On this day in History - Feb. 1

• 0125 - Pope Sisto I dies.
• 1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1207).
• 1261 - Walter de Stapledon was born (d. 1326). English bishop.
• 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
• 1328 - King Charles IV of France dies (b. 1294).
• 1411 - Peace of Toruń 1411 signed in Toruń, Poland
• 1455 - Rei João da Dinamarca, Noruega e Suécia, nasceu neste dia.
• 1459 - Conrad Celtes was born (d. 1508). German scholar.
• 1462 - Johannes Trithemius was born (d. 1516). German cryptographer.
• 1542 - Girolamo Aleandro dies (b. 1480). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 1552 - Edward Coke was born (d. 1634). English colonial entrepreneur and jurist.
• 1563 - Menas dies. Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence.
• 1590 - Lawrence Humphrey dies. English clergyman and educator.
• 1635 - Convento do Carmo in Braga, Portugal, is founded.
• 1635 - Marquard Gude was born (d. 1689). German archaeologist.
• 1662 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini was born (d. 1768). Italian composer.
• 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII dies (b. 1610).
• 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion.
• 1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
• 1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury dies (b. 1660). English politician.
• 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland dies (b. 1670).
• 1734 - John Floyer dies (b. 1649). English physician and writer.
• 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni dies (b. 1657). Italian composer.
• 1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon was born (d. 1836). South African mycologist.
• 1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix dies (b. 1682). French historian.
• 1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet dies (b. 1685). British cavalry officer.
• 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
• 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
• 1793 - France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington dies (b. 1717). British statesman.
• 1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
• 1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich was born (d. 1865). Swiss poet.
• 1801 - Émile Littré was born (d. 1881). French lexicographer.
• 1814 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
• 1820 - George Hendric Houghton was born (d. 1897). American Protestant Episcopal clergyman.
• 1843 - Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was born (d. 28 Jun 1928). English naval architect and engineer who made fundamental improvements in the design and machinery of torpedo boats and built the first torpedo boat for the Royal Navy.
• 1844 - Eduard Adolf Strasburger was born (d. 18 May 1912). German plant cytologist who elucidated the process of nuclear division in the plant kingdom .
• 1844 - G. Stanley Hall was born (d. 24 Apr 1924). American psychologist.
• 1847 - Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho was born in Lisbon (d. 24 Mar 1921). Portuguese writer. (Ver documento em português formato pdf: George Sand vista por Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho - Maria de Fátima Outeirinho)
• 1851 - Durham Stevens was born (d. 1908). American diplomat.
• 1851 - Mary Shelley dies (b. 1797). English author.
• 1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
• 1859 - Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt was born (d. 10 Mar 1928). American experimental pathologist and investigator of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.
• 1859 - Victor Herbert was born (d. 1924). Irish composer.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Texas secedes (7th state to do it) from the United States.
• 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
• 1864 - Prusia y Austria invaden los ducados daneses de Schleswig, Holstein y Lanenburg .
• 1872 - Jerome F. Donovan was bor (d. 1949). American politician.
• 1872 - Andrew Kehoe was born (d. 1927). American mass murderer.
• 1872 - Paul Fort was born in Reims (d. 20 Apr 1960). French poet.
• 1873 - Mariano Azuela was born (d. 1 Mar 1952). Mexican novelist.
• 1873 - John Barry was born (d. 1901). Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 1873 - Joseph Allard was born (d. 1947). Canadian fiddler.
• 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born (d. 1929). Austrian lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist) .
• 1875 - João Soares de Albergaria de Sousa dies (b. 1776). Portuguese (Azores) politician.
• 1878 - Milan Hodža was born (d. 1944). Slovak politician.
• 1880 - First edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
• 1881 - Comienza la construcción del Canal de Panamá.
• 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent was born (d. 1973). Twelfth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin was born (d. 1937). Russian writer.
• 1886 - Rouget de Lisle dies. French composer, author of "La marsellesa", national hymn.
• 1887 - Charles Nordhoff was born (d. 1947). English-born author.
• 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
• 1893 - George Henry Sanderson dies (b. 1824). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1894 - John Ford was born (d. 1973). American director, producer.
• 1894 - James P. Johnson was born (d. 1955). American pianist, composer.
• 1895 - Conn Smythe was born (d. 1980). Canadian builder of the National Hockey League.
• 1896 - The opera La Bohème premieres (Turin).
• 1896 - Alfonso Caso y Andrade was born (d. 30 Nov 1970). Mexican archaeologist and government official who explored the early Oaxacan cultures and is best remembered for his excavation of Tomb Seven at Monte Albán.
• 1897 - Shinhan Bank (former CHB), oldest bank in South Korea, opened in Seoul.
• 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen dies (b. 1826). Austrian geologist.
• 1898 - Enzo Ferrari was born (d. 1988). Italian auto manufacturer.
• 1901 - Clark Gable was born (d. 1960). American actor (Gone With the Wind)
• 1902 - Langston Hughes was born (d. 1967). American writer, poet.
• 1902 - Therese Brandl was born (d. 1947). Nazi concentration camp guard
• 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes dies. Irish mathematicien and physicist.
• 1904 - S. J. Perelman was born (d. 1979). American humorist, author .
• 1905 - Emilio G. Segrè was born ( d. 22 Apr 1989). Italian-born American physicist who was cowinner, with Owen Chamberlain of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 for the discovery of the antiproton
• 1905 - Lloyd Viel Berkner was born (d. 4 June 1967). U.S. physicist and engineer who first measured the extent, including height and density, of the ionosphere (ionized layers of the Earth's atmosphere), leading to a complete understanding of radio wave propagation and he helped develop radar systems .
• 1905 - Charles Finney was born, US author (Circus of Dr Lao) .
• 1906 - Hildegarde was born. American actress, singer.
• 1907 - Günter Eich was born (d. 1972). German lyricist.
• 1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo. Brazilian musician and composer.
• 1908 - George Pál was born (d. 1980). Hungarian-born director, producer.
• 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, Duque de Bragança, are killed in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon, by republicans.
• 1908 - Manuel II de Portugal ascende ao trono. In 1911, Thomas Jennings is found guilty with the first use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. He was convicted at the Criminal Court of Cook County for killing Clarence B. Hiller.
• 1909 - George Beverly Shea was born. Canadian singer
• 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
• 1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews was born. English football (soccer) player who was the 1st British soccer player to be knighted .
• 1918 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
• 1918 - Dame Muriel Spark was born (d. 2006). Scottish author.
• 1919 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
• 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
• 1922 - Renata Tebaldi was born (d. 2004). Italian soprano.
• 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
• 1924 - H. Richard Hornberger was born (d. 1997). American writer.
• 1924 - Ben Weider was born. Quebec businessman and author
• 1925 - Alfred Grosser was born in Frankfurt/Main. German political scientist and publicist.
• 1926 - Stuart Whitman was born. American actor
• 1928 - Hughie Jennings dies (b. 1869). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
• 1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed was born. President of Bangladesh
• 1930 - Mario Beaulieu was born (d. 1998). Quebec politician.
• 1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad was born. Bangladeshi politician
• 1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed was born. President of Bangladesh
• 1931 - Boris Yeltsin was born. Russian president (1991-1999).
• 1934 - Bob Shane was born. American folk singer (The Kingston Trio).
• 1936 - Azie Taylor Morton was born (d. 2003). 35th Treasurer of the United States.
• 1937 - Fernando Assis Pacheco was born in Coimbra (d. in Lisbon, 30 Nov 1995). Portuguese journalist, poet and novelist.
• 1937 - Don Everly was born., American musician (Everly Brothers)
• 1937 - Garrett Morris was born. American comedian
• 1937 - Ray Sawyer was born. American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
• 1938 - Sherman Hemsley was born. American comedian and actor actor.
• 1939 - Claude François was born (d. 1978). French singer.
• 1939 - Paul Gillmor was born (d. 2007). American politician.
• 1940 - Hervé Filion was born. Quebec harness racer
• 1940 - Bibi Besch was born (d. 1996). Austrian-America and actress.
• 1941 - Karl Dall was born. German television moderator
• 1941 - Anatoly Firsov was born in Russia (d. 2000). USSR ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72). Leading scorer in the 1968 Olympics with 12 goals and 4 assists in seven games. He was European championship 7 times, and world championship 8 times.
• 1941 - Jerry Spinelli was born. Children's Author.
• 1942 - Terry Jones was born. Welsh actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) .
• 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
• 1944 - Burkhard Ziese was born. German football manager .
• 1944 - Piet Mondriaan dies (b. 1872). Dutch painter.
• 1944 - DNA was identified as the hereditary agent in a virus, published in a report by O.T. Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty. This crucial discovery in molecular genetics - that genetic information is carried in the nucleotide sequence of DNA - arose incidentally while studying pneumococcus to monitor the epidemic spread of pneumonia.
• 1945 - Serge Joyal was born. French Canadian politician.
• 1946 - A Hungria é proclamada uma república com Zoltan Tildy como presidente e Ferenc Nagy como primeiro-ministro.
• 1946 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
• 1947 - Jessica Savitch was born (d. 1983). American journalist.
• 1947 - Mike Brant was born (d. 1975). Israeli pop singer.
• 1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates.
• 1948 - Rick James was born (d. 2004). American musician and composer.
• 1948 - Elisabeth Sladen was born. British actress.
• 1950 - Mike Campbell was born. American guitarist and producer.
• 1951 - Sonny Landreth was born. American guitarist and songwriter.
• 1953 - O Sporting vence o Benfica no Estádio Nacional por 3-1 em jogo do Campeonato Nacional da época de 1952/53, que venceria. O Benfica marcou primeiro por José Águas para depois Albano, Vasques e Rola marcarem a favor do Sporting.
