- 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 106 BC - Pompey was born (d. 48 BC). Roman statesman and general.
- 61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
- 48 BC - Pompey, the Great dies assassinated (b. 106 BC). Roman general.
- 0855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
- 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
- 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
- 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu was born (d. 1387). French soldier.
- 1328 - Joan of Kent was born (d. 1385)
- 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
- 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany dies.
- 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1421). Second son of Henry IV of England
- 1402 - Nasce Fernando de Portugal, o Infante Santo († 1443)
- 1511 - Miguel Servet was born († 1553). Spanish humanist.
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes was born († 1616). Spanish author.
- 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria was born (d. 1626)
- 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden dies (b. 1496)
- 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen was born (d. 1615). Flemish mathematician.
- 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
- 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
- 1571 - Caravaggio was born (d. 1610). Italian artist.
- 1636 - Thomas Tenison was born (d. 1715). Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz dies. Filipino saint
- 1639 - Lord William Russell was born (d. 1683). English politician.
- 1640 - Antoine Coysevox was born (d. 1720). French sculptor.
- 1642 - René Goupil dies (b. 1608). French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs.
- 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London
- 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles was born (d. 1766). French soldier.
- 1691 - Richard Challoner was born (d. 1781). English Catholic prelate.
- 1703 - François Boucher was born (d. 1770). French painter.
- 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond dies (b. 1610). French soldier.
- 1725 - Robert Clive was born (d. 1774). British general and statesman.
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson was born (d. 1805). British admiral.
- 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria was born (d. 1843). First president of Mexico.
- 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
- 1800 - Michael Denis dies (b. 1729). Austrian poet.
- 1801 - Tratado de paz entre Portugal e a República francesa, assinado em Madrid, em consequência da «Guerra das Laranjas», pelo qual Portugal se obriga a fechar os portos aos britânicos.
- 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm was born (d. 1850). French mathematician.
- 1803 - Mercator Cooper was born (d. 1872). American sea captain.
- 1804 - Michael Hillegas dies (b. 1728). First Treasurer of the United States.
- 1808 - Henry Bennett was born (d. 1868). American politician
- 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell was born (d. 1865). British novelist.
- 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
- 1833 - King Fernando VII of Spain dies (b. 1784)
- 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann was born (d. 1902). Chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev was born (d. 1882). Russian general.
- 1844 - Miguel Juárez Celman was born. Argentine politician.
- 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
- 1849 - Dom Francisco do Rego Maia was born († 1928). Brazilian bishop.
- 1853 - Princess Thyra was born (d. 1933). Daughter of Christian IX of Denmark
- 1863 - Hugo Haase was born (d. 1919). German politician and jurist.
- 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin was born (d. 1925). British model for Lewis Carroll
- 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno was born (d. 1936). Spanish writer and philosopher.
- 1881 - Ludwig von Mises was born († 1973). Austrian economist.
- 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck dies (b. 1810). German surgeon.
- 1889 - Louis Faidherbe dies (b. 1818). French general.
- 1890 - Maria Matos was born. Portuguese actress and theatre entrepreneur.
- 1895 - J.B. Rhine was born (d. 1980). American parapsychologist.
- 1895 - Roscoe Turner was born (d. 1970). American aviator and racer.
- 1897 - Herbert Agar was born (d. 1980). American journalist and historian.
- 1898 - Trofim Lysenko was born (d. 1976). Stalinist biologist.
- 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés was born (d. 1983). President of Mexico.
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi was born (d. 1954). Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Phisics laureate, in 1938.
- 1901 - Lanza del Vasto was born (d. 1981). Italian philosopher, poet, and activist.
- 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall dies (b. 1825). Scots/Irish poet.
- 1902 - Émile Zola dies (b. 3 Apr 1840). French writer.
- 1904 - Greer Garson was born (d. 1996). British actress.
- 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1907 - Gene Autry was born (d. 1998). American actor and businessman.
- 1907 - George W. Jenkins was born (d. 1996). American businessman.
- 1908 - Eddie Tolan was born (d. 1967). American athlete.
- 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis dies (b. 21 Jun 1839). Brazilian writer.
- 1910 - Virginia Bruce was born (d. 1982). American actress.
- 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni was born. Italian film director
- 1913 - Trevor Howard was born (d. 1988). English actor.
- 1913 - Stanley Kramer was born (d. 2001). American film director.
- 1915 - Brenda Marshall was born (d. 1992). American film actress.
- 1916 - Antonio Buero Vallejo was born. Spanish dramatist.
- 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
- 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell was born. English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 - Lizabeth Scott was born. American actress.
- 1923 - Stan Berenstain was born (d. 2005). American children's author.
- 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
- 1924 - Steve Forrest was born. American actor.
- 1925 - Léon Bourgeois dies. French politician. Nobel Prize for Peace laureate in 1920.
- 1927 - Willem Einthoven dies (b. 1860). Dutch physician, Nobel laureate.
- 1927 - Nascia Adhemar Ferreira da Silva († 2001). Bicampeão olímpico brasileiro no triplo salto
- 1930 - Colin Dexter was born. British author of Inspector Morse novels.
- 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin dies (b. 1844). Russian painter.
- 1931 - Anita Ekberg was born. Swedish actress
- 1931 - James Watson Cronin was born. American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1980.
- 1932 - Robert Benton was born. American screenwriter and director
- 1932 - Mehmood was born (d. 2004). Indian actor.
- 1933 - Samora Machel was († 1986). First President of Mozambique.
- 1934 - Lance Gibbs was born. West Indian cricketer
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis was born. American musician
- 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi was born. Italian politician, leader of Forza Italia and former Prime Minister of Italy
- 1937 - Ray Ewry dies (b. 1873). American athlete.
- 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 - Wim Kok was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1939 - Tommy Boyce was born. American songwriter, Boyce and Hart, The Monkees
- 1939 - Molly Haskell was born. American film critic
- 1939 - Larry Linville was born (d. 2000). American actor.
- 1940 - Nicola Di Bari was born. Italian singer
- 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941. / 33.771 Judeus são mortos durante o massacre de Babi Yar, perto de Kiev, na Ucrânia, no começo da invasão alemã da União Soviética.
- 1941 - Fred West was born. British serial killer.
- 1942 - Madeline Kahn was born (d. 1999). American actress.
- 1942 - Ian McShane was born. British actor.
- 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist.
- 1942 - Felice Gimondi was born. Italian cyclist.
- 1942 - Bill Nelson was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
- 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist
- 1942 - Steve Tesich was born (d. 1996). Serbian screenwriter.
- 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
- 1943 - Mohammad Khatami was born. Former President of Iran
- 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts was born. American genealogist
- 1944 - Mike Post was born. American composer.
- 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas was born. Greek composer.
- 1946 - Celso Pitta was born. Brazilian politician.
- 1947 - Martin Ferrero was born. American actor.
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel was born. American television personality
- 1948 - Mark Farner was born. American guitarist Grand Funk.
- 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann was born. German jazz clarinetist.
- 1949 - George Dalaras was born. Greek singer.
- 1951 - Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
- 1951 - Andrés Caicedo was born (d. 1977). Colombian writer.
- 1951 - Maureen Caird was born. Australian hurdler.
- 1951 - Mike Enriquez was born. Philippine broadcaster.
- 1952 - Max Sandlin was born. American politician.
- 1953 - Drake Hogestyn was born. American actor.
- 1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon was born (d. 1977). Quebec film director.
- 1953 - Warren Cromartie was born. Major League Baseball player.
- 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1955 - Benoît Ferreux was born. French actor.
- 1955 - Nasce, em Repeses, concelho de Viseu, Francisco José Ferreira Rebelo Fernandes. Economista e fiscalista português.
- 1956 - Sebastian Coe was born. British athlete.
- 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant.
- 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay was born. American comedian and actor.
- 1957 - Sokratis Malamas was born. Greek singer and composer.
- 1958 - First cinema exhibitions in Cinemateca Portuguesa RTP article about this
- 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay was born. American actress.
- 1961 - Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and liberal talk show host.
- 1961 - The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond.
- 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
- 1962 - Roger Bart was born. American actor.
- 1963 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
- 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1963 - Dave Andreychuk was born. Canadian hockey player.
- 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 1964 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
- 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
- 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
- 1965 - Rino Levi dies (b. 1901). Brazilian architect.
- 1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- 1966 - Jill Whelan was born. American actress.
- 1967 - The first episode of Captain Scarlet is aired on Television.
- 1967 - Carson McCullers dies (b. 1917). American author.
- 1968 - Patrick Burns was born. Television presenter.
- 1969 - Erika Eleniak was born. American actress and Playboy Playmate.
- 1969 - Aleks Syntek was born. Mexican singer
- 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri was born. Japanese professional wrestler
- 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner was born. American actress
- 1970 - Emily Lloyd was born. British actress
- 1970 - Edward Everett Horton dies (b. 1886). American actor.
- 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1971 - Sibel Tüzün was born. Turkish singer.
- 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1972 - Robert Webb was born. British actor, comedian, and writer.
- 1973 - W. H. Auden dies (b. 1907). English poet.
- 1974 - Brian Ash was born. American screenwriter and producer.
- 1974 - Alexis Cruz was born. American actor.
- 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
- 1975 - Casey Stengel dies. Baseball player and manager
- 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko was born. Ukrainian football player.
- 1976 - Darren Byfield was born. English football player.
- 1976 - Oscar Sevilla was born. Spanish cyclist.
- 1977 - Portugal: As Bases da muralha de Cascais, a Bateria Alta, as Cortinas de Atiradores, o Forte de São Teodósio e o Forte do Guincho são classificados como imóveis de Interesse Público
- 1977 - União Soviética lança estação espacial Salyut 6
- 1978 - Kurt Nilsen was born. Norwegian singer.
- 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj was born. American gymnast.
- 1978 - Gunner McGrath was born. American vocalist and guitarist (Much The Same).
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- 1979 - Beau Zimmer was born. Telejournalist
- 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka was born. Belarussian handball player.
- 1981 - Bill Shankly dies (b. 1913). Scottish football manager.
- 1982 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
- 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
- 1982 - Ariana Jollee was born. American actress and director.
- 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
- 1983 - Mário Botas dies. Portuguese painter.
- 1984 - Per Mertesacker was born. German football player.
- 1986 - Benoit Pouliot was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1987 - Henry Ford II dies (b. 1917). President of Ford Motor Company
- 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
- 1988 - Forças de Paz das Nações Unidas recebem Prémio Nobel da Paz
- 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou was born. Australian soap actor
- 1989 - Luís Dourdil dies. Portuguese painter.
- 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
- 1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1991 - Military coup in Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti, is deposed
- 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 1992 - Erotica (song) released by Madonna
- 1992 - Lançamento do álbum Dirt da banda norte-americana Alice in Chains
- 1992 - Primeiras eleições em Angola cujos resultados não são aceites pela UNITA.
- 1994 - Cheb Hasni dies (b. 1968). Algerian singer.
- 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
- 1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
- 1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
- 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein dies (b. 1923). American artist.
- 1998 - Tom Bradley dies (b. 1917). Mayor of Los Angeles, California.
- 1998 - Jacyra Sampaio dies (b. 1922). Brazilian actress.
- 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu dies (b. 1923). President of South Vietnam.
- 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
- 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
- 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
- 2004 - Richard Sainct dies (b. 1970). French motorcycle rally rider.
- 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
- 2005 - Austin Leslie dies (b. 1938). Considered by many the "Godfather of Fried Chicken".
- 2005 - Sérgio Correia da Costa dies (b. 1919). Brazilian historian and diplomat.
- 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
- 2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL, dies killed in Iraq. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
- 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen dies (b. 1976). Norwegian singer.
- 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique dies (b. 1926). Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic.
- 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon dies (b. 1912). French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec.
- 2006 - Walter Hadlee dies (b. 1915). New Zealand cricketer.
- 2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
- 2007 - Lois Maxwell dies (b. 1927). Canadian actress.
- RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael
- Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
- Portugal: Municipal holidays in Cabeceiras de Basto and Fornos de Algodres
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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