1725 - George F. Handel’s opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premiered in London.
1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a
semaphore machine in
Paris.
1791 -
John Wesley dies (b. 1703). English founder of Methodism.
1793 - Sam[uel] Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia (d. 1863). President of the Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44).1797 -
Horace Walpole dies (b. 24 Sep 1717). English horror writer, novelist and playwright.
1799 -
Congress standardizes US weights & measures.
1807 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country". 1810 -
Pope Leo XIII [Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci] was born (d. 20 Jul 1903). Elected 256th pope on 20 February 1878.
1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized.
1820 -
Multatuli was born (d. 1887). Dutch writer.
1822 -
Manuela Medina [ La Capitana] dies in Texcoco. Mexican heroin and revolucionary
1822 - Capitulación del caudillo uruguayo Rivera ante las fuerzas portuguesas.
1824 -
Bedrich Smetana was born (d. 1884). Czech composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau).
1829 -
Carl Schurz was born (d. 1906). German revolutionist and American statesman.
1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering dies (b. 1755). German physician.1835 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1768). 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico on Sam Houston's 43rd birthday. 1840 -
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (b. 11 Oct 1758). German
astronomer and physician, born in Arbergen, Germany. While practising medicine at Bremen, he calculated the orbit of the comet of 1779, discovered the minor planets (asteroids) Pallas (1802) and Vesta (1807), and discovered five comets (all but one already observed at Paris).
1842 - The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver.1842 -
Carl Jacobsen was born (d. 1914). Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named.
1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia. 1860 - Dinis Moreira da Mota was born (d. 1914). Portuguese civil engineer and politician.1865 - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" began publishing.
1865 - Comienza en París la Conferencia Internacional para establecer un sistema de comunicaciones y de tarifas telegráficas.
1866 - Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut began making sewing machine needles.
1867 - Raúl Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, Porto (d. Lisbon 1930). Portuguese writer.
1876 -
Pope Pius XII [Eugenio Pacelli] was born (d. 09 Oct 1958). 260th pope (1939-1958).
1878 - Ignacio Veintemilla se proclama dictador de la República de Ecuador por segunda vez.
1879 -
John Eberhard Faber dies in New York (b. 6 Dec 1822). German industrialist, with his brother Lothar von Faber, went to the United States in 1849 and built a Faber manufacturing plant, the first large-scale American pencil factory.
1882 - Roderick Maclean tenta assassinar a rainha Vitória em Windsor.
1887 - August Wilhelm Eichler dies (b. 4 Apr 1839) German
botanist who developed one of the first widely used natural systems of plant classification. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a one of the first systems of plant classification .
1887 - Harry E. Soref was born (d. 1 Mar 1957). Locksmith, inventor of the laminated steel padlock, and
founder of Master Lock Company (1921).
1891 - Celebración en España de las primeras elecciones legislativas por sufragio universal.
1892 -
Ruy Coelho was born in Figueira da Foz (d. in Lisbon, 5 May 1986). Portuguese composer.
1896 - Henri Becquerel reported his discovery of the penetrating rays of a uranium compound to the French Academy of Sciences. The photographic plate, fogged by these rays, showing the outline of a metal cross lying between the compound and the plate, is the first recognition of the effects later known as radioactivity.
1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the
Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
1897 - Ernesto da Silva Guimarães was born. Brazilian writer.1898 - Amélia Rey Colaço was born (d. 8 Jul 1990). Portuguese actress and theater entrepreneur / Nasce
Amélia Rey Colaço (m. 8 Jul 1990). Actriz, encenadora e empresária de teatro.
1900 - Kurt Weill was born in Dessau (d. 1950). German composer (The Threepenny Opera), Brecht collaborator.1902 -
Moe Berg was born (d. 1972). American baseball player and spy .
1902 - Edward Uhler Condon was born (d. 26 Mar 1974). American physicist for whom the Franck-Condon principle was named (1928) and who applied quantum mechanics to an understanding of atomic, molecular and nuclear structure .
1904 - Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio" premiered in Milan.
