On this day in History - Jun 29

• 0067 - St. Peter dies crucified. Apostle and and 1st Bishop of Rome.
• 0512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony dies.
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark dies (b. 1218).
• 1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned.
• 1315 - Ramon Llull dies (b. 1235). Spanish philosopher.
• 1397 - John II of Aragon was born (d. 1479).
• 1444 - An Ottoman invasion force is defeated by Skanderbeg at Torvioll.
• 1482 - Maria of Aragon was born (d. 1517). Queen of Portugal.
• 1509 - Margaret Beaufort dies (b. 1443). Mother of Henry VII of England.
  
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens was born (d. 1585). Flemish physician.
• 1529 - Emperor Karel V and Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1540 - Thomas Cromwell was sentenced to death. English ex-chancellor.
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan was born (d. 1680).
• 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
• 1620 - John Aerts dies. Flemish sculptor.
• 1641 - Portugal assinou com a Suécia o Tratado de Estocolmo.
• 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1725 - Arai Hakuseki dies (b. 1657). Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer.
• 1744 - André Campra dies (b. 1660). French composer.
• 1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe was born (d. 1818). German writer, linguist and educator.
• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1764 - Ralph Allen dies (b. 1693). English businessman and politician.
• 1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts.
• 1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
• 1779 - Anton Raphael Mengs dies. Painter.
• 1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi was born (d. 1837). Italian poet.
• 1801 - Pietro Alfieri was born. Italian composer.
• 1803 - John Newton Brown was born (d. 1868). American publisher.
• 1837 - William IV dies. King of England.
• 1847 - Assinatura da Convenção do Gramido que põe fim à guerra civil da Patuleia, firmando a derrota das forças revoltosas da junta do Porto, compostas por uma aliança de setembristas, miguelistas e dissidentes cartistas, e consagrando a vitória do governo cartista do marechal Saldanha.
• 1849 - John Hunn was born (d. 1926). American businessman.
• 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1852 - Juan de Dios Peza was born. Mexican writer.
• 1852 - Henry Clay dies (b. 1777). U.S. Senator.
• 1855 - John Gorrie dies (b. 1802). American scientist.
• 1858 - Julia Clifford Lathrop was born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1932). American social worker, head of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1912-1921).
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals was born (d. 1928). American army engineer (Chief Engineer of Panama Canal).
• 1861 - Dr. William Mayo was born (d. 1939). American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic.
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies (b. 1806). English poet.
• 1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general.
• 1863 - Wilbert Robinson was born (d. 1934). American baseball player and hall-of-famer.
  
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi was born (d. 1986). Japanese supercentenarian.
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian statesman.
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale was born (d. 1938). American astronomer.
• 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt dies (b. 1824). Bengali poet.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria dies (b. 1793).
• 1878 - Teixeira de Vasconcellos dies (b. 1 Nov 1816). Portuguese writer and journalist.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
  
