On this day in History - Jan. 9

• 0475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
• 1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Saîd Hakam al Qurashi dies (b. 1204). Ruler of Minorca.
• 1283 - Wen Tianxiang dies executed (b. 1236). Prime Minister of China.
• 1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
• 1431 - Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1499 - Johann Cicero dies (b. 1455). Elector of Brandenburg.
• 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1477). Queen of Charles VIII of France.
• 1522 - Adriano de Utrech es elegido Papa, será el último no italiano hasta Juan Pablo II.
• 1539 - Francisco Pizarro funda la ciudad peruana de Ayacucho, con el nombre de San Juan de la Frontera.
• 1543 - Guillaume du Bellay dies (b. 1491). French diplomat and general.
• 1554 - Pope Gregory XV was born (d. 1623).
• 1562 - Amago Haruhisa dies (b. 1514). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy was born (d. 1621). French soldier.
• 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon dies (b. 1510). French naval officer.
• 1574 - Christoph Buel was born. Composer.
• 1589 - Ivan Gundulic was born (d. 1638). Croatian poet.
• 1598 - Jasper Heywood dies (b. 1553). English translator.
• 1620 - Johann Weichmann was born. Composer.
• 1624 - Empress Meisho of Japan was born (d. 1696).
• 1643 - Giovanni Riccioli first reported the phenomenon known as the Ashen Light of Venus .
• 1677 - Aernout van der Neer dies (b. 1603). Dutch cartoonist and painter.
• 1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1766). Dutch philologist.
• 1693 - Un terremoto destruye en Sicilia 60 pueblos y aldeas, lo que causó la muerte de más de 50.000 personas.
• 1695 - John E Loovens was born. Lawyer .
• 1699 - Robert J Pothier was born French lawyer .
• 1728 - Thomas Warton was born (d. 1790). English poet.
• 1745 - Caleb Strong was born (d. 1819). 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1753 - Luísa Todi was born. Portuguese lyric singer.
• 1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, sieur de Fontenelle, dies (b. 11 Feb 1657). French scientist and author, whose Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), was one of the first works to present science for the lay reader.
• 1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel dies (b. 1688). French mathematician.
• 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1766 - Thomas Birch dies (b. 1705). British historian.
• 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
• 1773 - Cassandra Austen was born (d. 1845). English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen
• 1788 - Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States.
• 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was born (d. 1855). Swedish poet.
• 1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies (b. 16 May 1718). Italian mathematician and philosopher who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. ("Propositiones Philosophicae" - 1738).
• 1800 - Jean_Étienne_Championnet dies (b. 1762). French general.
• 1805 - Noble Jones dies (b. 1723). American Continental Congressman.
• 1806 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
• 1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was born (d. 1856). English writer.
• 1816 - Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1819 - James Francis was born (d. 1884). Premier of Victoria.
• 1822 - The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. / Os membros do Senado da Câmara do Rio de Janeiro pediram a D. Pedro para não deixar o Brasil. O infante D. Pedro, chamado a Portugal pelas Cortes, decidiu ficar no Brasil, dando origem ao «Dia do Fico».
• 1823 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch was born (d. 1908). German surgeon who was the first to introduce a first-aid kit and triage on the battlefield. He introduced first aid training for both military and civilian personnel.
• 1829 - Thomas William Robertson was born (d. 1871). English playwright.
• 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit was born (d. 1857). German explorer
• 1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand was born (d. 1900). Journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1839 - Thomas Henderson measured the first stellar parallax: Alpha Centauri.
• 1839 - John Knowles Paine was born (d. 1906). U.S. composer.
• 1843 - William Hedley dies (b. 13 July 1779). English coal-mine manager who was a pioneer in the building and design of steam locomotives successfully using a simple friction adhesion between wheels and rails instead of geared track;
• 1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover was born (d. 1926).
• 1848 - Caroline Herschel dies (b. 16 Mar 1750). German-born British astronomer, sister of Sir William Herschel, who assisted in his astronomical researches making calculations associated with his studies. In her own telescope observations, she found three nebulae (1783) and eight comets (1786-97).
• 1849 - John Hartley was born (d. 1935). English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon.
• 1854 - Jennie Jerome was born (d. 1921). American society beauty.
• 1856 - Anton Aškerc was born (d. 1912). Slovenian priest and poet.
• 1857 - The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 - Anson Jones commits suicide (b. 1798). 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt was born. American suffragist leader.
• 1861 - Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War.")
• 1863 - Se inaugura el Metro de Londres, primer ferrocarril subterráneo del mundo, de 7 kilómetros de longitud.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman .
• 1864 - Vladimir Steklov was born (d. 1926). Russian mathematician.
• 1868 - S. P. L. Sorensen was born (d. 1939). Danish chemist.
• 1869 - Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was born (d. 1910). German physical chemist who, with Boländer proposed a theory of valency (1899) to explain the capacity of an atom to combine with another atom in light of the newly discovered presence of electrons within the atom.
• 1870 - Joseph B Strauss was born (d. 1938). American civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
• 1870 - Amadeus William Grabau was born (d. 1946). American geologist and paleontologist, known for his work on world stratigraphic deposits and the deciphering of Earth history.
• 1872 - Brasil y Paraguay firman la paz.
• 1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France dies (b. 1808).
• 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian poet.
• 1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born (d. 1942). American socalite.
• 1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe dies (b. 1801). American abolitionist.
• 1877 - Alexander Brullov dies (b. 1799). Russia painter.
• 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy dies (b. 1820).
• 1878 - John Broadus Watson was born (d. 1958). American psychologist whose ideas initiated behaviorism as a branch of psychology. Inspired by the recent work of Ivan Pavlov, he studied the biology, physiology, and behavior of animals.
• 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820) dies. Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
• 1879 - John Broadus Watson was born (d. 1958). American psychologist.
• 1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1881 - Edouard Beaupré was born (d. 1904). Horse lifter
• 1881 - Giovanni Papini was born (d. 1956). Italian writer.
• 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie was born (d. 1938). British poet and critic.
• 1882 - Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.
• 1886 - Edwin Ray Guthrie was born (d. 1959). American psychologist whose work dealt with the psychology of learning and the role association plays. ( Law of Contiguity) .
• 1890 - Karel Capek was born. Czech writer.
• 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky was born (d. 1935). German journalist.
• 1892 - Eva Bowring was born (d. 1985). American politician.
• 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison dies (b. 6 Mar 1812). American watchmaker who is known as "the father of American watchmaking." He was the first person to apply the interchangeable system to the manufacture of watches (1850).
• 1896 - Warwick Braithwaite was born (d. 1971). New Zealand-born British conductor.
• 1897 - Karl Löwith was born (d. 1973). German philosopher.
• 1898 - Gracie Fields was born (d. 1979). English vaudeville performer.
• 1898 - Wally Baker was born. American supercentenarian.
• 1898 - Vilma Bánky was born (d. 1991). Hungarian actress.
• 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin was born (d. 1977). Russian composer.
• 1900 - First railway train runs on the Cairo to Khartoum line through the Sudan.
• 1900 - S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
• 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner was born (d. 12 Oct. 1974). Composer.
• 1900 - Maria of Romania was born (d. 1961). Queen Consort of Yugoslavia.
• 1900 - Richard Halliburton was born (presumed dead 1939). American adventurer.
• 1901 - Chic Young was born (d. 1973). American cartoonist.
• 1901 - Richard Copley Christie dies (b. 1830). English scholar.
• 1902 - Rudolph Bing was born (d. 1997). Austrian-born opera manager.
• 1902 - Saint Josemaría Escrivá was born (d. 1975). Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei.
• 1903 - Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia.
• 1903 - Hem Vejakorn was born (d. 1969). Thai illustrator.
• 1904 - George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). Russian dancer/choreographer.
• 1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir was born (d. 1986). French author ("Le Deuxième Sexe").
• 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden dies (b. 1840). Russian-born actor.
• 1908 - Wilhelm Busch dies (b. 1832). German painter.
• 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden dies (b. 1840). Russian-born actor.
• 1909 - Herva Nelli was born (d. 1994). Italian-born soprano.
• 1911 - Gypsy Rose Lee was born (d. 1970). Burlesque performer.
• 1911 - Edvard Rusjan dies (b. 1886). Slovene flight pioneer.
• 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones dies (b. 1853). American composer.
• 1912 - United States Marines invade Honduras.
• 1912 - Ralph Tubbs was born (d. 1996). British architect.
• 1913 - Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California (d. 1994). 37th United States President.
• 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee was born (d. 1970). American burlesque entertainer.
• 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke was born (d. 1985). American jazz drummer and composer
• 1915 - Anita Louise was born (d. 1970). U.S. actress.
• 1915 - Fernando Lamas was born (d. 1982). Argentine actor.
• 1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevailed in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated.
• 1916 - Peter Twinn was born (d. 2004). English World War II code-breaker.
• 1916 - Vic Mizzy was born. American orchestra leader.
• 1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1917 - Herbert Lom was born. Czech actor
• 1917 - Otto Glória was born. Brazilian football manager.
• 1918 - Émile Reynaud dies (b. 1844). French scientist.
• 1920 - Chan Canasta was born (d. 1999). Polish-British magician.
• 1920 - Clive Dunn was born. British actor.
• 1920 - João Cabral de Melo Neto was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said was born. Pakistani scholar.
• 1921 - Lister Sinclair was born (d. 2006). Canadian broadcaster and playwright.
• 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana was born. Indian-born American biochemist who (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
• 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré was born (d. 1984). President of Guinea.
• 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.
• 1923 - Katherine Mansfield dies (b. 1888). New Zealand writer.
• 1924 - Sergei Parajanov was born (d. 1990). Armenian film director.
• 1925 - Lee Van Cleef was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1926 - Giannis Christou was born (d. 1970). Greek composer.
• 1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec.
• 1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain dies (b. 1855). British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner.
• 1928 - Domenico Modugno was born (d. 1994). Italian singer and songwriter.
• 1928 - Judith Krantz was born. American author.
• 1928 - Sandino proclama en Nicaragua la república de Nueva Segovia, a cuya capital llamaría Ciudad Sandino.
• 1929 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
• 1929 - Brian Friel was born. Irish dramatist.
• 1929 - Dorothea Puente was born. American serial killer.
• 1929 - Heiner Muller was born (d. 1995). German dramatist.
• 1931 - Algis Budrys was born. American author.
• 1931 - Wayne Munn dies (b. 1896). American wrestler.
• 1932 - Robert P. Casey was born (d. 2000). American politician.
• 1933 - Robert Garcia was born. American politician.
• 1933 - Wilbur Smith was born. Zambian-British novelist.
• 1934 - Bart Starr was born. American football player.
• 1935 - Bob Denver was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1935 - Brian Harradine was born. Australian independent Senator.
• 1935 - Dick Enberg was born. American sportscaster.
• 1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr. was born. African-American publisher.
• 1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons was born. American writer.
• 1936 - John Gilbert dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1937 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• 1937 - Racially mixed marriages are banned by Italy in its North African colonies.
• 1939 - A Líbia é incorporada ao território da Itália.
• 1939 - Johann Strauss III dies (b. 1866). Austrian conductor.
• 1939 - Johnny Gruelle dies (b. 1880). American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann.
• 1940 - Al Downing was born (d. 2005). American singer.
• 1940 - Barbara Buczek was born (d. 1993). Polish composer.
• 1940 - Jimmy Boyd was born. American actor and singer.
• 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss was born. Swiss politician.
• 1941 - Joan Baez was born. American singer and activist.
• 1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt was born. Quebec politician.
• 1942 - K Callan was born. American actress.
• 1942 - Lee Kun-hee was born. Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung.
• 1942 - Susannah York was born. British actress.
• 1943 - Elmer MacFadyen was born (d. 2007). Canadian politician.
• 1943 - Freddie Starr was born. English comedian and singer.
• 1943 - Robert Drewe was born. Australian author.
• 1944 - Ian Hornak was born (d. 2002). American painter, draughtsman and sculptor.
• 1944 - Jimmy Page was born. British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin).
• 1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1945 - John Doman was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Jüri Uluots dies (b. 1890). Estonian Prime Minister.
• 1946 - Countee Cullen dies (b. 1903). American poet.
• 1946 - Dimitrios Golemis dies (b. 1874). Greek athlete.
• 1947 - Ronnie Landfield was born. American artist.
• 1947 - Karl Mannheim dies (b. 1893). German sociologist.
• 1948 - Bill Cowsill was born (d. 2006). American singer (The Cowsills).
• 1948 - Cassie Gaines was born (d. 1977). Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd).
• 1949 - Five RAF reconnaissance planes are shot down by Israeli fighters over Egypt.
• 1950 - David Johansen was born. American singer.
• 1950 - Rio Reiser was born (d. 1996). German singer.
• 1951 - United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1951 - Crystal Gayle was born.American singer.
• 1951 - M.L. Carr was born. Basketball player and coach.
• 1952 - Hugh Bayley was born. British politician.
• 1953 - Morris Gleitzman was born. British-Australian children's author.
• 1955 - J. K. Simmons was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Michiko Kakutani was born. American literary critic.
• 1956 - Imelda Staunton was born. British actress.
• 1956 - Kimberly Beck was born. American actress.
• 1956 - Mike Walczewski was born. American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden.
• 1957 - Bibie was born. Ghanaian singer.
• 1957 - Phil Lewis was born. Lead singer of L.A. Guns.
• 1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca was born. Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II.
• 1958 - Stephen Neale was born. British philosopher.
• 1958 - Willis Rodney Whitney dies (b. 1868). American chemist and research director who founded the General Electric Company's research laboratory and directed pioneering work there.
• 1959 - Cristi Minculescu was born. Romanian musician.
• 1959 - Mark Martin was born. American NASCAR driver.
• 1959 - Otis Nixon was born. American baseball player.
• 1959 - Rigoberta Menchú was born. Nobel Peace Prize laureate / Nace Rigoberta Menchú, guatemalteca defensora de los derechos humanos. Premio Nobel de la Paz 1992.
• 1960 - Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.
• 1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham dies (b. 1880). British children's author.
• 1961 - Oliver Goldstick was born. American screenwriter.
• 1961 - Emily Greene Balch dies (b. 1867). American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• 1963 - Michael Everson was born. Expert in writing systems and Unicode.
• 1964 - Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
• 1964 - Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
• 1965 - Darren Bennett was born. Australian-born American football player.
• 1965 - Eric Erlandson was born. American musician.
• 1965 - Iain Dowie was born. English football manager.
• 1965 - Joely Richardson was born. British actress.
• 1965 - Muggsy Bogues was born. American basketball player.
• 1967 - Carl Bell was born. American musician.
• 1967 - Claudio Caniggia was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1967 - Dave Matthews was born. South African singer and musician.
• 1967 - Steven Harwell was born. American singer and musician (Smash Mouth).
• 1968 - Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
• 1968 - Al Schnier was born. American rock guitarist (moe).
• 1968 - Jimmy Adams was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1968 - Joey Lauren Adams was born. American actress.
• 1969 - El Concorde hace su primer vuelo de prueba.
• 1970 - Alex Staropoli was born. Italian keyboardist.
• 1970 - Lara Fabian was born. Belgian singer.
• 1971 - Daniel Dumile was born. American hip hop artist.
• 1971 - Hal Niedzviecki was born. Canadian author.
• 1971 - Scott Thornton was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1971 - Yusuke Naora was born. Japanese game art director.
• 1971 - Elmer Flick dies (b. 1876). American baseball player.
• 1971 - Giannis Christou dies (b. 1926). Greek composer.
• 1972 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
• 1972 - Angie Martinez was born. American radio and television personality.
• 1972 - Mat Hoffman was born. American BMX biker.
• 1972 - Jay Powell was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - Sarah Beeny was born. British TV personality.
• 1972 - Ted Shawn dies (b. 1891). American dancer.
• 1973 - Angela Bettis was born. American actress.
• 1974 - Farhan Akhtar was born. Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
• 1975 - Kim Mathers was born. Former wife of Eminem.
• 1975 - Kiko Calero was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1975 - Pierre Fresnay dies (b. 1879). French actor.
• 1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov dies (b. 1901). Russian mathematician.
• 1976 - Todd Grisham was born. American professional wrestling interviewer.
• 1976 - Radek Bonk was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1976 - Rupert Wildt dies (b. 1905). German-American astronomer who studied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.
• 1977 - Beth Troutman was born. American production assistant.
• 1978 - AJ McLean was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys).
• 1978 - Chad Johnson was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Gennaro Gattuso was born. Italian footballer.
• 1978 - Maggie Rizer was born. American model and AIDS activist.
• 1978 - Mathieu Garon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Tomiko Van was born. Japanese singer.
• 1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi dies (b. 1891). Italian engineer and architect who gained international recognition for his dramatic designs for large-span structures made possible with the use of reinforced concrete.
• 1980 - Na Arábia Saudita, 63 muçulmanos fanáticos são decapitados por terem sitiado a Grande Mesquita de Meca em novembro de 1979.
• 1980 - Sergio García was born. Spanish golfer.
• 1981 - In Portugal Francisco Pinto Balsemão becomes Prime-Minister succeeding Diogo Freitas do Amaral.
• 1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek was born.Polish footballer.
• 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki dies (b. 1922). Polish composer.
• 1982 - Kate Middleton was born. Girlfriend of Prince William of Wales.
• 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte dies (b. 1906). German director.
• 1985 - Robert Mayer dies (b. 1879). British businessman and philanthropist.
• 1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• 1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva was born. Brazilian and Liverpool footballer.
• 1987 - Pablo Santos was born (d. 2006). Mexican actor.
• 1987 - Paolo Nutini was born. Scottish singer/songwriter.
• 1987 - Sam Bird was born. English racing driver.
  1987 - Marion Hutton dies (b. 1919). American singer.
• 1987 - Arthur Lake dies (b. 1905). American actor.
• 1988 - Científicos del Instituto Whitehead, de Boston, logran aislar el gen (TDF) responsable del sexo humano y localizado en el cromosoma "Y", que está presente sólo en los hombres.
• 1989 - The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.
• 1989 - Michael Beasley was born. American basketball player.
• 1989 - Michaella Krajicek was born. Dutch tennis player.
• 1989 - Bill Terry dies (b. 1898). American baseball player.
• 1990 - Spud Chandler dies (b. 1907). American baseball player.
• 1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan dies (b. 1892). Australian jurist, lawyer and politician.
• 1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• 1992 - The Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is established.
• 1992 - Bill Naughton dies (b. 1910). British playwright.
• 1992 - Steve Brodie dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck dies (b. 1905). Governor-General of Australia.
• 1993 - Svetoslav Roerich dies (b. 1904). Russian painter.
• 1994 - Johnny Temple dies (b. 1927). American baseball player.
• 1995 - Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
• 1995 - Peter Cook dies (b. 1937). British actor, satirist, writer, and comedian.
• 1995 - Souphanouvong dies (b. 1909). President of Laos.
• 1996 - Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft.
• 1997 - A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29.
• 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski dies (b. 1909). Prime Minister of Poland.
• 1997 - Jesse White dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1998 - Charito Solis dies (b. 1935). Filipino actress.
• 1998 - Kenichi Fukui dies (b. 1918). Japanese chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann for investigation of the mechanisms of chemical reactions. In 1952, at Kyoto University, Fukui introduced his "frontier orbital theory of reactions.
• 1998 - two teams of international collaborations of scientists announced the discovery that galaxies are accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds, by observing distant, ancient exploding stars.
• 2000 - O presidente do Uzbequistão, Islam Karimov, é reeleito com 91,9% dos votos.
• 2000 - Nigel Tranter dies (b. 1909). Scottish historian and author.
• 2000 - Ted Jones dies (b. 1908). American hydroplane builder/designer.
• 2001 - Maurice Prather dies (b. 1926). American motion picture and photographer.
• 2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
• 2003 - Peter Tinnswood dies at age 66 . British TV comedy writer Peter Tinniswood wrote for numerous British TV series during his 40-year career.
• 2003 - Will McDonough dies (b. 1935). American sports journalist.
• 2004 - Norberto Bobbio dies (b. 1909). Italian philosopher.
• 2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
• 2005 - Gonzalo Gavira dies (b. 1925). Mexican film sound technician.
• 2006 - The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
• 2006 - The first The Howard Stern Show via Sirius Satellite Radio is broadcast.
• 2006 - Andy Caldecott dies during during the 9th stage (Dakar Rally) (b. 1964). Australian KTM motorcyclist.
• 2006 - Mikk Mikiver dies (b. 1937). Estonian actor, director.
• 2007 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
• 2007 - Elmer Symons dies (b. 1977). South African motorcycle racer.
• 2007 - Jean-Pierre Vernant dies (b. 1914). French structuralist historian and anthropologist.
• 2008 - Johnny Grant dies (b. 1923). American radio personality, television producer.
• 2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones dies (b. 1924). Chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987.
• 2008 - Mehran Ghassemi dies (b. 1977). Iranian journalist.
• 2008 - William Quinn dies (b. 1950). Irish Republican Army soldier.
• Brazil: Dia do Fico.
• Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone.
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines.
• Republic Day in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Adrian of Canterbury.
• Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow.
• Theophan the Recluse.
• Roman Catholic - Feast of Saint Adrian.
• Eastern Orthodox - Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse.