On this day in History - Sep. 18

• 0031 - Sejanus dies executed (b. 0020 BC). Roman head of Praetorian Guard.
• 0053 - Trajan was born (d. 0117). Roman Emperor.
• 0096 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
• 0096 - Domitian, Roman Emperor dies (b. 51).
• 0324 - Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
• 0887 - Pietro I Candiano dies killled in battle Doge of Venice.
• 1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
• 1180 - King Louis VII of France dies (b. 1120).
• 1344 - Marie Valois was born (d. 1404). Princess of France.
• 1434 - Eleanor of Portugal was born (d. 1467). Holly Roman Empress / Nasce, em Torres Novas, D. Leonor de Portugal, imperatriz da Alemanha (m. 3 Set 1467 em Neustadt, Alemanha). Casou em 1451 com Frederico III, imperador da Alemanha, nascendo do consórcio quatro filhos, sendo o primogénito Maximiliano I, que casou com Maria de Borgonha. Na imperatriz D. Leonor radica a linha portuguesa do futuro imperador Carlos V.
• 1437 - Farmer uprising in Transylvania.
• 1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
• 1499 - Vasco da Gama desembarca em Lisboa, após ter realizado a viagem à Índia, sendo recebido pelo rei D. Manuel e toda a Corte.
• 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
• 1505 - Maria of Austria was born (d. 1558). Wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1544 - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty (Truce of Crepy-en-Laonnois)
• 1573 - Spanish attack on Alkmaar.
• 1587 - Francesca Caccini was born (d. circa 1640). Italian composer.
• 1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies (b. 1536). Japanese warlord.
• 1630 - Melchior Klesl dies (b. 1552). Austrian cardinal and statesman.
• 1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France.
• 1635 - Nascimento de D. Joana. Filha de D. João IV e D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão (Portugal).
• 1643 - Gilbert Burnet was born (d. 0715). Scottish Bishop of Salisbury.
• 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino dies (b. 1603). Italian saint.
• 1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1604).
• 1676 - Eberhard Ludwig was born (d. 1733). Duke of Württemberg.
• 1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther was born (d. 1748). German composer.
• 1709 - Samuel Johnson was born (d. 13 Dec 1784).English writer and lexicographer (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, The Life of Pope, The Life of Savage, The Vanity of Human Wishes)
• 1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin was born (d. 1783). Russian statesman.
• 1721 - Matthew Prior dies (b. 1664). English poet and diplomat.
• 1722 - André Dacier dies (b. 1651). French classical scholar
• 1733 - George Read was born (d. 1798). Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
• 1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1750 - Tomas de Iriarte was born (d. 1791). Spanish writer.
• 1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre was born (d. 1833). French mathematician.
• 1759 - The British capture Quebec City.
• 1765 - Pope Gregory XVI was born (d. 1846).
• 1779 - Joseph Story was born (d. 1845). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1783 - Leonhard Euler dies (b. 1707). Swiss mathematician.
• 1783 - Benjamin Kennicott dies (b. 1718). English churchman and Hebrew scholar.
• 1786 - Christian VIII of Denmark was born (d. 1848). King of Denmark.
  
• 1786 - Justinus Kerner was born (d. 1862). German poet.
• 1789 - American government takes out first ever loan, a total of $191,608.81.
• 1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg dies (b. 1704). German religious leader.
• 1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
• 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens.
• 1810 - First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it was in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and it is commemorated as such.
• 1812 - Fire of Moscow (1812) fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
• 1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born (d. 1880). American politician.
• 1819 - Leon Foucault was born (d. 1868). French physicist.
• 1827 - Robert Pollok dies (b. 1789). Scottish poet.
• 1830 - William Hazlitt dies (b. 1778). English essayist.
• 1830 - A horse beats the first U.S.-made locomotive in a race near Baltimore.
• 1830 - Juan Bautista Bustos dies. Argentine militar and politician.
• 1832 - Tomás Martín Feuillet was born. Panamanian poet and writer.
• 1837 - Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York. The store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
• 1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos was born (d. 1880). Portuguese Archbishop of Goa.
• 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden.
• 1838 - Anton Mauve was born (d. 5 Feb. 1888). Dutch artist.
• 1850 - The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
• 1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing.
• 1854 - Florentino Ameghino was born. Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, antropologist and teacher.
• 1857 - John Hessin Clarke was born (d. 1945). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1858 - Kate Booth was born (d. 1955). The oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth.
• 1859 - John L. Bates was born (d. 1946). 41^st Governor of Massachusetts.
  
• 1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless was born (d. 1940). American cattle rancher.
• 1860 - Joseph Locke dies (b. 1805). English railway builder and civil engineer.
• 1860 - In the Italian War of Independence, 40,000 Sardinian troops under Cialdini heavily defeat 4,000 Papal troops under La Moriciere at the battle of Castelfidardo.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
• 1863 - Hermann Kutter was born (d. 1931). Swiss theologian.
• 1870 - Clark Wissler was born (d. 1947). American anthropologist.
• 1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
• 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway dies (b. 1826).
• 1873 - The Panic of 1873 begins.
• 1875 - Tomas Burgos was born (d. 1945). Chilean philanthropist.
• 1876 - James Scullin was born (d. 1953). 9th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1879 - Blackpool's illuminations were switched on for the first time.
• 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
• 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson was born (d. 1950). British composer.
• 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
• 1888 - Sinhô (José Barbosa da Silva) was born († 1930). Brazilian composer.
• 1889 - Doris Blackburn was born (d. 1970). Australian politician.
• 1891 - William Ferrel dies (b. 17817). American mathematician.
• 1891 - José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández dies. Chilean politician
• 1893 - Arthur Benjamin was born (d. 1960). Australian composer.
• 1893 - William March was born (d. 1954). American writer.
• 1894 - Ermilo Abreu Gómez was born in Mérida, Yucatán (d. 1971). Mexican novelist and dramatist.
• 1895 - Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia. See more here
• 1895 - Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
• 1895 - Tomoji Tanabe was born. The oldest man in the world as of June 2007.
• 1895 - John Diefenbaker was born (d. 1979). 13th Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau dies (b. 1819). French physicist.
• 1898 - Fashoda Incident - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
• 1899 - Carlos Botelho was born (d. 1982). Portuguese painter.
• 1899 - Eleazar Guzman Barron was born. Peruvian physician and biochemist.
• 1901 - Harold Clurman was born. American film producer.
• 1904 - América Football Club is founded (Brazil)
• 1904 - Perú, se funda el Lawn Tenis Club, de Lima.
• 1905 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson was born (d. 28 Feb 1977). American actor (Jack Benny Show, Birth of the Blues, Gone with the Wind, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World).
• 1905 - Greta Garbo was born (d. 15 Apr 1990). Swedish actress (Camille, Grand Hotel, Ninotchka, Mata Hari, The Painted Veil, Anna Christie).
• 1905 - Agnes de Mille was born (d. 1993). American dancer and choreographer.
• 1905 - Eddie Anderson was born (d. 1977). American actor.
• 1905 - George MacDonald dies (b. 1824). Scottish writer and minister.
• 1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
• 1907 - Leon Askin was born (d. 2005). Austrian actor.
• 1907 - Edwin McMillan was born (d. 1991). Nobel laureate.
• 1910 - In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
• 1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• 1911 - All workers go on general strike in Valencia.
• 1911 - Syd Howe was born (d. 1976). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin dies (b. 1862). Russian politician.
• 1912 - Kurt Lotz was born (d. 2005). German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen.
• 1914 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
• 1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
• 1914 - Jack Cardiff was born. British film director.
• 1915 - Eduardo Boza Masvidal was born. Cuban religious.
• 1916 - Bernardino da Costa Lopes died (b. in Boa Esperança, Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, on 19 Jan 1859). Brazilian poet.
• 1916 - Rossano Brazzi was born (d. 24 Dec 1994). Italian singer and actor ( South Pacific, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Barefoot Contessa, Formula for a Murder).
• 1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr. was born (d. 2003). American politician and lawyer.
• 1916 - Frank Bell was born (d. 1989). British educator.
• 1916 - Mercedes Salisachs was born. Spanish writer.
• 1917 - June Foray was born. American voice actress.
• 1917 - Francis Parker Yockey was born (d. 1960). Author of Imperium.
• 1918 - John Berger was born. English politician.
• 1918 - José Pérez Gil was born. Spanish painter.
• 1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• 1919 - Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
• 1920 - Jack Warden was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: Brian’s Song [1971-72]; N.Y.P.D., Bad News Bears, Crazy like a Fox, Shampoo, From Here to Eternity, All the President’s Men, Problem Child, Used Cars.
• 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations.
• 1922 - Grayson Hall was born (d. 1985). American actress.
  
• 1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen was born. English composer.
• 1923 - Peter Smithson was born (d. 2003). English architect.
• 1923 - Queen Anne of Romania was born.
• 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley dies (b. 1846). British philosopher
• 1924 - Eloísa Mafalda (Mafalda Theoto) was born in Jundiaí, S. Paulo. Brazilian actress
• 1925 - Harvey Haddix was born (d. 1994). American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1926 - 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (6-4, 6-0, 6-4)
• 1925 - Harvey Haddix was born (d. 1994). American baseball player.
• 1926 - Bud Greenspan was born. American film producer.
• 1926 - Bob Toski was born. American golfer.
• 1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• 1927 - Phyllis Kirk was born (d. 2006). American actress.
• 1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• 1929 - Nancy Littlefield was born (d. 2007). American film producer.
• 1930 - Ignace Moussa I Daoud was born. Cardinal of Síria.
• 1931 - The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever turning the sign into a symbol for the paradox of the American film industry.
• 1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov was born (d. 2002). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1933 - Scotty Bowman was born. Canadian ice hockey coach.
• 1933 - Robert Blake was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: Baretta [1974-75]; In Cold Blood, Pork Chop Hill, PT 109, Our Gang, Little Beaver & Red Ryder serie.
• 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers was born. American singer and composer.
• 1933 - Robert Foster Bennett born. American senator (Utah).
• 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations.
• 1935 - John Spencer was born (d. 2006). English former snooker player.
• 1937 - Ralph Backstrom was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1939 - Frankie Avalon some. American musician.
• 1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr. was born. Norwegian actor.
• 1939 - World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
• 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
• 1939 - Fred Willard was born. American comedian.
• 1939 - Jorge Sampaio was born in Lisbon. President of Portugal (9 Mar 1986-9 Mar 2006).
• 1939 - Frankie Avalon was born. American musician.
• 1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz dies (b. 1885). Polish writer, painter, and photographer
• 1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
• 1940 - World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
• 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
• 1942 - Alex Stepney was born. English football goalkeeper.
• 1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
• 1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews.
• 1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
• 1944 - Michael Franks was born. American musician.
• 1944 - Charles L. Veach was born (d. 1995). American astronaut.
• 1944 - Rocío Jurado was born (d. 2006). Spanish singer and actress.
• 1944 - Robert G. Cole dies (b. 1915). American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division
• 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
• 1945 - In Gary, Indiana, 1000 whites walk out of schools to protest integration.
• 1946 - Nicholas Clay was born (d. 2000). English actor.
• 1946 - New Constitution is promulgated in Brazil / Sancionada uma nova Constituição Brasileira
• 1946 - Nicholas Clay was born (d. 2000). English actor.
  
• 1946 - Otis Sistrunk was born. American football player.
• 1947 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent service.
• 1947 - Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, making it the venue's first country performance.
• 1947 - Giancarlo Minardi was born. Italian motor racing team boss.
• 1948 - Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
• 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• 1948 - Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine.
• 1948 - Ken Brett was born (d. 2003). American baseball player.
• 1948 - José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo dies in Cascais. Portuguese architect and film director (A Canção de Lisboa)
• 1949 - Jim McCrery was born. American politician.
• 1949 - Mo Mowlam was born (d. 2005). British politician.
• 1949 - Peter Shilton was born. English footballer.
• 1949 - Kerry Livgren was born. American singer (Kansas).
• 1949 - Frank Morgan dies (b. 1890). American actor.
• 1950 - Shabana Azmi was born. Indian actress.
• 1950 - Darryl Sittler was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1950 - Anna Deavere Smith was born. American actress and playwright.
• 1951 - Benjamin Carson was born. American neurosurgeon.
• 1951 - Darryl Stingley was born. American football player.
• 1951 - Marc Surer was born. Swiss motor racing driver.
• 1952 - Rick Pitino was born. American basketball coach.
• 1952 - Dee Dee Ramone was born (d. 2002). American bassist (The Ramones).
• 1952 - Maria Matos dies (b. 29 Set 1891). Portuguese actress and teatral entrepreneur [As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor” (1935 - Leitão de Barros), Heróis do Mar (1949) .... Petinga's wife, A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1949) .... D. Vitória ; Não Há Rapazes Maus (1948) ; Um Homem às Direitas (1945) .... House-keeper ;A Menina da Rádio (1944) .... D. Rosa Gonçalves ; Costa do Castelo, O (1943) .... Mafalda da Silveira; Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939) ]
• 1953 - Betsy Boze nee: Vogel was born. American Academic.
• 1953 - Charles de Tornaco dies (b. 1927). Belgian racing driver.
• 1954 - Murtaza Bhutto was born (d. 1996). Pakistani politician.
• 1954 - Takao Doi was born. Japanese astronaut
• 1954 - Dennis Johnson was born (d. 2007). American basketball player.
• 1954 - Steven Pinker was born. Canadian-American experimental psychologist and scientist.
• 1954 - Tommy Tuberville was born. Auburn Head Football Coach.
• 1954 - Armando Reverón dies (b. 1889). Venezuelan painter.
• 1955 - Bob Papenbrook was born (d. 2006). American voice actor.
• 1956 - Chris Hedges was born. American journalist and author.
• 1956 - Peter Šťastný was born. Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1956 - Adélard Godbout dies (b. 1892). Premier of Quebec
• 1958 - Don Geronimo was born. Radio personality of the Don & Mike Show
• 1958 - John Aldridge was born. Irish footballer.
• 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
• 1959 - Ian Arkwright was born. English footballer.
• 1959 - Mark Romanek was born. American filmmaker.
• 1959 - Ryne Sandberg was born. American baseball player
• 1959 - Benjamin Péret dies (b. 1899). French surrealist author.
  
• 1960 - Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• 1960 - Karim Rashid was born. Egyptian-English industrial designer.
• 1961 - U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld dies (b. 1905). Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1961 - James Gandolfini was born. American Emmy Award-winning actor: The Sopranos [2000, 2001]; A Stranger Among Us, Terminal Velocity, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Juror, 12 Angry Men [1997], A Civil Action, 8MM
• 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi and Jamaica admitted (105th-108th) to the United Nations
• 1962 - Boris Said was born. American race car driver.
• 1962 - Joanne Catherall was born. English singer.
• 1962 - John Fashanu was born. English footballer.
• 1963 - Jim Pocklington was born. British racing driver.
• 1963 - Rob Brettle was born. British historian.
• 1964 - Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
• 1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
• 1964 - Holly Robinson was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Marco Masini was born. Italian singer-songwriter.
• 1964 - Clive Bell dies (b. 1881). English art critic.
• 1964 - Sean O'Casey dies (b. 1880). Irish writer.
• 1967 - Esporte Clube Santo André, of Brazil, is founded.
• 1967 - Ricky Bell was born. American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe).
• 1967 - Tara Fitzgerald was born. English actress.
• 1967 - John Cockcroft dies (b. 1897). British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1968 - Toni Kukoč was born. Croatian basketball player.
• 1968 - Cappadonna was born. American rapper.
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix found dead in his basement in London.
• 1970 - Darren Gough was born. English cricketer.
• 1970 - Dan Eldon was born (d. 1993). British photojournalist.
• 1970 - Aisha Tyler was born. American actress and comedian.
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix dies (b. 1942). American musician.
• 1971 - Lance Armstrong was born. American cyclist.
• 1971 - Anna Netrebko was born. Russian opera singer.
• 1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith was born. American model and actress.
• 1971 - Michael Patrick Walker was born. American composer and lyricist.
• 1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK.
• 1972 - Brigitte Becue was born. Belgian swimmer.
• 1972 - David Jefferies was born (d. 2003). British motorcycle racer.
• 1973 - East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
• 1973 - Paul Brousseau was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1973 - James Marsden was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Ami Onuki was born. Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi).
• 1973 - Mark Shuttleworth was born. South African entrepreneur.
• 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
• 1974 - Sol Campbell was born. English footballer.
• 1974 - Ticha Penicheiro was born. Portuguese basketball player.
• 1974 - Xzibit was born. American rapper.
• 1975 - Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
• 1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk was born. Belarusian pistol shooter
• 1976 - Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing.
• 1977 - Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
• 1977 - Li Tie was born. Chinese footballer.
• 1977 - Paul Bernays dies (b. 1888). Swiss mathematician
• 1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
• 1978 - Luciana Andrade was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1978 - Pilar López de Ayala was born. Spanish actress.
• 1979 - Alison Lohman was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Daniel Aranzubia was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
• 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter dies. American novelist.
• 1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
• 1982 - Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)
• 1983 - Rock band Kiss unmasks for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up.
• 1983 - Kevin Doyle was born. Irish footballer.
• 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 1986 - Keeley Hazell was born. British model.
• 1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR
• 1987 - Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás dies (b. 1894). President of Portugal.
• 1988 - End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) were killed by the Tatmadaw.
• 1988 - Annette Obrestad was born. Norwegian poker player.
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six.
• 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1991 - Yugoslavia began a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
• 1992 - An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labour dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
• 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis dies (b. 1954). American tennis player.
• 1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
• 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
• 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon dies (b. 1920). Blues singer.
• 1998 - ICANN is formed.
• 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• 2001 - Ernie Coombs dies (b. 1927). Canadian entertainer
• 2002 - Bob Hayes dies (b. 1942). American athlete
• 2002 - The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire, ending a six-month search.
• 2002 - Mauro Ramos dies (b. 1930). Brazilian football player
• 2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
• 2003 - The UK's Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.
• 2003 - Bob Mitchell dies (b. 1927). British politician
• 2003 - Emil Fackenheim dies (b. 1916). German Holocaust survivor and philosopher
• 2004 - Ford put Jaguar Racing and Cosworth up for sale.
• 2004 - Norman Cantor dies (b. 1929). Canadian historian.
• 2004 - Russ Meyer dies (b. 1922). American film director.
• 2005 - Michael Park dies (b. 1966). British Rally co-driverancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• 2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, on which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
• 2006 - Edward J. King dies (b. 1925). 66^th Governor of Massachusetts.
  
• 2007 - President General Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
• 2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
• 2007 -Pepsi Tate dies (b. 1965). Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz.
  
• RC Saints - Feast day of St Joseph of Cupertino, Methodius of Olympus, Richardis, and Eustorgius I.
• Chile - Independence Day (first junta 1810).
• World Water Monitoring Day