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck was born (d. 1944). German general.
• 1881 - Chuchle battle, a student brawl fought in a Chuchle restaurant resulting in several wounds, a swatch of Czech and German chauvinism in the late 19th century.
• 1881 - Curt Sachs was born (d. 1959). German musicologist.
• 1881 - Harry Frazee was born (d. 1929). Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923.
• 1886 - Robert Schuman was born (d. 1963). French politician.
• 1886 - James Van Der Zee was born (d. 1983). American photographer.
• 1886 - Robert Schuman was born (d. 1963). French Prime-Minister.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 1888 - Realizada a primeira operação ao apêndice, pelo cirurgião inglês Frederik Treves.
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane was born (d. 1961). Scottish golfer, US Open winner 1925.
• 1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was born. World's oldest woman.
• 1890 - Constituição da primeira Federación de Trabajadores de la República Argentina.
• 1890 - Afonso Schmidt was born in Cubatão, São Paulo (d. 3 Apr 1964). Brazilian poet and journalist (Janelas Abertas - 1912).
• 1891 - National Forest Service is organized.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
• 1893 - Aarre Merikanto was born (d. 1958). Finnish composer.
• 1893 - Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born (d. 1972). Indian scientist and statistician.
• 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1895 - Floriano Peixoto (Marechal Floriano) dies. President of Brazil (1891-1894).
• 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley dies (b. 1825). English scientist.
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier was born (d. 2001). French Canadian journalist.
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born (d. 1944). French pilot and writer.
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin dies (b. 1900). Russian mathematician.
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy was born (d. 1967). American singer and actor.
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein was born (d. 1942). English electronics engineer.
• 1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet and publisher (La lenta libertad).
• 1905 - Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky was born (d. 1945). Russian general.
• 1906 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet.
• 1906 - Albert Sorel dies (b. 13 Ago 1842). French historian.
• 1908 - Leroy Anderson was born (d. 1975). American composer.
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead was born (d. 1993). American baseball player.
• 1910 - Frank Loesser was born (d. 1969). American composer.
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was born (d. 2004).
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann was born (d. 1975). American film composer.
• 1911 - Eudóxio César Azedo Gneco dies (b. 1849). Portuguese journalist, founder of Portuguese Socialist Party on 10 Jan 1875.
• 1912 - Émile Peynaud was born (d. 2004). French oenologist.
• 1912 - John Toland was born (d. 2004). American historian.
• 1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War. Bulgaria defeated Greek and Serbian troops.
• 1914 - Portugal: A Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes é reconhecida como instituição de utilidade pública.
• 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos was born (d. 1976). Greek mathematician.
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík was born (d. 1996). Czech conductor.
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
• 1918 - Vitorino Magalhães Godinho was born. Portuguese historian and professor.
• 1919 - Lloyd Richards was born (d. 2006). American director.
• 1919 - Slim Pickens [Louis Bert Lindley Jr.], was born (d. 8 Dec 1983). American actor, cowboy. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harm’s Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer.
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández dies (b. 1864). Venezuelan physician.
• 1920 - O Madrid Foot Ball Club ganha o título de 'Real' do rei Alfonso XIII.
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen was born. American filmmaker.
• 1921 - Reinhard Mohn was born. Publisher.
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard was born (d.2000). French writer.
• 1921 - Otto Seeck dies (b. 1850). German classical historian.
• 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• 1922 - Vasko Popa was born (d. 1991). Yugoslavian poet.
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung was born. Chinese-American composer.
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman was born. American composer.
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's was born (d. 2006). Italian singer.
• 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
• 1925 – Cara Williams was born. American actress
• 1925 – Chan Parker was born (d. 1999). American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods.
  
