- 0743 - Muhammad al-Baqir dies (b. 0676). Shia Imam.
1435 -
Xuande dies (b. 1398). Emperor of China
1542 - Descoberta das Cataratas do Iguaçu, por Dom Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca.
1597 -
John Regis was born (d. 1640). French saint.
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.
1736 - Bruno Mauricio de Zabala dies. Founder of Montevideo (Uruguay).
- 1790 - Thomas Lewis dies (b. 1718). Irish-born Virginia settler.
1797 -
Franz Schubert was born (d. 1828). Austrian composer who was one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th century.
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.
1865 - The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth
Amendment to the
Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
1866 -
Lev Shestov was born (d. 1938). Russian philosopher.
1872 -
Zane Grey was born born in Zanesville, Ohio. American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre .
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.
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.
1894 -
Isham Jones was born (d. 1956). American jazz musician.
- 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
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.
- 1913 - Don Hutson was born (d. 1997). American football player.
1914 -
Carey Loftin was born (d. 1977). American actor and stuntman.
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.
1921 -
John Agar was born (d. 2002). American actor.
- 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 -
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.
1934 -
Bob Turner was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
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 - 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.
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:
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.
- 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
- 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 -
Nolan Ryan was born. American baseball player.
1949 -
Johan Derksen was born. Dutch footballer and sports journalist.
- 1953 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
- 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg was born. Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
- 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.
1960 -
Grant Morrison was born. British comic book author and chaos magician
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.
1962 - Cuba es expulsada de la Organización de Estados Americanos.
- 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
1968 - Mauritius breaks from Britain after days of rioting (Independence is officially achieved on 12 March 1968.)
- 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 -
Slim Harpo dies (b. 1924). American singer.
1971 -
Patrick Kielty was born. Northern Irish comedian and television presenter.
- 1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky dies (b. 1891). Russian literary historian, linguist.
- 1973 - Portia de Rossi was born. Australian actress.
1975 -
Fred Coleman was born. Former National Football League wide receiver.
1975 -
Jackie O was born. Australian radio host.
1976 -
Buddy Rice was born. American race car driver.
- 1977 - Jim Kleinsasser was born. American football player.
1978 -
Ray Shah was born. Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter.
1980 - Thirty-nine people burned to death in the occupation of the
Spanish Embassy in
Guatemala.
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 - Jānis Sprukts was born. Latvian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Inocêncio Romeiro Enes dies (b. 1892). Portuguese (Azorian) religious
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 -
Salvador Barata Feyo dies (b. 5 Dec 1899 in Moçamedes, Mozambique). Portuguese sculptor, essayst and pedagogue.
1994 - Um incêndio destrói o Grande Teatro de Liceo, de Barcelona, construído em 1847.
- 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.
1999 -
Norm Zauchin dies (b. 1929). American baseball player.
2000 -
Gil Kane dies (b. 1926). Latvian-born comic book 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.
2007 -
Molly Ivins dies (b. 1944). American political columnist and author.
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