On this day in History - Aug 16

• 1027 - Giorgi I dies (b. 0998). King of Georgia.
• 1297 - John II of Trebizond dies (b. 1262)
• 1327 - Roch dies (b. 1295). French saint.
• 1355 - Philippa Plantagenet was born. Countess of Ulster
• 1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria dies (b. 1298).
• 1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China was born (d. 1425)
• 1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans dies (b. 1361). King of Bohemia.
• 1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu dies (b. 1434). Japanese shogun.
• 1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France) dies (b. 1424). Wife of the future King Louis XI
• 1513 - King Henry VIII of England and his troops defeated the French in the Battle of the Spurs, at Guinigatte, NW France.
• 1518 - Loyset Compère was born. French composer
• 1519 - Después de fundar la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (hoy puerto de Veracruz), Hernán Cortés parte hacia Cempoala que él llamó Sevilla .
• 1532 - John, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1468).
• 1557 - Agostino Carracci was born (d. 1602). Italian artist.
• 1570 - Cédula española establece la Inquisición en las colonias de América
• 1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1632)
• 1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was born (d. 1706). German countess and poet.
• 1645 - Jean de La Bruyère was born (d. 1696). French writer.
• 1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli was born (d. 9 Dec 1718). Italian cartographer and encylopedist.
• 1661 - Thomas Fuller dies (b. 1608). English churchman and historian
• 1678 - Andrew Marvel dies (b. 31 Mar 1621). English poet.
• 1681 - Nascimento de Bernardo Filipe Neri de Távora (m. 27 Abr 1744). 2º conde de Alvor - Portugal.
• 1682 - Louis, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 18 Feb 1712). Heir to the throne of France.
• 1705 - Jakob Bernoulli dies (b. 1654). Swiss mathematician and scientist.
• 1711 - A cidade do México é atingida por por um grande terramoto que causa consideráveis danos.
• 1716 - Toma posesión como el 36º virrey de la Nueva España, don Baltazar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, marqués de Valero, duque de Arión. Su mandato ha de prolongarse hasta octubre de 1722.
• 1732 - Portugal : Tem início a construção do Aqueduto das Águas Livres.
• 1733 - Matthew Tindal dies (b. 1657). English deist
• 1746 - Nascimento de Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (O Tiradentes) (m. 21 Abr 1792)
• 1773 - Publicação do Breve de Clemente XIV que dissolve a Companhia de Jesus em todo o mundo.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• 1781 - O marquês de Pombal, afastado da corte desde 1777, é declarado culpado e merecedor de um castigo exemplar, no processo que Francisco José Caldeira Soares Galhardo Mendanha intentou contra ele, por motivo da Apologia, obra manuscrita que circulou pelo país a partir de 1779, e que defendia a política do marquês.
• 1788 - Francisco Xavier Alegre dies. Mexican historian and humanist. Jesuit.
• 1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec dies (b. 1719). French soldier and diplomat
• 1792 - Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
• 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
• 1812 - España: en la Plaza Mayor de Madrid se proclama la Constitución promulgada por las Cortes de Cádiz.
• 1815 - John Bosco was born (d. 1888). Italian priest and educator / Nascimento de São João Bosco em Becchi, Itália (m. 1888). Fundou os Salesianos em 1859.
• 1819 - Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
• 1821 - Arthur Cayley was born (d. 26 Jan 1895). British mathematicien.
• 1827 - Johan Siegwald Dahl was born. Norwegian painter.
• 1831 - John Jones Ross was born (d. 1901). Quebec politician.
• 1832 - Wilhelm Wundt was born (d. 31 Ago 1920). German philosopher and psycologist.
• 1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval dies (b. 1755). French mathematician
• 1840 - Jose Jacinto Milanés was born in Matanzas (d. 14 Nov 1863). Cuban poet.
• 1841 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• 1842 - Perú - O General Juan Crisóstomo Torrico se proclama-se Chefe da Nação
• 1842 - Jakob Rosanes was born (d. 1922). German mathematician.
• 1845 - Gabriel Lippmann was born (d. 1921). French physicist. 1908 Physic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1855 - Henry Colburn dies. British publisher.
• 1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 1858 - Arthur Achleitner was born (d. 1927). German writer.
