On this day in History - Mar. 28

• 0037 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
• 0193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax (b. 0126) is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. Roman Emperor.
• 0364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 0845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
• 1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony dies.
• 1138 - Maimonides was born (d. 1204). Spanish rabbi and philosopher.
• 1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan dies (b. 1180).
• 1285 - Pope Martin IV dies (b. c. 1210).
• 1472 - Fra Bartolommeo was born (d. 1517). Italian artist, a prominent exponent of the High Renaissance style in early 16th-century Florence whose works include God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene (1509).
• 1483 - Raphael was born in Urbino. Italian painter and architect. Rebuilt St Peters.
• 1496 - Mary Tudor was born (d. 1533). Queen of Louis XII of France.
• 1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Teresa de Jesus (St. Theresa) was born. Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic writer, saint and poet.
• 1522 - Albert the Warlike was born (d. 1557). Prince of Bayreuth.
• 1556 - Philip II, Charles V's son, was crowned king of Spain.
• 1563 - Heinrich Glarean dies (b. 1488). Swiss music theorist.
• 1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein dies (b. 1486). Austrian diplomat and historian.
• 1569 - Ranuccio Farnese I was born (d. 1622). Duke of Parma.
• 1592 - Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) was born (d. 1670). Czech writer, educator and bishop of Unity of the Brethren.
• 1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With was born (d. 1658). Dutch naval officer.
• 1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark was born (d. 1670).
• 1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager was born (d. 1688). Empress of Manchu.
• 1652 - Samuel Sewall was born (d. 1730). English-born American magistrate.
• 1660 - George I was born. King of Great Britain.
• 1673 - Adam Pijnacker was buried. Dutch landscape painter and etcher.
• 1677 - Wenzel Hollar dies (b. 13 Jul 1607). Bohemian etcher whose works are a rich source of information about the 17th century.
• 1687 - Constantijn Huygens dies (b. 1596). Dutch diplomat, poet and composer (Bluebottles).
• 1698 - Mombaça foi conquistada pelos árabes.
• 1712 - Foi proibido o envio de degredados para o Brasil.
• 1725 - Andrew Kippis was born (d. 1795). English non-conformist clergyman and biographer.
• 1737 - Francesco Zanetti was born. Composer.
• 1749 - Morte de Manuel de Azevedo Fortes, engenheiro-mor do Reino, e matemático .
• 1750 - Francisco de Miranda was born (d. 1816). Venezuelan revolutionary.
• 1760 - Thomas Clarkson was born (d. 1846). British abolicionist.
• 1766 - Joseph Weigl was born. Austrian composer and conductor (Emmeline).
• 1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand was born (d. 1844). French general.
• 1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1785 - Jorge de Avilez Zuzarte de Sousa Tavares was born (d. 1845). Portuguese noble.
• 1791 - Um alvará anunciou a abertura de diversas estradas no reino português, incluindo a que ligaria Lisboa ao Porto.
• 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft was born (d. 10 Dec 1864). American explorer and ethnologist noted for his discovery of the source of the Mississippi River (1832) in a lake in northern Minnesota which he named Lake Itasca, from the Latin words caput (head) and veritas (true).
• 1794 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeated French forces at Le Cateau.
• 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet dies (b. 1743). French mathematician, pilosopher, and political scientist.
• 1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
• 1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz was born (d. 1876). German historian.
• 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a device we commonly call the washing machine.
• 1798 - António de Araújo de Azevedo, diplomata português preso pelas autoridades da República francesa, é expulso de França.
• 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
• 1806 - Thomas Hare was born (d. 1891). English barrister.
• 1809 - Peninsular War: In the Battle of Medelin the France defeats Spain.
• 1810 - Alexandre Herculano was born. Portuguese writer (d. 14 Sep 1877) / Nascia o escritor Alexandre Herculano (m. 14 Set 1877). Historiador, poeta e romancista, preocupou-se sempre com a reconstituição histórica. Foi também um dos grandes nomes do Romantismo português.
