1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, was discovered by Captain Cook.
1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York,
George Washington asks his officers not to support the
Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1801 - George Perkins Marsh was born (d. 23 Jul 1882). American
conservationist, whose book Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864) was one of the 19th century's classic influences on geography, ecology, and resource management.
1804 - Promulgación en Francia del Código Civil, llamado Código de Napoleón.
1813 -
John Snow was born (d. 16 Jun 1858 ). English obstetrician who was among the first to use anesthesia, but renowned as a pioneering
epidemiologist. In On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1849), Snow suggested that cholera was a contagious disease easily transmitted by contaminated water.
1815 - Germain Sommeiller was born (d. 11 Jul 1871). French
engineer who built the Mount Cenis (Fréjus) Tunnel (1857-70) in the Alps, the world's first important mountain tunnel, is an 8 miles long double track railway
tunnel through the Alps under Mont Cenis, to
unite Italian Savoy (north of the mountains) through Switzerland with the rest of Italy to the south.
1821 -
Eduard Heine was born (d. 1881). German mathematician.
1838 - Alice Cunningham Fletcher was born (d. 6 Apr 1923). American
anthropologist whose stature as a social scientist, notably for her pioneer study of Indian music, has overshadowed her influence on federal government Indian policies that later were considered to be unfortunate.
1839 - Venezuela y Gran Bretaña firman un tratado sobre la abolición del tráfico de esclavos.
1851 - Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos was born (d. 1925). German-born Portuguese philologist and historian of literature.1851 - Nascimento de Francisco Maria Victor Cordon, explorador do continente africano, que procedeu à ocupação do território entre Quelimane e o Zumbo, em Moçambique .1855 - Sir Charles Vernon Boys was born (d. 30 March 1944). English physicist and inventor of sensitive instruments. He graduated in mining and metallurgy, self-taught in a wide
knowledge of geometrical methods.
1858 - Revolución en Venezuela. El Presidente José Tades Monagas dimite y se pone bajo la protección del cuerpo diplomático.
1858 - Liberty Hyde Bailey was born (d. 25 Dec 1954). American
horticulturist who helped create the science of horticulture, made systematic studies of cultivated plants, and advanced knowledge in hybridization, plant pathology, and agriculture.
1863 - España reconoce la independencia de Honduras.
1864 - Johan Halvorsen was born. Norwegian composer.1873 - En la Guerra de Cuba comienza la batalla de las Guásimas.
1874 -
Eugène Fiset was born (d. 1951). Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
1877 - The first
Test cricket match, between England and Australia.
1882 -
Jim Lightbody was born (d. 1953). American middle-distance runner.
1882 - Júlio Prestes (Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque) was born in Itapeninga, São Paulo (d. 1946). 16th President pf Brazil (1930 - elected, proclaimed but he didn't take the place because of Revolution of 30).1885 - Henrique da Silva Fontes was born (d. 1966). Brazilian politician.1886 -
Sergei Kirov was born († 1886) . Soviet revolucionary.
1892 - José María Reina Barrios comienza su gobierno en la República de Guatemala.
1899 -
George Brent was born (d. 1979). American film actor.
1905 - Cretan revolutionaries announce the re-unification of
Crete with the rest of
Greece.
1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered, founded by Britten Rolls and Royce Johnson. 1907 -
Zarah Leander was born (d. 1981). Swedish actress and singer.
1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote.
1909 -
Selfridges department store opens in London.
1910 -
João Rosa dies (b. 18 Apr 1843). Portuguese actor.
1911 - Afrânio Coutinho was born in Salvador, Baía (d. 4 Aug 2000). Brazilian journalist, essayst and historian.
1912 - Lightnin' Hopkins was born (d. 1982). Ameroican musician.1912 - Yuan Shih-kai succeeded Sun Yat-sen as President of the Republic of China.
1913 -
Lew Wasserman was born (d. 2002). American Hollywood agent and studio executive.
1915 -
Joe E. Ross was born (d. 1982). American actor and comedian.
1916 -
Harry James was born (d. 1983). American musician and band leader.
1916 -
Blas de Otero was born in Bilbao, Vizcaya (d. 1979). Spanish poet.
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. 1918 - Brasil: Rodrigues Alves vence pela segunda vez a eleição presidencial do País mas, vem a morrer o ano seguinte, antes de ter tomado posse.
