On this day in History - Mar. 19

• 1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland dies (b. 1163).
• 1263 - Hugh of St Cher dies. French cardinal.
• 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
• 1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China dies (b. 1271).
• 1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland dies (b. 1241).
• 1313 - Execução de Jacques de Molay, Grão-Mestre da Ordem dos Templários, em França.
• 1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent dies executed (b. 1301). English politician.
• 1373 - Peace Treaty of Santarém - Peace agreed between Portugal and Castile and Dona Beatriz and Dona Isabel, daughters of Dom Fernando I are promised in marriage to Don Alfonso and Don Fadrique the illegitimate sons of Henrique II of Castile - Dom Fernando I agrees to defend together with France in the claims of Don Henrique to the throne of Castile.
• 1406 - Ibn Khaldun dies (b. 1332). Arab historian.
• 1413 - King Henry IV of England dies.
• 1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was born (b. 1443). Japanese shogun.
• 1452 - Frederick III became the last Holy Roman emperor to be crowned by a pope, Nicholas V.
• 1488 - Johannes Magnus was born (d. 1544). Last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden.
• 1534 - José de Anchieta was born (d. 1597). Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil / Nascimento do Padre José de Anchieta, em San Cristóbal de La Laguna-Canárias, fundador da cidade de São Paulo, no Brasil. Ficou conhecido como 'O Apóstolo do Brasil'.
• 1560 - In the Conspiracy of Amboise, French Huguenot aristocrats failed to overthrow the Roman Catholic house of Guise.
• 1590 - William Bradford was born (d. 1657). Pilgrim and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
• 1604 - John IV (D. João IV) was born (d. 1656). King of Portugal (1640-56).
• 1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu dies (b. 1556). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1629 - Aleksei M Romanov was born. 1st Romanov tsar of Russia.
• 1637 - Péter Pázmány dies (b. 1570). Hungarian cardinal and statesman.
• 1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide.
• 1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius dies (b. 1577). German classical scholar and theologian.
• 1673 - Pedro Vaz Rego was born. Composer.
• 1683 - Thomas Killigrew dies (b. 1612). English dramatist.
• 1684 - Jean Astruc was born (d. 1766). French physician and scholar.
• 1687 - French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle (b. 1643), searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
• 1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns dies (b. 1665). German organist and composer.
• 1711 - Thomas Ken dies (b. 1637). English bishop and hymn-writer.
• 1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland dies. Scottish royalist.
• 1721 - Em Setúbal, registou-se a entrada de 40 embarcações holandesas para carregar sal.
• 1721 - Tobias Smollett was born (d. 1771). Scottish author.
• 1721 - Pope Clement XI dies (b. 1649).
• 1734 - Thomas McKean was born (d. 1817). American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance was born (d. 1824). Third Consul of France.
• 1742 - Tupac Amaru II was born (d. 1781). Incan revolutionary.
  
• 1749 - Princess Louisa Anne of Wales was born (d. 1768).
• 1752 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia was born (d. 18 Apr 1830). Brazilian composer.
• 1778 - Edward Pakenham was born (d. 1815). British general.
• 1796 - Hugh Palliser dies (b. 1722). British naval officer and administrator.
• 1808 - Carlos IV abdica la corona de España en su hijo Fernando VII.
• 1812 - Las Cortes de Cádiz juran la primera Constitución española.
• 1812 - Juramento da Constituição espanhola em Cádis. Ficará conhecida pela la Pepa.
• 1813 - David Livingstone was born (d. 1873). Missionary and explorer.
• 1818 - Acción de Cancha Rayada, por la independencia de Chile.
• 1821 - Richard Francis Burton was born (d. 1890). British explorer, diplomat and author.
• 1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria was born (d. 1914).
• 1823 - Levantamiento en Veracruz del general Santa Anna contra el emperador Itúrbide.
• 1824 or 1828 - William Allingham was born (d. 1889). Irish author.
• 1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen was born (d. 1901). Danish financier and industrialist.
• 1831 - The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
• 1845 - José Pedro Varela was born in Montevideu (d. 1879). Uruguayan writer and politician.
• 1848 - Wyatt Earp was born (d. 1929). Policeman, gunfighter.
• 1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz was born (d. 1930). German World War I Admiral.
• 1851 - William Henry Stark was born (d. 1936). American business leader.
• 1851 - Nace Roque Sáenz Peña, ideólogo de la ley de voto secreto y obligatorio en Argentina. Presidente da Argentina (1910-1914).
• 1853 - The Taiping reform movement occupied and raised capital Nanjing till 1864.
• 1860 - William Jennings Bryan was born. A Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency (1896, 1900, 1908).
• 1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
• 1861 - Lomer Gouin was born (d. 1929). Quebec politician.
• 1863 - The Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana was destroyed on her maiden voyage. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and adventurer E. Lee Spence.
• 1864 - Charles Marion Russell was born (d. 1926). American artist.
• 1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.
• 1865 - William Morton Wheeler was born (d. 1937). American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology.
• 1871 - Schofield Haigh was born (d. 1921). British cricketer.
• 1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger dies (b. 1795). Austrian mineralogist.
• 1872 - Sergei Diaghilev was born (d. 1929). Russian ballet impresario.
• 1873 - Max Reger was born (d. 1916). German composer.
• 1882 - Colocación de la primera piedra del templo de la Sagrada Familia, en Barcelona, obra cumbre del arquitecto Gaudí.
• 1883 - Joseph Stilwell was born (d. 1946). US general.
• 1883 - Walter Haworth was born (d. 1950). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1888 - Josef Albers was born (d. 1976). German artist.
• 1888 - Léon Scieur was born (d. 1969). Belgian cyclist.
• 1889 - Nasceu o Rei D. Manuel II / Manoel II was born, last king of Portugal(1908-1910).
• 1891 - Earl Warren was born (d. 1974). 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1891 - Georges Seurat dies. Painter.
• 1892 - James Van Fleet was born (d. 1992). American general.
• 1894 - Joe Venuti was born (d. 1978). Jazz musician and violinist.
• 1894 - Moms Mabley was born (d. 1975). American comedian.
• 1898 - João da Cruz e Sousa dies (b. 1861). Brazilian poet.
• 1900 - Frédéric Joliot was born (d. 1958). French physicist and winner of 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
• 1900 - John Bingham dies (b. 1815). American politician and lawyer.
• 1904 - John Sirica was born (d. 1992). American judge.
• 1905 - Rafael María Merchán dies. Cuban writer and politician.
• 1905 - Albert Speer was born (d. 1981). Nazi official.
• 1906 - Adolf Eichmann was born (d. 1962). Nazi official.
• 1909 - Louis Hayward was born (d. 1985). British actor.
• 1909 - Attilio Demaria was born (d. 1990). Argentinian footballer.
• 1910 - Joseph F. Carroll was born (d. 1991). US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
• 1910 - Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia was born (d. 1957). Portuguese painter.
• 1913 - Hernán Siles Zuazo was born. President of Bolivia.
• 1913 - Ocupación de Tetuán por las tropas españolas durante la guerra de Marruecos.
• 1914 - Jay Berwanger was born (d. 2002). American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy.
• 1914 - Leonidas Alaoglu was born (d. 1981). Greek-Canadian mathematician.
• 1914 - Fred Clark was born (d. 1968). American film actor.
• 1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli dies (b. 1850). Italian volcanologist.
• 1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
• 1915 - Robert G. Cole was born (d. 1944). American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division.
• 1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
• 1916 - Eric Christmas was born (d. 2000). British actor.
• 1916 - Irving Wallace was born (d. 1990). American novelist.
• 1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
• 1916 - Vasily Surikov dies (b. 1848). Russian painter.
• 1917 - Dinu Lipatti was born (d. 1950). Romanian pianist.
• 1917 - Laszlo Szabo was born (d. 1998). Hungarian chess player.
• 1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
• 1918 - António de Sommer Champalimaud was born. Portuguese entrepreneur.
• 1919 - Sangrienta represión a indígenas del Gran Chaco.
• 1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 1920 - Józef Pilsudski was named marshal of Poland.
• 1920 - Kjell Aukrust was born (d. 2002). Norwegian author .
• 1920 - Tige Andrews was born (d. 2007). American actor.
• 1921 - Alfredo Zayas is elected President of Cuba.
• 1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train to a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled, three wounded.
• 1921- Tommy Cooper was born. Welsh comedy magician.
• 1922 - Colocación de la primera piedra de la plaza de toros de Madrid.
• 1923 - Pamela Britton was born (d. 1974). American actress.
• 1923 - Henry Morgentaler was born. Canadian gynecologist.
• 1924 - Mary Wimbush was born (d. 2005). British actress.
• 1925 - Brent Scowcroft was born. US National Security Advisor.
• 1927 - Richie Ashburn was born (d. 1997). American baseball player.
• 1928 - Hans Küng was born. Swiss theologian.
• 1928 - Patrick McGoohan was born. American-born actor.
• 1930 - Ornette Coleman was born. Musician.
• 1930 - Arthur Balfour dies (b. 1848). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
• 1931 - The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra played its first concert in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
• 1932 - Gay Brewer was born (d. 2007). American golfer.
• 1933 - Plebiscito do projecto de Constituição Política da República apresentado pelo governo de Salazar e que marcou o início do Estado Novo em Portugal. O projecto mereceu o apoio de 59, 3 % da população, tendo-se 40,2 % abstido.
• 1933 - Philip Roth was born. American author.
• 1933 - Renée Taylor was born. American actress.
• 1934 - La Cámara de Representantes de los EEUU aprueba la concesión de la independencia a las islas Filipinas.
• 1936 - Ursula Andress was born in Berne. Swiss actress (Dr No, She, Sensuous Nurse).
• 1936 - Birthe Wilke was born. Danish singer.
• 1937 - Texas (EEUU): 738 personas muertas por una explosión de gas en una escuela.
• 1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry was born. American musician.
• 1937 - Egon Krenz was born. President of East Germany.
• 1938 - Maria Alves da Silva was born. Portuguese professor.
• 1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines dies (b. c. 1913). Civil rights activist.
• 1939 - Joe Kapp was born. American football star.
• 1939 - José Reinaldo Tavares was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines dies. American civil rights activist.
• 1941 - World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
• 1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is established in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1942 - Richard Dobson was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam dies (b. 1855). American zoologist.
• 1943 - José Legrá was born. Cuban-born boxeur.
• 1943 - Frank Nitti, Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone committed suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
• 1943 - Mario Monti was born, aka "Super Mario". Italian politician.
• 1943 - Mario J. Molina was born. Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1943 - Vern Schuppan was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
• 1944 - Said Musa was born. Prime Minister of Belize.
• 1944 - Sirhan Sirhan was born. Palestinian-born assassin.
• 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
• 1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
• 1945 - Stefanos Kiriakidis was born. Greek actor.
• 1945 - Friedrich Fromm dies (b. 1888). German Nazi official.
• 1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
• 1946 - Bigas Luna was born. Spanish film director.
• 1946 - Paul Atkinson was born (d. 2004). British musician (The Zombies).
• 1946 - Ruth Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 1947 - Marinho Peres was born. Brazilian football player and coach.
• 1947 - Glenn Close was born. American actress.
• 1948 - Hot Club, a jazz club in Lisbon, Portugal, is founded by Luís Villas Boas.
• 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs dies (b. 1875). American author.
• 1950 - Walter Haworth dies (b. 1883). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1952 - Harvey Weinstein was born. American film producer.
• 1952 - Warren Lees was born. New Zealand Test wicket-keeper.
• 1953 - 25th Academy Awards are first televised. "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win.
• 1953 - Billy Sheehan was born. American musician (Mr. Big).
• 1953 - Ricky Wilson was born (d. 1985). American musician (The B-52's).
• 1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
• 1954 - Herman José was born. Portuguese TV personality and humorist.
• 1954 - Indu Shahani was born. Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai.
• 1954 - Willie Mosconi sets the world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, OH. The record still stands as of today.
• 1955 - Bruce Willis was born. American actor .
• 1956 - Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues was born. Minister of Education in Portugal.
• 1956 - Yegor Gaidar was born. Russian politician and economist.
• 1957 - Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia dies (b. 1910). Portuguese painter.
• 1958 - A fire in a loft building in New York, New York kills 24 people.
• 1958 - Em Estrasburgo, realizou-se a primeira reunião do Parlamento Europeu .
• 1958 - Monarch Underwear Company fire.
• 1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
• 1962 - Bob Dylan releases his first, self-titled album.
• 1962 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina, is deposed by militar.
• 1962 - Ivan Calderon was born (d. 2003). Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1962 - Jim Korderas was born. American professional wrestling referee.
• 1963 - Se suscribe la "Cumbre de San José", de la que emana la Declaración de Costa Rica.
• 1964 - Yoko Kanno was born. Japanese composer.
• 1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• 1965 - Chivu Stoica becomes President of the Council of Romanian People's Republic & Nicolae Ceausescu appointed 1st Secretary of Romanian communist party.
• 1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies.
• 1966 - Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
• 1966 - Andy Sinton was born. English footballer.
• 1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright was born. American record producer.
• 1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Mário Soares é preso pela PIDE e deportado posteriormente para a ilha de São Tomé.
• 1969 - Collapse of 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, because of icing.
• 1969 - Connor Trinneer was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Gary Jules was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1971 - Nadja Auermann was born. German supermodel.
• 1971 - Kirsty Williams was born. British politician.
• 1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
• 1973 - Bun B was born. American rapper.
• 1974 - Vida Guerra was born. Cuban-American swimsuit model.
• 1974 - Edward Platt dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1975 - Vivian Hsu was born. Taiwanese singer, actress and model.
• 1975 - Brann Dailor was born. American drummer.
• 1975 - Matthew Richardson was born. Australian Rules footballer.
• 1976 - Alessandro Nesta was born. Italian footballer.
• 1976 - Zach Lind was born. American drummer (Jimmy Eat World).
• 1976 - Andre Miller was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Rachel Blanchard was born in Toronto. Canadian actress (Cher Horowitz-Clueless)
• 1976 - Albert Dieudonné dies (b. 1889). French actor, screenwriter and novelist.
• 1976 - Paul Kossoff dies (b. 1950). British guitarist (Free).
• 1977 - Jorma Taccone was born. American writer and comedian.
• 1977 - Sebastián Alexandre was born. Argentinean cyclist.
• 1978 - UN Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 were passed, calling upon Israel immediately to cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory (Operation Litani), and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
• 1978 - Gaston Julia dies (b. 1893). French mathematician, (Julia Sets).
• 1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• 1979 - Hee-Seop Choi was born. Korean Major League Baseball player
• 1979 - Ivan Ljubičić was born. Croatian tennis player.
• 1979 - Christos Patsatzoglou was born. Greek footballer.
• 1979 - Richard Beckinsale dies (b. 1947). British actor.
• 1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa was born. Japanese singer.
• 1980 - Don Sparrow was born. Canadian illustrator.
• 1980 - Tamara de Lempicka dies (b. 1898). Art deco painter.
• 1981 - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
• 1981 - Kim Rae Won was born. South Korean actor and model.
• 1981 - Kolo Touré was born. Ivorian footballer.
• 1982 - Falklands War: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.
• 1982 - Bradley Jones was born. Australian footballer.
• 1982 - Matt Littler was born. British actor.
• 1982 - Randy Rhoads dies (b. 1956). Guitarist of Quiet Riot.
• 1983 - Ana Rezende was born. Brazilian film director and musician (CSS).
• 1983 - Matt Sydal was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1984 - Tanushree Dutta was born. Indian actress.
• 1985 - Ernesto Viso was born. Venezuelan racing driver.
• 1987 - Following a scandal involving Jessica Hahn, televangelist Jim Bakker resigns from the PTL.
• 1987 - É assinado em Pequim o acordo final para a devolução de Macau à China.
• 1987 - Louis-Victor de Broglie dies (b. 1892). French physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1989 - Egyptian Flag raised on Taba announcing the end of the Israeli Occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Peace negotiations in 1979.
• 1989 - Alan Civil dies (b. 1929). English French horn player.
• 1990 - Andrew Wood dies (b. 1966). American musician (Mother Love Bone).
• 1991 - Ruy Furtado dies (b. 1919). Portuguese actor.
• 1992 - Foi anunciada a separação dos Duques de York.
• 1992 - Guatemala y la CE firman un convenio para desarrollar las telecomunicaciones en Centroamérica.
• 1992 - Cesare Danova dies (b. 1926). American television and film actor.
• 1994 - Irvin Flores dies. Puerto Rican nationalist leader who attacked the US Congress in 1954.
• 1995 - Michael Jordan came out of retirement from the NBA and played the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. He wore jersey number 45 because his number 23 was retired by the Chicago Bulls. The game paved the way for another 3-peat by the Bulls. He scored 19 points in the game.
• 1995 - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election.
• 1995 - Yasuo Yamada dies (b. 1932). Japanese voice actor.
• 1996 - One of the worst fires in the history of the Philippines swept through a Manila. discotheque, killing 159 of the 400 people in the nightclub, which was intended to hold no more than 35.
• 1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage.
• 1997 - Willem de Kooning dies (b. 1904). Dutch-American artist, a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism and Action painting whose series Woman I–VI caused a stir with its violent images and impulsive technique.
• 1999 - Tatum McCann was born. American actress.
• 1999 - Jaime Sabines dies (b. 1926). Mexican poet.
• 1999 - José Agustín Goytisolo dies (suicide) (b. 1928). Spanish poet.
• 1999 - Juanita Reina dies (b. 1925). Spanish singer and actress.
• 1999 - Jaime Sabines dies (b. 1926). Mexican poet.
• 2001 - The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
• 2001 - Charles K. Johnson dies (b. 1924). President of the Flat Earth Society.
• 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
• 2003 - The invasion of Iraq begins (with the time difference, it actually begins on March 20 at 0100 UTC).
• 2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl dies (b. 1926). German illustrator.
• 2003 - Émile Genest dies (b. 1921). French Canadian actor.
• 2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster - A long-distance lorry and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
• 2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
• 2004 - Taiwanese president Chen Shui-ban is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. See 3-19 Shooting Incident.
• 2004 - Mitchell Sharp dies (b. 1911). Canadian politician.
• 2005 - John De Lorean dies (b. 1925). American automobile engineer.
• 2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain.
• 2007 - Prince Abdullah bin Ali was born. Prince of Jordan.
• 2007 - Calvert DeForest dies (b. 1921). American actor.
• 2007 - Luther Ingram dies (b. 1937). R&B soul singer and songwriter.
• 2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed on this day.
• 2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke dies (b. 1917). English science fiction author and inventor.
• 2008 - Raghuvaran dies (b. 1948). Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor.
  
• 2008 - Hugo Claus dies (b. 1929). Belgian writer.
• 2008 - Paul Scofield dies (b. 1922). British actor.
• Roman Catholicism and Church of England - Saint Joseph's Day
• Father's Day in Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Spain, Belgium.