1398 -
Xuande was born (d. 1435). Emperor of China.
- 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden dies (b. 1533) .
- 1643 - New World: Dutch massacre of friendly Indians at Pavonia, near present-day Hackensack, New Jersey, is ordered by William Kieft, Governor of New Netherlands. 120 Wecquaesgeek men, women and children asleep in their wigwams die
1682 -
Giovanni Battista Morgagni was born (d. 5 Dec 1771). Italian
anatomist and pathologist whose works helped make anatomy an exact science. His early studies of particularly the throat, and the sinus and hydatid of Morgagni in this region perpetuate his name.
1714 -
Hyde Parker was born (d. 1782). British admiral.
1814 - Taras Shevchenko was born in Morintsy, Ukraine of the Russian Empire, he becomes the foremost Ukrainian poet of the 19th century & a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival.
1837 - The first practical electric motor in the US is patented by
Thomas Davenport.
1841 -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges (d. 1919). French impressionist painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
1842 -
Karl May was born (d. 1912). German author of travel and adventure stories, dealing with desert Arabs or American Indians in the Old West.
1842 -
Ida Z. Lewis was born (d. 24 Oct 1911). American heroine keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse.
- 1850 - Daoguang dies (b. 1782). Emperor of China.
1855 -
Cesário Verde was born in Lisbon (d. 1886). Portuguese poet /
Cesário Verde, nascia em Lisboa (m. 19 Jul 1886). Poeta português. Vítima de tuberculose aos 31 anos de idade, publicou poemas em jornais. A sua obra foi reunida pelo amigo Silva Pinto e publicada postumamente em 1887, com o título O Livro de Cesário Verde.
1866 -
Benedetto Croce was born. Italian humanist, historian and philosopher.
1869 - Phoebus Levene was born (d. 6 Sep 1940). Phoebus (Aaron Theodor) Levene was a Russian-born American
chemist and pioneer in the study of nucleic acids.
1878 - Juan María Gutiérrez dies. Argentine writer, translator and politician.
1882 - Ludvig Nordström was born in Härnösand. Swedish writer of realistic, socially conscious work.
1890 - Dame
Myra Hess was born (d. 1965). English pianist.
1892 - Andre Soudy was born in Beaugency, Loiret (d. 1913). French anarchist illegalist, member of the Bonnot Gang. Soudy first met Bonnot & other gang members at the anarchist Romainville colony.
1894 - Ernst Friedrich was born (d. 1967). German anarchist and pacifist. Founder of the Berlin Peace Museum. "Without social revolution there can be no lasting peace....We must prepare systematically an uprising against war."
1894 -
Meher Baba was born (d. 1969). Indian spiritual leader.
1894 - Steele MacKaye dies (b. 6 Jun 1842). (James Morrison) Steele MacKaye was a dramatist, playwright, actor, and inventor. He opened the Madison Square Theatre (1879), one of the earliest of American "intimate" playhouses. 1894 -- US: Steele MacKaye dies in Buffalo, New York. American playwright/actor/theater manager who patents over 100 theatrical inventions, including folding theater seats.
1895 -
Lew Andreas was born (d. 1984). American basketball coach.
- 1896 - Ida Noddack was born (d. 1979). German chemist who co-discovered (1925) element 75, rhenium, which they named after the Rhine River. They found trace amounts in the mineral columbite. She was working with Walter Noddack, her future husband (1926).
1898 - William Thomas Astbury was born (d. 4 June 1961). English physical
biochemist who was the first to make use of X-ray diffraction patterns to study the structure of nucleic acids (1937). Astbury researched the method under Bragg for seven years, then
investigated the structure of wool in both the stretched and unstretched forms.
1901 -
Zeppo Marx was born (d. 1979). American actor.
1903 -
King Clancy was born (d. 1986). Canadian hockey player.
1903 -
João Gaspar Simões was born in Figueira da Foz. Portuguese critic of literature and writer.
1904 -
Adelle Davis was born (d. 1974). American nutritionist, writer.
1904 - John Joseph Bittner was born (d. 14 Dec 1961). American
geneticist who
isolated a "Bittner milk factor" (1949) from the milk of certain mice, which strongly suggested that at least some viruses can cause cancer.
1909 - Lev Artsimovich was born (d. 1 Mar 1973). Russian
physicist who provided the basis of the Tokamak, a device capable of confining ultra-high temperature plasma suitable for research into controlled nuclear fusion.
1910 - Walt Woodward was born (d. 2001). Inspired the main character in David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling in Cedar. Publisher/editor of the Bainbridge Review from 1940 to 1961 in Washington State, he opposed Japanese internment during WWII, the only newspaper on the West coast to do so & a stance which cost him subscribers & advertising revenue in this small island community.
