- 0607 - Pope Boniface III dies.
- 1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
- 1035 - Canute the Great dies at 41. King of the Danes (1016-1035)
- 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland dies (b. 1060)
- 1202 - Canute VI dies (b. 1163). King of Denmark.
- 1381 - Adolphus, Count of Cleves, institutes the Order of Fools
- 1434 - King Louis III of Naples dies.
- 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1459 - University of Basel, Switzerland, chartered.
- 1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli was born (d. 1560). Italian sculptor.
- 1494 - Revolt of Pisa from Florentine rule.
- 1528 - Qi Jiguang was born (d. 1588). Chinese general.
- 1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 1555 - Stephen Gardiner dies. English stateman.
- 1567 - Anne de Montmorency dies (b. 1493). Constable of France
- 1595 - John Hawkins dies (b. 1532). English shipbuilder and trader.
- 1606 - Jeanne Mance was born (d. 1673). French Canadian settler.
- 1609 - Opening and closing times of plays regulated in Paris.
- 1614 - Treaty of Xantem Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
- 1615 - Richard Baxter was born (d. 1691). English clergyman.
- 1642 - Charles I and the Royalist Army arrive at Brentford, England.
- 1648 - Sor Juana Inies de La Cruz was born (or 1651 according to some sources) (d. 1695). Mexican poet, nun and feminist (Primer Sueno)
- 1667 - Hans Nansen dies (b. 1598). Danish statesman.
- 1671 - Thomas Fairfax dies (b. 1612). English Civil War general.
- 1722 - Adriaen van der Werff dies. Dutch painter and architect.
- 1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville was born (d. 1811). French explorer.
- 1729 - Francisco Xavier Alegre was born. Mexican historian.
- 1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann dies (b. 1660). German physician and chemist.
- 1746 - Jacques Charles was born (d. 1823). French chemist.
- 1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst was born (d. 1813). Prussian general.
- 1757 - Colley Cibber dies (b. 1671). English poet.
- 1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, dies guillotined.
- 1795 - Thaddeus William Harris was born (d. 1856). American naturalist.
- 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born (d. 1902). American women's rights activist.
- 1817 - Bahá'u'lláh was born (d. 1892). Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1833 - Alexander Borodin was born (d. 1887). Russian composer.
- 1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce dies (b. 1773). Argentine military leader and politician.
- 1840 - Auguste Rodin was born (d. 1917). French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
- 1842 - John Strutt was born (d. 1919). 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
- 1848 - Eduard Müller was born (d. 1919). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
- 1850 - Mikhail Chigorin was born (d. 1908). Russian chess player.
- 1852 - Carlos Durán Cartín was born. President of Costa Rica (1889-1890)
- 1857 - Manuel Oribe dies. President of Uruguay.
- 1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell dies (b. 1810). English novelist.
- 1866 - Sun Yat-sen was born (d. 1925). First President of the Republic of China
- 1881 - Maximilian von Weichs was born (d. 1954). German field marshal.
- 1886 - Ben Travers was born (d. 1980). British playwright.
- 1889 - DeWitt Wallace was born (d. 1981). American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest).
- 1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan and which has gained international recognition as a international border between the two sister-nations.
- 1896 - Salim Ali was born (d. 1987). Indian ornithologist.
- 1898 - Leon Štukelj was born (d. 1999).Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete
- 1900 - Ricardo Espírito Santo was born. Portuguese banker and entrepreneur.
- 1903 - Jack Oakie was born (d. 1978). American actor.
- 1903 - Camille Pissarro dies. French painter.
- 1908 - Harry Blackmun was born (d. 1999). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- 1908 - Amon Göth was born (d. 1946). Commandant of Nazi concentration camp.
- 1911 - Buck Clayton wasd born (d. 1991). American jazz trumpet player.
- 1914 - Augusto dos Anjos dies (b. 1884). Brazilian poet.
- 1915 - Roland Barthes was born (d. 1980). French sociologist, philosopher and writer.
- 1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture was born (d. 2000). French Canadian composer.
- 1916 - Paul Emery was born (d. 1993). British racing driver.
- 1916 - Percival Lowell dies (b. 1855). American astronomer.
- 1917 - Jo Stafford was born. American singer
- 1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates and Austria becomes a republic.
- 1918 - Odete de Saint-Maurice was born. Portuguese writer.
- 1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
- 1920 - Richard Quine was born (d. 1989). American actor.
- 1922 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., was founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1922 - Kim Hunter was born (d. 2002). American actress.