• 1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
• 1953 - Duane Chapman was born. American TV personality
• 1954 - Bill Mumy was born. American actor, musician.
• 1954 - Chuck Dukowski was born. American musician (Black Flag)
• 1955 - Ernie Camacho was born. Baseball player
• 1956 - Mike Kitchen was born. Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 - Exene Cervenka was born. American musician (X)
• 1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
• 1957 - Friedrich Paulus dies (b. 1890). German general.
• 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
• 1958 - Jackie Shroff was born. Indian actor
• 1958 - Luther Blissett was born. English footballer
• 1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson dies (b. 22 Oct 1881). American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both as waves and as particles .
• 1959 - Texas Instruments was issued a patent on the integrated circuit .
• 1959 - Triunfó la Revolución dirigida por Fidel Castro. Fulgencio Batista huyó de Cuba.
• 1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan dies (b. 1873). American actress.
• 1960 - Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• 1961 - Volker Fried was born. German field hockey player
• 1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei was born. Japanese guitarist.
• 1963 - Fleetwood Lindley dies (b. 1888). The last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face.
• 1964 - Mario Pelchat was born. Quebec singer.
• 1964 - Linus Roach was born. English actor
• 1965 - The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
• 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama .
• 1965 - Sherilyn Fenn was born. American actress .
• 1965 - Brandon Bruce Lee was born (d. 18993). American actor.
• 1965 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco was born.
• 1965 - Noah Blake was born. American actor and reality series star.
• 1966 - Michelle Akers was born. American soccer player
• 1966 - Rob Lee was born. English footballer
• 1966 - Hedda Hopper dies (b. 1885). American gossip columnist.
• 1966 - Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis] dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1967 - Meg Cabot was born. American author.
• 1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu was born. Indian politician.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
• 1968 - Official unification of the three former military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force became the united Canadian Armed Forces.
• 1968 - Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
• 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley was born. American singer and actress.
• 1968 - Pauly Shore was born. American comedian.
• 1968 - Mark Recchi was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Kent Mercker was born. American baseball player
• 1969 - Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.
• 1969 - Diplomatic relations between Peru and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1969 - Gabriel Batistuta was born. Argentine soccer player .
• 1969 - Joshua Redman was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Brian Krause was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Patrick Wilson was born. American musician.
• 1970 - Malik Sealy was born (d. 2000). American basketball player.
• 1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama was born. Japanese racing driver
• 1970 - Alfréd Rényi dies (b. 1921). Hungarian mathematician.
• 1971 - Adriana Vitor Lessa was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 - Ron Welty was born. American musician
• 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič was born. Slovenian footballer.
• 1971 - Jill Kelly was born. American porn actress.
• 1971 - Michael C. Hall was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Ajay Jadeja was born. Former Indian cricketer
• 1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• 1972 - Kami (Kamimura Ukyou) was born. Drummer of the Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer
• 1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera was born. American TV personality
• 1973 - Makiko Ohmoto was born. Japanese voice actress
• 1973 - Yuri Landman was born. Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist.
• 1974 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293.
• 1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
• 1974 - The Doobie Brothers release their album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits featuring their signature and hit song Black Water.
• 1974 - Roberto Heras was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1974 - David Meca was born. Spanish long distance swimmer.
• 1975 - Big Boi was born. American musician (Outkast).
• 1975 - Katerina Thanou was born. Greek sprinter.
• 1976 - George Hoyt Whipple dies (b. 28 Aug 1878). American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly to successful liver treatment of pernicious anemia by the American physicians George R. Minot and William P. Murphy. This major advance in the treatment of noninfectious diseases brought the three men the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934.
• 1976 - Werner Heisenberg dies (b. 5 Dec 1901) Werner Karl Heisenberg was the German physicist and philosopher who discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices (1925). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
• 1977 - Kevin Kilbane was born. Irish footballer
• 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
• 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• 1979 - Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
• 1979 - Julie Augustyniak was born. American soccer player.
• 1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1979 - Valentin Elizalde was born (d. 2006). Mexican singer.
• 1980 - Héctor Luna was born. Dominican Republic baseball player.
• 1980 - Moisés Muñoz was born. Mexican footballer.
• 1980 - Otilino Tenorio was born (d. 2005). Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1980 - Gastone Nencini dies (b. 1930). Italian cyclist.
• 1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game.
• 1981 - Luis Lamá was born. Angolan footballer
• 1981 - Graeme Smith was born. South African cricketer
• 1981 - Rob Austin was born. British racing driver
• 1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. dies (b. 6 Apr 1892). U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.
• 1981 - Geirr Tveitt dies (b. 1908). Norwegian composer.
• 1982 - Shoaib Malik was born. Pakistani cricketer
• 1982 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
• 1982 - David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.
• 1983 - Kevin Martin was born. American basketball player
• 1984 - Darren Fletcher was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1984 - Lee Thompson Young was born. American actor.
• 1985 - Jodi Gordon was born. Australian actress and model.
• 1985 - Dean Shiels was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1985 - Rachael Scdoris was born. American dog musher.