1913 - US: IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Paterson Silk Strike begins. The 1913 strike, which lasted over six months, eventually involved more than 24,000 workers & nearly 300 mills in Paterson.
1913 -
Jim Backus was born (d. 1989). American actor.
1913 -
Gert Fröbe was born (d. 1988). German actor.
- 1914 - John Arlott was born (d. 1991). English cricket journalist.
- 1915 - Charles Edwin Bessey dies (b. 21 May 1845). American botanist who introduced to the United States the systematic study of plant morphology and the experimental laboratory for botanical instruction on the college level.
- 1916 - Reinhard Bendix was born (d. 1991). German sociologist.
- 1917 - Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester (d. 1993). English novelist/critic, whose fiction is characterized by verbal inventiveness & social satire. His most famous book is A Clockwork Orange.
1918 -
Bobby Riggs was born (d. 1995). American tennis player.
- 1919 - Oregon places a 1 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1920 - James Gayley dies (b. 11 Oct 1855) American metallurgist who invented a device to ensure uniform humidity in the air stream going into blast furnaces .
1920 - Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy dies (b. 3 Aug 1844). French archaeologist and civil engineer who excavated the palaces of the ancient Persian kings Darius I the Great and Artaxerxes II at
Susa (modern Shush, Iran) in 1885.
1920 - William Faulkner poem "Fantoches" is published in "The Mississippian".
1922 -- Birthday of potato expert Donald MacLean, owner of a private collection of 367 varieties.
1921 -
Pierre Laporte was born. Canadian statesman, murdered by
FLQ terrorists in 1970.
1922 - Birthday of potato expert Donald MacLean, owner of a private collection of 367 varieties.
1924 - Hugh Esmor Huxley, was born. English molecular biologist whose
study (with Jean Hanson) of muscle ultrastructure using the techniques of X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy led him to propose the sliding-filament theory of muscle contraction.
1925 -
Edward Gorey was born (d. 2000). American illustrator.
1925 - Columbia Records (hoy Sony Music) hace la primera grabación musical eléctrica en
Nueva York,
Estados Unidos. Su intérprete fue el pianista y cantante estadounidense Art Gillham.
1926 - Francisco Franco es ascendido a general en España.
1926 - Author William Faulkner's first novel, Soldier's Pay, is published.
1929 -
Tommy Newsom was born (d. 2007). American bandleader.
- 1932 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1932 -
Faron Young was born (d. 1996). American singer.
1932 - Pierre Lariviere dies (b. 1884). French anarchist, painter & caricaturist who illustrated some of
Jean Grave's "Temps nouveaux".
1933 - Author Heinrich Mann publishes his first exposure of the Nazis after leaving Germany.
1934 -
Tony Lema was born (d. 1966). American golfer.
1934 - Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton dies (b. 9 Jan 1858). American
botanist known for her lasting contributions to bryology, the study of mosses.
- 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphael was born. American talk show host .
1935 - José Macia (Pepe) was born in Santos, São Paulo. Brazilian soccer player
1937 - Ras Desta Demtu, Haile Selassie's son-in-law, is executed by the Italian administration in Abyssinia.
1939 - Wilson Simonal was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer.
- 1940 - Billy Packer was born. American sports broadcaster.
1940 -
Ron Santo was born. American baseball player
1941 -
February strike: First general & physical protest against nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
1943 -
George Harrison was born (d. 29 Nov 2001). English musician (The Beatles) .
1943 - World War II: North Africa General Rommel's Afrika Corps are forced back through the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, only five days after they had broken through.
1944 - François Cevert was born (6 Oct 1973). French F 1 race car driver.
1944 -
António Damásio was born. Portuguese neurologist and neuroscientist.
- 1945 - Herbert Léonard was born. French singer
- 1948 - Communists took control of the government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1949 - Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after serving a 2-month sentence for marijuana possession.
1949 -
Ric Flair was born. American professional wrestler
1950 -
George Richards Minot dies (b. 2 Dec 1885). American
physician who
received (with George Whipple and William Murphy) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for the introduction of a raw-liver diet for to regenerate blood hemoglobin in the treatment of pernicious anemia, which was previously an invariably fatal disease.
1950 -
Neil Jordan was born. Director, writer, producer .
- 1952 - Inger Segelström was born. Swedish politician.
- 1952 - Joey Dunlop was born (d. 2000). Irish motorcycle racer.
- 1953 - Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky dies (b. 1 Sep 1856). Russian microbiologist who helped to establish bacteriology as a major biological science. He was first to isolate the bacteria responsible for nitrification and nitrogen fixation by soil bacteria (1890).
- 1954 - John Doe was born. American musician .
1954 - Regina Casé was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress
1958 -
Kurt Rambis was born. American basketball player
1960 -
Tony Grimaud was born. Maltese-born singer and songwriter
- 1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premiers, Middletown, Ct.
1960 - Lillian Hellman play "Toys in the Attic" opens on Broadway (556 perfs).
1961 -The United Arab Republic breaks of diplomatic relations with Belgium over the situation in the Congo.
1963 -
Nancy O'Dell was born. American reporter and television personality
1963 - Melville Jean Herskovits dies (b. 10 Sep 1895). American cultural anthropologist, born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, noted for having opened up the study of the New World Negro as a new field of research.
1963 - Vee Jay Records, a small Chicago-based label, releases the first Beatles record in the US, "Please Please Me" backed with "Ask Me Why." A smash in the UK, barely noticed in the US.
1964 -
Maurice Farman dies (b. 21 Mar 1877). French aircraft designer and manufacturer who contributed greatly to early aviation. In 1908, with his brother Henri, he made the first circular flight of over 1-km, completing a 1.6-km (one-mile) flight near Paris.
1966 -
Nancy O'Dell was born. American reporter and television personality.
- 1966 - Téa Leoni was born in New York. American actress (Switch, Bad Boys).
- 1968 - Sandrine Kiberlain was born. French actress.
- 1968 - Evridiki was born. Greek Cypriot singer
- 1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
1970 - Pedido de aprovação pelo Presidente da República dos estatutos da Associação para o Desenvolvimento Económico e Social (SEDES), apresentada por 147 individualidades, vindas da ala liberal do regime, de sectores católicos progressistas, e de correntes republicanas e socialistas .
1970 - US: Latvian-born American artist Mark Rothko commits suicide, New York City.
1970 - US: Isla Vista Bank of America burns. Riot in Isla Vista, California, protesting "Chicago 7" guilty verdicts, ends with the Bank of America in flames, part of nationwide upheavals since the verdicts came down on the 19th: with "half a million people in the streets"; explosions in three office buildings in NY; explosions in California, Washington, Maryland, Michigan.
1971 -
Theodor Svedberg dies (b. 30 Aug 1884). Swedish
chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926 for his
studies in the chemistry of colloids and for his invention of the ultracentrifuge which he introduced (1924) as a technique for investigating the molecular weights of very large molecules.
- 1973 - Justin Jeffre was born. American singer (98 Degrees)
1976 -
Rashida Jones was born. American actress, writer, model, musician
1977 - 240 US citizens in Uganda are held hostage by Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada.
- 1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. dies (b. 1920). American general.
1980 - The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independance from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
1980 - Se crea la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco".
1981 -
Apple Computer's first CEO
Michael Scott fired 40 employees from the
Apple II group personally, in belief that they were redundant. Following these actions, he was moved to position of Vice Chairman.
- 1982 - Maria Kanellis was born. American model and professional wrestler.
- 1985 - Joakim Noah was born. American basketball player.
- 1986 - People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.
1986 - Philippines: Mass demonstrations overthrow Marcos dictatorship, Manila.
1986 - Egypt: Thousands of military police riot & destroy two luxury hotels.
1989 - President Carlos Salinas frees around 1 000 political prisoners.
1989 - Hugo Casais dies. Portuguese baritone.
1991 -
Nigel Benn knocks out
Gerald McClellan to retain his WBC Super Middleweight title. The fight is marred by tragedy as McClellan suffers some irreversible brain damage.
1993 - Eric Clapton wins six Emmy Awards.
1993 - Rogério Paulo dies (b. 17 Nov. 1927 , in Angola). Portuguese actor.
- 1996 - Haing S. Ngor dies (b. 1940). Cambodian-born actor.
1999 - Korea: North Korean Woo Yong Gak, probably the world's longest-serving political prisoner, is released by South Korea after 41 years in solitary confinement.
- 2001 - Sir Donald Bradman dies (b. 1908). Australian cricketer .
2003 -
Tom O'Higgins dies (b. 1916). Irish Chief Justice twice defeated as a presidential candidate .
2003 -
Alberto Sordi dies (b. 1920). Italian comedy film legend .
2005 -
Peter Benenson dies (b. 1921). Founder of Amnesty International.
- 2006 - Darren McGavin dies (b. 1922). American actor.
2007 - 79th Annual Academy Awards
2007 -
William R. Anderson dies (b. 1921). Officer in The USA Navy, who was the skipper of the first nuclear submarine (USS Nautilus) and US Congressman
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