On this day in History - Mar. 16

• 0597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
• 0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, second Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (b. 46 B.C.E.) dies.
• 0455 - Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman emperor.
• 1021 - Heribert of Cologne dies. Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
• 1037 - Robert I dies. Archbishop of Rouen
• 1072 - Adalbert of Hamburg dies. German archbishop
• 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England.
• 1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
• 1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
• 1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford dies (b. 1276). English soldier.
• 1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick was born (d. 1401)
• 1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset dies (b. 1373)
• 1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg was born (d. 1510). Swiss-born preacher.
• 1457 - László Hunyadi dies (b. 1433). Hungarian statesman and warrior.
• 1473 - Henry IV the Pious was born (d. 1541). Duke of Saxony.
• 1485 - Anne Neville dies (b. 1456). Queen of Richard III of England.
• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines / O navegador português Fernando de Magalhães chegou às Filipinas.
• 1559 - Anthony St. Leger dies (b. 1496). Lord Deputy of Ireland.
• 1567 - Expulsão dos franceses do Rio de Janeiro (Ilha de Villegaignon), por Estácio de Sá.
• 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was born (d. 1647). Dutch historian and writer.
• 1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero was born (d. 1618). Dutch poet and playwright.
• 1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing. Moravian priest.
• 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
• 1631 - René Le Bossu was born (d. 1680). French critic.
• 1649 - Jean de Brébeuf dies (b. 1593). French Jesuit missionary.
• 1654 - Andreas Acoluthus was born (d. 1704). German orientalist.
• 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands.
• 1679 - John Leverett dies (b. 1616). Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was born (d. 1757). Queen consort in Prussia.
• 1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
• 1721 - James Craggs the Elder dies (b. 1657). English politician.
• 1734 - Aparece la "Gaceta de México", primer periódico publicado en el país.
• 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi dies (b. 1710). Italian composer.
• 1721 - James Craggs the Elder dies (b. 1657). English politician.
• 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi dies (b. 1710). Italian composer.
• 1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth dies (b. 1670). American President of Harvard University.
• 1737 - Convenção luso-espanhola sobre o incidente com o embaixador português, acontecido em 1735, por mediação da Inglaterra e da Holanda.
• 1738 - George Bähr dies (b. 1666). German architect.
• 1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst dies (b. 1690). Father of Catherine II of Russia
• 1750 - Caroline Herschel was born (d. 1848). German-born English astronomer,
• 1751 - James Madison was born (d. 1836). 4th President of the United States.
• 1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce was born (d. 1836). Argentine military leader and politician.
• 1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders was born (d. 1814). English explorer of the coasts of Australia.
• 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm was born (d. 1854). German physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law.
• 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• 1794 - Ami Boué was born (d. 1881). Austrian geologist.
• 1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan was born (d. 1846)
• 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
• 1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx was born (d. 1861). German philosopher and writer.
• 1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) : British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War.
• 1812 - Se inaugura en Buenos Aires la Biblioteca Pública, hoy Biblioteca Nacional, la primera de América.
• 1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1818 - Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
• 1819 - Nascimento do Visconde do Rio Branco (José Maria da Silva Paranhos (o pai), em Salvador-BA, no ano de 1819.
• 1822 - Rosa Bonheur was born (d. 1899). French realist painter and sculptor.
• 1825 - Camilo Castelo Branco was born (d. 1 Jun 1890). Portuguese writer. / Nasceu o escritor português Camilo Castelo Branco na freguesia dos Mártires, cidade de Lisboa. Foi um profissional das letras multifacetado, cuja obra o posicionou com uma das figuras mais eminentes da literatura portuguesa. (m. 01 de Junho de 1890, por suicídio, na freguesia de Ceide, Vila Nova de Famalicão).
• 1834 - James Hector was born (d. 1907). Scottish geologist.
• 1839 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme was born (d. 1907). French writer, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
• 1839 - John Butler Yeats was born (d. 1922). Northern Irish artist.
• 1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi was born (d. 1931). Japanese industrialist
• 1842 - João de Bragança, Duque de Beja was born (d. 1861). Portuguese infant and noble
• 1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler was born (d. 1927). Swedish mathematician.
• 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
• 1851 - Martinus Beijerinck was born (d. 1931). Dutch microbiologist and botanist.
• 1855 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded.
• 1856 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, was born (d. 1879). The only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France
• 1857 - Charles Harding Firth was born (d. 1936). British historian.
• 1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov was born (d. 1906). Russian physicist.
• 1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
• 1865 - The Battle of Averasborough: Confederate forces suffer unreplacable casualties
• 1865 - Patsy Donovan was born (d. 1953). Irish-American baseball player.
• 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
• 1869 - F. A. Forbes was born (d. 1936). Scottish author.
• 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
• 1877 - Reza Pahlavi was born (d. 1941). Shah of Iran.
• 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen was born (d. 1946). German archbishop of Münster and cardinal.
• 1883 - Ethel Anderson was born (d. 1958). Australian poet.
• 1888 - Hippolyte Carnot dies (b. 1801). French statesman.
• 1889 - Reggie Walker was born (d. 1951). South African athlete.
• 1890 - Solomon Mikhoels was born (d. 1948). Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee .
• 1890 - Zorka of Montenegro dies (b. 1864). Princess of Serbia.
• 1892 - César Vallejo was born (d. 1938). Peruvian poet. /Nace César Vallejo, na cidade de Santiago de Chuco del norte del Peru. Poeta, César Vallejo es acaso una de las figuras de mayor relieve dentro del vanguardismo hispánico. Muere en 1938 en Paris.
• 1892 - James Petrillo was born (d. 1984). Leader of the U.S. musicians union.
• 1892 - Samuel F. Miller dies (b. 1827). American politician.
• 1897 - Conrad Nagel was born (d. 1970). American actor.
• 1898 - Viktor Chaim Blerot was born (d. 1972). French/Swedish philosopher.
• 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley dies (b. 1872). British artist.
• 1899 - Joseph Medill dies (b. 1823). Business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago, Illinois.
• 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• 1901 - Edward Pawley was born. American actor.
• 1902 - Leon Roppolo was born (d. 1943). American jazz clarinetist.
• 1903 - Judge Roy Bean dies (b. c. 1825). American jurist and Old West pioneer.
• 1903 - Mike Mansfield was born (d. 2001). American politician, and diplomat.
• 1905 - Marlin Perkins was born (d. 1986). American naturalist.
• 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt was born (d. 1977). German actress.
• 1906 - Henny Youngman was born (d. 1998). American comedian.
• 1906 - Francisco Ayala was born. Spanish writer
• 1908 - René Daumal was born (d. 1944). French Surrealist writer.
• 1908 - Robert Rossen was born (d. 1966). American film director, screenwriter and producer.
• 1910 - Juan Dios Peza dies (b. 29 Jun 1852). Mexican poet.
• 1911 - Josef Mengele was born (d. 1979). Nazi war criminal.
• 1911 - Pierre Harmel was born. Belgian politician
• 1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
• 1912 - Pat Nixon was born (d. 1993). First Lady of the United States.
• 1914 - Charles Albert Gobat dies (b. 1843). Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902
• 1916 - 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of Pancho Villa.
• 1916 - Mercedes McCambridge was born (d. 2004). American actress.
• 1917 - Samael Aun Weor was born (d. 1977). Colombian writer.
• 1918 - Frederick Reines was born (d. 1998). American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics).
• 1920 - Leo McKern was born (d. 2002). British actor.
• 1920 - Traudl Junge was born (d. 2002). Hitler's secretary.
• 1920 - John Addison was born (d. 1998). British composer.
• 1920 - Dorothea Binz was born (d. 1947). Nazi war criminal.
• 1922 - Harding Lemay was born. American television scriptwriter and playwright
• 1924 - The free port of Fiume formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
• 1925 - Luis E. Miramontes was born (d. 2004). Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill.
• 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• 1926 - Jerry Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey. American actor, comedian.
• 1926 - Charles Goodell was born (d. 1987). American politician.
• 1926 - Sergeant Stubby dies. Decorated war dog from World War I
• 1927 - Vladimir Komarov was born (d. 1967). Russian cosmonaut
• 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born (d. 2003). Senator from New York.
• 1927 - Olga San Juan was born. American comedian
• 1927 - Manuel Cargaleiro was born. Portuguese painter and ceramist.
• 1928 - Christa Ludwig was born. German mezzo-soprano
• 1928 - Karlheinz Böhm was born. Austrian actor
• 1929 - Nadja Tiller was born. Austrian actress .
• 1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera dies (b. 1870). Spanish dictator.
• 1930 - Tommy Flanagan was born (d. 2001). American jazz pianist.
• 1931 - Betty Johnson was born. American singer
• 1931 - Augusto Boal was born. Brazilian dramatist, essayst and writer.
• 1932 - Don Blasingame was born (d. 2005). American baseball player and manager.
• 1932 - Walter Cunningham was born. American astronaut
• 1933 - Sandy Weill was born. American financier and philanthropist
• 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn was born (d. 2002). Governor-General of Canada
• 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• 1935 - John James Richard Macleod dies (b. 1876). Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1923.
• 1935 - Teresa Berganza was born. Spanish soprano.
• 1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch dies (b. 1886). Latvian-born chess player.
• 1935 - John James Richard Macleod dies (b. 1876). Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1936 - Fred Neil was born (d. 2001). American singer-songwriter.
• 1936 - Marguerite Durand dies (b. 1864). French journalist and feminist leader.
• 1937 - Amos Tversky was born (d. 1996). Israeli psychologist.
• 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
• 1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
• 1939 - Carlos Bilardo was born. Argentinian football coach
• 1940 - Chuck Woolery was born. Game show host .
• 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci was born. Italian film director
• 1940 - Jan Pronk was born. Dutch politician
• 1940 - Keith Rowe was born. English guitarist (AMM) and painter
• 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf dies (b. 1858). Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 .
• 1941 - Robert Guéï was born (d. 2002). Ruler of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1941 - Chuck Woolery was born. American game show host
• 1942 - First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)
• 1942 - James Soong was born. Taiwanese politician.
• 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker was born. American musician
• 1942 - Roger Crozier was born (d. 1996). Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
• 1943 - Kim Mu-saeng was born (d. 2005). South Korean actor.
• 1943 - Ursula Goodenough was born. Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist .
• 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
• 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
• 1945 - Börries von Münchhausen dies (b. 1874). German poet.
• 1946 - Michael Basman was born. English chess master.
• 1946 - Hubert Soudant was born. Dutch conductor.
• 1947 - Ramzan Paskayev was born. Chechen accordionist
• 1948 - Michael Bruce was born. American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper
• 1948 - Margaret Weis was born. American author.
• 1948 - Richard Desjardins was born. Quebec singer, songwriter and film director.
• 1949 - Elliott Murphy was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1949 - Erik Estrada was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1949 - Victor Garber was born. Canadian actor.
• 1949 - Sergio Denis was born. Argentine singer and composer.
• 1950 - Kate Nelligan was born. Canadian actress
• 1951 - Joe DeLamielleure was born. American football player
• 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
• 1952 - Philippe Kahn was born. French/American entrepreneur.
• 1953 - Isabelle Huppert was born. French actress.
• 1953 - Richard Stallman was born. American free software activist & founder of GNU .
• 1954 - Jimmy Nail was born. British actor and singer.
• 1954 - Nancy Wilson was born. American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart)
• 1955 - Jiro Watanabe was born. Japanese boxing world champion.
• 1955 - Bruno Barreto was born. Brazilian film director / Nascimento de Bruno Barreto , diretor do cinema brasileiro, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1955 - Nicolas de Staël dies (b. 1914). French-Russian painter.
• 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
• 1957 - Constantin Brancusi dies (b. 1876). Romanian sculptor.
• 1958 - Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• 1958 - Jorge Ramos was born. Mexican TV anchor
• 1959 - Flavor Flav was born. American rapper .
• 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg was born. Prime Minister of Norway.
• 1960 - Duane Sutter was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 - Todd McFarlane was born. Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
• 1961 - Brett Kenny was born. Australian rugby league footballer
• 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
• 1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead.
• 1963 - Jimmy Degrasso was born. American musician, drummer.
• 1963 - Kevin Smith was born (d. 2002). New Zealand actor.
• 1964 - Patty Griffin was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1964 - Gore Verbinski was born. American movie director.
• 1964 - Pascal Richard was born. Swiss cyclist.
• 1965 - Belén Rueda was born. Spanish actress.
• 1965 - Richard Daniel Roman was born. English songwriter and record producer
• 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
• 1967 - Lauren Graham was born. American actress
• 1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers - men, women, and children are killed by American troops.
• 1968 - General Motors releases its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
• 1968 - Secuestro del arzobispo de Guatemala Mario Casariego por el Movimiento Antiguerrillero Nuevo Orden.
• 1968 - Ananya Khare was born. Indian actress and teacher.
• 1968 - Gunnar Ekelöf dies (b. 1907). Swedish poet and writer.
• 1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco dies (b. 1895). Italian composer.
• 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155.
• 1970 - Publication of complete New English Bible.
• 1970 - Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson) was born. Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
• 1970 - Tammi Terrell dies (b. 1946). American Motown singer .
• 1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway
• 1971 - Alan Tudyk was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Thomas Dewey dies (b. 1902). American Presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948.
• 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
• 1973 - Brant Bjork was born. American musician (Kyuss)
• 1974 - Eclode uma tentativa de Golpe Militar com início no Regimento de Infantaria 5, sedeado nas Caldas da Rainha.
• 1974 - Georgios Anatolakis was born. Greek footballer
• 1974 - Fotini Vavatsi was born. Greek archer
• 1975 - Sienna Guillory was born. English actress
• 1975 - Richard W. DeKorte dies (b. 1936). American politician.
• 1975 - T-Bone Walker dies (b. 1910). American musician.
• 1976 - UK Prime Minister, Harold Wilson resigns.
• 1976 - Nick Spano was born. American actor
• 1976 - Abraham Núñez was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1977 - Donal Óg Cusack was born. Irish hurler
• 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt dies (b. 1917). Leader of the Lebanese Druze.
• 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
• 1978 - El Amoco Cádiz encalla y desparrama en el mar 233.000 toneladas de petróleo en las costas francesas.
• 1978 - La Soyuz 26 retorna a la Tierra.
• 1978 - Supertanker the Amoco Cadiz, split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history
• 1979 - Edison Méndez was born. Ecuadorian footballer
• 1979 - Rashad Moore was born. National Football League player
• 1979 - Leena Peisa was born. Finnish musician (Lordi)
• 1979 - Jean Monnet dies (b. 1888). French politician. / Morreu o ideólogo da Europa Unida, Jean Monet ( n. 1888 9 novembre) Jean Monnet naît à Cognac dans une famille de négociants d'eau de vie.
• 1980 - Todd Heap was born. American football player .
• 1980 - Felipe Reyes was born. Spanish basketball player
• 1980 - Tamara de Lempicka dies (b. 1898). Polish-born painter.
• 1981 - Andrew Bree was born. Irish swimmer
• 1981 - Curtis Granderson was born. American baseball player
• 1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
• 1983 - Brandon League was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Arthur Godfrey dies (b. 1903). American actor and television host.
• 1983 - Fred Rose dies (b. 1907). Canadian politician.
