Nothingandall: On this day in History

588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
0041 - Caligula dies (b. 0012). Roman Emperor.
0069 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide. / O imperador romano Galba foi morto pela Guarda Pretoriana no Forum de Roma. Tinha sucedido a Nero, e o seu assassinato deu origem a uma época de 30 anos de anarquia governativa no império romano.
0069 - Galba dies (b. 3 BC). Roman Emperor.
0570 - Saint Ita dies (b. 0475). Irish nun.
0708 - Pope Sisinnius is elected Pope.
0936 - King Rudolph of France.
1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 1404).
1345 - Martin Zaccaria dies. Italo-Greek ruler.
1412 - Saint Joan of Arc was born (d. 1431).
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal was born (d. 1481).
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi was born (d. 1511). Japanese shogun.
1535 - Henrique VIII tornou-se Chefe Supremo da Igreja de Inglaterra em resultado do Acto de Supremacia que tinha provocado a separação da Igreja Católica Romana.
1538 - Maeda Toshiie was born (d. 1599). Japanese general.
1559 - Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1595 - Murat III dies (b. 1546). Ottoman Emperor.
1597 - Juan de Herrera dies. Spanish architect (Monasterio del Escorial).
1622 - Jean Baptiste Poquelín was born. French dramatist.
1622 - Molière was born (d. 1673). French playwright.
1623 - Fra Paolo Sarpi dies (b. 1552). Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer.
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme was born (d. 1704). English antiquarian.
1672 - John Cosin dies (b. 1594). English clergyman.
1683 - Philip Warwick dies (b. 1609). English writer and politician.
1716 - Philip Livingston was born (d. 1778). American signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1747 - John Aikin was born (d. 1822). English doctor and writer.

1754 - Richard Martin was born (d. 1834). Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

1774 - El virrey de Buenos Aires, Juan José Vértiz y Salcedo, sale de Montevideo al frente de sus tropas y derrota a los invasores portugueses.

1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini dies. Italian composer.

1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut declares its independence. Six months later it was renamed Vermont.

1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón dies (b. 1718). Queen regent of Portugal (wife of King D. Jose I).

1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.

1790 - John Landen dies (b. 1719). English mathematician.

1791 - Franz Grillparzer was born (d. 1872). Austrian writer.

1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov was born (d. 1829). Russian playwright.

1803 - Marjory Fleming was born (d. 1811). Scottish writer and poet.

1804 - Dru Drury dies (b. 1725). English entomologist.

1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was born (d. 1865). French anarchist.

1810 - Abigail Kelley Foster was born. Abolitionist.

1810 - José Bonaparte, à frente de Exército de 80 mil homen, chega a Serra Morena, iniciando a ocupação de Andaluzia.

1812 - Peter Christian Asbjørnsen was born (d. 1885). Norwegian writer and scientist.

1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton dies (b. 1761). English mistress of Lord Nelson.

1816 - Marie LaFarge was born (d. 1852). French murderer.

1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.

1824 - Marie Duplessis was born (d. 1847). French courtesan, inspiration for La Dame aux Camelias.

1834 - Samuel Arza Davenport was born (d. 1911). American politician.

1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby was born (d. 1908). Governor General of Canada.

1842 - Blessed Mary McKillop was born (d. 1909). Australian candidate for sainthood.

1842 - Josef Breuer was born (d. 1925). Austrian psychologist.

1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.

1847 - Francisco Adolfo Coelho was born (d. 1919). Portuguese philologist and anthropologist.

1850 - Mihai Eminescu was born (d. 15 Jun. 1889). Romanian poet.

1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya was born (d. 1891). Russian mathematician.

1855 - Jacques Damala was born (d. 1889). Greek military officer and actor.

1859 - Haitian Emperor Faustino I abdicated his throne as result of the revolution begun in 1958 led by General Fabre Geffrard, Duc de Tabara.

1859 - Archibald Peake was born (d. 1920). Premier of South Australia.

1861 - Elisha Otis patenta el ascensor a vapor, formando la base de su compañía de elevadores.

1863 - Wilhelm Marx was born (d. 1946). German politician, chancellor of the Weimar Republic.

1864 - Isaac Nathan dies (b. 1792). UK-Australian composer.

1865 - American Civil War - Fort Fisher North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.

1865 - Joaquín González Camargo was born. Colombian poet.

