On this day in History - July 28

• 0450 - Theodosius II dies (b. 0401). Emperor of the East (408–50), son and successor of Arcadius.
• 1057 - Pope Victor II dies (b. 1018).
• 1128 - William Clito was born (d. 1102). Count of Flanders.
• 1148 - Crusaders outside of Damascus retreat - end of the 2nd Crusade.
• 1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi was born. Muslim mystic, philosopher.
• 1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria dies (b. 1176).
• 1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia dies. Consort of Leo III of Armenia.
• 1330 - Serbians defeat Bulgarians, and kill Czar Michael Sisman of Bulgaria.
• 1347 - Margherita of Durazzo was born (d. 1412). Queen of Naples.
• 1458 - Jacopo Sannazaro was born. Italian poet (Arcadia).
• 1480 - Turks make a sneak attack on Rhodes.
• 1491 - Henry VIII, was born. King of England.
• 1493 - Great fire in Moscow.
• 1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas dies. Spanish conquistador.
• 1540 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
• 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex dies (b. 1495). English statesman.
• 1565 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, orders her heralds to publish that Lord Darnley is to be "named and styled King".
• 1576 - Frobisher's expedition reaches Labrador.
• 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
• 1588 - English fireships burn the Spanish Armada.
• 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
• 1611 - Surrender of Kalmar Castle, Sweden.
• 1615 - Champlain discovers Lake Huron.
• 1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis dies (b. 1569). Spanish dramatist.
• 1637 - Riot in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in protest against the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
• 1650 - Cromwell reaches Edinburgh.
• 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac dies (b. 1619). French poet.
• 1659 - Charles Ancillon was born (d. 1715). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1667 - Abraham Cowley dies (b. 1618). English poet. Abraham Cowley -"that incomparable poet and virtuous man" to John Evelyn- dies in Chertsey, Surrey, at 48, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
• 1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke dies (b. 1605). English lawyer.
• 1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington dies (b. 1618). English statesman.
• 1718 - Etienne Baluze dies (b. 1630). French scholar.
• 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi dies (b. 1678). Italian composer.
• 1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr. was born (d. 1809). American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1750 - Philipe Fabre d'Églantine was born in Carcassonne, France (d. 5 Apr 1794). French political dramatist, satirist and prominent figure in the French Revolution. First an actor, he will later become a poet, best known for his song, "Il pleut, il pleut, bergere," still sung by French children today.
• 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach dies (b. 21 Mar 1685). German composer.
• 1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe dies (b. 1691). English politician.
• 1787 - Pedro Vélez was born. President of Mexico.
• 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre dies guillotined (b. 1758). French Revolutionary leader.
• 1794 - Louis de Saint-Just dies (b. 1867). French Revolutionary leader.
• 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
• 1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer was born (d. 1859). Austrian musician.
• 1802 - Giuseppe Sarti dies (b. 1729). Italian composer.
• 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach was born (d. 1872). German philosopher.
• 1809 - Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera - Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
• 1813 - Alberto Mazzucato was born in Udine (d. 31 Dec 1877). Italian composer.
• 1814 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, already married to the former Harriet Westbrook, elopes to France with Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin). (Harriet's suicide in 1816 will free him to wed Mary).
• 1815 - Stefan Dunjov was born (d. 1889). Banat Bulgarian military figure.
• 1817 - Jane Austen dies (b. 1775). British novelist.
• 1818 - Gaspard Monge dies ( born 9 May 1746). French mathematician.
• 1821 - Peru: Jose de San Martin declares independence from Spain.
• 1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier dies (b. 1768). French marshal.
• 1842 - Clemens Brentano dies (b. 1778). German poet.
• 1844 - Joseph Bonaparte dies (b. 1768). Older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain.
• 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex (d. 1889). English poet ("The Wreck of the Deutschland").
• 1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia dies (b. 1798)
• 1851 - Manuel Querino was born (d. 1923). Brazilian historian.
• 1857 - Ballington Booth was born (d. 1940). Co-founder of Volunteers of America
• 1860 - Elias M. Ammons was born (d. 1925). Governor of Colorado.
• 1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia was born (d. 1922).
