- 1118 - Thomas Becket was born (d. 1170). Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury
1375 -
Giovanni Boccaccio dies at his home in Certaldo (b. 1313). Italian poet (Vita di Dante)
1596 -
Peter Mogila was born (d. 1646). Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia.
1603 -
Roger Williams was born (d. 1684). English theologian and colonist.
1804 -
Benjamin Disraeli was born (d.1881). Prime Minister of Great Britain (1868, 1874-80). He instituted reforms in housing, public health and factory regulations.
1807 -
John Newton was born (d. 1725). English cleric and hymnist.
1818 -
Amalia was born (d. 1875). Queen of Greece.
1824 -
James Parkinson dies (b. 1755). English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist.
- 1843 - Thomas Bracken was born (d. 1898). New Zealand writer.
1846 - A primeira cirurgia com o uso de anestesia é realizada na Grã-Bretanha no University College por Robert Liston.
- 1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1863 - Alfredo Carneiro da Cunha was born in Fundão (d. 25 Nov. 1942). Portuguese poet.
1866 - Indians led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse killed Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men - Fetterman Massacre or Battle of a Hundred Slain.
1876 -
Jack Lang was born (d. 1975). Australian politician.
1878 -
Jan Łukasiewicz was born (d. 1956). Polish philosopher and mathematician
1879 - Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka
Joseph Stalin, was born (d. 1956). Joseph Stalin, Communist leader of the Soviet Union .
1880 -
Isle of Man becomes first political entity that allows women to vote.
1889 - Com o objetivo de eliminar resíduos do regime monárquico, a família imperial é banida de todo território brasileiro.
1891 - The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by
James E. Naismith, was played.
1898 - In Germany Emil and Joseph Berliner founded Deutsche Grammophon, dedicated to manufacturing the gramophone record and player invented by Emil.
1901 - Women vote for the first time in Norway.
1909 -
Seicho Matsumoto was born (d. 1992). Japanese mystery writer and journalist.
1910 - 2.5 million plague victims were reported in the An-Hul province of China.
1910 - Explosion in coal mine in Hulton, England killed 344 mine workers.
1911 -
Josh Gibson was born (d. 1947). African-American baseball player.
- 1914 - Ivan Generalić was born (d. 1992). Croatian painter.
1915 - Hélio Moro Mariante was born in Caxias do Sul (RS). Brazilian folklorist, journalist and essayst.
1917 -
Meiji Dairies, a Japanese dairy industry company, is founded.
1917 - Andre Eglevsky was born in Moscow (d. 1977). Ballet dancer and choreographer (Limelight).
1918 -
Donald Regan was born. White House staffer and US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85).
1918 -
Kurt Waldheim was born. 4th Secretary General of the United Nations.
1920 -
Jean Gascon was born (d. 1988). Canadian actor, director and administrator
1921 -
Vampira was born. Finnish actress.
1926 - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made their 1st movie together, “Flying Down to Rio.”
1933 - Dried human blood serum was 1st prepared at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
1935 -
Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens) was born. American activist and businessman
1937 -
Jane Fonda was born in NYC. American actress
(Barbarella, Klute), physical fitness fanatic and activist (Vietnam Protestor).
- 1939 - Carlos do Carmo was born. Portuguese singer (fado).
- 1939 - Lloyd Axworthy was born. Canadian politician
- 1940 - Ray Hildebrand was born. American singer (Paul & Paula)
1940 -
Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore (d. 1993) ; musician, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls).
1943 -
André Arthur was born. Quebec radio host and politician.
1945 - Gen.
George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident (b. 1885).
1946 - Frank Capra's : "It's a Wonderful Life," premiered.
1946 - An earthquake and tidal wave killed 1,086 in Japan.
1947 -
Bryan Hamilton was born. Northern Irish football player and manager
1948 - The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declared its independence.
1948 - Seishiro Itagaki dies hanged. Japanese General and minister of War.
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement, baseball player [Hall of fame 1955]
1951 - Inauguração da Ponte Marechal Carmona, sobre o Tejo, em Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal).
1954 - Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife, Marilyn, was murdered. Sheppard was accused of the crime.
1957 -
Tom Henke was born. American baseball player.
1957 -
Ray Romano was born. American comedian and actor.
1960 - Rei Saud assume o governo da Arábia Saudita após a renúncia do primeiro-ministro, o Príncipe Faisal.
1962 - A US and Cuba accord released Bay of Pigs captives.
1964 - Britain’s House of Commons voted to ban the death penalty. Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty. The vote was in part due to the country’s unease over the 1953 Bentley hanging
1964 -
Rob Kelly was born. English football manager.
1965 - Four pacifists were indicted in New York for burning draft cards.
1965 -
Andy Dick was born. American actor and comedian.
1966 - Sophie Ward was born. English actress.
1966 - USSR launched Luna 13. It soft-landed on the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum.
1967 -
Louis Washkansky, the world's first heart transplant patient dies. The heart was obtained from a 24-year-old motor-accident victim, Denise Darvall, and was transplanted by Dr Christiaan Barnard only 18 days 1968 -David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiered together in California
1968 -
Apollo 8 with astronauts Borman, Lovell & Anders was launched on the 1st mission to orbit the moon.
1969 - Diana Ross made her final TV appearance as a Supreme on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1971 - UN Security Council chooses
Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general (on his 53rd birthday)
1971 -
Mathieu Chedid was born. French musician, singer and songwriter
- 1974 - Karrie Webb was born. Australian golfer.
1975 - In Austria there was a terrorist kidnapping of Saudi oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani and other ministers at the OPEC gathering in Vienna, Austria. Three people were killed and 11 taken hostage. The oil ministers were taken to North Africa in a hijacked plane in a $1 billion ransom drama. Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, later admitted to planning the attack. In 2001 Germany sentenced Hans-Joachim Klein to 9 years for his role in the attack.
1976 - The Liberian-registered tanker Argo Merchant ran aground near Nantucket Island, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the North Atlantic.
- 1977 - Jim Carson was born. American music producer and disc jockey
1979 -
Jay Ross was born. Manager of Network Operations for LATTV.
1980 -
Lee Eun Ju was born (d. 2005). Korean actress.
1980 -
Nelson Rodrigues dies (b. 1912). Brazilian dramatist and writer (
“Vestido de noiva”, "Dorotéia" e "O Casamento"). 1981 -
Allan Dwan dies (b. 1885). Canadian-born American director and screenwriter.
1982 -
Mike Gansey was born. American basketball player
1983 -
Paul de Man dies (b. 1919). Belgian-born literary critic.
1986 - Presidente José Sarney anuncia o Plano Cruzado II.
1986 - Over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China.
1987 - The passenger ferry
Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the
Philippines, killing 1,565.
1988 - A terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 (Flight 103) over
Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. Libya was accused of responsibility for the bombing,
1988 - Drexel pleaded guilty to security felonies and paid a $650 million fine.
1988 -
Bob Steele [Robert Bradbury] dies at 60 after short illness. Radio broadcaster
1988 - After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth
1989 - Kentuckian Larry Mahoney was convicted on 27 counts of manslaughter for a 1988 collision with a church bus. It was the nation's most deadly drunken-driving accident.
1989 - Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu delivered what turned out to be his final public speech. The hard-line Communist ruler was visibly stunned as his listeners began booing. Ceausescu fled from power and was executed four days later.
1990 - In Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis participated in an evacuation drill to test war readiness.
1991 - Cable TV and sports magnate Ted Turner married actress Jane Fonda near Capps, Fla. They divorced in May 2001.
1991 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina a Serb minority held an unofficial referendum opposing separation from Yugoslavia. Local Serb leaders proclaimed a new republic separate from Bosnia.
1991 - Primeras elecciones legislativas en Taiwán en 40 años, con amplia victoria del gubernamental Kuomitang (Partido Nacionalista), que reformará la Constitución.
1992 - A Dutch DC-10, flight
Martinair MP 495, burst into fire at landing on Faro, Portugal and 56 died.
1992 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic won re-election. He defeated the American entrepreneur Milan Panic in elections that were “decidedly unfair.”
1992 -
Stella Adler dies (b. 10 Feb 1901). American actress.
1993 - Boris Nikolaievich Yeltsin, político e ingeniero ruso, firma un decreto por el que desaparece el legendario servicio del KGB [Komisariat Gosudarstvennoye Bezopasnosti] crea en su lugar el Servicio Federal de Contraespionaje de Rusia (SFCR )
1994 - Firma de un histórico acuerdo de paz en Liberia, que incluye un alto el fuego, creación de instituciones de transición y celebración de elecciones libres.
1994 - A firebomb on the #4 train at Fulton St. New York City subway injured 48 people; unemployed computer programmer Edward Leary was later convicted of attempted murder.
1995 - A train collision outside Cairo, Egypt, claimed 75 lives.
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 - Dr. David Ho, AIDS researcher, was named ‘Man of the Year” by Time Magazine.
1996 - China’s rulers named 60 pro-Beijing stalwarts to a new interim legislature of Hong Kong to replace the panel elected in 1995.
1997 - It was reported that Andrew S. Grove, chairman and CEO of Intel Corp., was named time magazine’s “Man of the Year.”
1997 - Johnny Coles (71), jazz trumpeter, died in Philadelphia. His records included “The Warm Sound of Johnny Coles” and “Little Johnny C.”
1997 - In Serbia Milan Milutinovic of the ruling Socialists claimed victory in the runoff election against Vojislav Seselj, but it wasn’t clear if the turnout exceeded 50%.
1997 -
Amie Comeaux dies (b. 1976). American country music singer.
1998 - In China 3 dissidents were sentenced to prison terms of 11-13 years. Xu Wenli received 13 years, Wang Youcai 11 years and Qin Yongmin 12 years for subversion, i.e. trying to organize an opposition party.
1998 - Israel's parliament voted 81-30 for early elections, signaling the demise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ailing hard-line government. Peace policies were rejected 56-48.
1998 - In Turkey Prime Minister-designate Bulent Ecevit abandoned efforts to form a new government.
1999 - In Guatemala City a Cubana de Aviacion DC-10 skidded and crashed on landing. At least 26 people were killed.
1999 - In Sri Lanka presidential elections were held. At least 7 people were killed in poll violence. Pres. Chandrika Kumaratunga won 51% of the vote. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the nearest rival, won 43%.
1999 - The
Spanish Civil Guard intercepts near
Calatayud (
Zaragoza) a Madrid-bound van driven by
ETA and loaded with 950 kg of explosives. The next day, another van loaded with 750 kg is found not far from there. The incident is known as "la caravana de la muerte" (the caravan of death).
2000 - El que fuera miembro de la directiva de ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) en los años ochenta, Santiago Arrózpide Sarasola, "Santi Potros", es entregado por las autoridades francesas a la justicia española.
2000 - President-elect Bush resigned as governor of Texas; Lt. Gov. Rick Perry was sworn in to replace him.
2000 - Final US election results showed Al Gore with 50,996,116 votes vs. Gov. Bush with 50,456,169. Gore led by over 500,000 votes but lost to bush by one electoral college vote.
2000 - Christine Todd Whitman, governor of New Jersey, agreed to serve as director of the EPA for Pres.-elect Bush.
2000 - A UN report accused Jonas Savimbi and UNITA rebels in Angola of trading diamonds for arms.
2000 - In Israel the legislature blocked an attempt by Shimon Peres to run for prime minister. The Feb 6 election pits Ariel Sharon against Ehud Barak.
2000 - In Sri Lanka Tamil rebels announced a unilateral month-long cease-fire with hopes of resuming peace talks. Sri Lanka launched a new offensive just hours following the rebel cease-fire.
2001 - US warplanes attacked a convoy of trucks heading for the Pakistan border and 65 people were reported killed. 12 were killed in the convoy and 15 in nearby villages. The convoy was said to be heading for Kabul.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, power was officially transferred from Pres. Rabbani to Hamid Karzai.
2001 - In Argentina
Ramon Puerta head of the Senate, became president following an extraordinary session of both houses.
2001 - In Bulgaria at least 7 young people were killed when they rushed the entrance of a Sofia downtown disco.
2001 -
Dick Schaap dies (b. 1931). American sports journalist.
2002 - José Hierro dies at 80. Spanish writer.
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