1866 - Nathan Söderblom was born (d. 1931). Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański was born (d. 1907). Polish dramatist, poet, painter and architect.

1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).

1870 - Pierre S. DuPont was born. American businessman.

1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev was born (d. 1944). Russian writer.

1875 - Tom Burke was born (d. 1929). American runner.

1876 - Eliza Johnson dies (b. 1810). U.S. First Lady.

1877 - Lewis Terman was born (d. 1956). American psychologist.

1878 - Johanna Müller-Hermann was born (d. 1941). Austrian composer and pedagogue.

1879 - Mazo de la Roche was born (d. 1961). Canadian author.

1881 - Batalla de Miraflores, durante la guerra del Pacífico entre los ejércitos chileno y peruano, que da la victoria a los primeros, abriéndoles las puertas de Lima.

1882 - Daniel Vázquez Díaz was born. Spanish painter.

1882 - Princess Margaret of Connaught was born (d. 1920). Crown Princess of Sweden.

1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.

1885 - Grover Lowdermilk was born (d. 1968). American baseball player.

1885 - Huang Yuanyong was born (d. 1915). Chinese writer.

1885 - Lorenz Böhler was born (d. 1973). Austrian physician.

1885 - Leopold Damrosch dies (b. 1832). German-American orchestral conductor.

1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

1890 - Tommy Fleming was born (d. 1965). American soccer player.

1891 - Osip Mandelstam was born (d. 1938). Soviet poet and essayist.

1891 - Ray Chapman was born (d. 1920). American baseball player.

1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.

1892 - Rex Ingram was born (d. 1950). Irish director, writer.

1893 - Ivor Novello was born (d. 1951). Welsh actor, musician.

1893 - Fanny Kemble dies (b. 1809). British actress and author.

1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was born (d. 1973). Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1896 - Víctor de la Serna was born. Chilean writer established in Spain.

1896 - Mathew Brady dies (b. 1822). U.S. photographer.

1897 - Xu Zhimo was born (d. 1931). Chinese poet.

1899 - Goodman Ace was born (d. 1982). American actor, comedian, writer.

1901 - Rosita Quiroga was born. Tango singer.

1901 - Luis Monti was born (d. 1983). Argentine-Italian footballer.

1902 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was born (d. 1969).

1903 - Paul A. Dever was born (d. 1958). 58^th Governor of Massachusetts.

1904 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, es elegido primer presidente constitucional de Panamá por la Convención Nacional.

1905 - Kamatari Fujiwara was born (d. 1985). Japanese actor.

1905 - Torin Thatcher was born (d. 1981). English actor.

1906 - Aristotle Onassis was born (d. 15 Mar 1975). Greek businessman and magnat.

1907 - Dr. Lee de Forest gets patent to Wireless Telegraphy" (tunable vacuum tube detector - no grid) USP 841,386.

1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.

1908 - Edward Teller was born (d. 2003). Hungarian-born physicist.

1909 - Jean Bugatti was born (d. 1939). German-born automobile designer.

1909 - Gene Krupa was born (d. 1973). American drummer.

1909 - Arnold Janssen dies (b. 1837). Missionary.

1910 - France reorganizes its various colonies in Central and West Africa as French Equatorial Africa.

1911 - Carlos Côrrea Mascaro was born. Brazilian educator.

1912 - Harry Hay was born (d. 2002). American gay rights activist.

1912 - Michel Debré was born (d. 1996). French politician.

1913 - Alexander Marinesko was born (d. 1963). Captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff.

1913 - Lloyd Bridges was born (d. 1998). American actor.

1913 - Miriam Hyde was born (d. 2005). Australian composer.

1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton was born (d. 2003). English historian

1915 - Mary Slessor dies (b. 1848). Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa.

1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky dies (b. 1850). Russian writer.

1918 - Édouard Gagnon was born (d. 2007). Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal.

1918 - Gamal Nasser was born (d. 1970). Egyptian statesman, prime minister and president.

1918 - João Figueiredo was born. 42nd President of Brazil (1979-1985).

1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.

1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.

1919 - Rosa Luxemburg (b. 1870) and Karl Liebknecht (b. 1871), founders of The German Communist Party are assasssinated in Berlin.

1919 - Maurice Herzog was born. French mountaineer, first to ascend an 8000m peak, Annapurna in 1950.

1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor was born (d. 2000). American Catholic cardinal.

1920 - Steve Gromek was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.

