- 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
- 0641 - Heraclius dies (b. ca. 575). Emperor of Byzantium in 610-641.
- 0731 - Pope Gregory II ends his reign as Pope because dies.
- 0821 - Saint Benedict of Aniane dies (b. ca. 747).
- 0824 - Pope Paschal I dies.
- 1141 - Hugo of St. Victor dies. German philosopher, theologian, mystic.
- 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo dies (b. 1123). Japanese general.
- 1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini was born (d. 1459). Italian humanist.
- 1466 - Elizabeth of York was born (d. 1503). Consort of King Henry VII of England
- 1503 - Elizabeth of York dies (b. 11 Feb 1466). Consort of King Henry VII of England
- 1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
- 1535 - Gregory XIV [Nicolo Sfondrati] was born (d. 1591). Roman Catholic Pope (1590-91).
- 1557 - John Uijtenbogaert was born. Dutch remonstrant theologian.
- 1568 - Honore d'Urfe was born (d. 1625). French writer .
- 1596 - Concluye en Manila la única expedición española de descubrimiento conducida por una mujer: Isabel Barreto.
- 1606 - La Corte de Felipe III se traslada de Valladolid a Madrid.
- 1622 - Alfonso Fontanelli dies aged 64. Italian composer.
- 1626 - Pietro Cataldi dies (b. 1552). Italian mathematician.
- 1650 - René Descartes dies (b. 1596). French philosopher : 'I think therefore I am'.
- 1657 - Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle was born (d. 9 Jan 1757). French scientist and man of letters (Plurality of Worlds).
- 1685 - David Teniers III dies (b. 1638). Flemish painter.
- 1713 - Jahandar Shah dies (b. 1664). Mughal emperor of Indai.
- 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
- 1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei dies (b. 1675). Italian archaeologist
- 1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs dies. German composer.
- 1763 - William Shenstone dies (b. 1714). French poet.
- 1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier was born. French poet .
- 1774 - El Gabinete inglés comunica al Gobierno español su intención de retirar todas las fuerzas de las islas Malvinas.
- 1774 - Hans Jarta was born. Swedish political activist, administrator, publicist .
- 1780 - Karoline von Günderode was born in Karlsruhe (d. 1806). German poet.
- 1790 - Ignaz Assmayer was born (d. 31 Aug 1862). Austrian composer.
- 1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
- 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne dies (b. 1713). French composer.
- 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot was born (d. 1877). English photographic pioneer.
- 1802 - Lydia Child was born (d. 1880). American abolitionist and novelist (Juvenile Miscellany).
- 1805 - Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide Sacajawea gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste.
- 1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally (Judge Jesse Fell).
- 1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat .
- 1810 - Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
- 1810 - Loisa Puget was born. Composer.
- 1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens was born (d. 1883). Vice President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1813 - Otto Ludwig was born. German novelist, playwright, critic.
- 1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union .
- 1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman was born (d. 1890). American composer .
- 1821 - Hermann Allmers was born. German writer .
- 1821 - Auguste-Édouard Mariette was born (d. 1881). French Egyptologist
- 1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.
- 1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov dies (b. 1795). Russian playwright.
- 1830 - Peter Arnold Heise was born. Composer.
- 1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf was born (d. 1913). Musician.
- 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs was born (d. 1903). Theoretical physicist, chemist.
- 1841 - J H Ferdinand Olivier dies. German painter.
- 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison was born in Ohio (d. 1931). American inventor.
- 1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
- 1858 - Saint Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes.
- 1860 - Rachilde (Marguérite Vallette-Eymery) was born (d. 1953). French author.
- 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
- 1862 - Elizabeth Siddal dies (b. 1829). British poet and artist.
- 1865 - Foundation, in Lisbon, of The Portuguese Red Cross.
- 1867 - August W Messer was born. German philosopher, educator, psychologist.
- 1868 - Léon Foucault dies (b. 1819). French astronomer.
- 1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller was born. Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts
- 1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler was born (d. 1945). German lyricist, dramatist and narrator.
- 1870 - Leopold Eugen Mechura dies (b. 1804). Composer .
