On this day in History - Jan. 3

• 0106 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero was born (d. 43 BC). Roman statesman and philosopher.
• 0236 - St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0269 - St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 1098 - Walkelin dies. First Norman bishop of Winchester.
• 1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan was born (d. 1231).
• 1290 - Nascimento de D. Constança de Portugal, infanta de Portugal e rainha de Castela (d. 18 Nov 1313).
• 1322 - Philip V dies (b. 1923). King of France.
• 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
• 1437 - Catherine of Valois dies (b. 1401). Wife of Henry V of England.
• 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• 1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
• 1543 - João Rodrigues Cabrilho dies (b. 1499). Portuguese explorer, discoverer of California.
• 1552 - Henry II of Bavaria dies at 64. Bishop of Utrecht (1524-29).
• 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks dies (bc. 1618). English astronomer.
• 1656 - Mathieu Molé dies (b. 1584). French statesman.
• 1667 - Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo.
• 1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle dies (b. 1608). English soldier.
• 1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi dies (b. 1615). Lithuanian rabbi.
• 1698 - Pietro Metastasio was born (d. 1782). Italian poet.
• 1710 - Richard Gridley was born (d. 1796). American Revolutionary soldier.
• 1719 - Francisco José Freire was born (d. 1773). Portuguese historian and philologist.
• 1722 - Fredric Hasselquist was born (d. 1752). Swedish naturalist.
• 1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena dies (b. 1657). Italian architect and designer
• 1749 - Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1760 - John Storm was born (d. 1835). American Revolutionary soldier
• 1777 - George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1778 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski was born (d. 1861). Polish bishop.
• 1779 - Claude Bourgelat dies (b. 1712). French veterinary surgeon.
• 1780 - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
• 1785 - Baldassare Galuppi dies (b. 1706). Italian composer.
• 1787 - É inaugurado o Observatório Astronómico da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, instalado no Castelo de São Jorge.
• 1793 - Lucretia Mott was born (d. 1880). American women's rights activist and abolitionist.
• 1795 - Josiah Wedgwood dies (b. 1730). English potter.
• 1802 - Charles Pelham Villiers was born (d. 1898). Longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons
• 1803 - Douglas William Jerrold was born (d. 1857). British dramatic playwright and political satirist.
• 1803 - Clement Attlee was born (d. 1857). English prime minister.
• 1810 - Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie was born [d.1897]. French geographer, born with his brother Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815-93) in Ireland, who were notable for their extensive travels in Ethiopia where they studied its geology, natural history and archaeology.
• 1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico .
• 1823 - Robert Whitehead was born [d.1905]; British engineer who invented the modern torpedo.
• 1825 - Rensselaer School, the first engineering college in the U.S. is opened in Troy, New York. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• 1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet dies (b. 1770). French marshal.
• 1829 - Konrad Duden was born (d. 1911). Philologist.
• 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
• 1836 - Sakamoto Ryoma was born (d. 1867). Japanese revolutionary.
• 1840 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.
• 1840 - Father Damien was born (d. 1889). Belgian missionary in Hawai.
• 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
• 1852 - First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
• 1855 - Hubert Bland was born (d. 1914). English socialist and co-founder of Fabian Society
• 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1867 - Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo dies (Marquess of Santos - Brazil)
• 1868 - Franz Cumont was born [d. 1947]. Belgian archaeologist and philologist who strongly influenced the modern Protestant school of the history of religions through his fundamental studies, particularly on Roman pagan cults.
• 1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished.
• 1868 - Moritz Hauptmann dies at 75. Composer.
• 1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began. It was completed on May 24, 1883
• 1871 - Oleomargarine was patented by Henry Bradley in Binghamton, NY. A "compound for culinary use" called margarine.
• 1875 - Pierre Larousse dies (b. 1817). French editor and encyclopedist.
• 1876 - Wilhelm Pieck was born. Co-founder of the German Communist Party - President (1949-60).
• 1879 - Grace Coolidge was born (d. 1957). First Lady of the United States.
• 1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth dies (b. 1805). English novelist.
• 1883 - Clement Attlee was born (d. 1967). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1886 - Josephine Hull was born (d. 1957). American actress.
• 1887 - In Chile Eloísa Insunsa (1866-1950) became the first Chilean female physician receiving her diplom from President José Manuel Balmaceda/ En Chile, Eloísa Insunza (1866-1950) se convierte en la primera médica chilena al recibir el título de médica cirujana de manos del Presidente José Manuel Balmaceda
• 1887 - August Macke was born (d. 1914). German painter.
• 1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.
• 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien was born in South African (d. 1973). English writer and philologist -"The Lord of the Rings" creator.
• 1894 - ZaSu Pitts was born (d. 1963). American actress.
• 1897 - Marion Davies was born (d. 1961). American actress.
• 1898 - Luís Carlos Prestes was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brazilian politician, communist.
• 1898 - Carlos Keller was born (d. 1974). Chilean fascist politician.
• 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in the New York Times.
• 1900 - Robert Adair was born in San Francisco. American actor.
• 1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem was born (d. 1963). President of South Vietnam.
• 1903 - Joe Donahue was born in Boston.
• 1903 - Donald Soper was born (d. 1998). English methodist minister.
• 1905 - Anna May Wong was born (d. 1961). Chinese-American actress.
• 1905 - Ray Milland was born at Neath, Glamorganshire (d. 1986). Welsh actor - Oscar awarded.
• 1906 - William Wilson Morgan was born (d. 1994). American astronomer who, in 1951, provided the first evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy has spiral arms. He spent his entire career at the Yerkes Observatory, including three years as director.
• 1909 - Victor Borge was born (d. 2000). Danish entertainer and humorist.
• 1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray was born (d. 2000). Baseball player.
• 1911 - John Sturges was born. Film director.
• 1912 - Armand Lohikoski was born (d. 2005). Finnish director.
• 1912 - Renaude Lapointe was born (d. 1902). Canadian journalist and senator.
• 1915 - Foundation of Club Atlético Lanús - Argentina.
• 1915 - James Elroy Flecker dies (b. 1884). English author.
• 1916 - Betty Furness was born (d. 1994). American actress and consumer activist.
• 1916 - Maxene Andrews was born (d. 1995). American singer (The Andrews Sisters).
• 1916 - Grenville M. Dodge dies (b. 1831). American Civil War Union Army Major General
• 1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr. was born (d. 2004). American publisher.
• 1917 - Assinada uma Convenção com a Grã-bretanha para regulamentação da participação portuguesa na frente europeia, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. O Corpo Expedicionário Português (CEP) ficará subordinado ao BEF (British Expeditionary Force).
• 1920 - Terremotos y volcanes en erupción destruyeron varias ciudades mexicanas y ocasionaron más de 7.000 víctimas.
• 1920 - Renato Carosone was born (d. 2001). Italian musician and singer.
• 1920 - The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.
• 1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
• 1921 - John Russell was born (d. 1991). American film and television actor.
• 1922 - Bill Travers was born (d. 1994). English actor, screenwriter and director.
• 1923 - Hank Stram was born (d. 2005). American football coach.
• 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek dies (b. 1883). Czech novelist (Brave soldaat Schweik)
• 1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt / O egiptólogo inglês Howard Carter descobriu o sarcófago do faraó Tutankhamon, no Vale dos Reis, perto de Luxor, após vários anos de buscas.
• 1924 - Nell Rankin was born (d. 2005). American soprano.
• 1924 - André Franquin was born (d. 1997). Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe).
• 1925 - Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian Parliament and announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1926 - George Martin was born. Producer of The Beatles' records. 60's EMI in-house record producer and so-called fifth Beatle. Produced all but one of The Beatles albums as well as working with comedy acts The Goons and Beyond The Fringe. Received a Knighthood in 1996.
• 1926 - Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece.
• 1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge dies (b. 1856), German physicist.
• 1929 - Sergio Leone was born in Rome (d. 1989). Italian director (A fistfull of dollars).
• 1929 - Ernst Mahle was born. Brazilian composer
• 1930 - Marcel Dubé was born. Quebec playwright
• 1930 - Robert Loggia was born. American actor (Independence Day, Wild Palms, Big, Armed and Dangerous, Prizzi’s Honor, Scarface, Psycho 2...).
• 1931 - Joseph Joffre dies (b. 1852). French general.
• 1932 - Martial law declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
• 1932 - Dabney Coleman was born. American actor.
• 1932 - Coo Coo Marlin was born (d. 2005). American race car driver.
• 1933 - Wilhelm Cuno dies (b. 1876). 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany)
• 1933 - Jack Pickford dies (b. 1896). Canadian actor.
• 1935 - Raymond Garneau was born. French Canadian politician and businessman
• 1936 - Georgina Spelvin was born. Actress.
• 1936 - Artur da Távola was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight poliomyelitis.
• 1938 - Woman in White is first broadcast on the NBC Red network. The program remains on the radio for the next ten years.
• 1939 - Bobby Hull was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1941 - Van Dyke Parks was born. American musician, composer. Worked with Brian Wilson on the 'Smile' album, played keyboards on The Byrds 'Eight Miles High', produced Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Judy Collins.
• 1941 - World War II: North Africa 5,000 Prisoners are taken by Australian troops during a major assault on Italian forces at Bardia.
• 1942 - John Thaw was born (d. 2002). British actor.
• 1944 - Morrem mais de 500 pessoas em um choque entre um trem de viajantes e uma locomotiva em um túnel, sendo o maior desastre ferroviário espanhol.
• 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis dies (b. 1873). Lithuanian poet.
• 1945 - Stephen Stills was born. American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash & Young).
• 1945 - Edgar Cayce dies (b. 1877). American psychic.
• 1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski dies (b. 1879). Polish writer.
• 1946 - John Paul Jones was born. British musician (Led Zeppelin)
• 1946 - Cissy King was born. American entertainer
• 1946 - Victoria Principal was born in Fukuoka, Japan; American actress ( Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas).
• 1946 - John Paul Jones was born. English bassist from Led Zeppelin .
• 1946 - William Joyce dies executed (b. 1906). American Nazi propagandist
• 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1949 - Sylvia Likens was born. American torture victim.
• 1950 - Emil Jannings dies (b. 1884). Swiss actor.
• 1951 - Dragnet is first broadcast on NBC-TV.
• 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1954 - Jim Ross was born. American wrestling announcer
• 1954 - Dean Hart was born (d. 1990). Canadian wrestler.
• 1954 - Ned Lamont was born. American businessman
• 1955 - Jose Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panamá.
• 1955 - Norton de Matos dies (b. 1867). Portuguese General and politician.
• 1956 - Mel Gibson was born. Australian actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Maverick...), and Academy Award-winning director: Braveheart [1995]; The Passion of the Christ.
• 1956 - Arturo Tosi dies. Italian painter.
• 1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov dies (b. 1864). Russian composer.
• 1956 - Joseph Wirth dies (b. 1876). 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany)
• 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1957 - Bojan Križ was born. Slovenian skier
• 1958 - West Indies Federation formed.
• 1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.
• 1958 - Shim Hyung-rae was born. South Korean filmmaker
• 1959 - Rafael Arráiz Lucca was born. Venezuelan writer
• 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1960 - Álvaro Cunhal fugiu do Forte de Peniche, com mais 9 presos, tendo sido auxiliado por alguns pescadores.
• 1960 - Joan Chen was born. Chinese actress.
• 1961 - The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho leaks radiation, killing three workers at the installation. The radiation is contained.
• 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1963 - University of Telaviv is officialy founded.
• 1963 - Jerome Young was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Jack Carson dies (b. 1910). Canadian actor.
• 1965 - Ricardo Prado was born. Brazilian swimmer: world recordist 400 m Medley (1982): 4'18"45, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.
• 1966 - The Psychedelic Shop, the world's first Head shop, opened on Haight Street near Ashbury in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
• 1966 - Martin Galway was born. Northern Ireland composer
• 1966 - Robert Stanek was born. American author
• 1967 - Jack Ruby dies. He was the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1967 - Mary Garden dies (b. 1874). Scottish singer.
• 1967 - Jack Ruby dies (b. 1911). American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1969 - Michael Schumacher was born. German Formula One driver.
• 1969 - Matheus Nachtergaele was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1969 - Marilyn Manson was born. American musician, bandleader.
• 1970 - Marxist government takes over in Congo.
• 1971 - Cave paintings, dated to 6,000 BC, are discovered in the Uweinat Mountains, Egypt.
• 1971 - Cory Cross was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 - Frans Masereel dies at 82. Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil).
• 1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
• 1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as Premier of Spain.
• 1974 - Burma accepts its constitution.
• 1974 - Alessandro Petacchi was born. Italian cyclist
• 1974 - Gino Cervi dies at 72. AItalian actor (Becket, Don Camillo).
• 1975 - Jason Marsden was born. American actor.
• 1975 - Danica McKellar was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Thomas Bangalter was born. French DJ (Daft Punk)
• 1975 - Robert Neumann dies at 77. Austrian/British author (False Flag).
• 1975 - Walter Linck dies at 71. Swiss sculptor.
• 1976 - Dinara Drukarova was born. Russian actress
• 1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez was born. American actor.
• 1975 - Milton J Cross dies at 87. TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions)
• 1976 - Mal Evans dies. Beatles' roadie
• 1976 - Mateusz Glinski dies at 83. Composer.
• 1977 - Lee Bowyer was born. English football player.
• 1977 - Mayumi Iizuka was born. Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
• 1977 - Avraham Ofer commits suicide. Israeli minister of housing
• 1977 - Benno Stokvis dies at 75. Dutch attorney/politician.
• 1978 - Park Sol-mi was born. South Korean actress
• 1978 - Mike York was born. American ice hockey player
• 1978 - Kimberley Locke was born. American singer
• 1979 - Francesco Bellissimo was born. Italian mangaka
• 1979 - Conrad Hilton dies (b. 1887). American hotelier, founder of Hilton Hotels
• 1980 - David Tyree was born.American football player
• 1980 - Liya Kebede was born. Ethiopian model
• 1980 - Rob Arnold was born. American guitarist (Chimaira)
• 1980 - Joy Adamson dies killed in Northern Kenya by a servant in a wage dispute [b. 1910]. Czech Naturalist, conservationalist and author of the best-selling book "Born Free"
• 1980 - Lucien Buysse dies (b. 1892). Belgian cyclist.
• 1980 - Portugal: VI Governo Constitucional - Francisco Sá Carneiro toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo .
• 1980 - Gold hits record $634 an ounce.
• 1980 - Amos Milburn dies at 52. American rocker ( singer and pianist) who was famous for his drinking songs including, "Let Me Go Home, Whiskey".
• 1980 - Axel Springer Jr commits suicide at 38. German photographer.
• 1980 - Ivan Triesault dies at 81. Actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox).
• 1981 - David Bowie made his final appearance as the Elephant Man in the Broadway show in New York City.
• 1981 - Eli Manning was born. American football player.
• 1981 - Princess Alice of Albany dies (b. 1883)
• 1982 - Derek Sealy dies. Cricketer (West Indies 1930-39).
• 1983 - Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys makes the longest run from scrimmage (99 yards) in NFL history.
• 1983 - CiTV launches on ITV1 in the UK.
• 1983 - Daniel Carvalho was born. Brazilian football player (CSKA Moscow).
• 1986 - Michael V Love dies in F-4 crash at 37. US test pilot (X-24)
• 1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.
• 1985 - Lucien Cailliet dies at 93. Composer.
• 1986 - Jens Bjerre dies at 82. Composer.
• 1987 - Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC
• 1987 - Aretha Franklin ‘The Lady Soul’ becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
• 1988 - Gaston Eyskens dies at 82. PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72).
• 1988 - Rose Ausländer dies (b. 1901). German poet.
• 1988 - William Cagney dies of a heart attack at 82. Actor (Torrid Zone)
• 1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement.
• 1989 - Alex D. Linz was born in Santa Barbara, California. American actor.
• 1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev dies (b. 1909). Russian mathematician.
• 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.
• 1990 - Ken Hill dies. Actor (Cobra, Protocol).
• 1990 - Zita Seabra, uma figura importante do PCP posterior ao 25 de Abril, é expulsa do partido.
• 1991 - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.
• 1991 - Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.
• 1992 - Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr married actress Patsy Kensit at Chelsea register office.
• 1992 - Radomiro Tomic dies. Chilean President (1970).
• 1992 - Anthony Del Casino dies at 79. Band leader (Charlie Barnet Band)
• 1992 - Judith Anderson dies of pneumonia at 93. Actress (Star Trek 3)
• 1992 - Ken Grieves dies. Cricketer (NSW & Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder).
• 1992 - Lewis Michael Friedman dies at 47 of AIDS. Pianist.
• 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson dies (b. 1897). Australian actress.
• 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START2).
• 1993 - In an AFC Wild Card game, the Buffalo Bills comeback from a 35-3 deficit against the Houston Oilers and win the game in overtime 41-38, the largest comeback in NFL history.
• 1993 - Johnny Most dies (b. 1923). American sports announcer.
• 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground .
• 1994 - 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.
• 1995 - Sri Lanka: Cease-fire agreement between government and Tamil rebels.
• 1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
• 1997 - Burton Lane dies at 84. Composer.
• 1998 - El presidente de México Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León acepta la denuncia formal de su ministro del Interior, acusado de ser el máximo responsable de la matanza de 45 indígenas en Chiapas.
• 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander launched.
• 1999 - Israel detains, later to expel, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
• 2000 - No estado norte-americano de West Virginia, são iniciadas as negociações de paz entre Israel e Síria.
• 2000 - Luciano Pavarotti agreed to pay the Italian authorities £1.6 million ($2.72 million) after losing an appeal against tax evasion charges. It was reported that the singer was worth £300 million ($510 million) at the time.
• 2000 - The last Peanuts comic strip was created by Charles Schulz.
• 2002 - Israeli commandos seize Iranian ship Karim A. in international waters in the Red Sea some 500 km south of Elat. The ship is captained by a Palestinian and carries 50 tons of mainly Iranian-manufactured arms and munitions, including mortars and anti-tank missiles.
• 2002 - Zak Foley dies at 31. Bassist with EMF. The group scored the 1991 UK No.3 and US No.1 single 'Unbelievable.'
• 2002 - Juan Esquivel dies (b. 20 Jan 1918). Mexican musician (pianist and bandleader).
• 2002 - Freddy Heineken dies (b. 1923). Dutch beer executive.
• 2003 - Ohio State University becomes the first NCAA Division I football team to complete a season 14-0 by winning the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl over the University of Miami 31-24, and is crowned BCS National Champion.
• 2003 - O empresário Jair Ruvieri, sequestrado há 92 dias em Mato Grosso, é encontrado e resgatado pela Divisão Anti Sequestro.
• 2003 - José María Gironella dies from a blood clot on the brain. Catalan author, born on 31 December 1917 [Los Cipreses Creen en Dios (1953), Un Millón de Muertos (1961), Ha Estallado la Paz (1966). Los Hombres Lloran Solos (1986) Se Hace Camino al Andar (1997)...] .
• 2003 - Sid Gillman dies (b. 1911). American football coach.
• 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.
• 2004 - Leon Wagner dies (b. 1934). Baseball player.
• 2005 - Koo Chen-fu dies (b. 1917). Chinese negotiator.
• 2005 - JN Dixit dies (b. 1936). Indian government official.
• 2005 - Will Eisner dies (b. 06 Mar 1917). American comic book artis.
• 2006 - Steve Rogers dies (b. 1954). Australian rugby league player.
• 2006 - Bill Skate dies (b. 1954). Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.
• 2006 - Cáceres Monteiro dies (b. 1948). Portuguese journalist.
• Feast day of St Genevieve
• Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Pax