- 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
- 1047 - Pope Clement II dies (b. 1005)
- 1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir was crowned as king of the Croatia.
- 1201 - Robert de Sorbon was born (d. 1274). French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne
- 1221 - Salimbene di Adam was born. Italian chronicler
- 1253 - Robert Grosseteste dies. English statesman and bishop
- 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal was born (d. 1325)
- 1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus was born (d. 1369)
- 1390 - King John I of Castile dies (b. 1358). /Morre Rei João I de Castela, de uma queda de cavalo (n. 1358)
- 1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
- 1547 - Miguel Cervantes is baptized. Spanish novelist best known for El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha . In English translation: Don Quixote
- 1555 - Justus Jonas dies (b. 1493). German protestant reformer
- 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio dies (b. 1523). Italian anatomist
- 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa dies (b. 1533). Russian prince.
- 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was born (d. 1638). French mathematician
- 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1585 - Heinrich Schütz was born. German composer.
- 1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria was born (d. 1632). Regent of Tyrol
- 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki dies (b. 1537). Japanese shogun.
- 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- 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
- 1691 - William Sacheverell dies (b. 1638). English statesman.
- 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- 1704 - Johann Andreas von Segner was born (d. 5 Oct 1777). German physicist and mathematician who recognized the surface tension of liquids.
- 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland dies (b. 1640). English mistress of Charles II of England
- 1729 - Richard Blackmore dies (b. 1654). English physician and writer .
- 1740 - D. Luís da Cunha dies (b. 1662). Portuguese diplomat.
- 1757 - King Charles X of France was born (d. 1836)
- 1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot dies (b. 1718). French missionary
- 1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger was born (d. 1878). English Egyptologist.
- 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
- 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
- 1818 - Francisco Navarro Villoslada was born. Spanish writer.
- 1831 - Capo d'Istria was assassinated.
- 1831 - John Capodistria dies (b. 1776). Governor of Greece.
- 1833 - Eugen Langen was born (d. 2 Oct 1895). German engineer who pioneered in building internal-combustion engines
- 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns was born (d. 1921). French composer
- 1840 - Simeon Solomon was born (d. 1905). British artist
- 1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus was born (d. 1935). French military officer
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
- 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
- 1871 - George Gauthier was born (d. 1940). Bishop of Montreal and rector of the University of Montreal
- 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
- 1874 - General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1874 - Nicholas Roerich was born (d. 1947). Russian painter.
- 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
- 1885 - Nascia, no Funchal, ilha da Madeira, Francisco Franco de Sousa (m. 15 Fev 1955). Escultor português.
- 1886 - Rube Marquard was born (d. 1980). Baseball player
- 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was born (d. 1938). Russian politician.
- 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson was born (d. 1944). American evangelist.
- 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
- 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva was born (d. 1941). Russian poet.
- 1893 - Mário de Andrade was born (d. 1945). Brazilian writer and photographer. / Nasce, em S. Paulo, Mário de Andrade (m. 1945). Escritor brasileiro e idealizador da Semana de Arte Moderna
- 1899 - Bruce Catton was born (d. 1978). American journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954
- 1900 - Alastair Sim was born (d. 1976). Scottish actor.
- 1900 - Ismael Nery was born. Brazilian painter. Pioneer of the surrealism in Brazil.
- 1903 - Walter O'Malley was born (d. 1979). American baseball executive.
- 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor was born. Poet and President of Senegal (1960-1980).
- 1907 - Quintin Hogg was born (d. 2001). British politician.
- 1909 - Jacques Tati was born (d. 4 Nov 1982). Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958];
- 1909 - Donald Coggan was born (d. 2000). Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1911 - Joe Rosenthal was born. American photographer.
- 1911 - Antonio Borrero y Cortázar dies. President of Ecuador (1875-1876)
- 1916 - Jean Dausset was born. French physician and imunologist
- 1918 - Lila Kedrova was born (d. 2000). Russian-born actress.
- 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe was born (d. 1976). Norwegian author.
- 1921 - Michel Boisrond was born (d. 2002). French film director.
- 1923 - Fyvush Finkel was born. American actor.
- 1924 - Valery Bryusov dies (b. 1873). Russian writer and critic.
- 1925 - Johnny Stompanato was born (d. 1958). American organized crime figure.
- 1926 - Danièle Delorme was born. French actress
- 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara was born. Finnish composer.
- 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
- 1933 - Peter Mansfield was born. British physician.
- 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia dies assassinated (b. 1888)
- 1934 - Louis Barthou dies assassinated (b. 1862). Prime Minister of France
- 1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent was born. Member of the British Royal Family.
- 1936 - Brian Blessed was born. English actor
- 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
- 1938 - Heinz Fischer was born. Austrian politician.
- 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 - John Lennon was born (d. 1980). British musician and songwriter (The Beatles)
- 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 - Trent Lott was born. American politician.
- 1941 - Chucho Valdés was born. Cuban musician.
- 1941 - Brian Lamb was born.C-SPAN founder and CEO
- 1941 - Helen Morgan dies (b. 1900). American singer and actress.
- 1941 - Panamá: um golpe de estado leva ao poder Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia.
- 1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
- 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 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
- 1944 - John Entwistle was born (d. 2002). British musician (The Who)
- 1944 - Nona Hendryx was born. American singer (LaBelle)
- 1944 - Peter Tosh was born (d. 1987). Jamaican musician
- 1946 - Tansu Çiller was born. Turkish prime minister
- 1946 - the Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50.
- 1947 - France Gall was born. French singer
- 1948 - Jackson Browne was born. American musician
- 1950 - Jody Williams was born. American who was the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 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
- 1950 - George Hainsworth dies (b. 1895). National Hockey League goaltender.
- 1952 - Sharon Osbourne was born. English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
- 1953 - Tony Shalhoub was born. American actor
- 1954 - Scott Bakula was born. American television actor
- 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer dies (b. 1875). Archbishop of Vienna
- 1956 - Marie Doro dies (b. 1882). American actress
- 1957 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1957 - Don Garber was born. American sports commissioner.
- 1958 - Michael Pare was born. American actor.
- 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.
- 1960 - Kenny Garrett was born. American jazz saxophonist
- 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.
- 1962 - Jorge Burruchaga was born. Argentinian football player.
- 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 - Guillermo del Toro was born. Mexican actor and film director.
- 1964 - Bobby Flay was born. American celebrity chef and restaurateur
- 1966 - David Cameron was born. British politician
- 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 - André Maurois dies. French writer (b. 1885).
- 1967 - Gordon Allport dies (b. 11 Nov 1897). Humanistic psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality.
- 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood dies (b. 1897). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1967 - Gheorge Popescu was born. Romanian footbal player
- 1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
- 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 - P.J. Harvey was born. English musician
- 1969 - Amy Grissom was born. American artist and social worker
- 1970 - Kenny Anderson was born. American basketball player
- 1970 - Savannah was born (d. 1994). American actress
- 1970 - Annika Sörenstam was born. Swedish golfer
- 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 1971 - Michael Manna was born. American professional wrestler
- 1971 - Simon Atlee was born (d. 2004). British Photographer, most notable person killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
- 1972 - Miriam Hopkins dies (b. 1902). American actress.
- 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi torna-se campeão do mundo de Fórmula 1.
- 1973 - Steven Burns was born. Actor and musician.
- 1973 - Fabio Lione was born. Italian musician (Rhapsody)
- 1973 - Terry Balsamo was born. American guitarist
- 1974 - Oskar Schindler dies (b.28 Apr 1908). German businessman who saved Jews
- 1975 - Sean Lennon was born. English musician
- 1975 - Mark Viduka was born. Australian football player
- 1975 - Nobel Peace Prize is attributed to the soviet dissident, physician Andreï Dmitrievitch Sakharov in recognition of his struggle against "the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms."
- 1978 - Nicky Byrne was born. Irish musician (Westlife)
- 1978 - Juan Dixon was born. American basketball player
- 1978 - Jacques Brel dies (b. 1929). Belgian musician
- 1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo was born. Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 - Brandon Routh was born. American Actor
- 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg was born. Swedish ice hockey player
- 1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan was born. American actor
- 1981 - Darius Miles was born. American basketball player.
- 1981 - Abolição da pena de morte em França.
- 1982 - António Mendonça was born. Angolan football player
- 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 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici dies (b. 1905). President of Brazil
- 1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.
- 1986 - Laure Manaudou was born. French swimmer.
- 1986 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
- 1986 - The FOX Network begins broadcasting.
- 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce dies (b. 1903). American diplomat
- 1987 - Luis Veiga Leitão dies in Niterói, Brazil (b. in Moimenta da Beira, 27 May 1912). Portuguese poet.
- 1987 - Guru Gopinath dies (b. 1908). Indian classical dancer
- 1987 - William Parry Murphy dies. American physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1934.
- 1988 - Thousands of Latvians start a mass movement to press Moscow for greater independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1988 - Felix Wankel dies (b. 13 Aug 1902). German engineer who invented the first rotary internal combustion engine (Wankel Rotary Combustion Engines and Vehicles)
- 1989 - Penny Lernoux dies (b. 1940). American journalist and author
- 1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
- 1990 - Géza Ottlik dies (b. 1912). Hungarian writer
- 1991 - Em Bruxelas, o escritor português Vergílio Ferreira é distinguido com o Prémio Europália/91.
- 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
- 1992 - Tyler James Williams was born. American actor.
- 1994 - Jodelle Ferland was born. Canadian actress
- 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home dies 8b. 1903). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 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".
- 1999 - João Cabral de Melo Neto dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 6 Jan 1920, in Recife, Pernambuco). Brazilian poet and diplomat who won The Camões Prize in 1990.
- 1999 - Milt Jackson dies (b. 1923). American jazz vibraphonist.
- 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous dies (b. 1918). Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- 2000 - David Dukes dies (b. 1945). American actor
- 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 - Roberto Campos dies (b. 1917). Brazilian economist.
- 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 - The tri-annual federal election is held in Australia and Liberal Party of Australia leader, John Howard, wins a fourth term as Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark Latham of the Australian Labor Party
- 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 Eu sei que vou-te amar. Deixo aqui os meus parabéns pela passagem do 2º. aniversário, e recomendo a sua visita.
- 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 - China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announces the new accurate height of Mount Everest is 8848.43 m.
- 2005 - When Tropical Depression 23 strengthens into Hurricane Vince it makes the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the first season on record to use a name beginning with V.
- 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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