• 1986 - Lauren Conrad was born. American TV star.
• 1986 - Alva Myrdal dies (b. 1902). Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1988 - Heather O'Rourke dies (b. 1975). American actress.
• 1989 - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
• 1989 - Elaine de Kooning dies (b. 1819). American artist.
• 1991 - Um terremoto medindo 6.8 na escala Richter atinge o Afeganistão e o Paquistão, causando a morte de mais de 1200 pessoas.
• 1991 - Carol Dempster dies (b. 1901). American actress.
• 1991 - Phil Watson dies (b. 1914). Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• 1992 - The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
• 1993 - Augusto Cabrita dies (b. 16 Mar 1923). Portuguese photographer and film director.
• 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1995 - Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embasy Hotel in London, UK.
• 1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress .
• 1997 - Herb Caen dies (b. 1916). American newspaper columnist.
• 1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2) .
• 1999 - North Dakota Public Radio is launched.
• 1999 - Paul Mellon dies (b. 1907). American philanthropist.
• 2001 - André D'Allemagne dies (b. 1929). Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist
• 2002 - Hildegard Knef dies (b. 1925). German actress, singer, writer.
• 2003 - Mongo Santamaria dies (b. 1922). Cuban percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician.
• 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard. They were: Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959), David Brown (b. 1956), Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961), Laurel Clark (b. 1961), Rick D. Husband (b. 1957), Willie McCool (b. 1961), Ilan Ramon (b. 1954) .
• 2004 - At least 244 people trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
• 2004 - Super Bowl XXXVIII: The New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast is bared.
• 2004 - Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television
• 2004 - May O'Donnell dies (b. 1909). American modern dancer and choreographer.
• 2005 - Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
• 2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - John Vernon dies (b. 1932). Canadian actor.
• 2005 - Henrique Canto e Castro dies (b. 1930). Portuguese actor.
• 2006 - Dick Bass dies (b. 1937). American football player.
• 2006 - Bryce Harland dies (b. 1931). New Zealand diplomat.
• 2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti (d. 1911). Italian-born composer.
• 2007 - Seri Wangnaitham dies (b. 1937). Thai dance choreographer.
• 2007 - Whitney Balliett dies (b. 1926). American jazz critic.
• 2007 - Ray Berres dies (b. 1907). American baseball player.
• 2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban dies (b. 1946). Danish Muslim leader.
• Imbolc - the first day of Spring in Ireland (Irish Calendar) and one of the four Gaelic seasonal (and sometimes religious) festivals. Also part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year.
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The 20 Best movies of all time

Eis o ponto da situação e uma sinopse da iniciativa lançada aqui no Nothingandall sobre a escolha pela blogosfera dos 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos.

O pontapé de partida foi em 26 de Janeiro de 2006 e acolhido até agora, sequencialmente pelos blogueiros que a seguir indico, com a expressão dos meus agradecimentos:

1. Os 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos por Nothingandall
2. Actualização da lista por Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
3. Actualização da lista por Clave de Lua II
4. Actualização da lista por Terras de Azurara
5. Actualização da lista por Sulista
6. Actualização da lista por O-Observatório
7. Actualização da lista pelo Terreiro
8. Actualização da lista por Domusophia
9. Actualização da lista pelo Abrunhosa do Mato
10. Actualização da lista pelo Camané4ever
11. Actualização da lista pelo Miminhos a Toda a Hora
12. Actualização da lista por A Minha Matilde
13. Actualização da lista por Kalinka
14. Actualização da lista por Cinema Paraíso
15. Actualização da lista por É do nosso mar
16. Lista actualizada pelo Encanto
17. Lista actualizada pela Arte Sétima
18. Lista actualizada Marinheiro de Água Doce
19. Lista actualizada Art & Design
20. Lista actualizada Peciscas
21. Lista actualizada Fatyly
O desafio foi passado a Divas & Contrabaixos que ainda não respondeu. Vou aguardar até 5 de Fevereiro e caso não tenha actualização passarei a outrém.

E a lista dos 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos está como segue:

Vertigo (Um Corpo que Cai) - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
Lord of the Rings (O Senhor dos Aneis) - Peter Jackson, 2001-2002-2003
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941
East of Eden (A leste do paraíso) - Elia Kazan, 1955
La Vita è Bella - Life is beautiful - Roberto Benigni, 1977
Modern Times - Charles Chaplin, 1936
The Name of the Rose - Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986
O Pianista - Roman Polanski, 2002
The Bridge on The River Kway - David Lean, 1957
The Deer Hunter (O Caçador) - Michael Cimino, 1978
The Schindler’s List (A Lista de Schindler) - Steven Spielberg, 1993
Unforgiven (Imperdoável) - Clint Eastwood, 1972
The Godfather Trilogy - Francis Ford Coppola (1972, 1974, 1990)
Amadeus - Milos Forman, 1984
Million Dolar Baby - Sonhos Vencidos - Clint Eastwood, 2004
Persona – Ingmar Bergman, 1966
Aniki Bóbó - Manoel de Oliveira,1942
E.T. - Steven Spielberg. 1982
Papillon - 1973
Gone With The Wind - E tudo o vento levou - 1939

Noite - Fernando Namora

foto extraída de http://kianart.blogspot.com/

Ó noite, coalhada nas formas de um corpo de mulher
vago e belo e voluptuoso
num bailado erótico, com o cenário dos astros, mudos e quedos.

