On this day in History - Apr. 08

• 0563 BC - Gautama Buddha was born (d. 483 BC). Religious leader.
• 0217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
• 0956 - Gilbert of Chalon dies. Duke of Burgundy
• 1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
• 1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
• 1141 - Matilde de Inglaterra, emperatriz consorte del Sacro Imperio, es reconocida como "dama de Inglaterra y de Normandía".
• 1143 - John II Comnenus dies (b. 1087). Byzantine Emperor
• 1149 - Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
• 1271 - In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
• 1320 - King Peter I of Portugal was born (d. 1367).
• 1336 - Tamerlán was born. Soberano mongol.
• 1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome.
• 1364 - King John II of France dies (b. 1319).
• 1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI.
• 1378 - La elección de dos papas provoca el cisma de occidente que durará 39 años.
• 1455 - Se elije como papa al cardenal Alfonso de Borja, que llevará el nombre de Calixto III.
• 1460 - Ponce de Léon was born. Spanish, first European to land in Florida (near St. Augustine)
• 1461 - Georg Purbach dies (b. 1423). German mathematician and astronomer
• 1492 - Lorenzo de Medici dies (b. 1449). Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic (b. 1449).
• 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain.
• 1533 - Claudio Merulo was born (d. 1604). Italian composer.
• 1541 - Michele Mercati was born (d. 1593). Italian physician and gardener.
• 1546 - El Concilio de Trento adopta la Vulgata como versión oficial de La Biblia.
• 1586 - Martin Chemnitz dies (b. 1522). Lutheran reformer and theologian.
• 1587 - John Foxe dies (b. 1516). English writer.
• 1605 - King Philip IV of Spain (III of Portugal) was born (d.1665) / Nascia o que veio a ser o Rei Filipe IV de Espanha, III de Portugal.
• 1631 - Cornelis Janszoon de Heem was born (d. 17 May 1695).Dutch painter specialized in Still Life.
• 1641 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney was born (d. 1704). English statesman.
• 1655 - Nascia Luis Guillermo I, margrave de Baden.
• 1691 - Carlo Rainaldi dies (b. 1611). Italian architect.
• 1692 - Giuseppe Tartini was born (d. 1770). Italian composer and violinist.
• 1695 - Johann Christian Günther was born. German poet.
• 1697 - Niels Juel dies (b. 1629). Danish admiral.
• 1701 - Las Cortes Españolas reconocen a Felipe V de Borbón como rey de España.
• 1704 - Hiob Ludolf dies (b. 1624). German orientalist
• 1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney dies (b. 1641). English statesman.
• 1725 - John Wise dies (b. 1652). English clergyman.
• 1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
• 1732 - David Rittenhouse was born (d. 1796). American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician.
• 1735 - Francis II Rákóczi dies (b. 1676). Leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg.
• 1736 - Pedro Vaz Rego dies (b. 1673). Portugueses composer.
• 1741 - José Basílio da Gama was born in São José do rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais (d. 31 Jul 1795). Brazilian - born Portuguese poet (O Uraguai).
• 1742 - The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio The Messiah, in Dublin.
• 1767 - Ayutthaya kingdom fell to Burmese invaders.
• 1776 - Vasili Golovnin was born (d. 1831). Russian vice-admiral and navigator who explored the coasts of Kamchatka and Alaska.
• 1783 - La zarina Catalina II anexa Crimea a Rusia.
• 1784 - Dionisio Aguado was born. Spanish classical guitarist and composer.
• 1795 - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, was born.
• 1802 - Promulgación del concordato firmado entre Napoleón Bonaparte y el papa Pio VII.
• 1815 - Andrew Graham was born († 05 Nov 1908). Irish astronomer.
• 1818 - King Christian IX of Denmark was born (d. 1906).
• 1818 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann was born. German chemist.
• 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
• 1826 - Pancha Carrasco was born (d. 1890). Costa Rican war heroine.
• 1827 - Ramón Emeterio Betances was born (d. 1898). Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat.
• 1832 - Alfred Waldersee was born. Prussian fieldmarshal.
• 1832 - Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
• 1835 - Wilhelm von Humboldt dies. German erudit and politician.
• 1838 - Brunel's 236 foot steamship Great Western leaves Bristol for New York on her maiden voyage.
• 1842 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer was born (d. 1933). Wife of George Armstrong Custer.
• 1848 - Battle of Goito, part of the Italian Wars of Independence.
• 1848 - Gaetano Donizetti dies (b. 1797). Italian composer.
• 1857 - Mangal Pandey dies. Indian soldier.
• 1859 - Edmund Husserl was born (d. 1938). Austrian philosopher.
• 1861 - Irving Ramsey Wiles was born in Utica, New York (d. 1948). US painter, mostly of portraits.
• 1861 - Elisha Otis dies (b. 1811). US elevator builder.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield - Union General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign is thwarted by Confederate General Richard Taylor's forces at Mansfield, Louisiana.
• 1865 - Charles W. Woodworth was born (d. 1940). American entomologist.
• 1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
• 1866 - Fritz Mackensen was born. Germain painter.
• 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris.
• 1867 - Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was born (d. 02 Sep 1943). Australian painter, specialized in Landscapes.
• 1868 - King Christian IX of Denmark was born (d. 1906).
• 1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (New York NY).
• 1869 - Harvey Cushing was born (d. 1939). American neuorosurgeon.
• 1870 - Charles de Bériot dies (b. 1802). Belgian composer.
• 1871 - Clarence Hudson White was born (d. 1925). American photographer.
• 1871 - Muere por contagio en sus servicios médicos durante la epidemia de fiebre amarilla, el Dr. Francisco Javier Muñiz, precursor de la paleontología argentina.
• 1872 - Ivan Bloch was born (d. 1922) physician.
• 1874 - Stanisław Taczak was born. Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) against the Germans (d.1960).
• 1875 - King Albert I of Belgium was born (d. 1934).
• 1876 - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda", premieres in Milan.
• 1879 - Heinrich Reimers was born († 22 Jul 1942). German publisher.
• 1883 - R. P. Keigwin was born (d. 1972). English academic.
• 1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Home Rule bill into the House of Commons.
• 1889 - Sir Adrian Boult was born (d. 1983). British conductor. English conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra director).
• 1892 - Mary Pickford was born (d. 1979). Actress, studio founder. Her biography in pdf file
• 1892 - Richard Joseph Neutra was born (d. 1970). American architect.
• 1893 - First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.
• 1894 - Raymond Schwartz, was born. French comedian.
• 1895 - The United States Supreme Court declared income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
• 1895 - Manuel Joaquim Pinheiro Chagas dies (b. 13 Nov 1842 in Lisbon, Portugal). Portuguese writer and politician.
• 1896 - Yip Harburg was born (d. 1981). American lyricist.
• 1899 - Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
• 1902 - Hermann Ahrens was born. German politician.
• 1904 - The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• 1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
• 1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• 1904 - John Hicks was born (d. 1989). British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
• 1905 - Helen Joseph was born (d. 1992). South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1905 - Erwin Keller was born (d. 1971). German field hockey player.
• 1906 - Tratado de Algeciras entre a França e a Espanha, estabelecendo as respectivas zonas de controlo do Protectorado sobre Marrocos.
• 1906 - Raoul Jobin was born (d. 1974). French Canadian tenor.
• 1908 - King Edward VII appoints Liberal politician Herbert Asquith as British Prime Minister following the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• 1908 - Hugo Fregonese was born (d. 1987). Argentine film director.
• 1910 - The Los Angeles Motordome opened near Playa del Rey, California.
• 1910 - George Musso was born (d. 2000). American football player.
• 1911 - Emil Cioran was born (d. 1995). Romanian philosopher and essayist.
• 1911 - Melvin Calvin was born (d. 1997). American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1912 - Alois Brunner was born. Austrian Nazi.
• 1912 - Sonja Henie was born (d. 1969). Norwegian figure skater (Olympic and World Champion).
• 1913 - The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified requiring direct election of Senators.
• 1914 - María Félix was born. Mexican actress.
• 1914 - US and Colombia sign a treaty concerning the Panamá Canal Zone.
• 1916 - In Corona, California, auto racer Bob Burman crashed through a crowd barrier at the last Boulevard Race, killing himself, his mechanic and a track policeman, and badly injuring five spectators.
• 1918 - World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York, New York's financial district.
• 1918 - Betty Ford was born. First Lady of the United States.
  
• 1918 - Glendon Swarthout was born (d. 1992). Award-winning American author.
• 1919 - Ian Smith was born. Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
  
• 1919 - Loránd Eötvös dies (b. 1848). Hungarian physicist.
• 1920 - Carmen McRae was born (d. 1994). American jazz singer.
• 1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes dies (b. 1884). American composer.
• 1921 - Alfie Bass was born (d. 1987). English actor.
• 1921 - Franco Corelli was born (d. 2003). Italian tenor.
• 1921 - Jan Novák was born (d. 1984). Czech composer.
• 1922 - Erich von Falkenhayn dies. German militar.
• 1923 - Tom Ford was born. American industrialist.
• 1923 - George Fisher was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist.
• 1923 - Edward Mulhare was born (d. 1997). Irish actor.
• 1924 - Frédéric Back was born. German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter.
• 1924 - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley was born (d. 2006). English soldier and historian.
• 1925 - Helmut Schmid was born in Neu-Ulm (d. 18 July 1992). German actor.
• 1926 - Henry N. Cobb was born. American architect.
• 1926 - Shecky Greene was born. American comedian.
• 1926 - Jürgen Moltmann was born. German theologian.
• 1928 - Se juega el primer Clásico del fútbol peruano entre los equipos de Alianza Lima y Universitario de Deportes.
• 1928 - Leah Rabin was born (d. 2000). Wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
• 1928 - Monty Sunshine was born. English jazz clarinetist.
• 1929 - Walter Berry was born (d. 2000). Austrian bass-baritone.
• 1929 - Jacques Brel was born (d. 1978). Belgian singer and composer.
• 1929 - Renzo de Felice was born (d. 1996). Italian historian.
• 1929 - Indian Independence Movement At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw handouts, and bombs in a corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest. / Los activistas favorables a la independencia de la India, Bhagat Singh y Batukeshwar Dutt, reparten octavillas y bombas en los pasillos de la Asamblea Central en Delhi sin causar heridos.
• 1930 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma was born. French-born fascist.
• 1931 - John Gavin was born. American actor and politician.
• 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt dies (b. 1864). Swedish poet. Nobel Prize 1931.
• 1932 - Jean-Paul Rappeneau was born in Auxerre. French director.
• 1933 - Fred Ebb was born (d. 2004). American composer.
• 1934 - Kisho Kurokawa was born. Japanese architect.
• 1935 - The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
• 1935 - Albert Bustamante was born. American politician.
• 1935 - Avi Primor was born in Tel Aviv. Israeli diplomat and publicist.
• 1935 - Ted de Braak was born. Dutch TV presenter and cabaret actor.
• 1936 - Klaus Löwitsch was born in Berlin († 3 Dec. 2002). German actor.
• 1936 - Robert Bárány dies (b. 1876). Austrian physician, Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
• 1937 - Seymour Hersh was born. American journalist.
• 1938 - Joe "King" Oliver dies (b. 1885). American jazz musician.
• 1938 - Kofi Annan was born. Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General.
• 1938 - Em França, a Frente Popular dissolveu-se.
• 1940 - World War II :Great Britain and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships.
• 1940 - Álvaro Domecq Romero was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. Rejoneador bullfighter.
• 1940 - John Havlicek was born. American basketball player.
• 1941 - Darlene Gillespie was born. Canadian-born American actress.
• 1941 - Peggy Lennon was born. American singer (The Lennon Sisters).
• 1941 - Vivienne Westwood was born. British fashion designer.
• 1941 - Eugene Marcel Prévost dies (b. 1 May 1862). French author, writer and dramatist.
• 1942 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
• 1942 - World War II: the Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
• 1942 - Douglas Trumbull was born. American film director.
• 1942 - Roger Chapman was born in Leicester. British rock singer.
• 1942 - Kostas Skarvelis dies (b. 1880). Greek songwriter.
• 1943 - US President Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
• 1943 - Miller Farr was born. American football player.
• 1943 - Michael Bennett was born (d. 1987). American dancer, choreographer, and theater director.
• 1943 - Tony Banks was born (d. 2006).British politician.
• 1944 - Christoph Hein was born. German writer.
• 1944 - Barbara Kingsolver was born. American writer.
• 1944 - Hywel Bennett was born. Welsh actor.
• 1944 - Odd Nerdrum was born. Norwegian painter.
• 1945 - No Brasil é fundado o Partido Social-Democrata (PSD) por interventores estaduais nomeados por Getulio Vargas durante o Estado Novo.
• 1945 - Hans von Dohnanyi, morre. Jurista e lutador da resistencia alemã.
• 1945 - Melitta Gräfin Schenk von Stauffenberg dies. German pilot and engineer.
• 1945 - Lizzi Waldmüller dies. German actress.
• 1945 - At the POW camp at Flossenbürg, pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged.
• 1945 - El pastor y teólogo Dietrich Bonhoeffer es colgado en el campo de prsioneros de guerra de Flossenbürg.
• 1945 - Derrick Walker was born. British racing team owner.
• 1946 - The last meeting of the League of Nations , the precursor of the United Nations , is held.
• 1946 - Catfish Hunter was born (d. 1999). Baseball pitcher.
• 1946 - Stuart Pankin was born. American actor.
• 1946 - Tim Thomerson was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Larry Norman was born. American singer/songwriter.
• 1947 - Pascal Lamy was born. French politician, Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
  
• 1947 - Robert Kiyosaki was born. American investor.
• 1947 - Steve Howe was born. English guitarist (Yes, Asia, GTR).
• 1948 - Patty Pravo was born. Italian singer.
• 1948 - Danuta Hübner was born. Polish politician.
• 1948 - Michael Leshner was born. Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate.
• 1949 - Reg Isidor was born. British musician.
• 1949 - John Madden was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. English director and actor.
• 1949 - Brenda Russell was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1949 - Ulrich Salchow was borm. Swedish skier.
• 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky dies (b. 1890). Polish-born ballet dancer.
• 1950 - India and Pakistan sign the Pact of Delhi.
  
• 1950 - Grzegorz Lato was born. Former Polish footbal (soccer) player.
• 1951 - Mel Schacher was born. American musician.
• 1951 - Gerd Andres was born. German politician.
• 1952 - In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.
• 1952 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
• 1953 - Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
• 1954 - Gary Carter was born. American baseball player.
• 1954 - Un avión de pasajeros a reacción, un Havilland DH 106 Comet, cae cerca de Nápoles produciendo 21 victimas mortales. Es el segundo en cuatro meses.
• 1955 - Barbara Kingsolver was born. American novelist.
• 1955 - Kane Hodder was born. American actor and stuntman.
• 1955 - Ricky Bell was born (d. 1984). American football player.
• 1955 - David Wu was born. Taiwanese-born American politician.
• 1956 - Christine Boisson was born. French actress.
• 1956 - Jim Piddock was born. English actor, writer and producer.
• 1956 - Vicente Paulo da Silva (Vicentinho) was born. Brazilian sindicalist and politician.
• 1957 - Andrea Ypsilanti was born. German politician (SPD).
• 1957 - Egypt: the Suez Canal is reopened.
• 1957 - Fred Smerlas was born. American football player.
• 1959 - The Inter-American Devolpment Bank is established / Se constituye el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID, organismo financiero con sede en Washington, Estados Unidos, formado por todos los países pertenecientes a la Organización de Estados Americanos OEA.
• 1960 -The U.S. Senate approves a civil rights bill despite Southern senators' marathon filibuster effort.
• 1960 - John Schneider was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Richard Hatch was born. American reality television personality.
• 1962 - Izzy Stradlin was born. American musician (Guns N' Roses).
• 1963 - 35th Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Frank Sinatra: "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft and Gregory Peck win.
• 1963 - Alec Stewart was born. English cricketer.
• 1963 - Julian Lennon was born. English musician and singer.
• 1963 - Seth Tobias was born (d. 2007). American financial commentator.
• 1963 - Terry Porter was born. American basketball player and coach.
• 1964 - Biz Markie was born. American rapper and disc jockey.
• 1964 - John McGinlay was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1964 - Lisa Guerrero was born. American sports broadcaster.
• 1965 - Michael Niko Jones was born. New Zealand rugby player and coach.
• 1965 - Lars Hanson dies (b. 1886). Swedish actor.
• 1966 - Bobby Ologun was born. Nigerian television personality and martial artist.
• 1966 - Mark Blundell was born. British racing driver.
• 1966 - Mazinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1966 - Robin Wright Penn was born. American actress.
• 1966 - OAO 1, the 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched.
• 1966 - Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of communist party.
• 1966 - El comité central del partido comunista de la Unión Soviética elije de forma unánime a Leonid Brezhnev como secretario general.
• 1967 - In Vienna, Austria, Sandie Shaw wins the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Puppet on a String".
• 1967 - Arwyn Davies was born. Welsh actor.
• 1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect.
• 1968 - 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968 - Patricia Arquette was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Tracy Grammer was born. American folk singer.
• 1969 - Arabella Kiesbauer was born. Austrian TV presenter, writer and actress.
• 1970 - Sami Lukis was born. Australian journalist and television presenter.
• 1971 - A 6 pound meteorite struck the home of Robert and Wanda Donahue in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
• 1971 - Chino XL was born. American rapper.
• 1971 - Craig Mazin was born. American screenwriter and director.
• 1972 - Kjell Isaksson, Suecia, bate con 5,51 m el record del mundo de salto de altura masculino.
• 1972 - Paul Gray was born. American bassist (Slipknot).
• 1973 - 32 terrorist bombings in Cyprus / Durante la noche, se suceden 32 atentados en la isla de Chipre. Se ignora si son obra de los guerrilleros de George Grivas o de los secuaces del arzobispo Makarios.
• 1973 - Alex S. Gonzalez was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Emma Caulfield was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Khaled Badra was born. Tunisian footballer.
• 1973 - Pablo Picasso [Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso] dies. Spanish painter and sculptor, born on 25 October 1881. Picasso is generally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was unique as an inventor of forms, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists in history. He created more than 20'000 works.
• 1974 - At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.
• 1974 - Holger Hott Johansen was born. Norwegian orienteerist.
• 1974 - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu was born. Nigerian American writer.
• 1974 - James Charles McGuigan dies (b. 1894). Catholic archbishop of Toronto.
• 1975 - Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians manages his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
• 1975 - Vietnam War: After spending a week in South Vietnam, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand gives a report to the U.S. Congress that South Vietnam will fall without additional military aid.
• 1975 - 47th Academy Awards: Godfather II, Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win.
• 1975 - Anouk was born. Dutch singer.
• 1975 - Timo Pérez was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1976 - Tieme Klompe was born. Dutch soccer player.
• 1977 - Ana de la Reguera was born. Mexican actress.
• 1977 - Mark Spencer was born. American computer programmer.
• 1977 - Mehran Ghassemi was born (d. 2008). Iranian journalist.
• 1978 - Bernt Haas was born. Swiss footballer.
• 1978 - Ford Frick dies (b. 1894). American baseball commissioner.
• 1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC.
• 1979 - Alexi Laiho was born. Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
• 1979 - Jeremy Guthrie was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - Portugal: O Conselho da Revolução considera inconstitucional o diploma do governo da AD, dirigido por Sá Carneiro, que visa alterar a delimitação dos sectores público e privado.
• 1980 - Manuel Ortega was born. Austrian singer.
• 1980 - Grace Park was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Katee Sackhoff was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Adam Brody was born in San Diego, Califórnia. American actor.
• 1981 - Brian Burres was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Taylor Kitsch was born. Canadian actor and model.
• 1981 - Eric Rodgers dies (b. 25 Sep 1921). English composer.
• 1981 - Morre Elvira Velez (nasceu em 19 November 1892 em Lisboa, Portugal). Actriz [Pupilas do Senhor Reitor, As (1961); Encontro com a Vida (1960); Primo Basílio, O (1959); Agora É Que São Elas (1954) ; Três Mosqueteiros sketch, Comissário de Polícia, O (1953); Duas Causas (1953) ; Três Dias Sem Deus (1946) ; Um Homem às Direitas (1945) ; Sorte Grande (1938) ; Aldeia da Roupa Branca (1938) ].
• 1981 - Omar Bradley dies (b. 1893). U.S. general.
• 1982 - Judy Star was born. Canadian pornographic film actress.
• 1983 - Adrian Bellani was born. American actor.
• 1983 - Allu Arjun was born. Indian film actor.
• 1983 - Omar Bradley dies (b. 1893). U. S. general.
• 1984 - Júlia Liptáková was born. Slovakian model.
• 1984 - Kirsten Storms was born. American actress.
• 1984 - Taran Noah Smith was born. American actor.
• 1984 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa dies (b. 1894). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1985 - Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
• 1985 - J. Fred Coots dies (b. 1897). American songwriter.
• 1986 - Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California receiving 72% of the vote (voter turnout was also doubled over the previous mayoral election).
• 1986 - Erika Sawajiri was born. Japanese actress and model.
• 1986 - Felix Hernandez was born. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1986 - Igor Akinfeev was born. Russian football player.
• 1986 - Yukiko Okada dies (b. 1967). Japanese idol singer.
• 1987 - Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid great controversy over racially-charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
• 1987 - Royston Drenthe was born. Dutch footballer
• 1987 - Tony Black was born. American actor.
• 1989 - South Africa In Johannesburg, the Progressive Federal Party, Independent party, National Democratic Movement and the force of "Ontevrede Afrikaners" or dissatisfied Afrikaners merged to form the Democratic Party.
• 1989 - The two Greek Communist Parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the Coalition of the Left, of Social Movements and Ecology in Greece.
• 1989 - Hitomi Takahashi was born. Japanese singer
• 1990 - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
• 1990 - Twin Peaks premieres.
• 1990 - 54th Golf Masters Championship Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278 .
• 1990 - Ryan White dies (b. 1971). American AIDS activist.
• 1991 - Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin dies (b. 1969). Swedish musician ( Mayhem)
• 1992 - Após testes de impressão digital, as autoridades alemãs e israelitas afirmam estar certos que o nazista Josef Mengele morreu no Brasil, em 1979.
• 1992 - Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces to the world that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
• 1992 - Shelby Young was born. American actress.
• 1992 - Daniel Bovet dies (b. 1907). Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate.
• 1993 - La República de Macedonia se convierte en miembro de la ONU.
• 1993 - Marian Anderson dies (b. 1897). American contralto.
• 1994 - Body of Kurt Cobain is discovered in his Washington home after having died three days earlier. Lead singer of rock band Nirvana.
• 1994 - Juan Pablo II inaugura la restaurada Capilla Sixtina, cuyas obras de restauración duraron trece años.
• 1994 - Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns.
• 1994 - François Rozet dies (b. 1899). French Canadian actor.
• 1995 - Patricia Arquette / Nicolas Cage wed.
• 1995 - Portugal: Em Santa Maria da Feira é inaugurado o Centro de Congressos do Europarque, empreendimento da AIPortuense.
• 1996 - Ben Johnson dies (b. 1918). American actor.
• 1996 - George W. Jenkins dies (b. 1907). American businessman.
• 1996 - León Klimovsky dies (b. 1906). Argentine film director.
• 1997 - Laura Nyro dies (B. 1947). American singer and composer.
• 1999 - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
• 2000 - Claire Trevor dies (b. 1910). American actress.
• 2000 - A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes during landing at Marana, Arizona killing 19.
• 2001 - 65th Golf Masters Championship Winner: Tiger Woods.
• 2002 - Ed McMahon files a US$20 million lawsuit against his insurance company and others regarding a toxic mold infecting McMahon's Beverly Hills, California home.
• 2002 - Mark Shuttleworth the second space tourist was officially introduce to Russian and foreign journalists at the preflight press conference in Star City.
• 2002 - Launched Minuteman-3 the intercontinental ballistic missile.
• 2002 - Atlantis Space Shuttle manned by Bloomfield Michael John, Frick Stephen Nathaniel, Wailheim Rex Joseph, Ochoa Ellen Lauri, Morin Lee Miller, Ross Jerry Lynn, Smith Steven Lee was launched.
• 2002 - María Félix dies on her 88th anniversary (b. 08 Apr. 1914). Mexican actress.
• 2003 - José Couso, camarógrafo español y Taras Prostyuk camarógrafo de Reuters, mueren como consecuencia del ataque de un tanque de Estados Unidos al Hotel Palestina de Bagdad.
• 2003 - Anita Borg dies (b. 1949). American computer scientist.
• 2003 - Maki Ishii dies. Japanese composer.
• 2003 - Franz Rosenthal dies. German distinguished semitist, arabist and Islamist. President of the AOS.
• 2003 - Las tropas inglesas ocupan Bassora en la segunda guerra de Iraq.
• 2004 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
• 2004 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission .
• 2004 - En las elecciones de Argelia, la lucha entre el presidente saliente Abdelaziz Bouteflika y el ex primer ministro Ali Benflis, que ha dividido al Frente Nacional Argelino, se resuelve a favor del primero, bajo fuertes sospechas de fraude electoral.
• 2004 - Bruce Edwards dies from complications of ALS. American golf caddie.
• 2004 - Enda Colleran dies (b. 1941). Gaelic footballer.
• 2004 - Herb Andress dies (b. 10 Jan. 1935). Austrian actor.
• 2005 - Leah Isadora Behn was born. Member of Norway's Royal Family.
• 2005 - Funeral of Pope John Paul II.
• 2005 - Eddie Miksis dies (b. 1926). Baseball player.
• 2005 - Onna White dies (b. 1924). Canadian choreographer.
• 2006 - Shedden massacre: the bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
• 2006 - Gerard Reve dies (b. 1923). Dutch writer.
• 2007 - Carey W. Barber dies (b. 1905). A member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• 2008 - The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines completes, in Bahrain.
• Buddha's Birthday in Japan.
  
• International Day of the Roma.