1443 - D. Nuno Álvares Pereira dies in "Convento do Carmo". Portuguese noble.
- 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1531 - Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry.
1587 -
Xu Xiake was born (d. 1641). Chinese writer and geographer.
1588 -
Qi Jiguang dies (b. 1528). Chinese general.
1592 -
Shah Jahan was born (d. 1666). Indian Mughal Emperor .
1596 -
Henry Lawes was born (d. 1662). English composer.
1634 - Começo da actividade da primeira tipografia no Brasil.
1668 - É assinado o Tratado de Madrid, que estabelece a paz entre a Espanha e Portugal, pondo fim às Guerras da Restauração.
- 1713 - Jorge Juan y Santacilia was born. Spanish mathematicien and physicist.
1715 - US: Advertisement in Boston newspaper offered for sale Indian woman "fit for all manner of household work."
1757 - France: Attempted assassin of
Louis XV of France torn asunder in public by horses. In a near miss, Robert Damiens attempts to knife Louis XV.
1769 -
Jean-Baptiste Say was born (15 Nov 1832). French economist
( Traite d’Economique Politique) .
1778 - A Companhia pombalina do Grão-Pará e Maranhão é extinta pelo governo de D. Maria I.
1786 - Thomas Nuttall was born (d.1859). English
naturalist and botanist known for his
discoveries of North American plants.
1787 - John Burke was born. Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) .
1794 - Edmund Ruffin was born [d.1865]; The
father of
soil chemistry in the U.S., who showed how to restore fertility to depleted soil.
1801 -
Passos Manuel was born (d. 16 Jan 1862). Portuguese politician.
1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) also called the Treaty of Canak. Its main provision was to decree that no warship of any power should enter the Dardanelles or Bosphorus .
1814 - La Regencia del Reino de España es trasladada desde
Cádiz a
Madrid.
1838 -
Camille Jordan was born (d. 1922). French
mathematician whose work on substitution groups (groups of permutations) and the theory of equations first brought full understanding of the importance of the theories of the eminent mathematician Évariste Galois, who had died in 1832.
1848 - Khristo Botev was born (d. 2 Jun 1876). Hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet .
1854 - The San Francisco
steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1855 -
King_Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 9 Jul 1932). American inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor.
1855 - Se inauguró el primer ferrocarril en Panamá, de 75 kilómetros de recorrido.
1862 - Joseph Frohlich dies at 81. Composer.
1864 -
Bob Caruthers was born (d. 1911). American baseball player.
1866 -
Ramón Casas was born (d. 1932). Spanish painter.
1869 - Representantes de potencias occidentales son recibidos por el emperador de
Japón, iniciándose una nueva era para ese país.
1874 -
Joseph Erlanger was born (d. 1965). American
physiologist, who discovered that fibres within the same nerve cord possess different functions. With Herbert Gasser, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944.
1878 - Nelly Roussel lives was born (d. 18 Dec 1922). French free thinker, anarchist, feminist. Partner of the sculptor Henri Godet.
1881 -
Paris Commune leader Louis-Auguste Blanqui dies in Paris (b. 1805). A huge crowd attends his funeral.
1895 - Henry James's play Guy Domville opens at the St. James's Theatre in London.
1895 -
Elizabet Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Singer and songwriter.
1900 -
Yves Tanguy was born (d. 1995). French surrealist painter.
1904 -
Jeane Dixon was born (d. 1997). American astrologer.
1905 - László Papp was born. Hungarian middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1905 - Fundación del Central Español Fútbol Club, de Montevideo, Uruguay.
1906 -
Kathleen Kenyon was born (d. 1978). English
archaeologist who
excavated Jericho to its Stone Age foundation and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement.
1908 - Joseph von Mering dies (b. 1849). German physician, physiologist, pharmacologist, and experimental pathologist.
1909 -
Stephen Kleene was born (d. 1994). American
mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
- 1910 - Hugh Brannum was born (d. 1987). American actor.
1914 - Following the great success of the
Model T, American automobile maker
Henry Ford raised his workers' pay from $2.40 to $5.00 a day and reduced to an
eight-hour workday.
1914 -
George Reeves was born (d. 1959). American actor (Superman) .
- 1917 - Jane Wyman was born (d. 2007). American actress.
- 1917 - Wieland Wagner was born (d. 1966). German stage director.
- 1919 - Anton Drexler founded the Free Committee for a German Workers Party, the forerunner of the Nazi Party, in Munich, Germany.
1919 - Germany: Spartacists, led by Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxemburg, head a revolt to renew the November revolution — which lasts 6 days (in Berlin); both are murdered by the so-called "democratic" left on the 15th.
1921 -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen, Bern (d. 1990). Swiss novelist and dramatist (The Visit).
1923 -
Sam Phillips was born (d. 2003). American country music producer.
1926 - [William DeWitt]
William De Witt Snodgrass was born. American poet
(Heart’s Needle, The Fuhrer Bunker, The Complete Cycle, April Inventory) .1926 -
Hosea Williams was born (d. 2000). American religious leader and civil rights activist.
1928 -
Walter Mondale was born. U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 .
1932 -
Umberto Eco was born. Italian philologist and writer. A renowned critic and
semiotician (student of signs and symbols), he is perhaps better known as the author of the best-selling murder mystery and
fantasy novel
The Name of the Rose (1981).
1932 -
Chuck Noll was born. American football coach
- 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. Bridge opens May 27, 1937.
1938 -
Jim Otto was born. American football player.
1938 - Amelia Earhart is presumed dead and the search for her and Fred Noonan has ended.
1939 -
Lisandro de la Torre dies (suicide). Argentine journalist and politician. Founder, in Argentine, of the "Partido Demócrata Progresista".
1940 -
FM radio is demonstrated to the
FCC for the first time.
1941 - World War II: North Africa Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault - 25,000 Italian troops, including 6 generals, are captured.
1942 -
Jan Leeming was born. British television presenter and newsreader.
1942 -
Tina Modotti dies in Mexico (b. 1896). Italian photographer, actress and model.
1946 -
Diane Keaton was born in Los Angeles, California.
Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director and screenwriter .
1948 - Terroristas judíos destruyen con explosivos un ala del Hotel King David de
Jerusalén, atentado en el que mueren 20 personas.
1950 - Gran Bretaña rompe sus relaciones diplomáticas con la
China nacionalista y, al día siguiente, reconoce el régimen de
Mao Tse-Tung.
1955 - É inaugurado o último trecho, de 650 quilômetros, da ferrovia amazônica que une Brasil e Bolívia.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly announces she is going to marry Prince Ranier III of Monaco.
- 1956 - Mistinguett dies (b. 1875). French singer.
- 1957 - Major league baseball player Jackie Robinson retires.
1957 - Eisenhower Doctrine : U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested Congress to approve his plans for military cooperation with the Middle East on this day in 1957. The Eisenhower Doctrine assured Middle Eastern countries military and economic aid in the event of Soviet attack.
1960 - Spain: Anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabate dies after a shoot-out with fasciste garde civile. Wounded yesterday, he escaped & was killed today in San Celoni by a sometén Catalan militia
1962 -
Joe Monzo was born. American composer.
1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected President of Nicaragua.
1968 -
DJ Bobo was born. Swiss singer.
1970 -
Max Born dies (b. 1882). German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954, with Walther Bothe of Germany, for his statistical formulation of the behaviour of subatomic particles.
1970 - 20,000 miners in West Virginia go on wildcat strike to protest the murder of Jack Yablonski, reform miners leader
1971 - US: 19 arrested in "Homes Not War" protest, Tucson, Arizona
1971 - Chile's socialist government led by Salvador Allende agreed to establish diplomatic relations with China.
1971 - Sonny Liston World Champ heavyweight boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36.
1973 - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel .
- 1975 - Mike Grier was born. American ice hockey player.
1975 -
Mike Grier was born. American ice hockey player.
1976 -
Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea after The Khmer Rouge to have promulgated a new constitution. During this comunist regimen that survived until 1979 , about 1.000.000 people died.
1976 -
Mal Evans dies (b. 1935). Beatles' "roadie".
1977 - Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament.
1979 -
Charles Mingus dies in Cuernavaca, Mexico. American jazz bassist, composer and orchestra leader
(Beneath the Underdog).
1981 -
Harold C. Urey dies (b. 1893). American
scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934 for his
discovery of deuterium, the heavy form of hydrogen (1932).
- 1981 - Portugal : VII Government lead by Prime-Minister Pinto Balsemão sworns in.
1987 - Guy Kastner was born. Australian footballer and model.
1990 - Joe Vallely was born. Member of the British Royal Family.
1990 - Lola Iturbe dies (b. 1902). Anarchist. Pseudonym, Kyra Kyralina (Kiralina).Edited the collection, La mujer en la Lucha Social y en la Guerra Civil de España, 220p. (Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A. México D.F., 1974).
- 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
- 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
- 1994 - Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) .
- 1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill dies (b. 1912). American politician.
- 1994 - Brian Johnston dies (b. 1912). British cricket commentator.
- 1995 - Mass celebration in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
- 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
- 1996 - Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announced his resignation in a surprise move.
- 1996 - Max Baldry was born. British actor.
- 1996 - Yahya Ayyash dies (b. 1966). Palestinian terrorist.
- 1997 - Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya.
- 1997 - André Franquin dies (b. 1924). Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe).
- 1997 - Burton Lane dies (b. 1912). American composer and lyricist.
- 1998 - João Acácio Pereira da Costa, o Bandido da Luz Vermelha, famoso criminoso dos anos 60, é assassinado (Brasil).
- 1998 - Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as president of Kenya for his fifth consecutive term.
- 1998 - Sonny Bono dies (b. 1935). American entertainer.
- 1998 - Ken Forssi dies (b. 1943). American musician (Love).
- 2000 - The first day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
- 2000 - INS Commissioner Doris Meissner ruled that 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez must be returned to Cuba.
- 2001 - Aldo César dies (b. 1928). Brazilian actor.
- 2001 - Nancy Parsons dies (b. 1942). American actress.
- 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
- 2003 - Roy Jenkins dies (b. 1920). British politician.
- 2003 - Jean Kerr dies (b. 1923). American author.
- 2003 - Massimo Girotti dies (b. 1918). Italian film actor.
- 2004 - John Toland, dies in Connecticut, historian. He was awarded the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 which tells the story of the Pacific War mainly from the Japanese viewpoint.
- 2004 - Norman Heatley dies (b. 1911). Norman George Heatley solved problems in the extraction of penicillin from its mould and paved the way for mass production.
- 2004 - Tug McGraw dies (b. 1944). American baseball player.
- 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
- 2005 - Danny Sugerman dies (b. 1954). American music manager (The Doors).
- 2006 - Independence Air ceases operations.
- 2007 - Taiwan High Speed Rail open between Taipei and Kaohsiung.
- 2007 - Momofuku Ando dies (b. 1910). Inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles.
- 2007 - Chih Ree Sun dies (b. 1923). Chinese-American physicist and poet.
- Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Neumann.
- Mungday (Discordianism)
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