- 1871 - Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine dies. Luxemburg politician.
- 1873 - King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
- 1873 - España: Se proclama la Primera República Española.
- 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin was born (d. 1938). Russian singer.
- 1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart was born (d. 1949). English-born composer.
- 1874 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman) was born (d. 1953). Swedish children's book and fairytales author.
- 1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart was born. Composer .
- 1875 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter was born. Composer.
- 1879 - Jean Gilbert was born. Composer.
- 1882 - Gustav Schmidt dies (b. 1874). Composer.
- 1883 - Paul August von Klenau was born (d. 1946). Danish composer and conductor .
- 1887 - John van Melle was born (d. 1953). South African writer.
- 1889 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov was born. Composer .
- 1890 - John de Vries was born. Writer .
- 1891 - J. W. Hearne was born (d. 1965). English cricket player .
- 1892 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni dies. Composer .
- 1893 - Johan Alberts was born. Dutch literary figure .
- 1894 - Isaac Kolthoff was born. Chemist .
- 1894 - Alfonso Leng was born (d. 1974). Chilean composer.
- 1895 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled on 10 January 1982 and again on 30 December 1995.
- 1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky was born. Composer .
- 1896 - Else Lasker-Schüler was born. Writer .
- 1897 - Yves de La Casiniere was born. Composer .
- 1898 - Leó Szilárd was born (d. 1964). Physicist, peace activist.
- 1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer was born (d. 2002). German philosopher.
- 1900 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr was born, polo player .
- 1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
- 1902 - Arne Jacobsen was born (d. 1971). Danish architect/designer.
- 1903 - Hans Redlich was born (d. 1968). Composer.
- 1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
- 1903 - Henryk Szulc dies. Composer .
- 1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake was born (d. 1983). Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1904 - Henry LaBouisse was born. Head of UNICEF .
- 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
- 1905 - Elizabeth Vuyk was born. Dutch/Indonesian writer .
- 1906 - Denis Barnett was born. British air chief Marshal .
- 1907 - E W Swanton was born. Author, sports commentator .
- 1907 - Peter J Savelberg dies. Dutch monastery founder .
- 1908 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana was born. Indonesian linguist, author, novelist .
- 1908 - Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs was born (d. 1999). English geologist, explorer.
- 1908 - Philip Dunne was born (d. 1992). American screenwriter, director and producer
- 1909 - Max Baer was born (d. 1959). American director
- 1909 - Joseph Mankiewicz was born (d. 1993). American director, screenwriter, producer .
- 1911 - Alec Cairncross was born, chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
- 1911 - Albert von Rothschild dies (b. 29 Ocr 1844). Austrian banker.
- 1912 - Roy Fuller was born. English poet and novelist .
- 1912 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla was born. Pianist .
- 1913 - Lucio Diestro was born. Composer.
- 1914 - Matt Dennis was born. American singer .
- 1914 - French Duynstee was born, Dutch constitutional lawyer .
- 1914 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder was born, court judge of Amsterdam .
- 1914 - Menelaos Pallantios was born. Composer .
- 1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor was born. English author.
- 1915 - Mervyn Levy was born. Welsh artist and critic .
- 1915 - Haakon Stotijn was born. Dutch oboist .
- 1916 - Joseph Alioto was born. Mayor of San Francisco, California .
- 1916 - Bernice Levin Neugarten was born. Social scientist, gerontologist .
- 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
- 1917 - Richard Jock Kinneir was born. Graphic designer .
- 1917 - Sidney Sheldon was born (d. 2007). American author.
- 1917 - Oswaldo Cruz dies (b. 1872). Brazilian physician/ Morte de Oswaldo Cruz, cientista, médico e sanitarista brasileiro que foi uma das figuras mais importantes no desenvolvimento da saúde pública no Brasil.
- 1919 - Gretchen Fraser was born. Slalom skier.
- 1919 - Eddie Robinson was born. American football coach.
- 1919 - Eva Gabor was born (d. 1995). Hungarian-born actress.
- 1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt was born (d. 1965)
- 1920 - Daniel Galouye was born. American science fiction author .
