On this day in History - Oct. 1

• 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela
• 0208 - Alexandre Severo was born († 0235). Roman emperor
• 0366 - Eleição de São Dâmaso I, papa até 11 de Dezembro de 0384. Nasceu em Idanha, no actual território de Portugal, por volta do ano 304, sendo o 37.º pontífice romano. Era irmão de Santa Irene.
• 0642 - Subida ao trono do rei visigodo Chindasvinto.
• 0911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
• 0959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
• 0959 - King Edwin of England dies (b. 0941).
• 0965 - John XIII becomes Pope.
• 1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany dies poisoned (b. 0997).
• 1061 - Alexander II is elected Pope.
• 1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Templars since 1184 is killed in the Siege of Acre
• 1207 - Henry III of England was born († 1272).
• 1273 - Rudolf of Hapsburg was elected emperor in Germany.
• 1310 - Beatrice of Burgundy dies (b. 1257). Lady of Bourbon.
• 1404 - Pope Boniface IX dies (b. 1356)
• 1470 - Nascia Isabel de Aragão, filha de Fernando V e de Isabel I de Castela († 1498)
• 1471 - Frederick I of Denmark was born († 1573).
• 1499 - Marsilio Ficino dies (b. 1433). Italian philosopher.
• 1500 - John Alcock dies. English Catholic bishop
• 1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born ( † 1573). Italian architect .
• 1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus was born (d. 1617). Swiss protestant clergyman.
• 1549 - Anna of H Bartolomaeus was born. She was a Flemish prioress and founded a nunnery.
• 1567 - Pietro Carnesecchi dies (b. 1508). Italian humanist.
• 1570 - Frans Floris dies (b. 1520). Flemish painter.
• 1574 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen dies (b. 1498). Dutch painter.
• 1577 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen was born (d. 1622). Swiss friar, martyr, and saint.
• 1578 - Don John of Austria dies (b. 1547). Military leader.
• 1588 - Execution of Blessed Edward James, Christian martyr.
• 1609 - Giammateo Asola dies. Italian composer.
• 1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born (d. 1683). Dutch painter.
• 1644 - Alessandro Stradella was born (d. 1682). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1671 - Guido Grandi was born (d. 1742). Italian mathematician.
• 1684 - Pierre Corneille dies (b. 1606). French author.
• 1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor was born (d. 1740).
• 1691 - Arthur Onslow was born (d. 1768). English politician.
• 1693 - Pedro Abarca dies (b. 1619). Spanish theologian.
• 1708 - John Blow dies (b. 1649). British composer.
• 1730 - Richard Stockton was born. American attorney, signer of the Daclaration of Independence
• 1760 - William Thomas Beckford was born (d. 1844). English writer and politician.
• 1768 - Robert Simson dies (b. 1687). Scottish mathematician.
• 1771 - Pierre Baillot was born (d. 1842). French violinist and composer.
• 1774 - Marquês de Pombal publica decreto que sepulta a Inquisição portuguesa.
• 1775 - Execução de João Batista Pele, acusado de ter planeado um atentado contra o Marquês de Pombal.
• 1777 - Assinatura do tratado de Santo Ildefonso entre Portugal e Espanha.
• 1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
• 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam
• 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
• 1791 - Sergei Aksakov was born (d. 1859). Russian writer.
• 1795 - Belgium is conquered by France
• 1795 - Robert Bakewell dies (b. 1725). English agriculturist who revolutionized sheep and cattle breeding in England by methodical selection, inbreeding, and culling.
• 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via Treaty of San Ildefonso
• 1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius was born (d. 1861). Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism
• 1801 - O Tratado de Amiens é assinado pondo fim ao conflito começado na Primavera de 1792 com as sucessivas declarações de guerra da França revolucionária às potências europeias
• 1804 - William Stokes was born (d. 10 Jan 1878). Physician and the leading representative of the Irish, or Dublin, school of anatomical diagnosis, which emphasized clinical examination of patients in forming a diagnosis
• 1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans.
• 1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
• 1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
• 1827 - Walter Howell Deverell was born. American painter.
• 1829 - South African College founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to become the University of Cape Town.
• 1833 - Luísa Todi died. Portuguese opera singer.
• 1835 - Júlio César Machado was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1835 - Ádám Politzer was born (d. 1920). Austrian physician.
• 1837 - Nicolás Avellaneda was born. President of Argentine.
• 1837 - Robert Clark dies (b. 1777). American politician.
• 1838 - Charles Tennant dies (b. 1768). Scottish chemist and industrialist.
• 1842 - Charles Cros was born ( d. 9 Aug 1888). French inventor and poet whose work in several fields foreshadowed or paralleled important developments.
• 1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
• 1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske
• 1847 - Maria Mitchell was born. American astronomer, discovered a new comet that was named after herself. She was elected the same day to the American Academy of Arts--the first woman to be so honored.
• 1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
• 1862 - Esther Boise Van Deman was born (d. 3 May 1937). American archaeologist.
• 1864 - Rose Greenhow dies (b. 1817). American Confederate spy.
• 1864 - Juan José Flores y Aramburu dies. President of Ecuador
• 1865 - Paul Dukas was born (d. 1935). French composer.
• 1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," was published.
• 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
• 1876 - James Lick dies (b. 1796). California land baron.
• 1878 - Othmar Spann was born (d. 1950). Austrian philosopher and economist.
• 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band
• 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison
• 1881 - William Boeing was born (d. 1956). American engineer.
• 1885 - Louis Untermeyer was born (d. 1977). American author.
• 1886 - U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada closes.
• 1886 - Paul Morgan was born († 1938). Austrian actor and comedian.
• 1887 - Baluchistan conquered by the British Empire
• 1888 - National Geographic magazine published for 1st time.
• 1889 - Nagoya is founded.
• 1889 - Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms.
• 1890 - The Yosemite National Park is established by Congress.
• 1890 - Stanley Holloway was born (d. 1982). British actor.
• 1891 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
• 1892 - Emilio Pettoruti was born. Argentine painter.
• 1893 - Cliff Friend was born (d. 1974). American songwriter.
  
• 1893 - Yip Man was born (d. 1972). Martial Arts Master.
  
• 1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
• 1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan was born (d. 1951). First Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1896 - Ted Healy was born (d. 1937). American actor and comedian.
• 1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities
• 1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• 1899 - Ernest Haycox was born (d. 1950). American writer.
• 1900 - Tom Goddard was born (d. 1966). English cricketer.
• 1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan dies (b. c. 1844). Afghan amir.
• 1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• 1903 - Vladimir Horowitz was born (d. 1989). Ukrainian pianist.
• 1904 - A.K. Gopalan was born (d. 1977). Indian communist leader.
• 1904 - Otto Robert Frisch was born in Vienna (d. 1979). Austrian-born British nuclear. physicist who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, described the division of neutron-bombarded uranium into lighter elements.
• 1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
• 1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
• 1909 - Maurice Bardèche was born (d. 1998). French fascist.
• 1909 - Sam Yorty was born (d. 1998). Mayor of Los Angeles.
• 1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
• 1910 - Bonnie Parker was born (d. 1934). American outlaw.
• 1910 - José Enrique Moyal was born (d. 1998). Australian mathematical physicist.
• 1910 - Fritz Köberle was born († 1983). Austrian-born, Brazilian physician and scientist.
• 1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 20.
• 1911 - Wilhelm Dilthey dies. German philosopher.
• 1913 - Eugene O'Keefe dies (b. 1827). Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
• 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin was born (d. 2004). American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress. (Empire of Czar). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 .
• 1915 - Jerome Seymour Bruner was born in New York City. American psychologist and educator whose work on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children has, along with the related work of Jean Piaget, influenced the American educational system
• 1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
• 1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
• 1920 - Walter Matthau was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1921 - James Whitmore was born. American actor.
• 1924 - Jimmy Carter was born. 39th President of the United States.
• 1924 - William Rehnquist was born (d. 2005). Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1925 - Bob Boyd was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
• 1926 - Arirang premiers in Seoul.
• 1926 - Roger Williams was born. American pianist.
• 1927 - Tom Bosley was born. American actor.
• 1927 - Sandy Gall was born. Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster.
• 1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
• 1928 - Laurence Harvey was born (d. 1973). Lithuanian-born actor.
• 1928 - George Peppard was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1928 - Willy Mairesse was born (d. 1969). Belgian racing driver.
• 1928 - Zhu Rongji was born. Chinese politician.
• 1929 - Ken Arthurson was born. Australian rugby league identity
• 1929 - Antoine Bourdelle dies (b. 1861). French sculptor.
• 1930 - Sir Richard Harris was born (d. 2002). Irish actor.
• 1930 - Naimatullah Khan was born. Pakistani politician and ex-mayor of Karachi.
• 1930 - Philippe Noiret was born. French actor.
• 1930 - Frank Gardner was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
• 1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
• 1931 - Spain: The II Republic recognizes to women the right to votea.
• 1931 - Sylvano Bussotti was born. Italian composer.
• 1932 - Albert Collins was born (d. 1993). Blues guitarist.
• 1934 - Emilio Botín was born. Spanish banker, presidente del BSCH.
• 1935 - Julie Andrews was born. British actress and singer Mary Poppins.
• 1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
• 1936 - Duncan Edwards was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1936 - Stella Stevens was born. American actress.
• 1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
• 1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
• 1939 - Geoffrey Whitehead was born. English actor.
• 1939 - George Archer was born (d. 2005). American golfer.
• 1939 - George R. Carruthers was born. African-American astrophysicist who was the principal inventor of a new space camera to measure ultraviolet light which can be used to identify interstellar atoms and molecules.
• 1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
• 1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong.
• 1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
• 1942 - Frank Gardner was born. Australian formula one driver.
• 1942 - Jean-Pierre Jabouille was born. French race car driver.
• 1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
• 1943 - Angèle Arsenault was born. Canadian-Acadian singer and songwriter.
• 1943 - Jean-Jacques Annaud was born. French film director.
• 1943 - Jerry Martini was born. American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
• 1945 - Walter Bradford Cannon dies (b. 19 Oct 1871). American neurologist and physiologist who was the first to use X-rays in physiological studies.
• 1945 - Spider Sabich was born (d. 1976). American skiier.
• 1945 - Donny Hathaway was born (d. 1979). American soul musician and composer.
• 1945 - Ellen McIlwaine was born. American singer/songwriter.
• 1945 - Rod Carew was born. Panamanian baseball player.
• 1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
• 1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
• 1946 - Tim O'Brien was born. American writer.
• 1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
• 1947 - Aaron Ciechanover was born. Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1947 - Adriano Tilgher was born. Italian politician.
• 1947 - Mariska Veres was born (d. 2006). Dutch singer (Shocking Blue).
• 1947 - Stephen Collins was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Cub Koda was born (d. 2000). American singer.
• 1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
• 1949 - Isaac Bonewits was born. American author.
• 1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa.
• 1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass.
• 1950 - Randy Quaid was born. American actor.
• 1950 - Jeane Manson was born. American singer and actress.
• 1952 - Jacques Martin was born. Canadian hockey coach and executive.
• 1953 - Grete Waitz was born in Oslo. Norwegian athlete, marathoner.
  
• 1953 - John Hegley was born. British poet.
• 1953 - Pete Falcone was born. American baseball player.
• 1953 - Klaus Wowereit was born. German politician.
• 1953 - Edwin Joseph Cohn dies (b. 17 Dec 1892). American biochemist who helped develop the methods of cold ethanol blood fractionation (the separation of plasma proteins into fractions).
• 1954 - Martin Strel was born. Slovenian swimmer.
• 1955 - Duško Tadić was born. Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity.
• 1955 - Howard Hewett was born. American R & B singer.
• 1955 - Charles Christie dies (b. 1880). American film studio owner.
• 1956 - Andrus Ansip was born. Estonian Prime-Minister.
• 1956 - Theresa May was born. British politician.
• 1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper currency.
• 1957 - Stelios Mainas was born. Greek actor.
• 1957 - Yvette Freeman was born. American actress.
• 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
• 1958 - Masato Nakamura was born. Japanese musician.
• 1958 - Robert Falk dies (b. 1886). Russian painter.
• 1959 - Youssou N'Dour was born in Dakar. Senegalese composer and singer (Shaking the tree).
• 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
• 1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60.
• 1961 - Gary Ablett was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1961 - Rico Constantino was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1961 - Robert Rey was born. Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
• 1962 - A Amnistia Internacional é fundada em Londres, por Sean Mac Bride e Peter Bernson.
• 1962 - Johnny Carson begins a 30-year run as the host of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson at NBC.
• 1962 - Esai Morales was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Paul Walsh was born. English footballer.
• 1963 - California State Board of Education created.
• 1963 - Jean-Denis Délétraz was born. Swiss race car driver.
• 1963 - Mark McGwire was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Marco Aurélio Robles becomes President of Panama.
• 1964 - Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
• 1964 - Japanese Shinkansen (or, "bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka
• 1964 - Harry Hill was born. British comedian.
• 1964 - Jonathan Sarfati was born. Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author.
• 1964 - Max Matsuura was born. Japanese record producer.
• 1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
• 1965 - Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians (led by the later PM of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis) who have betrayed and overthrown the Prime Minister George Papandreou in Greece in favour of the formerly King of Greece.
• 1965 - Cindy Margolis was born. American model and actress.
• 1965 - Andreas Keller was born. German field hockey player.
• 1965 - Cliff Ronning was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Ted King was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Chris Reason was born. Australian journalist.
• 1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• 1966 - Christopher Titus was born. American actor/comedian.
• 1966 - Cuco Ziganda was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1966 - George Weah was born. Liberian football player.
• 1967 - Scott Young was born. American hockey player.
• 1967 - Mike Pringle was born. American football player.
• 1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
• 1968 - Jon Guenther was born. American author.
• 1968 - Rob Collard was born. British racing driver.
• 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
• 1969 - Em Lisboa, inauguração da sede e museu da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, projectada pelos arquitectos Alberto José Pessoa, Ruy Athoughia e Pedro Cid.
• 1969 - Igor Ulanov was born. National Hockey League defenseman.
• 1969 - Ori Kaplan was born. Israeli jazz musician.
• 1970 - Alexei Zhamnov was born. Russian hockey player.
• 1970 - Moses Kiptanui was born in Kenya. Athlet 1996 Olympics silver.
• 1970 - Gam Wu-seong was born. South Korean actor.
• 1970 - Simon Davey was born. Barnsley football manager.
• 1970 - Raoul Riganti dies (b. 1893). Argentine racing driver.
• 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
• 1971 - Andrew O'Keefe was born. Australian television personality.
• 1971 - Song Il Gook was born. Korean actor.
• 1971 - Gigi Lai was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1972 - Louis Leakey dies (b. 7 Aug 1903). Archaeologist and anthropologist
• 1972 - 2nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41
• 1972 - 3rd New York City Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
• 1973 - Jana Henke was born. German swimmer.
• 1973 - Rachid Chékhémani was born. French runner.
• 1973 - John Thomson was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 - Portugal : O general Costa Gomes toma posse como presidente da República do III Governo Provisório, após a renúncia do general António de Spínola.
• 1974 - Christian Borle was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Keith Duffy was born. Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor.
• 1974 - Mats Lindgren was born. Swedish ice hockey player.
• 1974 - Spyridon Marinatos dies (b. 4 Nov 1901). Greek archaeologist whose most notable discovery was the site of an ancient port city on the island of Thera, in the southern Aegean Sea
• 1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government.
• 1975 - The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
• 1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila.
• 1975 - Al Jackson was born (b. 1935). American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• 1975 - Chulpan Khamatova was born. Russian actress.
• 1975 - Kim Suna was born. Korean actress.
• 1975 - Zoltán Sebescen was born. German footballer.
• 1976 - É empossado o Governo Regional da Madeira.
• 1976 - Antonio Roybal was born. American painter and sculptor.
• 1976 - Denis Gauthier was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1976 - Dora Venter was born. Hungarian pornographic film actress.
• 1976 - Inna Zobova was born in Khimky. Russian actress.
• 1976 - Mandisa was born. American singer.
• 1976 - Ümit Karan was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk was born. Belgian race car driver.
• 1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires.
• 1977 - Claudia Palacios was born. Colombian journalist.
• 1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
• 1978 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK.
• 1978 - Andrew JC Jackson was born. Australian Surf Lifesaver.
• 1978 - Leticia Cline was born. American model and TV Personality
• 1979 - Alhaji Shehu Shagari assumes the Presidency of Nigeria.
• 1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
• 1979 - Activision founded.
• 1979 - Rudi Johnson was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Gilberto Martínez was born. Costa Rican football player.
• 1979 - Cameron Bruce was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1979 - Marko Stanojevic was born. English-born Italian rugby player.
• 1980 - George Meany dies (b. 1894). American trade union leader.
• 1980 - Fernanda Vogel was born. Brazilian model.
• 1981 - Júlio Baptista was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1981 - Johnny Oduya was born. Swedish ice hockey player.
• 1981 - Arnau Riera was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1982 - Haruna Babangida was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1982 - Sandra Oxenryd was born. Swedish singer.
• 1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
• 1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World
• 1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
• 1983 - Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
• 1984 - Daniel Guillén was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1984 - Matt Cain was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - Walter Alston dies (b. 1911). Baseball player.
• 1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
• 1985 - Dizzee Rascal was born. British musician.
• 1985 - Nazimuddin Ahmed was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 1985 - Revazi Zintiridis was born. Greek judoka.
• 1985 - Tim Deasy was born. English footballer.
• 1985 - Ryo Miyamori was born. Japanese singer.
• 1985 - E. B. White dies (b. 1899). American author.
• 1986 - Hammer DeRoburt assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência de Nauru.
• 1986 - Jurnee Smollett was born. American actress.
• 1986 - Ricardo Vaz Té was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1986 - Sayaka was born. Japanese singer.
• 1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
• 1988 - Cariba Heine was born. Australian actress.
• 1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell dies (b. 1897). English writer.
• 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet
• 1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
• 1990 - Serbs in Croatia proclaimed autonomy.
• 1990 - Curtis LeMay dies (b. 1906). American Air Force general.
• 1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
• 1992 - Petra Kelly dies (b. 1947). German politician.
• 1992 - Cartoon Network debuts.
• 1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for her murdering Klaas.
• 1994 - André Lwoff dies. French physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1965.
• 1994 - Palau becomes independent.
• 1994 - Carlos Lleras Restrepo dies. President of Colombia (1966-70)
• 1994 - Em São Tomé e Príncipe, o MLSTP/PSD vence as eleições legislativas.
• 1994 - Paul Lorenzen dies (b. 1915), German philosopher.
• 1995 - O PS ganha as eleições em Portugal levando António Guterres ao cargo de Primeiro Ministro.
• 1995 - Em Portugal, entra em vigor o novo Código Penal.
• 1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted in New York of conspiring to attack the United States through bombings, assassinations and kidnappings
• 1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson dies (b. 1923). American inventor.
• 1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
• 1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names for the Internet.
• 1998 - Mika Hakkinen sagra-se campeão mundial de Fórmula 1.
• 1998 - Pauline Julien dies (b. 1928). French Canadian singer.
• 2000 - 27th Olympic games close at Sydney, Australia.
• 2000 - Reginald Kray dies (b. 1933). British gangster.
• 2000 - Robert Allen dies (b. 1928). Pianist and songwriter.
• 2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released.
• 2001 - Guy Beaulne dies (b. 1921). French Canadian actor and theatre director.
• 2002 - Walter Annenberg dies. American publisher and philanthropist
• 2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
• 2004 - Richard Avedon dies (b. 1923). American photographer.
• 2004 - Bruce Palmer dies (b. 1946). Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield).
• 2004 - Spain's Socialist government approved a controversial law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals
• 2004 - The United Nations launched a massive voluntary repatriation program to return an estimated 340,000 Liberian refugees still scattered across West Africa.
• 2005 - Almost exactly three years after a similar event, a bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
• 2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
• 2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.
• 2006 - Jerald Tanner dies (b. 1938). American religious activist.
• 2006 - André Viger dies (b. 1952). French Canadian wheelchair marathoner.
• 2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.
• 2007 - Smoking age raised from 16 to 18 in United Kingdom.
• 2007 - Chris Mainwaring dies (b. 1965). Australian rules footballer.
  
• 2007 - Harry Lee dies (b. 1932). Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
  
• 2007 - Al Oerter dies (b. 1936). American track and field athlete.
  
• 2007 - Ned Sherrin dies (b. 1931). English broadcaster, author and stage director.
  
• 2007 - Ronnie Hazlehurst dies (b. 1928). English conductor and theme song composer.
  
• World Health Organization - World Hepatitis Awareness Day
• International Day of Older Persons
• Republic of Cyprus — Independence Day
• Nigeria — National Day
• Tuvalu — Independence Day
• People's Republic of China — National Day
• San Marino — two Captains Regent, elected by parliament, take office for six months.
• Roman Catholic — Feast days of Saint Saint Thérèse de Lisieux and Saint Bavo
• World Vegetarian Day
• Singapore - Children's Day
• Armenia - Teachers' Day
• International Music Day
• Dia Nacional da Água (Portugal)

Porto sem pedalada foi goleado em Londres

Arsenal

4-0

FC Porto



Este Porto nem chega a «agua-pé»

A derrota do Arsenal na última jornada do campeonato não favoreceu o Porto. Cedo se perceberam as dificuldades portistas em fazer parar a avalanche de jogo ofensivo dos ingleses especialmente pelo lado esquerdo da defesa onde Benitez quase sempre foi ultrapassado.

Ainda assim o Porto saiu algumas vezes para o contra-ataque rápido e podia ter-se colocado em vantagem após cruzamento de Tomás Costa para a finalização de cabeça de Christian Rodriguez com a bola a bater no chão e a subir para a barra com Almunía batido (13'). Este lance seguiu-se a um remate de Van der Persie que Helton defendera in-extremis com um braço e fez pairar no estádio que os adeptos da casa não iriam ter uma noite tranquila. Até porque passados poucos minutos um remate de Lisandro de longe obrigou o guarda-redes espanhol da equipa londrina a uma defesa para canto em cuja sequência dois jogadores do Porto tiveram tudo para inaugurar o marcador, mas Clichy salvou em cima da linha.

Pois na resposta mais uma vez pela direita Fàbregas lança Adebayor ganhou posição atrás da defensiva portista e já com a oposição de Helton deu para o meio onde Van Persie foi mais rápido e marcou o primeiro. De um pontapé de canto surgido mais uma vez da direita do ataque, Adenayor finalizou de cabeça para o 2-0.

Ao intervalo Jesualdo fez entrar Lucho para o lugar de Fernando mas o primeiro quarto de hora da segunda parte foi de sufoco total da equipa portista, quase dizimada. Logo aos 3' a defesa portista mais uma vez a desperdiçar a bola e e Van der Persie marcou o terceiro após assistência de Walcott.

A partir deste lance o resultado poderia ter subido para números impensáveis pois tamanhas eram as facilidades dos jogadores do Arsenal em passar pela defesa portista. As oportunidades perdidas sucederam-se umas às outras e o Porto tem de se dar por feliz por ter perdido apenas por 4. Aliás o 4º. golo resulta de um penalty infantil cometido por Guarín num lance que não oferecia perigo.

Adebayor, de penalty, converte o 4º. golo do Arsenal

Restava ao Porto esperar que o jogo terminasse sem mais mácula. A verdade é que a equipa está muito fraca. Não se pode ter dinheiro e ter equipa competitiva. Vender os melhores jogadores todas as épocas nunca pode resultar em boa coisa. Pode dar para «consumo interno» mas ao nível europeu dificilmente basta. No entanto, o empate entre Fenerbahce e Dinamo Kyiv serve os intentos dos portistas que bem podem conseguir o segundo lugar no grupo.

No próximo fim de semana vai a Alvalade jogar com o Sporting e esse jogo pode ser determinante para o futuro próximo da equipa.

LIGA DOS CAMPEÕES - GRUPO G (2.ª JORNADA)
Estádio: Emirates, em Londres
Hora: 19:45
Árbitro: Herbert Fandel (Alemanha)

ARSENAL - Almunía; Sagna, Touré, Gallas e Clichy; Nasri (Eboué 65' ) e Fàbregas e Denilson; Walcott (Vela 72'), Adebayor e Van Persie (Bendtner 65')

FC PORTO - Helton; Sapunaru, Rolando, Bruno Alves e Benítez; Guarín, Fernando (Lucho Gonzaléz 46') e Raul Meireles (Hulk 64'); Tomás Costa, Lisandro e Rodríguez (Candeias 79').

Golos: Van Persie 2 (31' e 48'), Adebayor 2 (40 e 71' este de penalty).
Disciplina: 75' - Cartão amarelo para Clichy por falta sobre Lucho.
83' - Cartão amarelo a Tomás Costa por demorar a dar a bola a um adversário.

Champions League: Group Stage - Second Day

Today 30 September 2008

Group E				Group F
Vilarreal	1-0	Celtic		Bayern	1-1	Lyon
Aab	0-3	Man. United		Fiorentina	0-0	Steaua
Group G				Group H
Arsenal	4-0	FC Porto		Zenit	1-2	Real Madrid
Fenerbahçe	0-0	Dinamo Kyiv		BATE	2-2	Juventus

Tomorrow, 01 October 2008

Group A				Group B
Cluj	-	Chelsea		Anorthosis	-	Panathinaikos
Bordeaux	-	Roma		Inter	-	Bremen
Group C				Group D
Shaktar	-	Barcelona		Atlético M.	-	Marseille
Sporting	-	Basel		Liverpol	-	PSV

Happy birthday beautiful Monica Bellucci

On this day in History - Sep. 30

• 0420 - Saint Jerome dies. Translator of the Vulgate Bible.
• 0653 - Saint Honorius dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan dies.
• 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was born (d. 1273). Persian mystic and poet.
• 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV was born (d. 1292).
• 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia dies (b. 1191).
• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn dies. English soldier and politician.
• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
• 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley dies (b. 1400). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali was born (d. 1606). Italian philologist and physician.
• 1550 - Michael Maestlin was born (d. 1631). German mathematician.
• 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka dies (b. 1507). Japanese warlord.
• 1560 - Melchior Cano dies (b. 1525). Spanish theologian.
• 1572 - St. Francis Borgia dies (b. 1510). Jesuit priest.
• 1581 - Hubert Languet dies (b. 1518). French diplomat and reformer.
• 1626 - Nurhaci dies (b. 1559). Manchurian chief.
• 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke dies (b. 1554). English poet.
• 1631 - William Stoughton was born (d. 1701). American judge at the Salem witch trials.
• 1700 - Stanisław Konarski was born (d. 1773). Polish writer.
• 1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was born (d. 1771). Brotosh statesman.
• 1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was born (d. 1780). French philosopher.
• 1732 - Jacques Necker was born (d. 1804). French diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI
• 1743 - Jeronimo Francisco de Lima was born. Portuguese composer.
• 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 1765 - José María Morelos was born (d. 1815). Mexican revolutionary.
• 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham dies. English politician and diplomat.
• 1770 - George Whitefield dies (b. 1714). English-born Methodist leader.
• 1772 - James Brindley dies (b. 1716). English engineer, pioneer canal builder, who constructed the first English canal of major economic importance.
• 1778 - Miguel de Bulhões e Sousa dies (b. 1706). Portuguese bishop.
• 1781 - American War of Independance: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
• 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
• 1791 - The Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
• 1800 - Decimus Burton was born (d. 1881). English architect.
• 1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar was born (d. 1890). Queen of Prussia and German Empress.
• 1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
• 1827 - Ellis H. Roberts was born (d. 1918). American politician.
• 1846 - Wilhelm Adolf Becker dies (b. 1796). German classical archaeologist, remembered for his works on the everyday life of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
• 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
• 1861 - William Wrigley Jr. was born (d. 1932). American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company)
• 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto dies (b. 1800). Italian-Jewish scholar.
• 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
• 1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin was born (d. 1942). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1870 - Thomas W. Lamont was born (d. 1948). American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont.
• 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
• 1882 - Hans Geiger was born (d. 1945). German physicist.
• 1883 - Bernhard Rust was born (d. 1945). Nazi education minister.
• 1887 - Lil Dagover was born (d. 1980). Dutch-born German actress.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• 1888 - Elizabeth Stride dies (b. 1843). Widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper
• 1888 - Catherine Eddowes dies (b. 1842). Widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper
• 1891 - Georges Boulanger dies (b. 1837). French general and politician.
• 1893 - Lansdale Sasscer was born (d. 1964). American politician.
• 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1895 - Lewis Milestone was born (d. 1980). Russian-born film director.
• 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux dies (b. 1873). Roman Catholic saint and mystic.
• 1898 - Renée Adorée was born (d. 1933). French actress.
• 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco was born (d. 1977).
• 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
• 1902 - The "making of cellulose esters" was jointly patented by William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little and Harry S. Mork of Massachusetts. A month later, on 28 Oct 1902, they also patented artificial silk. Viscose was an early name for the product. The term rayon was adopted by the textile industry in 1924 to replace "artificial silk" and similar names.
• 1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 1904 - Waldo Williams was born (d. 1971). Welsh poet.
• 1905 - Nevill Francis Mott was born (d. 1996). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
• 1908 - David Oistrakh was born (d. 1974). Ukrainian violinist.
• 1910 - Maurice Lévy dies (b. 1838). French engineer.
• 1912 - Kenny Baker was born (d. 1985). American singer and actor.
• 1913 - Bill Walsh was born (d. 1975). American film producer and writer.
• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel dies (b. 1858). German inventor.
• 1915 - Lester Maddox was born (d. 2003). Governor of Georgia.
• 1916 - Morreu, na Figueira da Foz, António Ramalho (n. 1858). Pintor português pertenceu à geração naturalista e distinguiu-se essencialmente como retratista.
• 1917 - Park Chunghee was born (d. 1979). President of South Korea.
• 1917 - Buddy Rich was born (d. 1987). American drummer.
• 1918 - Lewis Nixon was born (d. 1996). II World War Veteran.
• 1919 - Roberto Bonomi was born (d. 1992). Argentine racing driver.
• 1919 - Patricia Neway was born. American soprano.
• 1920 - Aldo Parisot was born. Brazilian-American musician and cellist.
• 1921 - Deborah Kerr was born. Scottish actress ( The King and I, From Here to Eternity, A Woman of Substance, The Night of the Iguana, Quo Vadis, Tea and Sympathy, Separate Tables)
• 1922 - Alan Stretton was born. Australian general.
• 1924 - Truman Capote was born (d. 25 Aug 1984). American author. In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; actor: Murder by Death / Nascimento do escritor norte-americano Truman Capote (1924-1984), em Nova Orleães, no estado do Alabama. O seu nome de baptismo era Truman Streckfus Persons, tendo adoptado o apelido do padrasto. Conhecido sobretudo pelos seus livros Pequeno Almoço no Tiffany e A Sangue Frio.
• 1926 - Robin Roberts was born. American baseball player.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1927 - W. S. Merwin was born. American poet.
• 1928 - Elie Wiesel was born. Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
• 1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• 1931 - Angie Dickinson was born. American actress ( Police Woman, Cassie and Company, Wild Palms, Dressed to Kill, Rio Bravo, Ocean’s 11). Hollywood’s Best Legs Award [1962]
• 1932 - Shintaro Ishihara was born. Japanese author and politician (governor of Tokyo).
• 1932 - Johnny Podres was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 - Cissy Houston was born. American gospel/r&b singer.
• 1933 - Barbara Knox was born. English actress.
• 1934 - Anna Kashfi was born. Welsh actress.
• 1934 - Udo Jürgens was born. Austrian singer.
• 1935 - Johnny Mathis was born. American singer.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
• 1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
• 1935 - Johnny Mathis was born. American singer.
• 1935 - Z. Z. Hill was born (d. 1984). American blues singer.
  
• 1937 - Artur Portela Filho was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1937 - Valentin Silvestrov was born. Ukrainian composer.
• 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
• 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn was born. French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1939 - Martha Wollstein dies (b. 21 Nov 1868). American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology.
• 1940 - Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield dies (b. 28 Nov 1858). British metallurgist who developed manganese steel, an alloy of exceptional durability that found uses in the construction of railroad rails and rock-crushing machinery.
• 1942 - Frankie Lymon was born (d. 1962). American singer.
• 1943 - Ian Ogilvy was born. British actor.
• 1943 - Johann Deisenhofer was born. German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1943 - Marilyn McCoo was born. American singer (The Fifth Dimension).
• 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer dies (b. 1864). German sociologist.
• 1944 - Diane Dufresne was born. French Canadian singer.
• 1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43.
• 1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha was born. 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order.
• 1945 - Bob Lassiter was born. American radio personality.
• 1945 - Ehud Olmert was born. Twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1946 - Claude Vorilhon was born. Founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
• 1946 - Héctor Lavoe was born (d. 1993). Puerto Rican singer.
• 1946 - Jochen Mass was born. German F1 car driver.
• 1946 - Paul Sheahan was born. Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
• 1947 - Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
• 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations; Public holiday.
• 1947 - Dave Arneson was born. American game designer.
• 1947 - Marc Bolan was born (d. 1977). British musician.
  
• 1947 - Rula Lenska was born. English actress.
• 1948 - Craig Kusick was born. Former major league baseball player.
• 1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
• 1950 - Renato Zero was born. Italian musician.
• 1951 - Barry Marshall was born. Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1952 - Jack Wild was born (d. 2006). British actor.
• 1953 - Deborah Allen was born. American singer
• 1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
• 1953 - S.M. Stirling was born. Canadian-born American science fiction and fantasy author.
• 1953 - Victoria Tennant was born. Actress: Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance.
• 1953 - Lewis Fry Richardson dies (b. 11 Oct 1881). British physicist and psychologist who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately.
• 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1954 - Barry Williams was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska was born. Polish-born singer and songwriter.
• 1954 - Patrice Rushen was born. American musician.
• 1955 - Film icon James Dean dies from injuries suffered in a car crash (b. 1931). American actor (Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause).
• 1957 - Fran Drescher was born. American actress.
• 1958 - Marty Stuart was born. Country music singer.
• 1959 - Ettore Messina was born. Italian basketball coach.
• 1959 - Ross Granville Harrison dies (b. 13 Jan 1870). American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques.
• 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
• 1960 - The Flintstones made their debut on primetime.
• 1960 - Blanche Lincoln was born. American politician.
• 1961 - Mayor Snyder of Oregon writes a check for $1.96 to cover the cost of the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party.
• 1961 - Eric Stoltz was born. American actor ( Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Our Town, Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Glass Menagerie, Pulp Fiction, Once and Again).
• 1961 - Crystal Bernard was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Eric van de Poele was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1961 - Sally Yeh was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
• 1961 - Onésime Gagnon dies (b. 1888). French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec.
• 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
• 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
• 1962 - Frank Rijkaard was born. Dutch football player and manager.
• 1962 - Shaan was born. Indian singer.
• 1962 - Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
• 1964 - Trey Anastasio was born. American musician (Phish).
• 1964 - Monica Bellucci was born. Italian actress.
• 1964 - Robby Takac was born. American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls).
• 1965 - General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto massacres over a million Indonesian communists.
• 1965 - Kathleen Madigan was born. American comedian.
• 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• 1966 - Kerry G. Johnson was born. African American graphic designer and caricaturist.
• 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
• 1967 - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
• 1968 - Stanislaw Ponte Preta dies (b. 1923). Brazilian writer.
• 1969 - Sir Frederic C. Bartlett dies (b. 20 Oct 1886). British psychologist best known for his studies of memory. Britain's most outstanding psychologist between the World Wars.
• 1969 - Chris Von Erich was born (d. 1991). American professional wrestler.
• 1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
• 1970 - Mark Smith was born. English body builder, former Gladiators player.
• 1971 - Jenna Elfman was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Ari Behn was born. Norwegian author.
• 1972 - Jamal Anderson was born. American football player.
• 1973 - Peter Pitseolak dies (b. 1902). Inuit photographer and author.
• 1974 - Portugal: Tomada de posse do 3.º Governo Provisório, chefiado por Vasco Gonçalves.
• 1974 - Portugal: General Costa Gomes assume a Presidencia da Republica após a renúncia do presidente António de Spínola.
• 1974 - Carlos Prats dies. Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor.
• 1975 - Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali fight (Thriller in Manila).
• 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache made its first flight.
• 1975 - Carlos Guillén was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Marion Cotillard was born. French actress.
• 1976 - Mary Ford dies (b. 1928). American singer.
• 1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
• 1977 - Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
• 1977 - Maia Brewton was born. American actress.
• 1977 - Roy Carroll was born. Northern Irish football player.
• 1977 - Sun Jihai was born. Chinese football player.
• 1977 - Mary Ford dies (b. 1924). American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford).
• 1978 - Candice Michelle was born. American female wrestler.
• 1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American actor and ventriloquist.
• 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
• 1979 - Andy van der Meyde was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou was born. Greek actress, musician and pianist.
• 1979 - Vince Chong was born. Malaysian singer-songwriter.
• 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 1980 - Camilla D’Errico was born. Canadian comic book artist and painter.
• 1980 - Martina Hingis was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1981 - The death penalty is abolished in France.
• 1981 - Brandon Watson was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Dominique Moceanu was born. American gymnast.
• 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
• 1982 - The TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
• 1982 - Lacey Chabert was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Kieran Culkin was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Michelle Marsh was born. British model.
• 1982 - Ryan Stout was born. American comedian.
• 1982 - Teal Redmann was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Tory Lane was born. American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
• 1983 - Andreea Răducan was born. Romanian gymnast.
• 1984 - Keisha Buchanan was born. British singer (Sugababes).
• 1984 - Megan Ewing was born. American supermodel.
• 1984 - T-Pain was born. American rapper/singer
• 1984 - Anna Świrszczyńska dies (b. 1909). Polish poetess.
• 1985 - Simone Signoret dies (b. 1921). French actress.
• 1985 - Charles Richter dies (b. 26 Apr 1900). American seismologist and inventor of the Richter Scale that measures earthquake intensity which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in the early 1930's.
• 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
• 1987 - Denise Laurel was born. Filipino actress and singer.
• 1988 - Al Holbert dies (b. 1946). American race car driver and team owner.
  
• 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
• 1989 - NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week. The Toronto Blue Jays would clinch the American League Eastern divisional title against the Baltimore Orioles.
• 1989 - Virgil Thompson dies (b. 1896). American composer.
• 1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
• 1990 - Tobi Atkins was born. Australian actor.
• 1990 - Patrick White dies (b. 1912). Australian writer, Nobel laureate.
• 1990 - Alice Parizeau dies (b. 1930). Quebec writer and journalist.
• 1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
• 1992 - José Eduardo dos Santos becomes President of Angola.
• 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
• 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff dies (b. 1902). French microbiologist, Nobel laureate.
• 1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
• 1998 - Dan Quisenberry dies (b. 1953). American baseball player.
• 1998 - Lisbon Expo-98 finishes.
• 1999 - German novelist Guenter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences credited Grass’ first novel, The Tin Drum, with restoring honor to German literature “after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.”
• 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
• 2002 - Demolition of The Wembley Stadium begins (London, England).
  
• 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi dies (b. 1913). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 2003 - Robert Kardashian was born (d. 1944). Armenian-American lawyer.
  
• 2003 - Yusuf Bey dies (b. 1935). Black Muslim leader.
• 2004 - A Rússia aprova adesão ao Protocolo de Kyoto
• 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
• 2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
• 2004 - Gamini Fonseka dies (b. 1936). Sri Lankan actor.
• 2004 - Michael Relph dies (b. 1915). British film producer and director.
• 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
• 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• 2006 - The daytime train, The Overlander express between the cities of Auckland and Wellington is discontinued due to lack of patronage by Tranz Scenic NZ.
• 2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
• RC Saints - Saint Jerome
• Botswana - Independence Day (1966)
• São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
• French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
• International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators.