1464 -
Zhengtong dies (b. 1427). Emperor of China.
1526 -
Diego Colón dies. Spanish Viceroy of the Indies.
1535 - Tomás de Berlanga, o bispo de Castilla del Oro descubre las islas Galápagos.
1601 - Agostino Carraci dies. Italian painter and engraver.
1603 -
Andrea Cesalpino (b. 6 Jun 1519). Italian
physician,
philosopher, and
botanist who sought a philosophical and theoretical approach to plant classification based on unified and coherent principles rather than on alphabetical sequence or medicinal properties .
1649 - John Blow was born. English coomposer.
1669 -
Leo Aitzema dies (b. 1600). Dutch historian and statesman.
1685 -
Georg Friederich Händel was born in Halle, Germany (d. 1759). German-English Composer. Handel was one of the greatest masters of baroque music, most widely celebrated for his majestic oratorio
The Messiah.
- 1732 - First performance of George Frideric Handel's Orlando, in London.
1765 - El químico y físico inglés Henry Cavendish descubre el hidrógeno, al que llamó "aire inflamable".
1781 -
George Taylor dies. American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1812 - Étienne-Louis Malus dies (b. 23 June 1775). French
physicist who discovered that light, when reflected, becomes partially plane polarized; i.e., its rays vibrate in the same plane.
1813 - Cotton mill - The first
cotton mill in the world in which the whole process of cotton manufacturing from spinning to weaving was carried on by power was incorporated in Waltham, Mass., U.S. with a capital of $100,000 as the Boston Manufacturing Company.
1817 - George Frederick Watts was born. English painter and sculptor.
1820 - Buenos Aires, Santa Fe y Entre Ríos firman el Tratado del Pilar.
1822 -
Boston was granted a charter to become a city.
1823 - Rebelião contra-revolucionária do general conde de Amarante, e de outros oficiais afastados do poder em finais de 1820 (Portugal).
1840 -
Carl Menger was born (d. 1921). Austrian economist.
1841 - The Chemical Society of London held its first organizational meeting. It was the first association for chemists that lasted 100 years.
- 1848 - John Quincy Adams dies (b. 1767). 6th President of the United States.
1849 -
Rosa Damasceno was born in Porto (d. 5 Oct 1904). Portugueses actress.
- 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss dies (b. 30 Apr 1777). German mathematician, astronomer, physicist.
1858 - Vicente Ramón Roca Rodríguez dies. President of Ecuador.
1868 -
W.E.B. DuBois was born (d. 1963). American civil rights leader and author. He was the most important African American protest leader during the first half of the 20th century, helping to create the
NAACP in 1909 and editing
The Crisis, its magazine, for 24 years.
1870 - Military control of
Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1879 - Agnes Arber was born (d. 22 Mar 1960). British botanist noted chiefly for her studies in comparative anatomy of plants, especially monocotyledons.
1882 -
B. Traven was born (allegedly) writer (d. 1969).
1884 - Casimir Funk was born (d. 20 Nov 1967). Polish-American
biochemist who
coined the term "vitamine" .
1886 - El "London Times" publica el primer aviso clasificado.
1886 - Aluminium isolated : Charles M. Hall, a young U.S. chemist, completed his electrolytic process for the separation of aluminum from its ore, a mere eight months since he graduated from college.
1887 - Oskar Lindberg was born. Swedish composer.
1889 - É abolida a escravatura em todo o território Português.
1889 -
Musidora was born (d. 1957). French actress and director.
1892 - Hugh Burgess dies (b. c. 1825). British-born American inventor who, with Charles Watt, developed the soda process used to turn wood pulp into paper.
1893 - Diesel engine patent.
Rudolf Diesel received a German patent for the diesel engine. His engine burns fuel oil rather than gasoline, and uses high compressed of the gases in the cylinder rather than a spark to ignite the fuel.
1896 - The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
1898 - French novelist
Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain
Alfred Dreyfus.
1907 - Roberto Cerro "Cherro", "Cabecita de Oro" was born. Argentinin player scored 100 goals for Boca Juniors.
1911 - Os bispos portugueses tomam posição contra as medidas anticlericais do regime Republicano, como fossem a expulsão das congregações, a lei do divórcio e o fim do juramento religioso.
1914 - El Consejo de Konigsberg acuerda que los restos del filósofo Kant sean enterrados en un mausoleo de la catedral de esta ciudad.
1915 -
Jon Hall was born (d. 1979). American actor.
1917 - Jean-Gaston Darboux dies (b. 14 Aug 1842). French mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and analysis and after whom the Darboux integral is named.
1917 - O segundo contingente do Corpo expedicionário português parte para França. O primeiro contingente tinha partido em 30 de Janeiro.
1918 - Formation of the (Soviet) Red Army. In 1946 their name changed to "Soviet Army".
1918 - O governo de Sidónio pais altera a Lei da Separação entre o Estado e a Igreja, restituindo ao clero parte dos seus poderes nas questões referentes ao culto.
- 1923 - Théophile Delcassé dies (b. 1852). French statesman.
1926 - Charles Joseph Chamberlain is born (d. 5 Feb 1943). U.S. botanist whose major area of research was the cycad genera, palmlike, cone-bearing plants intermediate in appearance and structural features between tree ferns and palms .