- 1920 - Billy Halop was born (d. 1976). American actor .
- 1920 - Paul Peter Piech was born (d. 1996). Artist.
- 1920 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (d. 1978)
- 1921 - Lloyd Bentsen was born (d. 2006). American politician.
- 1922 - Tudor Jarda was born. Composer .
- 1922 - Honduras é declarada uma república independente.
- 1922 - Gerardus J P Bolland dies. Dutch philosopher .
- 1923 - Ronald Arculus was born. British diplomat .
- 1923 - Wilhelm Killing dies (b. 1847). German mathematician.
- 1924 - Mary Tregear was born. Oriental art historian .
- 1925 - Peter Berger was born. British Vice-Admiral .
- 1925 - Virginia Johnson was born. Doctor, sexologist .
- 1925 - Kim Stanley was born (d. 2001). American actress.
- 1925 - Manuel dos Santos was born. Portuguese bullfighter.
- 1926 - Paul Bocuse was born. French chef.
- 1926 - Leslie Nielsen was born. Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Airplane, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 2-1/2). (Frank Drebbin). (Or 1922).
- 1926 - Alexander Gibson was born. British conductor, founder of the Scottish Opera .
- 1928 - Gerry Alexander was born. West Indies cricket player .
- 1928 - Raoul Cita was born. American rocker who was the musical manager of the Harptones and musical mentor for dozens of groups in NYC
- 1928 - Gotthilf Fischer was born. Choirmaster .
- 1928 - Archibald Forster was born. CEO (Esso UK) .
- 1928 - Conrad Janis was born. Actor .
- 1928 - El general nicaragüense Augusto César Sandino huye a Honduras.
- 1929 - Tratado de Letrán entre la Santa Sede y la Italia de Mussolini. Se acuerda la creación de la Ciudad del Vaticano como Estado.
- 1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle was born in New York. American composer .
- 1930 - C H Dearnley was born. Organist .
- 1930 - Alevtina Koltschina was born. Soviet skier
- 1931 - Larry Merchant was born. American sportswriter, boxing commentator .
- 1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons dies (b. 1854). British inventor .
- 1932 - Jerome Lowenthal was born. American pianist.
- 1934 - Tina Louise was born. American actress .
- 1934 - Francesco Pennisi was born. Composer.
- 1934 - Mary Quant was born. English fashion designer .
- 1934 - Mel Carnahan was born (d. 2000). American politician.
- 1934 - John Surtees was born. British race car driver
- 1935 - Bent Lorentzen was born. Composer .
- 1935 - Gene Vincent was born (d. 1971). Rock music guitarist and vocalist.
- 1936 - Burt Reynolds was born in Waycross, Georgia. American Emmy Award-winning actor.
- 1937 - Eddie Shack was born. National Hockey League player
- 1937 - Lodewijk Boer was born. Dutch violinist, playwright .
- 1937 - Marilyn Butler was born. Rector of Exeter College, Oxford .
- 1937 - Peter Lashley was born. West Indies cricket player .
- 1937 - Bill Lawry was born. Australian cricket player .
- 1937 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
- 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.') .
- 1938 - Bevan Congdon was born. New Zealand cricket player .
- 1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira was born. Composer .
- 1938 - Simone de Oliveira was born. Portuguese singer and actress.
- 1938 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter
- 1938 - Manuel Noriega was born. Panamanian general and dictator .
- 1939 - Gerry Goffin was born. American lyricist .
- 1939 - Jane Yolen was born. Amercian writer.
- 1939 - Franz Schmidt dies (b. 1874). Austrian composer .
- 1940 - John Buchan dies (b. 1875). 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada
- 1940 - Bobby Picket was born. Musician.
- 1941 - Sergio Mendes was born. Brazilian singer, jazz-pop musician, songwriter .
- 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
- 1942 - Otis Clay was born. Gospel qand R&B singer
- 1943 - Iain Cameron was born. British brigadier
- 1943 - Serge Lama was born. French singer.
- 1944 - Buddhadev Dasgupta was born. Film director
- 1944 - Bert Greene was born. Golfer.
