- 0871 - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex.
- 1263 - Ibn Taymiya was born (d. 1328). Islamic scholar.
- 1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned .
- 1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican.
- 1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
- 1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V.
- 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling dies. German religious leader
- 1553 - Mori Terumoto was born (d. 1625). Japanese warrior.
- 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon was born (d. 1626). English philosopher ("Novum Organum" and " The Advancement of Learning").
- 1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was born (d. 1631). English politician.
- 1588 - Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia).
- 1588 - John Winthrop was born. Colonial governor.
- 1592 - Pierre Gassendi was born (d. 24 Oct 1655). French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher who revived Epicureanism as a substitute for Aristotelianism.
- 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi dies (b. 1547). Italian composer.
- 1654 - Richard Blackmore was born (d. 1729). English physician and writer.
- 1690 - Nicolas Lancret was born (d.1743). French painter.
- 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born (d. 1781). German author and philosopher.
- 1729 - Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi was born. Composer.
- 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl dies (b. 1675). Bavarian politician.
- 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville dies (b. 1690). English statesman.
- 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies (b. 1719). German minterologist and geologist.
- 1775 - Andre Marie Ampere was born (d. 1836). Physicist.
- 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon dies (b. 1733). English surveyor and astronomer.
- 1779 - Claudius Smith dies (b. 1736). American Revolutionary War loyalist.
- 1781 - François Antoine Habeneck was born (d. 1849). French violinist.
- 1788 - George Gordon Lord Byron was born (d.1824). Poet.
- 1798 - Lewis Morris dies at 71. US farmer who signed Declaration of Independence
- 1799 - Ludger Duvernay was born (d. 1852). Quebec printer and publisher.
- 1800 - Nat Turner was born (d. 1831). American slave rebellion leader.
- 1808 - A frota portuguesa que transportou a Rainha D. Maria I, o príncipe regente D. João e a corte portuguesa de Portugal para o Brasil aporta na Baía.
- 1820 - Joseph Wolf was born (d. 1899). German artist.
- 1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands.
- 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
- 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies (b. 1752). German anthropologist.
- 1849 - August Strindberg was born (d. 1912). Swedish poet and novelist (Apologia) .
- 1855 - Albert Neisser was born (d. 30 Jul 1916). German physician who specialized in dermatology and venereal diseases.
- 1858 - Beatrice Potter Webb was born, socialist economist.
- 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
- 1865 - Louis Paschen was born (d. 1947). German physicist who was probably the most skillful experimental spectroscopist of his time.
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin was born (d. 1916). Russian monk.
- 1874 - Leonard Eugene Dickson was born (d. 17 Jan 1954). American mathematician who made important contributions to the theory of numbers and the theory of groups. He published 18 books including Linear groups with an exposition of the Galois field theory.
- 1875 - D. W. Griffith was born (d. 1948). American film director.
- 1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana. The British Army suffers its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu warriors overrun a British camp of 1,700 near Isandlwana mountain. Over 1,300 of the British force was killed, with only 60 Europeans surviving.
- 1880 - Frigyes Rwas born (d. 1956). Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis, which has found important applications to mathematical physics.
- 1882 - Theodore Kosloff was born (d. 1956). Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer.
- 1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg was born (d. 1921). Russian counter-revolutionary.
- 1887 - António Maria Fontes Pereira de Melo dies (b. 8 Sep 1819). Portuguese statesman.
- 1888 - Miguel Angel Amunátegui dies. Chilean historian.
- 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
- 1889 - Henri Pélissier was born (d. 1935). French cyclist.
- 1890 - Fred M. Vinson was born (d. 1953). 13th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1890 - Vinko Zganec was born (d. 1976). Croatian ethnomusicologist.
- 1891 - Antonio Gramsci was born. Italian marxist thinker.
- 1891 - Benjamin Constant, político e militar fluminense, um dos fundadores da República e autor da divisa Ordem e Progresso da bandeira brasileira, falece aos 54 anos de idade no Rio de Janeiro.
- 1892 - Marcel Dassault was born (d. 1986). French industrialist.
- 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley dies (b. 1813). Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1893 - Conrad Veidt was born (d. 1943). German actor.
- 1897 - Alexandre José Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, nascimento de, advogado, jornalista e político brasileiro .
- 1897 - Rosa Ponselle was born. American soprano (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino) .
- 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
- 1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens) and Edward VII becomes King.
- 1901 - Hans-Erich Apostel was born. Austrian Composer (Sonata Ritmica).
- 1902 - Daniel Kinsey was born. American hurdler.
- 1903 - Fritz Houtermans was born (d. 1966). Polish physicist.
- 1904 - George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). American choreographer and ballet dancer,
Born in Russia as Georgi Balanchivadze, Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia. After moving to the United States (1933), he became director of ballet for the Metropolitan Opera House (1934–37) and a founder of the School of American Ballet (1934). In 1948 he became artistic director and principal choreographer for the New York City Ballet. - 1904 - Arkady Gaidar was born (d. 1941). Russian children's writer.
- 1905 - 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg. Beggining of the 1905 revolution.
- 1905 - El Palacio de Invierno de San Petersburgo es tomado por 30.000 obreros encabezados por el pope Gapón.
- 1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Over 130 passengers die trying to get ashore or drowning on the ship. It's Canada's worst maritime tragedy up to that time.
- 1906 - Robert E. Howard was born (d. 1936). American author.
- 1907 - William Ralph Dean was born (d. 1980). English footballer.
- 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys was born (d. 2004). Dutch actress.
- 1907 - Douglas Corrigan was born (d. 1995). American pilot.
- 1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau was born (d. 01 Apr 1968). Russian physicist who worked in such fields as low-temperature physics, atomic and nuclear physics, and solid-state, stellar-energy, and plasma physics; he was Awarded 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics.
- 1909 - Ann Sothern was born (d. 2001). American actress.
- 1909 - U Thant was born (d. 1974). Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General
- 1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa was born (d. 1965). Dominican diplomat and international playboy.
- 1911 - Bruno Kreisky was born (d. 1990). Chancellor of Austria.
- 1913 - Carl F. H. Henry was born (d. 2003). American theologian and publisher.
- 1913 - William Cardinal Conway was born (d. 1977). Northern Irish clergyman.
- 1915 - Heinrich Albertz was born (d. 1993). German theologian and politician.
- 1916 - Henri Dutilleux was born. French composer
- 1916 - Bill Durnan was born (d. 1972). National Hockey League goaltender.
- 1918 - Ukraine proclaimed an independent republic.
- 1918 - Elmer Lach was born. National Hockey League player
- 1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey was born (d. 1999). English footballer manager.
- 1921 - Captain George Streeter dies (b. 1837). American riverboat captain and circus owner
- 1921 - El Gobierno español establece el seguro obrero obligatorio para todos los trabajadores.
- 1922 - Fredrik Bajer dies. Danish writer and pacifist, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1908.
- 1922 - Pope Benedict XV [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa] dies (b. 1854) .
- 1922 - Leonel Brizola was born (d. 2004). Brazilian politician.
- 1922 - Camille Jordan dies (b. 1938). French mathematician.
- 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
- 1924 - Zinoviev, Kamenev e Stalin assumem a direção da URSS.
- 1924 - J. J. Johnson was born (d. 2001).American jazz trombonist and composer.
- 1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu .
- 1926 - El avión español Plus Ultra comienza el primer vuelo sobre el Atlántico Sur.
- 1927 - Lou Creekmur was born. American football player.
- 1928 - George A. Borgman was born. American jazz historian and journalist
- 1929 - Firma del tratado por el que se establecen las fronteras entre Haití y la República Dominicana.
- 1930 - El buque alemán Monte Cervantes naufraga en los canales fueguinos.
- 1931 - Galina Zybina was born. USSR discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58) .
- 1931 - Sam Cooke was born (d. 1964). American singer.
- 1931 - Alma Rubens dies (b. 1897). American actress.
- 1932 - Piper Laurie was born. American actress.
- 1932 - Berthold Grünfeld was born. Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
- 1932 - Varias ciudades de Guatemala, destruidas por la erupción de los volcanes Fuego y Acatemango.
- 1932 - O líder comunista Agustin Farabundo Marti e seus companheiros Mario Zapata e Alfonso Luna são fuzilados, por dirigirem uma rebelião de camponeses que deixou mais de 30.000 mortos em El Salvador.
- 1933 - José Mattoso was born. Portuguese historian and teacher.
- 1934 - Bill Bixby was born (d. 1993). American actor.
- 1935 - Seymour Cassel was born. American actor.
- 1936 - Alan J. Heeger was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936 - Eduardo VIII é proclamado rei da Inglaterra. O monarca abdicou seu trono, posteriormente, para se casar com a norteamericana Wallis Simpson, que era divorciada.
- 1937 - Edén Pastora Gómez was born. Nicaraguan rebel leader
- 1937 - Joseph Wambaugh was born. American author
- 1938 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.
- 1939 - Jeff Smith was born (d. 2004). American chef.
- 1939 - Jean-Claude Tremblay was born (d. 1994). National Hockey League defenceman
- 1939 - Antonio Machado dies. Spanish writer.
- 1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University .
- 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris was born (d. 1982). Singer, member of the Shirelles.
- 1940 - John Hurt was born. English actor .
- 1940 - George Seifert was born. American football coach
- 1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania.
- 1943 - World War II: North Africa Axis forces pull out of Tripoli and head back towards Tunisia.
- 1943 - Marília Pêra was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
- 1944 - António Vitor Martins Monteiro was born. Portuguese diplomat.
- 1945 - Arthur Beetson was born. Australian rugby league player & coach
- 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler dies (b. 1869). German-born poet.
- 1946 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
- 1946 - Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1946 - Serge Savard was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1946 - Malcolm McLaren was born. English impresario, musician and self-publicist
- 1947 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1947 - Afeni Shakur was born. 2Pac's mother
- 1948 - Gilbert Levine was born. American conductor
- 1949 - Steve Perry was born. American musician
- 1949 - George Foreman was born. American boxer
- 1949 - Mike Caldwell was born. Baseball player.
- 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr. dies (b. 1892). American actor.
- 1953 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
- 1953 - Jim Jarmusch was born. American director.
- 1954 - Peter Pilz was born. Austrian politician.
- 1954 - Chris Lemmon was born. American actor
- 1956 - John Wesley Shipp was born. American soap opera actor.
- 1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles .
- 1957 - Mike Bossy was born. Ice hockey player .
- 1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956).
- 1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- 1959 - Linda Blair was born in St Louis Mo. Actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St) .
- 1959 - Mike Hawthorn dies (b. 1929). Racing champion.
- 1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die.
- 1960 - French President De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu .
- 1960 - Michael Hutchence was born (d. 1997). Musician ("INXS").
- 1961 - Operação Dulcineia : O paquete Santa Maria é tomado por oposicionistas ao governo salazarista, pelo capitão Henrique Galvão com a colaboração do general Humberto Delgado.
- 1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.
- 1962 - Choi Min-sik was born. South Korean actor
- 1963 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany.
- 1963 - Andrei Tchmil was born. Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
- 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda is sworn in as the first president of the newly independent Zambia.
- 1964 - Mumbai's lowest-ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).
- 1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff was born. American rapper, actor.
- 1965 - Diane Lane was born. American actress
- 1965 - Andrew Roachford was born. English singer and songwriter
- 1965 - Chintara Sukapatana was born. Thai actress.
- 1965 - Steven Adler was born. American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1966 - Ecaterina Szabo was born. Romanian gymnast.
- 1966 - Herbert Marshall dies (b. 1890). English actor.
- 1967 - Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until 16 July 2002.
- 1967 - Olivia d'Abo was born. English actress
- 1967 - Manabu Nakanishi was born. Japanese professional wrestler
- 1967 - Robert Henriques dies (b. 1905). British writer.
- 1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
- 1968 - Frank Lebœuf was born. French footballer
- 1968 - Hiroshi Morie was born. Japanese musician
- 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku dies (b. 1890). American swimmer.
- 1969 - John Linton Roberson was born. American cartoonist
- 1970 - Primer vuelo comercial del Boeing 747.
- 1970 - Abraham Olano was born. Spanish cyclist
- 1971 - Stan Collymore was born. English footballer
- 1972 - Gabriel Macht was born. American actor
- 1972 - Gonzalo Rodriguez was born (d. 1999). Uruguayen racing driver.
- 1973 - Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64.
- 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe vs. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
- 1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
- 1973 - Rogerio Ceni was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson dies (b. 1908). 36th President of the United States.
- 1975 - Balthazar Getty was born. Actor.
- 1975 - David Vyborny was born. Czech ice hockey player
- 1975 - Andrew George Burry dies (b. 1873). Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman
- 1976 - Mikko Luoma was born. Finnish ice hockey player
- 1976 - Leão Penedo dies in Lisbon (b. in Faro 13 May 1916). Portuguese writer.
- 1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata was born. Japanese footballer
- 1977 - Jono Gibbes was born. New Zealand, Maori and Waikato rugby player.
- 1977 - Maysa dies. (b. 1936). Brazilian singer and composer.
- 1978 - Roxanne Butterfield was born. American community activist.
- 1978 - Chone Figgins was born. Baseball player.
- 1978 - Oliver Leese dies (b. 1894). British World War II general.
- 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe dies (b. 1894). English cricketer.
- 1979 - Melanie Winiger was born. Miss Switzerland Universe (1997) .
- 1979 - Luciana Mello was born. Brazilian singer.
- 1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
- 1980 - Christopher Masterson was born. American actor
- 1980 - Ben Moody, was born. American guitarist (Evanescence)
- 1980 - Jonathan Woodgate was born. English footballer (Real Madrid)
- 1981 - Franco atiradores de extrema direita atiram contra uma manifestação de 100.000 pessoas, em São Salvador, que pede pela reforma agrária e democratização do país. Sessenta e sete morrem e dezenas ficam feridas .
- 1981 - Chantelle Anderson was born. American basketball player
- 1981 - Willa Ford was born. American singer
- 1981 - Beverley Mitchell was born. American actress
- 1981 - Ibrahima Sonko was born. French footballer
- 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi dies (b. 1903). Pakistani historian and educationist
- 1982 - Fabricio Coloccini was born. Argentine footballer.
- 1982 - Josh Shanks was born. Film producer/entreprenuer.
- 1982 - Eduardo Frei Montalva dies at 71. President of Chile (1964-70).
- 1982 - Tommy Tucker dies (b. 1933). American singer and pianist.
- 1983 - Shaun Cody was born. American football player.
- 1983 - Robert Steinhäuser was born. Perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre
- 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial "1984".
- 1984 - Raica Oliveira was born. Brazilian supermodel
- 1984 - Leon Powe was born. American basketball player
- 1984 - Ben Eager was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1985 - Mohamed Sissoko was born. Malian footballer
- 1986 - Lee Pa-ni was born. South Korean model
- 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television.
- 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer dies - he commits suicide on national television. Pennsylvania politician.
- 1987 - Astrid Jacobsen was born. Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1988 - Parker Fennelly dies. Comedian, actor .
- 1989 - Jared Smith was born. American rapper and actor
- 1991 - Robert Choquette dies (b. 1905). French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.
- 1992 - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
- 1992 - Luís de Albuquerque dies (b. 1917). Portuguese mathematician.
- 1993 - Abe Kobo dies (b. 1924). Writer.
- 1994 - Telly Savalas dies (b. 21 Jan 1924). American actor.
- 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault dies (b. 1910). French actor and director.
- 1994 - Irving B. Kahn dies (born 30 Sep 1917). Inventor of the teleprompter . and headed the TelePrompTer company Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg .
- 1995 - Rose Kennedy dies (b. 1890). Matriarch of the Kennedy family.
- 1995 - Jerry Blackwell dies (b. 1949). Wrestler.
- 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves-up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
- 1998 - Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
- 1999 - El Papa Juan Pablo II visita México por cuarta vez, desde donde viajará a EEUU .
- 1999 - Graham Staines dies at 58. Australian missionary burnt alive in India
- 2000 - Craig Claiborne dies (b. 1920). American writer and editor
- 2000 - Anne Hébert dies (b. 1916). French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska)
- 2001 - Four of the Texas 7 are caught at a convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth killed himself inside a motor home.
- 2001 - Tommie Agee dies (b. 1942). Baseball player
- 2002 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
- 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2002 - Peggy Lee dies. American singer, actress .
- 2002 - Jack Shea dies. Olympics speed skating gold medalist.
- 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.
- 2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
- 2003 - World premiere of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central.
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin dies (b. 1921). American World War II cartoonist.
- 2004 - Orkut is created.
- 2004 - Marjatta Rasi from Finland is elected President of ECOSOC United Nations Economic and Social Council
- 2004 - Billy May dies (b. 1916). American composer and musician.
- 2004 - Ann Miller dies (b. 1923). American actress and dancer.
- 2004 - Thomas Mead dies (b. 1918). Australian politician and journalist.
- 2005 - César Gutiérrez dies (b. 1943). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
- 2005 - Carlo Orelli dies (b. 1894). Italian veteran of World War I
- 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez dies (b. 1924). Mexican songwriter.
- 2005 - Rose Mary Woods dies (b. 1917). American Watergate scandal figure.
- 2006 - Presidential elections in Portugal. Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.
- 2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
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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