1926 - Juan Llimona dies. Painter.
1930 - Estalla en Santiago (República Dominicana) un movimiento revolucionario dirigido por el general Rafael Trujillo.
1930 -
Horst Wessel dies (b. 1907). Nazi ideologue and composer .
1934 - Sophus Otto Müller dies (b. 24 May 1846). Danish paleontologist who, during the late 19th century, discovered the first of the Neolithic battle-ax cultures in Denmark.
- 1935 - Juan Joya was born. Peruvian soccer player.
1937 -
Tom Osborne was born. American football coach and politician.
1938 -
Diane Varsi was born (d. 1992). American actress.
1941 -
Ron Hunt was born. Baseball player
1942 -
Stefan Zweig dies (b. 28 Nov 1881). Austrian biographer, essayist and short story writer
1942 -The first
Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near
Santa Barbara, California.
1944 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland dies (b. 14 Nov 1863). U.S. industrial chemist who helped found the modern plastics industry through his invention of Bakelite, the first thermosetting plastic (a plastic that does not soften when heated).
1944 - É criado o Secretariado Nacional de Informação, Cultura Popular e Turismo (SNI), que substitui o Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional (SPN). António Ferro, director do SPN, dirige a nova estrutura (Portugal).
- 1945 - Following the American victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
1945 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in
Poznan, city is liberated by
Soviet and
Polish forces.
1945 - World War II: The German town of
Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
1945 - U.S. Marines raised the American flag on
Iwo Jima.
1948 -
John Robert Gregg dies (b. 17 Jun 1867). Irish-born American inventor of a shorthand system named for him.
1950 -
Maxi was born. Irish singer and radio personality
1951 - Shigefumi Mori was born (d. 23 Feb 1951). Japanese
mathematician who has made important contributions to the field of algebraic geometry.
1951 -
Ed Jones was born. American football player.
1955 -
Tom Bodett was born. American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
1955 -
Paul Claudel dies (b. 1868). French poet, playwright and diplomat.
1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a
solar flare.
1957 - Dr. John F. Mahoney dies (b. 1 Aug 1889). American physician who
developed penicillin treatment of syphilis. He established the Venereal Disease Research Center on Staten Island, N.Y. for the U.S. Public Health Service for laboratory and clinical studies of venereal disease.
- 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1958 - Arturo Frondizi gana las elecciones generales de Argentina.
1958 -
Tony Barrell was born. English writer and journalist.
1959 - Primera reunión del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos.
1960 -
Naruhito was born. Crown Prince of Japan
- 1961 - Ernesto Che Guevara é nomeado Ministro de Indústrias de Cuba. Ele, que lutou ao lado de Fidel Castro contra a ditadura de Fulgêncio Batista, virou cidadão cubano e já havia sido diretor do Banco Nacional. Deixaria o cargo mais tarde para lutar pela revolução na África.
1965 -
Michael Dell was born. American computer manufacturer.
1965 -
Michael Dell was born. American computer manufacturer
- 1965 - Veronica Webb was born. American supermodel and actress
1966 - A military
coup in
Syria replaces the previous government.
1970 - Independencia de Guyana.
1972 -
Steve Holy was born. American country singer
- 1973 - Bryan Manchi was born. English songwriter.
1973 -
Dickinson W. Richards dies (b. 30 Oct 1895). American physiologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with Werner Forssmann and André F. Cournand.
1974 -
Leko was born. American DJ
1974 -
Harry Ruby dies (b. 1895). American composer and writer .
- 1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
- 1975 - Michael Cornacchia was born. American actor
- 1975 - Robert Lopez was born. American composer
- 1976 - Kelly Macdonald was born. British actress
- 1976 - LS Lowry dies (b. 1887). English artist.
1977 - Heloísa Alberto Torres dies. Brazilian anthropologist.
1978 -
Dan Snyder was born (d. 2003). Canadian hockey player.
1983 -
Mido (Ahmed Hossam) was born in Cairo. Egyptian footballer.
1983 -
Herbert Howells dies (b. 17 Oct 1892). English (church music) composer.
1986 - Justo Arosemena dies. Panamanian writer and politician.
1987 - Morre
José Afonso (Zeca Afonso), natural de Aveiro, cantor, poeta, músico e resistente político português. Cantor de
Grândola, Vila Morena, canção que simboliza o 25 de Abril de 1974.
1992 - Portugal: Antonio Guterres is elected to leader the Socialist Party / António Guterres é eleito para líder do Partido Socialista.
1997 - Scottish scientists announced the successful
cloning of a sheep, Dolly.
1997 - La versión sin censuras de la película "La lista de Schindler", es vista por 65 millones de personas en la señal televisiva NBC de los Estados Unidos.
1998 -
Tornadoes in central
Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
2000 -
Ofra Haza dies (b. 1957). Israeli singer.
2001 -
Robert Enrico dies (b. 1931). French film director and screenwriter.
- 2003 - Howie Epstein dies (b. 1955). American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers).
- 2004 - Vijay Anand dies (b. 1934). Indian film director, brother of Dev Anand.
2004 -
Don Cornell dies (b. 1919). American popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
- 2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attandance.
2006 -
Benno Besson dies (b. 1922). Swiss actor and film director.
Italy - Feast of the Incappucciati.
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