Nothingandall: On this day in History

48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
0138 - Hadrian dies (b. 0076). Roman Emperor.
0649 - Li Shimin dies (b. 0599). Emperor of China.
0988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1086 - Kanute IV (Saint) dies (b. c. 1043). King of Denmark (1080-1086).
1099 - Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) dies (b. 1043). Spanish heroe.
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark dies.
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1217 - 200 navios de cruzados alemães e húngaros entram nos rios Douro e Tejo (Portugal).
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary dies (b. 1262).
1372 - Treaty of Tagilde - John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster, England) makes a claim to the throne of Castile being married to Dona Constanza (daughter of Dom Pedro I of Castile and León), and makes an accord with Dom Fernando I of Portugal against Spain and France / Assinatura do Tratado de Tagilde entre o rei D. Fernando de Portugal e John Gaunt, duque de Lencastre, filho do rei Eduardo III.
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan was born (d. 1471).
1452 - King James III of Scotland was born (d. 1488).
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1460 – Guerra das Rosas – Batalha de Northampton: O Conde de Warwick vence novamente e Henrique VI é feito prisioneiro.
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham dies (b. 1402). English military leader.
1480 - King René I of Naples dies (b. 1410).
1509 - John Calvin was born (d. 1564). French religious reformer.
1517 - Odet de Coligny was born (d.1571). French cardinal and Protestant.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1559 - Henry II of France dies (b. 1519).
1584 - William I of Orange dies assassinated (b. 1533) in Delft by Balthasar Gérard. Dutch leader.
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria dies (b. 1540). Regent of Inner Austria.
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier was born (d. 1660). French historian.
1594 - Paolo Bellasio dies (b. 1554). Italian composer.
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey was born (d. 1686). English royalist statesman.
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy dies (b. 1571). French soldier.
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville was born (d. 1703). French adventurer.
1638 - David Teniers III was born (d. 1685). Flemish painter.
1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
1653 - Gabriel Naudé dies (b. 1600). French librarian and scholar.
1666 - John Ernest Grabe was born (d. 1711). German-born Anglican theologian.
1680 - Louis Moréri dies (b. 1643). French encyclopedist.
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg was born (d. 1719). German Lutheran missionary to India.
1682 - Roger Cotes was born (d. 1719). English mathematician.
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray dies (b. 1610). French historian.
1686 - John Fell dies (b. 1625). English churchman.

1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain was born (d. 1783).

1723 - William Blackstone was born (d. 1780). English jurist.

1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was born (d. 1807).

1776 - Richard Peters dies (b. 1704). English-born clergyman.

1778 - American Revolution : Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.

1792 - George Mifflin Dallas was born (d. 1864). U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States.

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.

1802 – Robert Chambers was born (d. 1871). Scottish author and naturalist.

1804 - Emma Smith was born (d. 1879). Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

1806 - George Stubbs dies (b. 1724). British painter.

1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt was born (d. 1889). German geologist.

1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.

1830 - Camille Pissarro was born (d. 1903). French painter.

1832 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

1832 - Alvan Graham Clark was born (d. 1897). American telescope maker and astronomer.

1834 - James McNeil Whistler was born (d. 1903). American painter.

1835 - Henryk Wieniawski was born (d. 1880). Polish composer.

1839 - Adolphus Busch was born (d. 1913). German-born brewer.

1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.

1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre dies (b. 1787). French inventor and photographer.

1856 - Nikola Tesla was born (d. 1943). Croatian physicist.

1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden was born (d. 1929). Chancellor of Germany.

1871 - Marcel Proust was born (d. 18 Nov 1922). French writer.

1874 - Sergey Konenkov was born (d. 1971). Russian painter.

1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune was born (d. 1955). American educator.

1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai dies (b. 1812). German architect.

1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz was born (d. 1948). German general.

1884 - Paul Morphy dies (b. 1837). American chess player.

1888 - Giorgio Chirico was born (d. 1978). Italian painter.

1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1895 - Carl Orff was born (d. 1982). German composer.

1896 - Thérèse Casgrain was born (d. 1981). French Canadian politician and senator.

1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond" was born (d. 1931). American bootlegger.

1897 - Karl Plagge was born (d. 1957). German officer.

1899 - Heiri Suter was born (d. 1978). Swiss cyclist.

1899 - John Gilbert was born (d. 1936). American actor.

1900 – Mitchell Parish was born (d. 1993). American lyricist.

1900 - Sampson Sievers was born (d. 1979). Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker.

1902 - Kurt Alder was born (d. 1958). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1902 - Nicolás Guillén was born (d. 16 Jul 1989). Cuban poet.

1903 - John Wyndham was born (d. 1969). British author.

1903 - Werner Best was born (d. 1989). German jurist and nazi leader.

1904 - Porfirio Díaz is reelected President of Mexico for more six years.

1905 - Thomas Gomez was born (d. 1971). American actor.

1905 - Wolfram Sievers was born (d. 1948). Nazi physician.

1908 - Phoebe Knapp dies (b. 1839). American hymn writer.

1909 – Donald Sinclair was born (d. 1981). British hotel manager, inspiration for Fawlty Towers.

1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).

1913 - Salvador Espriu was born (d. 1985). Spanish poet.

1914 - Joseph 'Joe' Schuster was born. Canadian-born cartoonist.

1915 - Saul Bellow was born. (d. 2005). Canadian writer.

1915 - Milt Buckner was born (d. 1977). American jazz pianist.

1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard" was born (d. 2007). American television host.

1917 – Hugh Alexander was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.

1920 - David Brinkley was born (d. 2003). American television reporter.

1920 - Owen Chamberlain was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1920 - Jackie Fisher dies (b. 1841). British admiral.

1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born. American activist.

1921 - Harvey Ball was born (d. 2001). American inventor.

1921 - Jake LaMotta was born. American boxer.

1923 – Earl Hamner Jr. was born. American author and television producer.

1923 - G. A. Kulkarni was born (d. 1987). Indian (Marathi) writer.

1923 – Jean Kerr was born. American author.

1923 - John Bradley was born (d. 1994). United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima).

1924 - Bobo Brazil was born (d. 1998). American professional wrestler.

1924 – Johnny Bach was born. American basketball coach.

1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.

1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad was born. Fourth Malaysian Prime Minister.

1925 - Vasco Granja was born (d. 2009). Portuguese TV presenter.

1926 - Fred Gwynne was born (d. 1993). American actor.

1927 - Grigory Barenblatt was born. Russian mathematician.

1927 - Suzanne Cloutier was born (d. 2003). Canadian film actor.

1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso was born (d. 2003). Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer.

1928 - Bernard Buffet was born (d. 1999). French painter.

1928 - Moshe Greenberg was born. American-Israeli Bible scholar.

1929 - Winnie Ewing was born. Scottish politician.

1930 – Bruce Boa was born (d. 2004). Canadian actor.

1931 – Alice Munro was born. Canadian writer.

1931 - Nick Adams was born (d. 1968). American actor.

1932 - Carlo Mario Abate was born. Italian racing driver.

1934 - Jerry Nelson was born. American puppeteer.

1935 - Tura Satana was born. American actress.

1938 – Lee Morgan was born. American hard-bop trumpeter.

1938 - Paul Andreu was born. French architect.

1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.

1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was born (d. 1999). Turkish politician, journalist, and educator

1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.

1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).

1940 - O marechal Petain assina uma nova constituição, o que equivale ao nascimento da III República francesa.

1940 - Helen Donath was born. American soprano.

1940 - Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai was born. British economist.

1940 – Tom Farmer was born. Scottish entrepreneur.

1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

1941 - Alain_Krivine was born. French politician, leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.

1941 - David G. Hartwell was born. American editor and anthologist.

1941 - Ian Whitcomb was born. English songwriter, entertainer and producer.

1941 - Jelly Roll Morton dies (b. 1890). American jazz musician.

1942 - The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established.

1942 - Pyotr Klimuk was born. Belarussian cosmonaut.

1942 - Ronnie James Dio was born. American musician.

1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.

1943 - A Sicília é invadida pelos exércitos aliados.

1943 - Arthur Ashe was born (d. 1993). American tennis player.

1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré was born. French film director.

1945 - John Motson was born. British sports (football) commentator.

1945 - Peter Michalica was born. Slovak violinist.

1945 – Ron Glass was born. American actor.

1945 - Virginia Wade was born. British tennis player.

1946 - Sue Lyon was born. American actress.

1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.

1947 - Arlo Guthrie was born. American musician.

1949 - No Festival Cinematográfico de Knokke (Bélgica), o filme Ladrões de Bicicleta, de Vittorio de Sicca é premiado. O filme é um dos expoentes do neorealismo italiano.

1949 - Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.

1949 - John Whitehead was born. American singer, songwriter, and record producer

1949 – Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.

1950 - Greg Kihn was born. American pop musician and radio personality.

1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos was born. Greek politician.

1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.

1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.

1951 - Cheryl Wheeler was born. American singer and songwriter.

1951 - Phyllis Smith was born. American actress (The Office).

1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva was born. Russian gymnast.

1952 - Kim Mitchell was born. Canadian guitarist/singer.

1952 - Peter van Heemst was born. Dutch politician.

1953 - Rik Emmett was born. Canadian musician (Triumph).

1953 - Zoogz Rift was born. American singer/songwriter and wrestling booker.

1954 - Andre Dawson was born. American baseball player.

1954 - Neil Tennant was born. British musician.

1954 - Calogero Vizzini dies (b. 1877). Sicilian mafioso.

1956 - Joe Giard dies (b. 1898). American baseball player.

1956 - Tom McClintock was born. American politician.

1957 - Cindy Sheehan was born. American anti-war/political activist.

1958 – Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high.

1958 - Alaska was born. Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.

1958 - Béla Fleck was born. American musician.

1958 – Fiona Shaw was born. Irish actress.

1959 - Ellen Kuras was born. American cinematographer.

1959 - Janet Julian was born. American actress.

1961 - Jacky Cheung was born. Hong Kong singer and actor.

1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1963 - Teddy Wakelam dies (b. 1893). English sports broadcaster and rugby union player.

1964 - Urban Meyer was born. American football coach.

1964 - Wilfried Peeters was born. Belgian cyclist.

1965 - Alec Mapa was born. Filipino-American actor and comedian.

1965 - Ken Mellons was born. American singer.

1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark was born.

1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, lead by Martin Luther King, held a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.

1966 - Johnny Grunge was born (d. 2006). American wrestler.

1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.

1967 - Tom Meents was born. American Professional monster truck driver.

1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.

1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka was born. Algerian athlete.

1968 – Jonathan Gilbert was born. American actor.

1969 - Alexandra Hedison was born. American actress.

1969 - Gale Harold was born. American actor.

1969 – Jamie Glover was born. British actor.

1970 – Adam Hills was born. Australian comedian.

1970 - Gary LeVox was born. American singer (Rascal Flatts).

1970 - Helen Sjöholm was born. Swedish singer and actress.

1970 - Jason Orange was born. UK pop singer and dancer (Take That).

1970 - John Simm was born. British actor.

1970 - Augusto Meyer dies (b. 24 Jan 1902). Brazilian journalist, poet and essayst.

1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson dies (b. 1908). Icelandic foreign and later prime minister.

1971 - Adam Foote was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1971 - Gregory Goodridge was born. Barbadian footballer.

1972 - Peter Serafinowicz was born. British comedian and actor.

1972 - Sofia Vergara was born in Barranquilla. Colombian model and actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble

1972 - Tilo Wolff was born. German musician (Lacrimosa).

1972 - Lovie Austin dies (b. 1887). American jazz pianist.

1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.

1974 - O poema "Hino dos Bandeirantes" é instituído como letra oficial do Hino do estado de São Paulo (Brasil).

1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor was born. English actor.

1975 - Alain Nasreddine was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson was born. Icelandic actor.

1976 - The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy. Forty-one containers in Italy carried a highly toxic cargo. The containers came from Seveso in northern Italy, where dioxin had escaped in a tragic accident at a chemicals factory.

1976 - One US and three UK mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1976 - Adrian Grenier was born. American actor.

1976 - Brendon Lade was born. Australian rules footballer.

1976 - Edmílson Gomes was born. Brazilian footballer.

1976 - Elijah Blue Allman was born. American musician (Deadsy).

1976 - Ludovic Giuly was born. French footballer.

1977 – Gwendoline Yeo was born. American actress.

1977 – Schapelle Corby was born. Australian convicted drug smuggler.

1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.

1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

1978 - Jesse Lacey was born. American musician (Brand New).

1978 - John D Rockefeller III dies (b. 1906). American businessman.

1978 - Joe Davis dies (b. 1901). English snooker player.

1979 - Tyrell Godwin was born. American baseball player.

1979 - Mvondo Atangana was born. Cameroon footballer.

1979 - Arthur Fiedler dies (b. 1894). American conductor.

1980 - Adam Petty was born (d. 2000). American race car driver.

1980 - Alejandro Millán was born. Mexican singer and songwriter.

1980 – Han Eun-jeong was born. South Korean actress.

1980 - Jessica Simpson was born. American singer

1980 - Cláudia Leitte was born. Brazilian singer «Babado Novo».

1980 - Orlando Jordan was born. American wrestler.

1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas was born. American actor.

1980 - Francisco Rebolo dies (b. 1902). Brazilian painter.

1981 - Portugal: Criação da Fundação Salvador Caetano.

1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev was born. Bulgarian footballer.

1981 - Ken Rex McElroy dies (b. 1936). American hog rustler.

1982 - Alex Arrowsmith was born. American musician..

1982 - Sebastian Mila was born. Polish footballer.

1983 - Kim Hee Chul was born. Korean musician (Super Junior).

1983 – Matthew Egan was born. Australian rules footballer.

1983 - Estrellita Castro dies (b. 1908). Spanish singer and actress.

1984 – Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia was born. Miss World 2004.

1984 - Mark González was born. Chilean football player.

1985 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbor by French DGSE agents.

1985 - After a storm of controversy surrounding a change in its cola's formula (see New Coke), Coca-Cola re-introduces the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic".

1985 – B.J. Crombeen was born. American ice hockey player.

1985 – Mario Gómez was born. German footballer.

1987 - John Hammond dies (b. 1910). American record producer.

1989 - Mel Blanc dies in Los Angeles (b. 1908). American voice actor : the "man of a thousand voices", including such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.

1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.

1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.

1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1993 - Sam Rolfe dies (b. 1924). American screenwriter.

1994 - Leonid Kuchma won the second round of Ukrainian_presidential_election and Alexander Lukashenko won with around 80 per cent of the vote the first Bielorussian Presidential elections.

1995 - Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest.

1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1997 - Spain: Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

1998 - The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in St. Louis, Missouri after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984.

1998 - Roman Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

1999 - United States women's national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women's World Cup in Pasadena,California at The Rose Bowl.

2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.

2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas dies (b. 1915). French politician.

2000 - Justin Pierce dies (b. 1975). English-American actor and skateboarder.

2000 - Vakkom Majeed dies (b. 1909). Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member.

2001 - Um júri norte-americano condena à prisão perpétua o terrorista islâmico Jalfan Jamis Mohamed, autor do atentado contra a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos na Tanzânia, no qual morreram 11 pessoas.

2001 - Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja dies. President of San Salvador (1982-1984).

2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté dies (b. 1926). French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, crashed by a container truck and fell from the flyover of Tuen Mun Road, into the valley under it. 21 people (including the driver) were killed in this accident. This is the largest number of deaths by bus crashes in Hong Kong.

2003 - Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.

2003 - Winston Graham dies (b.1908). English writer.

2003 - Hartley Shawcross dies (b. 1902). British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

2003 - Bishnu Maden dies. Nepalese politician.

2004 - Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo dies (b. 1930). Portuguese politician, first woman in to be Prime-Minister in Portugal/ Morre Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, política portuguesa, primeira mulher a ocupar o lugar de primeiro-ministro no país (n. 1930).

2005 - UK Police Defend Birmingham Evacuation- Only days after deadly bomb attacks in London, some 20,000 people were evacuated from Birmingham overnight Saturday as police reacted to a "credible threat" to the central English city.

2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.

2005 - A.J. Quinnell dies (b. 1940). English writer.~

2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce dies (b. 1955). American radio performer.

2005 - Freddy Soto dies (b. 1970). American comedian and actor.

2005 - Jimmy Franklin (b. 1948) and Bobby Younkin dies during an airshow performance. American aerobatics and air show pilots.

2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

2006 - Shamil Basayev dies (b. 1965). Chechen rebel.

2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi dies (b. 1951). Radical Pakistani cleric.

2007 - Doug Marlette dies (b. 1949). American cartoonist.

2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu dies (b. 1944). Director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China.

2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

2008 - Hiroaki Aoki dies (b. 1938). Founder of Benihana.