551 BC –
Confucius was born (d. 479 BC). Chinese philosopher.
1276 - John XXI elected Pope.
1429 - Paris attacked by Joan of Arc: French heroine
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who believed she was acting under divine guidance, attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take
Paris for the newly crowned King
Charles VII.
1514 -
Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarussians and
Poles defeat Russian army.
1529 - The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as the puppet king of Hungary.
1612 - Fundação da cidade de
São Luis do Maranhão (Brasil).
1644 -
John Coke dies (b. 1563). English politician.
1656 -
Joseph Hall dies (b. 1574). English bishop and writer.
1664 - As part of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the duke of York (later
James II) took the city of New Amsterdam, whose name was changed to New York.
1753 - John Soane was born. English architect.
1761 - Casamento de
Jorge III com a princesa alemã Sofia Carlota de Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- 1767 - August Schlegel was born (d. 1845). German poet.
1771 - Mungo Park was born. Scottish born explorer of Africa.
1780 -
Enoch Poor dies (b. 1736). General in the American Continental Army.
1784 -
Ann Lee dies. American religious leader.
1795 - Nasce em Santo Amaro de Jaboatão (PE), José da Natividade Saldanha (m. 30 Mar 1830). Escritor e político brasileiro.
1841 -
Antonin Dvorak was born (d. 1 May 1904). Czech composer (
Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies). 1883 - A linha de caminho de ferro que atravessa os Estados Unidos da América de costa a costa - a Northern Pacific Railroad - é concluída.
1886 -
Siegfried Sassoon was born (d. 1967). Siegfried Sassoon, British author and poet famous for his anti-war writing about World War I.
1886 - Joanesburg (South Africa) is founded.
1895 - Uma coluna militar portuguesa derrota uma força de índigenas no Combate de Magul, durante a «Campanha de 95» em Moçambique, de pacificação das revoltas de negros começadas em 1894, com um ataque a Lourenço Marques.
1897 -
Jimmie Rodgers was born (d. 1933). American country music singer and composer.
1903 - Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
1907 -
Agenor Miranda Rocha was born in Luanda, Angola (d. 2004). Professor and Writer Babalorixá, escritor.
1914 - Robert Wise, was born. American film director.
1918 - Devido ao prolongamento da Guerra, e à guerra submarina alemã, começam a ser distribuídas, em Portugal, senhas de racionamento e cartas de consumo.
1921 - 16-year-old
Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first
Miss America.
1922 -
Sid Caesar was born. Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951], Caesar’s Hour [1956].
1924 -
Mimi Parent was born (d. 2005). Surrealist painter.
1925 - Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.
1925 -
Peter Sellers was born (d. 1980). Actor, comedian. Famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau (
The Pink Panther series ,
What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There). 1927 - Nasce, em Lisboa, Laura Alves (m. 6 Mai 1986). Grande actriz portuguesa. Alcançou sucesso em palco, nos diversos géneros: revista, opereta, comédia, drama, sobretudo no Monumental (1951). Também participou em cinema [ O PAI TIRANO (1941); O PÁTIO DAS CANTIGAS (1941); O LEÃO DA ESTRELA (1947); SONHAR É FÁCIL (1951); UM MARIDO SOLTEIRO (1952);O COSTA D’ÁFRICA (1954);PERDEU-SE UM MARIDO (1956);O PARQUE DAS ILUSÕES (1963)]. Retirou-se em 1982. Foi casada com o empresário de teatro Vasco Morgado.
1930 - The comic strip "Blondie," created by Chic Young, was first published.
1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1932 -
Patsy Cline was born (d. 1963). Country music singer
("Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces"). 1933 -Michael Frayn was born. Playwright (A Very Private Life, Noises Off).
1937 - Virna Lisi (Pieralisi) was born. Actress ( Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard, Christopher Columbus, Le Serpent [Night Flight from Moscow], Casanova, The Secret of Santa Vittoria).
1938 -
Sam Nunn was born. U.S. Senator from Georgia.
1940 - Frankie Avalon was born. American singer.
- 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
1943 -
Julius Fucik dies executed. Czech communist and journalist.
1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1945 -
Cold War:
United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of
Korea in response to
Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
- 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan was born (d. 1973). Musician (the Grateful Dead).
1946 - The monarchy in Bulgaria is abolished in a referendum called by communists installed by the Soviet Army. Georgi Dimitrov became the 1st premier of communist Bulgaria.
1946 - 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (11-9, 6-3).
1946 - 66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (9-7, 6-3, 6-0).
1947 -
Ann Beattie was born. Writer
(Chilly Scenes of Winter, Picturing Will). 1949 -
Richard Strauss dies (b. 1864). German composer
(Also Sprach Zarathustra). 1952 - 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (6-1, 6-2, 6-3).
1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" is published.
- 1954 - André Derain dies. French painter.
1957 - Heather Thomas was born. Actress (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever).
1957 - 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (10-8, 7-5, 6-4).
1960 - Jussi Bjorling dies at 49. Swedish epic tenor (Manrico, Cavaradossi, Faust, Rodolfo, Riccardo, Romeo).
1963 - 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (7-5, 6-4).
1963 - 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (7-5, 6-4, 6-2).
1964 -
Michael Johns was born. Business executive and White House speechwriter.
1964 - Malta tornou-se independente da Grã-Bretanha. Conquistada à Ordem de Malta por Napoleão Bonaparte em 12 de Junho de 1798, quando da expedição francesa ao Egipto, tinha sido tomada por forças britânicas em 1800.
- 1968 - British tennis player Virginia Wade beats American Billie Jean King to win the US Open.
1968 - Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant.
1969 -
Bud Collyer dies. American television game show host.
1969 - 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2).
1971 - David Arquette was born. Actor (The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Webbers, Dead Man’s Walk, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland).
- 1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1973 - Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974.
1973 - 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (7-6 5-7 6-2).
1974 - 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (3-6 6-3 7-5).
1974 - 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (6-1, 6-0, 6-1).
1974 -
Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at
Twin Falls,
Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle."
1975 - Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.
1978 - Martial Law declared in Tehran and other cities, Iran, as riots take place.
1979 -
Jean Seberg dies (suicide) at 40. Actress
(Breathless, Airport). 1979 -
Pink was born. American singer.
- 1981 - Morten Gamst Pedersen was born. Norwegian footballer.
- 1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas was born. American actor.
1981 -
Roy Wilkins dies. American civil rights activist.
1982 - Em Portugal é legalizado o Movimento Ecologista Os Verdes.
- 1983 - Diego Benaglio was born. Swiss-Italian footballer.
- 1983 - Will Blalock was born. American basketball player.
- 1983 - Chris Judd was born. Australian football player.
- 1983 - Lewis Roberts-Thompson was born. Australian football player.
1984 - 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (4-6, 6-4, 6-4).
1985 - 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (7-6, 6-3, 6-4).
- 1986 - João Moutinho was born. Portuguese football player, Sporting Lisbon midfielder.
- 1986 - Matt Grothe was born. American football player.
- 1988 - Caitlin Hill was born. Australian internet personality.
- 1988 - Arrelious Benn was born. American football player.
- 1988 - Chantal Jones was born. American fashion model.
1989 - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder).
1990 - 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (6-2, 7-6). It was her first grand slam title.
1991 - 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (6-2, 6-4, 6-0).
1991 -
Alex North dies (b. 1910). American composer.
1993 - Hall Bartlett dies at 70. US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull).
1995 - Bosnia's warring sides reached a compromise in Geneva, agreeing to divide the nation into two states: one for the rebel Serbs and another for the Muslims and Croats.
- 1996- Supermodel Eva Herzigova marries Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres at a star-studied wedding in the American state of New Jersey.
1996 - 110th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-5, 6-4).
1996 - 116th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (6-1, 6-4, 7-6).
1997 - A Haitian ferry, the Pride of Gonave, capsized, killing about three-quarters of the 200 people aboard.
1999 - US Attorney General
Janet Reno names former US Senator
John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the
Branch Davidian compound near
Waco, Texas. The event actually occured in the rural small community of Elk, Texas some several miles outside the Waco city limits.
2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by beating her sister Serena 6-2, 6-4 in the first prime-time women's Grand Slam final.
2002 - Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi ( 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4) to win his 14th Grand Slam title and the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
2002 - Georges-Andre Chevallaz dies in Lausanne (87). Former Swiss president (1980) and member of the ruling cabinet for 10 years.
2003 -
Leni Riefenstahl dies (b. 1902). German film director. Her depiction of Hitler's Nuremberg rally, "Triumph of the Will," was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made.
2003 -
Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old, is sued by the
RIAA for downloading music illegally.
2004 - The
NASA unmanned spacecraft
Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
- 2005 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
- 2005 - Maria Lúcia Medeiros dies (b. 1942). Brazilian writer.
2005 -
Noel Cantwell dies (b. 1932). Irish cricket and football player.
2006 -
Hilda Bernstein dies (b. 1915). English-born South African author, artist, and activist.
2006 -
Peter Brock dies (b. 1945). Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident).
2006 -
Erk Russell dies (b. 1923). American football coach.
- Portugal: Feriado municipal na Cidade de Lamego, na cidade de Mangualde, na Vila de Nazaré e em Ponta do Sol (Madeira).
Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day (1974).
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