0668 - Constantine II dies at 37. Emperor of Byzantium
1024 - Death of St. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
1573 -
Inigo Jones was born (d. 1652). English architect 1573: Inigo Jones London, architect; restored St Paul's cathedral. He brought the Palladium style of Italian Renaissance architecture to England.
1606 -
Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden, Netherlands. (d. 1669). Dutch artist. He painted "
The Anatomy Lesson or The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp," "Old Woman Cutting Her Nails" and "Night Watch." Other works include
"Self Portrait Leaning Forward" (1628), "Two Studies of Saskia Asleep" (1635-1637), "Jupiter and Antiope" (1659) and "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer." 1609 - Annibale Carracci dies. Painter.
1631 -
Jens Juel was born (d. 1700). Danish diplomat.
1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg was born. Founder of Moravian Church in North America
1779 -
Clement Clarke Moore was born (d. 1863). American educator, author, and poet. Author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night Before Christmas") , founder of the General Theological Seminary in New York City,
1796 -
Thomas Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts. (d. 1796). American mythologist.
1814 - Edward Caswall, was born. English clergyman and hymn translator. Caswall's English versions of some hymns are still sung today. 'Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee' and 'When Morning Gilds the Skies.'
1817 - Sir John Fowler was born (d. 20 Nov 1898). 1st Baronet. English civil
engineer who helped design and build the London Metropolitan Railway, thus pioneering the original London underground.
1837 - Nascimento de Estafânia de Hohenzollern (1837-1859), rainha de Portugal pelo seu casamento, em 1858, com D. Pedro V.
1848 -
Vilfredo Pareto was born (d. 1923). Italian economist and sociologist.
1850 -
Mother Cabrini (Frances Xavier Cabrini) was born (d. 1917). Italian-born Roman Catholic saint. She was the first U.S. citizen to be made a saint.
1856 - Sir Weetman Dickinson was born (d. 1 May 1927). 1st Viscount
Cowdray of Midhurst. British engineer and a
developer of the Mexican petroleum industry.
1857 - Carl Czerny dies. Austrian pianist.
1868 - William Thomas Green Morton dies (b. 9 Aug 1819). American surgeon who was the first
dentist to use ether (letheon) during an tooth extraction, privately on on 30 Sep 1846.
1869 - Margarine was patented by Hippolyte Mège Mouriés in Paris. He won a contest held by Emperor Napoleon III to find a suitable substitute for butter used by the French Navy.
1877 -
Alfredo González Flores was born. President of Costa Rica (1914-1917).
1886 -
Jacques Riviere was born (d. 14 Feb1925). French writer and publisher.
1892 -
Walter Benjamin was born (d. 1940). German literary critic and writer.
1900 - Thomas Francis, Jr. was born. American microbiologist and epidemiologist who isolated the viruses responsible for influenza A (1934) and influenza B (1940) and developed a polyvalent vaccine effective against both strains.
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was born [Old Style - The date 15 Jul 1904 Old Style is 28 Jul 1904 New Style](d. 6 Jan 1990). Soviet
physicist who discovered Cherenkov radiation (1934), a faint blue light emitted by electrons passing through a transparent medium when their speed exceeds the speed of light in that medium. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with Igor Y. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank.
1909 -
William Gemmell Cochran was born in Rutherglen, Scotland (d. 29 Mar 1980, in Orleans, Massachusetts). Statistician.
1912 - Francisco Lazaro, dies at 21 during the marathon of Stocholm Olympic Games (b. 1891). Portuguese runner who was the first athlet of Benfica, in Olympic Games.
1914 -
Hammond Innes was born (d. 1998). English writer(
The Angry Mountain; North Star) 1914 - Vencido totalmente por las fuerzas constitucionalistas de don Venustiano Carranza, el usurpador Victoriano Huerta se ve precisado a renunciar a la Presidencia de la República. Deja encargado del gobierno al licenciado Francisco Carvajal y Gual (quien lo ejercerá de esta fecha hasta el 13 de agosto del mismo en que lo tomará don Venustiano Carranza).
1918 -
Bertram N. Brockhouse was born (d. 2003). Canadian physicist, who shared
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 (with American physicist Clifford G. Shull) for their separate but concurrent development of neutron-scattering techniques.
1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. / Segunda Batalha do Marne. Os exércitos alemães, comandados pela dupla Hindenbourg - Ludendorff, tentam tomar Paris. Serão derrotados por um misto de tropas americanas, italianas e britânicas. Foi a última ofensiva alemã na frente ocidental.
1919 -
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin (d. 8 Feb 1999). English writer (
A Severed Head) 1921 - Bruce Merrifield was born. American
biochemist and educator who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his
development of a simple and ingenious method for synthesizing chains of amino acids, or polypeptides, in any predetermined order
1922 -
Leon M. Lederman was born. American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 their joint research and discovery (1960-62) of a new subatomic particle, the muon neutrino.
1923 - Philly Joe Jones was born (d. 30 Aug 1985). American jazz percussionist.
1928 -
Carl Woese, was born. American microbiologist who recognized the existance of the organisms
Archaea as a third domain of life, distinct from the previously recognized two domains of bacteria, and life other than bacteria
1930 -
Stephen Smale was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work in topology and dynamical systems.
1933 -
Julian Bream was born. English guitarist and lutenist
1933 -
Guido Crepax was born (d. 2003). Italian comics artist.
1934 -
Risto Jarva was born (d. 1977). Finnish filmmaker.
1935 -
Alex Karra was born in Gary, Indiana, USA. American football player and actor
1935 - Ken Kercheval was born in Wolcottville, Indiana, USA . Actor (Dallas) .
1939 - Eugen Bleuler dies (b. 30 Apr 1857). Swiss psychiatrist, who introduced the term "schizophrenia" (1908) to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox
1939 -
Aníbal Cavaco Silva was born. Portuguese economist and politician. President of Portugal
.1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent was born. Actor
1945 - Peter Lewis was born. Rock singer-musician (Moby Grape) .
1946 - Muere en la ciudad de México, el ingeniero don Miguel Ángel Quevedo (n. 27 Sep 1862), a quien se le bautizó como el Apostol del Árbol, por su tesonera defensa de la riqueza forestal del país.
1951 -
Jesse Ventura was born. Professional wrestler and Governor of Minnesota
1954 - First flight of the
Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
1956 -
Ian Curtis was born (d. 1980). British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division)
1956 -
Barry Melrose was born. Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
1956 - Joe Satriani was born. Rock musician
1959 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal dies. Austrian poet and dramatist.
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen was born. Danish actress.
1966 -
Irène Jacob was born. French-born Swiss actress .
1967 - José Elías Moreno dies. Mexican actor.
1970 -
Chi Cheng was born. American musician.
1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971 -
Danijela was born. Croatian singer
1976 - A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. The captives escaped unharmed.
1979 -
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz dies in Mexico City. President of Mexico (1964-1970).
1989 - Maria Kuncewicz dies in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. Novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer. Cudzoziemka (The Stranger) is considered her best work.
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz dies in Mexico City. President of Mexico (1964-1970).
1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
1993 -
Hugo Ballivián Rojas dies. President of Bolívia (1951-1952).
1993 - Fermat Theorem is solved by a British mathematician.
1995 - Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by
Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on
Amazon.com 1996 -
MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
1996 - Prince Charles and Princess Di signed divorce papers.
1996 - Hercules C-130 of the Royal Belgian Air Force carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people died in the flames, two people died of their injuries. Seven people sustained severe burns.
1996 -
Dana Hill dies (b. 1964). American actress.
1997 -
Gianni Versace dies shot outside his home in Miami. The man believed to be the gunman, suspected serial killer Andrew Philip Cunaman was found dead eight days later (b. 1946). Italian fashion designer.
1997 - In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic was elected president of the Yugoslav federation in a vote that opposition parties said was illegal.
1998 - Carlos Eurico da Costa dies. Portuguese surrealist poet.
1999 - China declared that it had invented its own neutron bomb.
2000 - Paul Young, singer, Mike and the Mechanics, dies at 53
2002 - So-called "American
Taliban"
John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a
felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
2003 - Adi Preißler dies. German footballer.
2004 Charles W. Sweeney dies. American retired Air Force General, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II
Brunei - Birthday of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam
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