- 0336 - Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope.
- 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 0885 - Daigo was born (d. 0930). Emperor of Japan.
- 1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong
- 1270 - Santa Margarita de Hungría, nacimiento de, religiosa húngara.
- 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal dies in Estremoz (b. 8 Apr 1320).
- 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March dies (b. 1391). English politician.
- 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1419).
- 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
- 1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I) was born (d. 1588). Italian composer.
- 1546 - Blasco Nuñez Vela dies in Ariaquiro, Peru (b. 1490). First viceroy of Peru.
- 1547 - Pietro Bembo dies (b. 1470). Italian Catholic cardinal.
- 1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1580 - Antonio Scandello dies at 63. Italian composer (Passion of John).
- 1583 - Margaret of Austria dies (b. 1522). Regent of the Netherlands.
- 1624 - Juan de Ovando Santarén Gómez de Loaisa y Rojas, was born in Málaga (d. 1706). Spanish poet.
- 1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois was born (d. 1691). French war minister.
- 1664 - Moses Amyraut dies (b. 1596). French theologian.
- 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1671 - El pirata inglés Henry John Morgan encabeza un ataque contra la ciudad de Panamá.
- 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte was born (d. 1731). French writer.
- 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck dies (b. 1619). Dutch merchant.
- 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset was born (d. 1765). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- 1689 - Montesquieu was born (d. 1755). French writer.
- 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
- 1733 - A polar bear was first exhibited in Boston.
- 1734 - Caspar Friedrich Wolff, was born [d. 1794]. German physiologist, known as the "founder of modern embryology. (" In Theoria Generationis" - 1759 ) .
- 1777 - representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
- 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
- 1779 - Peter Roget was born London (d. 1869). English physician and lexicographer who, in 1814, invented a "log-log" slide rule for calculating the roots and powers of numbers (Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases -1852).
- 1782 - Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire (d. 1852). American statesman, lawyer and orator.
- 1788 - The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay creating the first Australian Penal Colony
- 1799 - Joseph Dixon was born (d. 15 Jun 1869). American inventor and manufacturer who pioneered in the industrial use of graphite and many other innovations.
- 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich dies (b. 1743). Russian poet.
- 1813 - Joseph Glidden was born (d. 9 Oct. 1906). American inventor; he 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.
- 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf was born (d. 1874). German biblical scholar.
- 1825 - Sir Edward Frankland was born (d. 9 Aug 1899). English chemist who was one of the first investigators in the field of structural chemistry, invented the chemical bond, and became known as the father of valency.
- 1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. marries Emma Hale.
- 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson was born (d. 1921). English poet.
- 1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier was born (d. 1894). French composer.
- 1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames was born (d. 1911). Mayor of Minneapolis.
- 1848 - Ioan Slavici was born (d. 1925). Transylvanian writer.
- 1849 - Edmund Barton was born (d. 1920). First Prime Minister of Australia
- 1850 - Seth Low was born (d. 1916). American politician.
- 1854 - Thomas Watson was born (d.13 Dec 1934). American inventor, telephone pioneer.
- 1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy.
- 1861 - Hans Goldschmidt was born. German chemist who developed Welding Mixture
- 1862 - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the American Civil War at the Battle of Mill Springs.
- 1862 - John Tyler dies (b. 1790). 10th President of the United States, member of the Congress of the Confederate States of America.
- 1867 - Rubén Darío was born. Nicaraguan poet.
- 1870 - Samuel Bailey dies (b. 1791). English philosopher and economist.
- 1871 - German Empire established The German Empire, forged as a result of diplomacy rather than an outpouring of popular nationalist feeling, was founded this day in 1871 in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor.
- 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton dies (b. 1803). English author.
- 1877 - Samuel Zemurray was born (d. 1961). American businessman.
- 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel dies (b. 1788). French physicist.
- 1878 - Argentina y Chile reconocen como límite entre ambos países la Cordillera de los Andes, en la línea "de las más altas cumbres" enunciada por el perito Francisco P. Moreno.
- 1879 - Henri Giraud was born (d. 1949). French general.
- 1881 - Gaston Gallimard was born (d. 1975). French publisher.
- 1882 - A.A. Milne was born (d. 1956). English author.
- 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
- 1886 - Clara Nordström was born (d. 1962). German writer and translator.
- 1888 - Thomas Sopwith was born (d. 1989). British aviation pioneer.
- 1890 - Amadeo de Saboya dies (b. 1845). King of Spain.
- 1892 - José Dias Ferreira becomes Prime-Minister of Portugal.
- 1892 - Oliver Hardy was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 7 Aug 1957). American comedian and actor. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed the most successful comedy act in Hollywood. Among others, they played in the films Duck Soup (1927), The Battle of the Century (1928), Two Tars (1928) and Big Business (1929). In 1932 the pair was awarded an Oscar for their performance in The Music Box.
- 1892 - Paul Rostock was born (d. 1956). German surgeon.
- 1892 - Anton Anderledy dies (b. 1819). Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
- 1896 - Charles Floquet dies (b. 1828). French statesman.
- 1901 - Ivan Petrovsky was born (d. 1973). Russian mathematician.
- 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a message of greetings from a Marconi station built near Wellfleet, Massachusetts to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
- 1904 - Cary Grant was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire (d. 1986). English actor.
- 1905 - Joseph Bonanno was born (d. 2002). Italian-born gangster.
- 1906 - Bartolomé Mitre dies. Argentine militar, politician and writer. President of Republic (1862-1868).
- 1908 - Herman Snellen dies (b. 19 Feb 1834). Dutch ophthalmologist whose Snellen Chart imprinted with lines of black letters is used for testing visual acuity.
- 1908 - Jacob Bronowski was born (d. 22 Aug 1974). Polish-born British mathematician and man of letters who eloquently presented the case for the humanistic aspects of science.
- 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship .
- 1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
- 1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- 1913 - Danny Kaye was born (d. 1987). American actor, singer, comedian.
- 1914 - Arno Schmidt was born (d. 1979). German author.
- 1914 - William Stafford was born (d. 1993). American poet.
- 1915 - Santiago Carrillo was born. Dirigent of PCE ( Partido Comunista Español = Spanish Communist Party).
- 1915 - Pancho Villa é proclamado presidente do México e assume poderes militares e civis.
- 1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die .
- 1915 - Kaúlza de Arriaga was born (d. 2004). Portuguese general (Ver Guerra do Ultramar).
- 1917 - Wang Yung-ching was born. Taiwanese businessman.
- 1918 - Gustave Gingras was born (d. 1996). French Canadian physician.
- 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. One the very day and the location of the founding of the German Reich, the peace conference intended to end WWI was opened in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Delegates from 27 Allied countries conferred about the future of Europe.
- 1920 - Erupção do vulcão São Miguel, no México, que causa a morte de 6 mil pessoas.
- 1921 - Belding H. Scribner was born (d. 19 Jun 2003). American physician who invented the Scribner shunt, making long-term kidney dialysis possible.
- 1922 - Bob Bell was born (d. 1997). American clown.
- 1924 - Indulto a los asesinos de Eduardo Dato, presidente del Gobierno español.
- 1925 - Gilles Deleuze was born. French philosopher.
- 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico dies (b. 1840).
- 1929 - Um violento terremoto destrói a cidade de Cumaná, na Venezuela.
- 1930 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was born (d. 2004). Portuguese politician and Prime-Minister.
- 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan was born. President of South Korea.
- 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson was born. American author.
- 1933 - John Boorman was born. Irish film director.
- 1934 - Revolta de trabalhadores vidreiros da Marinha Grande, contra o governo de Salazar.
- 1934 - Raymond Briggs was born. English writer and illustrator
- 1935 - Albert Millaire was born. Quebec actor and theatre director
- 1936 - Rudyard Kipling dies (b. 1865). British writer, Nobel Prize Literature 1907.
- 1937 - John Hume was born. Northern Irish politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
- 1938 - Curt Flood was born (d. 1977). Baseball player.
- 1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers.
- 1940 - Pedro Rodriguez was born (d. 1971). Mexican racing driver.
- 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer dies (b. 1865). Polish writer.´
- 1941 - Bobby Goldsboro was born. American country/pop singer
- 1941 - David Ruffin was born (d. 1991). American singer.
- 1941 - Doodles Weaver was born. Amnerican singer.
- 1943 - Kay Granger was born. American politician.
- 1943 - Kay Granger was born. American politician
- 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
- 1944 - Paul Keating was born. Twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1944 - Carl Morton was born (d. 1983). Major League baseball pitcher.
- 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
- 1946 - Joseph Deiss was born. Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1947 - Takeshi Kitano was born. Japanese actor and director .
- 1949 - Philippe Starck was born. French designer
- 1949 - Bill Keller was born. American newspaper editor
- 1950 - Gilles Villeneuve was born (d. 1982). Canadian racing driver.
- 1951 - Bob Latchford was born. English footballer.
- 1951 - Bram Behr was born (d. 1982). Surinamese journalist.
- 1952 - R. Stevie Moore was born. American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer.
- 1952 - Curly Howard dies (b. 1903). American actor and comedian.
- 1953 - Brett Hudson was born. American actor.
- 1953 - Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, imposes a death penalty for all those who organise the taking of the Mau Mau oath.
- 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet dies (b. 1879). English actor.
- 1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
- 1955 - Kevin Costner was born. Actor, director (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham...).
- 1955 - Fergus Martin was born. Irish artist
- 1956 - Sharon Mitchell was born. American porn actress.
- 1956 - Tom Bailey was born. British singer (Thompson Twins)
- 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
- 1959 - Nei Lisboa was born. Brazilian rock musician.
- 1961 - Mark Messier was born. Canadian hockey player.
- 1962 - Jeff Yagher was born. American actor
- 1963 - Otto Mann was born. Fictional bus driver from The Simpsons
- 1963 - Martin O'Malley was born. Governor of Maryland
- 1963 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh dies (b. Jun 1899). English mathematician whose contributions to analysis placed him in the forefront of his profession [Theory of Functions]
- 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell dies (b. 1906). Leader of the British Labour Party
- 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
- 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.
- 1964 - Jane Horrocks was born. British actress
- 1965 - Dave Attell was born. American writer and comedian.
- 1966 - David Bautista was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1966 - Kathleen Norris dies (b. 1880). American writer.
- 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1967 - Kim Perrot was born (d. 1999). American basketball player.
- 1967 - Iván Zamorano was born. Chilean footballer
- 1967 - Goose Tatum dies. American basketball player
- 1968 - Frank Quitely was born. Scottish comic book artist
- 1968 - Emmerico Nunes dies in Sines (b. 06 Jan 1888). Portuguese cartoonist.
- 1969 - A United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
- 1969 - Jesse L. Martin was born. American actor and singer
- 1969 - David Bautista was born. American professional wrestler
- 1969 - Jim O'Rourke was born. American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
- 1969 - Hans Freyer dies (b. 1887). German sociologist.
- 1970 - DJ Quik was born. American rapper
- 1970 - Peter van Petegem was born. Belgian cyclist
- 1970 - David O. McKay dies (b. 1873). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1971 - Josep Guardiola Sala was born. Spanish football (soccer) player.
- 1971 - Jonathan Davis was born. American musician (KoЯn)
- 1971 - Christian Fittipaldi was born. Brazilian race car driver
- 1972 - Mike Lieberthal was born. Baseball player
- 1973 - Crispian Mills was born. British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- 1974 - The Six Million Dollar Man debuts on ABC.
- 1974 - Michael Tunn was born. Australian television and radio
- 1974 - Maulik Pancholy was born. American actor
- 1974 - Christian Burns was born. English musician (BBMak)
- 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
- 1976 - Iván Zamorano was born. Chilean football (soccer) player.
- 1976 - Marcelo Daniel Gallardo was born. Argentine football (soccer) player.
- 1976 - Damien Leith was born. Australian Idol 2006
- 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease."
- 1977 - Curtis Cregan was born. American actor
- 1977 - Alina Jidkova was born. Russian tennis player
- 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1978 - Brian Falkenborg was born. American baseball player
- 1978 - Hasan Askari dies (b. 1919). Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer.
- 1978 - Carl Betz dies (b. 1921). English musician.
- 1979 - Troops in the Central African Republic suppress a youth led riot against the imposition of school uniforms.
- 1979 - Paulo Ferreira was born. Portuguese footballer.
- 1979 - Jay Chou was born. Taiwanese singer and producer.
- 1979 - Brian Gionta was born. Professional hockey player
- 1980 - Julius Peppers was born. American football player.
- 1980 - Robert Green was born. English footballer
- 1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 .
- 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton dies (b. 1904). English fashion designer.
- 1979 - Brian Gionta was born.Professional hockey player
- 1981 - Kang Dong-won was born. South Korean model and actor
- 1981 - Khari Stephenson was born. Jamaican soccer player
- 1982 - Quinn Allman was born. American musician (The Used) .
- 1983 - Samantha Mumba was born. Irish singer and actress
- 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
- 1983 - Arturo Illía dies. President of Argentina (1963-1966).
- 1984 - Ary dos Santos dies (b. 1937). Portuguese poet/ Faleceu o poeta português José Carlos Ary dos Santos.
- 1984 - Benji Schwimmer was born. American dancer
- 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis dies (b. 1915). Greek singer and song writer of rebetiko
- 1985 - Antonio Gómez Cano dies. Spanish painter.
- 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell dies (b. 1912). Irish actor.
- 1985 - Manuel Antunes dies (b. 1918). Portuguese teacher and essayst.
- 1985 - A Federação Latino-Americana e do Caribe de Jornalistas Desportivos elege o brasileiro Joaquim Cruz o melhor atleta latino-americano de 1984.
- 1986 - 88 pessoas morrem em colisão de um avião em Santa Elena, na Guatemala.
- 1987 - Johan Djourou was born. Swiss footballer
- 1987 - Renato Guttuso dies (b. 1911). Italian painter.
- 1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board .
- 1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
- 1991 - Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel : Iraq has attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War / Durante a Guerra do Golfo, o Iraque lança oito mísseis contra Israel, com o objetivo de forçar o estado judeu a entrar no conflito.
- 1991 - O festival internacional de música, o “Rock in Rio” inicia no Rio de Janeiro .
- 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
- 1991 - Leo Hurwitz was born. Documentary film producer.
- 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
- 1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
- 1995 - Adolf Butenandt dies (b. 24 Mar 1903). German biochemist who was the co-winner (with Leopold Ruzicka) of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for pioneering work (1929-34) on sex hormones.
- 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
- 1995 - Lamberto Dini torna-se o novo primeiro-ministro da Itália.
- 1995 - Ron Luciano dies (b. 1937). Baseball umpire
- 1996 - O partido socialista da Grécia escolhe Costas Simtis como o novo primeiro-ministro do país, substituindo Andréas Papandreou.
- 1996 - O casamento de Lisa Marie Presley, filha de Elvis Presley, e do cantor Michael Jackson, chega ao fim depois de dois anos.
- 1996 - A cantora Madonna chega à Argentina para filmar Evita, filme de Alan Parker. Ela é recebida com protestos pela população.
- 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 1997 - Paul Tsongas dies (b. 1941). U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
- 2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
- 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky dies (b. 1897). Austrian architect.
- 2001 - Al Waxman dies (b. 1935). Canadian actor.
- 2001 - Alfredo Mañas dies. Spansih dramatist and playwright.
- 2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
- 2003 - Canberra firestorm kills 4 and destroys 491 homes.
- 2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 2003 - Richard Crenna dies (b. 1927). Actor.
- 2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat dies (b. 1924). American professional wrestler.
- 2004 - A suicide truck bombing outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad killed at least 31 people
- 2005 - Lamont Bentley dies (b. 1973). American actor.
- 2006 - Jan Twardowski dies (b. 1915). Polish poet.
- Winnie The Pooh Day (In observance of the birthday of Alan Alexander Milne, 1882.)
- Feast day of Saint Athanasius (Eastern Orthodox)
- Feast day of Saint Cyril of Alexandria
- Feast day of Saint Volusianus
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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