• 1815 - Arsène Houssaye was born (d. 1896). French novelist.
• 1818 - Wade Hampton III was born (d. 1902). American soldier and politician.
• 1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette was born (d. 15 Mar 1891). English civil engineer who designed the main drainage system for London.
• 1828 - William Thornton dies (b. 20 May 1759). British-born American architect, inventor, and public official, best known as the creator of the original design for the Capitol at Washington, D.C.
• 1834 - For the first time in history, The United States Senate censures a President declaring that Andrew Jackson inappropriately removed federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1834 - Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira was born (d. 1917). Brazilian journalist and politician.
• 1836 - Frederick Pabst was born (d. 1904). American brewer.
• 1837 - Willy Kühne was born (d. 10 June 1900). German physiologist known for his researches on vision and the chemical changes occurring in the retina under the influence of light.
• 1840 - Emin Pasha was born (d. 1892). Physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria.
• 1842 - William Harvey Carney was born (d. 1908). American Civil War hero.
• 1849 - James Darmesteter was born (d. 1894). French author and antiquarian.
• 1849 - Stephan Endlicher dies (b. 24 Jun 1804). Austrian botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification.
• 1850 - Gerard C. Brandon dies (b. 1788). American politician.
• 1851 - Bernardino Machado was born (d. 1944). Portuguese President.
• 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia.
• 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka broke out.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1862 - Aristide Briand was born (d. 1932). French politician, premier of France, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926.
• 1866 - The first hospital ambulance went into service.
• 1866 - Jimmy Ross was born (d. 1902). Scottish footballer.
• 1866 - Solomon Foot dies (b. 1802). American politician.
• 1868 - Maxim Gorky was born (d. 1936). Russian author.
• 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan dies (b. 1797). British military leader
• 1870 - George Henry Thomas dies (b.1816). American general.
• 1871 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1871 - Willem Mengelberg was born (d. 1951). Dutch conductor.
• 1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen dies (b. 1795). Danish astronomer whose most important work was the improvement of the theories and tables of the orbits of the principal bodies in the solar system.
• 1878 - Willem Mengelberg was born (d. 1951). Dutch conductor.
• 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky dies (b. 1839). Russian composer.
• 1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
• 1886 - Jarosla Novotny was born. Composer.
• 1887 - Nace en Lérida (España) el pintor de tipos populares, de aire primitivista, Miguel Antonio Viladrich. (m. 5 Jul de 1956 en Buenos Aires).
• 1890 - Paul Whiteman was born (d. 29 Dec 1967). Bandleader “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and '30s (Washboard Blues, Ol’ Man River, Felix the Cat, Heartache, Ain’t Misbehavin’).
• 1892 - Corneille Heymans was born (d. 18 Jul 1968). Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for his discovery of the regulatory effect on respiration of sensory organs associated with the carotid artery in the neck and with the aortic arch leading from the heart.
• 1892 - Tom Maguire was born (d. 1993). Irish republican.
• 1893 - Spyros Skouras was born (d. 1971). Greek-American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox.
• 1895 - Christian Herter was born (d. 1966). 59th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1895 - Spencer W. Kimball was born (d.1985). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1897 - Victor Mills was born (d. 1 Nov 1997). American chemical engineer who invented Pampers disposable diapers.
• 1897 - Sepp Herberger was born (d. 1977). German football coach.
• 1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr. was born (d. 1989). American brewing magnate and baseball executive.
• 1899 - Buck Shaw was born (d. 1977). American football coach.
• 1899 - Harold B. Lee was born (d. 1973). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973).
• 1899 - Gussie Busch was born (d. 1989). American baseball owner.
• 1899 - Ernst Lindemann was born (d. 1941). German naval officer.
• 1899 - Guglielmo Marconi first sent a wireless telegraph message between England and Europe.
• 1900 - Edward Wagenknecht was born (d. 2004). American literary critic.
• 1902 - Dame Flora Robson was born (d. 1984). English actress.
• 1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda was born (d. 1988). Czech composer.
• 1903 - Rudolf Serkin was born (d. 1991). Austrian pianist.
• 1903 - Charles Starrett was born (d. 1986). American actor.
• 1903 - Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot dies (b. 11 Sep 1845). French engineer who, in 1874, received a patent on a telegraph code that by the mid-20th century had supplanted Morse Code as the most commonly used telegraphic alphabet.
• 1904 - Werner Bahlsen was born (d. 1985). Biscuit producer.
• 1905 - Marlin Perkins was born (d. 1986). American naturalist and television host.
• 1905 - The radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called "a system for transmitting intelligence." However, faxing did not become a practical mode of communication until the 1920s, and high-speed faxes were not available until the 1940s.
• 1905 - Marlin Perkins was born (d. 1986). American naturalist and television host.
• 1905 - Pandro S. Berman was born (d. 1996). American film producer.
• 1907 - "Swifty" Lazar was born (d. 1993). American talent agent.
• 1909 - Nelson Algren was born (d. 1981). American writer.
• 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. was born (d. 2001). Bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
• 1910 - Jimmie Dodd was born (d. 1964). American television actor.
• 1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark was born (d. 2000).
• 1910 - The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.
• 1910 - David Josiah Brewer dies (b. 1837). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne dies (b. 1838). French violinist.
• 1911 - J. L. Austin was born (d. 1960). British philosopher of language.
• 1912 - A. Bertram Chandler was born (d. 1984). Australian science fiction author.
• 1912 - Marina Raskova was born (d. 1943). Russian navigator.
• 1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1914 - Edmund Muskie was born (d. 1996). American politician.
• 1914 - Edward Anhalt was born (d. 2000). American screenwriter.
• 1914 - Bohumil Hrabal was born (d. 1997). Czech writer.
• 1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris was born (d. 2003). Australian entymologist.
• 1915 - Jay Livingston was born (d. 2001). American composer and songwriter.
• 1917 - The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded, these were Great Britain’s first official service women.
• 1919 - Vic Raschi was born (d. 1988). American baseball player.
• 1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford marry.
• 1920 - Thomas Masaryk was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
• 1921 - Dirk Bogarde was born (d. 08 May 1999). English actor (Death in Venice, The Vision, A Bridge Too Far, ...).
• 1921 - Herschel Grynszpan was born. German political assassin.
• 1922 - Microfilm - Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm reading device.
• 1922 - Neville Bonner was born. Australian politician.
• 1922 - Felice Chiusano was born. Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra).
• 1922 - Joey Maxim was born (d. 2001). American boxer.
• 1924 - Freddie Bartholomew was born (d.1992). Irish actor.
• 1925 - Wilhelm Körner dies (b. 20 Apr 1839). German organic chemist who in 1874 showed how to determine the relative positions of two substituents, such as methyl, on the benzene ring.
• 1925 - Dorothy DeBorba was born. American child actress.
• 1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba was born.
• 1927 - Marianne Fredriksson was born (d. 2007). Swedish author.
• 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski was born. U.S. National Security Advisor.
• 1928 - Alexander Grothendieck was born. German-French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work in algebraic geometry.
• 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski was born. U.S. National Security Advisor.
• 1929 - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador.
• 1929 - Paul England was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1929 - Lomer Gouin dies (b. 1861). Quebec politician.
• 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman was born. American physicist who, together with Richard E. Taylor and Henry W. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint experimental confirmatiom of the fundamental particles known as quarks.
• 1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge was born. English opera singer.
• 1930 - Robert Ashley was born. American composer.
• 1933 - Tete Montoliu was born. Spanish Jazz pianist.
• 1933 - Frank Murkowski was born. American politician.
• 1935 - Rocketry - Goddard used gyroscopes to control a rocket.
• 1935 - Michael Parkinson was born. British broadcaster and talk show host.
• 1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa was born. Peruvian author and politician (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).
• 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco, leader of the Nationalist forces captured the capital city of Madrid en route to his overthrow of the democratic Spanish republic.
• 1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker dies (b. 1903). Australian politician.
• 1940 - The exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair starts being built.
• 1940 - Tony Barber was born. Australian television personality
• 1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.
• 1941 - Jim Turner was born. American football player.
• 1941 - Alf Clausen was born. Orchestra conductor (The Simpsons).
• 1941 - Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning threwing herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body was never found (b. 1882). British novelist, essayist and critic.
• 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
• 1942 - Neil Kinnock was born. British statesman.
• 1942 - Mike Newell was born. English film director.
• 1942 - Conrad Schumann was born (d. 1998). East German border guard.
• 1942 - Jerry Sloan was born. American basketball coach.
• 1942 - Daniel Dennett was born. American philosopher.
• 1942 - Samuel Ramey was born. American opera singer.
• 1942 - Miguel Hernández dies (b. 1910). Spanish poet, death in prison.
• 1943 - Conchata Ferrell was born. American actress.
• 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff dies in Beverly Hills, California (b. 1873). Russian composer and pianist.
• 1944 - Rick Barry was born. American basketball player.
• 1944 - Ken Howard was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Stephen Leacock dies (b. 1869). Canadian humorist.
• 1945 - The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London.
• 1945 - Count Björn Hamilton was born. Swedish politician.
• 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 1946 - Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru.
• 1946 - Wubbo Ockels was born. Dutch physicist and astronaut.
• 1946 - Chick Fullis dies (b. 1904). Baseball player.
• 1947 - The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.
• 1947 - John Landecker was born. American disk jockey.
• 1947 - Karol Swierczewski dies (b. 1897). Polish general.
• 1948 - Dianne Weist was born. American Academy Award-winning actress: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; Bullets over Broadway, Radio Days, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Footloose).
• 1948 - Gerry House was born. American radio personality and songwriter.
• 1948 - John Evan was born. British musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1948 - Matthew Corbett was born. English retired actor.
• 1948 - Milan Williams was born (d. 2006). American musician The Commodores.
• 1949 - Josephine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California. American actress.
• 1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu dies (b. 1889). Romanian composer and violinist.
• 1951 - Karen Kain was born. Canadian ballerina.
• 1951 - Matti Pellonpää was born (d. 1995). Finnish actor and musician.
• 1952 - Tony Brise was born (d. 1975). English racing driver.
• 1953 - Melchior Ndadaye was born (d. 1993). First President of Burundi.
• 1953 - Nydia Velázquez was born in Yabucoa. Puerto Rican politician, who was the first woman in Puerto Rican Congress
• 1953 - Jim Thorpe dies (b. 1887). American athlete.
• 1954 - Morris Mason was born (d. 1985). American rapist and murderer.
• 1955 - Reba McEntire was born. American country music singer and actress.
• 1955 - John Alderdice was born. Northern Irish politician.
• 1956 - April Margera was born. Bam Margera's mother
• 1956 - Nascimento em São Paulo - SP, Brasil, de Zizi Possi (Maria Izildinha Possi), cantora da MPB.
• 1958 - Curt Hennig was born (d. 2003). American professional wrestler.
• 1958 - Elisabeth Andreassen was born. Scandinavian singer.
• 1958 - W.C. Handy dies (b. 1873). American composer.
• 1959 - China dissolved Tibet's government and installed Panchen Lama 11 days after Tibet uprising.
• 1959 - Chris Myers was born. American radio host/sportscaster
• 1960 - Chris Barrie was born. British actor.
• 1960 - José Maria Neves was born. Cape Verdeian politician.
• 1960 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt was born. French author and dramatist.
• 1961 - Byron Scott was born. American basketball player.
• 1962 - Jure Franko was born. Slovenian alpine skier.
• 1962 - Terry Szopinski was born. American pro-wrestler.
• 1964 - Good Friday Earthquake devastates Southern Alaska, parts of Canada, and the Western US.
• 1964 - The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established.
• 1965 - Thousands join Dr King in Alabama rally Martin Luther King leads protests to the steps of the state capital of Montgomery in Alabama.
• 1965 - Steve Bull was born. English footballer.
• 1965 - Jack Hoxie dies (b. 1885). American actor, rodeo performer.
• 1965 - Clemence Dane dies (b. 1888). British novelist and playwright.
• 1968 - Iris Chang was born (d. 2004). American author.
• 1968 - Nasser Hussain was born. English cricketer.
• 1968 - Jon Lee was born (d. 2002). British drummer.
• 1968 - Tim Lovejoy was born. British television presenter.
• 1969 - In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles.
• 1969 - The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
• 1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 1969 - Brett Ratner was born. American film director.
• 1969 - Rodney Atkins was born. American country music singer-songwriter.
• 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower dies (b. 1890) U.S. General of the Army, 34th President of the United States.
• 1970 - Joe Cocker played his first American concert. He entertained fans at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York City.
• 1970 - Vince Vaughn was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Michelle Gildernew was born. Irish republican politician.
• 1971 - Mr. Cheeks was born. American rapper.
• 1971 - Mônica Carvalho was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1972 - Nick Frost was born. English comedian and actor.
• 1972 - Keith Tkachuk was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1973 - Eddie Fatu was born. Samoan professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Matt Nathanson was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1974 - Mark King was born. English snooker player.
• 1974 - Scott Mills was born. Radio 1 DJ.
• 1974 - Dorothy Fields dies (b. 1905). American librettist and lyricist.
• 1975 - Iván Helguera was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1975 - Matt Reis was born. American soccer goalkeeper.
• 1975 - Derek Hill was born. American racing driver.
• 1975 - Richard Kelly was born. American film director.
• 1975 - Shanna Moakler was born. Former beauty queen.
• 1976 - David Keuning was born. American guitar player (The Killers).
• 1976 - Arthur Crudup dies (b. 1905). American blues singer and guitarist.
• 1976 - Richard Arlen dies (b. 1898). American actor.
• 1977 - Portugal pede formalmente a sua integração na Comunidade Económica Europeia (CEE).
• 1977 - 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win.
• 1977 - Devon was born. Pornographic film actress.
• 1977 - Erik Rasmussen was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1978 - US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
• 1978 - April Flowers was born. American porn actress.
• 1978 - Dino Ciani dies (b. 1941). Italian pianist.
• 1979 - British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved in order to make way for a forthcoming General Election.
• 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
• 1979 - Park Chae-rim was born. South Korean actress.
• 1979 - Emmett Kelly dies (b. 1898). American circus clown (Weary Willy).
• 1980 - Luke Walton was born. NBA player.
• 1980 - Stiliani Pilatou was born. Greek long jumper.
• 1980 - Dick Haymes dies (b. 1918). Argentine-born singer.
• 1981 - Edwar Ramirez was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Julia Stiles was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd was born. Welsh Actor.
• 1981 - Lindsay Frimodt was born. American model.
• 1982 - Voters in El Salvador went to the polls for a constituent assembly election that resulted in victory for the Christian Democrats, led by President Jose Napoleon Duarte.
• 1982 - Sonia Agarwal was born. Indian actress.
• 1982 - William Giauque dies (b.12 May 1895). Canadian-born American physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949 for his studies of the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
• 1983 - Ryan Ashington was born. English footballer.
• 1984 - Christopher Samba was born. French-born footballer.
• 1984 - Nikki Sanderson was born. British actress and model.
• 1984 - Yordanos Abay was born. Ethiopian footballer.
• 1984 - Carmen Dragon dies (b. 1914). American conductor, composer and arranger.
• 1985 - Marc Chagall dies at 97. French painter. / Morre o pintor Marc Chagall, em St. Paul de Vence, França (n. 7 Jul 1887).
• 1985 - Fallece en Buenos Aires el poeta, ensayista, pintor, ceramista y traductor Lysandro Z.D. Galtier ( "Luz de pampa" , "Penumbra lúcida" y ensayo "Carlos de Soussens y la bohemia porteña"). Nació en 6 Out 1901.
• 1986 - Barbora Strýcová was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1986 - J-Kwon was born. American rapper.
• 1986 - Virginia Gilmore dies (b. 1919). American actress.
• 1987 - Maria Augusta von Trapp dies. Austrian-born singer (Trapp Family Singers).
• 1987 - Patrick Troughton dies (b. 1920). British actor.
• 1988 - Lacey Turner was born. British soap actress.
• 1989 - Marek Suchý was born. Czech footballer.
• 1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz was born. English footballer.
• 1989 - Mira Leung was born. Canadian figure skater.
• 1989 - Afrikan Boy was born. Nigerian rapper.
• 1990 - President George H. W. Bush presents Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1990 - Alain Oulman dies (b. 1928). Portuguese composer.
• 1991 - Amy Bruckner was born. American actress.
• 1991 - Sophie Mullen was born. English actress.
• 1993 - Chinese Premier Li Peng won a second term.
• 1993 - Alfredo Hlito dies in Buenos Aires (b. 1923). Argentine vanguardist painter.
• 1993 - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins.
• 1993 - Scott Cunningham dies (b. 1956). Occult author.
• 1994 - Italy: Silvio Berlusconi is elected Prime-Minister.
• 1994 - BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom.
• 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg resulting in eighteen deaths.
• 1994 - Eugène Ionesco dies (b.1912). Romanian-born French playwright.
• 1995 - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge.
• 1995 - Hugh O'Connor dies (b. 1962). American actor.
• 1996 - Angelina Jolie gets married with Jonny Lee Miller.
• 1999 - Paraguay's President Raúl Cubas Grau resigned after protests inspired by the assassination of Vice-President Luis María Argaña on March 23. The nation's Congress had accused Cubas and his political associate, Gen. Lino César Oviedo, for Cubas' murder. Senate President Luis González Macchi took office as Paraguay's new chief executive.
• 1999 - Venus Williams beat kid sister Serena 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships in the first all-sister women's final in 115 years.
• 1999 - Freaky Tah dies (b. 1971). American Rapper, member of the group Lost Boyz.
• 2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).
• 2000 - Anthony Powell dies (b.1905). British novelist.
• 2001 - Moe Koffman dies (b. 1928). Canadian musician.
• 2002 - The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art" opens at the National Gallery of Australia.
• 2003 - In Hong Kong at least 58 more people became sick with symptoms of SARS. 11 Hong Kong deaths were on the disease.
• 2003 - In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attacked British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
• 2003 - Rusty Draper dies (b. 1923). American country and pop singer.
• 2004 - Art James dies (b. 1929). American game show host.
• 2004 - Peter Ustinov dies in Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland (b. 16 Apr 1921). English actor "Quo Vadis".
• 2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
• 2005 - Dame Moura Lympany dies (b. 1916). British pianist.
• 2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
• 2006 - Caspar Weinberger dies (b. 1917). United States Secretary of Defense.
• 2006 - Charles Schepens dies (b. 1912). American ophthalmologist and member of the French Resistance.
• 2006 - Kevin Pro Hart dies (b. 1928). Australian artist.
• 2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh dies (b. 192). Irish musician.
• 2007 - Foi inaugurado em Brinches (concelho de Serpa), Portugal a maior central fotovoltaica do mundo.
• Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.
• Portugal: Dia Nacional dos Centros Históricos