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano was born. Italian politician.
• 1925 - Hale Smith was born. American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor.
• 1925 - Cara Williams was born. American actress.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was born (d. 2006). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
• 1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
• 1928 - Ian Bannen was born (d. 1999). Scottish actor.
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro was born (d. 2005). Indonesia Finance Minister.
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci was born (d. 2006). Italian journalist and author.
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown was born. American actress.
• 1930 - Viola Léger was born. Acadian-Canadian actress.
• 1930 - Robert Evans was born. American film producer and actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown).
• 1931 - Ed Gilbert was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin dies (b. 1850). Quebec poet.
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton was born. British Law Lord.
• 1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1933 - Bob Shaw was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 - John Bradshaw was born. American theologian.
• 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle dies (b. 1887). American actor.
• 1934 - Corey Allen was born. American filmmaker and actor.
• 1935 - Katsuya Nomura was born. Japanese baseball player and manager.
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill dies (b. 1873). American baseball player.
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew was born. American baseball player.
• 1936 - Henrique Viana was born in Lisbon. Portuguese actor and comedian.
• 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1938 - Acácio de Almeida was born at Souto, Portugal. Cinematographer. Founder of production company "Inforfilmes".
• 1939 - Alan Connolly was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1939 - Lo Lieh was born (d. 2002). Hong Kong martial arts actor.
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov was born. Russian composer.
• 1940 - Paul Klee dies (b. 1879). Swiss artist.
• 1941 - John Boccabella ws born. American baseball player.
• 1941 - Stokely Carmichael was born (d. 1998). Black Panther member.
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski dies (b. 1860). Polish pianist and composer.
• 1941 - Kwame Ture (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), was born. Civil rights activist.
• 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres.
• 1942 - Mike Willesee was born. Australian television presenter.
• 1942 - Tristão da Cunha (José Maria Leitão da Cunha, Fº.) dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 13 Mar 1878). Brazilian poet and writer (Torre de Marfim 1901).
• 1943 - Little Eva was born (d. 2003). American singer.
• 1944 - Gary Busey was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley was born. Current Archbishop of Boston.
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga was born. President of Sri Lanka.
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg was born (d. 2004). Swiss fashion designer.
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares was born. President of Panama from 1994 to 1999.
• 1947 - Michael Carter was born. British actor.
• 1947 - Richard Lewis was born. American comedian.
• 1948 - Ian Paice was born. English drummer (Deep Purple).
• 1949 - Ann Veneman was born. 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu was born. Current mayor of Barcelona.
• 1950 - In football (soccer), United States defeats England 1-0 in the Football World Cup.
• 1950 -António Francisco da Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1885). Brazilian poet (Sangue -1908).
• 1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, is ordained as a priest.
• 1951 - Don Rosa was born. American illustrator Donald Duck.
• 1952 - Joe Johnson was born. English snooker player.
• 1953 - Colin Hay was born. Scottish-Auistralian guitarist and singer.
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt was born. American baseball player.
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt was born. Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program.
• 1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan was born. American activist.
• 1956 - Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in a London ceremony.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1956 - Charles Dumas cleared the high jump, which was set at 7’ 1/2", at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Dumas became the first athlete to break the seven-foot barrier.
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero was born. Baseball player.
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes was born. Prime Minister of Portugal.
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She raised in Venezuela. After she was crowned Miss Teenager of the World, (1971) and Miss Venezuela, (1975), - 6th in Miss World 1975- she became a popular actress and singer (Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson, One of the Boys).
• 1957 - Michael Nutter was born. American politician.
• 1957 - Robert Forster was born. Australian musician.
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood was born. American actor, broadcaster and singer.
• 1958 - Rosa Mota was born. Olympics: 1984 bronze Marathon, 1988 Gold Marathon. Worlds: 1987 Gold Marathon. European: 1982, 1986 & 1990 Gold Marathon. Nascimento da grande atleta portuguesa, Rosa Mota, uma das maiores figuras do desporto português de todos os tempos.
• 1958 - Brazil finally win their first world champion7ship with a 5-2 victory against hosts Sweden in Stockholm. Vava and Pele score a brace each with Zagallo - who went on to coach Brazil to victory in the 1970 finals - scoring the other / O Brasil conquista o seu primeiro Campeonato do Mundo de futebol ao bater na final a Suécia em Estocolmo por 5-2 ( COPA 1958, na Suécia).
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh dies (b. 1865). English painter.
• 1960 - Frank Patrick dies (b. 1885). Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• 1961 - Se inaugura el Estadio San Martín de Porras, propiedad de Sporting Cristal de Lima, Perú.
• 1961 - Greg Hetson was born. American punk-rock guitarist.
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown was born. Emmy Award-nominated American actress.
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe was born. British actress.
• 1962 - George Zamka was born. American astronaut.
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter was born. German violinist.
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri was born. German mistaken for a suspected terrorist.
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy dies (b. 1928). American jazz musician.
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson was born. British singer.
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen was born. American musician.
• 1966 - John Part was born. Canadian darts player.
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio was born. Japanese manga artist.
• 1967 - Jeff Burton was born. American auto racer.
• 1967 - Melora Hardin was born. American actress, singer.
• 1967 - Murray Foster was born. Canadian musician.
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield dies (b. 1933). American actress.
• 1967 - Primo Carnera dies (b. 1906). Italian boxer.
• 1967 - José Leitão de Barros dies (b. 1896). Portuguese film director.
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Claude Béchard was born. Quebec politician.
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Toru Hashimoto was born. Japanese politician.
• 1969 - Moise Thsombe dies (b. 1919). Premier of Congo.