• 1859 - Costa Rica: Escoltado por el Coronel Blanco, a la cabeza de 100 soldados y 10 oficiales, sale de San José (Costa Rica), con destino a Puntarenas, el depuesto Presidente Juan Rafel Mora Porras, para ser embarcado posteriormente camino al exilio.
• 1860 - Jules Laforgue was born (d. 29 Aug 1887). French poet.
• 1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg was born (d. 17 Mar 1965). American coach.
• 1864 - John Chambliss dies. American Confederate general.
• 1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
• 1867 - Nasce no Porto, António Nobre (m. 18 Mar 1900 de tuberculose). Poeta português. Formado em Direito na Sorbonne, fez uma "peregrinação" desesperada pelo mundo devido à sua doença. ("Só" - Paris 1892)
• 1868 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
• 1868 - Bernarr McFadden was born (d. 12 Oct 1955). American publisher.
• 1869 - Batalha de Barreiro Grande, durante a guerra da Argentina, Uruguai e Brasil contra o Paraguai.
• 1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1869 - Morte do poeta português Faustino Xavier de Novais (irmão da futura esposa de Machado de Assis). É considerado o maior poeta satírico português depois de Nicolau Tolentino. Poeta portuense fixou-se no Brasil.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• 1876 - Ivan Bilibin dies (b. 1942). Russian illustrator.
• 1884 - Hugo Gernsback was born (d. 19 Aug 1967). Luxembourg-born editor and publisher.
• 1884 - Walther von Reichenau was born (d. 1942). German field marshal.
• 1886 - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa dies (b. 18 Feb 1836). Indian guru.
• 1888 - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born (d. 19 May 1935). English writer and soldier.
• 1888 - Armand J. Piron was born (d. 1943). American musician.
• 1888 - Venezuela: El Presidente Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl ordena la fundación del Hospital Vargas de Caracas
• 1888 - John Pemberton dies (b. 1831). American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola
• 1892 - Otto Messmer was born (d. 28 Oct 1983). American cartoonist.
• 1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot dies (b. 1825). French neurologist.
• 1894 - George Meany was born (d. 10 Jan 1980). American labor union leader.
• 1895 - Albert Cohen was born in Corfu, Greece (d. 7 Oct 1981). Swiss novelist and diplomat. (Belle du Seigneur -1968).
• 1895 - Liane Haid was born (d. 28 Nov 2000). Austrian actress.
• 1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike in Canada.
• 1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was born (d. 1811). German chemist.
• 1900 - Eça de Queirós dies (b. 1845). Portuguese writer / Eça de Queirós morre em Neuilly, França (n. 25 Nov 1845 na Póvoa do Varzim). Escritor português. É por muitos considerado o maior escritor realista português do século XIX. Ver biografia completa em Vidas Lusófonas
• 1902 - Georgette Heyer was born (d. 4 Jul 1974). English novelist.
• 1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley was born (d. 1971). American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1906 - Nasce em Málaga, Espanha, Oscarito (Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz) (m. 4 Ago 1970). Actor e comediante brasileiro. Formou uma dupla histórica com Grande Otelo.
• 1906 - A cidade de Valparaíso, no Chile, é atingida por um forte terramoto. Cerca de 1,5 mil pessoas morrem e a costa sobe 1,5 metro de altura.
• 1907 - James Hector dies (b. 1834). Scottish geologist
• 1908 - William Maxwell was born (d. 2000). American novelist and editor.
• 1911 - Luz Vieira Méndez was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos (d. 1971). Argentinian educator.
• 1911 - E. F. Schumacher was born (d. 1977). German economist and statistician.
• 1912 - Ted Drake was born (d. 1995). English footballer.
• 1913 - Menachem Begin was born (d. 1992). 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
• 1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
• 1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
• 1915 - Al Hibbler was born (d. 2001). American singer.
• 1916 - Iggy Katona was born (d. 2003). American race car driver.
• 1918 - España: se crean los dos primeros Parques Nacionales españoles: el de Peña Santa (en Covadonga (Asturias)) y el de Ordesa (en el Pirineo oscense).
• 1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
• 1920 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
• 1920 - Charles Bukowski was born (d. 1994). American poet.
• 1921 - King Peter I of Serbia dies (b. 1844).
• 1922 - Ernie Freeman was born (d. 2001). American pianist and arranger.
• 1923 - Shimon Peres was born. Israel's eighth Prime Minister, co-laureate in 1994 with The Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1923 - Millôr Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian writer and cartoonist.
• 1924 - Fess Parker was born. American actor
• 1925 - Estréia em Nova York de "A quimera do ouro", primeiro longa-metragem de Charles Chaplin.
• 1925 - Constituição do Primeiro Partido Comunista de Cuba.
• 1925 - Willie Jones was born (d. 1983). American baseball player.
• 1926 - Artur Bual was born in Lisbon (d. 1999). Portuguese painter
• 1927 - Ramón Veloz was born in Havana (d. 16 Aug 1986). Cuban singer and musician
• 1927 - Osvaldo Rossler was born. Cuban singer, author and poet.
• 1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing 20 people.
• 1928 - Ann Blyth was born. American actress (The Merry Monahans, The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso, The Buster Keaton Story).
• 1929 - Bill Evans was born (d. 1980). American jazz pianist
• 1929 - Fritz Von Erich was born (d. 1997). American professional wrestler.
• 1929 - Helmut Rahn was born (d. 2003). German footballer.
• 1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
• 1930 - Nasce Glauce Rocha, em Campo Grande, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil (m. 12 Out 1971 em S. Paulo). Actriz brasileira
• 1930 - Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer
• 1930 - O general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 1930 - Se inaugura en los Estados Unidos el primer supermercado del mundo (King Kullen Grocery Company in New York).
• 1930 - Ted Hughes was born. English poet
• 1930 - Robert Culp was born. American actor
• 1930 - Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer
• 1930 - Tony Trabert was born. American former tennis player
• 1931 - Eydie Gorme was born. American singer
• 1933 - Julie Newmar was born. American actress
• 1933 - Stuart Roosa was born (d. 1994). American astronaut.
• 1934 - Diana Wynne Jones was born. British author
• 1934 - Ketty Lester was born. American singer
• 1934 - Pierre Richard was born. French actor
• 1935 - Andreas Stamatiadis was born. Greek footballer and coach
• 1935 - Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive
• 1936 - Encerram os Jogos Olímpicos de Berlim iniciados em 1 de Agosto. Portugal obteve uma medalha de bronze na modalidade de Hipismo, no concurso de obstáculos por equipas, através de Luís Mena e Silva, Domingos de Sousa Coutinho e José Beltrão.
• 1937 - Félix Paiva assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1937 - David Anderson was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 - Rodolfo Chiari dies (b. 15 Nov 1869). President of Panamá (1924-1928).
• 1938 - Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado assume a presidência da República Dominicana que exerceu até à sua morte (7 Mar 1940).
• 1938 - Robert Johnson dies (b. 8 May 1911). Blues singer and guitarist
• 1938 - Andrej Hlinka dies (b. 27 Sep 1864). Slovak politician and priest.
• 1939 - Sir Trevor Mcdonald was born., Trinidadian-born British television newsreader.
• 1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
• 1940 - Bruce Beresford was born. Australian film director
• 1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
• 1942 - Barbara George was born (d. 2006). American singer and songwriter.
• 1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
• 1945 - Suzanne Farrell was born. Ballet dancer
• 1946 - The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 - The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 - Dumarsais Estimé assume a presidência do Haiti.
• 1946 - Massoud Barzani was born. Iraqi Kurdish politician.
• 1946 - Lesley Ann Warren was born. American actress.
• 1946 - Dick Murdoch was born (d. 1996). American professional wrestler.
• 1947 - Carol Moseley Braun was born. American politician and lawyer
• 1947 - Katharine Hamnett was born. English fashion designer
• 1947 - Marc Messier, Quebec actor
• 1948 - Moria Casán (Ana María Casanova) was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian actress
• 1948 - Babe Ruth dies (b. 1895). American baseball player
• 1949 - Margaret Mitchell dies (b. 1900). American novelist
• 1950 - Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidad and Tobago athlete
• 1950 - Federico Chaves assume a presidência do Paraguai
• 1950 - Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidadian athlete
• 1950 - Marshall Manesh was born. Iranian-born American actor
• 1950 - Stockwell Day was born. Canadian politician
• 1951 - Arnaldo Barsanti dies (b. 1889). Composer and musician ( "Anastasio el pollo", "Echale aceite a la manija", "Los invisibles").
• 1951 - Richard Hunt was born (d. 1992). American puppeteer.
• 1951 - Louis Jouvet dies (b. 1887). French actor and producer.
• 1951 - Eduardo Chibás dies. Leader of Partido del Pueblo Cubano, Ortodoxo
• 1952 - Reginald VelJohnson was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Lydia Field Emmet dies (b. 1866). American painter.
• 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford was born. French-born singer and actress.
• 1953 - Federico Chávez toma posse como Presidente do Paraguai.
• 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford was born. American singer and actress.
• 1953 - James "J.T." Taylor was born. American singer (Kool & The Gang)
• 1954 - Sports Illustrated magazine is first published.
• 1954 - James Cameron was born. Canadian film director (Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2)
• 1955 - Nascimento Fernandes dies (b. 1881). Portuguese actor.
• 1956 - Bela Lugosi dies (b. 1882). Hungarian actor
• 1957 - Tim Farriss was born. Australian musician (INXS)
• 1957 - Irving Langmuir dies (b. 1881). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1958 - Angela Bassett was born. American actress Waiting to Exhale, FX, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Malcolm X, Boyz N the Hood
• 1958 - Madonna was born. American singer (Material Girl, Like a Virgin) and actress (Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own).
• 1959 - Wanda Landowska dies (b. 1879), Polish harpsichordist.
• 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
• 1960 - Timothy Hutton was born. American actor
• 1960 - Francisco Lauro dies. Musician ("Los Mendocinos") Author tango "Perfidia"
• 1960 - Ausenda de Oliveira dies in Lisbon (b. 20 Apr 1888 in Cantanhede). Portuguese actress.
• 1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq dies (b. 1870). Father of Modern Urdu
• 1962 - The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
• 1962 - Steve Carell was born. American actor and comedian
• 1963 - Restauración de la independencia en la República Dominicana.
• 1963 - Fernando Ponassi-Boutureira was born. Argentine-Italian architect
• 1964 - Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• 1964 - Jimmy Arias was born. American tennis player
• 1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• 1966 - Declaración de Bogotá firman presidentes y representantes de Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela y Perú.
• 1966 - Barry Lather was born. American choreographer, musician and actor
• 1967 - Pamela Smart was born. American murderer
• 1967 - Ulrika Jonsson was born. Swedish-born television personality
• 1967 - René Magritte dies. Belgian painter.
• 1967 - Luis Antonio Eguiguren dies in Lima. Peruvian politician, historian and journalist.
• 1968 - Mateja Svet was born. Slovenian alpine skier.
• 1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested.
• 1970 - Saif Ali Khan was born. Indian actor
• 1970 - Bonnie Bernstein was born. American sportscaster
• 1971 - Stefan Klos was born. German footballer
• 1971 - Mario Zanini dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
• 1972 - Emily Erwin was born. American musician (Dixie Chicks)
• 1972 - Stan Lazaridis was born. Australian soccer player
• 1972 - Emily Robison was born. American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
• 1972 - Pierre Brasseur dies (b. 1905). French actor.
• 1973 - Damian Jackson was born. American baseball player
• 1973 - Selman Waksman dies (b. 1888). Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer
• 1974 - Iván Hurtado was born. Ecuadorian footballer
• 1974 - Roger Cedeño was born. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1974 - Robin Hull was born. Finnish snooker player
• 1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer.
• 1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice.
• 1975 - Didier Agathe was born. French footballer
• 1975 - George Stults was born. American actor
• 1975 - Vladimir Kuts dies (b. 1929). Soviet runner
• 1976 - Jonatan Johansson was born. Finnish footballer
• 1976 - Dave Ockun was born. American concert producer
• 1977 - Elvis Presley dies (b. 1935). American singer and actor
• 1978 - Eddie Gill was born. American basketball player
• 1978 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer dies (b. 1888). Dutch lawyer and politician.
• 1979 - Michael Stahlman was born. American rower and coach
• 1979 - John Diefenbaker dies (b. 18 Sep 1875). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1980 - Robert Hardy was born. English bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
• 1980 - Vanessa Carlton was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist
• 1980 - Park Choong Hoon assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
• 1981 - Roque Santa Cruz was born. Paraguayan footballer
• 1981 - Taylor Rain was born. American actress
• 1982 - Joleon Lescott was borm. English footballer
• 1983 - Colin Griffiths was born. English TV presenter and DJ
• 1983 - Nikos Zisis was born. Greek basketball player
• 1983 - Colt Brennan was born. University of Hawai'i Quarterback
• 1983 - Earl Averill dies (b. 1902). American baseball player
• 1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
• 1985 - Madonna-Sean Penn's wedding.
• 1986 - Joaquín Balaguer assume (pela 3ª ?quinta vez) a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1986 - Jaime Saenz dies (b. 1921). Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer.
• 1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (the sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the aircraft flaps.
• 1987 - Kyal Marsh was born. Australian actor.
• 1988 - Rumer Willis was born. American actress
• 1989 - Amanda Blake dies (b. 1929). American actress
• 1990 - Paulino Vicente dies. Spanish painter.
• 1990 - Pat O'Connor dies (b. 1925). New Zealand professional wrestler
• 1991 - Shamu dies (b. 1975). One of the famous whales that star at SeaWorld
• 1991 - Luigi Zampa dies (b. 1905). Italian film director
• 1991 - Evanna Lynch was born. Irish actress
• 1992 - In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
• 1992 - El automovilista británico Nigel Mansell se consagra nuevo campeón del mundo de Fórmula 1.
• 1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
• 1993 - Stewart Granger dies in Santa Monica, California (b. 06 May 1913). English-born American actor.
• 1994 - Muere Manuel Jiménez de la Guardia, fundador del diario costarricense "La Nación". Fue Ministro de Industria y Comercio de su país.
• 1994 - Joaquín Balaguer toma posse (7º. mandato) do cargo de Presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1995 - J.P. McCarthy dies (b. 1933). American radio personality.
• 1996 - Leonel Fernández assume a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan dies (b. 1948). Pakistani musician.
• 1997 - Gerard McLarnon dies (b. 1915). Irish playwright and actor.
• 1999 - Pee Wee King dies (b. 1914). American country musician and songwriter.
• 2000 - Hipólito Mejía assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 2000 - Início do segundo mandato do presidente venezuelano Hugo Chávez.
• 2002 - Martin Deutsch dies at 85. Physicist who discovered positronium.
• 2002 - Abu Nidal dies (b. 1937). Palestinian terrorist, founder of Fatah - the Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah) well known as Abu Nidal Organization.
• 2002 - Jeff Corey dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 2002 - John Roseboro dies (b. 1933). American baseball player and coach.
• 2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
• 2003 - Idi Amin dies (b. 1925). Ugandan dictator (1971-1979)
• 2003 - Haroldo de Campos dies (b. 19 Aug 1929 in São Paulo). Brazilian poet and translator
• 2004 - Carl Mydans dies (b. 1907). American photographer.
• 2004 - Ivan Hlinka dies (b. 1950). Czech hockey coach.
• 2004 - Robert Quiroga dies ( 1969). American boxer
• 2004 - Luís de Castro Faria dies (b. 1913). Brazilian anthropologist.
• 2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
• 2005 - Frère Roger of Taizé dies (b. 1915). Swiss monk and mystic.
• 2005 - Joe Ranft dies (b. 1960). American animator.
• 2005 - Vassar Clements dies (b. 1928). American musician.
• 2005 - Vicky Moscholiou dies (b. 1943). Greek singer.
• 2006 - Virginia Republican Senator George Allen makes the infamous "Macaca" remark to one of his rival's interns.
• 2006 - Princess Luisa of Savoy was born.
• 2006 - O Sport Club Internacional wins Copa Libertadores da Américam for the first time, after a draw 2-2 against São Paulo Futebol Clube.
• 2006 - Alex Buzo dies (b. 1944). Australian playwright and author.
• 2006 - Herschel Green dies (b. 1920). American pilot.
• 2006 - Jon Nödtveidt dies (b. 1975). Swedish musician.
• 2006 - Alfredo Stroessner dies (b. 1912). President of Paraguay.
• Palio dell'Assunta in Siena (on the day after the Assumption of Mary)
• Bennington Battle Day: legal holiday in Vermont, USA, for the Battle of Bennington in 1777 (which actually took place in the state of New York)
• Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.