On this day in History - Jan. 11

• 0314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
• 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 0630 - El profeta y fundador del Islam, Mahoma, destruye la idolatría del santuario de la Kaaba en La Meca.
• 0705 - Pope John VI dies. 85th Pope.
• 0802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia dies.
• 0812 - Stauracius dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 0844 - Michael I Rhangabes dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
• 1284 - En una compilación titulada Recognoverunt Proceres, el rey de Aragón Pedro III otorga privilegios civiles y económicos a los barceloneses.
• 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan was born (d. 1380)
• 1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan was born (d. 1393).
• 1395 - Michelle of Valois was born (d. 1422). Duchess of Burgundy.
• 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio dies (b. 1449). Italian artist.
• 1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza dies (b. 1428). Spanish cardinal and statesman.
• 1503 - Parmigianino was born (d. 1540). Italian artist.
• 1519 - Maximiliano I de Austria, fallecimiento de, padre de Felipe el Hermoso y abuelo de Carlos I de España.
• 1569 - First recorded lottery in England.
• 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
• 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex was born (d. 1646). English Civil War general
• 1630 - John Rogers was born (d. 1684). American President of Harvard.
• 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar dies (b. 1583). Spanish poet.
• 1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie was born (d. 1745). French military leader.
• 1693 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta
• 1696 - Charles Albanel dies (b. 1616). French missionary explorer in Canada.
• 1703 - Johann Georg Graevius dies (b. 1632). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1713 - Pierre Jurieu dies (b. 1637). French protestant leader.
• 1717 - Se firma en La Haya la Triple Alianza.
• 1723 - Prithvi Narayan Shah was born (d. 1774).Began the unification of modern Nepal
• 1755 - Alexander Hamilton was born (d. 1804). 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1757 - Samuel Bentham was born (d. 31 May 1831). English mechanical engineer, naval architect, and navy official in Russia (1780-91) and England (from 1795) who was an early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships.
• 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac dies (b. 1695). French sculptor.
• 1763 - Caspar Abel dies (b. 1676). German theologian, historian and poet.
• 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens dies (b. 1704). French writer.
• 1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur
• 1782 - Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle was born. Mexican politician, redactor del Acta de Independencia.
• 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1788 - William Thomas Brande was born (d. 1866). English chemist.
• 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn dies (1717). Welsh hymnist.
• 1794 - Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.
• 1800 - Nat Turner was born (d. 1831). American slave.
• 1800 - Anyos Jedlík was born (d. 1895). Hungarian physicist.
• 1801 - Domenico Cimarosa dies (b. 1749). Italian composer.
• 1805 - Michigan Territory is created.
• 1807 - Ezra Cornell was born (d. 1874). American businessman, founder of Cornell University.
• 1814 - Sir James Paget was born (d. 30 Dec 1899). (1st Baronet) British surgeon and physiologist who is considered (with Rudolf Virchow) to be a founder of the science of pathology. Paget discovered (1834) in human muscle the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis. See Paget's disease of bone.
• 1815 - John A. Macdonald was born (d. 1891). First Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1836 - John Molson dies (b. 1763). Quebec brewer.
• 1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos was born. Educator and writer.
• 1842 - William James was born (d. 1910). American psychologist and philosopher
• 1843 - Francis Scott Key dies (b. 1779). American lawyer.
• 1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund was born (d. 1912). Swedish physicist.
• 1850 - Joseph Charles Arthur was born (d. 30 Apr 1942). American botanist who discovered basic facts about the parasitic fungi known as rusts.
• 1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach was born (d. 1926). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1853 - Georgios Jakobides was born (d. 1926). Greek painter.
• 1856 - Christian Sinding was born (d. 1941). Norwegian composer.
• 1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge was born (d. 1947). American retailer.
• 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon was born (d. 1925). British statesman, Viceroy of India.
• 1859 - Francisco de Andrade was born (d. 1921 ). Portuguese bariton
• 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon was born (d. 1925). British statesman, Viceroy of India.
