1709 -
Jacques de Vaucanson was born (d. 21 Nov. 1782). French inventor of automata - robot devices of later significance for modern industry. In 1737-38, he produced a transverse flute player, a pipe and tabor player, and a
mechanical duck.
1714 -
Edmund Andros dies (b. 1637). English governor in North America.
1777 - King
Joseph I of Portugal dies (b. 1714) / Morre o rei D. José I subindo ao trono D. Maria I.
1786 -
Wilhelm Grimm was born (d. 1859). German philologist and folklorist.
1804 - Heinrich Lenz was born (d. 10 Feb 1865). Russian
physicist who framed
Lenz's Law to describe the direction of flow of electric current generated by a wire moving through a magnetic field.
1810 -
Henry Cavendish dies (b. 10 Oct 1731). English scientist who calculated
Newton's
gravitational constant. Researching in his own private laboratory, Cavendish identified hydrogen as a separate gas, studied carbon dioxide, and determined their densities relative to atmospheric air.
1815 -
Robert Fulton dies (b. 14 Nov 1765). American
inventor,
engineer, and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success. He did not invent the steamboat, which had been built in the early 1700's, but rather applied his engineering skills to their design.
1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain.
1822 - Se constituye el Primer Congreso de México.
1825 - Se establece por decreto la bandera y el escudo de Perú y se anula el pabellón impuesto en tiempos del general San Martín.
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War. 1827 - La escuadra argentina del almirante Guillermo Brown vence a la flota brasileña cerca de Buenos Aires.
1832 - Juan Clemente Zenea was born. Cuban poet and journalist.
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days.
1840 - John Philip Holland was born (d. 12 Aug 1914). Irish
inventor, "father of the modern submarine," who
designed and built the first underwater vessel accepted by the U.S. Navy.
1841 - Carl Graebe was born (d. 19 Jan 1927). German organic chemist who, assisted by Carl Liebermann, synthesized (1868) the orange-red dye alizarin, which in the textile industry quickly supplanted the natural source of the dye from the
madder plant root. Alizarin (dihydroscyanthraquinone) was recognized by Graebe and Liebermann, as a derivative of anthracene, a hydrocarbon contained in coal-tar.
1842 - Tomada de posse do governo presidido pelo duque da Terceira, mas com o predomínio do ministro do Reino, Costa Cabral. É o começo do "Cabralismo," período que se prolongará até 1846, que tentará reorganizar o estado e reconstruir a economia do País, de um ponto de vista conservador.
1843 [Joaquim] Teófilo Braga was born in Ponta Delgada (d. 28 Jan 1924). Portuguese poet and politician. He was President of Republic completing the mandat of Manuel de Arriaga.
1846 -
Luigi Denza was born (d. 1922). Italian composer.
1848 -Francia: los revolucionarios asaltan el palacio de las Tullerías en París.
1849 - Se funda el diario panameño "La Estrella de Panamá".
1849 - John Henry Comstock was born (d. 20 Mar 1931). Pioneering American educator and researcher in entomology; his studies of scale insects and butterflies and moths provided the basis for systematic
classification of these insects.
1852 - George Moore was born (d. 1933). Irish writer/ novelist (Esther Waters).
1871 - Charles Darwin's Descent of Man was published in London.
1874 - John Bachman dies (b. 4 Feb 1790). Naturalist and Lutheran minister who published studies of southern animals and works on botany and agriculture.
1875 - Marc Séguin, the Elder, dies (b. 20 Apr 1786) . French engineer and inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the tubular steam-engine boiler.
1877 -
Ettie Rout dies (b. 1936). New Zealand activist.
1883 - El Gobierno chileno expulsa del país al delegado de la Santa Sede.
1887 -
Mary Ellen Chase was born (d. 28 Jul 1973). American linguistic and author (The White Gate).
