- 1 BC (O.S.) - Jesus of Nazareth was born. Central figure of Christianity, (date celebrated by Eastern Orthodox churches as Christmas)
- 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester was born (d. 1397). Son of Edward III of England
- 1355 - Inês de Castro dies (assassinated), mistress of the future King Peter I of Portugal
- 1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey dies executed (d. 1374). English politician.
- 1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy dies (b. 1383)
- 1470 - Gil Vicente was born. Great Portuguese writer. Great personality of theater
- 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII was born (d. 1585)
- 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret was born (d. 1572). Queen of Navarre.
- 1536 - Catherine of Aragon dies (b. 1485). Queen of Henry VIII of England.
- 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici of Florence dies assassinated.
- 1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco was born, Spanish lexicographer.
- 1566 - Louis de Blois dies (b. 1506). Flemish mystic.
- 1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
- 1601 - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
- 1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
- 1619 - Nicholas Hilliard dies. English painter
- 1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli dies. Italian composer
- 1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg was born (d. 1677)
- 1658 - Theophilus Eaton dies (b. 1590). Connecticut colonist
- 1685 - Jonas Alströmer was born (d. 1761). Swedish industrialist.
- 1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield dies. English royalist general
- 1700 - Raphael Fabretti dies (b. 1618). Italian antiquarian.
- 1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler was born (d. 1751). German publisher.
- 1715 - François Fénelon dies (b. 1651). French catholic theologian and writer.
- 1718 - Israel Putnam was born (d. 1790). American Revolutionary War general .
- 1758 - Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1686). Scottish poet.
- 1767 - Thomas Clap dies (b. 1703). First president of Yale University.
- 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte was born (d. 1844). King of Naples
- 1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin dies (b. 1695). Swedish politician.
- 1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
- 1783 - William Tans'ur dies (b. 1700). English hymnist.
- 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first togreen-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
- 1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard dies (b. 1715). French physician and scientist.
- 1797 - Consagración de la bandera tricolor italiana (verde, blanco y rojo) en el Congreso de Reggio, en la Emilia.
- 1789 - First nationwide United States election. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
- 1789 - Primeiro Voto Popular no Brasil.
- 1797 - The current flag of Italy is first used.
- 1800 - Millard Fillmore was born (d. 1874). 13th President of the United States
- 1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming was born (d. 1915). Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time
- 1830 - Albert Bierstadt was born (d. 1902). German-American painter.
- 1830 - Thomas Lawrence dies (b. 1769). English painter.
- 1830 - D. Carlota Joaquina dies. Queen of Portugal / Morte da rainha viúva D. Carlota Joaquina, em Lisboa. Tinha casado com o infante D. João, futuro D. João VI em 1785.
- 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan was born (d. 1897). German labor organizer.
- 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis was born (d. 1874). German physicist and inventor.
- 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous was born (d. 1879). French saint.
- 1860 - Emanuil Manolov was born (d. 1902). Bulgarian composer.
- 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith dies (b. 1808). U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
- 1870 - Sublevación en Haití contra el presidente Silverio Silvané, que fue fusilado por los rebeldes durante los disturbios
- 1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was born (d. 1956). French mathematician, politician, and resistance fighter.
- 1872 - James Fisk dies (b. 1834). American entrepreneur.
- 1873 - Adolph Zukor was born (d. 1976). Hungarian producer.
- 1873 - Charles Péguy was born (d. 1914). French poet and essayist.
- 1875 - Thomas Hicks was born (d. 1963). American runner.
- 1875 - Manuel Aranaz Castellanos was born. Cuban writer.
- 1878 - Anselmo Suárez Romero dies. Cuban writer
- 1878 - François-Vincent Raspail dies (b. 1794). French chemist.
- 1890 - Henny Porten was born (d. 1960). Actress.
- 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston was born (d. 1960). American author.
- 1892 - Tewfik Pasha dies (b. 1852). Khedive of Egypt.
- 1893 - Jožef Stefan dies (b. 1835). Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet.
- 1895 - Korea proclaimed its independence from China.
- 1896 - Arnold Ridley was born (d. 1984). British playwright and actor.
- 1899 - Francis Poulenc was born (d. 1963). French composer.
- 1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
- 1903 - Warren Hull was born (d. 1974). American actor.
- 1903 - Alan Napier was born (d. 1988). English actor.
- 1908 - Red Allen was born (d. 1967). American musician.
- 1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born (d. 1984). Pakistani poet.
- 1910 - Orval Faubus was born (d. 1994). Governor of Arkansas.
- 1911 - Butterfly McQueen was born (d. 1995). American actress.
- 1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
- 1912 - Charles Addams was born (d. 1988). American cartoonist.
- 1913 - Johnny Mize was born (d. 1993). Baseball player.
- 1916 - Paul Keres was born (d. 1975). Estonian chess player.
- 1919 - Henry Ware Eliot dies (b. 1843). American industrialist, philantropist and the father of T. S. Eliot.
- 1920 - Edmund Barton dies (b. 1849). First Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1922 - Alvin Dark was born. Baseball player and manager
- 1922 - Vincent Gardenia was born (d. 1992). Italian-born actor.
- 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal was born (d. 2000). French flutist.
- 1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
- 1923 - Hugh Kenner was born (d. 2003). Canadian literary critic.
- 1924 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switserland.
- 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
- 1925 - Gerald Durrell was born (d. 1995). British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter.
- 1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
- 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
- 1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London.
- 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
- 1928 - William Peter Blatty was born. American screenwriter.
- 1928 - El río Támesis se desborda a su paso por Londres, originando una de las mayores inundaciones de la capital británica.
- 1929 - Terry Moore was born. American actress
- 1934 - Charlie Jenkins was born. American runner.
- 1934 - Jean Corbeil was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician.
- 1935 - Tommy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American tubist.
- 1935 - Kenny Davern was born. American jazz clarinetist
- 1935 - Valeri Kubasov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
- 1935 - João Bénard da Costa was born. Portuguese cinematographer critic and essayst.
- 1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
- 1937 - Paul Revere was born. American musician
- 1938 - Rory Storm was born (d. 1972). British singer.
- 1938 - Lou Graham was born. American golfer
- 1938 - Roland Topor was born (d. 1997). French illustrator.
- 1939 - Maury Povich was born. American TV host
- 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark was born.
- 1941 - Iona Brown was born (d. 2004). British violinist and conductor.
- 1941 - World War II - North Africa : British troops capture Torbruk airport.
- 1941 - John E. Walker was born; British chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for his pioneering work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of the "high-energy" compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
- 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1942 - Vasily Alexeev was born. Russian weightlifter.
- 1942 - Danny Williams was born (d. 2005). South African singer.
- 1942 - Jim Lefebvre, Major League Baseball player
- 1943 - World War II - North Africa : Oum-el-Araneb, the main Axis base in south Libya, is captured by General Philippe Leclerc's Free French troops.
- 1943 - Nikola Tesla dies (b. 1856). Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer.
- 1944 - Arne Scheie was born. Norwegian sports commentator.
- 1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1945 - Tony Conigliaro was born (d. 1990). American baseball player.
- 1945 - Dick Marty was born. Swiss politician.
- 1946 - Jann Wenner was born. American publisher.
- 1947 - Shobha De was born. Indian writer
- 1948 - Kenny Loggins was born. American singer
- 1949 - Steven Williams was born. American actor
- 1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa kills 41 people.
- 1950 - Erin Gray was born. American actress
- 1950 - Juan Gabriel was born. Mexican singer and songwriter
- 1950 - Ross Grimsley was born. Major League Baseball pitcher.
- 1951 - Helen Worth was born. British actress.
- 1951 - James Beard was born. American wrestling referee
- 1951 - René Guénon dies (b. 1886). French-Egyptian author.
- 1951 - Luiz Melodia was born. Brazilian singer and composer (MPB : música popular brasileira = Brazilian popular music).
- 1952 - Sammo Hung was born. Hong Kong actor
- 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1956 - David Caruso was born. American actor.
- 1956 - Mike Liut was born. National Hockey League goaltender.
- 1957 - Nicholson Baker was born. American novelist
- 1957 - Katie Couric was born. American television host
- 1957 - Julian Solis was born. Puerto Rican boxer
- 1959 - Kathy Valentine was born. American musician (The Go-Gos)
- 1962 - Aleksandr Dugin was born. Russian politician
- 1964 - Nicolas Cage was born. American actor
- 1964 - Cyril Davies dies (b. 1932). American musician.
- 1965 - Aparece en Colombia la guerrilla procastrista Ejército de Liberación Nacional
- ELN).
- 1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was born (d. 1999). American publicist.
- 1967 - Mark Lamarr was born. British comedian
- 1967 - Guy Hebert was born. Hockey player.
- 1970 - Doug E. Doug was born. American actor
- 1970 - Joao Ricardo was born. Angolan footballer
- 1971 - C.W. Anderson was born. American professional wrestler
- 1971 - David Yost was born. American actor .
- 1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
- 1972 - Donald Brashear was born. American hockey player
- 1972 - John Berryman dies (b. 1914). American poet.
- 1973 - Jonna Tervomaa was born. Finnish singer
- 1976 - Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican baseball player
- 1976 - Eric Gagné was born. Canadian baseball player.
- 1976 - Luís Person dies (b. 1936). Brazilian actor and director
- 1976 - Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1977 - Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
- 1977 - Se funda el Club de Deportes Cobreloa, de Calama, Chile.
- 1977 - Un grupo de intelectuais tchecos escrevem a chamada Carta dos 77, um documento que exige do Governo de Praga o respeito pelos direitos humanos e civis dos cidadãos.
- 1977 - Michelle Behennah was born. British model
- 1977 - Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
- 1979 - Bipasha Basu was born. Indian model and actress
- 1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, so driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
- 1980 - Mariangel Ruiz was born. Venezuelan hostees, actress and model.
- 1980 - Larry Williams dies (b. 1935). American singer, pianist and songwriter.
- 1981 - Marquis Daniels was born. American basketball player
- 1981 - Alex Auld was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1982 - El socialdemócrata Luis Alberto Monge gana las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.
- 1982 - Francisco Rodriguez dies. Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984 - Alfred Kastler dies (b. 1902). French investigator whose work give him The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966.
- 1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985 - José Maria Pedroto dies. Portuguese football coach and footballer.
- 1985 - Lewis Hamilton was born. British racing driver
- 1986 - Juan Rulfo dies (b. 1917). Mexican writer, author of "El llano en llamas" (1953) and "Pedro Páramo" (1955 ).
- 1988 - Trevor Howard dies (b. 1913). English actor.
- 1988 - Michel Auclair dies (b. 1922). French actor.
- 1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
- 1990 - Liam Aiken was born. American actor
- 1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili was born. Georgian figure skater.
- 1990 - Bronko Nagurski dies (b. 1908). American football player.
- 1991 - Roger Lafontant, ex ministro del derrocado dictador haitiano Jean Claude Duvalier, fracasa en su golpe de estado contra el presidente electo, Jean B. Aristide
- 1992 - Richard Hunt dies (b. 1951). American puppeteer (The Muppets).
- 1995 - Murray Rothbard dies (b. 1926). American economist.
- 1996 - El conservador Alvaro Arzú, del Partido Avanzada Nacional, es elegido nuevo presidente de Guatemala.
- 1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.
- 1996 - Károly Grósz dies (b. 1930). Hungarian politician.
- 1998 - Vladimir Prelog dies (b. 1906). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1998 - Owen Bradley dies (b. 1915). American record producer.
- 2000 - Don Martin dies (b. 1931). American illustrator.
- 2000 - Gary Albright dies (b. 1963). Professional wrestler.
- 2002 - Gyula Várady dies (b. 1919). Hungarian footballer.
- 2002 - Naughtia Childs dies (suicide) (b. 1979). Porn star.
- 2002 - Avery Schreiber dies (b. 1935). American actor.
- 2003 - Oolong dies. Japanese rabbit which became an Internet meme
- 2003 - Bosko Boskovic dies, Yougoslavian director/write/actor . Boskovic’s film "Nebeski Odred" was nominated for the Grand Prix Award at the 1961 Moscow film festival.
- 2003 - José Viana - Portuguese actor died in an automobile accident at age 80. Mr. Viana appeared in numerous films and TV series ( "Senhor Jerónimo", "Love Letters From a Portuguese Nun" ...).
- 2004 - Ingrid Thulin dies. Swedish actress.
- 2004 - Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr. died this day [b. 1916]; American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
- 2005 - Pierre Daninos dies (b. 1913). French novelist.
- 2005 - Eileen Desmond dies (b. 1932). Irish politician.
- 2005 - Rosemary Kennedy dies. Sister of John F. Kennedy
- 2006 - Heinrich Harrer dies (b. 1912). Austrian mountaineer and explorer.
- Catholicism - Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort.
- Christmas Day in the Julian calendar. This is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
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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