• 1969 - Shorty Long dies (b. 1940). American singer.
• 1970 - Premiere of "A party for Boris". In Hamburg Thomas Bernhard’s first play premiered.
• 1970 - Emily Skinner was born. American actress and singer.
• 1970 - Mike Vallely was born. American skateboarder and singer (Revolution Mother).
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton was born. English snooker player.
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1971 - Matthew Good was born. Canadian rock musician and activist.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi was born. Lebanese singer.
• 1972 - Samantha Smith was born. American social activist and child actress.
• 1973 - George Hincapie was born. American cyclist.
• 1973 - Germán Valdés dies (b. 1915). Mexican actor.
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1974 - Ferreira de Castro dies (b. 1898). Portuguese writer /Morreu o escritor português Ferreira de Castro (n. 24 Mai 1898). Emigrantes (1928 ). A Selva (1930), Eternidade (1932),Terra Fria (1934), Tempestade (1940).
• 1975 - Danton Mello (Danton Figueiredo Melo) was born in Passos, Minas Gerais. Brazilian actor.
• 1975 - Independiente se proclama campeón de Copa Libertadores por cuarta vez consecutiva. Lo hace venciendo a Unión Española de Chile, por 2 a 0, en el estadio Defensores del Chaco en Asunción, Paraguay.
• 1975 - Dionisio Ridruejo dies (b. 12 Out 1912). Spanish poet.
• 1975 - Tim Buckley dies (b. 1947). American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 - Bret McKenzie was born. New Zealand musician.
• 1976 - Sandhya Chib was born. Miss Universe-India (1996).
• 1977 – DealZ was born. American singer.
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld was born. Russian-born poet.
• 1977 - Zuleikha Robinson was born. English actress.
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu dies (b. 1895). Consort of King Carol II of Romania.
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger was born. American singer, dancer and actress.
• 1978 - Sam Farrar was born. American bassist.
• 1978 - Bob Crane dies murdered (b. 1928). American actor.
• 1979 - Abs Breen was born. English singer.
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu was born (d. 2007). Turkish singer and actor.
• 1979 - Liliana Castro wqas born. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1979 - Matthew Bode was born. Australian rules football player.
• 1979 - Lowell George dies (b. 1945). American musician.
• 1980 - James Courtney was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins was born. Welsh soprano.
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr was born. American race car driver.
• 1980 - Mel Peachey was born. British television personality.
• 1981 - Joe Johnson was born. American basketball player.
• 1981 - Maria Maya was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich was born (d. 2005). Argentine racing driver.
• 1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti dies murdered. Iran ayatollah, politician.
• 1982 - Andrea Butjko was born. Hungarian porn star.
• 1982 - Henry King dies (b. 1886). American film director.
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain dies (b. 1914). French fashion designer.
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres was born. American singer (Danity Kane).
• 1984 – Christopher Egan was born. Australian actor.
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock was born. American drummer
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye was born. South Korean actress and model.
• 1985 - Quintin Demps was born. American football player.
• 1986 - In Mexico City Argentina wins the Football World Cup defeating Germany 3-2. This was the second world title for Argentine. Inspired by an outstanding Diego Maradona, the South Americans race into a 2-0 lead by halftime, but Germany claw their way back into the match to draw level 2-2 through Rudi Voeller's 82nd minute strike. Jorge Burrachaga scores just three minutes later though to give Argentina their second world championship.
• 1986 - Austin Drage was born. English singer.
• 1986 - Iya Villania was born. Filipina actress.
• 1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England.
• 1987 – Ana Free was born. Portuguese singer/songwriter.
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou was born. Japanese actor.
• 1988 - Éver Banega was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1990 - Irving Wallace dies (b. 1916). American author and screenwriter (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac).
• 1992 - Adam G. Sevani was born. American actor.
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf dies assassinated (b. 1919). Algerian president.
• 1993 - George Sampson was born. English dancer.
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe dies (b. 1946). Puerto Rican salsa music singer.
• 1994 - Saaed Owairan scores one of the best goals in World Cup history. The Saudi Arabian striker gets the ball in his own half in the fifth minute, beats half the Belgian side before slotting home. The Middle East side holds on to a historic 1-0 victory.
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn dies (b. 1908). German conductor.
• 1994 - Ray Crane dies. Trumpeter.
• 1995 - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time).
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 1995 - Lana Turner dies (b. 1921). American actress. ("A successful man is one who make more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man").
• 1997 - William Hickey was born (d. 1927). American actor.
• 1998 - Horst Jankowski was born (d. 1936). German pianist.
• 1999 - Allan Carr dies (b. 1937). American film producer, writer.
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman dies (b. 1922). Italian actor.
• 2002 - Hakan Sukur becomes the scorer of the fastest goal at the World Cup finals. The Turkish striker finds the net 11 seconds into the Third Place playoff against South Korea. His side win the match 3-2 and sensationally finish in third place.
• 2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl dies (b. 1931). Computer scientist.
• 2002 - Rosemary Clooney dies (b. 1928). American singer and actress.
• 2002 - François Périer dies (b. 1919). French actor.
• 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago.
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn dies (b. 1907). American actress.
• 2004 - José Durão Barroso é oficialmente indicado para presidir à Comissão Europeia.
• 2004 - A UN helicopter crashed in Sierra Leone and all 24 aboard were killed.
• 2004 - Yara Lins dies (b. 1930). Brazilian actress.
• 2004 - Bernard Babior dies (b. 1935). American biochemist.
• 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
• 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2006 - Randy Walker dies (b. 1954). American football coach.
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky dies (b. 1959).Argentinean film director.
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards dies (b. 1919). American actor and director.
• 2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.
• 2007 - Edward Yang dies (b. 1947). Taiwanese film director.
• 2007 - Joel Siegel dies (b. 1943). American film critic.
• 2008 - Don S. Davis dies (b. 1942). American actor and artist.
  
• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints). O S. Pedro é uma festa popular também festejada em muitas localidades portuguesas. É famosa a festa de S. Pedro da Afurada, pequena povoação piscatória situada na foz e margem esquerda do rio Douro, em frente à cidade do Porto, Portugal.
• Seychelles - Independence Day.
  
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - l-Imnarja.
  
• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers.
• Brasil - Dia do Pescador (Recanto do Pescador).
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal de Bombarral.