997 miniseries]; Diner, Tender Mercies, Wild Bill, Bad Company, Daniel, Sea of Love, Eddie and the Cruisers.
• 1955 - Rita Ribeiro was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1955 - Bruce Bochy was born. Baseball player and manager
• 1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod was born. Swiss slalom skier.
• 1958 - 22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
• 1958 - Javier Sardá was born. Spanish TV presenter.
• 1958 - Rosalind Franklin dies (b. 1920). British chemist.
• 1959 - Alison Ramsay was born. Scottish field hockey player.
• 1960 - Rafael Benitez was born. Spanish football manager
• 1960 - Pierre Littbarski was born in Berlin, Germany . German former soccer player.
• 1961 - Doris Dragović was born. Croatian singer.
• 1962 - Ian MacKaye was born. American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
• 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter From a Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
• 1963 - Jimmy Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah. American singer (The Osmonds : the youngest Osmond).
• 1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
• 1964 - Dave Pirner was born. American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
• 1965 - Martin Lawrence was born. American actor, comedian, and producer
• 1965 - Jon Cryer was born. American actor: Heads, Hot Shots!, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace, Pretty in Pink, No Small Affair, Partners, The Famous Teddy Z .
• 1965 - Floris Jespers dies (b. 1889). Belgian artist.
• 1965 - Martin Lawrence was born. Actor, comedian, producer.
• 1968 - Edna Ferber dies (b. 1885). American author.
• 1968 - Martin Dahlin was born. Swedish footballer.
• 1970 - Comienza en Viena la conferencia SALT, entre soviéticos y estadounidenses, en la que tratan la limitación de armas estratégicas.
• 1970 - Paisley victory rattles NI parliament : Protestant right-winger Ian Paisley has won a seat in Northern Ireland's parliament.
• 1971 - Selena [Quintanilla Perez] was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, USA singer Grammy-1994) (d. 31 Mar 1995 Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. - homicide).
• 1971 - Natasha Zvereva was born in Minsk, Belarus. Tennis ace, finals 1995 Indian Wells.
• 1972 - Conchita Martinez was born in Monzon, Spain. Tennis star, 1996 final Indian Wells .
• 1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches toward the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive - Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
• 1972 - Yasunari Kawabata dies (b. 1899). Japanese novelist Nobel Prize in Literature - 1968.
• 1973 - Nino Bravo was born. Spanish singer, songwriter.
• 1975 - Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh.
• 1975 - Sean Maher was born. American actor
• 1975 - Tiago (Tiago Alexandre B. Ferreira) was born. Portuguese footballer (goalkeeper of Sporting)
• 1976 - Lukas Haas was born. American actor: Boys, Leap of Faith, Rambling Rose, The Lady in White, Witness, Mars Attacks!
• 1977 - Fredrik Ljungberg was born. Swedish footballer.
• 1977 - Thomas Rasmussen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1978 - Matthew Lloyd was born. Australian football player.
• 1978 - Richard Lindner dies (b. 11 Nov 1901). German born /US Pop painter.
• 1978 - Vicente Leporace dies (b. 1912). Brazilian actor.
• 1978 - Lucius Clay dies (b. 1897). American general.
• 1979 - 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
• 1979 - 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15 .
• 1979 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" .
• 1979 - Howlin' Pelle Almqvist was born. Swedish musician (The Hives)
• 1980 - Adriana Sage was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Pornostar.
• 1981 - The first American space shutte, Columbia, returns safely to Earth.
• 1983 - Cat Osterman was born. University of Texas softball pitcher
• 1984 - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28.
• 1984 - 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34.
• 1985 - Scott Brady dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 1984 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" .
• 1985 - O governo da África do Sul abole a lei que proíbe o casamento entre negros e brancos.
• 1986 - O Congresso Nacional brasileiro aprova o Plano Cruzado.
• 1987 - Comienza en Argentina la insurrección militar de Semana Santa, liderada por Aldo Rico y el coronel Venturino.
• 1987 - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• 1987 - Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
• 1987 - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in central London charged with gross indecency.
• 1987 - Aaron Lennon was born. British footballer.
• 1988 - In Forlì (Italy), Red Brigades kill Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
• 1990 - 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23 .
• 1990 - 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
• 1991 - David Lean dies (b. 25 Mar 1908). American film director director(2 Academy Awards-Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia).
• 1992 - Neville Brand dies (b. 1920). American actor.
• 1992 - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
• 1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
• 1993 - Presta juramento el nuevo presidente de Nigeria, Mahaman Usman, el primero elegido democráticamente en más de tres décadas.
• 1994 - Liliana Mumy was born. American child actress.
• 1994 - Ralph Ellison dies (b. 1914). American writer.
• 1995 - 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Ray Floyd wins .
• 1996 - France Télécom introduces its Wanadoo Internet service .
• 1996 - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea dies in Habana (b. 11 Dec 1928). Cuban film director.
• 1996 - El príncipe Andrés de Inglaterra y su esposa Sara, Duques de York, anuncian su divorcio.
• 1996 - Juddy Collins /Louis Nelson wed .
• 1996 - Raymond Earl Hill dies at 62. Saxophonist.
• 1997 - Doris Angleton dies (b. 1951). Houston, Texas socialite.
• 1997 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, a Houston, Texas socialite, is murdered in her River Oaks home. Robert Nicholas Angleton, Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury. His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton would later admit to killing her in a suicide note.
• 1997 - Roland Topor dies (b. 1938). French illustrator.
• 1997 - Incêndio em boite na cidade de Amarante - Portugal (12 vítimas)
• 1998 - One of the most serious urban tornadoes in history does significant damage to downtown Nashville, Tennessee (see Nashville Tornado of 1998).
• 1998 - Fred Davis dies (b. 1913). English snooker player.
• 2000 - Protests against the World Bank and IMF in Washington, DC.
• 2001 - First 3G voice call on Vodafone UK's 3G network.
• 2001 - Giacomo Gentilomo dies. Italian film director.
• 2001 - Michael Ritchie dies (b. 1920). American film director.
• 2001 - Alec Stock dies (b. 1917). English football manager.
• 2002 - Ruth Fertel dies (b. 1927). American restaurateur.
• 2002 - Robert Urich dies (b. 1946). American actor.
• 2003 - Makobo Modjadji is crowned the new Rain Queen of Balobedu.
• 2003 - The Accession Treaty is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
• 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas dies. English horticultural artist, author, and garden designer.
• 2004 - Parlamento espanhol aprova José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
• 2004 - Início do processo por corrupção contra o primeiro-ministro Silvio Berlusconi.
• 2005 - Indiana funeral procession of longtime Little Oscar mascot George Molchan, 82, is led by Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.
• 2005 - Kay Walsh dies (b. 1911). British actress.
• Birthday of the Queen celebrated in Greenland.
• Mawlid in Shi'a Islam (2006).