On this day in History - Oct. 9

0768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are coronated Kings of France.
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
1047 - Pope Clement II dies (b. 1005)
1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir was crowned as king of the Croatia.
1201 - Robert de Sorbon was born (d. 1274). French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne
1221 - Salimbene di Adam was born. Italian chronicler
1238 - James I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia.
1253 - Robert Grosseteste dies. English statesman and bishop
1261 - King Dinis of Portugal was born (d. 1325)
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany dies.
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus was born (d. 1369)
1390 - King John I of Castile dies (b. 1358). /Morre Rei João I de Castela, de uma queda de cavalo (n. 1358)
1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
1547 - Miguel Cervantes is baptized. Spanish novelist best known for El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. In English translation: Don Quixote
1555 - Justus Jonas dies (b. 1493). German protestant reformer
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio dies (b. 1523). Italian anatomist and inventor of the condom.
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa dies (b. 1533). Russian prince.
1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was born (d. 1638). French mathematician
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1585 - Heinrich Schütz was born. German composer.
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria was born (d. 1632). Regent of Tyrol
1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki dies (b. 1537). Japanese shogun.
1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1688 - Claude Perrault dies (born 1613). Architect, physician and physicist. He was the architect of the oldest building of the Paris Observatory when it was founded in 1667 by King Louis XIV
1691 - William Sacheverell dies (b. 1638). English statesman.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner was born (d. 5 Oct 1777). Slovak and German physicist and mathematician who recognized the surface tension of liquids.
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland dies (b. 1640). English mistress of Charles II of England
1729 - Richard Blackmore dies (b. 1654). English physician and writer .
1740 - D. Luís da Cunha dies (b. 1662). Portuguese diplomat.
1757 - King Charles X of France was born (d. 1836)
1760 - Russia conquers Berlin.
1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1781 - Dionisio de Herrera was born. President of Honduras (1824-1827).
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot dies (b. 1718). French missionary
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger was born (d. 1878). English Egyptologist.
1797 - Vilna Gaon dies (b. 1720). Lithuanian rabbi.
1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1801 - Auguste-Arthur de La Rive was born (d. 1873). Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries
1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 - Prussia declares war to France.
1806 - Benjamin Banneker dies (b. 9 Nov 1731). American astronomer, mathematician, author and clockmaker
1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
1818 - Francisco Navarro Villoslada was born. Spanish writer.
1820 - Guayaquil declared independence from Spain.
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 - Capo d'Istria was assassinated.
1831 - John Capodistria dies (b. 1776). Governor of Greece.
1833 - Eugen Langen was born (d. 2 Oct 1895). German engineer who pioneered in building internal-combustion engines
1835 - Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns was born (d. 1921). French composer.
1840 - Simeon Solomon was born (d. 1905). British artist.
1841 - Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 6º vez) a presidência do México.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer was born (d. 15 Jul 1919). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1902, in recognition of his investigations of the sugar and purine groups of substances.
1853 - Nasce José do Patrocínio (m. 1905). Jornalista, orador, poeta e romancista brasileiro.
1854 - Beginning of the siege of Sebastopol.
1855 - The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer of New York
1855 - The first calliope is patented by Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts.
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus was born (d. 1935). French military officer
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Union troops repel Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1871 - George Gauthier was born (d. 1940). Bishop of Montreal and rector of the University of Montreal
1873 - Carl Flesch was born (d. 1944). Hungarian violinist.
1873 - Charles Walgreen was born (d. 1939). American entrepreneur.
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild was born (d. 11 May 1916). German theoretical astrophysicist, born in Frankfurt, Germany, who made both practical and theoretical contributions to 20th-century astronomy.
1873 - George Ormerod dies (b. 1785). English historian and antiquarian.
1874 - General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1874 - Nicholas Roerich was born (d. 1947). Russian painter.
1879 - Max von Laue was born (d. 23 Apr 1960). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals
1885 - Francisco Franco de Sousa was born in Funchal, Madeira. Portuguese sculptor / Nascia, no Funchal, ilha da Madeira, Francisco Franco de Sousa (m. 15 Fev 1955). Escultor português.
1886 - Rube Marquard was born (d. 1980). Baseball player
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was born (d. 1938). Russian politician.
1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson was born (d. 1944). American evangelist.
1890 - It is reported, however without evidence, French electrical engineer Clément Ader was the first person to actually fly an airplane, but his steam-powered bat-like plane, "Eole", only rose a few inches off the ground. Ader coined the french word "avion" for aircraft. It is said to mean Appareil Volant Imitant les Oisaux Naturels: Flying Machine Imitating Natural Birds
1892 - Ivo Andrić was born (d. 1975). Croatian writer
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva was born (d. 1941). Russian poet.