1904
- Theodore Seuss Geisel “
Dr. Seuss” was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 24 Sep 1991). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and three Academy Awards, Seuss was the author and illustrator of 44 children's books, some of which have been made into audiocassettes, animated television specials, and videos for children of all ages.
1908 - Gabriel Lippman introduced the new three-dimensional colour photography at the Academy of Sciences.
1909 -
Mel Ott was born (d. 1958). American baseball player.
1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die.
1912 - Henry Katzman was born (d. 2001). American composer and pianist.1913 - Georgii Nikolaevich Flerov was born (d. 19 Nov 1990). Russian scientist who, in 1941, recognized that uranium undergoes spontaneous fission (needing no neutron bombardment). He was one of the early Russian
investigators of nuclear fission.
1913 -
Godfried Bomans was born (d. 1971). Dutch author and television personality.
1913 -
Mort Cooper was born (d. 1958). American baseball player.
1914 -
Martin Ritt was born (d. 1990). American director.
1915 - O aumento do preço do pão provocou tumultos e assaltos em todo o território português.
1916 - El poeta español Juan Ramón Jiménez contrae matrimonio con Zenobia Camprubi en Nueva York.
1917 - The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans, United States citizenship. 1917 (O.S.) - Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael. 1917 - Desi Arnaz was born (d. 1986). Cuban-born actor, bandleader, musician, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy). 1917 - Jim Konstanty was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.1917 - David Goodis was born (d. 1967). American writer.1918 - Sidónio Pais assiste a uma missa na Sé de Lisboa, reconciliando o regime com a Igreja. 1919 -
Jennifer Jones was born. Academy Award-winning actress (The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno).
1921 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro dies (b. 1841).1921 -
Champ Clark dies (b. 1850). American politician.
1922 - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was born (d. 1986). American jazz tenor saxophonist.1923 - Time magazine made its debut.
1923 - Basil Hume was born (d. 1999). Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England.1923 - Doc Watson was born. Bluegrass singer-musician.
1928 - Father
John Romanides was born (d. 2001). Greek priest and professor.
1929
- Jones Act attempts to strengthen Prohibition. Congress passes the Jones Act, the last effort at enforcing Prohibition. Since 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect, the United States had banned the production, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages; but the laws were ineffective at actually preventing the consumption of alcohol. The Jones Act served to strengthen the federal penalties for bootlegging.
1930 -
John Cullum was born. American actor and singer.
1930 -
D. H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France (b. 1885). Writer.
1931 -
Tom Wolfe was born. American journalist and author (Right Stuff).
1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen was born. American
mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the other axioms of set theory.
1935 -
Al Waxman was born (d. 2001). Canadian actor.
1937 - Jose Pena Gomez was born in Valverde, Dominican Republic (d. 1998 ). Advocate for the poor and later mayor of Santo Domingo.
1937 - José Francisco Guerrero was born. Salvadoran politician.
1937 - Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova was born. Russian astronaut who became the first woman to orbit the Earth on Vostok 6.
1938 - Ben Harney dies (b. 1871). US composer and ragtime pianist.1939 -
Howard Carter dies (b. 9 May 1873). British
archaeologist who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1939 - Barbara Luna was born. Actress.
1940 -
Tony Croatto was born (d. 2005). Italian-born singer and composer.
1941 - Jon Finch was born. Actor.
1942 - 14th Academy Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper & Joan Fontaine win.1942 - John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. American author (The World According to Garp; The Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meaney... ).1942 - Kwang Jo Choi was born. Founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.1942 -
Lou Reed was born. American singer and guitarist(singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground; solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley’s Girl; I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony).
1942 - Luc Plamondon was born. French Canadian lyricist.1943 - Claude Larose was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.1943 - Tony Meehan was born (d. 2005). English drummer (The Shadows).1944 - 16th Academy Awards: The Outstanding Motion Picture was "Casablanca", directed by Michael Curtiz, who won an Oscar. Best Actor of 1943 was Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine" and Best Actor in a Supporting Role was Charles Coburn for "The More the Merrier". The Best Actress award was presented to twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Jones for "The Song of Bernadette" and Best Actress in a Supporting Role was Katina Paxinou in "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
1945 -
Emily Carr dies (b. 1871). Canadian artist.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh the Vietnamese Communist leader is elected the President of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). 1947 -
Luís de Montalvor [Luís da Silva Ramos] dies in Lisbon (b. in S. Vicente, Cape Vert, 31 de Jan 1891 ). Portuguese editor and poet.
1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. 1949 - A US B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady II, lands at Fort Worth, Texas, completing the first nonstop round-the-world flight. 1949 - Soft-coal strike in US. The US's soft-coal workers, led by United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis, hit the picket line to protest the recent appointment of Dr. James Boyd as the head of the Federal Bureau of Mines.
1949 - The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
1951 - Roberto Dañino Zapata, nacimiento de, peruano, Vicepresidente Senior del Banco Mundial. 1952 - José Carlos Amaral Vieira was born. Brazilian composer and pianist.1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC. 1953 -
Jim Lightbody dies (b. 1882). American middle-distance runner.
1955 - the William Inge play "Bus Stop" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
1956 -
John Cowsill was born. Musician/drummer, singer, The Cowsills and The Beach Boys.
1956 -
Mark Evans was born. Australian bassist of AC/DC.
1958 - Antartic crossed for the first time by Dr Vivian Fuchs.
1958 - Yemen announces that it will join the United Arab Republic.
1958 - Peter Arnold was born. American architect.1958 -
Fred Merkle dies (b. 1888). American baseball figure.
1959 -
Miles Davis holds the first recording session for Kind of Blue at Columbia 30th Street Studio in
New York, NY.
1959 - Eric Blore dies (b. 1887). English actor.1960 - Hector Calma was born. Filipino basketball player.1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup. 1962 - In Hershey, Pennsylvania, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers scores 100 points against the New York Knicks, breaking several National Basketball Association records. 1962 - Al Del Greco was born. American football player.1962 - Michael Salinger was born. American poet.1963 - Release of Please Please Me in the United Kingdom, the first LP from The Beatles.1963 - Tanyu Kiryakov was born. Bulgarian pistol shooter.1963 - Tuff Hedeman was born. American bull rider. 1964 -
Megan Leigh was born (d. 1990). American actress.
1964 -
Mike Von Erich was born (d. 1987). American professional wrestler.
1965 - the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.
1965 - Bombing of North Vietnam starts. Operation Rolling Thunder begins with more than 100 United States Air Force jet bombers striking an ammunition depot at Xom Bang, 10 miles inside North Vietnam.
1965 -
Ron Gant was born. American baseball player.
1967 - 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night & Michele win.
1968 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR). Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Peggy Fleming (USA). Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria).
1969 - the Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft made its maiden flight.
1970 -
Rhodesia declares itself a
republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1970 - American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747.
1971 - Bangladesh se declara independiente de Pakistán.1970 American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747. 1971 - Amber Smith was born. American actress and model.1971 - Dave Gorman was born. English documentary comedian. 1971 - Elizabeth Lackey was born. American actress.1972 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed himself President for life of Central African Republic.
1972 - Richard Ruccolo was born. American actor.1973 - Arab commandos, "Black September" terrorists, led by Abu Jihad executed 3 hostages in Khartoum, Sudan, after Pres. Nixon refused their demands. US ambassador Cleo A. Noel, deputy George Curtis Moore and Belgian charge d’affaires Guy Eid. 1974 - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler win. Stevie Wonder got five Grammy Awards for his album, "Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" and "Superstition". 1974 - Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up.
1976 - Casey was born. Rock musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack).
1977 - Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award. 1977 - Los líderes comunistas europeos se reúnen en Madrid.
1977 - Andrew Strauss was born. English cricket player.1978 - Edward Griffith Begle dies (b. 27 Nov 1914). American mathematician, a topologist, who was a leader in the development of "new math" after the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 raised concerns about the adequacy of science and mathematics education in American schools.
1979 - Amanda Ireton was born. Cast member of MTV's A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila1979 - Damien Duff was born. Irish footballer.1979 - Nicky Weaver was born. English footballer.1979 - Sergei Davydov was born. Belarusian figure skater.1980 - Édson Nobre was born. Angolan footballer. 1980 - Karl Dominik was born. China based foreign actor.1980 - Lance Cade was born. American professional wrestler. 1983 - Jay McClement was born. Canadian ice hockey player.1985 - El Presidente de Pakistán, Mohamed Zia Ulk Haq, anuncia el restablecimiento de la Constitución, derogada tras un golpe de estado. 1985 - TV
anime series Mobile Suit Z Gundum broadcasts its first episode in
Japan.
1986 - The British Queen signs a proclamation giving Australia legal independence.
1986 - Corazon Aquino was sworn into office as president of the Philipines. Her first public declaration was to restore the civil rights of the citizens of her country.
1988 -
30th Grammy Awards : Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley win. Best Pop Vocal Performance Female was Whitney Houston and Male was Sting.
1988 - Matthew Mitcham was born. Australian diver.1988 -
Keith Jack was born. British singer and actor.
1992 -
Sandy Dennis dies in Westport, Connecticut at age 54. Actress .
1992 - The U.N. General Assembly welcomed eight former Soviet republics and San Marino as its newest members.
1994 - Sofía de Grecia Reina de España recibe el Premio Wiesenthal de Derechos Humanos por su compromiso continuo en favor de la tolerancia y de la lucha contra el antisemitismo y el racismo.
1995 -
Yahoo! is incorporated, establishing the Internet Portal as a model.
1995 - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed.
1996 - All members of
Brazilian rock band
Mamonas Assassinas die in a plane crash near
São Paulo / Falecem, num acidente aéreo, os integrantes do conjunto musical “Mamonas Assassinas”.
1996 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is reelected president of the Socialist Party of Serbia by 1795 out of 1799 party delegates. Milosevic's government continues to hinder opposition parties, which nevertheless gain increasing support.
1996 - Jacobo Majluta dies at 61. President of Dominican Republic (1982).
1997 - Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer
1997 - Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open.
1997 - Carson Mark dies (b. 6 Jul 1913). Canadian-born American
scientist who, as head of the theoretical division at the Los Alamos (N.M.) Scientific Laboratory, was instrumental in the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1997 -
Bloodshed dies (b. 1975). American rapper.
1998 - US Justice Department files antitrust brief against Microsoft The Justice Department declared an antitrust war on Microsoft on this day in 1998. The department filed a court brief alleging that Microsoft's Windows 95 licensing requirements violated the terms of a 1995 settlement and that its practice of bundling its Web browser with Windows 95 stifled competition.
1998 - El presidente del Gobierno central de Nicaragua, Arnold Alemán, alcanza una victoria muy ajustada en las elecciones parlamentarias regionales, que tuvieron una abstención del 50%.
1999 -
David Ackles dies (b. 1937). American singer and songwriter.
1999 -
Dusty Springfield dies (b. 1939). English singer ("
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", "Wishin’ and Hopin’", "The Look of Love", "Son of a Preacher Man"). 2000 - O ex-ditador chileno, General Augusto Pinochet deixa a Grã-Bretanha e volta ao seu país, horas após ter sido declarado mentalmente incapaz de ser julgado por abuso aos direitos humanos.
2001 - The
Taliban began the destruction of ancient
Budha statues in Afghanistan.
2003 -
Hank Ballard dies (b. 1927). American singer, composer .
2005 - The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 1,500.
2005 - The woman who accused NBA star Kobe Bryant of rape settled her lawsuit against him, ending the case.
2005 -
Rick Mahler dies (b. 1953). American baseball player.
2006 -
Milton Katims dies (b. 1909). American violist and conductor.
2006 -
Jack Wild dies (b. 1952). British actor.
2007 -
Clem Labine dies (b. 1926). American baseball player.
2007 -
Henri Troyat dies (b. 1911). French writer, dean of the Académie française.
2008 - Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.2008 - Jeff Healey dies (b. 1966). Canadian musician.
Brazil - Tourism Nacional Day.
Angola: Women's Day.
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