- 0518 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I dies
- 0668 - Constantine II dies at 37. Emperor of Byzantium
- 1024 - Death of St. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1085 - Robert Guiscard dies French adventurer.
- 1099 - Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege during First Crusade.
- 1162 - Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
- 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton
- 1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford dies.
- 1273 - Ewostatewos was born (d. 1352). Ethiopian monk and religious leader.
- 1274 - Bonaventure dies (b. 1221). Italian theologian and saint.
- 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany dies (b. 1218). Holy Roman Emperor
- 1353 - Vladimir the Bold was born (d. 1410). Russian prince.
- 1381 - John Ball, English priest, veteran of Peasants' Revolt, dies executed in the presence of Richard II of England
- 1406 - William of Austria dies. Duke of Carinthia, Styria, and Carniola
- 1410 - Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris), power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.
- 1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen dies killed in battle (b. 1360). German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
- 1471 - Eskender was born (d. 1494). Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1544 - René of Châlon dies (b. 1519). Prince of the House of Orange.
- 1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria was born (d. 1595)
- 1571 - Shimazu Takahisa dies (b. 1514). Japanese samurai and warlord
- 1573 - Inigo Jones was born (d. 1652). English architect 1573: Inigo Jones London, architect; restored St Paul's cathedral. He brought the Palladium style of Italian Renaissance architecture to England.
- 1606 - Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden, Netherlands. (d. 1669). Dutch artist. He painted "The Anatomy Lesson or The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp," "Old Woman Cutting Her Nails" and "Night Watch." Other works include "Self Portrait Leaning Forward" (1628), "Two Studies of Saskia Asleep" (1635-1637), "Jupiter and Antiope" (1659) and "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer."
- 1609 - Annibale Carracci dies (b. 1560). Italian painter.
- 1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme dies. French historian and biographer
- 1631 - Jens Juel was born (d. 1700). Danish diplomat.
- 1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi dies (b. 1570). Italian architect.
- 1662 - Royal Society of London is officially founded
- 1685 - In England, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, after he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemore.
- 1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg was born. Founder of Moravian Church in North America
- 1750 - Vasily Tatishchev dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
- 1765 - Charles-André van Loo dies (b. 1705). French painter.
- 1767 - Michael Bruce dies (b. 1746). Scottish poet.
- 1779 - Clement Clarke Moore was born (d. 1863). American educator, author, and poet. Author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night Before Christmas") , founder of the General Theological Seminary in New York City,
- 1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1789 - Jacques Duphly dies (b. 1715). French composer.
- 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts. (d. 1796). American mythologist.
- 1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
- 1808 - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning was born (d. 1892). English Catholic archbishop.
- 1812 - James Hope-Scott was born (d. 1873). English barrister.
- 1814 - Edward Caswall was born. English clergyman and hymn translator. Caswall's English versions of some hymns are still sung today. 'Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee' and 'When Morning Gilds the Skies.'
- 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1817 - Sir John Fowler was born (d. 20 Nov 1898). 1st Baronet. English civil engineer who helped design and build the London Metropolitan Railway, thus pioneering the original London underground.
- 1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
- 1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon dies (b. 1741). French sculptor.
- 1837 - Nascimento de Estafânia de Hohenzollern (1837-1859), rainha de Portugal pelo seu casamento, em 1858, com D. Pedro V.
- 1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed dies (b. 1802). English poet.
- 1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel dies (b. 1772). French historian.
- 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto was born (d. 1923). Italian economist and sociologist.
- 1850 - Mother Cabrini (Frances Xavier Cabrini) was born (d. 1917). Italian-born Roman Catholic saint. She was the first U.S. citizen to be made a saint.
- 1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez was born (d. 1889). Argentinian author.
- 1857 - Carl Czerny dies (b. 1791). Austrian pianist.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
- 1864 - Marie Tempest was born (d. 1942). English singer and actress.
- 1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger was born (d. 1945). Austrian mathematician.
- 1865 - Alfred Charles William Northcliffe was born. Newspaper publisher .
- 1868 - William Thomas Green Morton dies (b. 9 Aug 1819). American surgeon who was the first dentist to use ether (letheon) during an tooth extraction, privately on on 30 Sep 1846.
- 1869 - Margarine was patented by Hippolyte Mège Mouriés in Paris. He won a contest held by Emperor Napoleon III to find a suitable substitute for butter used by the French Navy.
- 1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov was born (d. 1922). Russian publisher and politician.
- 1870 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870 - Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1871 - Kunikida Doppo was born (d. 1908). Japanese writer.
- 1877 - Alfredo González Flores was born. President of Costa Rica (1914-1917).
- 1886 - Jacques Riviere was born (d. 14 Feb1925). French writer and publisher.
- 1890 - Gottfried Keller dies (b. 1819). Swiss writer.
- 1892 - Walter Benjamin was born (d. 1940). German literary critic and writer.
- 1894 - Tadeusz Sendzimir was born(d. 1989). Polish-American engineer and inventor.
- 1895 - Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
- 1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe dies (b. 1825). Second Archbishop of Santa Fe.
- 1899 - Sean F. Lemass was born (d. 1971). Irish leader.
- 1900 - Thomas Francis, Jr. was born. American microbiologist and epidemiologist who isolated the viruses responsible for influenza A (1934) and influenza B (1940) and developed a polyvalent vaccine effective against both strains.
- 1902 - Jean Rey was born (d. 1983). Belgian politician and President of the European Commission.
- 1903 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj was born (d. 1975). Indian politician.
- 1904 - Rudolf Arnheim was born. German-born author
- 1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was born [Old Style - The date 15 Jul 1904 Old Style is 28 Jul 1904 New Style] (d. 6 Jan 1990). Soviet physicist who discovered Cherenkov radiation (1934), a faint blue light emitted by electrons passing through a transparent medium when their speed exceeds the speed of light in that medium. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with Igor Y. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank.
- 1904 - Anton Chekhov dies (b. 1860). Russian writer.
- 1905 - Dorothy Fields was born (d. 1974). American librettist and lyricist.
- 1909 - William Gemmell Cochran was born in Rutherglen, Scotland (d. 29 Mar 1980, in Orleans, Massachusetts). Statistician.
- 1911 - Edward Shackleton was born (d. 1994). English explorer.
- 1911 - Emilio_Adolfo_Westphalen was born in Lima ( † 17 Aug 2001). Peruvian poet.
- 1912 - Francisco Lazaro, dies at 21 during the marathon of Stocholm Olympic Games (b. 1891). Portuguese runner who was the first athlet of Benfica, in Olympic Games.
- 1913 - Cowboy Copas was born (d. 1963). American country singer,
- 1914 - Howard Vernon was born (d. 1996). Swiss actor.
- 1914 - Hammond Innes was born (d. 1998). English writer(The Angry Mountain; North Star)
- 1914 - Vencido totalmente por las fuerzas constitucionalistas de don Venustiano Carranza, el usurpador Victoriano Huerta se ve precisado a renunciar a la Presidencia de la República. Deja encargado del gobierno al licenciado Francisco Carvajal y Gual (quien lo ejercerá de esta fecha hasta el 13 de agosto del mismo en que lo tomará don Venustiano Carranza).
- 1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
- 1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse was born (d. 2003). Canadian physicist, who shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 (with American physicist Clifford G. Shull) for their separate but concurrent development of neutron-scattering techniques.
- 1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. / Segunda Batalha do Marne. Os exércitos alemães, comandados pela dupla Hindenbourg - Ludendorff, tentam tomar Paris. Serão derrotados por um misto de tropas americanas, italianas e britânicas. Foi a última ofensiva alemã na frente ocidental.
- 1919 - Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin (d. 8 Feb 1999). English writer (A Severed Head)
- 1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer dies. German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1902.
- 1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield was born. American biochemist and educator who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of a simple and ingenious method for synthesizing chains of amino acids, or polypeptides, in any predetermined order
- 1921 - Henri Colpi was born (d. 2006). French film director.
- 1922 - Leon M. Lederman was born. American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 their joint research and discovery (1960-62) of a new subatomic particle, the muon neutrino.
- 1923 - Philly Joe Jones was born (d. 30 Aug 1985). American jazz percussionist.
- 1925 - Philip Carey was born. American actor.
- 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri was born. Argentine dictator
- 1926 - Driss Chraïbi was born. Moroccan author
- 1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1927 - Nan Clow Martin was born. Actress
- 1928 - Carl Woese was born. American microbiologist who recognized the existance of the organisms Archaea as a third domain of life, distinct from the previously recognized two domains of bacteria, and life other than bacteria
- 1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
- 1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal dies (b. 1874). Austrian writer.
- 1930 - Jacques Derrida was born (d. 2004). French philosopher.
- 1930 - Stephen Smale was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work in topology and dynamical systems.
- 1930 - Richard Garneau was born. French Canadian sports journalist
- 1930 - Leopold Auer dies (b. 1845). Hungarian violinist and composer.
- 1931 - Clive Cussler was born. American author
- 1931 - Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
- 1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz dies (b. 1868). Russian economist.
- 1932 - Ed Litzenberger was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1933 - Julian Bream was born. English guitarist and lutenist.
- 1933 - Guido Crepax was born (d. 2003). Italian comics artist.
- 1933 - Irving Babbitt dies (b. 1865). American literary critic.
- 1933 - Freddie Keppard dies (b. 1890). American musician.
- 1934 - Harrison Birtwistle was born. English composer
- 1934 - Risto Jarva was born (d. 1977). Finnish filmmaker.
- 1935 - Diahann Carroll was born. American actress.
- 1935 - Donn Clendenon was born (d. 2005). Baseball player.
- 1935 - Alex Karra was born in Gary, Indiana. American football player and actor
- 1935 - Ken Kercheval was born in Wolcottville, Indiana. American actor (Dallas) .
- 1939 - Eugen Bleuler dies (b. 30 Apr 1857). Swiss psychiatrist, who introduced the term "schizophrenia" (1908) to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox
- 1939 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva was born. Portuguese economist and politician. President of Portugal.
- 1939 - Patrick Wayne was born. American actor.
- 1940 - Robert Wadlow dies (b. 1918). American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918)
- 1941 - Denis Héroux was born. French Canadian film director and producer
- 1942 - Mil Mascaras was born. Mexican professional wrestler.
- 1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born. Irish astrophysicist
- 1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent was born. American actor
- 1944 - Millie Jackson was born. American rhythm-and-blues singer.
- 1944 - Marie-Victorin dies (b. 1885). French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist.
- 1945 - USA President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
- 1945 - Peter Lewis was born. Rock singer-musician (Moby Grape) .
- 1945 - Luiz Carlos Lacerda was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor and director.
- 1945 - Jürgen Möllemann was born (d. 2003). German politician
- 1946 - Linda Ronstadt was born. American singer
- 1946 - Hassanal Bolkiah was born. Sultan of Brunei
- 1946 - Muere en la ciudad de México, el ingeniero don Miguel Ángel Quevedo (n. 27 Sep 1862), a quien se le bautizó como el Apostol del Árbol, por su tesonera defensa de la riqueza forestal del país.
- 1946 - Razor Smith dies (b. 1877). English cricketer.
- 1947 - Peter Banks was born. British guitarist (Yes)
- 1947 - Walter Donaldson dies (b. 1893). American songwriter.
- 1948 - Alicia Bridges was born. American singer
- 1948 - John J. Pershing dies (b. 1860). U.S. general.
- 1949 - Trevor Horn was born. British music producer, bassist and vocalist (Buggles, Art of Noise, Seal, Yes)
- 1949 - Carl Bildt was born. Swedish politician.
- 1950 - Arianna Huffington was born. Greek-born newspaper columnist
- 1951 - Jesse Ventura was born. Professional wrestler and Governor of Minnesota
- 1952 - Terry O'Quinn was born. Actor (Lost).
- 1952 - Johnny Thunders was born (d. 1991). American guitarist and singer (The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers).
- 1952 - Terry O'Quinn was born. American actor
- 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born. President of Haiti
- 1953 - John Denham was born. British politician
- 1953 - John Reginald Christie was born. British serial killer, is executed.
- 1954 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
- 1954 - Mario Kempes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kempes">Mario Kempes was born. Argentine football player.
- 1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1956 - Ian Curtis was born (d. 1980). British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division)
- 1956 - Barry Melrose was born. Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
- 1956 - Marky Ramone was born. American musician (The Ramones)
- 1956 - Joe Satriani was born. American guitarist
- 1957 - Full-scale production of the Edsel automobile begins.
- 1957 - James M. Cox dies (b. 1870). American politician.
- 1958 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
- 1958 - Mac Thornberry was born. American politician
- 1958 - Julia Lennon dies (b. 1914). Mother of John Lennon.
- 1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- 1959 - Vincent Lindon was born. French actor
- 1959 - Shep Pettibone was born. American record producer
- 1959 - Ernest Bloch dies (b. 1880). Swiss composer
- 1960 - Kim Alexis was born. American supermodel and actress
- 1960 - Willie Aames was born. American actor
- 1960 - Lawrence Tibbett dies (b. 1896). American actor.
- 1960 - Set Persson dies (b. 1897). Swedish communist politician.
- 1961 - Forest Whitaker was born. American actor
- 1961 - Lolita Davidovich was born. Canadian-born actress
- 1961 - John E. Brownlee dies (b. 1884). Canadian politician.
- 1963 - Briggite Nielson was born. Danish actress.
- 1963 - Steve Thomas was born. Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 - Francis Cherry dies (b. 1908). American politician.
- 1966 - Irène Jacob was born. French-born Swiss actress .
- 1967 - Adam Savage was born. American actor
- 1967 - José Elías Moreno dies. Mexican actor.
- 1968 - Eddie Griffin was born. American actor
- 1968 - Stan Kirsch was born. American actor
- 1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
- 1970 - Chi Cheng was born. American musician
- 1971 - John Dolmayan was born. Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
- 1971 - Danijela was born. Croatian singer
- 1972 - Beth Ostrosky was born. American model
- 1973 - John Dolmayan was born. Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
- 1973 - W. Lane Startin was born. American author and politician
- 1973 - Brian Austin Green was born. American actor.
- 1974 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
- 1974 - Christine Chubbuck becomes the first person to commit suicide on-air.
- 1974 - Chot Ulep was born. Filipino musician
- 1975 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
- 1975 - Clifford Antone opens the legendary Austin blues club Antone's on 6th Street.
- 1975 - Ben Pepper was born. Australian basketball player
- 1976 - A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. The captives escaped unharmed.
- 1976 - Diane Kruger (Diane Heidkrueger) was born in Algermisses. German actress and former fashion model.
- 1976 - Jim Jones was born. African Puerto Rican American rapper
- 1977 - Ray Toro was born. American musician (My Chemical Romance)
- 1977 - Faraz Anwar was born. Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
- 1977 - Lana Parrilla was born. American actress
- 1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
- 1979 - Charles Zwolsman was born. Dutch racing driver
- 1979 - Laura Benanti was born. American musical theatre actress
- 1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz dies in Mexico City. President of Mexico (1964-1970).
- 1979 - Charles Zwolsman was born. Dutch racing driver
- 1979 - Laura Benanti was born. American musical theatre actress
- 1980 - Jonathan Cheechoo was born. Professional ice hockey player
- 1980 - Jasper Pääkkönen was born. Finnish actor and film producer
- 1982 - Vice Cooler was born. American musician
- 1982 - Haley Scarnato was born. American singer and former American Idol contestant.
- 1982 - Bill Justis dies (b. 1926). American musician and producer.
- 1983 - Nelson Merlo was born. Brazilian racing driver.
- 1986 - Billy Haughton dies (b. 1923). American harness driver and trainer.
- 1988 - Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
- 1989 - Tristan Wilds was born. American actor
- 1989 - Maria Kuncewicz dies in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. Novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer. Cudzoziemka (The Stranger) is considered her best work.
- 1990 - Margaret Lockwood dies (b. 1916). British actress.
- 1991 - Bert Convy dies (b. 1933). American actor.
- 1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
- 1992 - Koharu Kusumi was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev dies (b. 1960). Azerbaijan's most noted journalist
- 1992 - Hammer DeRoburt dies (b. 1922). First President of Nauru.
- 1993 - David Brian dies (b. 1914). American actor.
- 1993 - Hugo Ballivián Rojas dies. President of Bolívia (1951-1952).
- 1993 - Fermat Theorem is solved by a British mathematician.
- 1995 - Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
- 1995 - Lírio Mário da Costa (Costinha) dies. Brazilian comedian and humorist.
- 1996 - MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
- 1996 - Prince Charles and Princess Di signed divorce papers.
- 1996 - Hercules C-130 of the Royal Belgian Air Force carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people died in the flames, two people died of their injuries. Seven people sustained severe burns.
- 1996 - Dana Hill dies (b. 1964). American actress.
- 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home. Suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, was found dead eight days later.
- 1997 - Prince Lukás of Bulgaria was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family
- 1997 - Gianni Versace dies shot outside his home in Miami. The man believed to be the gunman, suspected serial killer Andrew Philip Cunaman was found dead eight days later (b. 1946). Italian fashion designer.
- 1997 - In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic was elected president of the Yugoslav federation in a vote that opposition parties said was illegal.
- 1998 - Camille Gottlieb was born. Daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
- 1998 - Carlos Eurico da Costa dies. Portuguese surrealist poet.
- 1999 - Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.
- 1999 - China declared that it had invented its own neutron bomb.
- 2000 - Louis Quilico dies (b. 1925). Canadian baritone opera singer.
- 2000 - Paul Young dies at 53. Singer (Mike and the Mechanics)
- 2002 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
- 2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan awarded death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
- 2003 - the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its SARS-related travel advisory for Taiwan, the last area to have such a travel alert.
- 2003 - Roberto Bolaño dies. Chilean writer.
- 2003 - Adi Preißler dies. German footballer.
- 2003 - Tex Schramm dies (b. 1920). American football team president and general manager
- 2003 - Roberto Bolaño dies (b. 1953). Chilean writer.
- 2004 - 18 - The Open Championship in golf, known in North America as the British Open, takes place in Troon, Scotland.
- 2004 - The BBC airs the documentary "The Secret Agent", exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
- 2004 - Charles W. Sweeney dies. American retired Air Force General, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II
- 2005 - Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.
- 2005 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is released.
- 2006 - Mogadishu Int'l Airport in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu re-opens after an eleven-year closure mainly due to the Somali civil war.
- 2006 - Robert H. Brooks dues (b. 1937). Founder of Hooters of America
- Botswana - President's Day
- Brunei - Birthday of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam
- Saint Swithun's feast day (Anglican Church)
- Saint Vladimir the Great's day (Eastern Orthodox; Roman Catholic)
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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