• 1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was born (d. 1919). Russian general.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church begins - Confederate troops led by General John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General William T. Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
• 1866 - Beatrix Potter was born (d. 1943). English author, Children's writer and illustrator. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
• 1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine was born (d. 1951). American-born astronomer.
• 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
• 1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně dies (b. 1787). Czech anatomist.
• 1872 - Albert Sarraut was born (d. 1962). French politician.
• 1873 - The Japanese government implements land and tax reform as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
• 1874 - Ernst Cassirer was born (d. 1945). German philosopher.
• 1878 - Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigaoka peak, and he names the mountain the Japanese Alps, a name that eventually spreads to the entire mountain range.
• 1878 - George Law Curry dies (b. 1820). American newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon.
• 1881 - American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore.
• 1887 - Marcel Duchamp was born (d. 1968). French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase).
• 1891 - Joe E. (Evan) Brown was born. Comedian, actor: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• 1895 - Edward Beecher dies (b. 1803). American theologian.
• 1896 - The City of Miami is incorporated.
• 1896 - Barbara La Marr was born (d. 1926). American actress.
• 1898 - Lawrence Gray was born (d. 1970). American actor.
• 1900 - Catherine Dale Owen was born (d. 1959). American actress.
• 1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons was born (d. 1979). American baseball player.
• 1901 - Rudy Vallee was born (d. 1986). American entertainer and singer (My Time is Your Time)
• 1902 - Karl Popper was born (†17 Sep 1994). Austrian-born British philosopher.
• 1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was born (d. 1990). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1904 - Fundação do Club Ferro Carril Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1907 - Dolf Sternberger was born (d. 1989). Publicist.
• 1907 - Earl S. Tupper was born in New Hampshire (d. 5 Oct 1983). American inventor (Tupperware).
• 1909 - Malcolm Lowry was born (d. 1957). English novelist and poet (Under the Volcano).
• 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
• 1914 - Carmen Dragon was born (d. 1984). American composer.
• 1914 - Woody Strode was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1915 - Charles Townes was born. Americn physicist, Nobel Prize joint winner with the Soviet physicists Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Nikolay G. Basov of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964 for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser laureate.
• 1915 - Frankie Yankovic was born (d. 1998). "Polka King". American Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion: Just Because.
• 1916 - David Brown was born. American film producer.
• 1919 - Epitácio Pessoa toma posse da presidência da República do Brasil.
• 1920 - Andrew V. McLaglen was born. Movie director.
• 1920 - Nasce em Lisboa, na Madragoa, Sidónio Muralha (m. 1982). Poeta português um dos precursores do neo-realismo português. É considerado um dos maiores poetas para crianças da língua portuguesa.
• 1922 - Jacques Piccard was born. Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer.
• 1924 - C.T. Vivian was born. American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist.
• 1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg was born. American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. Co-winner (with D. Carleton Gajdusek) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976, for their work on the origins and spread of infectious viral.
• 1925 - Camilo de Augusto Correia was born in Porto. Portuguese writer.
  
• 1926 - Charlie Biddle was born (d. 2003), American-born Quebec jazz bassist.
• 1927 - John Ashbery was born. American poet.
• 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [Jacqueline Lee Bouvier] was born (d. 1994). American wife of 35th U. S. Presidennt John F. Kennedy ; wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing).
• 1929 - Itamar Franco was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1930 - Jean Roba was born (d. 2006). Belgian comics author.
• 1930 - Junior Kimbrough was born (d. 1998). American bluesman.
• 1930 - Ramsey Withers was born. Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada.
• 1930 - Allvar Gullstrand dies (b. 1862). Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate.
• 1931 - Darryl Hickman was born. Actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis).
• 1932 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC.
• 1933 - The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain were established.
• 1933 - Charlie Hodge was born. French Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
• 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise was born. American dancer and choreographer.
• 1934 - Marie Dressler dies (b. 1868). Canadian actress.
• 1935 - Simon Dee was born. British television broadcaster.
• 1936 - Russ Jackson was born. Canadian football player.
• 1936 - Garfield Sobers was born. Barbadian West Indies cricketer.
• 1936 - Morte do padre espanhol Pedro Poveda Castroverde - (canonizado em 04 Mai 2003).
• 1937 - Peter Duchin was born. American pianist and bandleader.
• 1937 - Francis Veber was born. French film director and screenwriter.
• 1938 - Alberto Fujimori was born. President of Peru.