- 1923 - Portugal: I Congress of Portuguese Communist Party, in Lisbon.
- 1923 - Vicco von Bülow was born. German graphic artist, actor and film director
- 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- 1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
- 1927 - Yutaka Taniyama was born (d. 1958). Japanese mathematician.
- 1929 - Michael Ende was born (d. 1995). German writer.
- 1929 - Grace Kelly was born (d. 1982). Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress. (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)
- 1930 - Ann Flood was born. American actress
- 1930 - Portugal: Clube Desportivo das Aves is founded
- 1931 - Bob Crewe was born. American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
- 1933 - O NDASP, partido nazi de Adolf Hitler, vence as eleições alemãs com mais de 90% dos votos e chega ao poder.
- 1933 - Hugh Gray of the British Aluminium Company takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster; four of them turn out to be blank, while the last one is later proven to be a hoax.
- 1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).
- 1934 - Charles Manson was born. American cult leader and mass murderer.
- 1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
- 1936 - Mills Lane was born. American judge and boxing referee
- 1936 - Mort Shuman was born (d. 1991). American songwriter and singer.
- 1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1938 - Denis DeJordy was born. National Hockey League goaltender
- 1939 - Lucia Popp was born (d. 1993). Slovakian soprano.
- 1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis was born. American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
- 1939 - Norman Bethune dies (b. 1890). Canadian doctor and humanitarian.
- 1940 - Michel Audet was born. Québécois economist and politician
- 1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer was born. German politician
- 1940 – Bruno Tolentino was born (d. 27 Jun 2007). Brazilian poet.
- 1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch was born (d. 16 Jun 1999). 1960’s pop singer, politician, leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
- 1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- 1941 - A Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol
- 1941 - João Nogueira was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 2000). Brazilian singer and composer
- 1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles dies (b. 1907). American mobster.
- 1942 - Paulinho da Viola was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer
- 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
- 1943 - Brian Hyland was born. American singer.
- 1943 - Wallace Shawn was born. American actor and playwright.
- 1944 - Booker T. Jones was born. American musician, singer, and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
- 1944 - Al Michaels was born. American television sportscaster
- 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
- 1944 - Otto Blumenthal dies (b. 1876). German mathematician.
- 1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
- 1945 - Neil Young was born. Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
- 1945 - Tracy Kidder was born. American journalist and author
- 1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
- 1947 - Ron Bryant was born. American baseball player
- 1947 - Patrice Leconte was born. French film director and screenwriter
- 1947 - Emmuska Orczy dies. Hungarian writer.
- 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
- 1948 - Cliff Harris was born. American football player
- 1948 - Umberto Giordano dies (b. 1867). Italian composer.
- 1949 - Cândida Branca Flor was born (d. 2001). Portuguese singer.
- 1949 - Ron Lapointe was born (d. 1992). French Canadian ice hockey coach.
- 1951 - Konstantin Biebl dies (b. 26 Feb 1898). Czech poet.
- 1953 - Vasilis Karras was born. Greek singer.
- 1954 - Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
- 1955 - Alfréd Hajós dies (b. 1878). Hungarian swimmer.
- 1956 - Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia joined to United Nations.
- 1956 - Francisco Louçã was born. Portuguese politician and economist.
- 1958 - Megan Mullally was born. American actress.
- 1960 - Maurane was born. Belgian singer.
- 1961 - Michaela Paetsch was born. American violinist
- 1961 - Nadia Comaneci was born. Romanian gymnast
- 1961 - Enzo Francescoli was born. Uruguayan football player
- 1962 - Mark Hunter was born. National Hockey League player
- 1962 - Naomi Wolf was born. American author and feminist
- 1963 - Sula Miranda (Suely Brito de Miranda) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer.
- 1964 - David Ellefson was born. American musican, bassist.
- 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos is elected president of Philippines
- 1965 - Lex Lang was born. American voice actor
- 1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin dies (b. 1888). Bohra Spiritual Leader.
- 1966 - David Schwimmer was born. American actor
- 1967 - Grant Nicholas was born. British singer (Feeder)
- 1967 - Michael Moorer was born. American boxer
- 1968 - Sammy Sosa was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe was born. British singer (My Dying Bride)
- 1968 - Glenn Gilberti was born. American professional wrestler
- 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1969 - Ian Bremmer was born. American political scientist
- 1969 - Kathleen Hanna was born. American singer and songwriter
- 1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache was born. Austrian politician
- 1969 - Johnny Gosch was born. Child kidnap victim
- 1970 - A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.
- 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Gray whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident
- 1970 - Tonya Harding was born. American figure skater
- 1970 - Harvey Stephens was born. British child actor
- 1970 - Donna Adamo was born. American female professional wrestler
- 1970 - Craig Parker was born. New Zealand actor
- 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
- 1972 - Rudolf Friml dies (b. 1879). American composer.
- 1972 - Reynaldo Gianecchini was born in Birigui- S. Paulo. Brazilian actor.
- 1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas was born. Greek footballer
- 1973 - Radha Mitchell was born. Australian actress
- 1973 - Tara Strong was born. Canadian voice actress
- 1973 - Mayte Garcia was born. American dancer
- 1973 - Ibrahim Ba was born. Senegalese football player.
- 1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies.
- 1974 - Alessandro Birindelli was born. Italian football player.
- 1974 - Tamala Jones was born. American actress
- 1975 - Nina Brosh was born. Israeli model and actress
- 1976 - Tevin Campbell was born. American R&B musician
- 1976 - Judith Holofernes was born. German singer (Wir sind Helden)
- 1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak was born. Polish footballer
- 1976 - São realizadas as primeiras eleições autárquicas de Portugal (veja também I Governo Constitucional de Portugal)
- 1976 - Walter Piston dies (b. 1894). American composer.
- 1977 - Benni McCarthy was born. South-African football player
- 1977 - Dalene Kurtis was born. American Playboy model
- 1978 - Andrew Kinlochan was born. English singer and musician
- 1978 - Ashley Williams was born. American actress
- 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
- 1979 - Matt Cappotelli was born. American professional wrestler
- 1979 - Cote de Pablo was born. Chilean actress
- 1980 - Ryan Gosling was born. Canadian actor
- 1980 - Trent Acid was born. American professional wrestler
- 1981 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.
- 1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela is crowned 31st Miss World
- 1981 - DJ Campbell was born. English football player
- 1981 - William Holden dies (b. 1981). American actor.
- 1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 1982 - Anne Hathaway was born. American actress
- 1984 - Natalia Tena was born. English actress
- 1984 - Sandara Park was born. South Korean who stars in movies and television shows in the Philippines.
- 1984 - Chester Himes dies (b. 1909). American author.
- 1986 - Evan Yo was born. Taiwanese pop singer.
- 1987 - Bryan Little was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years.
- 1989 - Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, morre em Madrid. Presidente histórica do Partido comunista espanhol.
- 1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 1990 - Eve Arden dies (b. 1908). American actress.
- 1990 - A escritora portuguesa Agustina Bessa-Luís é nomeada pela SEC directora do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.
- 1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 1991 - Em Roma, o escritor português José Cardoso Pires recebe o Prémio União Latina.
- 1992 - Absolutely Fabulous airs its first episode on BBC1.
- 1992 - Macey Cruthird was born. American actress
- 1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" was issued.
- 1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
- 1993 - H. R. Haldeman dies (b. 1926). Watergate scandal figure.
- 1993 - O escritor português José Saramago recebe o Prémio Vida Literária.
- 1994 - Al Gore symbolically signed the Kyoto Protocol.
- 1994 - Wilma Rudolph dies (b. 1940). American runner.
- 1995 - A República Popular de Moçambique é admitida como membro da Commonwealth.
- 1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
- 1995 - 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
- 1995 - Luís Mateus dies. Portuguese journalist.
- 1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India killing 349.
- 1997 - Carlos Surinach dies (b. 1915). Spanish composer.
- 2000 - Franck Pourcel dies (b. 1913). French popular orchestra leader.
- 2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- 2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
- 2001 - Tony Miles dies (b. 1955). English chess player.
- 2002 - Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released.
- 2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
- 2003 - Jonathan Brandis dies (b. 1976). American actor.
- 2003 - Penny Singleton dies (b. 1908). American actress.
- 2003 - Tony Thompson dies (b. 1954). American drummer (The Power Station).
- 2003 - Kay E. Kuter dies (b. 1925). American actor.
- 2003 - Cameron Duncan dies (b. 1986). New Zealand director.
- 2003 - Portugal: Parte para o Iraque o contingente de 124 militares da GNR.
- 2004 - Scott Peterson is found guilty of first degree murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son Conner after a five-and-a-half month long trial.
- 2004 - Portugal: XXVI Congress of Social Democrat Party (PPD/PSD) in Barcelos.
- 2004 - Tito Francona dies (b. 1933). Baseball player.
- Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
- National Holiday: Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (observed in China and Taiwan)
- Dia do Supermercado - Brasil
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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