Estrelas que as suas mãos afagam e a boca repele,
deixai que os caminhos da noite,
cegos e rectos como o destino,
suspensos como uma nuvem,
sejam os caminhos dos poetas
que lhes decoraram o nome.
Ó noite, coalhada nas formas de um corpo de mulher!
esconde a vida no seio de uma estrela
e fá-la pairar, assim mágica e irreal,
para que a olhemos como uma lua sonâmbula.

Fernando Gonçalves Namora (n. Condeixa-a-Nova em 15 de Abril 1919; m. em Lisboa a 31 Jan 1989).

Ler do mesmo autor neste blog: Poema da Utopia ; Intimidade

On this day in History - Jan. 31

• 0314 - Pope Silvester I began his Papacy
• 0743 - Muhammad al-Baqir dies (b. 0676). Shia Imam.
• 0877 - Taejo of Goryeo was born (d. 0943). Ruler of Korea.
• 1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380).
• 1398 - Emperor Suko of Japan dies (b. 1334)
• 1435 - Xuande dies (b. 1398). Emperor of China
• 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1512 - King Henry of Portugal was born (d. 1580)/ Nascimento do Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal.
• 1542 - Descoberta das Cataratas do Iguaçu, por Dom Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca.
• 1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu was born (d. 1616). Shogun of Japan.
• 1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise was born (d. 1588). French Catholic leader.
• 1558 - Descubrimiento de la Isla Grande de Chiloé en Chile, por una expedición española integrada por Alonso de Ercilla .
• 1561 - Bairam Khan dies. Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
• 1561 - Menno Simons dies (b. 1496). Dutch Mennonite leader.
• 1580 - King Henry of Portugal dies on the day of his 68th birthday (b. 1512)/ Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal faleceu no dia do 68º. aniversário.
• 1597 - John Regis was born (d. 1640). French saint.
• 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570), Ambrose Rokewood and Thomas Wintour (b. 1571) are executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• 1615 - Claudio Aquaviva dies (b. 1543). Italian Jesuit.
• 1624 - Arnold Geulincx was born (d. 1669). Flemish philosopher.
• 1632 - Joost Bürgi dies (b. 1552). Swiss clockmaker and mathematician.
• 1665 - Johannes Clauberg dies (b. 1622). German theologian and philsopher.
• 1673 - Louis de Montfort was born (d. 1716). French catholic priest and saint.
• 1676 - Se funda en Guatemala de la Real Universidad de San Carlos.
• 1686 - Hans Egede was born (d. 1758). Norwegian Lutheran missionary.
• 1686 - Jean Mairet dies (b. 1604). French dramatist.
• 1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford dies (b. 1654). English privy councilor.
• 1729 - Jakob Roggeveen dies (b. 1659). Dutch explorer.
• 1736 - Bruno Mauricio de Zabala dies. Founder of Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 1736 - Filippo Juvara dies (b. 1678). Italian architect.
• 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital.
• 1752 - Gouverneur Morris was born (d. 1816). American lawmaker and diplomat.
• 1759 - François Devienne was born (d. 1803). French composer.
• 1788 - Charles Edward Stuart dies (b. 1720). Pretender to the British throne.
• 1790 - Thomas Lewis dies (b. 1718). Irish-born Virginia settler.
• 1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot dies (b. 1711). British admiral.
• 1797 - Franz Schubert was born (d. 1828). Austrian composer who was one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th century.
• 1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
• 1815 - José Félix Ribas dies (b. 1775). Venezuelan independentist leader.
• 1828 - Alexander Ypsilantis dies (b. 1792). Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence.
• 1841 - Se constituye la República de El Salvador, al disolverse la Federación de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1841 - Sam Loyd was born (d. 10 Apr 1911). Samuel Loyd was an American puzzlemaker who was best known for composing chess problems and games, including Parcheesi, in addition to other mathematically based games and puzzles.
• 1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand dies (b. 1773). French general.
• 1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 1849 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom.
• 1851 - David Spangler Kaufman dies (b. 1813). American politician.
• 1857 - George Jackson Churchward was born (d. 1933). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1865 - The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
• 1865 - Henri Desgrange was born (d. 1940). Founder of the Tour-de-France.
• 1865 - Shastriji Maharaj was born (d. 1951). Indian spiritual leader.
• 1866 - Lev Shestov was born (d. 1938). Russian philosopher.
• 1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
• 1868 - Theodore William Richards was born (d. 1928). American chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemics laureate in 1914.
• 1872 - Zane Grey was born born in Zanesville, Ohio. American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre .
• 1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• 1881 - Irving Langmuir was born (d. 1957). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1881 - Joseph Augustine Cushman was born (d. 16 April 1949). U.S. paleontologist and geologist known for his work on paleoecology as shown by Foraminifera (marine protozoans). He was the most well-known foraminiferologist of his time.
• 1882 - Anna Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg [Feb. 12, New Style] (d. 23 Jan. 23). Russian ballerine. The most celebrated dancer of her time.
• 1884 - Theodor Heuss was born (d. 1963). German politician and publicist.
• 1888 - John Bosco dies (b. 1815). Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society / Dom João Bosco, faleceu em Turim (n. 16 Ago 1815). Religioso, educador e escritor italiano. Criou a ordem dos Salesianos em Turim no ano de 1859, com 22 outros religiosos. Foi canonizado em 1 de Abril de 1934.
• 1889 - Frank Foster was born (d. 1958). English cricketer.
• 1891 - Luís de Montalvor (Luís Felipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos) was born in S. Vincent, Cape Vert (d. 2 Mar 1947, in Lisbon). Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1890 - Revolta republicana no Porto, primeira tentativa de derrube da monarquia.
• 1892 - Eddie Cantor was born (d. 1964). American actor and singer.
• 1892 - Charles Spurgeon dies (b. 1834). English preacher and evangelist.
• 1894 - Isham Jones was born (d. 1956). American jazz musician.
• 1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya was born (d. 1966). Russian mathematician.
• 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is shot dead in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
• 1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe (d. 10 Oct 1974 in Rome). German writer.
• 1902 - Alva Myrdal was born (d. 1986). Swedish politician , diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1902 - Julian H. Steward was born (d. 6 Feb 1972). American anthropologist best known as one of the leading neoevolutionists of the mid-20th century and as the founder of the theory of cultural ecology
• 1902 - Tallulah Bankhead was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1905 - John O'Hara was born (d. 1970). American novelist and short-story writer.
• 1907 - Timothy Eaton dies (b. 1834). Canadian department store founder.
• 1908 - Roberto Chavero ("Atahualpa Yupanqui") was born. Argentine singer and guitarist.
• 1910 - The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1910 - F. Castro Soromenho was born in Vila de Chinde. Mozambican journalist and writer.
• 1911 - Eddie Byrne was born (d. 1981). British actor.
• 1913 - Don Hutson was born (d. 1997). American football player.
• 1914 - Carey Loftin was born (d. 1977). American actor and stuntman.
• 1914 - Sri Daya Mata was born. Hindu religious figure.
• 1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott was born (d. 1994). American boxer.
• 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
• 1915 - Alan Lomax was born (d. 2002). American singer and musicologist.
• 1915 - Thomas Merton was born (d. 1968). American monk and author.
• 1915 - Garry Moore was born (d. 1993). American comedian and game show host.
• 1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1917 - Los científicos alemanes Otto Hahn y Lise Meitner descubren el protactinio, elemento radiactivo
• 1918 - A Alemanha realiza um ataque aéreo a Paris, soltando 14 mil bombas sobre a cidade.
• 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 - 1919 Battle of George Square
• 1919 - Jackie Robinson was born (d. 1972). American baseball player.
• 1921 - John Agar was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1921 - Carol Channing was born. American actress.
• 1921 - E. Fay Jones was born. American architect.
• 1921 - Mario Lanza (Alfredo Cocozza Lanza) was born (d. 1959). Operatic singer, actor .
• 1922 - Joanne Dru was born (d. 1996). American actress.
• 1923 - Norman Mailer was born. American writer and journalist
• 1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski dies (b. 1869). Assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz.
• 1925 - Ajmed Zogu is elected President of Albania.
• 1925 - Benjamin Hooks was born. American head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• 1926 - Tom Alston was born (d. 1993). American baseball player.
• 1928 - Chuck Willis was born (d. 1958). American singer and songwriter.
• 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1929 - Jean Simmons was born. British actress.
• 1929 - Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1961, with Robert Hofstadter of the United States, for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma-rays and his discovery in this connection of the Mössbauer effect.
• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1930 - Lynn Carlin was born. American actress
• 1931 - Ernie Banks was born. American baseball player.
• 1931 - Christopher Chataway was born. English athlete, newscaster and politician.
• 1933 - Bernardo Provenzano was born. Mafia boss
• 1933 - Camille Henry was born (d. 1997). National Hockey League player.
• 1933 - John Galsworthy dies (b. 1867). English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
• 1934 - James Franciscus was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1934 - Bob Turner was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1935 - Kenzaburo Oe was born. Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• 1937 - Philip Glass was born. American composer
• 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette was born (d. 2008). American actress.
• 1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis was born. Lithuanian actor.
• 1937 - Andrée Boucher was born (d. 2007). Canadian politician.
• 1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was born.
• 1938 - James G. Watt was born. American politician.
