- 0868 - Ali al-Hadi, dies (b. 0828). Shia Imam.
- 1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
- 1109 - Alfonso VI of Castile dies.
- 1277 - Baibars dies. Mameluk sultan of Egypt
- 1566 - Nostradamus dies (b. 1503). French astrologer.
- 1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born (d. 1716). German mathematician and philosopher.
- 1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
- 1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia dies (stabbed to death)
- 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1730)
- 1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach dies (b. 1710). German composer.
- 1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin) was born (d. 1876). French writer.
- 1819 - Jemima Wilkinson dies. Preacher
- 1836 - Joaquín Prieto is reelected President of Chile.
- 1854 - Uma centena de importantes comerciantes de Buenos Aires fundam a atual Bolsa da capital argentina.
- 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1860 - Charles Goodyear dies. American inventor.
- 1862 - Russian State Library is founded
- 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1863 - William Stairs was born (d. 1892). lorer.
- 1867 - The British North America Act takes effect as the constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
- 1867 - Abolição da pena de morte em Portugal para todos os crimes civis.
- 1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1872 - Louis Blériot was born (d. 1936). French aviation pioneer
- 1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 1876 - O Colorado tornou-se o oitavo Estado da união dos Estados Unidos da América.
- 1876 - Mijail A. Bakunin dies. Russian anarquist.
- 1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1879 - William Strunk Jr. was born (d. 1946). Grammarian
- 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
- 1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, USA.
- 1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1894 - Allan Pinkerton dies. American private detective
- 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe dies. American author
- 1899 - Charles Laughton was born (d. 15 Dec.1962 ). Award-winning actor: The Private Life of Henry VIII [1933]; Mutiny on the Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, Advise and Consent, Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Kidd, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Spartacus; husband of actress Elsa Lanchester.
- 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey was born (d. 23 Jan 1993). ‘Father of Gospel Music’: musician: pianist; blues composer; gospel music composer: composed over 1,000 gospel songs;
- 1902 - William Wyler was born (d. 27 Jul 1981). three-time Academy Award-winning director: Funny Girl, Ben Hur, The Big Country, Friendly Persuasion, Roman Holiday, Carrie, Wuthering Heights;
- 1903 - Amy Johnson was born (d. 1941) . Aviator.
- 1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.
- 1906 - Estée Lauder was born (d. 2004). Cosmetics pioneer.
- 1906 - Portugal: É fundado o Sporting Clube de Portugal por José Alvalade.
- 1906 - Fundación del Club Talleres de Remedios de Escalada de Argentina
- 1908 - Peg Entwistle was born (d. 1932). Actress.
- 1909 - Bill Stern was born. Sportscaster
- 1911 - No Perú, o americano Hiram Bingham descobriu as ruinas da cidade sagrada dos incas Machu Picchu
- 1912 - David R. Brower was born (d. 2000). Environmentalist
- 1914 - Em Londres, o cientista Archibald Low apresentou um aparelho para emissão de imagens à distância, a que deu o nome de "televisão"
- 1914 - Fundação do Americano Futebol Clube de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
- 1915 - Fundação do Olaria Atlético Clube do estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 1916 - First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed, and 40,000 wounded.
- 1916 - Lei Seca nos Estados Unidos: 24 estados americanos proibiram as bebidas alcóolicas, em um prenúncio da Lei Seca. A 18° emenda entrou em vigor em 1920 e durou quase 14 anos, proibindo a fabricação, transporte, venda ou porte de qualquer bebida alcóolica. A clandestinidade fez proliferar os gangsters e a corrupção policial
- 1916 - Olivia de Havilland was born. Academy Award-winning actress: To Each His Own [1946], The Heiress [1949]; Gone with the Wind; sister of actress, Joan Fontaine
- 1917 - Rolf Rodenstock was born (d. 1977). Industrialist.
- 1926 - Hans Werner Henze was born. German composer
- 1921 - Fundado o Partido Comunista Chinês
- 1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 1925 - Erik Satie dies. French composer .
- 1926 - Hans Werner Henze was born. German composer.
- 1927 - Inauguración del estadio de Cerro Porteño de Paraguay, en donde hoy se ubica el Santuario Nacional del Perpetuo Socorro.
- 1928 - General Alvaro Obregón is elected President of Mexico.
- 1930 - Bobby Day was born (d. 27 Jul 1990). Singer.
- 1931 - Leslie Caron was born. Actress: Lili, The L-Shaped Room, Gigi, An American in Paris, Father Goose, Daddy Long Legs
- 1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.
- 1934 - Jean Marsh was born. Actress : Upstairs, Downstairs, The Jewel in the Crown, Fatherland, Frenzy, The Changeling
- 1934 - Sydney Pollack was born. Film director: The Firm, Out of Africa, Tootsie, Absence of Malice, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were
- 1934 - Jamie Farr was born. Actor: M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball Run, With Six You Get Egg Roll
- 1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
- 1941 - Twyla Tharp was born. Choreographer
- 1941 - Alfred G. Gilman was born. Scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1942 - Andraé Crouch was born. Singer, conductor, actor
- 1942 - Geneviève Bujold was born. Actress.
