Nothingandall: On this day in History

0461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
0498 - Pope Anastasius II dies.
1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan was born (d. 1526).
1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia dies (b. 1448).
1492 - Jami dies (b. 1414). Persian poet.
1493 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to go ashore on an island he only saw for the first time the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1557 - Bona Sforza dies (b. 1494). Queen of Sigismund I of Poland.
1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester was born (d. 1626). English statesman.
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide dies (b. 1510). Japanese warlord.
1597 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate was born (d. 1660). Electress of Bavaria.
1598 - An outnumbered Korean and Ming navy ambush and defeat a Japanese army at the Battle of Noryang Point.
1598 - Yi Sun-sin dies killed in battle (b. 1545), Korean admiral.
1600 - King Charles I of England was born (d. 1649).
1600 - Leo Aitzema was born (d. 1669). Dutch historian and statesman.
1617 - Eustache Le Sueur was born (d, 1655). French painter.
1630 - Johann Schein dies (b. 1586). German composer.
1649 - Caspar Schoppe dies (b. 1576). German scholar.
1665 - Nicolas Poussin dies (b. 1594). French painter.
1672 - John Wilkins dies (b. 1614). English Bishop of Chester.
1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine dies (b. 1619). Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
1692 - Thomas Shadwell dies. English poet and playwright.
1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet was born (d. 1770). French abbot and physicist.
1703 - The man in the iron mask, a political prisoner famous in French history and legend, died in the Bastille.
1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov was born (d. 1765). Russian writer and polymath.
1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger was born (d. 1809). Austrian physician.
1722 - Benjamin Chew was born (d. 1810). Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania.
1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont dies (b. 1632). French courtier and soldier.

1752 - George Rogers Clark was born (d. 1818). American military leader.

1772 - William Nelson dies (b. 1711). American colonial governor of Virginia.

1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster dies (b. 1722). Irish politician.

1785 - Bernard de Bury dies (b. 1720). French composer.

1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

1798 - Wolfe Tone dies (b. 1763). Irish patriot.

1802 - Solomon Foot was born (d. 1866). American politician.

1804 - Pietro Guglielmi dies (b. 1728). Italian composer.

1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps was born (d. 1894). French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer.

1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre dies (b. 1725). French dancer and ballet master.

1812 - Karl Schwarz was born (d. 1885). German theologian.

1816 - Warsaw University is established.

1820 - The Troppau protocol, a declaration of intention to take collective action against revolution, was signed by the Holy Alliance powers at the Congress of Troppau.

1822 - Johann Georg Tralles dies (b. 1763). German mathematician and physicist.

1828 - Franz Schubert dies (b. 1797). Austrian composer.

1831 - James A. Garfield was born (d. 1881). 20th President of the United States.

1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey was born (d. 1911). German philosopher.

1834 - Georg Hermann Quincke was born (d. 1924). German physicist.

1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai was born (d. 1858). Indian Queen.

1843 - Richard Avenarius was born (d. 1896). German philosopher.

1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

1850 - Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in 1892.

1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson dies (b. 1780). American politician.

1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was born (d. 1935). Russian composer.

1862 - Billy Sunday was born (d. 1935). American evangelist.

1863 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1863 - Borges de Medeiros was born (d. 1961). Brazilian politician.

1865 - Leandro Gomes de Barros was born (d. 1918). Brazilian writer.

1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili dies (b. 1798). Georgian general.

1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin was born (d. 1946). Russian metal worker and head of state.

1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva was born (d. 1964). Russian mathematician.

1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

1883 - Ned Sparks was born (d. 1957). Canadian actor.

1883 - William Siemens dies. German engineer.

1887 - Emma Lazarus dies (b. 1859). American poet.

1887 - James B. Sumner was born (d. 1955). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1888 - José Raúl Capablanca was born (d. 1942). Cuban chess player.

1889 - Clifton Webb was born (d. 1966). American actor.

1892 - Huw Thomas Edwards was born (d. 1970). Welsh trade unionist and politician.

1893 - René Voisin was born (d. 1952). French classical trumpet player.

1894 - Américo Thomaz was born (d. 1987). President of Portuguese Republic (1958 - 1974).

1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.

1896 - Georgy Zhukov was born (d. 1974). Russian general.

1897 - Quentin Roosevelt was born (d. 1918). Son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.

1897 - William Seymour Tyler dies (b. 1810). American educator and historian.

1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel was born (d. 2003).German-born physicist.

1899 - Allen Tate was born (d. 1979). American poet and critic.

1899 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei was born (d. 1992). Influential Shia Islamic scholar.

1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev was born (d. 1980). Russian scientist.

1900 - Anna Seghers was born (d. 1983). German writer.

1900 - Bunny Ahearne was born (d. 1985). Irish ice hockey promoter.

1905 - Tommy Dorsey was born (d. 1956). American bandleader.

1907 - Jack Schaefer was born (d. 1991). American author.

1909 - Peter Drucker was born (d. 2005). American management theorist.

1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle was born (d. 1970). Son of Arthur Conan Doyle.

1912 - Domingos da Guia was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian football player.

1912 - George Emil Palade was born. Romanian cell biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1915 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was born (d. 1974). American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1915 - Joe Hill dies executed (b. 1879) American labor activist.

1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).

1917 - Indira Gandhi was born (d. 1984). Was the daughter of the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and served four terms as prime minister before being assassinated by Sikh extremists while in office in 1984.

1918 - Joseph Fielding Smith dies (b.1838). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1919 - Alan Young was born. Actor: Mr. Ed, Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine; cartoon voice: Scrooge McDuck.

1919 - Gillo Pontecorvo was born (d. 2006). Italian film director.

1920 - Gene Tierney was born (d. 1991). American actress.

1921 - Peter Ruckman was born. American Baptist minister.

1921 - Roy Campanella was born (d. 1993).Baseball player.

1922 - Yuri Knorosov was born (d. 1999). Russian epigrapher.

1922 - Salil Chowdhury was born (d. 1995). Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker.

1924 - Bernardo de Santareno was born. Portuguese dramatist.

1924 - Marlene (Vitória Martino Bonaiutti) was born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer.

1924 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).

1924 - William Russell was born. British actor.

1924 - Thomas Ince dies (b. 1882). American film director.

1925 - Zygmunt Bauman was born. Polish sociologist.

1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick was born (d. 2006). U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

1929 - Slavko Avsenik was born. Slovenian musician.

1929 - Norman Cantor was born (d. 2004). Canadian medieval scholar.

1931 - Xu Zhimo dies (b. 1897). Chinese poet.

1933 - Jerry Sheindlin was born. American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin.

1933 - Larry King was born. American television interviewer.

1935 - Bob Gibson was born. Baseball player.

1935 - Rashad Khalifa was born (d. 1990). Egyptian imam.

1935 - Jack Welch was born. American businessman.

1936 - Dick Cavett was born. American talk show host.

1936 - Yuan T. Lee was born. Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1936 - Francisco Milani was born (d. 2005). Brazilian actor.

1938 - Ted Turner was born. American businessman.

1938 - Lev Shestov dies (b. 1866). Russian philosopher.

1939 - Tom Harkin was born. American politician.

1941 - World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

1941 - Dan Haggerty was born. American actor.

1941 - Tommy Thompson was born. U.S. Governor.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

1942 - Calvin Klein was born. American clothing designer.

1942 - Sharon Olds was born. American poet.

1942 - Bruno Schulz dies shot (b. 1892). Polish writer and painter.

1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo was born (d.1990). Cuban-born Major League Baseball player

1943 - Fred Lipsius was born. Saxophonist and pianist (Blood, Sweat & Tears).

1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

1944 - Dennis Hull was born. National Hockey League player.

1944 - Agnes Baltsa was born. Greek mezzo-soprano.

1945 - Bobby Tolan was born. American baseball player.

1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1947 - Bob Boone was born. Baseball player and manager.

1947 - Lamar S. Smith was born. American politician.

1949 - Ahmad Rashad was born. American football player and sportscaster.

1949 - Nigel Bennett was born. English actor.

1950 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

1951 - Zeenat Aman was born. Miss Asia Pacific in 1970 & Famous Muslim Indian Actress

1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton was born. British lawyer and politician.

1952 - Stephen Soldz wa born. American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist.

1953 - Robert Beltran was born. American actor.

1953 - Tom Villard was born (d. 1994). American actor.

1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

1954 - Kathleen Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California. American actress (The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, American Graffiti, Airport ’77, Apollo 13, Family Law).

1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.

1955 - Sam Hamm was born. American screenwriter.

1956 - Marco Chagas was born. Portuguese cyclist.

1956 - Ann Curry was born. American journalist.

1956 - Glynnis O'Connor was born. American actress.

1957 - Ofra Haza was born (d. 2000). Israeli singer.

1958 - Michael Wilbon was born. Sports analyst.

1958 - Terrence Carson was born. American actor.

1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1959 - Allison Janney was born. American actress.

1959 - Joseph Charbonneau dies (b. 1892). Achbishop of Montreal.

1960 - Elizabeth Hulette was born (d. 2003). American professional wrestling manager and valet.

1960 - Matt Sorum was born. American musician, drummer with the band Velvet Revolver.

1960 - Phyllis Haver dies (b. 1899). American actress.

1961 - Meg Ryan was born. American actress ( When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally, D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Flesh and Bone, Top Gun, One of the Boys, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, You’ve Got Mail).

1961 - Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

1962 - Dodie Boy Peñalosa was born. Philippine boxer.

1962 - Jodie Foster was born. Academy Award-winning actress: The Accused [1988], Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Mayberry R.F.D., Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Paper Moon, Maverick; and director: Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays

1963 - Terry Farrell was born. American actress.

1963 - Jon Potter was born. British field hockey player.

1963 - Zsuzsanna Jánosi was born. Hungarian fencer.

1965 - Laurent Blanc was born. French football player.

1965 - Sean Hughes was born. Irish comedian.

1966 - Gail Devers was born. American athlete.

1966 - Jason Scott Lee was born. American actor.

1966 - Rocco DiSpirito was born. American chef.

1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1967 - Charles Watters dies (b. 1927). US Army chaplain.

1967 - João Guimarães Rosa dies (b. 1908). Brazilian writer.

1968 - Karina was born. Venezuelan singer.

1969 - Pelé scores his goal number 1000 on a football match between Santos and Vasco. Pelé played for Santos. The result was 2x1 to Santos.

1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

1969 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.

1969 - Terrence Carson was born. American actor.

1969 - Erika Alexander was born. American actress.

1969 - Philippe Adams was born. Belgian racing driver.

1969 - Richard Virenque was born. French cyclist.

1970 - The IBM 1620 is withdrawn from the market.

1970 - Justin Chancellor was born. English bassist (Tool).

1971 - Alice Peacock was born. American folk singer.

1971 - Jeremy McGrath was born. American motorcycle racer.

1972 - Sandrine Holt was born. Canadian actress.

1973 - American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.

1973 - Savion Glover was born. American choreographer, actor, and dancer.

1973 - Ryukishi07 was born. Japanese mystery novelist.

1973 - Takashi Matsumoto was born. Japanese photographer and business person.

1973 - Billy Currington was born. American singer and songwriter.

1974 - George Brunies dies (b. 1902). American musician.

1975 - Sushmita Sen was born. Indian beauty queen and actress.

1975 - Roger D. Branigin dies (b. 1902). American politician.

1976 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.

1976 - Jun Shibata was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.

1976 - Petr Sýkora was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1976 - Benny Vansteelant was born (d. 2007). Belgian duathlete.

1976 - Stylianos Venetidis was born. Greek footballer.

1976 - Sir Basil Spence dies (b. 1907). Scottish architect.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1977 - Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

1977 - Kerri Strug was born. American gymnast.

1978 - Jim Jones leads members of his Peoples Temple cult in mass murder-suicide. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, were found in Jonestown,Guyana in South America.

1978 - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová was born. Czech athlete.

1978 - Matt Dusk was born. Canadian jazz musician / vocalist.

1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

1979 - Larry Johnson was born. American football player.

1979 - Leam Richardson was born. English football player.

1979 - Rowan Jones was born. Australian rules footballer.

1979 - Ryan Howard was born. American baseball player.

1979 - John-Ford Griffin was born. American baseball player.

1979 - Keith Buckley was born. American singer (Every Time I Die).

1980 - Adele Silva was born. English actress.

1980 - Courtney Anderson ws born. American football player.

1983 - Chandra Crawford was born. Canadian cross-country skier.

1983 - Daria Werbowy was born. Ukranian-Canadian model.

1983 - Tom Evans dies (b. 1947). British musician and member of Badfinger.

1984 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1985 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco establishing a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).

1985 - Chris Eagles was born. British football player.

1985 - Bianca Comparato was born. Brazilian actress.

1985 - Laura Osnes was born. American Broadway star.

1985 - Stepin Fetchit dies (b. 1907). American actor and dancer.

1986 - A pintora Vieira da Silva é agraciada com o Prémio Florence Gould.

1986 - Milan Smiljanić was born. Serbian footballer.

1986 - Veronica Scott was born. American fashion designer.

1987 - É estabelecido um preço recorde na venda de um carro, ao ser vendido em leilão um Bugatti Royal de 1931 por 5,5 milhões de libras.

1988 - Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declared that Serbia was under attack from Albanian separatism in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

1988 - Patrick Kane was born. American ice hockey player.

1988 - Christina Onassis dies (b. 1950). Daughter of Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis.

1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the “Girl You Know It’s True” album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

1990 - James Chichester, Earl of Belfast was born. Irish Peer.

1990 - Sun Li-jen dies (b. 1900). Chinese general.

1992 - Bobby Russell dies (b. 1941). American songwriter.

1992 - Diane Varsi dies (b. 1938). American actress.

1994 - In Britain, the first National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

1994 - Em Vila Franca de Xira, é inaugurado o Imax, uma das mais modernas salas de cinema do país.

1994 - No Porto, termina a XI Cimeira Ibérica, com acordos sobre a água, gás natural e coordenação fronteiriça.

1994 - O IPPAR anuncia oficialmente a descoberta de gravuras rupestres na zona da futura barragem de Foz Côa e é acusado por arqueólogos de ter ocultado a descoberta desde 1989.

1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

1996 - The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.

1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.

1997 - McCaughey septuplets were born. American septuplets.

1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

1998 - Lucília do Carmo dies. Portuguese singer (fado).

1998 - Alan J. Pakula dies. American film director and producer.

1998 - Ted Fujita dies (b. 1920). Japanese-born American meteorologist.

1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

1999 - John Carpenter became the first contestant to win $1,000,000 U.S.D. on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

2001 - Marcelle Ferron dies (b. 1924). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.

2003 - Ian Geoghegan dies (b. 1940). Australian racing driver.

2004 - A brawl breaks out between Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers players during their game at The Palace of Auburn Hills; the brawl turns into an even larger fight between Pacers players and Pistons fans.

2004 - Piet Esser dies (b. 1914). Dutch sculptor.

2004 - John Robert Vane dies (b. 1927). British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2004 - Helmut Griem dies (b. 1932). German actor.

2004 - Terry Melcher dies (b. 1942). American musician and record producer.

2005 - US Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town of Haditha in Iraq.

2005 - Erik Balling dies (b. 1924). Danish TV and film director.

2006 - Wii launches in North America.

2006 - ITU Canberra Long Distance Triathlon World Championships.

2006 - São Paulo FC wins the Brazilian Championship in football (soccer).

2007 - Kevin DuBrow dies (b. 1955). American singer (Quiet Riot).

2007 - Mike Gregory dies (b. 1964). English rugby league footballer.

2007 - Dick Wilson dies (b. 1916). American actor.