1920 -
E. Donnall Thomas was born. American
physician who in 1990 was corecipient (with Joseph E. Murray) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in transplanting bone marrow from one person to another - an achievement related to the cure of patients with acute leukemia and other blood cancers or blood diseases.
1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom,
Fuad I becomes
King of Egypt.
1926 - The dictator
Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without competition.
1927 - Stanislaw Kania was born. Polish politician.
1931 - SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.1933 - Fernando Joaquim Carneiro was born (d. 2006). Portuguese journalist.1933 - Roy Clark was born. Country musician.1938 - Just one day after the
Nazi occupation of Austria began,
Sigmund Freud's home in Vienna was taken over by German soldiers who destroyed his private library. Later they would also publicly burn any books of his found in the Vienna public library.
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky dies at 70. Austrian-US composer (African Dance).
1943 - World War II:
Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1944 -
Sly Stone was born. American musician.
1945 -
Mark J. Green was born. Lawyer, author and public official.
1945 - Best of 1944 Oscar Awards. Co-hosts for the big show were actor/director John Cromwell (first half) and actor/comedian Bob Hope (second half). The Oscar for Best Picture went to the musical comedy, Going My Way. Best Director was Leo McCarey, who also wrote (Oscar: Best Writing/Original Story) and produced the Bing Crosby (Best Actor)/Barry Fitzgerald (nominated for Best Actor/winner of Best Supporting Actor). Going My Way also scored an Academy Award for music (James Van Heusen), lyrics (Johnny Burke) for the song Swinging on a Star (a hit for Crosby, as was Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra, also from the film) and Best Writing/Screenplay (Frank Butler, Frank Cavett). Best Actress Oscar was given to Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight and Best Supporting Actress was Ethel Barrymore for None But the Lonely Heart.
1946 -
Bobby Bonds was born (d. 2003). Baseball player.
1951 - O Irão nacionalizou a indústria petrolífera .
1952 - In
Cilaos,
Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1953 - World contact day.
1957 -
Ernst Nobs dies (b. 1886). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
1961 - Ervin Nemeth was born. Hungarian educator, author, translator.1962 -
Arthur Compton was born. American physician, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
1964 - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got married. The couple wed in secret ceremonies in Montreal, Canada.
1965 - Nasser was re-elected Egyptian President.
1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Streisand.
1968 - Jon Schaffer was born. American guitarist (Iced Earth).1968 - Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician.1968 - Sabrina Salerno was born. Italian showgirl.1969 - A violent Chinese-Russian border dispute left hundreds dead.1969 - Gianluca Festa was born. Italian footballer.
1969 - Kim Raver was born. American actress.1970 - The
Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
1972 - The film version of Mario Puzo's
The Godfather novel of the same name, is released in theaters. It went on to be considered one of the greatest films of all time.
1973 - Luís Vidigal was born. Portuguese footballer.1974 - Brazil: General Geisel is elected President / No Brasil, o General Geisel foi eleito presidente após a resignação do Presidente Garastazu Médici.
1975 -
Will.i.am was born. American hip-hop musician.
1976 - Rock group
KISS releases the legendary album Destroyer.
1977 -
Joe Hahn was born. American musician.
1977 -
Hubert Aquin dies (b. 1929). Quebec novelist, political activist and editor.
1980 - Freddie Bynum was born. American baseball player.1981 - Na Síria, mais de 140 reféns a bordo de um avião da Pakistan Airways, seqüestrado pela organização militante Al Zulfiqar, são libertados após 13 dias. Em troca, os paquistaneses libertaram 55 prisioneiros políticos.
1981 -
René Clair dies (b. 1898). French film director.
1982 - Jordan Hastings was born. Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire).1982 - Rafael Pérez was born. Dominican baseball player.1983 - Daryl Murphy was born. Irish footballer.1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields.
1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution.
1984 - Badradine Belloumou was born. French-born football player.1985 - Two decades of military rule in Brazil ended with the installation of a civilian government. Tancredo Neves became ill on the eve of taking his oath and vice president José Sarney assumed as acting president. / Tancredo Neves não pode assumir a Presidencia do Brasil (por enfermidade). O vicepresidente, José Sarney, toma posse como presidente interino.
1985 - Eva Amurri was born. American actress.1985 - James MacLurcan was born. Australian actor.1985 - Kellan Lutz was born. American model and actor.1985 - Tom Chilton was born. British racing driver.1986 - La nave espacial soviética Soyuz T-15 se acopla a la estación orbital Mir.
1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby.
1987 - Taiwan Brown was born. American video jockey.1988 - Wilson Ferreira Aldunate dies. Uruguyan politician.
1988 - Ever Guzman was born. Mexican footballer.1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established. 1990 -
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1990 - The Soviet Union announces that
Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
1990 - El Vaticano y la URSS establecen relaciones oficiales permanentes tras 73 años sin ellas.
1990 -
Farzad Bazoft dies. Iranian-born journalist working for the Observer, hanged as a spy in Iraq.
1991 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the
videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist
Rodney King during an arrest.
1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-
World War II occupying powers (
Frane, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults record during an international meet in San Sebastian, Spain.
1991 - Kie Kitano was born. Japanese actress.1991 -
Bud Freeman dies (b. 1906). American jazz musician.
1992 -
Mary Lou was born. American actress.
1994 - Estados Unidos y Rusia llegan a un acuerdo para permitir la supervisión mutua del desmantelamiento de su armamento nuclear.
1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
1995 - Carlos Menem (hijo del presidente argentino) y el automovilista Silvio Oltra mueren al caer su helicóptero en Ramallo.
1996 - Helen Chadwick dies at 42. British artist.
1997 -
Gail Davis dies (b. 1925). American actress.
1998 - Tim Maia, querido e talentoso cantor e compositor brasileiro, falece aos 55 anos de idade.
1998 -
Benjamin Spock dies in San Diego at 94 (b. 1903). American pediatrician - Olympic gold-medal - and writer who was the author of the 1946
"Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care."
1999 - Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1999 - In Bourbonnais, Illinois, the "City of New Orleans" Amtrak train derailed after hitting a truck loaded with steel. The truck was driven by John Stokes and 11 people were killed and 119 injured.
1999 - In Indonesia the government closed 38 banks, took over 7, and agreed to bail out 9 in an attempt to revitalize the financial system.
1999 - Yehudi Menuhin dies. American conductor.
2000 - Paleontologist Daniel Gebo announced the discovery of bones from 2 tiny primates, the size of a human thumb, that lived 42 million years ago in Shanghuang, China.
2000 - Darrell Keith Rich (45), serial killer, was executed at San Quentin, Ca. His was the 8th execution in the state since the reinstitution of the death penalty.
2001 - Chechen rebels hijacked a Russian plane with 174 people after it left Turkey. They forced a landing in Medina.
In Brazil a Petrobras oil-platform explosion killed 1 worker and left 9 missing at the 40-story offshore facility. The platform was in danger of sinking.
2002 - William Scholl (81), creator of Dr. Scholl's sandal, died on the Isle of Man. The family shoe business was begun by his uncle, an American physician, in 1906.
2002 -
Rudolf Hell,
inventor de los precursores del fax, el escáner y otros ingenios para la transmisión electrónica de textos e imágenes, falleció a los 100 años en Kiel (Alemania).
2003 - Dame
Thora Hird dies (b. 1911). British actress.
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of
90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the
Solar system so far observed.
2004 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Prince, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne and George Harrison along with ZZ Top, Traffic and the Dells.
2004 - The Bill Gates Foundation donated $47 million to private agencies carrying out AIDS prevention programs in India.Links:
India,
AIDS,
Donation 2004 -
John Pople dies (b. 31 Oct 1925). English mathematician and chemist who, (with Walter Kohn), received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational methodology to study the quantum mechanics of molecules, their properties and how they act together in chemical reactions. See
Autobiographical page on Nobel site.
2006 -
Red Storey dies (b. 1918). Canadian football player and ice hockey referee.
2007 -
Bowie Kuhn dies (b. 1926). American commissioner of baseball.
2007 -
Charles Harrelson dies (b. 1938). American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson.
2008 - Mikey Dread dies (b. 1954). Jamaican singer.2008 - Vytautas Kernagis dies (b. 1951). Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)2008 - Ken Reardon dies. Canadian ice hockey player.
International Day Against Police Brutality.
For corporations in the United States that use the calendar year as their
fiscal year, the date on which the corporation must file its corporate income
tax return
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