1726 - Thomas Pennant was born (d. 16 Dec 1798). Welsh naturalist and
traveller, one of the leading zoologists of his time.
1736 -
Charles Augustin de Coulomb was born (d. 23 Aug 1806). French physicist best known for the formulation of Coulomb's law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
1746
Colin Maclaurin dies. Scottish mathematician born in February 1698. In 1742 he published Treatise of fluxions, the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods written as a reply to Berkeley's attack on the calculus for its lack of rigorous foundations.
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber (47) was murdered. French general, architect.
1835 - Nikolai Rubinstein was born. Russian pianist.
1856 -
Andrey Andreyevich Markov was born (d. 20 Jul 1922). Russian
mathematician who helped to develop the theory of stochastic processes, especially those called Markov chains, sequences of random variables in which the future variable is determined by the present variable but is independent of the way in which the present state arose from its predecessors.
1862 - John Ulric Nef was born (d. 13 Aug 1915). Swiss-American
chemist 1864 -
Alois Alzheimer was born (d. 19 Dec 1915). German psychiatrist who
recognized the disease named after him. At a meeting German psychiatrists in Nov 1906, Alzheimer reported a case of an his patient. The title of his lecture was
Über eiene eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (On a peculiar disorder of the cerebral cortex). Later on, at the suggestion of Emil Kraepelin, presenile dementia was designated "Alzheimer's disease." This
disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that affects the brain.
1868 - Karl Landsteiner was born (d. 26 Jun 1943). Austrian
immunologist and pathologist, who
received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his
discovery of the major blood groups and development of the ABO system of blood typing that much reduced risk and made blood transfusion a routine medical practice.
1876 - Elkanah Billings dies (b. 5 May 1820). Canadian geologist and
paleontologist, who was the first Canadian paleontologist. For three years as the editor of the Ottawa Citizen, he wrote a series of articles on science, including geology and paleontology.
1894 - Federico Madrazo dies. Painter.
1900 - The
Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the
German navy.
1901 - Clarence Day was born. Hockey player.
1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote.
1907 - René Char was born. French poet.
1908 - Joaquim Paço d'Arcos was born. Portuguese writer.
1909 -
Burl Ives was born (d. 1995). American musician.
1910 - A Maçonaria decide nomear uma «comissão de resistência» encarregada de colaborar d forma mais activa com a Carbonária.
1912 - E. Cuyler Hammond was born (d. 3 Nov 1986). Scientist who was the first to
link smoking with lung cancer. In 1957, while
research director of the American Cancer Society, Hammond told congressional investigators that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases.
1916 -
Dorothy McGuire was born (d. 2001). American actress
(A Tree Grows in rooklyn, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Young and the Restless, Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women [TV: 1979], The Last Best Year);
1917 - Atle Selberg was born. Norwegian-born
mathematician who is one of the
foremost analytic number theorists.He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in number theory on generalisations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun. In 1986 he won the Wolf Prize.
1919 -
Gene Barry [Eugene Klass] was born in New York, N. Y. . Actor
(Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles ). 1920 -
Max Weber dies (b. 1864). German sociologist.
1922 - Sport Clube Lusitânia - Portugal is founded.
1924 - Sir James Whyte Black was born. British pharmacologist who (along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his
development of two important drugs,
propranolol and cimetidine.
1927 - President Porfirio Diaz of Nicaragua signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
1940 -
World War II:
Paris falls under
German occupation. O exército alemão entra em Paris, previamente tornada cidade livre.
1944 - Joaquín Álvarez Quintero dies. Spanish dramatist.
1945 - Nascimento em Porto Alegre - RS, de
Carlos Reichenbach (Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho), actor e director do cinema brasileiro.
1946-
Federigo Enriques, 75, Italian mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and to the history and philosophy of mathematics.
1949 - The state of Vietnam was formed.
1961 - Sam Perkins‘The Big Smooth’ was born. Basketball player: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers.
1966 - The
Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in
1557.
1968 -
Yasmine Bleeth was born. Actress
(Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans) 1969 -
Steffi Graf was born. German tennis player champ:
Australian Open [1988, 1989, 1990, 1994], French Open [1987, 1988, 1993], Wimbledon [1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993], U.S. Open [1988, 1989, 1993]. 1971 - Alexandra Castillo was born in Santiago, Chile. Actress.
1972 - the insecticide DDT was banned from use in the U.S. after 31 Dec 1972, by executive order of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1977 - Camila Pitanga was born. Brazilian actress.
1986 -
Jorge Luis Borges dies in Geneva (b. 1899). Argentine poet, essayist, short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature.
1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax occurs as customers throughout the
USA discover
syringes in unopened cans of Diet
Pepsi Cola.
1993 - Realiza-se um referendo no Malawi pelo qual é aprovado o multipartidarismo neste país.
1994 - Primeiro vôo do Boeing 777-200
1994 -
Henry Mancini dies (b. 1924). Academy Award-winning composer. On Apr 14, 2004, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor.
1997 - El presidente croata Franjo Tudjman [14 May 1922 – 10 Dec 1999], que lidera la nacionalista-conservadora Unión Democrática Croata (HDZ), es reelegido para un nuevo mandato de cinco años.
2000 - No maior passo pela paz desde o fim da Guerra da Coréia, os líderes da Coréia do Norte e do Sul assinam um acordo prometendo trabalhar pela reconciliação e por uma eventual reunificação.
2002 - Portugal perde com a Coreia do Sul por 1-0 e é afastada da fase seguinte do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 2002. Para além disso João Pinto é expulso e acusado de agredir o árbitro.
2002 -
June Jordan dies (b. 1936). American writer and teacher.
2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a
car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
2003 - The
Los Angeles,
USA radio station
KROQ opens the eleventh annual of the
KROQ Weenie Roast with
AFI,
The Ataris,
Blur,
Chevelle,
Deftones,
Finch,
Foo Fighters,
Godsmack,
Good Charlotte,
Hot Hot Heat,
Interpol,
Jane's Addiction,
Less Than Jake,
Liam Lynch,
Staind,
Sum 41,
Thrice,
The Transplants,
The Used,
The White Stripes, and
Pete Yorn.
2003 - End of two days of referendum, by which voters in the Czech Republic endorse entry of their country into the European Union.
Dave Day - Memorable Daves celebrated around the world
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