1890 - Marjorie Main was born (d. 1975). American actress.1891 - Nascimento do actor português Ernestino Augusto Costa, o Costinha, conhecido sobretudo pelas suas actuações no Teatro de Revista e nas Operetas. Morreu em 1976.
1895 - Comienza, con el llamado Grito de Baire, la guerra de la independencia cubana.
1897 - Henri Frankfort was born (d. 16 Jul 1954). Dutch-American
archaeologist who completed a well-documented reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian culture, established the relation between Egypt and Mesopotamia, and discovered much new information on both civilizations.
1903 -
Franz Burda was born (d. 1986). German publisher.
1909 - En Brighton (Reino Unido), se presenta al público por primera vez el cine en color.
1918 -
Estonia: Declaration of independence from Russia.
1919 -
Árpád Bigsch was born (d. 2004). Hungarian turned American international civil servant.
1923 - Edward Williams Morley dies (b. 29 Jan 1838). American chemist who is best known for his collaboration with the physicist A.A. Michelson in an attempt to measure the relative motion of the Earth through a hypothetical ether (1887).
1927 -
David Mourão Ferreira was born in Lisbon (d. 16 Jun 1996). Portuguese poet, essayst, dramatist and professor./
David Mourão Ferreira, nasce em Lisboa (m. 1996). Escritor, ensaista e professor universitário português. Assumiu também cargos políticos relacionados com a cultura.
1930 - Barbara Lawrence was born in Carnegie Oklahoma. American actress (Joe Dakota).
1933 - A Empresa Nacional de Publicidade lança o livro Salazar, o Homem e a Obra, prefaciada pelo próprio Salazar, obra que agrupa as entrevistas realizadas por António Ferro para o Diário de Notícias e publicadas em Dezembro de 1932.
1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria.
1935 - Paraguay se retira de la Sociedad de Naciones por no estar de acuerdo con las ropuestas para terminar la guerra del Chaco.
1938 - A
nylon bristle
toothbrush becomes the first commercial product (
DuPont) to be made with nylon yarn.
1938 - Phil Knight was born. American sportswear manufacturer, founder of Nike, Inc. 1938 - James Farentino was born. American actor. 1938 - Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow was born. British Baroness and Methodist reverend. 1940 -
Denis Law was born in Aberdeen. Scottish legendary soccer player.
1940 -
Pete Duel was born (d. 1971). American actor.
1942 -
John Neumeier was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. American choreographer.
1942 - Paul Jones was born. English singer (Manfred Mann). 1942 - Colin Bond was born. Australian racing driver. 1943 - World War II: North AfricaRommel is appointed as commander-in-chief, Army Group Afrika. 1943 -
Terry Semel was born. American business executive.
1945 -
Egyptian Premier
Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament following his announcement that Egypt declares war on the Axis.
1946 - Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina. 1946 - Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis was born. Russian mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contributions to the theory of Lie groups, though he was not allowed by the Soviet government to travel to Finland to receive the award.
1946 - No Gana, Kwame Nkrumah, o presidente do país desde a sua independência, é deposto em um golpe de estado liderado por militares.
1947 - Edward James Olmos was born. American actor.1947 - Pierre (-Marie-Félix) Janet dies (b. 30 May 1859) French
psychopathologist and neurologist influential in bringing about in France and the United States a connection between academic psychology and the clinical treatment of mental illnesses.
1949 - After 42 days of bitter debate, Egypt and Israel sign an armistice on the island of Rhodes. However, several contentious topics, such as the status of Beersheba in the Negev Desert, were dropped from the final agreement.
1950 -
Pete Duel was born (d. 1971). American actor.
1953 - Douglas Houghton Campbell dies (b. 16 Dec 1859). American botanist known for his research concerning modes of sexual reproduction in mosses and ferns. His work intensified a controversy surrounding the evolutionary origin of the Tracheophyta (vascular plants). He was an authority on the morphology and
life cycles of ferns, mosses, and liverworts and on the geographic distribution of plant life.
1953 -
August Fieldorf dies (b. 1895). Polish general and leader of the resistance.
1960 - Antonio Vallejo Nájera dies. Spanish psychiatrist.
1961 - Dr Louis Leakey has discovered human-like bones in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) which are believed to be the ancestors of modern man.
1963 -
Mike Vernon was born. Canadian ice hockey goalie.
1964 -
Andy Crane was born. British childrens television presenter.
1964 -
Todd Field was born. American actor and film director.
1970 -
Jonathan Ward was born. American television and movie actor.
1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies.
1972 -
Manon Rhéaume was born. Canadian female ice hockey player.
1973 - Manuel Ortega Juarez (
Manolo Caracol) dies in a car accident (b. 9 Jul 1910). Spanish singer.
1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh.
1976 - Cuba: national Constitution proclaimed. 1976 - Zuzana Belohorcova was born. Slovak actress.1976 - Matt Skiba was born. American singer/guitarist/songwriter (Alkaline Trio, Heavens). 1976 - Eric Griffin was born. American rock guitarist. 1976 - Bradley McGee was born. Australian cyclist. 1976 - Crista Flanagan was born. American television and stand-up comedian. 1977 - Floyd Mayweather Jr was born. American boxer. 1977 - Bronson Arroyo was born. American baseball player. 1977 - Jason Akermanis was born. Australian rulles footballer. 1978 - John Nolan was born. Straylight Run.
1978 - Shinya was born. Japanese musician (Dir en grey). 1980 - Anton Gustafsson, better known as Anton Maiden, was born (d. 2003). Infamous Swedish Iron Maiden fan. 1980 - Shinsuke Nakamura was born. Japanese professional wrestler. 1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits
Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins.1982 - Klára Koukalová was born. Czech tennis player. 1983 -
Tennessee Williams dies (b. 26 Mar 1911). American playwright
(Cat on a Hot Tin Roof).1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins.
1987 -
Mayuko Iwasa was born. Japanese entertainer and model.
1989 -
Hiro Hito dies (b. 29 Apr 1901). Emperor of Japan.
1991 - Os Estados Unidos iniciam sua ofensiva terrestre contra o Iraque devido à invasão do Kuwait.
1991 - Atentado frustrado contra o ex-presidente argentino Raúl Alfonsín.
1991 -
John Daly dies (b. 1914). South African game show host.
1991 -
Webb Pierce dies (b. 1921). American music singer.
1992 - A maior perda de uma companhia americana ($4,45 bilhões em 1991) é anunciada pela maior companhia industrial do mundo, a fabricante de automóveis General Motors.
1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins.1993 - O primeiro-ministro do Canadá, Brian Mulroney anuncia sua renúncia como líder do Partido Conservador.
1993 -
Danny Gallivan dies (b. 1917). Canadian radio and television sportscaster.
1993 -
Bobby Moore dies (b. 1941). English footballer. National team capt (World Champs 1966).
1994 - Dinah Shore dies (b. 1916). American actress and singer.1995 - Inácio Pereira Garcia dies. Secretary of the
Córrego Danta City Hall.
1997 - Ester de Abreu dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 25 Oct 1921). Portuguese singer.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, is cremated (died Feb 19th).
1998 - Elton John knighted.
1999 - The State of
Arizona executes
Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of
Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2002 -
Leo Ornstein dies (b. 1912). Russian-born composer and pianist.
2003 - An earthcake registering 6º on Richter scale hits the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
2004 - A Parmalat USA Corp. pede concordata.
2006 -
John Martin dies (b. 1947). Canadian broadcaster.
2006 -
Denis Twitchett dies (b. 1925). Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian.
2007 -
Leroy Jenkins dies (b. 1932). American composer and violinist.
2007 -
Lamar Lundy dies (b. 1935). American football player.
2007 -
Damien Nash dies (b. 1982). American football player.
0 comments:
Enviar um comentário