On this day in History - Feb. 10

• 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet, dies (b.1071).
• 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem dies (b. 1130).
• 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan dies (b. 1231).
• 1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens.
• 1278 - Margaret II dies (b. 1202). Countess of Flanders.
• 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1499 - Thomas Platter was born (d. 1582). Swiss humanist.
• 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV was born (d. 1580). German politician and diplomat.
• 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
• 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
• 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander was born (d. 1532). German classical scholar.
• 1606 - Christine Marie of France was born (d. 1663). Regent of Savoy.
• 1609 - Sir John Suckling was born (d. 1642). English poet.
• 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
• 1685 - Aaron Hill was born (d. 1750). English writer.
• 1686 - William Dugdale dies (b. 1605). English antiquarian.
• 1720 - Edmund Halley es nombrado astrónomo real de Inglaterra .
• 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts dies (b. 1682). Welsh pirate.
• 1755 - Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu dies (b. 1689). French writer and philosopher.
• 1758 - Thomas Ripley dies. English architect.
• 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
• 1774 - É abolida a Inquisição de Goa, por despacho do Marquês de Pombal.
• 1775 - Charles Lamb was born (d. 1834). English essayist.
• 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger dies (b. 1702). German theologian.
• 1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy was born (d. 1873). Russian painter.
• 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier was born (d. 1936). French physicist.
• 1790 - Na continuação das reformas dos conventos, proíbe-se a admissão de noviços e noviças nos mosteiros e conventos.
• 1792 - O príncipe D. João, futuro D. João VI, assume a governação, em nome de sua mãe a rainha D. Maria II.
• 1795 - Ary Scheffer was born (d. 1858). French painter.
• 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
• 1805 - Se suprimen por decreto las corridas de toros en España.
• 1808 - John Edgar Thomson was born (d. 27 May 1874) . American civil engineer and third president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company who consolidated a network of railroad lines from Philadelphia to various cities in the Midwest and the South .
• 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert occurs.
• 1829 - Pope Leo XII dies (b. 1760).
• 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin was killed in a duel defending his wife's honour. Russian poet and novelist .
• 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1840 - Per Teodor Cleve was born (d. 18 Jun 1905). Swedish chemist and geologist who discovered the elements holmium and thulium .
• 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
• 1846 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois.
• 1846 - Charles Beresford was born (d. 1919). British admiral and politician.
• 1846 - Ira Remsen was born (d. 4 Mar. 1927). American chemist who codiscovered saccharin.
• 1857 - David Thompson dies (b. 1770). Canadian explorer.
• 1859 - Alexandre Millerand was born (d. 1943). French President.
• 1862 - Francia, España y el Reino Unido, por un lado, y el presidente mexicano, Benito Juárez, por otro, firman el "Convenio de Soledad".
• 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
• 1863 - Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.
• 1864 - The British conquered the Sikhs in northwestern India in the Battle of Sobraon, the most decisive engagement of the First Sikh War.
• 1865 - Heinrich Lenz dies (b. 1804). German physicist.
• 1866 - Adela Gargollo de Jiménez was born (d. 1947). Costa Rican entrepreneur.
• 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
• 1870 - Fritz Klimsch was born. German sculptor.
• 1870 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
• 1873 - Amadeo de Saboya abdica de la Corona de España.
• 1874 - Patricio Peralta Ramos funda la ciudad de Mar del Plata.
• 1879 - W. C. Fields was born in Philadelphia (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1879 - Honoré Daumier dies (b. 1808). French realist illustrator, litographer, painter and sculptor.
• 1880 - Manuel Azaña Díaz was born. President of II Spanish Republic.
• 1884 - Frederick Hawksworth was born (d. 1976). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.
• 1887 - John Franklin Enders was born (d. 1985). American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1890 - Boris Pasternak was born (d. 30 May 1960). Russian poet and writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958. Pasternak became an international symbol of the incorruptible moral courage of an artist in conflict with his political environment. Author of the famous "Doctor Zhivago".
• 1890 - Fanny Kaplan was born (d. 1918). Failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin.
• 1891 - Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaja dies (b. 15 Jan 1850). Mathematician and novelist who made valuable contributions to the theory of differential equations.
• 1892 - Alan Hale Sr. was born (d. 1950). American actor.
• 1893 - Bill Tilden was born (d. 1953). American tennis player.
• 1893 - Jimmy Durante was born (d. 1980). American actor, singer, comedian and vaudevillean.
• 1894 - Harold Macmillan was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1897 - John Franklin Enders was born (d. 8 Sep 1985). American virologist, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller for his part in cultivating the poliomyelitis virus in nonnervous-tissue cultures (1949), a preliminary step to the development of the polio vaccine.
• 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson was born (d. 1992). Australian actress.
• 1898 - Bertolt Brecht was born (d. 1956). German author ("Three Penny Opera" ; "Mother Courage." "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are".
• 1898 - Joseph Kessel was born (d. 1979). French journalist and novelist.
• 1901 - Stella Adler was born (d. 1992). American actress and acting teacher.
• 1901 - Richard Dagobert Brauer was born (d. 17 Apr 1977). German-American mathematician and educator, a pioneer in the development of algebra theory.
• 1901 - Mariblanca Sabás Alomá was born in Santiago (d. 1983). Cuban writer, poet and journalistEscritora, poeta y periodista.
• 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain was born in China. American scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, for investigating semiconductors and the development of the transistor.
• 1903 - Matthias Sindelar was born (d. 23 Jan 1939). Austrian soccer player, one of the greatest footballers of his generation and a genius of a playmaker. Nicknamed der Papierene on account of his lean, delicate stature, and ‘The Mozart of Football’.
• 1903 - Waldemar Hoven was born (d. 1948). German physician.
• 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
• 1904 - John Farrow was born (d. 1963). American film director.
• 1904 - John A. Roche dies (b. 1844). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1906 - HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched.
• 1906 - Erik Rhodes was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr. was born (d. 1973). American actor.
• 1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy dies (b. 1827). Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician.
• 1910 - Jorge Brum do Canto was born (d. 1994). Portuguese film director.
• 1910 - José Canalejas ocupa por primera vez la presidencia del Consejo de Ministros.
• 1910 - Georges Pire was born (d. 1969). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1912 - Barão do Rio Branco dies (b. 20 Apr 1845). Brazilian politician, diplomat, journalist and historian.
• 1912 - Joseph Lister dies (b. 1827). British surgeon.
• 1914 - Larry Adler was born (d. 2001). American musician.
• 1917 - John William Waterhouse dies (b. 1849). Italian-born artist.
• 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan dies (b. 1842).
• 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta dies (b. 1833). Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1920 - Alex Comfort was born (d. 2000). British physician and writer.
• 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 - Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
• 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen (also spelled Roentgen) dies (b. 27 May 1845). German physicist who was a recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicin.
• 1924 - Bud Poile was born (d. 2005). National Hockey League player, coach, manager and executive.
• 1926 - Danny Blanchflower was born (d. 1993). Northern Irish footballer and football manager.
• 1926 - Carlos Gonzaga was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1927 - La provincia de San Juan promulga una nueva Constitución que establece por primera vez en Argentina en voto femenino.
• 1927 - Brian Priestman was born. British conductor.
• 1927 - Leontyne Price was born. American soprano.
• 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
• 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith was born (d. 2004). American composer.
• 1930 - Robert Wagner was born. American actor.
• 1930 - El general Miguel Primo de Rivera abandona España.
• 1930 - E.L. Konigsburg was born. American author.
• 1930 - Robert Wagner was born, actor (Hart to Hart, The Mountain, The Towering Inferno, Titanic, It Takes a Thief, Pink Panther, Midway) .
• 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
• 1931 - Doug Young was born. American voice actor.
• 1931 - Thomas Bernhard was born (d. 1989). Austrian author.
• 1932 - Edgar Wallace dies (b. 1875). English novelist and screenwriter ( King Kong).
• 1932 - Branko Lustig was born. Croatian film producer.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler takes a speech in Sportpalast, Berlin - 10 days after he became 'Reichskanzler' on January 30th.
• 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
• 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
• 1933 - Richard Schickel was born. American film critic.
• 1934 - Fleur Adcock was born. New Zealand poet.
• 1934 - Salvador Giner de San Julián was born. Spanish sociologist.
• 1934 - Fleur Adcock was born. New Zealand poet.
• 1935 - John Alcorn was born (d. 1992). American designer and illustrator.
• 1937 - Roberta Flack was born. American singer (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Feel Like Making Love, Killing Me Softly With His Song...) .
• 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson was born. 26th Governor General of Canada.
• 1940 - Mary Rand was born. British athlete.
• 1941 - Michael Apted was born. British director.
• 1942 -Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
• 1943 - Gandhi inicia una huelga de hambre contra su detención por parte de las autoridades coloniales británicas.
• 1943 - Bill Laskey was born. American football player.
• 1943 - Frank-Patrick Steckel was born in Berlin. German theater director.
• 1944 - Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
• 1944 - Frank Keating was born. American politician.
• 1944 - Peter Allen was born (d. 1992). Australian singer and actor.
• 1944 - Rufus Reid was born. American musician.
• 1944 - Vernor Vinge was born. American novelist.
• 1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi dies (b. 1870). Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor.
• 1947 - Firma en París de los tratados de paz de las potencias aliadas con Italia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungría y Finlandia. Estonia, Letonia y Lituania quedan incorporadas a la URSS.
• 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 1947 - Butch Morris was born. American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.
• 1947 - Louise Arbour was born. Canadian judge.
• 1947 - Nicholas Owen was born. English newsreader.
• 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio was born (d. 1944). Mexican politician.
• 1949 - Elections in Northern Ireland showed that at least 2/3 of the population favored continued union with Great Britain.
• 1949 - Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).
• 1949 - Harold Sylvester was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Jim Corcoran was born. Quebec singer and songwriter.
• 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier was born. French singer.
• 1949 - Nigel Olsson was born. British musician.
• 1950 - Mark Spitz was born. American swimmer, Olympic Games: 9 gold medalist (2 in 1968 + 7 in 1972) .
• 1950 - Marcel Mauss dies (b. 1872). French sociologist.
• 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer was born. American model.
• 1951 - Robert Iger was born. President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
• 1952 - India passes first test of democracy: Independent India's first general elections pass off peacefully, and return Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to power.
• 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong was born. Prime Minister of Singapore.
• 1952 - Macedonio Fernández dies (b. 1 Jun 1874). Argentine writer, humorist and philosopher.
• 1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin dies (b. 1880). British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction.
• 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• 1954 - Larry McWilliams was born. American baseball player.
• 1955 - US evacuates Pacific islands: The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands.
• 1955 - Chris Adams was born (d. 2001). British pro wrestler and judoka.
• 1955 - Greg Norman was born. American golfer .
• 1955 - Jim Cramer was born. American television personality.
• 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder dies (b. 1867). American author.
• 1958 - Manuel Idígoras Fuentes is elected President of Guatemala.
• 1958 - Cláudia Magno was born (d. 1994). Brazilian actress.
• 1958 - Michael Weiss was born. American musician.
• 1959 - Dennis Gentry was born. American football player.
• 1959 - Lisa McPherson was born (d. 1995). Former Scientologist.
• 1959 - Fernando Chalana was born in Barreiro. Portuguese soccer player.
• 1960 - Robert Addie was born (d. 2003). British actor.
• 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac dies (b. 1898). Croatian cardinal.
• 1961 - Alexander Payne was born. American film director.
• 1961 - George Stephanopoulos was born. American political consultant, commentator.
• 1961 - Alexander Payne was born. American film director.
• 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
• 1962 - Bobby Czyz was born. American boxer.
• 1962 - Cliff Burton was born (d. 1986). American musician.
• 1962 - Piero Pelù was born. Italian singer and song-writer, leader of Litfiba from 1980 to 1999.
• 1963 - Lenny Dykstra was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Silvia Plath commited suicide (b. 1932). American poet and novelist. In 1981 she was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems
• 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1964 - Arthur Lenk was born. Israeli diplomat.
• 1964 - Francesca Neri was born. Italian actress.
• 1964 - Glenn Beck was born. Radio and television host.
• 1964 - Victor Davis was born (d. 1989). Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• 1964 - Eugen Sänger dies (b. 1905). Austrian aerospace engineer.
• 1965 - Mario Jean was born. Quebec stand up comedian and television actor.
• 1966 - Billy Rose dies (b. 1899). American composer and band leader.
• 1966 - Daryl Johnston was born. American football player.
• 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1967 - Armand Serrano was born. Filipino animator.
• 1967 - Jacky Durand was born. French cyclist.
• 1967 - Laura Dern was born. American actress (Jurassic Park. Blue Velvet, Rambling Rose), daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.
• 1968 - Atika Suri was born. Indonesian television newscaster.
• 1968 - Garrett Reisman was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1968 - Peter Popovic was born. Swedish ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Joe Mangrum was born. American artist.
• 1969 - Laurie Dhue was born. American television personality.
• 1970 - Alberto Castillo was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1970 - Åsne Seierstad was born. Norwegian journalist.
• 1970 - Myrea Pettit was born. British illustrator.
• 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo was born. Japanese racing driver
• 1970 - Noureddine Naybet was born. Moroccan footballer
• 1970 - Maurren Maggie was born. Brazilian athlete.
• 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 - Louie Spicolli was born (d. 1998). American wrestler.
• 1974 - Elizabeth Banks was born. American actress
• 1974 - Ivri Lider was born. Israeli singer
• 1974 - Tanoai Reed was born. American stunt performer
• 1974 - Ty Law was born. American football player.
• 1975 - Amber Frey was born. American witness.
• 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda was born. Japanese born baseball player.
• 1975 - Kool Savas was born. German rapper.
• 1975 - Nikos Kavvadias dies (b. 1910). Greek poet and writer
• 1976 - Kev Brown was born. American rapper/producer.
• 1976 - Lance Berkman was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 - Keeley Hawes was born. English actress.
• 1976 - Kev Brown was born. American rapper/producer.
• 1976 - Vanessa da Mata was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1977 - Salif Diao was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1978 - Don Omar was born. Puerto Rican singer.
• 1978 - Lorna Bailey was born. English ceramic designer.
• 1979 - Daryl Palumbo was born. American musician.
• 1979 - Ross Powers was born. American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding.
• 1980 - Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), political party, is founded in Brazil.
• 1980 - César Iztúris was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980 - Enzo Maresca was born. Italian footballer.
• 1980 - Mike Ribeiro was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1980 - Steve Tully was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
• 1981 - Leopoldo Calvo Soleto é nomeado primeiro-ministro da Espanha pelo rei Juan Carlos.
• 1981 - Andrew Johnson was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Holly Willoughby was born. British TV presenter.
• 1981 - Natasha St-Pier was born. Canadian singer.
• 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague was born. drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
• 1982 - The German movie Das Boot opens in United States theaters.
• 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina was born. New Zealand rugby league player.
• 1982 - Justin Gatlin was born. American sprinter.
• 1982 - Keith Dunne was born. Irish footballer.
• 1983 - Daiane dos Santos was born. Brazilian gymnast.
• 1984 - Alex Gordon was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin was born. South Korean actress.
• 1984 - David Von Erich dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler.
• 1985 - Anette Sagen was born. Norwegian ski jumper.
• 1985 - Johnny Mokan dies (b. 1895). Ameriican professional baseball player.
• 1986 - The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opened in Palermo, Italy.
• 1986 - Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti flees the country to France.
• 1986 - Viktor Troicki was born. Serbian tennis player.
• 1986 - Yui Ichikawa was born. Japanese actress and model.
• 1987 - Choi Si Won was born. Korean actor and singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior.
• 1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi dies (b. 1930). Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist.
• 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• 1989 - Michael Manley torna-se primeiro ministro da Jamaica.
• 1989 - Tezuka Osamu dies (b. 1930). Father of Anime / Manga, artist, animator.
• 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.
• 1990 - The spacecraft Galileo flew past Venus on its way to Jupiter.
• 1991 - Emma Roberts was born. American actress.
• 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington.
• 1992 - Alex Haley dies (b. 1921). American author (Roots and co-writer of The Autobiography of Malcolm X).
• 1993 - Fred Hollows dies (b. 1929). Australian ophthalmologist.
• 1994 - Makenzie Vega was born. American actress.
• 1996 - In Algeria two car bombs killed 17 and wounded 93 in the capital.
• 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match.
• 1996 - The World Trade Centre in London is partially destroyed by an PIRA bomb.
• 1997 - From Bolivia it was reported that heavy rains have destroyed the homes and crops of tens of thousands of farmers. The rains were the heaviest in 3 decades .
• 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
• 1997 - Chloe Moretz was born. American actress.
• 1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts dies (b. 1996).
• 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
• 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
• 1998 - Monica Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, testified before the grand jury investigating her daughter's alleged affair with President Clinton.
• 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
• 1999 - In Syria Pres. Hafez Assad (68) was elected to a 5th 7-year term.
• 1999 - Indemnización millonaria de una tabaquera norteamericana a una fumadora enferma de cáncer.
• 1999 - Maluda dies (b. 1934). Portuguese painter / Morre neste dia Maluda, famosa pelas janelas, quiosques e telhados de Lisboa que pintou.
• 2000 - At Stansted, England, 9 hijackers surrendered and released all hostages of the Afghan jetliner. Police arrested 21 [22] people and recovered arms. Half the hostages requested asylum.
• 2000 -In Yemen tribesmen released Kenneth White (54), an American oil executive, who was kidnapped a month ago .
• 2000 - Jim Varney dies (b. 1949). American actor.
• 2001 - In Algeria assailants killed at least 27 people near Berrouaghia. Half of the dead were children.
• 2001 - Abraham Beame dies (b. 1906). Mayor of New York City.
• 2001 - George Holmes Tate dies (b. 1913). American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
• 2002 - Dave Van Ronk dies (b. 1936). American folk singer/songwriter.
• 2002 - Harold Furth dies. American leader in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
• 2002 - Traudl Junge dies (b. 1920). Hitler's secretary.
• 2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• 2003 - Hockey star Brett Hull scores his 700th NHL goal.
• 2003 - Muslims celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. See also Hajj.
• 2003 - Al Ruffo dies (b. 1908). Mayor of San Jose, California.
  
• 2003 - Curt Hennig dies (b. 1959). American professional wrestler .
• 2003 - Clark MacGregor dies (b. 1922). United States Congressman from Minnesota .
• 2003 - Edgar de Evia dies (b. 1910). American photographer.
• 2003 - José Lewgoy dies (b. 1920). Brazilian actor.
• 2003 - Ron Ziegler dies (b. 1939). American press secretary to Richard Nixon.
• 2004 - Guy Provost dies (b. 1925). Quebec actor.
• 2005 - Charles and Camilla to be married: The Prince of Wales and long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged, Clarence House announces.
• 2005 - North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
• 2005 - Arthur Miller dies (b. 1915). American playwright.
• 2006 - The 2006 Olympic Winter Games open in Turin, Italy.
• 2006 - The 2006 Super 14 Season will begin with the Blues hosting the Hurricanes in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2006 - Egypt wins the African Cup of Nations in football (soccer)
• 2006 - J Dilla dies (b. 1974). Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village.
• 2006 - Dick Harmon dies (b. 1947). American golf instructor.
• 2007 - Portugal: Football Portuguese Cup Benfica is sent off by Varzim.
• 2007 - Jung Da Bin dies (b. 1980). South Korean actress.
• 2007 - Ned Austin dies (b. 1925). American character actor.
• 2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.
• 2008 - Adeline Jay Geo-Karis dies (b. 1918). Long serving Illinois Senator.
• 2008 - Roy Scheider dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2008 - Steve Gerber dies (b. 1947). American comics writer.
• Municipal holliday in Aguiar da Beira (Portugal) / Feriado municipal em Aguiar da Beira.
• Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.