- 0535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople dies. Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1017 - Sanjo dies (b. 0976). Emperor of Japan.
- 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester dies.
- 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, dies (b. 1245)
- 1305 - Pope Clement V elected
- 1316 - King Louis X of France dies (b. 1289)
- 1341 - Edmund of Langley was born (d. 1402). A younger son of King Edward III of England
- 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich dies (b. 1324), Russian prince.
- 1443 - Fernando de Portugal dies in Fez (b. 1442). Portuguese Prince (Infante Santo)
- 1493 - Justus Jonas was born (d. 1555). German protestant reformer.
- 1553 - Bernardino Baldi was born (d. 1617). Italian mathematician.
- 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont dies (b. 1522). Flemish general and statesman.
- 1625 - Orlando Gibbons dies (b. 1583). English composer.
- 1640 - Pu Songling was born (d. 1715). Chinese writer.
- 1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia was born (d. 1684). Italian mathematician.
- 1656 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was born (d. 1708). French botanist.
- 1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino dies (b. 1607). Italian cardinal and historian.
- 1688 - Constantine Phaulkon dies (b. 1667). Greek adventurer.
- 1716 - Roger Cotes dies (b. 1682). English mathematician.
- 1718 - Thomas Chippendale was born (d. 1779). English furniture maker.
- 1722 - Johann Kuhnau dies (b. 1660). German composer, organist, and harpsichordist.
- 1723 - Adam Smith was born (d. 17 Jul 1790). Scottish economist. (An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations).
- 1738 - Isaac de Beausobre dies (b. 1659). French protestant pastor.
- 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis was born (d. 1808). French physiologist.
- 1760 - Johan Gadolin was born (d. 1852). Finnish scientist.
- 1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover was born (d. 1851)
- 1781 - Christian August Lobeck was born (d. 1860). German classical scholar.
- 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
- 1791 - Frederick Haldimand dies (b. 1718). Swiss-born British colonial governor.
- 1816 - Giovanni Paisiello dies (b. 1741). Italian composer.
- 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1819 - John Couch Adams was born (d. 1892). English mathematician and astronomer.
- 1825 - Odysseas Androutsos dies. Hero in the Greek War of Independence
- 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber dies (b. 1786). German composer.
- 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
- 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.
- 1850 - Pat Garrett was born (d. 1908). American Western lawman.
- 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the owly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1852 - Portugal - Promulgação do Acto Adicional à Carta Constitucional de 1826. O Acto tentou pôr termo à divisão entre cartistas e setembristas, tornando a carta aceitável por todos os partidos.
- 1862 - Allvar Gullstrand was born. Swedish oftalmologist. 1911 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont - Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
- 1868 - Maciel Monteiro dies (b. 30 Apr 1804). Brazilian poet.
- 1873 - Urbano Ratazzi dies. Prime-Minister of Italy (1862 and 1867).
- 1876 - Tony Jackson was born (d. 1920). American musician.
- 1878 - Pancho Villa was born (d. 1923). Mexican revolutionary.
- 1879 - Robert Mayer was born (d. 1985). German-born philanthropist.
- 1879 - René Pottier was born (d. 1907). French cyclist.
- 1883 - John Maynard Keynes was born (d. 21 Apr 1946). English economist.
- 1884 - Ralph Benatzky was born (d. 1957). Czech composer.
- 1887 - Ruth Benedict was born. Anthropologist.
- 1890 - Ernesto Canto da Maia was born. Portuguese sculptor.
- 1894 - Roy Thomson was born (d. 1976). Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher.
- 1895 - William Boyd was born (d. 1972). American actor (Hopalong Cassidy)
- 1898 - Federico García Lorca was born (d. 1936). Spanish lyricist and dramatist.
- 1900 - Dennis Gabor was born (d. 1979). Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1900 - Stephen Crane dies (b. 1871). American author.
- 1902 - Louis J. Weichmann dies (b. 1842) . Chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- 1905 - John Abbott was born (d. 1996). British actor.
- 1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann dies (b. 1842). German philosopher.
- 1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
- 1910 - O. Henry dies (b. 1862). American author.
- 1912 - Josef Neckermann was born (d. 1992). Entrepreneur and dressage equestrian.
- 1912 - Dean Amadon was born (d. 2003). American ornithologist.
- 1913 - Chris von der Ahe dies (b. 1851). Baseball pioneer.
- 1916 - Horatio Kitchener dies (b. 1850). Lord Kitchener, British field marshal.
- 1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
- 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1917 - Pinheiro de Azevedo was born. Prime-Minister of Portugal (1975-1976).
- 1919 - Richard Scarry was born (d. 1994). American children's author.
- 1919 - Manuel Franco dies. Paraguayan President. José Pedro Montero Candia succeeds him.
- 1920 - Cornelius Ryan was born (d. 1974). Irish-American author.
- 1920 - Rhoda Broughton dies (b. 1840). Welsh author.
- 1921 - Georges Feydeau dies (b. 1862). French playwright.
- 1923 - Daniel Pinkham was born (d. 2006). American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.
- 1924 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).
- 1925 - Art Donovan was born (d. 2006). American football star
- 1925 - Boy Gobert was born (d. 1986). Actor.
- 1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.
- 1928 - Tony Richardson was born (d. 14 Nov 1991). British actor and Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire;
- 1930 - Alifa Rifaat was born (d. 1996). Egyptian writer.
- 1930 - Pascin dies (b. 1885). Bulgarian painter.
- 1931 - Jacques Demy was born. French playwright.
- 1932 - Christy Brown was born (d. 1981). Irish author.
- 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 1934 - Bill Moyers was born. American journalist
- 1938 - Karin Balzer was born. East German hurdler
- 1939 - Joe Clark was born. Sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 - Margaret Drabble was born. English novelist.
- 1941 - Martha Argerich was born. Argentine pianist.
- 1941 - Spalding Gray was born (d. 2004). American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist
- 1941 - Robert Kraft was born. Owner of the New England Patriots
- 1941 - Erasmo Carlos was born. Brazilian singer and songwriter.
- 1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was born. Equatoguinean politician
- 1942 - Samuel Adams dies (b. 1912). American naval officer.
- 1943 - Matthew Lesko was born. American author
- 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
- 1944 - World War II: The two largest invasion fleets heretofore in history sailed that morning on opposite sides of the world. Most of the ship were United States flagged vessels.
- 1944 - World War II: Rome liberated by the Allies
- 1944 - Tommie Smith was born. American athlete.
- 1944 - Colm Wilkinson was born. Irish singer.
- 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1945 - John Carlos was born. American Athlete
- 1945 - Patrick Head was born. British engineer
- 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago kills 61 people.
- 1946 - Freddie Stone was born. American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1946 - John Bach was born. Welsh actor.
- 1946 - Wanderléa was born. Brazilian singer.
- 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1947 - Laurie Anderson was born. American performance artist, actress, composer.
- 1947 - Tom Evans was born (d. 1983). Pop musician (Badfinger).
- 1949 - Ken Follett was born. Welsh author.
- 1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder was born. American television host and author
- 1952 - Daniel Katzen was born. Symphony musician
- 1952 - Carole Fredericks was born (d. 2001). American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones).
- 1954 - Nicko McBrain was born. English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1954 - The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
- 1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho was born. Brazilian football player
- 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1956 - Kenny G. was born. American saxophonist.
- 1956 - Richard Butler was born. English singer (The Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love), painter and writer
- 1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi was born. President of the Comoros
- 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 1961 - Anthony Burger was born. Pianist
- 1961 - Mary Kay Bergman was born (d. 1999). American voice actress (Beauty and the Beast, South Park)
- 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium was born.
- 1962 - Jeff Garlin was born. American comedian
- 1965 - Sandrine Piau was born. French soprano
- 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1967 - Joe DeLoach was born. American athlete .
- 1967 - Ray Lankford was born. Baseball player
- 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan and died the next day.
- 1968 - Ron Livingston was born. American actor
- 1969 - The University of Texas at San Antonio is established.
- 1969 - International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 1969 - Brian McKnight was born. American musician
- 1969 - Jack Kerouac dies. American writer.
- 1970 - Martin Gelinas was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), was born. American singer and actor.
- 1971 - Susan Lynch was born. Northern Irish actress.
- 1972 - Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean) was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1972 - Pavel Kotla was born. Polish conductor
- 1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw was born. Swedish musician and songwriter
- 1973 - Lamon Brewster was born. American boxer
- 1974 - Aaron Charles Wills, aka "P-Nut", was born. American musician
- 1974 - Russ Ortiz was born. American baseball player
- 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1975 - Anna Nova was born. German erotic actress.
- 1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas was born. NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 1975 - Paul Keres dies (b. 1916). Estonian chess player.
- 1976 - Ross Noble was born. English comedian.
- 1976 - Carlos Mastroiani dies. Argentine writer.
- 1976 - No Uruguai o presidente Juan Maria-Bordaberry é deposto pelas forças armadas
- 1976 - Violet Wilkey dies (b. 1903). American actress.
- 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- 1977 - Liza Weil was born. American actress.
- 1978 - Fernando Meira was born. Portuguese footballer.
- 1979 - David Bisbal was born. Spanish singer.
- 1979 - Peter Wentz was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1979 - Fraser Watts was born. Scottish cricketer.
- 1979 - Jason White was born. American NASCAR driver
- 1979 - Heinz Erhardt dies (b. 1909). German comedian.
- 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1981 - Jade Goody was born. British television personality
- 1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
- 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1981 - Jade Goody was born. British television personality.
- 1983 - Bill Bray was born. Baseball player.
- 1983 - Marques Colston was born. American football player.
- 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the Sikh holy spot.
- 1985 - Rubén De la Red was born. Spanish footballer
- 1985 - Jeremy Abbott was born. American figure skater
- 1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
- 1987 - Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special 4-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.
- 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- 1991 - Colo-Colo becomes the first chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.
- 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachov receives, in Oslo, the 1990 Peace Nobel Prize
- 1992 - Patriot Games opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford.
- 1993 - Twenty-Four Pakistani Soldiers dies during Operation Restore Hope
- 1993 - Conway Twitty dies (b. 1933). American country musician.
- 1994 - Sergi Bruguera e Arantxa Sánchez Vicario triunfam em Roland Garros.
- 1994 - Chile joins to Mercosul
- 1994 - Jasmim de Matos dies. Portuguese actor, costume designer, cenographer and painter.
- 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
- 1998 - Jeanette Nolan dies (b. 1911). American actress
- 1998 - Sam Yorty dies (b. 1909). Mayor of Los Angeles.
- 1999 - The Party of United Communists of Albania is formed, following the merger of the Communist Reconstruction Party and the New Albanian Party of Labour.
- 1999 - Mel Tormé dies (b. 1925). American singer, composer, and actor.
- 2000 - Don Liddle dies (b. 1925). Baseball player.
- 2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.
- 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
- 2002 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.
- 2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
- 2002 - In Portugal the VAT (IVA em português) rate increased from 17% to 19%.
- 2002 - Portugal lost against United Stares of America 2-3 for 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan in football
- 2002 - Gwen Plumb dies (b. 1912). Australian actress.
- 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone dies (b. 1952). American bassist (The Ramones).
- 2003 - Jürgen Möllemann dies (b. 1945). German politician.
- 2003 - Manuel Rosenthal dies (b. 1904). French composer and conductor.
- 2004 - Jennifer López weds the singer Marc Anthony.
- 2004 - Ronald Reagan dies (b. 1911). 40th President of the United States
- 2004 - Iona Brown dies (b. 1941). British violinist and conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields).
- 2005 - Irene Urdangarin was born. Granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
- 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
- 2006 - Frederick Franck dies (b. 1909). American artist and writer.
- National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day)
- Seychelles - Liberation Day
- Feast of Saint Boniface
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar .
- World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972 / Dia Mundial do Ambiente
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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