1893 - Mário de Andrade was born (d. 1945). Brazilian writer and photographer / Nasce, em S. Paulo, Mário de Andrade (m. 1945). Escritor brasileiro e idealizador da Semana de Arte Moderna
1899 - Bruce Catton was born (d. 1978). American journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954
1900 - Alastair Sim was born (d. 1976). Scottish actor.
1900 - Ismael Nery was born (d. 1934). Brazilian painter. Pioneer of the surrealism in Brazil.
1902 - Freddie Young was born (d. 1998). British cinematographer.
1903 - Walter O'Malley was born (d. 1979). American baseball executive.
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor was born (d. 2001). Senegalese poet and politician who was President of Senegal (1960-1980).
1906 - Joseph Farwell Glidden dies (b. 18 Jan 1813). A native of New Hampshire, Glidden was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would transform the West
1907 - Quintin Hogg was born (d. 2001). British politician.
1908 - Harry Hooton was born (d. 1961). Australian poet.
1909 - Jacques Tati was born (d. 4 Nov 1982). French Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958];
1909 - Donald Coggan was born (d. 2000). Archbishop of Canterbury
1911 - Joe Rosenthal was born. American photographer.
1911 - Antonio Borrero y Cortázar dies. President of Ecuador (1875-1876)
1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin was born. United States Secretary of Agriculture
1916 - Jean Dausset was born. French physician and imunologist
1918 - O príncipe Friedrich Karl é eleito rei da Finlândia.
1918 - Lila Kedrova was born (d. 2000). Russian-born actress.
1918 - E. Howard Hunt was born (d. 2007). American Watergate figure.
1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe was born (d. 1976). Norwegian author.
1921 - Michel Boisrond was born (d. 2002). French film director.
1923 - Fyvush Finkel was born. American actor.
1924 - Valery Bryusov dies (b. 1873). Russian writer and critic.
1925 - Johnny Stompanato was born (d. 1958). American organized crime figure.
1926 - Danièle Delorme was born. French actress
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara was born. Finnish composer.
1932 - Karl (Immanuel Eberhard) von Goebel dies (b. 8 Mar 1855). German botanist whose Organographie der Pflanzen (1898-1901; Organography of Plants, 1900-05) clarified the principles of the science of plant morphology in relation to form and structure.
1933 - Meteor shower: a great unpredicted meteor shower was seen from Europe that surprised astronomers. Dr. W.J. Fisher, a Harvard astronomer, identified the Giacobini-Zinner comet as the cause
1933 - Peter Mansfield was born. British physician.
1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (b. 1888) and Louis Barthou this accidentally (b. 1862). Foreign Minister and before Prime Minister of France.
1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent was born. Member of the British Royal Family.
1936 - Brian Blessed was born. English actor
1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1938 - Heinz Fischer was born. Austrian politician.
1938 - The radio altimeter is first demonstrated in New York by Bell Labs, in the first public display of the device that gives pilots the height of an aircraft above the local terrain by bouncing radio signals off the ground to give a reliable altitude reading, thus changing aviation forever.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
1940 - John Lennon was born (d. 1980). British musician and songwriter (The Beatles)
1940 - Joe Pepitone was born. American baseball player
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell dies (b. 1865). Medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango new president.
1941 - Trent Lott was born. American politician.
1941 - Chucho Valdés was born. Cuban musician.
1941 - Brian Lamb was born. Founder of c-span
1941 - Helen Morgan dies (b. 1900). American singer and actress.
1941 - Panamá: um golpe de estado leva ao poder Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia.
1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
1943 - Pieter Zeeman dies (b. 1865). Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1902 (shared with Hendrik A. Lorentz ) for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
1944 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
1944 - John Entwistle was born (d. 2002). British musician (The Who)
1944 - Nona Hendryx was born. American singer (LaBelle)
1945 - Taiguara was born (d. 1996). Brazilian musician.
1946 - Tansu Çiller was born. Turkish prime minister.
1946 - the Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50.
1947 - France Gall was born. French singer.
1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr. was born (d. 2007). American lawyer.
1947 - Tony Zappone was born. American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 - Jackson Browne was born. American musician.
1949 - Maria Cláudia was born. Brazilian actress.
1950 - Jody Williams was born. American teacher and aid worker who was the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1950 - Brian Downing was born. Former baseball player
1950 - Demetrio Herrera Sevillano dies. Panamanian poet.
1950 - Robert Wuhl was born. Emmy Award-winning writer: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards [1991], The 64th Annual Academy Awards [1992]; actor: A Kiss Goodnight, Cobb, The Bodyguard, Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance
1950 - George Hainsworth dies (b. 1895). National Hockey League goaltender.
1952 - Sharon Osbourne was born. English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 - Tony Shalhoub was born. American actor
1954 - Scott Bakula was born. American television actor
1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba was born. African politician
1954 - John O'Hurley was born. American actor and game show host
1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer dies (b. 1875). Archbishop of Vienna
1956 - Marie Doro dies (b. 1882). American actress
1957 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
1957 - Don Garber was born. American sports commissioner.
1958 - Al Jourgensen was born. American musician.
1958 - Michael Pare was born. American actor.
1958 - Pope Pius XII ( Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) dies (b. 1876); 261st pope.
1959 - Sir Henry Tizard dies (b. 1885). Scientist and administrator. Around 1920, with David Pye, his work on aircraft fuels ultimately led to the octane rating system, which expresses the anti-knocking characteristics of the fuel.
1960 - Kenny Garrett was born. American jazz saxophonist
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1961 - Julian Bailey was born. British racing driver.
1962 - Milan Vidmar dies (b. 1885). Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player.
1962 - Uganda becomes an independent republic from Great-Britain.
1962 - Jorge Burruchaga was born. Argentinian football player.
1963 - Edward Mutesa assume a presidência de Uganda
1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1964 - Guillermo del Toro was born. Mexican actor and film director.
1964 - Bobby Flay was born. American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1966 - David Cameron was born. British politician
1966 - Christopher Östlund was born. Swedish Publisher and entrepreneur
1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara (b. 1928) is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1967 - Che Guevara dies executed (b. 1928). Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader.
1967 - Eddie Guerrero was born (d. 2005). Mexican professional wrestler
1967 - André Maurois dies. French writer (b. 1885).
1967 - Gordon Allport dies (b. 11 Nov 1897). Humanistic psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality.
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood dies (b. 1897). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1967 - Gheorge Popescu was born. Romanian footbal player
1968 - Pierre Mulele dies. Congolese revolutionary
1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
1969 - Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
1969 - P.J. Harvey was born. English musician
1969 - Amy Grissom was born. American artist and social worker
1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1970 - Kenny Anderson was born. American basketball player
1970 - Park Sang-min was born. South Korean actor.
1970 - Savannah was born (d. 1994). American actress.
1970 - Annika Sörenstam was born. Swedish golfer.
1971 - Michael Manna was born. American professional wrestler
1971 - Simon Atlee was born (d. 2004). British Photographer, most notable person killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh was born. Australian actor.
1972 - Miriam Hopkins dies (b. 1902). American actress.
1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi becomes F1 World Champion.
1973 - Steven Burns was born. Actor and musician.
1973 - Fabio Lione was born. Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Terry Balsamo was born. American guitarist.
1974 - Oskar Schindler dies (b.28 Apr 1908). German businessman who saved Jews
1975 - Sean Lennon was born. English musician
1975 - Mark Viduka was born. Australian football player
1975 - Nobel Peace Prize is attributed to the soviet dissident, physician Andreï Dmitrievitch Sakharov in recognition of his struggle against "the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms."
1976 - Nick Swardson was born. American actor.
1976 - Walter Warlimont dies (b. 1894). German General WWII.
1977 - Brian Roberts was born. American baseball player
1978 - Nicky Byrne was born. Irish musician (Westlife).
1978 - Juan Dixon was born. American basketball player.
1978 - Jacques Brel dies (b. 1929). Belgian musician.
1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo was born. Uruguayan footballer.
1979 - Brandon Routh was born. American actor.
1979 - Todd Kelly was born. Australian racing driver.
1980 - Henrik Zetterberg was born. Swedish ice hockey player.
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan was born. American actor.
1981 - Darius Miles was born. American basketball player.
1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1982 - António Mendonça was born. Angolan football player
1982 - Anna Freud dies (b. 3 Dec 1895). Austrian scientist, psychoanalyst [The ego and mechanisms of defense (1936) ]
1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survived but the blast killed 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, whilst 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also died in the blast.
1983 - Andreas Zuber was born. Austrian racing driver
1983 - Stephen Gionta was born. American ice hockey player
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici dies (b. 1905). President of Brazil.
1985 - Henriqueta Lisboa dies. Brazilian writer.
1986 - Laure Manaudou was born. French swimmer.
1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1986 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1986 - The FOX Network begins broadcasting.
1987 - Clare Boothe Luce dies (b. 1903). American diplomat
1987 - Luis Veiga Leitão dies in Niterói, Brazil (b. in Moimenta da Beira, 27 May 1912). Portuguese poet.
1987 - Guru Gopinath dies (b. 1908). Indian classical dancer
1987 - William Parry Murphy dies. American physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1934.
1988 - Thousands of Latvians start a mass movement to press Moscow for greater independence from the Soviet Union.
1988 - Valencia (Espanha) : São inauguradas as primeiras linhas subterraneas de metro.
1988 - Felix Wankel dies (b. 13 Aug 1902). German engineer who invented the first rotary internal combustion engine (Wankel Rotary Combustion Engines and Vehicles)
1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1989 - Penny Lernoux dies (b. 1940). American journalist and author.
1990 - Géza Ottlik dies (b. 1912). Hungarian writer
1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1991 - Em Bruxelas, o escritor português Vergílio Ferreira é distinguido com o Prémio Europália/91.
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1992 - Tyler James Williams was born. American actor.
1994 - Jodelle Ferland was born. Canadian actress
1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home dies (b. 1903). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1996 - Walter Kerr dies (b. 1913). American theater critic.
1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Richard E. Smalley, and Sir Harold W. Kroto, share the Nobel Prize in chemistry "for their discovery of fullerenes". Three US scientists, David M. Lee, 65, Douglas D. Osheroff, 51, and Robert C. Richardson, 59, win the physics prize "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3".
1996 - Walter Kerr dies (b. 1913). American theater critic.
1997 - Renúncia do primeiro-ministro da Itália, Romano Prodi.
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan dies (b. 1914). Pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries
1999 - João Cabral de Melo Neto dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 6 Jan 1920, in Recife, Pernambuco). Brazilian poet and diplomat who won The Camões Prize in 1990.
1999 - Milt Jackson dies (b. 1923). American jazz vibraphonist.
2000 - The Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2000 is shared by Arvid Carlsson, 77, Paul Greengard, 74, and Eric Kandel, 70, for their pioneering discoveries concerning one way brain cells send messages to each other, called "slow synaptic transmission.” These discoveries have been crucial for understanding how the brain normally works. In addition, the work laid the groundwork for developing the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease and contributed to the development of a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac.
2000 - David Dukes dies (b. 1945). American actor.
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous dies (b. 1918). Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
2001 - Roberto Campos dies (b. 1917). Brazilian economist.
2001 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, 39 (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology , Boulder, Colorado), Carl E. Wieman, 50 (JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder), and to Wolfgang Ketterle, 43, (German, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts) "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2001 - Dagmar dies (b. 1921). American television personality.
2001 - Herbert Ross dies (b. 1927). American film director and producer.
2002 - After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years. The NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
2002 - The 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is announced to go by halves to Daniel Kahneman (US Israel) “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty” and to Vernon L. Smith (US) “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms”
2002 - Charles Guggenheim dies (b. 1924). American film director/producer.
2004 - Jo Brauner resign as the anchor of German Tagesschau news show after 30 years.
2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan.
2004 - The tri-annual federal election is held in Australia and Liberal Party of Australia leader, John Howard, wins a fourth term as Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark Latham of the Australian Labor Party
2004 - Afghanistan: Interim president Hamid Karzai [24 Dec 1957~] a ashtun, wins 55% of the vote in the Afghan presidential election.
2004 - Criação ou nascimento na blogosfera de Eu sei que vou-te amar. Deixo aqui os meus parabéns pela passagem do 2º. aniversário, e recomendo a sua visita.
2004 - Portugal cede um surpreendente empate na deslocação ao Liechtenstein 2-2 em jogo do Grupo 3 de qualificação para o Campeonato do Mundo de futebol.
2005 - China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announces the new accurate height of Mount Everest is 8848.43 m.
2005 - When Tropical Depression 23 strengthens into Hurricane Vince it makes the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the first season on record to use a name beginning with V.
2005 - Smoking is fully banned on the UK rail network.
2005 - Louis Nye dies (b. 1913). American comedian and actor.
2006 - Is announced that The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 goes to Edward Phelps "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2006 - Paul Hunter dies (b. 1978). Professional snooker player.
2006 - Raymond Noorda dies (b. 1924). Co-founder and long time CEO of Novell.

2007 - Raul Durão dies in Lisbon (b. 9 Sep 1942). Portuguese journalist and TV presenter.
Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of Hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Valencian National Day: celebrating the founding of the former Kingdom of Valencia