- 0125 - Pope Sisto I dies.
- 1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1207).
- 1261 - Walter de Stapledon was born (d. 1326). English bishop.
- 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1328 - King Charles IV of France dies (b. 1294).
- 1459 - Conrad Celtes was born (d. 1508). German scholar.
- 1462 - Johannes Trithemius was born (d. 1516). German cryptographer.
- 1542 - Girolamo Aleandro dies (b. 1480). Italian Catholic cardinal.
- 1552 - Edward Coke was born (d. 1634). English colonial entrepreneur and jurist.
- 1563 - Menas dies. Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence.
- 1590 - Lawrence Humphrey dies. English clergyman and educator.
- 1635 - Convento do Carmo in Braga, Portugal, is founded.
- 1635 - Marquard Gude was born (d. 1689). German archaeologist.
- 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini was born (d. 1768). Italian composer.
- 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII dies (b. 1610).
- 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion.
- 1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
- 1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury dies (b. 1660). English politician.
- 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland dies (b. 1670).
- 1734 - John Floyer dies (b. 1649). English physician and writer.
- 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni dies (b. 1657). Italian composer.
- 1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon was born (d. 1836). South African mycologist.
- 1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix dies (b. 1682). French historian.
- 1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet dies (b. 1685). British cavalry officer.
- 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
- 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1793 - France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington dies (b. 1717). British statesman.
- 1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich was born (d. 1865). Swiss poet.
- 1801 - Émile Littré was born (d. 1881). French lexicographer.
- 1814 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
- 1820 - George Hendric Houghton was born (d. 1897). American Protestant Episcopal clergyman.
- 1843 - Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was born (d. 28 Jun 1928). English naval architect and engineer who made fundamental improvements in the design and machinery of torpedo boats and built the first torpedo boat for the Royal Navy.
- 1844 - Eduard Adolf Strasburger was born (d. 18 May 1912). German plant cytologist who elucidated the process of nuclear division in the plant kingdom .
- 1844 - G. Stanley Hall was born (d. 24 Apr 1924). American psychologist.
- 1847 - Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho was born in Lisbon (d. 24 Mar 1921). Portuguese writer. (Ver documento em português formato pdf: George Sand vista por Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho - Maria de Fátima Outeirinho)
- 1851 - Durham Stevens was born (d. 1908). American diplomat.
- 1851 - Mary Shelley dies (b. 1797). English author.
- 1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
- 1859 - Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt was born (d. 10 Mar 1928). American experimental pathologist and investigator of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.
- 1859 - Victor Herbert was born (d. 1924). Irish composer.
- 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
- 1864 - Prusia y Austria invaden los ducados daneses de Schleswig, Holstein y Lanenburg .
- 1872 - Jerome F. Donovan was bor (d. 1949). American politician.
- 1872 - Andrew Kehoe was born (d. 1927). American mass murderer.
- 1872 - Paul Fort was born in Reims (d. 20 Apr 1960). French poet.
- 1873 - Mariano Azuela was born (d. 1 Mar 1952). Mexican novelist.
- 1873 - John Barry was born (d. 1901). Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- 1873 - Joseph Allard was born (d. 1947). Canadian fiddler.
- 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born (d. 1929). Austrian lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist) .
- 1875 - João Soares de Albergaria de Sousa dies (b. 1776). Portuguese (Azores) politician.
- 1878 - Milan Hodža was born (d. 1944). Slovak politician.
- 1881 - Comienza la construcción del Canal de Panamá.
- 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent was born (d. 1973). Twelfth Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin was born (d. 1937). Russian writer.
- 1886 - Rouget de Lisle dies. French composer, author of "La marsellesa", national hymn.
- 1887 - Charles Nordhoff was born (d. 1947). English-born author.
- 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
- 1893 - George Henry Sanderson dies (b. 1824). Mayor of San Francisco.
- 1894 - John Ford was born (d. 1973). American director, producer.
- 1894 - James P. Johnson was born (d. 1955). American pianist, composer.
- 1895 - Conn Smythe was born (d. 1980). Canadian builder of the National Hockey League.
- 1896 - Alfonso Caso y Andrade was born (d. 30 Nov 1970). Mexican archaeologist and government official who explored the early Oaxacan cultures and is best remembered for his excavation of Tomb Seven at Monte Albán.
- 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen dies (b. 1826). Austrian geologist.
- 1898 - Enzo Ferrari was born (d. 1988). Italian auto manufacturer.
- 1901 - Clark Gable was born (d. 1960). American actor (Gone With the Wind)
- 1902 - Langston Hughes was born (d. 1967). American writer, poet.
- 1902 - Therese Brandl was born (d. 1947). Nazi concentration camp guard
- 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes dies. Irish mathematicien and physicist.
- 1904 - S. J. Perelman was born (d. 1979). American humorist, author .
- 1905 - Emilio G. Segrè was born ( d. 22 Apr 1989). Italian-born American physicist who was cowinner, with Owen Chamberlain of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 for the discovery of the antiproton
- 1905 - Lloyd Viel Berkner was born (d. 4 June 1967). U.S. physicist and engineer who first measured the extent, including height and density, of the ionosphere (ionized layers of the Earth's atmosphere), leading to a complete understanding of radio wave propagation and he helped develop radar systems .
- 1905 - Charles Finney was born, US author (Circus of Dr Lao) .
- 1906 - Hildegarde was born. American actress, singer.
- 1907 - Günter Eich was born (d. 1972). German lyricist.
- 1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo. Brazilian musician and composer.
- 1908 - George Pál was born (d. 1980). Hungarian-born director, producer.
- 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, Duque de Bragança, are killed in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon, by republicans.
- 1908 - Manuel II de Portugal ascende ao trono. In 1911, Thomas Jennings is found guilty with the first use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. He was convicted at the Criminal Court of Cook County for killing Clarence B. Hiller.
- 1909 - George Beverly Shea was born. Canadian singer
- 1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews was born. English football (soccer) player who was the 1st British soccer player to be knighted .
- 1918 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1918 - Dame Muriel Spark was born (d. 2006). Scottish author.
- 1919 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
- 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- 1922 - Renata Tebaldi was born (d. 2004). Italian soprano.
- 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
- 1924 - H. Richard Hornberger was born (d. 1997). American writer.
- 1924 - Ben Weider was born. Quebec businessman and author
- 1925 - Alfred Grosser was born in Frankfurt/Main. German political scientist and publicist.
- 1926 - Stuart Whitman was born. American actor
- 1928 - Hughie Jennings dies (b. 1869). Baseball Hall of Famer.
- 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
- 1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed was born. President of Bangladesh
- 1930 - Mario Beaulieu was born (d. 1998). Quebec politician.
- 1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad was born. Bangladeshi politician
- 1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed was born. President of Bangladesh
- 1931 - Boris Yeltsin was born. Russian president (1991-1999).
- 1934 - Bob Shane was born. American folk singer (The Kingston Trio).
- 1936 - Azie Taylor Morton was born (d. 2003). 35th Treasurer of the United States.
- 1937 - Fernando Assis Pacheco was born in Coimbra (d. in Lisbon, 30 Nov 1995). Portuguese journalist, poet and novelist.
- 1937 - Don Everly was born., American musician (Everly Brothers)
- 1937 - Garrett Morris was born. American comedian
- 1937 - Ray Sawyer was born. American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
- 1938 - Sherman Hemsley was born. American comedian and actor actor.
- 1939 - Claude François was born (d. 1978). French singer.
- 1939 - Paul Gillmor was born (d. 2007). American politician.
- 1940 - Hervé Filion was born. Quebec harness racer
- 1940 - Bibi Besch was born (d. 1996). Austrian-America and actress.
- 1941 - Karl Dall was born. German television moderator
- 1941 - Anatoly Firsov was born in Russia (d. 2000). USSR ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72). Leading scorer in the 1968 Olympics with 12 goals and 4 assists in seven games. He was European championship 7 times, and world championship 8 times.
- 1941 - Jerry Spinelli was born. Children's Author.
- 1942 - Terry Jones was born. Welsh actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) .
- 1944 - Burkhard Ziese was born. German football manager .
- 1944 - Piet Mondriaan dies (b. 1872). Dutch painter.
- 1944 - DNA was identified as the hereditary agent in a virus, published in a report by O.T. Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty. This crucial discovery in molecular genetics - that genetic information is carried in the nucleotide sequence of DNA - arose incidentally while studying pneumococcus to monitor the epidemic spread of pneumonia.
- 1945 - Serge Joyal was born. French Canadian politician.
- 1946 - A Hungria é proclamada uma república com Zoltan Tildy como presidente e Ferenc Nagy como primeiro-ministro.
- 1947 - Jessica Savitch was born (d. 1983). American journalist.
- 1947 - Mike Brant was born (d. 1975). Israeli pop singer.
- 1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates.
- 1948 - Rick James was born (d. 2004). American musician and composer.
- 1948 - Elisabeth Sladen was born. British actress.
- 1950 - Mike Campbell was born. American guitarist and producer.
- 1951 - Sonny Landreth was born. American guitarist and songwriter.
- 1953 - O Sporting vence o Benfica no Estádio Nacional por 3-1 em jogo do Campeonato Nacional da época de 1952/53, que venceria. O Benfica marcou primeiro por José Águas para depois Albano, Vasques e Rola marcarem a favor do Sporting.
- 1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
- 1953 - Duane Chapman was born. American TV personality
- 1954 - Bill Mumy was born. American actor, musician.
- 1954 - Chuck Dukowski was born. American musician (Black Flag)
- 1955 - Ernie Camacho was born. Baseball player
- 1956 - Mike Kitchen was born. Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1956 - Exene Cervenka was born. American musician (X)
- 1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- 1957 - Friedrich Paulus dies (b. 1890). German general.
- 1958 - Jackie Shroff was born. Indian actor
- 1958 - Luther Blissett was born. English footballer
- 1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson dies (b. 22 Oct 1881). American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both as waves and as particles .
- 1959 - Texas Instruments was issued a patent on the integrated circuit .
- 1959 - Triunfó la Revolución dirigida por Fidel Castro. Fulgencio Batista huyó de Cuba.
- 1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan dies (b. 1873). American actress.
- 1960 - Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1961 - Volker Fried was born. German field hockey player
- 1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo was born. Argentinian footballer.
- 1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei was born. Japanese guitarist.
- 1963 - Fleetwood Lindley dies (b. 1888). The last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face.
- 1964 - Mario Pelchat was born. Quebec singer.
- 1964 - Linus Roach was born. English actor
- 1965 - The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
- 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama .
- 1965 - Sherilyn Fenn was born. American actress .
- 1965 - Brandon Bruce Lee was born (d. 18993). American actor.
- 1965 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco was born.
- 1965 - Noah Blake was born. American actor and reality series star.
- 1966 - Michelle Akers was born. American soccer player
- 1966 - Rob Lee was born. English footballer
- 1966 - Hedda Hopper dies (b. 1885). American gossip columnist.
- 1966 - Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis] dies (b. 1895). American actor.
- 1967 - Meg Cabot was born. American author.
- 1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu was born. Indian politician.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
- 1968 - Official unification of the three former military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force became the united Canadian Armed Forces.
- 1968 - Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
- 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley was born. American singer and actress.
- 1968 - Pauly Shore was born. American comedian.
- 1968 - Mark Recchi was born. Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Kent Mercker was born. American baseball player
- 1969 - Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.
- 1969 - Diplomatic relations between Peru and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1969 - Gabriel Batistuta was born. Argentine soccer player .
- 1969 - Joshua Redman was born. American musician.
- 1969 - Brian Krause was born. American actor.
- 1969 - Patrick Wilson was born. American musician.
- 1970 - Malik Sealy was born (d. 2000). American basketball player.
- 1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama was born. Japanese racing driver
- 1970 - Alfréd Rényi dies (b. 1921). Hungarian mathematician.
- 1971 - Adriana Vitor Lessa was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
- 1971 - Ron Welty was born. American musician
- 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič was born. Slovenian footballer.
- 1971 - Jill Kelly was born. American porn actress.
- 1971 - Michael C. Hall was born. American actor.
- 1971 - Ajay Jadeja was born. Former Indian cricketer
- 1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- 1972 - Kami (Kamimura Ukyou) was born. Drummer of the Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer
- 1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera was born. American TV personality
- 1973 - Makiko Ohmoto was born. Japanese voice actress
- 1973 - Yuri Landman was born. Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist.
- 1974 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293.
- 1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
- 1974 - The Doobie Brothers release their album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits featuring their signature and hit song Black Water.
- 1974 - Roberto Heras was born. Spanish cyclist.
- 1974 - David Meca was born. Spanish long distance swimmer.
- 1975 - Katerina Thanou was born. Greek sprinter.
- 1976 - George Hoyt Whipple dies (b. 28 Aug 1878). American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly to successful liver treatment of pernicious anemia by the American physicians George R. Minot and William P. Murphy. This major advance in the treatment of noninfectious diseases brought the three men the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934.
- 1976 - Werner Heisenberg dies (b. 5 Dec 1901) Werner Karl Heisenberg was the German physicist and philosopher who discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices (1925). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
- 1977 - Kevin Kilbane was born. Irish footballer
- 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- 1979 - Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1979 - Julie Augustyniak was born. American soccer player.
- 1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1979 - Valentin Elizalde was born (d. 2006). Mexican singer.
- 1980 - Héctor Luna was born. Dominican Republic baseball player.
- 1980 - Moisés Muñoz was born. Mexican footballer.
- 1980 - Otilino Tenorio was born (d. 2005). Ecuadorian footballer.
- 1980 - Gastone Nencini dies (b. 1930). Italian cyclist.
- 1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game.
- 1981 - Luis Lamá was born. Angolan footballer.
- 1981 - Graeme Smith was born. South African cricketer.
- 1981 - Rob Austin was born. British racing driver.
- 1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. dies (b. 6 Apr 1892). U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.
- 1981 - Geirr Tveitt dies (b. 1908). Norwegian composer.
- 1982 - Shoaib Malik was born. Pakistani cricketer.
- 1982 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 1982 - David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.
- 1983 - Kevin Martin was born. American basketball player
- 1984 - Darren Fletcher was born. Scottish footballer.
- 1984 - Lee Thompson Young was born. American actor.
- 1985 - Jodi Gordon was born. Australian actress and model.
- 1985 - Dean Shiels was born. Northern Irish footballer.
- 1985 - Rachael Scdoris was born. American dog musher.
- 1986 - Lauren Conrad was born. American TV star.
- 1986 - Alva Myrdal dies (b. 1902). Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1987 - Giuseppe Rossi was born. Italian footballer.
- 1988 - Heather O'Rourke dies (b. 1975). American actress.
- 1989 - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- 1989 - Elaine de Kooning dies (b. 1819). American artist.
- 1991 - Um terremoto medindo 6.8 na escala Richter atinge o Afeganistão e o Paquistão, causando a morte de mais de 1200 pessoas.
- 1991 - Carol Dempster dies (b. 1901). American actress.
- 1991 - Phil Watson dies (b. 1914). Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- 1992 - The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
- 1993 - Augusto Cabrita dies (b. 16 Mar 1923). Portuguese photographer and film director.
- 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 1995 - Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embasy Hotel in London, UK.
- 1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress .
- 1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2) .
- 1999 - North Dakota Public Radio is launched.
- 1999 - Paul Mellon dies (b. 1907). American philanthropist.
- 2001 - André D'Allemagne dies (b. 1929). Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist
- 2002 - Hildegard Knef dies (b. 1925). German actress, singer, writer.
- 2003 - Mongo Santamaria dies (b. 1922). Cuban percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician.
- 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard. They were: Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959), David Brown (b. 1956), Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961), Laurel Clark (b. 1961), Rick D. Husband (b. 1957), Willie McCool (b. 1961), Ilan Ramon (b. 1954) .
- 2004 - Super Bowl XXXVIII: The New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast is bared.
- 2004 - May O'Donnell dies (b. 1909). American modern dancer and choreographer.
- 2005 - Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
- 2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.
- 2005 - John Vernon dies (b. 1932). Canadian actor.
- 2005 - Henrique Canto e Castro dies (b. 1930). Portuguese actor.
- 2006 - Dick Bass dies (b. 1937). American football player.
- 2006 - Bryce Harland dies (b. 1931). New Zealand diplomat.
- 2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti (d. 1911). Italian-born composer.
- 2007 - Seri Wangnaitham dies (b. 1937). Thai dance choreographer.
- 2007 - Whitney Balliett dies (b. 1926). American jazz critic.
- 2007 - Ray Berres dies (b. 1907). American baseball player.
- 2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban dies (b. 1946). Danish Muslim leader.
- 2008 - Beto Carrero dies (b. 1937). Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer.
- Imbolc - the first day of Spring in Ireland (Irish Calendar) and one of the four Gaelic seasonal (and sometimes religious) festivals. Also part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year.
- Dia do Publicitário.
- National Freedom Day in the United States.
- The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom.
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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