• 1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff was born (d. 1884). Ukrainian artist.
• 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• 1866 - Naufrágio no Golfo de Viscaya do barco de passageiros inglês London. Morreram afogadas 220 pessoas.
• 1867 -Edward Bradford Titchener was born [d. 3 Aug 1927]. English-born psychologist and a major figure in the establishment of experimental psychology in the United States.
• 1867 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
• 1868 - Cai Yuanpei was born (d. 1940). Chinese educator.
• 1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder was born (d. 1945). American sculptor.
• 1872 - George Washington Pierce was born [ d. 1956] ; American inventor who was a pioneer in radiotelephony and a noted teacher of communication engineering.
• 1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin was born (d. 1949). American political and military figure and journalist.
• 1875 - Alfonso XII desembarca en Valencia, procedente de Barcelona, y se dirige hacia Madrid para ocupar el trono de España.
• 1875 - Reinhold Glière was born (d. 1956). Russian composer.
• 1876 - Elmer Flick was born (d. 1971). American baseball player.
• 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1880 - Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.
• 1882 - Theodor Schwann dies. German biologist.
• 1885 - Alice Paul was born (d. 1977). American women's rights activist .
• 1885 - Jack Hoxie was born (d. 1965). American actor, rodeo performer
• 1887 - Aldo Leopold was born (d. 1948). American ecologist.
• 1889 - Calvin Blackman Bridges was born (d. 1938). American geneticist who helped establish the chromosomal basis of heredity and sex.
• 1890 - No seguimento da apresentação do Mapa Cor de Rosa, o governo britânico enviou um ultimato ao governo português exigindo a retirada das tropas portuguesas do território entre Angola e Moçambique.
• 1890 - Oswald de Andrade was born (d. 1954). Brazilian writer.
• 1895 - Laurens Hammond was born (d.1973). American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ (patented 24 Apr 1934).
• 1896 - João de Deus dies in Lisbon (b. 8 Mar 1830). Portuguese poet and pedagogue.
• 1897 - August Heissmeyer was born (d. 1979). German SS officer.
• 1901 - Kwon Ki-ok was birn (d. 1988). First Korean female pilot.
• 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov dies (b. 1866). Russian composer.
• 1902 - Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
• 1902 - Maurice Duruflé was born (d. 1986). French composer.
• 1902 - Johnny Briggs dies (b.1862). English cricketer.
• 1903 - Alan Paton was born (d. 1988). South African writer.
• 1904 - 1.000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland.
• 1905 - Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn was born, was a American cultural anthropologist with a deep interest in culture and personality.
• 1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter dies (b. 1847). Hasidic rabbi.
• 1906 - Albert Hofmann was born. Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD effects.
• 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1908 - Lionel Stander was born (d. 1944). American actor.
• 1910 - Nikos Kavvadias was born (d. 1975). Greek poet and writer.
• 1911 - the "Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science" was founded in Berlin. This became the present Max Planck Society.
• 1911 - Zenko Suzuki was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1912 - Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• 1913 - Proclamación de la independencia del Tíbet.
• 1914 - Carl Jacobsen dies (b. 1842). Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named.
• 1915 - Robert Blair Mayne was born (d. 1955). British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service.
• 1916 - Bernard Blier was born (d. 1989). French actor.
• 1917 - The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
• 1917 - John Robarts was born (d. 1982). Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
• 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1920 - Um navio francês que viajava para a África afunda perto de La Rochelle com 553 pessoas a bordo.
• 1921 - Juanita M. Kreps was born. Former US Secretary of Commerce
• 1921 - Gory Guerrero was born (d. 1990). Wrestler.
• 1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• 1923 - Carroll Shelby was born. American automobile designer.
• 1923 - King Constantine I of Greece dies (b. 1868)
• 1924 - Roger Guillemin was born. French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1924 - Sam B. Hall was born (d. 1994). American politician.
• 1924 - Slim Harpo was born (d. 1970). American musician.
• 1924 - Don Cherry was born. American singer and golfer
• 1924 - Roger Guillemin was born. French-born American physiologist who researched the hormones produced by the hypothalamus gland.
• 1925 - Grant Tinker was born. American television executive
• 1926 - Lev Demin was born (d. 1998). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1928 - David L. Wolper was born. American television producer.
• 1928 - Thomas Hardy dies (b. 1840). English writer.
• 1930 - The element Fr (francium) was discovered.
• 1930 - Rod Taylor was born. Australian actor.
• 1931 - James Milton Carroll dies (b. 1852). Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author.
• 1932 - Alfonso Arau was born. Mexican film director
• 1934 - Jean Chrétien was born. Twentieth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1935 - Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1936 - La Cámara de Representantes de la República Dominicana aprobó una ley (derogada posteriormente al gobierno del dictador) por la que se cambiaba el nombre de la capital, Santo Domingo, por el de Ciudad Trujillo, por iniciativa del presidente de la República, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
• 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
• 1938 - Fischer Black was born (d. 1995). American economist.
• 1938 - Arthur Scargill was born. Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
• 1939 - Anne Heggtveit was born. Canadian alpine skier
• 1941 - Gérson was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1941 - Emanuel Lasker dies (b. 1868). German chess player.
• 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
• 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
• 1942 - Clarence Clemons was born. American musician (E Street Band)
• 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• 1943 - Eduardo Mendoza was born. Spanish writer.
• 1943 - Jim Hightower was born. American radio host and author
• 1944 - John Piper was born. American theologian
• 1944 - Shibu Soren was born. Indian politician
• 1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai was born (d. 1989). Sudanese writer and academic.
• 1944 - Galezzo Ciano (Count Ciano) dies (b. 18 Mar 1903). Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.
• 1945 - Ley fundacional del Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, (actualmente es la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, AECI.
• 1945 - Christine Kaufmann was born. German-Austrian actress
• 1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry was born. Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
• 1945 - Christine Kaufmann was born. German-Austrian actress.
• 1945 - António Homem Cardoso was born. Portuguese photographer and writer
• 1945 - Geraldo Azevedo was born. Brazilian musician
• 1945 - António Joaquim Pereira da Silva diesin Rio de Janeiro (b. 9 Nov. 1876). Brazilian poet, lawyer and journalist.
• 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
• 1946 - Es destituido en Haití el presidente Lescot.
• 1946 - John Piper was born. American theologian.
• 1946 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
• 1946 - Naomi Judd was born. American singer.
• 1946 - Tony Kaye was born. British keyboard player (Yes)
• 1948 - Al Berto was born. Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California
• 1951 - Willie Maddren was born (d. 2000). English former footballer.
• 1952 - Ben Crenshaw was born. American golfer.
• 1952 - Lee Ritenour was born. American musician and composer.
• 1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny dies (b. 1889). French general, posthumous Marshal of France
• 1952 - Aureliano Pertile dies (b. 1885). Italian tenor.
• 1953 - John Sessions was born. Scottish actor.
• 1954 - Manifesto da Independência de Marrocos. A data é comemorada como festa nacional no país.
• 1954 - Oscar Straus dies (b. 1870). Austrian composer.
• 1955 - The six-week old state of emergency, imposed after the exile of King Mutese II, ends.
• 1956 - Robert Earl Keen was born. American singer
• 1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
• 1957 - Bryan Robson was born. English footballer and manager
• 1958 - Vicki Peterson was born. American musician (The Bangles)
• 1958 - Diego León Montoya Sánchez was born. Former Columbian crime boss.
• 1958 - Edna Purviance dies (b. 1895). American actress.
• 1959 - North Vietnamese forces enter in Laos.
• 1959 - Rob Ramage was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Chad declares independence from France.
• 1960 - Stanley Tucci was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Jasper Fforde was born. British author.
• 1962 - Eruption of the volcano Huascaran in Peru; 4000 deaths.