• 1938 - Constitui-se oficialmente em Burgos o primeiro governo espanhol presidido pelo general Franco, que substitui a Junta Técnica do Estado.
• 1939 - Claude Gauthier was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1940 - Kitch Christie was born (d. 1998). South African rugby union coach.
• 1941 - Layforce set sail.
• 1941 - Jessica Walter was born. American actress.
• 1941 - Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt was born. American politician.
• 1941 - Charles V. Chapin dies (b. 17 Jan 1856). American physician and epidemiologist who, with Gardner T. Swarts, established the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. (1888) in Providence, Rhode Island.
• 1942 - Daniela Bianchi was born. Italian actress.
• 1942 - Derek Jarman was born (d. 1994). American director and writer.
• 1942 - Henry Larkin dies (b. 1860). Baseball player.
• 1943 - As forças militares alemãs cercadas em Stalinegrado rendem-se ao exército soviético. Durante a Batalha de Stalingrado 160.000 alemães morreram e 90.000 foram feitos prisioneiros, incluindo o marechal de campo von Paulus, o primeiro marechal alemão a render-se.
• 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 - World War II: Anzio campaign. (Darby's Rangers) 1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy.
• 1944 - Charlie Musselwhite was born. American musician
• 1944 - Jean Giraudoux dies (b. 1882). French writer.
• 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
• 1945 - Joseph Kosuth was born. American conceptual artist.
• 1945 - Eddie Slovik dies (b. 1920). American soldier.
• 1946 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1946 - Terry Kath was born (d. 1978). American musician.
• 1947 - Jonathan Banks was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Nolan Ryan was born. American baseball player.
• 1948 - Muneo Suzuki was born. Japanese politician.
• 1949 - Johan Derksen was born. Dutch footballer and sports journalist.
• 1949 - Ken Wilber was born. American philosopher.
• 1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1950 - Alexander Korzhakov was born. Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard.
• 1951 - Dave Benton was born. Aruban-born singer
• 1951 - Harry Wayne Casey was born. American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1951 - Phil Manzanera was born. English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)
• 1952 - Nadya Rusheva was born (d. 1969). Russian painter.
• 1952 - Pedro Prado, faleceu, escritor chileno, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile em 1949.
• 1953 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
• 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg was born. Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
• 1954 - Edwin Howard Armstrong dies (b. 1890). American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio.
• 1955 - John Mott dies (b. 1865). American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1956 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1956 - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil
• 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten was born. English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
• 1956 - A. A. Milne dies (b. 1882). English author.
• 1957 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• 1958 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
• 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1958 - Dave Finlay was born. Professional wrestler
• 1959 - Anthony LaPaglia was born. Australian actor.
• 1959 - Kelly Lynch was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Kelly Moore was born. American stock car driver
• 1960 - Grant Morrison was born. British comic book author and chaos magician
• 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1961 - Lloyd Cole was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1961 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. The U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
• 1961 - Jânio Quadros, tendo como vice João Goulart, foi empossado presidente do Brasil ao ser eleito com 48% dos votos da população.
• 1961 - Nuno Morais Sarmento was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1962 - Cuba es expulsada de la Organización de Estados Americanos.
• 1964 - Jeff Hanneman was born. American guitarist (Slayer)
• 1964 - Billey Shamrock was born. Swedish singer and songwriter.
• 1964 - Sylvie Bernier was born. Quebec olympic diver
• 1966 - Dr Umar Alisha was born. A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
• 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival dies (b. 1887). British Army Officer.
• 1966 - Dirk Brouwer dies (b. 1 Sep 1902). Dutch-born U.S. astronomer and geophysicist known for his achievements in celestial mechanics, especially for his pioneering application of high-speed digital computers for astronomical computations.
• 1967 - Fat Mike was born. American musician
• 1967 - Irene Wan was born. Hong Kong actress
• 1967 - Joey Wong was born. Taiwanese actress
• 1967 - Eddie Tolan dies (b. 1908). American athlete.
• 1968 - Mauritius breaks from Britain after days of rioting (Independence is officially achieved on 12 March 1968.)
• 1968 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.
• 1968 - Nauru declares independence from Australia.
• 1969 - Meher Baba dies (b. 1894). Indian guru.
• 1970 - A Saskatchewan Court convicts 17 year old hippie, David Milgaard of murder; he is sentenced to life in prison. He spent 23 years in jail until April 14, 1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
• 1970 - Minnie Driver was born. British actress.
• 1970 - Slim Harpo dies (b. 1924). American singer.
• 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• 1971 - The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1971 - Dimitris Markos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1971 - Patrick Kielty was born. Northern Irish comedian and television presenter.
• 1971 - Lee Young Ae was born. South Korean actress
• 1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky dies (b. 1891). Russian literary historian, linguist.
• 1973 - Portia de Rossi was born. Australian actress.
• 1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch dies (b. 1895). Norwegian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner.
• 1974 - Ariel Pestano was born. Cuban baseball player
• 1974 - Wil Anderson was born. Australian comedian.
• 1974 - Samuel Goldwyn dies (b. 1882). American film studio executive.
• 1975 - Fred Coleman was born. Former National Football League wide receiver.
• 1975 - Preity Zinta was born. Indian actress.
• 1975 - Jackie O was born. Australian radio host.
• 1976 - Buddy Rice was born. American race car driver.
• 1976 - Traianos Dellas was born. Greek footballer
• 1976 - Ernesto Miranda dies (b. 1941). American litigant.
• 1977 - Jim Kleinsasser was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Mark Dutiaume was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Shingo Katori was born. Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
• 1977 - Kate Shindle was born. American actress
• 1977 - Kerry Washington was born. American actress.
• 1978 - Brad Rutter was born. Jeopardy! champion
• 1978 - Ray Shah was born. Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter.
• 1979 - Daniel Tammet was born. British autistic savant
• 1980 - Thirty-nine people burned to death in the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
• 1980 - Tiffany Limos was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Julio Arca was born. Argentinian soccer player.
• 1981 - Justin Timberlake was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Cozy Cole dies (b. 1909). American jazz drummer.
• 1982 - Andreas Görlitz was born. German footballer.
• 1982 - Brad Thompson was born. American baseball player
• 1982 - Jānis Sprukts was born. Latvian ice hockey player
• 1982 - Bruno Nogueira was born. Portuguese comedian and TV host.
• 1982 - Helena Paparizou was born. Greek singer.
• 1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt was born. Major League Baseball shortstop
• 1982 - Elena Paparizou was born. Greek singer
• 1982 - Inocêncio Romeiro Enes dies (b. 1892). Portuguese (Azorian) religious
• 1983 - James Sutton was born. British television actor.
• 1984 - Jeremy Wariner was born. American 400m runner.
• 1987 - Yves Allégret dies (b. 1907). French film director.
• 1988 - Super Bowl XXII: The Washington Redskins win their second championship of the 1980s, 42-10.
• 1988 - In Aveiro (Portugal), Diogo Freitas do Amaral is elected President of CDS (Center Democratic and Social) during the VIII Congress of the party.
• 1989 - Fernando Namora dies (b. 15 Apr 1919). Portuguese writer /Fernando Namora morre em Lisboa (n. 15 Abr 1919 em Condeixa-a-Nova). Médico e escritor português era até então o autor português mais traduzido em todo o mundo. Em Condeixa foi criada a Casa Museu Fernando Namora. Casa da Malta (1945), Minas de S. Francisco (1946), Retalhos da Vida de um Médico (1949-1963, em dois volumes), Domingo à Tarde (1961), Rio Triste (1982) e Sentados na Relva (1986).
• 1990 - The first McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia.
• 1990 - Rashad Khalifa dies stabbed (b. 1935). Egyptian-born imam.
• 1990 - Salvador Barata Feyo dies (b. 5 Dec 1899 in Moçamedes, Mozambique). Portuguese sculptor, essayst and pedagogue.
• 1991 - Márcio Mello dies (b. 1906). Brazilian politician.
• 1992 - Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American musician.
• 1993 - Super Bowl XXVII: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills, 52-17.
• 1994 - Um incêndio destrói o Grande Teatro de Liceo, de Barcelona, construído em 1847.
• 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1995 - Dragon Ball Z ends its run in Japan.
• 1995 - George Abbott dies (b. 1887). American stage director and producer.
• 1995 - George Robert Stibitz dies (b. 30 April 1904). U.S. mathematician who was regarded by many as the "father of the modern digital computer."
• 1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1.400.
• 1997 - John Joseph Scanlan dies (b. 1930). Irish Catholic prelate.
• 1999 - Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19.
• 1999 - Norm Zauchin dies (b. 1929). American baseball player.
• 2000 - Gil Kane dies (b. 1926). Latvian-born comic book writer.
• 2000 - An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.
• 2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2001 - Gordon R. Dickson dies (b. 1923). Canadian writer.
• 2002 - A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, eventually consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over a 35-day period.
• 2002 - Francis Gabreski dies (b. 1919). American fighter pilot.
• 2003 - The Waterfall train disaster occurs near Waterfall, New Sout Wales, Australia.
• 2004 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel.
• 2004 - Eleanor Holm dies (b. 1913). American swimmer.
• 2005 - The child molestation trial of superstar Michael Jackson begins in California.
• 2006 - Samuel A. Alito Jr. assumes office as the 110th Supreme Court justice of the United States.
• 2006 - António Monteiro dies (b. 1944). Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 2006 - Moira Shearer dies (b. 1926). Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina.
• 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
• 2007 - Kirka Babitzin dies (b. 1950). Finnish singer.
• 2007 - Molly Ivins dies (b. 1944). American political columnist and author.
• 2007 - Lee Bergere dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 2007 - Adelaide Tambo dies (b. 1929). South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Bosco, Saint Pedro Nolasco, Saint Marcella, Saint Geminianus, Blessed Ludovica
• National Gorilla Suit Day