• 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
• 1984 - Levi Brown was born. American football player.
• 1984 - John Hoagland dies (b. 1947). American photographer.
• 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991. in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
• 1985 - Nicole Trunfio was born. Australian supermodel
• 1985 - Eddie Shore dies (b. 1902). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1986 - Ken Doane was born. American professional wrestler
• 1987 - Tiiu Kuik was born. Estonian model
• 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• 1988 - The Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000.
• 1988 - No Panamá, o General Manuel Antonio Noriega sobrevive à uma tentativa de golpe de estado que ele alegou ter sido incitado pelos Estados Unidos.
• 1989 - Peaches Geldof was born. English writer
• 1989 - Theo Walcott was born. English footballer
• 1990 - Início da Vigência do Cruzeiro ( Cr$ - o terceiro ), no ano de 1990 (Medida Provisória nº 168 de 15/03/1990).
• 1990 - James Bulger was born (d. 1993). British murder victim.
• 1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen was born. American musician
• 1992 - Carlie Brucia was born (d. 2004). Kidnap/murder victim.
• 1992 - Yves Rocard dies (b. 1903). French physicist.
• 1992 - Roger Lemelin dies (b. 1919). Quebec novelist and television writer.
• 1993 -Natália Correia dies (1923). Portuguese poetess and politician. /Natália Correia poetisa, romancista e política, morre em Lisboa. Açoreana, natural da Ilha de São Miguel, Natália de Oliveira Correia nasceu a 13 de Setembro de 1923. Figura importante da poesia portuguesa contemporânea, trabalha, também, a sua criatividade como ensaísta e romancista, passando pelo teatro e investigação literária .
• 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
• 1993 - Johnny Cymbal dies (b. 1945). American singer, songwriter and producer.
• 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1994 - Sierra McClain was born. American actress and singer
• 1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
• 1996 - Göran Persson is elected leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
• 1996 - Charlie Barnett dies (b. 1954). American actor.
• 1997 - Sandline affair - On Bougainville, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International
• 1997 - Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.
• 1997 - La Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) gana las elecciones legislativas y municipales en El Salvador.
• 1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
• 1998 - Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton dies (b. 1918) . British chemist, a joint recipient (with Odd Hassel of Norway) of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research that helped establish conformational analysis - the study of the 3-D geometric structure of complex molecules.
• 1999 - Gratien Gélinas dies (b. 1909). Quebec author, playwright, actor and director.
• 2000 - Thomas Ferebee dies (b. 1918). Hiroshima bombardier.
• 2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey.
• 2001 - Bob Wollek dies (b. 1943). French race car driver.
• 2001 - Norma MacMillan dies (1921). American voice actress.
• 2002 - Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah USA.
• 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
• 2003 - Rachel Corrie dies (b. 1979). American political activist.
• 2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson dies. Father of Sarah, Duchess of York.
• 2004 - Vilém Tauský dies (b. 1910). Czech conductor and composer.
• 2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
• 2005 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts.
• 2005 - Todd Bell dies (b. 1958). American football player.
• 2005 - Ralph Erskine dies (b. 1914). British architect (Byker Wall)
• 2005 - Anthony George dies (b. 1921). American TV actor.
• 2005 - Allan Hendrickse dies (b. 1927). South African politician.
• 2005 - Dick Radatz dies (b. 1937). American baseball player.
• 2006 - New Kitakyushu Airport in Japan will be in operation from this day on.
• 2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
• 2006 - David Feintuch dies (b. 1944). American sci-fi author.
• 2007 - Manjural Islam dies (b. 1984). Bangladeshi test cricket player.
• Latvia - The controversial Latvia Legions are celebrated in Latvia, where about 140,000 men joined the Waffen SS National Legions during World War II. Since February 23, 2000, this day is no longer an official celebration day.
• St. Urho's Day - the fictional patron saint of Finnish immigrants to the US, created by Richard Mattson in 1956
• The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome