- 0192 - Lucius Aurelius Commodus dies murdered (b. 0161). Roman Emperor.
- 0535 - Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.
- 1164 - Margrave Ottokar III of Styria dies (b. 1124).
- 1194 - Leopold V of Austria dies killed at a tournament in Graz.
- 1229 - James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (nowadays Palma de Mallorca, Spain) thus consuming the Christian conquest of the island of Mallorca.
- 1297 - Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford dies (b. 1249). English soldier.
- 1302 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1238).
- 1378 - Pope Callixtus III was born (d. 1458).
- 1384 - John Wycliffe dies. English philosopher, theologian and religious reformator.
- 1424 - Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter dies. English military leader
- 1460 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland dies executed (b. 1443). Brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
- 1460 - Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury dies (b. 1400). English politician.
- 1491 - Jacques Cartier was born. French explorer.
- 1492 - Jews are expelled from Sicily.
- 1510 - Bianca Maria Sforza dies (b. 1472). Wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1514 - Andreas Vesalius was born (d. 1564). Flemish anatomist who, as a university teacher insisted on conducting detailed dissections on human cadavers personally ( "De humani corporis fabrica") .
- 1535 - William Skeffington dies (b. 1465). Lord Deputy of Ireland.
- 1553 - Pedro de Valdivia funda en Chile los fuertes de Arauco, Puren, Tucapel y la ciudad de Los Confines o Angol.
- 1568 - Shimazu Tadayoshi dies (b. 1493). Japanese daimyo.
- 1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan was born (d. 1617) .
- 1575 - Pierino Belli dies (b. 1502). Italian soldier and jurist.
- 1583 - Thomas Erastus dies (b. 1524). Swiss theologian.
- 1588 - Fray Luis de Granad dies in Lisbon. Spanish ascetic writer.
- 1600 - British East India Company is chartered.
- 1610 - Ludolph van Ceulen dies (b. 1540). German mathematician.
- 1650 - Dorgon dies (b. 1612). Chinese emperor.
- 1668 - Herman Boerhaave was born (d. 1738). Dutch humanist and physician.
- 1673 - Oliver St John dies. English statesman and judge.
- 1679 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli dies (b. 1608). Italian physiologist who was the first to explain muscular movement and other body functions according to the laws of statics and dynamics. ["De motu animalium (Rome, 1680)].
- 1691 - Dudley North dies (b. 1641). English economist.
- 1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
- 1719 - John Flamsteed (b. 1646). English astronomer who established the Greenwich Observatory, as one of a group of scientists who convinced King Charles II to build a national observatory.
- 1720 - Charles Edward Stuart was born (d. 1788). Pretender to the British throne.
- 1738 - Charles Cornwallis was born (d. 1805). 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general.
- 1742 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1661)
- 1744 - James Bradley announced the discovery of Earth's motion of nutation, or wobbling.
- 1753 - Alexandre de Gusmão dies in Lisbon (b. in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil in 1695). Diplomat and politician.
- 1763 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve was born (d. 1806). French admiral.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Quebec.
- 1784 - Para reforzar la lucha contra los piratas, Carlos III establece la pena de galeras en España.
- 1799 - Jean-François Marmontel dies (b. 1723). French historian and writer.
- 1805 - Marie de Flavigny best known for Daniel Stern was born. French writer.
- 1816 - Sir William Withey Gull was born (d. 1890); A leading English physician of his time, lecturer and physician at Guy's Hospital, London, and an outstanding clinical teacher.
- 1830 - José Elias Garcia was born (d. 1891). Portuguese politician. President of the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon.
- 1830 - Isma'il Pasha was born (d. 1895). Governor of Egypt.
1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City. - 1838 - D. Luís I was born in Lisbon (d. 19 Oct 1889). King of Portugal
- 1846 - Portugal: Os miguelistas são completamente derrotados em Braga, tendo o seu comandante, Macdonell sido preso e morto em 30 de Janeiro de 1847 (O liberalismo em Portugal).
- 1860 - Joseph S. Cullinan was born. American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco
- 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two); meanwhile, the Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- 1864 - Robert Grant Aitken was born (d.1951). American astronomer who specialized in the study of double stars, of which he discovered more than 3,000.
- 1868 - É ocupada Assunção, a capital do Paraguai, por uma coluna brasileira sob o comando do Coronel Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca.
- 1869 - Henri Matisse was born (d. 1954). French painter and graphic artist. Along with Picasso, Matisse is considered one of the two foremost artists of the modern period. His contribution to 20th-century art is inestimable.
- 1872 - Aleksis Kivi dies (b. 1834). Finnish author
- 1877 - Gustave Courbet dies (b. 1819). French painter.
- 1878 - Elizabeth Arden was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada (d. 1966). Beautician, business executive.
- 1878 - Horacio Silvestre Quiroga was born in Salto. Uruguayan writer
- 1879 - Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
- 1880 - George C. Marshall was born (d. 1959) General and cabinet member, recipient of Nobel Prize in Peace 1953 for the Marshall Plan.
- 1880 - Fred Beebe was born (d. 1957). Baseball player.
- 1881 - Max Pechstein was born (d. 1955). Painter and graphic artist .
- 1882 - Martin O'Meara was born (d. 1935). Australian soldier.
- 1884 - Bobby Byrne was born (d. 1964). American baseball player.
- 1888 - Samson Raphael Hirsch dies (b. 1808). German rabbi.
- 1889 - Ion Creangă dies. Romanian writer.
- 1890 - Francisca Carrasco Jiménez (Pancha) dies (b. 1816). "Defensora de lasLibertades Patrias" de Costa Rica.
- 1891 - A new immigration depot is opened on Ellis Island, New York.
- 1894 - Pola Negri was born (d. 1987). Polish actress.
- 1894 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies (b. 1856). Dutch mathematician.
- 1898 - Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was born (d. 1975). He was a leading English ethnographer of the Mayan people.
- 1902 - Lionel Daunais was born (d. 1982). Quebec singer and composer.
- 1902 - Candido López dies in Baradero, Buenos Aires. Argentine painter.
- 1903 - Nathan Milstein was born (d. 1992). Ukrainian violinist.
- 1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
- 1905 - Alexander Popov dies (b. 1859). Russian physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed in Russia as the inventor of radio.
- 1905 - Jule Styne was born (d. 1994). English-born composer.
- 1905 - Waldemar Seyssel was born in Jaguariaiva, Paraná (d. 23 May 2005). Brazilian comedian and actor.
- 1908 - Simon Wiesenthal was born. Concentration camp survivor, activist
- 1909 - Manhattan Bridge Opens
- 1909 - Jonah Jones was born (d. 2000). American jazz trumpeter.
- 1910 - Carl Dudley was born (d. 1973). American film director.
- 1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize .
- 1913 - Seth Carlo Chandler dies (b. 1846). American astronomer best known for his discovery (1884-85) of the Chandler Wobble, a complex movement in the Earth's axis of rotation (now refered to as polar motion) that causes latitude to vary with a period of 14 months.
- 1916 - The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the USA at the time, burns to the ground.
- 1917 - António José Saraiva was born (d. 17 Mar 1993). Portuguese essayst and Professor
- 1919 - Tommy Byrne was born. Baseball player
- 1920 - Rex Allen was born (d. 1999). American actor and singer.
- 1921 - Boies Penrose dies (b. 1860). American Senator from Pennsylvania.
- 1923 - The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.
- 1923 - Se inauguran los servicios aéreos entre Buenos Aires y Montevideo.
- 1924 - Taylor Mead was born. American actor.
- 1926 - Tom Marvolo Riddle was born. English wizard.
- 1928 - Siné was born. French cartoonist
- 1929 - Jeremy Bernstein was born; American physicist, educator, and writer widely known for the clarity of his writing for the lay reader on the major issues of modern physics.
- 1929 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time .
- 1930 - Odetta was born. American singer
- 1931 - Bob Shaw was born (d. 1996). Irish writer.
- 1933 - Edward Bunker was born (d. 2005). American author, screenwriter and actor.
- 1934 - Akram Awan was born. Islamic scholar
- 1934 - Cornelia Maria Clapp dies [b. 1849]; American zoologist and educator whose influence as a teacher was great and enduring in a period when the world of science was just opening to women.
- 1935 - Monopoly was patented, game assigned to Parker Brothers, Inc., by Charles Darrow of Pennsylvania.
- 1935 - Manuel Portela Valladares preside un nuevo Gobierno en España.
- 1936 - Miguel de Unamuno dies (b. 1864). Spanish writer and philosopher.
- 1937 - Avram Hershko was born. Israeli biologist, Nobel laureate.
- 1937 - Anthony Hopkins was born. Welsh actor.
- 1938 - The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced in Indianapolis.
- 1938 - Rosalind Cash was born (d. 1995). American actress.
- 1940 - Arsène d'Arsonval dies (b. 1851). French physician and physicist who was a pioneer in therapeutic use of electricity, heat, and light.
- 1941 - Alex Ferguson was born. Football (soccer) player and well known manager (Manchester United).
- 1941 - Sarah Miles was born. English actress.
- 1942 - Andy Summers was born. British musician (The Police)
- 1943 - John Denver was born (d. 1997). Country/pop musician.
- 1943 - Ben Kingsley was born in Scarborough England; actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice...).
- 1943 - Pete Quaife was born. English bass guitarist (The Kinks)
- 1944 - Taylor Hackford was born. American film producer and director
- 1945 - Diane von Fürstenberg was born. Belgian-born fashion designer
- 1945 - Connie Willis was born. American writer
- 1946 - President Harry Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 1947 - Rita Lee Jones was born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer and composer.
- 1947 - Burton Cummings was born. Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
- 1947 - Tim Matheson was born. American actor.
- 1948 - Donna Summer was born in Boston. American singer.
- 1948 - René Robert was born. National Hockey League player
- 1948 - Malcolm Campbell dies (b. 1885). English race car driver.
- 1949 - 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia.
- 1949 - Ellen Datlow was born. American editor
- 1951 - George Thorogood was born. American musician.
- 1951 - Tom Hamilton was born. American musician (Aerosmith)
- 1953 - James Remar was born. American actor
- 1953 - Jane Badler was born. American actress
- 1953 - Albert Plesman dies (b. 1889). Dutch aviation pioneer.
- 1954 - Alex Salmond was born. Scottish Politician
- 1955 - General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year.
- 1956 - On December, 31st. in Romania was launched the first TV program.
- 1956 - Francisco José Tenreiro dies (b. 1921). Poet and government official, São Tomé & Príncipe
- 1958 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara encabeza la ocupación de Santa Clara. Horas más tarde Fulgencio Batista huye de Cuba.
- 1958 - Bebe Neuwirth was born. American actress.
- 1959 - Phill Kline was born. American politician
- 1959 - Paul Westerberg was born. American musician (The Replacements)
- 1959 - Val Kilmer was born. American actor ( The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors) .
- 1960 - John Allen Muhammad was born. American serial killer.
- 1961 - The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe .
- 1961 - Rick Aguilera was born. Baseball player.
- 1962 - Heather McCartney was born. British activist.
- 1962 - Pedro Cardoso was born. Brazilian actor.
- 1963 - The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
- 1964 - Allen D'Nulderf was born. American stuntman
- 1964 - Ólafur Thors dies (b. 1892). Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1964 - Bobby Byrne dies (b. 1884). Baseball player.
- 1965 - Fernanda Porto was born. Brazilian singer.
- 1965 - Nicholas Sparks was born. American writer.
- 1968 - Marien Ngouabi assumed the presidency of the Republic of the Congo.
- 1969 - George Lewis dies (b. 1900). American jazz musician.
- 1971 - US President Richard Nixon signs the National Air Quality Control Act, which calls for a 90% reduction in automobile emissions by 1975. The act also tightened air-pollution controls and fines in other industries.
- 1971 - Brent Barry was born. American basketball player.
- 1971 - Esteban Loaiza was born. Mexican Major League Baseball player
- 1971 - Pete Duel dies (b. 1940). American actor.
- 1971 - Marin Sais dies (b. 1890). American actress.
- 1971 - Vikram Sarabhai dies (b. 1919). Indian physicist.
- 1972 - Joe McIntyre was born. American singer and songwriter (New Kids on the Block)
- 1972 - Roberto Clemente dies (b. 1934). Baseball player. From Puerto Rico Roberto Clement was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, being the first Hispanic American to be selected.
- 1975 - Pela primeira vez em 51 anos, a corrida de São Silvestre, maratona internacional realizada todos os anos em São Paulo, aceitou a participação de mulheres.
- 1976 - Vanessa Kerry was born. Daughter of American Senator John Kerry
- 1977 - Wardy Alfaro was born. Costa Rican football player
- 1977 - Donald Trump Jr. was born. Son of entrepreneur Donald Trump
- 1977 - Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah dies (b. 1924). Ruler of Kuwait.
- 1978 - Papoose was born. African-American rapper.
- 1978 - En Colombia el Movimiento 19 de Abril sustrae más de cinco mil armas de una guarnición militar conocida como Cantón Norte.
- 1979 - La Reina Isabel II de Inglaterra nombra caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico al director de cine Alfred Hitchcock.
- 1980 - Léopold Sédar Senghor resigns after 20 years as Senegalese president .
- 1980 - Richie McCaw was born.New Zealand rugby player
- 1980 - Bob Bryar was birn. American drummer (My Chemical Romance)
- 1980 - Matt Cross was born. American professional wrestler
- 1980 - Marshall McLuhan dies (b. 1911). Canadian writer.
- 1980 - Raoul Walsh dies (b. 1887). American film director.
- 1981 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings becomes Africa's first post-independent head of state after overthrowing Frederick Akuffo's government in Ghana.
- 1981 - Jason Campbell was born. American football player
- 1981 - Matthew Pavlich was born. Australian football player
- 1982 - Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies [ b. 1901] German mathematician.His main work was on partial differential equations in mathematical physics.
- 1983 - The last day that the AT&T Bell System exists before being broken up by the United States Government.
- 1983 - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup .
- 1984 - Luciano Jaramillo Trujillo dies. Colombian painter.
- 1985 - Rick Nelson dies (b. 1940). American singer.
- 1985 - João de Araújo Correia dies (b. 1 Jan 1899). Portuguese writer [Contos Bárbaros (1939), Montes Pintados, Contos Durienses, Folhas de Xisto ]
- 1986 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
- 1986 - Lloyd Haynes dies (b. 1934). American actor.
- 1987 - Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.
- 1988 - No Rio de Janeiro o Bateau Mouche IV afunda na Baía de Guanabara matando 55 pessoas.
- 1988 - Mario Lemieux became the first player in National Hockey League history to score one each of the five types of goals in a single game: an even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short-handed goal, a penalty shot and an empty-net goal.
- 1988 - Yara Amaral dies (b. 16 Sep 1939). Brazilian actress.
- 1990 - Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.
- 1990 - Vasili Lazarev dies (b. 1928). Soviet cosmonaut.
- 1991 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially dissolved.
- 1991 - The civil war in El Salvador ends.
- 1992 - In the last of the great ITV franchise renewals, Thames Television, Television South West and Television South cease broadcasting, replaced by Carlton Television, Westcountry Television and Meridian Television respectively.
- 1993 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia dies (b. 1939). Scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia.
- 1993 - the last research samples of the smallpox virus (variola) were scheduled to be destroyed. Smallpox was the world's most dreaded plagues until 1977, when it was declared eradicated. However, some scientists who wanted to continue research on the virus stopped the destruction plan. The remaining frozen samples are in Moscow.
- 1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
- 1995 - The last strip of the popular comic Calvin and Hobbes is published.
- 1995 - Renuncia del primer ministro italiano Lamberto Dini.
- 1995 - O presidente da Argélia Liamine Zeroual indica Ahmed Ouyahia como seu novo primeiro-ministro.
- 1997 - Quaker Oats settles a lawsuit involving the immoral use of child subjects in radioactivity experiments circa 1945-56.
- 1997 - Floyd Cramer dies (b. 1933). American musician.
- 1997 - Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
- 1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service.
- 1999 - La administración del Canal de Panamá es entregada por los Estados Unidos a Panamá.
- 1999 - Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
- 1999 - The Panama Canal comes completely under Panama's jurisdiction.
- 1999 - Sarah Knauss dies at the age of 119 years - at death, the world's oldest person alive.
- 1999 - Elliot Richardson dies (b. 1920). American politician.
- 1999 - Control of Panamá Canal reverts to Panamá.
- 2000 - Alan Cranston dies (b. 1914). American politician.
- 2000 - José Greco dies (b. 1918). Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer.
- 2000 - Kenneth L. Pike dies (b. 1912). He was a U.S. linguist and anthropologist known for his studies of the aboriginal languages of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, New Guinea, Java, Ghana, Nigeria, Australia, Nepal, and the Philippines.
- 2000 - Bill Clinton suscribe el tratado para crear el Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI) con capacidad para investigar y juzgar a individuos acusados de haber cometido graves delitos contra el Derecho Internacional Comunitario. Su sucesor en la presidencia de los EE.UU., George W. Bush, retirará la participación de los EE.UU. en el tribunal.
- 2000 - Manuel de Rivacoba y Rivacoba dies. Spanish penalist and politician.
- 2001 - Eileen Heckart dies (b. 1919). American actress.
- 2002 - Kevin MacMichael dies (b. 1951). American guitarist (Cutting Crew)
- 2003 - Arthur R. von Hippel dies (b. 1898). German-born American physicist and professor at MIT
- 2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
- 2004 - Gerard Debreu dies (b. 1921). French-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 2005 - Lisbon-Dakar all terrain veihucules rallye starts, naturally from Lisbon.
- 2005 - Phillip Whitehead dies (b. 1937). British politician.
- 2006 - First day of Eid-ul-Adha, the Islamic "Festival of Sacrifice."
- New Year's Eve on the Gregorian Calendar.
- Last Day of the Year Celebration, special non-working holiday in the Philippines.
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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