- 1944 - Henrique Paiva Couceiro dies (b. 30 Dez 1861). Portuguese militar and Governor of Angola.
- 1945 - Yalta Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II.
- 1945 - Al Dubin dies (b. 1891). Swiss songwriter .
- 1945 - J S H Lokerman dies. Dutch resistance fighter.
- 1947 - Joselito was born. Spanish singer
- 1948 - Sergei Eisenstein dies in Moscow (b. 1898). Russian film director .
- 1953 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg .
- 1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
- 1953 - Philip Anglim was born. American actor.
- 1953 - Jeb Bush was born. American politician
- 1954 - Noriyuki Asakura was born. Japanese composer
- 1956 - Catherine Hickland was born. American actress.
- 1956 - Didier Lockwood was born. French violinist
- 1956 - Se aprueba en Bolivia la ley que da el derecho al voto a los indígenas, mujeres y militares.
- 1959 - Roberto Moreno was born. Brazilian racing driver
- 1959 - Marshall Teague dies (b. 1922). American race car driver
- 1960 - Victor Klemperer dies in Dresden (b. 1881). Jewish professor for literature at the Dresden University and holocaust witness.
- 1961 - Eduard R Verkade dies in Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands (b. 15 Jun 1878). Dutch actor, director .
- 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1961 - Mary Docter was born. American speed skater.
- 1961 - Carey Lowell was born. American actress.
- 1962 - Sheryl Crow was born in Kennet, Missouri. American musician, songwriter and singer.
- 1963 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me".
- 1963 - Diane Franklin was born. American actress
- 1963 - Sylvia Plath dies, killed herself, in London (b. 1932). American poet and novelist.
- 1964 - At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
- 1964 - Ken Shamrock was born. American martial artist
- 1965 - Humberto Delgado regressa clandestinamente a Portugal para participar numa alegada reunião preparatória de um novo golpe militar contra o regime salazarista. Raptado pela polícia política é morto na região de Badajoz. O seu corpo será encontrado no dia 24 de Abril seguinte.
- 1965 - Vicki Wilson was born. Australian netballer
- 1967 - Hank Gathers was born (d. 1990). American basketball player.
- 1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City .
- 1968 - Howard Lindsay dies. American playwright .
- 1969 - Jennifer Aniston was born. American actress .
- 1970 - Alistair Brown was born. English cricket player .
- 1970 - Japan became the fourth country to put a satellite into orbit.
- 1970 - Emil Abranyi dies. Composer .
- 1971 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
- 1971 - Damian Lewis was born. British actor
- 1971 - Whitney Young Jr dies. National Urban League director.
- 1972 - Brian Daubach was born. American baseball player
- 1972 - Craig Jones was born. American musician (Slipknot)
- 1972 - Steve Mcmanaman was born. English footballer
- 1972 - Kelly Slater was born. American surfer
- 1972 - Jan Wils dies (b. 1891). German architect .
- 1973 - Emerson Fittipaldi, correndo pela Lótus, vence o Grande Prêmio de Fórmula 1 em São Paulo.
- 1973 - Varg Vikernes was born. Norwegian musician (Burzum)
- 1973 - Ethan Iverson was born. Jazz pianist
- 1973 - Hans D Jensen dies (b. 1907). German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1974 - D'Angelo was born. American singer .
- 1974 - Chuck Watanabe was born. Kayaker .
- 1974 - Alex Jones was born. American radio host
- 1975 - Zsuzsa Hickel dies. Hungarian spiritualist .
- 1975 - Reino Unido: Margaret Thatcher es elegida Presidente del Partido Conservador.
- 1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava dies assassinated (b. 1931). Malagasy soldier and statesman.
- 1976 - Brice Beckham was born. American actor
- 1976 - Lee J Cobb dies (b. 1911). American actor.
- 1976 - Alexander Lippisch dies (b. 1894). German aerodynamicist.
- 1976 - Ricardo was born. Portuguese football palyer (goalkeeper of Sporting and National Team)
- 1976 - Frank Arnau dies (b. 1894). German writer.
- 1977 - Mike Shinoda was born. American singer (Linkin Park)
- 1977 - Louis Beel dies (b. 1902). Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959).
- 1978 - Peter Hayes was born. American singer-guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
- 1978 - James B Conant dies (b. 1893). American chemist and Headmaster of Harvard University .
- 1978 - Harry Martinson dies (b. 1904). Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate.
- 1979 - O primeiro ministro iraniano, Dr. Shahpur Bakhtiar, renuncia após dois dias de manifestações nas ruas de Teerã.
- 1979 - Brandy Norwood was born. American singer .
- 1980 - Natasha Bobo was born. Actress .
- 1980 - Matthew Lawrence was born. American actor .
- 1980 - André "Titi" Buengo was born. Angolan footballer
- 1980 - Marco Bresciano was born. Australian footballer
- 1981 - Kelly Rowland was born. Singer (Destiny's Child) .
- 1982 - Eleanor Powell dies (b. 1912). American actress, dancer .
- 1982 - Takashi Shimura dies (b. 1905). Japanese actor.
- 1983 - Nicki Clyne was born. Canadian actress.
- 1983 - Rafael Van der Vaart was born. Dutch soccer player
- 1984 - Aubrey O'Day was born. American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1985 - William Beckett was born. American musician (The Academy Is...)
- 1985 - Mike Richards was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1985 - Henry Hathaway dies (b. 1898). American actor and director .
- 1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld dies (b. 1901). American composer .
- 1985 - Ben Abruzzo dies (b. 1930). American businessman and balloonist.
- 1986 - Frank Herbert dies (b. 1920). American author.
- 1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
- 1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.
- 1987 - Sadequain dies (b. 1930). Famous Pakistani painter and artist.
- 1989 - Jazz Raycole was born. American actress
- 1989 - George O'Hanlon dies (b. 1912). American actor and director .
- 1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1990 - Q'Orianka Kilcher was born. American singer
- 1991 - Robert W. Holley dies (b. 1922). American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1991 - Oscar Nitzchke dies. German architect .
- 1993 - O ex-primeiro ministro italiano Bettino Craxi renuncia ao cargo de líder do Partido Socialista, após sofrer acusações de corrupção.
- 1993 - George A Stephen dies. Inventor.
- 1994 - Neil Bonnett dies (b. 1946). American car racer driver.
- 1994 - Sorrell Brooke dies (b. 1930). American actor.
- 1994 - William Conrad dies (b. 1920). American actor.
- 1996 - Kebby Musokotwane dies (b. 1946). Prime minister of Zambia .
- 1996 - Cyril Poole dies (b. 1921). English cricket player .
- 1996 - Amelia Rosselli dies (b. 1930). Italian poet.
- 1997 - Barry Evans dies (b. 1943). English actor.
- 1997 - Don Porter dies (b. 1912). American actor.
- 2000 - Roger Vadim dies (b. 1928). French director.
- 2000 - Jacqueline Auriol dies (b. 1917). French aviatrix.
- 2002 - Frank Crosetti dies (b. 1910). Baseball player.
- 2002 - Barry Foster dies (b. 1931). British actor.
- 2003 - Arndt Brause dies. Schlager singer .
- 2003 - Daniel Toscan du Plantier dies. Movie producer .
- 2004 - Shirley Strickland dies (b. 1925). Australian athlete.
- 2005 - Jack L. Chalker dies (b. 1944). American author.
- 2006 - Jockey Shabalala dies (b. 1943). South African singer.
- 2006 - Peter Benchley dies (b. 1940). American author.
- 2006 - Jackie Pallo dies (b. 1926). Wrestler.
- 2006 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face while the two are hunting together.
- 2006 - Jockey Shabalala dies (b. 1943). South African singer.
- 2006 - Peter Benchley dies (b. 1940). American author.
- 2006 - Jackie Pallo dies (b. 1926). Wrestler.
- 2007 - Portugal: Popular referendum about the possibility of making aborption until 10 weeks of gestacion, only for free will of woman, without penalty.
- Catholicism - Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes.
- National Inventors' Day in the United States.
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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