1201 -
Robert de Sorbon was born (d. 1274). French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne
1555 -
Justus Jonas dies (b. 1493). German protestant reformer
- 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was born (d. 1638). French mathematician
1688 - Claude Perrault dies (born 1613). Architect, physician and physicist. He was the architect of the oldest building of the Paris Observatory when it was founded in 1667 by King Louis XIV
1704 - Johann Andreas von Segner was born (d. 5 Oct 1777). German physicist and mathematician who recognized the surface tension of liquids.
1781 -
Nascimento de Dionisio de Herrera. Presidente de Honduras (1824-1827)
1797 -
Vilna Gaon dies (b. 1720). Lithuanian rabbi.
1799 - Sinking of
HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1801 - Auguste-Arthur de La Rive was born (d. 1873). Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries
1806 -
Benjamin Banneker dies (b. 9 Nov 1731). American astronomer, mathematician, author and clockmaker
1833 - Eugen Langen was born (d. 2 Oct 1895). German engineer who pioneered in building internal-combustion engines
1841 -
Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 6º vez) a presidência do México
1852 -
Hermann Emil Fischer was born (d. 15 Jul 1919). German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate in 1902, in recognition of his investigations of the sugar and purine groups of substances.
1853 - Nasce
José do Patrocínio (m. 1905). Jornalista, orador, poeta e romancista brasileiro.
1855 - The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer of New York
1855 - The first calliope is patented by Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts.
1873 -
Carl Flesch, was born (d. 1944). Hungarian violinist.
- 1873 - Charles Walgreen was born (d. 1939). American entrepreneur.
1873 -
Karl Schwarzschild was born (d. 11 May 1916). German theoretical astrophysicist, born in Frankfurt, Germany, who made both practical and theoretical contributions to 20th-century astronomy
1879 -
Max von Laue was born (d. 23 Apr 1960). German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals
1890 - It is reported, however without evidence, French electrical engineer Clément Ader was the first person to actually fly an airplane, but his steam-powered bat-like plane, "Eole", only rose a few inches off the ground. Ader coined the french word "avion" for aircraft. It is said to mean Appareil Volant Imitant les Oisaux Naturels: Flying Machine Imitating Natural Birds
1892 -
Ivo Andrić was born (d. 1975). Croatian writer
1900 - Ismael Nery was born. Brazilian painter. Pioneer of the surrealism in Brazil.
1906 - Joseph Farwell Glidden dies (b. 18 Jan 1813). A native of New Hampshire, Glidden was an Illinois
farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would
transform the West
- 1909 - Jacques Tati was born (d. 4 Nov 1982). Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958];
1911 - Antonio Borrero y Cortázar dies. President of Ecuador (1875-1876)
1916 -
Jean Dausset was born. French physician and imunologist
1918 -
O príncipe Friedrich Karl é eleito rei da Finlândia.
1918 -
Lila Kedrova was born (d. 2000). Russian-born actress.
1932 - Karl (Immanuel Eberhard) von Goebel dies (b. 8 Mar 1855). German botanist whose Organographie der Pflanzen (1898-1901; Organography of Plants, 1900-05) clarified the principles of the science of plant morphology in relation to form and structure.
1933 - Meteor shower: a great unpredicted meteor shower was seen from Europe that
surprised astronomers. Dr. W.J. Fisher, a Harvard astronomer, identified the
Giacobini-Zinner comet as the cause
- 1938 - The radio altimeter is first demonstrated in New York by Bell Labs, in the first public display of the device that gives pilots the height of an aircraft above the local terrain by bouncing radio signals off the ground to give a reliable altitude reading, thus changing aviation forever.
- 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
- 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell dies (b. 1865). Medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
1941 -
Helen Morgan dies (b. 1900). American singer and actress.
1941 - Panamá: um golpe de estado leva ao poder Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia.
1943 -
Pieter Zeeman dies (b. 1865). Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate in 1902 (shared with Hendrik A. Lorentz ) for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
1944 -
Peter Tosh was born (d. 1987). Jamaican musician
1946 - the Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50.
1950 -
Demetrio Herrera Sevillano dies. Panamanian poet.
1950 - Robert Wuhl was born. Emmy Award-winning writer: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards [1991], The 64th Annual Academy Awards [1992]; actor: A Kiss Goodnight, Cobb, The Bodyguard, Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance
1956 -
Marie Doro dies (b. 1882). American actress
1957 -
Don Garber was born. American sports commissioner.
1959 - Sir Henry Tizard dies (b. 1885). Scientist and administrator. Around 1920, with David Pye, his work on aircraft fuels ultimately led to the octane rating system, which expresses the anti-knocking characteristics of the fuel.
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1962 -
Milan Vidmar dies (b. 1885). Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player.
1962 -
Uganda becomes an independent republic from Great-Britain.
1963 - Edward Mutesa assume a presidência de Uganda
1963 - In northeast
Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the
Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1964 -
Bobby Flay was born. American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1967 - A day after being caught,
Che Guevara (b. 1928) is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in
Bolivia.
1967 -
Eddie Guerrero was born (d. 2005). Mexican professional wrestler
1967 - Gordon Allport dies (b. 11 Nov 1897). Humanistic
psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality.
1967 - Gheorge Popescu was born. Romanian footbal player
1969 - Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the
Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
1969 -
Amy Grissom was born. American artist and social worker
1970 -
Savannah was born (d. 1994). American actress
- 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi torna-se campeão do mundo de Fórmula 1.
1974 -
Oskar Schindler dies (b.28 Apr 1908). German businessman who saved Jews
1975 -
Mark Viduka was born. Australian football player
1978 -
Juan Dixon was born. American basketball player
1981 - Abolição da pena de morte em França.
1982 - Anna Freud dies (b. 3 Dec 1895). Austrian scientist, psychoanalyst [The ego and mechanisms of defense (1936) ]
1983 -
Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of
South Korean President
Chun Doo Hwan during an official visit to
Rangoon,
Burma. Chun survived but the blast killed 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, whilst 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also died in the blast.
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.
1985 - Henriqueta Lisboa dies. Brazilian writer.
1987 - Luis Veiga Leitão dies in Niterói, Brazil (b. in Moimenta da Beira, 27 May 1912). Portuguese poet.
1988 - Thousands of Latvians start a mass movement to press Moscow for greater independence from the Soviet Union.
1988 -
Valencia (Espanha) : São inauguradas as primeiras linhas subterraneas de
metro.
1989 -
Penny Lernoux dies (b. 1940). American journalist and author
1991 - Em Bruxelas, o escritor português Vergílio Ferreira é distinguido com o Prémio Europália/91.
1996 -
Walter Kerr dies (b. 1913). American theater critic.
1996 -
Robert F. Curl Jr.,
Richard E. Smalley, and
Sir Harold W. Kroto,
share the Nobel Prize in chemistry "
for their discovery of fullerenes". Three US scientists,
David M. Lee, 65,
Douglas D. Osheroff, 51, and
Robert C. Richardson, 59,
win the physics prize "
for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3".
1997 - Renúncia do primeiro-ministro da Itália, Romano Prodi.
1999 -
Milt Jackson dies (b. 1923). American jazz vibraphonist.
2000 - The
Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2000 is shared by
Arvid Carlsson, 77,
Paul Greengard, 74, and
Eric Kandel, 70, for their pioneering discoveries concerning one way brain cells send messages to each other, called "slow synaptic transmission.” These discoveries have been crucial for understanding how the brain normally works. In addition, the work laid the groundwork for developing the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease and contributed to the development of a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac.
2001 -
Dagmar dies (b. 1921). American television personality
2001 -
Herbert Ross dies (b. 1927). American film director and producer
- 2001 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, 39 (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology , Boulder, Colorado), Carl E. Wieman, 50 (JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder), and to Wolfgang Ketterle, 43, (German, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts) "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
2002 - After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years. The
NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
2002 - The 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is
announced to go by halves to
Daniel Kahneman (US Israel) “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty” and to
Vernon L. Smith (US) “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms”
2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in
Afghanistan.
2004 - Afghanistan: Interim president Hamid Karzai [24 Dec 1957~] a ashtun, wins 55% of the vote in the Afghan presidential election.
2004 - Criação ou nascimento na blogosfera de
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2004 - Portugal cede um surpreendente empate na deslocação ao Liechtenstein 2-2 em jogo do Grupo 3 de qualificação para o Campeonato do Mundo de futebol.
2005 -
Smoking is fully banned on the UK rail network.
2005 -
Louis Nye dies (b. 1913). American comedian and actor.
2006 -
Is announced that The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 goes to Edward Phelps "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".
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