- 1944 - Tanya Savicheva dies. Russian diarist
- 1945 - Deborah Harry was born. Musician, (Blondie)
- 1946 - June Montiero was born. Singer formerly of the group the Toys
- 1946 - Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias was born. President of Panamá.
- 1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
- 1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.
- 1950 - Eliel Saarinen dies (b. 1873). Finnish architect, father of Eero Saarinen.
- 1951 - Fred Schneider was born. Keyboardist, The B-52's
- 1952 - Dan Aykroyd was born. Actor
- 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
- 1959 - Tomás Monje dies. President of Bolivia (1946-1947)
- 1960 - Independence of Somalia.
- 1960 - Evelyn King was born in Bronx, New York. American soul/dance singer.
- 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales was born (d. 31 Ago 1997)
- 1961 - Carl Lewis was born. American athletics legend, nine-time Olympic Olympic Gold Medalist: long jump [1996], long jump and 4x100 relay [1992], 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, a world record, long jump, 4x100 meter relay [1988], 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4x100 meter relay [1984]; Olympic Hall of Famer; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1983, 1984]
- 1961 - Michelle Wright was born. Singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer
- 1961- Louis-Ferdinand Céline dies (b. 1894). French writer.
- 1962 - Independence of Rwanda.
- 1962 - Independence of Burundi.
- 1963 - ZIP Code introduced for United States mail.
- 1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
- 1963 - U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome
- 1964 - Pierre Monteux dies (b. 1875). French conductor.
- 1965 - Wally Hammond dies.English cricketer.
- 1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
- 1967 - Pamela Anderson was born. Actress: Baywatch, Raw Justice, Playboy’s Babes of Baywatch, Pam & Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon, Cribs
- 1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
- 1967 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández assume a presidência de El Salvador
- 1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1968 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers with the AFL-CIO.
- 1969 - O príncipe Carlos de Inglaterra é investido como Príncipe de Gales, no Castelo de Caernarvon.
- 1971 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott was born. Hip hop artist .
- 1972 - Claire Forlani was born. Actress : J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, The Rock, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Meet Joe Black, AntiTrust
- 1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
- 1973 - Jesus Christ Superstar closed in New York City after 720 performances on Broadway. The cast album quickly became a million-seller.
- 1974 - Juan Domingo Perón, dies (b. 1895). President of Argentina. Maria Estela Martinez de Perón succeeds him into the Presidency.
- 1976 - Início dos XXI Jogos Olímpicos, em Montreal (Canadá).
- 1976 - Patrick Kluivert was born. Dutch football player.
- 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy was born. Dutch football player.
- 1977 - Jarome Iginla was born. NHL hockey player.
- 1977 - Liv Tyler was born. Model, actress: Silent Fall, Heavy, That Thing You Do!, Armageddon, Cookie’s Fortune, Lord of the Rings series
- 1981 - Carlos de Oliveira dies (b. 1921). Portuguese writer.
- 1982 - Carmella DeCesare was born in Avon Lake, Ohio. American model who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2004.
- 1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller dies. American architect and philosopher
- 1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais dies. Ukrainian-born educator
- 1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
- 1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
- 1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
- 1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
- 1991 - Michael Landon dies (b. 1936). American actor, director, and producer.
- 1995 - Wolfman Jack dies (b. 1939). Radio personality.
- 1995- Henrique Santana dies. Portuguese actor.
- 1996 - William T. Cahill dies. Governor of New Jersey .
- 1997 - Robert Mitchum dies. American actor
- 1999 - At the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament in nearly three centuries, Winnie Ewing opened with the famous words, "The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened."
- 1982-1988.
- 1999 - Edward Dmytryk dies. Director
- 1999 - Joshua Nkomo dies. One of the leaders of Zimbabwe independency.
- 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr. dies. American candy magnate
- 1999 - Sylvia Sidney, dies (b. 1910). Actress.
- 2000 - Walter Matthau dies. American actor
- 2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
- 2000 - Mais de 300 mil pessoas celebram na localidade cubana de Manzanillo o regresso do menino Elián González, que naufragou em frente a costa da Flórida, vindo de Cuba e cuja custódia foi, durante sete meses, uma batalha legal entre Cuba e EUA.
- 2001 - Morre Nikolai Básov, físico russo, um dos inventores do laser e prêmio Nobel de física em 1964.
- 2001 - A Selecção brasileira perde para o Uruguai (1 -0) na estreia do técnico Luiz Felipe Scolari
- 2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.
- 2003 - 500,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to protest, amongst other things, the government's handling of the plans to implement a new anti-subversion law required under Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law. )
- 2003 - Herbie Mann dies. American jazz flutist
- 2003 - Wesley Mouzon dies. Boxer
- 2003 - N!xau dies. Namibian bushman who appeared in The Gods Must Be Crazy
- 2004 - Marlon Brando dies. American actor
- 2004 - 530,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to urge for faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage, according to Article 45 and Article 68 of Hong Kong's Basic Law.
- 2005 - Microsoft plans to end official support of Windows 2000
- 2005 - Make Poverty HistoryDay and Live8 Concert. ).
- 2005 - United Kingdom takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - national holiday of Canada
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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