1921 - Frank Thornton was born. English actor.

1922 - Sir Eric Willis was born (d. 1999). Australian politician.

1923 - Ivor Cutler was born (d. 2006). Scottish poet.

1923 - Lee Teng-hui was born. Taiwanese politician.

1925 - Ruth Slenczynska was born. U.S. pianist.

1926 - Florence Buchsbaum was born (d. 1996). French theater director.

1926 - Maria Schell was born (d. 2005). Swiss actress.

1926 - Domingo de Orueta y Duarte was born. Spanish scientist who was President of la Academia Española de Historia Natural.

1926 - Enrico Toselli dies (b. 1883). Italian composer.

1927 - Norm Crosby was born. American comedian.

1927 - Phyllis Coates was born. American actress.

1929 - Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1968 killed in Menfis). American Civil Rights Leader. Nobel Prize awarded 1964.

1930 - Eddie Graham was born (d. 1985). American professional wrestler.

1931 - Un terremoto destruye la ciudad de Oaxaca (México).

1933 - Ernest J. Gaines was born. American author.

1934 - Um terremoto causa a morte de 10.700 pessoas no norte da Índia.

1935 - Somaliland and Eritrea joined by Mussolini to form Italian East Africa.

1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).

1936 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster dies (b. 1866). Governor-General of Australia.

1937 - Margaret O'Brien was born. American actress.

1938 - Bombardeo de Barcelona.

1938 - Chuni Goswami was born. Indian footballer and cricketer.

1939 - Tony Bullimore was born. English sailor and adventurer.

1941 - Alfonso XIII abdica em Roma de seus direitos ao trono espanhol.

1941 - Charo was born. Spanish entertainer.

1941 - Don Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart was born. American musician and visual artist.

1942 - Nehru sucede Gandhi à frente do Partido Popular do Congresso Indiano.

1943 - Finalização das obras do Pentágono, sede do Departamento de Defesa do Estados Unidos, em Washington, o maior prédio de escritórios do mundo.

1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.

1943 - World War II: Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begun.

1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).

1943 - Mike Marshall was born. American baseball player.

1944 - Un terremoto destruye la ciudad de San Juan en Argentina.

1945 - Princess Michael of Kent was born. British royal.

1945 - Vince Foster was born (d. 1993). American lawyer.

1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger dies (b. 1865). Austrian mathematician.

1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Her murderer has never been found and it has become a notorious case in the history of American crime.

1947 - Andrea Martin was born. Canadian actress.

1947 - Elizabeth Short dies (b. 1924). The Black Dahlia.

1948 - Ronnie VanZant was born (d. 1977). Lead vocal for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

1949 - The Chinese Communist Party forces took over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.

1949 - Luis Alvarado was born (d. 2001). Puerto Rican baseball player.

1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos was born. Greek actor.

1950 - Marius Trésor was born. French footballer.

1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold dies (b. 1886). U.S. General of the Air Force.

1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.

1951 - Charo was born. Spanish-born singer.

1952 - Ned Hanlon dies (b. 1887). Premier of Queensland.

1953 - Kent Hovind was born. American evangelist and Young Earth creationist.

1953 - Randy White was born. American football player.

1953 - Ta-Tanisha was born. American actress.

1954 - "General China", the Mau Mau's second in command, is wounded and captured by the British.

1954 - Jose Dalisay, Jr. was born. Filipino writer.

1954 - Nikos Sarganis was born. Greek footballer.

1955 - Theresa Saad Thurman was born. American Arbitrator.

1955 - Nigel Benson was born. British author.

1955 - Yves Tanguy dies (b. 1900). French surrealist painter.

1956 - Mayawati was born. Indian politician.

1957 - Mario Van Peebles was born in Mexico. American actor.

1957 - Marty Lyons was born. American professional football player.

1957 - Patrick Dixon was born. British entrepreneur.

1957 - Julian Sands was born. English actor.

1958 - Boris Tadić was born. President of Serbia.

1959 - Pavle Kozjek was born (d. 2008). Slovenian climber.

1959 - Pete Trewavas was born. British bass guitarist (Marillion).

1959 - Sister Carol was born. Jamaican reggae singer.

1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis was born. American composer.

1960 - Kelly Asbury was born. American director and actor.

1961 - Yves P. Pelletier was born. Quebec comedian (Rock et Belles Oreilles), actor and film director.

1962 - Conrad Lant (aka Cronos) was born. English musician.

1962 - Creflo Dollar was born. American televangelist.

1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä was born. Finnish composer.

1964 - Jack Teagarden dies (b. 1905). American musician.

1965 - Adam Jones was born. Amerian musician (Tool).

1965 - Bernard Hopkins was born. American boxer.

1965 - James Nesbitt was born. Northern Irish actor.

1965 - Maurizio Fondriest was born. Italian cyclist.

1965 - Norma Houston was born. North Carolina political mastermind.

1966 - First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.

1966 - The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup.

1967 -The first Super Bowl is played - The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.

1967 - David Burliuk dies (b. 1882). Ukrainian artist.

1968 - Chad Lowe was born. American actor.

1968 - Iñaki Urdangarín was born. Spanish royalty.

1968 - Bill Masterton dies (b. 1938). Canadian ice hockey player.

1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.

1969 - Delino DeShields was born. American baseball player.

1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.

1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.

1970 - Shane McMahon was born. American professional wrestler.

1970 - William T. Piper dies (b. 1881). American aircraft designer.

1971 - Max Beesley was born. English musician and actor.

1971 - Regina King was born. American actress.

1971 - Fernando Paço Borges was born. Brazilian poet and architect.

1971 - Teanna Kai was born. American porn star

1972 - Claudia Winkleman was born. British television presenter.

1972 - Kobe Tai was born. American porn star.

1972 - Daisy Ashford dies (b. 1881). English child writer (The Young Visiters).

1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

1973 - Golda Meir é a primeira líder israelita a ser recebida pelo Papa.

1973 - Essam El-Hadary was born. Egyptian football goalkeeper.

1973 - Ivan Petrovsky dies (b. 1901). Russian mathematician.

1973 - Coleman Francis dies (b. 1919). American film director.

1974 - Happy Days premiers on ABC.

1974 - Ray King was born. American baseball player.

1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola witch takes effects on 11 Nov 1975/ Portugal garante a independencia de Angola pelos acordos de Alvor entre o Governo Português e os Movimentos de Libertação Angolanos. Fixa-se a data da independência: 11 Nov 1975.

1975 - Edith Bowman was born. Scottish television and radio presenter.

1975 - Mary Pierce was born. American tennis player.

1975 - Greg Strause was born. American artist.

1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.

1976 - Corey Chavous was born. American football player.

1976 - Dorian Missick was born. American actor.

1976 - Rodrigo Fabri was born. Brazilian football player.

1977 - The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.

1978 - Eddie Cahill was born. American actor.

1978 - Franco Pellizotti was born. Italian cyclist.

1979 - Adam Brody was born. American actor.

1979 - Drew Brees was born. American football player.

1979 - Ken Chu was born. Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ.

1979 - Martin Petrov was born. Bulgarian footballer.

1979 - Young Dro was born. American rapper.

1980 - Matt Holliday was born. American baseball player.

1981 - El Hadji Diouf was born. Senegalese footballer.

1981 - Howie Day was born. American pop singer.

1981 - Sean Lamont was born. Scottish rugby union footballer.

1982 - Armando Galarraga was born. Venezuelan baseball player.

1982 - Benjamin Agosto was born. American skater.

1982 - Brett Lebda was born. American hockey player.

1982 - Megan Quann was born. American swimmer.

1982 - Neil Nitin Mukesh was born. Indian actor.

1982 - Philip and Alexander was born. American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family.

1983 - Jermaine Pennant was born. English footballer.

1983 - Hugo Viana was born. Portuguese footballer.

1983 - Meyer Lansky dies (b. 1902). Russian-born gangster.

1983 - Shepperd Strudwick dies (b. 1907). American actor.

1984 - Megan Jendrick was born. American swimmer.

1984 - Victor Rasuk was born. American actor.

1985 - Tancredo Neves is elected President of Brazil (but he will die before has taken the power).

1985 - Kenneth Emil Petersen was born. Danish footballer.

1986 - The HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.

1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.

1986 - Acidente de helicóptero no Rally Paris-Dakar. Morrem o organizador, Thierry Sabine e mais quatro pessoas.

1986 - Fred Davis was born. American football player.

1987 - La Junta militar chilena aprueba la ley de partidos políticos, que los autoriza, por primera vez, desde el golpe de estado de 1973.

1987 - Aria C Jalali was born. American musician.

1987 - Barbie Blank was born. American model and professional wrestling valet.

1987 - David Knight was born. English footballer.

1987 - Greg Inglis was born. Australian rugby league player.

1987 - Kelly Kelly was born. American WWE Diva.

1987 - Michael Seater was born. Canadian actor.

1987 - Ray Bolger dies (b. 1904). American actor, singer, and dancer.

1988 - Sonny Moore was born. American musician From First to Last.

1988 - Seán MacBride dies (b. 1904). Irish statesman, Nobel Prize (1974) and Lenin Prize for Peace laureate.

1988 - Sonny Moore was born. American musician From First to Last.

1989 - Alexei Cherepanov was born (d. 2008). Russian hockey player.

1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.

1990 - Chris Warren Jr. was born. American actor.

1990 - Fernando Forestieri was born. Italian footballer.

1990 - Dame Peggy van Praagh dies (b. 1910). British ballet dancer, choreographer, director.

1990 - Gordon Jackson dies (b. 1923). Scottish film tv actor; best known as the butler 'Hudson' on Upstairs Downstairs.

1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

1992 - The European Community recognized Croatia and Slovenia as separate states, effectively ending the Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918.

1992 - Terroristas do ETA assassinam o professor Manuel Broseta, em Valência, na Itália.

1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1992 - Dee Murray dies (b. 1946). English bassist.

1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive

1993 - Sammy Cahn dies (b. 1913). American songwriter.

1994 - The Pan African Congress agrees to renounce the armed struggle against South Africa's government and register as a political party in the forthcoming election.

1994 - Georges Cziffra dies (b. 1921). Hungarian-French pianist.

1994 - Harilal Upadhyay dies (b. 1916). Gujarati-Indian author, poet, astrologist.

1994 - Harry Nilsson dies (b. 1941). American musician.

1995 - The first episode of Star Trek: Voyager airs.

1995 - Vera Maxwell dies (b. 1901). American fashion designer.

1996 - O primeiro-ministro socialista da Grécia, Andréas Papandreou, renuncia por motivos de saúde.

1996 - Mario Vargas Llosa toma posesión del sillón "L" de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua.

1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho dies in a car crash (b. 1938).

1996 - Les Baxter dies (b. 1922). American musician and composer.

1996 - Minnesota Fats dies (b. 1913). American Billiards player.

1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho dies (b. 1938).

1998 - Junior Wells dies (b. 1934). American musician.

1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.

1999 - Betty Box dies (b. 1915). British film producer.

2000 - Fran Ryan dies (b. 1916). American actress.

2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque dies (b. 1903). French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.

2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, dies (b. 1952). Serbian paramilitary leader.

2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online: Wikipedia Day .

2001 - Ted Mann dies (b. 1916). American screenwriter.

2002 - Steve Gromek dies (b. 1920). American baseball player.

2003 - Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt dies. Hawaiian educator; fought for native Hawaiian rights .

2003 - Doris Fisher dies (b. 1915). American singer and songwriter.

2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.

2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.

2005 - Dan Lee dies (b. 1969). Canadian animator.

2005 - Deem Bristow dies (b. 1947). American video game voice actor.

2005 - Elizabeth Janeway dies (b. 1913). American author.

2005 - Ruth Warrick dies (b. 1915). American actress.

2005 - Walter Ernsting dies (b. 1920). German author.

2005 - Victoria de los Angeles dies (b. 1923). Catalan soprano.

2006 - Michelle Bachelet is elected, the first woman, President of Chile.

2006 - O Benfica ganha 3-0 à Académica com golos de Simão Sabrosa, Luisão e Nuno Gomes. O Porto comandava a classificação com mais 3 pontos que o Benfica.

2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1926). Emir of Kuwait.

2007 - O Benfica passado um ano volta a jogar com a Académica agora em Coimbra, vencendo por 2-0.

2007 - Comet McNaught makes perigee after coming close to the sun.

2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti dies executed (b. 1951). Former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein

2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar dies executed (b. 1945). Former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court.

2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti dies executed (b. 1951). Former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein.

2007 - Bo Yibo dies (b. 1908). Chinese politician.

2007 - David Vanole dies (b. 1963). American soccer player.

2007 - James Hillier dies (b. 1915). Canadian inventor of electron microscope.

2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence dies (b. 1905). Filipino writer and diplomat.

2008 - Brad Renfro dies (b. 1982). American actor.

2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson dies (b. 1964). English video game designer.