On this day in History - Jan. 22

• 0565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• 0871 - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex.
• 1263 - Ibn Taymiya was born (d. 1328). Islamic scholar.
• 1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned.
• 1440 - Ivan III was born (d. 1505). Grand duke of Moscow.
• 1462 - São Vicente Island in Cape Vert is discovered by Portuguese navigator Diogo Gomes.
• 1502 - São Vicente Island in Brazil is discovered by a Portuguese expedition commanded by Gaspar de Lemos.
  
• 1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican.
• 1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
• 1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V.
• 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling dies. German religious leader.
• 1553 - Mori Terumoto was born (d. 1625). Japanese warrior.
• 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon was born (d. 1626). English philosopher ("Novum Organum" and " The Advancement of Learning").
• 1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was born (d. 1631). English politician.
• 1588 - Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia).
• 1588 - John Winthrop was born. Colonial governor.
• 1592 - Pierre Gassendi was born (d. 24 Oct 1655). French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher who revived Epicureanism as a substitute for Aristotelianism.
• 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi dies (b. 1547). Italian composer.
• 1654 - Richard Blackmore was born (d. 1729). English physician and writer.
• 1666 - Shah Jahan dies (b. 1592). Mogul Emperor of India.
• 1690 - Nicolas Lancret was born (d. 1743). French painter.
• 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born (d. 1781). German author and philosopher.
• 1729 - Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi was born. Composer.
• 1733 - Philip Carteret was born. British Naval Officer.
• 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl dies (b. 1675). Bavarian politician.
• 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville dies (b. 1690). English statesman.
• 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies (b. 1719). German minterologist and geologist.
• 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
• 1775 - Andre Marie Ampere was born (d. 1836). Physicist.
• 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon dies (b. 1733). English surveyor and astronomer.
• 1779 - Claudius Smith dies (b. 1736). American Revolutionary War loyalist.
• 1781 - François Antoine Habeneck was born (d. 1849). French violinist.
• 1788 - George Gordon Lord Byron was born (d.1824). English poet.
• 1796 - Karl Claus was born (d. 1864). Russian chemist.
• 1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria was born (d. 1826). Empress of Brazil.
• 1798 - Lewis Morris dies at 71. US farmer who signed Declaration of Independence.
• 1799 - Ludger Duvernay was born (d. 1852). Quebec printer and publisher.
• 1800 - Nat Turner was born (d. 1831). American slave rebellion leader.
• 1808 - A frota portuguesa que transportou a Rainha D. Maria I, o príncipe regente D. João e a corte portuguesa de Portugal para o Brasil aporta na Baía.
• 1820 - Joseph Wolf was born (d. 1899). German artist.
• 1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.
• 1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands.
• 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
• 1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce was born (d. 1907). English bishop.
• 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies (b. 1752). German anthropologist.
• 1849 - August Strindberg was born (d. 1912). Swedish poet and novelist (Apologia) .
• 1855 - Albert Neisser was born (d. 30 Jul 1916). German physician who specialized in dermatology and venereal diseases.
• 1858 - Beatrice Potter Webb was born (d. 1943). British economist.
• 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
• 1865 - Louis Paschen was born (d. 1947). German physicist who was probably the most skillful experimental spectroscopist of his time.
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin was born (d. 1916). Russian monk.
• 1869 - Vicente de Freitas was born (d. 1952). Portuguese soldier and politician.
• 1874 - Leonard Eugene Dickson was born (d. 17 Jan 1954). American mathematician who made important contributions to the theory of numbers and the theory of groups. He published 18 books including Linear groups with an exposition of the Galois field theory.
• 1874 - Edward Harkness was born (d. 1940). American philanthropist.
• 1874 - Jay Hughes was born (d. 1924). American baseball player.
  
• 1875 - D. W. Griffith was born (d. 1948). American film director.
• 1876 - Warren McLaughlin was born (d. 1923). American baseball player.
  
• 1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
• 1877 - Tom Jones was born (d. 1923). American baseball player.
  
• 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
• 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana. The British Army suffers its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu warriors overrun a British camp of 1,700 near Isandlwana mountain. Over 1,300 of the British force was killed, with only 60 Europeans surviving.
• 1879 - Francis Picabia was born (d. 1953). French-born painter and poet.
  
• 1880 - Bill O'Neill was born (d. 1920). American baseball player.
  
• 1880 - Frigyes Rwas born (d. 1956). Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis, which has found important applications to mathematical physics.
• 1881 - Ira Thomas was born (d. 1958). American baseball player.
  
• 1882 - Theodore Kosloff was born (d. 1956). Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer.
• 1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg was born (d. 1921). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1887 - Helen Hoyt was born (d. 1972). American poet.
• 1887 - António Maria Fontes Pereira de Melo dies (b. 8 Sep 1819). Portuguese statesman.
• 1888 - Miguel Angel Amunátegui dies. Chilean historian.
• 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
• 1889 - Amos Strunk was born (d. 1979). American baseball player.
  
• 1889 - Henri Pélissier was born (d. 1935). French cyclist.
• 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• 1890 - Fred M. Vinson was born (d. 1953). 13th Chief Justice of the United States
• 1890 - Vinko Zganec was born (d. 1976). Croatian ethnomusicologist.
• 1891 - Antonio Gramsci was born (d. 1937). Italian Communist writer and politician.
• 1891 - Benjamin Constant, político e militar fluminense, um dos fundadores da República e autor da divisa Ordem e Progresso da bandeira brasileira, falece aos 54 anos de idade no Rio de Janeiro.
• 1892 - Marcel Dassault was born (d. 1986). French industrialist.
• 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley dies (b. 1813). Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1893 - Conrad Veidt was born (d. 1943). German actor.
• 1897 - Alexandre José Barbosa Lima Sobrinho was born. Brazilian journalist and politician.
  
• 1897 - Rosa Ponselle was born (d. 1981). American soprano (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino).
• 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
• 1900 - Ernst Busch was born (d. 1980). German singer and actor.
• 1900 - David E. Hughes dies (b. 1831). American musician.
• 1901 - Queen Victoria (b. 1819) of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens) and Edward VII becomes King.
• 1901 - Hans-Erich Apostel was born. Austrian Composer (Sonata Ritmica).
• 1902 - Daniel Kinsey was born (d. 1970). American hurdler.
• 1903 - Fritz Houtermans was born (d. 1966). Polish physicist.
• 1904 - Arkady Gaidar was born (d. 1941). Russian children's writer.
  
• 1904 - George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). American choreographer and ballet dancer,
  Born in Russia as Georgi Balanchivadze, Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia. After moving to the United States (1933), he became director of ballet for the Metropolitan Opera House (1934–37) and a founder of the School of American Ballet (1934). In 1948 he became artistic director and principal choreographer for the New York City Ballet.
• 1904 - John Milligan was born (d. 1972). American baseball player.
  
• 1905 - 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg. Beggining of the 1905 revolution.
• 1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Over 130 passengers die trying to get ashore or drowning on the ship. It's Canada's worst maritime tragedy up to that time.
• 1906 - Joe Gladwin was born (d. 1987). English actor.
• 1906 - Robert E. Howard was born (d. 1936). American author.
• 1907 - Dixie Dean was born (d. 1980). English footballer.
• 1907 - Douglas Corrigan was born (d. 1995). American pilot.
  
• 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys was born (d. 2004). Dutch actress.
  
• 1907 - William Ralph Dean was born (d. 1980). English footballer.
• 1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau was born (d. 01 Apr 1968). Russian physicist who worked in such fields as low-temperature physics, atomic and nuclear physics, and solid-state, stellar-energy, and plasma physics;1962 Nobel laureate in Physics.
• 1908 - Prince Oana was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
  
• 1909 - Ann Sothern was born (d. 2001). American actress.
• 1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa was born (d. 1965). Dominican diplomat and international playboy.
  
• 1909 - U Thant was born (d. 1974). Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General
• 1911 - Bruno Kreisky was born (d. 1990). Chancellor of Austria.
• 1913 - Carl F. H. Henry was born (d. 2003). American theologian and publisher.
• 1913 - William Cardinal Conway was born (d. 1977). Northern Irish clergyman.
• 1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis was born (d. 2001). Greek composer.
• 1915 - Heinrich Albertz was born (d. 1993). German theologian and politician.
• 1916 - Bill Durnan was born (d. 1972). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1916 - Harilal Upadhyay was born (d. 1994). Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India).
• 1916 - Henri Dutilleux was born. French composer.
• 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
• 1917 - Huck Geary was born (d. 1981). American baseball player.
  
• 1918 - Ukraine proclaimed an independent republic.
• 1918 - Elmer Lach was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1919 - Act Zluky was signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
• 1919 - Diomedes Olivo was born (d. 1977). Dominican Republic baseball player.
• 1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey was born (d. 1999). English footballer manager.
• 1920 - Chiara Lubich was born. Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare Movement.
• 1921 - El Gobierno español establece el seguro obrero obligatorio para todos los trabajadores.
• 1921 - Captain George Streeter dies (b. 1837). American riverboat captain and circus owner.
• 1922 - Howard Moss was born (d. 1987). American poet, dramatist, and critic.
• 1922 - Leonel Brizola was born (d. 2004). Brazilian politician.
• 1922 - Fredrik Bajer dies. Danish writer and pacifist, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1908.
• 1922 - Pope Benedict XV [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa] dies (b. 1854) .
• 1922 - Camille Jordan dies (b. 1938). French mathematician.
• 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
• 1924 - Zinoviev, Kamenev e Stalin assumem a direção da URSS.
• 1924 - J. J. Johnson was born (d. 2001). American jazz trombonist and composer.
• 1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu .
• 1925 - Bobby Young was born (d. 1985). American baseball player.
  
• 1925 - Johnny Bucha was born (d. 1996). American baseball player.
  
• 1926 - El avión español Plus Ultra comienza el primer vuelo sobre el Atlántico Sur.
• 1927 - First live radio commentary of a football (soccer) match anywhere in the world - Arsenal vs. Sheffield United at Highbury. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.
• 1927 - Lou Creekmur was born. American football player.
• 1928 - George A. Borgman was born. American jazz historian and journalist.
• 1928 - Yoshihiko Amino was born (d. 2004). Japanese historian.
• 1929 - Firma del tratado por el que se establecen las fronteras entre Haití y la República Dominicana.
• 1930 - El buque alemán Monte Cervantes naufraga en los canales fueguinos.
• 1931 - Galina Zybina was born. USSR discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58).
• 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• 1931 - Sam Cooke was born (d. 1964). American singer.
• 1931 - Alma Rubens dies (b. 1897). American actress.
• 1932 - Varias ciudades de Guatemala, destruidas por la erupción de los volcanes Fuego y Acatemango.
• 1932 - O líder comunista Agustin Farabundo Marti e seus companheiros Mario Zapata e Alfonso Luna são fuzilados, por dirigirem uma rebelião de camponeses que deixou mais de 30.000 mortos em El Salvador.
• 1932 - Estrela da Amadora, a Portuguese club, is founded.
• 1932 - Berthold Grünfeld was born. Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist.
• 1932 - Piper Laurie was born. American actress.
• 1933 - José Mattoso was born. Portuguese historian and teacher.
• 1934 - Bill Bixby was born (d. 1993). American actor.
• 1934 - Graham Kerr was born. British-born chef.
• 1935 - Seymour Cassel was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Eduardo VIII é proclamado rei da Inglaterra. O monarca abdicou seu trono, posteriormente, para se casar com a norteamericana Wallis Simpson, que era divorciada.
• 1936 - Alan J. Heeger was born. American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1936 - Ong Teng Cheong was born (d. 2002). 5th President of Singapore.
  
• 1937 - Edén Pastora Gómez was born. Nicaraguan rebel leader.
• 1937 - Joseph Wambaugh was born. American author.
• 1938 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.
• 1938 - Altair was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1938 - Moacyr Malacarne was born in São Domingos do Norte, Município de Colatina, Norte do Espírito Santo. Brazilian poet, memorialist and folclorist.
• 1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University.
• 1939 - Alfredo Palacio was borm. President of Ecuador.
• 1939 - Jeff Smith was born (d. 2004). American chef.
• 1939 - Jean-Claude Tremblay was born (d. 1994). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris was born (d. 1982). Singer, member of the Shirelles.
• 1940 - George Seifert was born. American football coach.
• 1940 - John Hurt was born. English actor.
• 1940 - George Seifert was born. American football coach.
• 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
• 1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania.
• 1942 - Mimis Domazos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1943 - World War II: North Africa Axis forces pull out of Tripoli and head back towards Tunisia.
• 1943 - Marília Pêra was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1944 - World War II: The Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
• 1944 - António Vitor Martins Monteiro was born. Portuguese diplomat.
• 1945 - Arthur Beetson was born. Australian rugby league player & coach.
• 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler dies (b. 1869). German-born poet.
• 1946 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
• 1946 - Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1946 - Malcolm McLaren was born. English impresario, musician and self-publicist.
• 1946 - Serge Savard was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1947 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1947 - Afeni Shakur was born. 2Pac's mother.
• 1948 - Gilbert Levine was born. American conductor.
• 1948 - Northern Calloway was born (d. 1990). American actor.
  
• 1949 - Mike Caldwell was born. American baseball player.
• 1949 - Phil Miller was born. English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole).
• 1949 - Steve Perry was born. American singer and musician (Journey).
• 1949 - William Thomas Walsh dies (b. 1891). American author.
• 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr. dies (b. 1892). American actor.
• 1951 - Leon Roberts was born. American baseball player.
• 1951 - Ondrej Nepela was born (d. 1989). Slovak figure skater.
• 1951 - Karl Nessler dies (b. 1872). Inventor of the perm.
• 1952 - The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
• 1952 - Ace Vergel was born (d. 2007). Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.
• 1952 - Ramón Avilés was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1952 - Teddy Gentry was born. American musician (Alabama).
• 1953 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
• 1953 - Jim Jarmusch was born. American director.
• 1953 - Myung-Whun Chung was born. South Korean Conductor and pianist.
• 1954 - Chris Lemmon was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Peter Pilz was born. Austrian politician.
• 1954 - Tully Blanchard was born. American wrestler.
• 1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson was born. American politician.
• 1955 - Thomas David Jones was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles.
• 1956 - John Wesley Shipp was born. American actor.
• 1956 - Steve Riley was born. American drummer.
• 1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956).
• 1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• 1957 - Brian Dayett was born. American baseball player.
• 1957 - Francis Wheen was born. English writer and journalist.
• 1957 - Godfrey Thoma was born. Nauruan politician.
• 1957 - Mike Bossy was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1957 - Rene Requiestas was born (d. 1993). Filipino comedian.
  
• 1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos was born. Greek football player and manager.
• 1959 - Linda Blair was born in St Louis, Missouri. American actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St).
• 1959 - Mike Hawthorn dies (b. 1929). English race car driver and one-time F1 World Champion.
• 1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die.
• 1960 - French President De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu.
• 1960 - Michael Hutchence was born (d. 1997). Australian singer ("INXS").
• 1961 - Portugal - Operação Dulcineia: O paquete Santa Maria é tomado por oposicionistas ao governo salazarista, pelo capitão Henrique Galvão com a colaboração do general Humberto Delgado.
• 1961 - Daniel Johnston was born. American singer-songwriter and artist.
• 1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.
• 1962 - Choi Min-sik was born. South Korean actor.
• 1962 - Mizan Zainal Abidin was born. Malaysia's Ruler.
• 1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu was born. Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• 1963 - The Elysée treaty between France and Germany.
  
• 1963 - Andrei Tchmil was born. Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist.
• 1963 - Javier Ortiz was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Jeff Treadway was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda is sworn in as the first president of the newly independent Zambia.
• 1964 - Mumbai's lowest-ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).
• 1964 - Wayne Kirby was born. American baseball player.
• 1965 - Andrew Roachford was born. English singer and songwriter.
• 1965 - Brian McCardie was born. Scottish actor.
• 1965 - Chintara Sukapatana was born. Thai actress.
• 1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff was born. American rapper and actor.
• 1965 - Diane Lane was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Steven Adler was born. American drummer (Guns N' Roses).
• 1966 - Herbert Marshall dies (b. 1890). English actor.
• 1967 - Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until 16 July 2002.
• 1967 - Ecaterina Szabo was born. Romanian gymnast.
• 1967 - Eleanor McEvoy was born. Irish singer-songwriter.
• 1967 - Manabu Nakanishi was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1967 - Olivia d'Abo was born. English actress.
• 1967 - Robert Henriques dies (b. 1905). British writer.
• 1968 - Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
• 1968 - Frank Lebœuf was born. French footballer.
• 1968 - Heath was born. Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan).
• 1968 - Hiroshi Morie was born. Japanese musician.
• 1968 - Mauricio Serna was born. Colombian footballer.
• 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku dies (b. 1890). American swimmer.
• 1969 - John Linton Roberson was born. American cartoonist.
• 1969 - Keith Gordon was born. American baseball player.
• 1969 - Olivia d'Abo was born. English actress.
• 1970 - Abraham Olano was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1970 - Alex Ross was born. American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come).
• 1971 - Stan Collymore was born. English footballer.
• 1972 - Dinamarca, Gran Bretaña e Irlanda se convierten en miembros de la CEE.
• 1972 - Gabriel Macht was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Gonzalo Rodriguez was born (d. 1999). Uruguayen racing driver.
• 1972 - Namrata Shirodkar was born. Indian actress.
• 1972 - Romi Paku was born. Japanese seiyu (voice actress).
• 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, allowing abortion.
• 1973 - A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
• 1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
• 1973 - Rogerio Ceni was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson dies (b. 1908). 36th President of the United States.
• 1974 - Cameron McConville was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1975 - ZP Theart was born. South African singer.
• 1975 - Balthazar Getty was born. American actor.
• 1975 - David Vyborny was born. Czech ice hockey player.
• 1975 - Felipe Giaffone was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1975 - Andrew George Burry dies (b. 1873). Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman.
• 1976 - James Dearth was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Jimmy Anderson was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 - Mikko Luoma was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1976 - James Dearth was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Leão Penedo dies in Lisbon (b. in Faro 13 May 1916). Portuguese writer.
• 1977 - Aaron Rakers was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata was born. Japanese footballer.
• 1977 - Jono Gibbes was born. New Zealand, Maori and Waikato rugby player.
• 1977 - Maysa dies. (b. 1936). Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1978 - Roxanne Butterfield was born. American community activist.
• 1978 - Chone Figgins was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Oliver Leese dies (b. 1894). British World War II general.
• 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe dies (b. 1894). English cricketer.
• 1979 - Carlos Ruiz was born. Panamanian baseball player.
• 1979 - Melanie Winiger was born. Miss Switzerland Universe (1997).
• 1979 - Luciana Mello was born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer.
• 1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
• 1980 - Ben Moody was born. American guitarist (Evanescence).
• 1980 - Christopher Masterson was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Jake Grove was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Jonathan Woodgate was born. English footballer.
• 1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati was born. Nepalese writer.
• 1981 - Franco atiradores de extrema direita atiram contra uma manifestação de 100.000 pessoas, em São Salvador, que pede pela reforma agrária e democratização do país. Sessenta e sete morrem e dezenas ficam feridas.
• 1981 - Chantelle Anderson was born. American basketball player.
• 1981 - Beverley Mitchell was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Ibrahima Sonko was born. French footballer.
• 1981 - Willa Ford was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi dies (b. 1903). Pakistani historian and educationist.
• 1982 - Fabricio Coloccini was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1982 - Josh Shanks was born. Film producer/entreprenuer.
• 1982 - Jason Peters was born. American football player.
• 1982 - Eduardo Frei Montalva dies at 71. President of Chile (1964-70).
• 1982 - Tommy Tucker dies (b. 1933). American singer and pianist.
• 1983 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.
• 1983 - Shaun Cody was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Robert Steinhäuser was born (d. 2002). German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre.
  
• 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial "1984".
• 1984 - Ben Eager was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 - Leon Powe was born. American basketball player.
• 1984 - Maceo Rigters was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1984 - Raica Oliveira was born in Niterói. Brazilian supermodel.
• 1984 - Ubaldo Jimenez was born. Dominican Republic baseball player.
• 1985 - Mohamed Sissoko was born. Malian footballer.
• 1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith was born (d. 2006). American actor, reality television personality.
  
• 1986 - Lee Pa-ni was born. South Korean model.
• 1986 - Robert O'Connor was born. Irish singer-songwriter, actor and model.
• 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television.
• 1987 - Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, California, for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.
• 1987 - Astrid Jacobsen was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
• 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer dies - he commits suicide on national television. Pennsylvania politician.
• 1987 - Wally Whyton dies (b. 1929). British musician, songwriter and radio/TV personality.
• 1988 - Greg Oden was born. American collegiate basketball player.
• 1988 - Parker Fennelly dies (b. 1891). American comedian and actor.
• 1989 - Jared Smith was born. American rapper and actor.
• 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
• 1991 - Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1991 - The famous SAS patrol, codenamed Bravo Two Zero, begins its mission in Iraq.
• 1991 - Robert Choquette dies (b. 1905). French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.
• 1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• 1992 - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
• 1992 - Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
• 1992 - Luís de Albuquerque dies (b. 1917). Portuguese mathematician.
• 1993 - Abe Kobo dies (b. 1924). Japanese writer.
• 1994 - Telly Savalas dies (b. 21 Jan 1924). American actor.
• 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault dies (b. 1910). French actor and director.
• 1994 - Rhett Forrester dies (b. 1956). American singer, Second Riot frontman.
• 1994 - Irving B. Kahn dies (born 30 Sep 1917). Inventor of the teleprompter and headed the TelePrompTer company Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg.
• 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves-up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
• 1995 - Jerry Blackwell dies (b. 1949). American wrestler.
• 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy dies (b. 1890).
• 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
• 1997 - Ron Holden dies (b. 1939). American singer.
• 1997 - Billy Mackenzie dies (b. 1957). Scottish musician (Associates).
• 1997 - Wally Whyton dies (b. 1929). English musician.
• 1998 - Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
• 1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• 1999 - El Papa Juan Pablo II visita México por cuarta vez, desde donde viajará a EEUU.
• 1999 - Graham Staines dies at 58. Australian missionary burnt alive in India.
• 2000 - Craig Claiborne dies (b. 1920). American writer and editor.
• 2000 - Anne Hébert dies (b. 1916). French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska).
• 2001 - Four of the Texas 7 are caught at a convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth killed himself inside a motor home.
• 2001 - Tommie Agee dies (b. 1942). American baseball player.
• 2001 - Roy Brown dies (b. 1932). American clown.
• 2002 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
• 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 2002 - Peggy Lee dies. American singer, actress.
• 2002 - Jack Shea dies. Olympics speed skating gold medalist.
• 2002 - Stanley Marcus dies (b. 1905). American business executive.
• 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.
• 2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
• 2003 - World premiere of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central.
• 2003 - Bill Mauldin dies (b. 1921). American World War II cartoonist.
• 2004 - Orkut is created.
• 2004 - Marjatta Rasi from Finland is elected President of ECOSOC United Nations Economic and Social Council.
• 2004 - Billy May dies (b. 1916). American composer and musician.
• 2004 - Ann Miller dies (b. 1923). American actress and dancer.
• 2004 - Thomas Mead dies (b. 1918). Australian politician and journalist.
• 2005 - César Gutiérrez dies (b. 1943). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
• 2005 - Carlo Orelli dies (b. 1894). Italian veteran of World War I.
• 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez dies (b. 1924). Mexican songwriter.
• 2005 - Rose Mary Woods dies (b. 1917). American Watergate scandal figure.
• 2006 - Presidential elections in Portugal. Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.
• 2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
• 2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
• 2007 - Abbé Pierre dies (b. 1912). French priest.
  
• 2007 - Bam Bam Bigelow dies (b. 1961). American wrestler.
• 2007 - Doug Blasdell dies. American personal trainer.
• 2007 - Disco D dies (b. 1980). American music producer.
• 2007 - Carlos Olivier dies (b. 1952). Venezuelan actor and physician.
• 2007 - Liz Renay dies (b. 1926). American actress.
• 2007 - Ngo Quang Truong dies (b. 1929). South Vietnamese general.
• 2008 - Heath Ledger dies (b. 1979). Australian actor.
• 2008 - Miles Lerman dies (b. 1920). Polish-American activist.
  
• 2008 - Roberto Gari dies (b. 1920). American actor.
  
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. Vincent.