• 1962 - Se inauguró el Concilio Vaticano II, que actualizó las estructuras y doctrina de la Iglesia Católica.
• 1962 - Susan Lindauer was born. American peace activist and accused spy.
• 1963 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• 1963 - Dean Reynolds was born. English snooker player
• 1964 - United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
• 1964 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• 1964 - Patrícia Pillar was born in Brasilia. Brazilian actress.
• 1966 - Começa no Rio de Janeiro uma chuva que dura 72 horas ininterruptas. A cidade fica em estado de calamidade pública e 200 pessoas morreram.
• 1966 - Marc Acito was born. American novelist and humorist
• 1966 - Kelley Law was born. Canadian curler.
• 1966 - Alberto Giacometti dies (b. 10 Oct 1901). Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor.
• 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen dies (b. 1889). Finnish runner.
• 1968 - Tom Dumont was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Anders Borg was born. Swedish politician.
• 1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi dies (b. 1898). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1969 - Manny Acta was born. Domenican baseball player
• 1969 - Kyle Richards was born. American actress
• 1970 - As Nigerian federal troops launch a final assault on Biafran rebels, the last Biafran airstrip is reported to be out of action.
• 1970 - Chris Jent was born. American basketball player and coach
• 1970 - Richmal Crompton dies (b. 1890). British author.
• 1971 - Mary J. Blige was born. American singer.
• 1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1972 - Marc Blucas was born. American actor
• 1972 - Amanda Peet was born. American actress
• 1972 - Luís Delgado was born. Angolan football player
• 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial in Washington DC
• 1973 - Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
• 1973 - The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees.
• 1973 - Joanna Brodzik was born. Polish actress.
• 1973 - Rahul Dravid was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1974 - O recenseamento eleitoral, feito para a realização das primeiras eleições democráticas em Portugal, atingiu mais de 6 milhões de inscritos.
• 1974 - The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1974 - Jens Nowotny was born. German football player.
• 1974 - Cody McKay was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick was born. American ice hockey player
• 1975 - Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena was born. Spanish playwriter and journalist.
• 1976 - Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves.
• 1976 - Efthimios Rentzias was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1977 - France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
• 1977 - Nadia Turner was born. American singer.
• 1977 - Shomari Buchanan was born. American football player
• 1978 - Emile Heskey was born. English football player.
• 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha dies (b. 1927). Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet.
• 1979 - Siti Nurhaliza was born. Malaysia's Top Singer
• 1979 - Michael Duff was born. Northern Irish football player.
• 1979 - Jack Soo dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1980 - Nigel Short, 14, from Bolton in Great Britain, becomes the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
• 1980 - Mike Williams was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Deanna Wright was born. American actress
• 1980 - Barbara Pym dies (b. 1913). English novelist.
• 1981 - Beulah Bondi dies (b. 1888). American actress.
• 1981 - Palau adopts constitution.
• 1981 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is elected General-Secretary of Unirted Nations
• 1981 - Jamelia was born. English singer
• 1981 - Tom Meighan was born. British singer (Kasabian)
• 1981 - Chris Edwards was born. British musician (Kasabian)
• 1981 - Beulah Bondi dies (b. 1888). American actress.
• 1982 - Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Autónoma Andaluza y Asturias.
• 1982 - Honduras adopts constitution.
• 1982 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
• 1982 - Son Ye-jin was born. South Korean actress.
• 1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson was born. British actor and singer.
• 1983 - Adrian Sutil was born. German racing driver.
• 1983 - Matthew Palleschi was born. Canadian soccer player.
• 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla dies (b. 1894). Indian industrialist and educator.
• 1984 - Salvador Dalí anuncia la creación de la fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí y la donación de 621 de sus obras.
• 1984 - Milena Toscano was born in Santo André. Brazilian actress.
• 1985 - Inicia no Rio de Janeiro o mega evento Rock in Rio. Foram 10 dias de shows em que tocaram grandes nomes da música mundial.
• 1986 - The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
• 1987 - Scotty Cranmer was born. American professional BMX rider.
• 1988 - Isidor Isaac Rabi dies (born 29 Jul 1898); American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms, molecules, and atomic nuclei.
• 1988 - Pappy Boyington dies (b. 1912). American aviator.
• 1988 - Florence Knapp dies (b. 1873). One-time oldest person in the world.
• 1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington dies (b. 1912). American WW II Marine aviator.
• 1989 - La policía francesa detiene a Josu Ternera, máximo dirigente de ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna).
• 1989 - Um acordo assinado entre 140 países na Convenção para a Proibição de Armas Químicas acaba com esse tipo de armamento. A prática, no entanto, só passa a vigorar em 1997.
• 1989 - José Luis Bustamante y Rivero dies (b. 1894). Peruvian President.
• 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
• 1991 - Tropas soviéticas invadem prédios em Vilna, capital da Lituânia, para impedir um movimento de independência no país.
• 1991 - Carl David Anderson dies (b. 3 Sep 1905). American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.
• 1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
• 1993 - La UNESCO declara la Ruta Jacobea española patrimonio de la humanidad.
• 1994 - Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein / O governo irlandês anuncia o fim da censura ao movimento terrorista IRA e seu braço político, o Sinn Fein.
• 1994 - Helmut Poppendick dies (b. 1902). Nazi physician.
• 1995 - António Anjos dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1996 - O parlamento japonês elege Ryutaro Hashimoto como seu novo primeiro-ministro.
• 1996 - O primeiro-ministro da Itália, Lamberto Dini, anuncia a sua renúncia.
• 1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1998 - Se celebran elecciones generales en Cuba.
• 1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
• 1998 - Klaus Tennstedt dies (b. 1926). German conductor.
• 1999 - Brian Moore dies (b. 1921). Irish-born writer.
• 1999 - Fabrizio de André dies (b. 1940). Italian singer.
• 2000 - Ivan Combe dies (b. 1911). American inventor.
• 2000 - Bob Lemon dies (b. 1920). Baseball player.
• 2000 - The British government declares Chile's General Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain for crimes against humanity. — Londres decreta la libertad del general Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte.
• 2001 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
• 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun dies (b. 1914). English architect.
• 2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2002 - Henri Verneuil dies (b. 1920). French playwright and film director.
• 2003 - Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state's death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates.
• 2003 - Entra em vigor o Novo Código Civil Brasileiro. O conjunto de leis trouxe inovações em áreas como regime de bens, vida familiar, maioridade civil, pagamentos de indenização e usucapião.
• 2003 - Mickey Finn dies. English drummer (T. Rex)
• 2003 - Maurice Pialat dies (b. 1925). French actor and director.
• 2003 - Richard Simmons dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 2005 - Black Tuesday bushfires swept across the southern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
• 2005 - James Griffin dies (b. 1943). American musician (Bread).
• 2005 - Cavem dies at 72. Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
• 2005 - Fabrizio Meoni dies (b. 1957). Italian motorcyclist.
• 2005 - Spencer Dryden dies (b. 1938). American drummer (Jefferson Airplane).
• 2005 - James Griffin dies (b. 1943). American musician (Bread).
• 2005 - Miriam Hyde dies (b. 1913). Australian composer.
• 2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon) dies (b. 1966). German DJ.
• 2006 - Nixzmary Brown dies (b. 1998). American Child abuse victim.
• 2007 - Robert Anton Wilson dies (b. 1932). American author.
• 2007 - Solveig Dommartin dies (b. 1961). French-German actress.
• 2007 - Puchi Balseiro dies. Puerto Rican singer & songwriter.
• 2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary dies (b. 1919). New Zealand mountaineer, the first person to climb Mt Everest in 1953.
• Albania - Republic Day (1946).
• Morocco - The Independence manifesto day.
• Nepal - Unity Day.
• Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmen.