- 0041 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 0098 - Marcus Nerva dies (b. 0030). Roman Emperor.
- 0389 - Gregory Nazianzus dies (b. 0329). Theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople
- 0750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor
- 0817 - Pope_Paschal I begins his Papacy (until 11 Feb 1824 date of his death).
- 0844 - Pope Gregory IV dies.
- 1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China dies (b. 1032)
- 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
- 1366 - Henry Suso dies. German mystic.
- 1431 - Charles I, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1364).
- 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany was born (d. 1514). Consort Queen of France (wife of Charles VIII).
- 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples replacing his father, Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423) who died on this day.
- 1509 - Giovanni Morone was born (d. 1580). Italian cardinal.
- 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1538 - se descubrió en el Cerro Rico de Potosí (Bolivia) la primera mina de plata.
- 1553 - Fundación de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
- 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. / Fundação da cidade de São Paulo por José de Anchieta e Manoel da Nóbrega.
- 1559 - King Christian II of Denmark dies (b. 1481). Sweden and Norway.
- 1565 - Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army.
- 1569 - Se establece en la América española el Tribunal de la Inquisición, en virtud de una cédula de esta fecha, firmada por Felipe II.
- 1576 - The city of Luanda in Angola is founded. On this day it commemorates 430 years.
- 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
- 1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger dies (b. 1515). German painter
- 1615 - Govert Flinck was born (d. 1660). Dutch painter.
- 1627 - Robert Boyle was born (d. 30 Dec 1691). Anglo-Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London.
- 1634 - Gaspar Fagel was born (d. 1688). Dutch statesman.
- 1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was born (d. 1707). English soldier and statesman.
- 1640 - Robert Burton dies. English scholar and author (Anatomy of Melancholy).
- 1662 - Luís da Cunha was born (d. 1740). Portuguese diplomat
- 1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1612)
- 1726 - Guillaume Delisle dies (b. 1726). French cartographer.
- 1733 - Gilbert Heathcote dies. Mayor of London
- 1736 - Count (comte) De L'empire, Joseph Louis Lagrange was born (d. 10 Apr 1813). Italian born, French mathematician who made great contributions to the theory of numbers and to analytic and celestial mechanics. ( "Analytic Mechanics"- 1788).
- 1739 - Charles François Dumouriez was born. French general.
- 1743 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was born (d. 1819). German philosopher.
- 1751 - Paul Dudley dies (b. 1675). Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
- 1755 - Moscow University established.
- 1759 - Robert Burns was born (d. 1796). Scotland's national poet.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook (b. 1728 - d. 1779), navigator, discovered Australia - today is Australia day.
- 1774 - George Dollond was born (d. 13 May 1852). British optician who invented a number of precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation.
- 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor prisons.
- 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1794 - François-Vincent Raspail was born (d. 1878). French chemist.
- 1798 - Benjamin Thompson presented a paper to the Royal Society, Enquiry concerning the Source of Heat which is excited by Friction, in which he presented the idea that heat represents a form of motion, as opposed to the prevailing idea of being a fluid.
- 1799 - a seed-planting device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of Vermont. The seeds were fed by gravity. The machine was not practical, however.
- 1812 -William Shanks was born (d. 1882). English mathematician who spent numerous years manually calculating the value of pi. Shanks kept a boarding school at Houghton-le-Spring in a coal mining area near Durham.
- 1825 - El general peruano José Miguel Lanza conquista la ciudad de La Paz y proclama la independencia del Alto Perú.
- 1825 - George Pickett was born (d. 1875). American Confederate General.
- 1839 - Michael Faraday publicly announced for the first time the existence of photography as the subject of his Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution.
- 1841 - Jackie Fisher was born (d. 1920). Brirish first Sea Lord.
- 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto was born (d. 1954). Japanese pearl farm pioneer.
- 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
- 1860 - Charles Curtis was born (d. 1936). Vice President of the United States.
- 1860 - Firma del Tratado de Maposingue, que pone fin a la invasión peruana de Ecuador dirigida por el general Ramón Castilla.
- 1864 - Julije Kempf was born (d. 1934). Croatian historian and writer.
- 1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows .
- 1874 - William Somerset Maugham was born (d. 1965). English writer.
- 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson was born (d. 1975); Swedish-American electrical engineer and television pioneer who developed a high-frequency alternator.
- 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881 - O famoso autor russo Fiodor Dostoievski falece poucos dias após sofrer uma hemorragia. Suas últimas palavras foram, “Não me segurem. Minha hora chegou. Eu preciso morrer”. Dostoievski havia escrito o clássico “Crime e Castigo”.
- 1881 - Konstantin Thon dies (b. 1794). Russian architect.
- 1882 - Virginia Woolf was born (d.1941). English writer (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse).
- 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler was born (d. 1954). German conductor.
- 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
- 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak was born (d. 1972). Belgian politician.
- 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka was born (d. 1986). Japanese writer.
- 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky was born (d. 18 Dec 1975). Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory.
- 1905 - Maurice Roy was born (d. 1985). French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec.
- 1907 - René Pottier dies (b. 1879). French cyclist.
- 1908 - Ouida dies (b. 1839). English writer.
- 1908 - Mikhail Chigorin dies (b. 1850). Russian chess player.
- 1912 - Dmitry Milyutin dies (b. 1816). Russian Field Marshal.
- 1913 - Witold Lutosławski was born (d. 1994). Polish composer.
- 1913 - Luis Marden was born (d. 2003). American photojournalist.
- 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service calling from New York to his friend Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy was born(d. 2003). American and Canadian Football coach
- 1917 - Ilya Prigogine was born (d. 28 May 2003). Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
- 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
- 1917 - Jânio Quadros was born (d. 1992). Brazilian politician, 30th President of Brazil (31 Jan 1961 a 25 Aug 1961)
- 1918 - Ernie Harwell was born. Baseball sportscaster.
- 1918 - Decreto fundacional de la Escuela de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Facultad Nacional de Derecho de Panamá, base de la Universidad Nacional.
- 1918 - Russia declared a Soviets republic.
- 1919 - Edwin Newman was born. American journalist, writer.
- 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
- 1923 - Arvid Carlsson was born. Swedish scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
- 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1925 - Ivan Vucetic dies. Croatian anthropologist.
- 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim was born. Brazilian musician, bossa nova legend.
- 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze was born. President of Georgia
- 1928 - Jérôme Choquette was born. Quebec lawyer and politician
- 1929 - Benny Golson was born. Jazz musician
- 1931 - Gandhi é posto em liberdade na India.
- 1931 - Dean Jones was born. American actor
- 1932 - Maximilian von Frey dies (b. 16 Nov 1852). Austrian physiologist who studied the sense of touch, providing the first comprehensive information about the cutaneous senses.
- 1935 - Ramalho Eanes was born in Alcains. Portuguese General and politician, President of Republic (14 Jul 1976 - 9 Mar 1986).
- 1936 - Diana Hyland was born (d. 1977). American actress.
- 1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
- 1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori was born (d. 1998). Japanese manga author.
- 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky was born (d. 1980). Russian bard (poet, singer) and actor.
- 1938 - Etta James (Jamesette Hawkins) was born. American singer (Roll With Me Henry).
- 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed.
- 1940 - Elias Simojoki dies (b. 1899). Finnish clergyman and politician
- 1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
- 1941 - Buddy Baker was born. American race car driver.
- 1941 - Gregory Sierra was born. American actor.
- 1942 - Carl Eller was born. American football player .
- 1942 - Eusébio da Silva Ferreira ("The Black Panther") , was born, in Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) the best Portuguese football player of all times. He represented Benfica. Won two European Champions Cup, several Portugal Championship and Portugal Cups. He was Golden Boot. In WorldChampionship 1966 (Portugal was 3º.) he was considered the best player and he was the top scorer.
- 1943 - Tobe Hooper was born. American film director.
- 1944 - Anita Pallenberg was born. Italian model and actress
- 1944 - Leigh Taylor-Young was born. American actress
- 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor .
- 1946 - Edwin Bissel Holt dies (b. 1873) ; U.S. psychologist and philosopher noted for his emphasis on the purposive character of knowing.
- 1947 - Al Capone dies (b. 1899). American gangster.
- 1947 - Tostão was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1949 - Paul Nurse was born. British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1949 - John Cooper Clarke was born. British punk-poet
- 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1951 - Steve Prefontaine was born (d. 1975). American runner.
- 1952 - Timothy White was born (d. 2002). American journalist.
- 1953 - Wayne Ferris was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1954 - Kim Gandy was born. American feminist.
- 1954 - Ricardo Bochini was born. Argentine footballer.
- 1954 - In Honduras is consagrated to women the right to vote. This day is “Día de la Mujer"
- 1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany. / A liderança da União Soviética declara oficialmente o final do estado de guerra do país com a Alemanha.
- 1955 - US and Panama sign canal treaty.
- 1955 - Terry Chimes was born. Co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash
- 1957 - La India se anexiona Cachemira.
- 1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga dies (b. 7 Feb 1871). Japanese bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which is named after him.
- 1957 - Jenifer Lewis was born. American actress
- 1958 - Dinah Manoff was born. American actress
- 1959 - despega el primer vuelo transcontinental comercial en jet.
- 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims Second Vatican Council.
- 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
- 1960 - Beno Gutenberg dies (b. 4 Jun 1889). American seismologist noted for his analyses of earthquake waves and the information they furnish about the physical properties of the Earth's interior.
- 1961 - Un golpe de Estado del coronel Aníbal Portillo derroca a la Junta y establece un Directorio Cívico-Militar en El Salvador.
- 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released .
- 1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1961 - Beth Goulart was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1962 - Chris Chelios was born. National Hockey League defenceman
- 1963 - Sir Isaac Shoenberg dies (b. 1 Mar 1880). Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world's first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936).
- 1963 - Wilson Kettle dies (b. 1860). Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants.
- 1965 - Esa Tikkanen was born. National Hockey League player
- 1967 - Randy MacKay was born. National Hockey League player
- 1967 - David Ginola was born. French footballer.
- 1968 - Carolina Ferraz was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.
- 1969 - Irene Castle dies. English dancer.
- 1969 - Kina was born. American singer.
- 1970 - Jane Bathori dies (b. 1877). French mezzo-soprano.
- 1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya dies (b. 1901). Founder of Tsuburaya Productions, creator of Ultraman.
- 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder of seven people (one of them the actress Sharon Tate) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- 1971 - Luca Badoer was born. Italian Formula One driver
- 1972 - World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London.
- 1972 - Erhard Milch dies (b. 1892). German field marshal.
- 1973 - Geoff Johns was born. American comic book writer
- 1973 - Chris Guy was born. American wrestler
- 1974 - Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place.
- 1975 - Bangladesh's independence leader and first prime minister, sheik Mujibur Rahman, 54, assumes the presidency. He would be killed, along with most of his family, in a coup d'état seven months later 75/08/15.
- 1975 - Tim Montgomery was born. American athlete.
- 1975 - Charlotte Whitton dies (b. 1896). Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa.
- 1976 - Mia Kirshner was born. Canadian actress.
- 1976 - Mario Haberfeld was born. Brazilian racing car driver
- 1977 - Armando Falcão, ministro da Justiça do governo militar, contesta um manifesto assinado por 1.046 intelectuais, exigindo o fim da censura no Brasil.
- 1978 - Denis Menchov was born. Russian cyclist
- 1979 - Gabe Jennings was born. American distance runner
- 1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro was born. Brazilian racing driver
- 1979 - Pi Hongyan was born. French badminton player.
- 1980 - Christian Olsson was born. Swedish triple jumper.
- 1980 - Michelle McCool was born. American wrestler
- 1980 - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr vence as primeiras eleições presidenciais do Irã. Ele obtém 70% dos votos da população.
- 1981 - Alicia Keys was born. Ammerican singer and musician.
- 1981 - Francis Jeffers was born. English footballer
- 1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.
- 1981 - Adele Astaire dies (b. 1897). American dancer.
- 1982 - 9th American Music Award Kenny Rogers win.
- 1982 - Sho Sakurai was born. Japanese singer and actor
- 1982 - Alfredo Ovando dies. Former President of Bolivia.
- 1982 - Mikhail Suslov dies (b. 1902). Soviet politician.
- 1983 - IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) is launched
- 1984 - Robinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1984 - Ines Cudna was born. Polish model
- 1985 - El Papa Juan Pablo II inicia una visita de once días por Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Trinidad-Tobago.
- 1985 - Tina Karol was born. Ukrainian singer.
- 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda
- 1986 - La nave espacial estadounidense "Voyager 2" envía a la Tierra fotografías de 12 nuevas lunas que rodean el planeta Urano y cuya existencia se desconocía.
- 1986 - Mueren 30 personas y 12 resultan gravemente heridas por la explosión de una fábrica de armas situada en Iquique (Chile).
- 1986 - Chris O'Grady was born. English footballer
- 1987 - Maria Kirilenko was born. Russian tennis player.
- 1988 - 15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston .
- 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
- 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
- 1990 - Ava Gardner dies (b. 1922). American actress.
- 1990 - Dámaso Alonso was born. Spanish poet and academic.
- 1991 - Durante a Guerra do Golfo, os Estados Unidos acusam o Iraque de despejar petróleo no golfo pérsico. Os norte-americanos chamam isso de terrorismo ambiental.
- 1991 - Muere la periodista colombiana Diana Turbay en una fallida operación policial para liberarla de los narcotraficantes que la habían secuestrado seis meses antes.
- 1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government.
- 1992 - A selection of America's popular films begins showing on Soviet television.
- 1992 - Manuel Hernández Mompó dies (b. 1927). Spanish painter.
- 1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language.
- 1993 - Slobodan Milosevic jura como presidente de Serbia ante el nuevo Parlamento, tras su victoria en las elecciones.
- 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene dies (b. 5 Jan 1909). American mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
- 1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of European Committee .
- 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
- 1995 - Cal Jammer dies (b. 1960). American actor.
- 1996 - Jonathan Larson dies (b. 1960). American composer.
- 1997 - Asesinan al reportero gráfico argentino José Luis Cabezas.
- 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others. - 1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham gets engaged.
- 1999 - Robert Shaw dies (b. 1916). American conductor.
- 2001 - El nuevo primer ministro serbio, Zoran Djindjic, y los miembros de su gabinete toman posesión oficial de sus cargos, tras la caída definitiva del régimen de Slobodan Milosevic.
- 2003 - Samuel Weems dies. Arkansas judge
- 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen dies (b. 1918). Dutch athlete.
- 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungaryan football player, dies during the match V. Guimarães- Benfica for Portuguese League. He had entered the game a few minutes before and suddendly he fell alone on the ground (b. 1979).
- 2005 - Stanisław Albinowski dies (b. 1923). Polish economist and journalist.
- 2005 - William Augustus Bootle dies (b. 1902). American judge.
- 2005 - Philip Johnson dies (b. 1906). American architect.
- 2005 - Ray Peterson dies (b. 1935). American singer.
- 2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer dies (b. 1923). Dutch athlete.
- 2005 - Manuel Lopes dies (b. 1907). Cape Verdian ficcionista, poet and essayst.
- 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
- 2006 - Anna Malle dies (b. 1967). Adult film star.
- Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.
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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