Nothingandall: On this day in History

0841 - Battle of Fontenay
1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, dies (b. 1160). Norman crusader.
1535 - Sebastián Belalcázar funda Guayaquil, a segunda cidade mais importante de Equador atualmente.
1579 - Hatano Hideharu dies (b. 1541) Japanese daimyo and samurai.
1634 - John Marston, dies (b. 1576). English playwright.
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann dies. German composer.
1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann dies (b. 1776). German writer, composer, and painte.
1852 - Antoni Gaudi was born (d. 1926). Architect.
1858 - Georges Courteline was born (d. 1929). Dramatist.

1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid dies. Ottoman Sultan

1864 - Walther Nernst was born (d. 1941). German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry
1865 - Robert Henri was born (d. 1929). Painter.
1876 - Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1882 - François Jouffroy dies (b. 18906)French sculptor.
1884 - Hans Rott dies. Composer
1884 - Henry Kahnweiler was born (d. 1979). Art promoter.
1887 - Um comboio descarrila entre o caminho Bilbao-Zaragoza. Morrem 40 pessoas e inúmeras ficam feridas.
1887 - George Abbott was born (d. 1995). Playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor
1894 - Hermann Oberth was born (d. 1989). Physicist.
1900 - Louis Mountbatten, was born (d. 1979). 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1903 - George Orwell was born (d. 1950). Writer.
1906 - Pedro Montt wins the presidential elections in Chile.
1909 - Nasce no Cairo Eva Nil (Eva Comello), actriz do cinema brasileiro.
1911 - Nasce William Howard Stein, bioquímico norte-americano.
1912 - William T. Cahill, was born. Governor of New Jersey
1913 - Cyril Fletcher, was born (d. 2005). British comedia.
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, was born (d. 1998). Actor.
1916 - Thomas Eakins, dies. Artist .
1924 - Sidney Lumet was born. American film director.
1925 - John Briley was born. American novelist.
1925 - Golpe Militar na Grécia encabeçado pelo general Pangalos.
1936 - Yusuf Habibie Bachadurin was born. President of Indonesia.
1937 - Colin Clive dies (b. 1900). British actor.
1923 - Nicholas Mosley was born. British writer
1924 - Sidney Lumet was born. Actor, director
1925 - June Lockhart was born. American actress
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann was born (d. 1973). Writer.
1927 - Em Portugal, foi fundada a Associação de Cegos Luis Braille
1929 - Eric Carle was born. Children's author
1930 - Mary Beth Peil was born. American opera singer and actress
1932 - Peter Blake was born. Artist
1933 - James Meredith was born. American civil rights activist
1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira was born. Portuguese architect.
1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
1941 - Nascimento em Deschambault, Quebec- Canadá de Denys Arcand. Actor.
1945 - Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1945 - Carly Simon was born. Singer
1948 - William C. Lee dies (b. 1895). U.S. general.
1948 - Bento de Jesus Caraça dies. Portuguese mathematician and professor / Morre o professor, escritor e político português Bento de Jesus Caraça, fundador da Biblioteca Cosmos.
1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
1952 - Miguel Sousa Tavares was born. Portuguese journalist and writer
1954 - Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos was born. Brazilian actor.
1955 - Terry Chimes was born. Musician
1956 - Boris Trajkovski was born (d. 2004). President of the Republic of Macedonia
1959 - Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960 - Tommy Corcoran dies (b, 1869). Baseball player
1963 - George Michael was born. Singer
1963 - Yann Martel was born. Author
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo was born. Basketball player
1967 - First global satellite television programme - "Our World"
1970 - Lucy Benjamin was born. British actress.
1970 - Henrique Galvão dies. Portuguese politician.
1972 - Carlos Delgado was born. Baseball player
1973 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1974 - Karisma Kapoor was born. Indian actress
1975 - Linda Cardellini was born. American actress
1975 - Albert Costa was born. Spanish tennis player
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik was born. Russian chess player.
1975 - Mozambique is proclaimed Independent State (from Portugal)
1976 - Johnny Mercer dies. American songwriter
1977 - Fernanda Lima was born. Brazilian actress and TV presenter.
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1982 - Mikhail Youzhny was born. Russian tennis player
1983 - Nargis Farahmand was born. Afghani poet.
1983 - Alberto Ginastera dies (b. 1916). Argentine composer.
1984 - Michel Foucault dies. French philosopher.
1985 - Hanna Perez Moza was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash) .
1985 - Em Portugal, Mário Soares demitiu-se do cargo de Primeiro-Ministro
1986 - Aya Matsuura was born. Japanese singer
1988 - Hillel Slovak dies. Guitarist
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1994 - Michel Foucault dies. Frenc pholosopher.
1995 - Warren Burger dies. United States Supreme Court justice
1995 - A Frente Nacional para o Câmbio e para a Democracia triunfa nas eleições presidenciais no Haiti.
1995 - William Layton dies. American dramatist.
1995 - Ernest Walton dies (b. 1903). Irish physicist who won The Nobel Prize in 1951.
1996 - Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau dies. French explorer, scientist, and inventor.
1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 - The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.
2001 - Milton Santos dies (b. 1926). Brazilian geographer.
2003 - Lester Maddox dies. Segregationist Governor of Georgia
2005 - John Fiedler dies (b. 1925). Voice of Piglet in many Winnie the Pooh productions.
Statehood day in Slovenia and Croatia
Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
National Catfish Day
Spain - Fiesta of Santa Orosia
Mozambique - Independence Day
American Radio Relay League - Field Day 2006