0649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
0964 -
Pope John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies (b. circa 0937) .
1493 - Início da construção da Catedral do Funchal.
1607 -
Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an
English colony. Three very small ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, sailed across the ocean blue from Plymouth, England to a place the ship’s crew and passengers called Jamestown. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. It became the capital of Virginia and remained so through 1699.
1703 -
David Brearly was born (d. 1782). Delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
1706 - Comienza el sitio de
Turín (Italia).
1727 -
Thomas Gainsborough was born (d. 2 Aug 1788). English artist : The Blue Boy, The Watering Place;
1771 -
Robert Owen was born (d. 1858). Welsh social reformer.
1814 - Regresa a España, Fernando VII, después de haber sufrido cautiverio en Francia. Anula el gobierno representativo y deroga la Constitución de Cádiz de 1812.
1840 - Lars Frederik Nilson dies (b. 27 May 1840) . Chemist who discovered (1879) the oxide of scandium, scandia, in the rare-earth minerals gadolinite and euxenite. The existence of the element had been predicted by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1871) who tentatively called it ekaboron.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph - a timepiece that allows for split-second timing of sporting events.
1863 - John Charles Fieldswas born (d. 9 Aug 1932. American
mathematician who originated the idea, postumously given his name - for the Fields Medal. It became the most prestigious
award for mathematicians, often referred to as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematicians.
1867 -
Kurt Eisner was born (d. 1919). German politician and publicist.
1872 - Mikhail Semyonovich Tswett was born (d.26 Jun 1919). Russian
botanist, the "father of chromatography," who developed and named the adsorption
chromatography technique of separating plant pigments by extracting them from leaves with ether and alcohol and percolating the solution through a column of calcium carbonate.
- 1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline (for a brand of petroleum jelly) was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1880 -
Wilhelm List was born (d. 1971). German field marshal.
1881 -
Ed Walsh was born (d. 1959). American baseball player.
1889 - The children's charity the
NSPCC is launched in
London.
- 1889 - Volney E. Howard dies (b. 1809). American politician.
1890 -
Alex Pompez was born (d. 1974). American baseball executive.
1892 - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem.
1893 -
Ernst Kummer dies (b. 29 Jan 1810). German
mathematician whose introduction of ideal numbers, which are defined as a special subgroup of a ring, extended the fundamental theorem of arithmetic to complex number fields.
1897 - A statue of George Washington was unveiled in Philadelphia, PA. To commemorate the occasion, John Philip Sousa’s march, The Stars and Stripes Forever, was performed. It was the first public performance for Sousa’s march and the President of the U.S., William McKinley, was in the audience.
1897 - El físico Giuglielmo Marconi realiza la primera transmisión de radio de la historia.
1904 - The Olympic Games opened in St. Louis, MO. It marked the first time that the games were held in the United States.
1906 -
Carl Schurz dies (b. 1829). German revolutionist and American statesman.
1907 -
Johnny Moss was born (d. 1995). American poker player.
1915 - Tumultos violentos em Lisboa com assalto a armazéns e a padarias de multidões à procura de comida. O movimento revolucionário, com participação de militares e civis, que acompanha estes distúrbios é reprimido violentamente, provocando centenas de mortes e feridos. O governo ditatorial de Pimenta de Castro é demitido.
1916 -
Del Moore was born (d. 1970). American comedian.
1917 - Hacen su entrada triunfal a la población de Ojinaga, Chihuahua, las fuerzas revolucionarias maderistas de
Francisco Villa.
1918 - James Hardy was born (d. 19 Feb 2003). American surgeon who headed teams that performed the first human lung transplant in 1963; the first animal-to-human heart transplant in 1964; and a double-lung transplant that left the heart in place in 1987 .
- 1919 - John Hope was born (d. 2002). American meteorologist.
1920 - O Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura passa a ser o Museo Nacional del Prado
1921 -
Arve Opsahl was born (d. 2007). Norwegian actor.
1924 - Enrico Barone dies (b. 22 Dec 1859). Italian
mathematical economist who built on the general equilibrium theory of Léon Walras and was
instrumental in convincing Walras to incorporate variable production techniques - and, by extension, marginal productivity theory - into the Walras theory.
- 1926 - Eric Morecambe was born (d. 1984). British comedian.
1931 - Proclamadas as Repúblicas de Espanha e da Catalunha.
1931 -
David Belasco dies (b. 1853). American theatrical producer and playwright.
1935 - The
Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
1935 - Estados Unidos: Carl Magee inventa el
parquímetro.
1936 -
Bobby Darin (Cassoto) was born (d. 20 Dec 1973). American Grammy Award-winning singer: Mack the Knife [1959]; Splish Splash, Dream Lover, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Things, If I Were a Carpenter; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; actor: Captain Newman, M.D., If a Man Answers, Come September;
- 1939 - Lina Medina, becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 -
Emma Goldman dies (b. 1869). Lithuanian-born anarchist.
- 1942 - Byron Dorgan was born. U.S. Senator.
1942 -
Tony Pérez was born. Cuban baseball player.
- 1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was born. President of Iceland .
1944 -
George Lucas was born. American film director and producer (Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti).
1948 -
Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1952 -
David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Talking Heads) .
1952 -
Robert Zemeckis was born. American Academy Award-winning director: Forrest Gump [1994]; Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone, Used Cars, I Wanna Hold Your Hand; script writer [w/Bob Gale]: 1941; executive producer: Tales from the Crypt.
1952 -
Scott Irwin was born. American professional wrestler
- 1953 - Norodom Sihamoni was born. King of Cambodia.
1957 -
Leon White was born. American professional wrestler.
1959 -
Rick Vaive was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1960 - Steve Williams was born. American wrestler.
- 1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1961 -
Tim Roth was born. English actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain.
1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations.
- 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
- 1969 - Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada.
1971 -
Sofia Coppola was born. American film director, producer, writer and actress.
1972 -
Mark Ruskell was born. England-born Scottish politician.
1973 -
Jean Gebser dies (b. 1905). German-born author, linguist and poet.
1974 - Em Portugal o general Spinola assume o alto magistrado de Presidente da República .
1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup winners Cup.
1977 - In
Milan,
Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman,
Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.
- 1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup Winners Cup .
1981 -
Sarbel was born. Greek-born singer
1982 - Guinea adopts constitution.
1983 - Muere en la ciudad de México, el licenciado Miguel Alemán Valdés, quien fuera presidente de México en el período de 1946 a 1952. El licenciado Alemán nació en Sayula, Veracruz, el 24 de septiembre de 1903.
1983 - Rosa Mota (Portugal) runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) .
1983 -
Uroš Slokar was born. Slovenian basketball player.
1985 - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, dies executed.
- 1987 - Rita Hayworth dies (b. 1918). American actress.
- 1988 - Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1989 - Carlos Menem wins Presidential elections in Argentina.
1990 - Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor is in the Top Charters (nº. 1).
1992 -
Lyle Alzado dies (b. 1949). American football player.
1992 -
Nie Rongzhen dies (b. 1899). Chinese Communist military leader.
1994 - O Benfica vai ao Estádio José de Alvalade vencer o seu rival por 6-3 num jogo histórico com João Pinto a marcar três golos e a fazer uma das suas maiores (senão a maior) exibição. O Benfica viria a sagrar-se nessa época Campeão Nacional.
1995 -
Christian B. Anfinsen dies (b. 1916). American
biochemist who, with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for
research on the shape and primary structure of ribonuclease (the enzyme that hydrolyses RNA).
1998 - The finale of
Seinfeld airs on
NBC, with 76 million viewers tuning in.
2000 -
Obuchi Keizo dies (b. 1937). Japanese prime minister.
2001 - Cabo Verde ratifica o Tratado de Banimento das Minas Terrestres.
- 2004 - The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
2004 -
Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the
Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
2004 -
Insurgents or
terrorists in
Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several
liters of binary precursors for
sarin. The shell was designed to mix the
chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly. Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two
U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early
symptoms.
- 2004 - Post-guerra en Iraq: Muqtada Al Sadr declara la jihad contra las tropas invasoras estadounidenses.
- 2004 - A FIFA anuncia que a Copa do Mundo de 2010 será na África do Sul
2004 -
Anna Lee dies (b. 1913). British actress.
2005 - Portugal:
Benfica beat Sporting 1-0 in Estádio da Luz and take the first place. Next week would be consacrated winner of the Championship with a draw against Boavista.
2006 - Much of New England is hit with a massive flood, forcing people out of their homes and causing millions of dollars worth of damage.
2006 -
Lew Anderson dies (b. 1922). American actor and bandleader.
2007 - Filipino's head to the polls to elect 17,889 public officials in the Philippine mid-term elections.
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