• 1938 - Chuan Leekpai was born. Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand.
• 1938 - Morte de Lampião (Capitão Virgolino Ferreira) (b. 1898), conhecido como 'O Rei do Cangaço' e de Maria Bonita (b. 1911).
• 1940 - Philip Proctor was born. American comedian.
• 1941 - Riccardo Muti was born in Naples. Italian conductor.
• 1941 - Susan Roces was born. Filipino actress.
• 1942 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
• 1942 - Marty Brennaman was born. American sportscaster.
• 1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie dies (b. 1853). English egyptologist.
• 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
• 1943 - Bill Bradley was born. Basketball player and U.S. Senator.
• 1943 - Mike Bloomfield was born (d. 1981). American musician.
• 1943 - Richard Wright was born. English musician (Pink Floyd).
• 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
• 1945 - Jim Davis was born. American cartoonist who was the "Garfield" creator.
• 1945 - José Luis Bustamante y Rivero asume la presidencia del Perú.
• 1946 - Fahmida Riaz was born. Pakistani writer and feminist.
• 1946 - Linda Kelsey was born. American actress (Lou Grant, Day by Day).
• 1946 - Jonathan Edwards was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1947 - Barbara Ferrell was born. U.S. National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic medalist: silver: 100 meter dash, gold: 4x100 meter relay [1968]; gold medalist: Pan American Games: 100 meters [1967]; tied world record twice: 100 meters [11.1 seconds [1967]).
• 1948 - Gerald Casale was born. American musician and director (founding member of Devo).
• 1948 - Georgia Engel was born. American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Coach).
• 1948 - Sally Struthers was born. American Emmy Award-winning actress (All in the Family [1971-72, 1978] and promoter of the Christian Children's Fund.
• 1948 - O Congresso da FIFA realizado em Londres, designa o Brasil como sede do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 1950.
• 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took was born (d. 1980). English singer.
• 1949 - Vida Blue was born. American baseball player.
• 1949 - Peter Doyle was born (d. 2001). Australian singer (The New Seekers: I'd like to Teach the World to Sing, Look What They've Done to My Song Ma).
• 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took was born (d. 1980). Singer and songwriter.
• 1950 - Manuel A. Odría becomes Constitutional President of the Republic of Peru.
• 1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari was born. Iranian poet.
• 1951 - The Walt Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, was released by RKO Pictures.
• 1951 - Santiago Calatrava was born in Valencia. Spanish well-known architect who has designed the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
• 1951 - Anthony A. Williams was born. Mayor of Washington, D.C.
• 1951 - Santiago Calatrava was born. Spanish architect.
• 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano was born. Japanese artist.
• 1952 - Vajiralongkorn was born. Crown Prince of Thailand
• 1953 - Guilherme Arantes was born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1954 - Bruce Abbott was born. American actor
• 1954 - Gerd Faltings was born. German mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal, the highest honour that a young mathematician can receive, in 1986, primarily for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture which he achieved using methods of arithmetic algebraic geometry.
• 1954 - Hugo Chávez was born in Sabaneta, Venezuela. President of Venezuela (1999-2004).
• 1954 - Mikey Sheehy was born. Gaelic footballer.
• 1954 - Steve Morse was born. American guitarist.
• 1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
• 1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov was born. Russian cross-country skier.
• 1956 - Manuel Prado Ugarteche becomes Constitutional President of the Republic of Peru.
• 1957 - Heavy rain and mudslide occur at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, 992 killed.
• 1957 - Edith Abbott dies (b. 1876). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1958 - Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
• 1958 - Michael Hitchcock was born. American actor.
• 1958 - Terry Fox was born (d. 1981). Canadian athlete and against cancer activist.
• 1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
• 1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch was born. Soviet weightlifter.
• 1961 - Yannick Dalmas was born. French race car driver.
• 1962 - Rachel Sweet was born. American singer.
• 1963 - Michael Hayden was born. Actor ("Murder One").
• 1963 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes Constitutional President of the Republic of Peru for a first time.
• 1964 - Ian Livingston was born. British businessman.
• 1964 - Lori Loughlin was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
• 1965 - Daniela Mercury was born in Salvador, Baía. Brazilian singer.
• 1965 - Priscilla Chan was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis was born. American jazz musician.
• 1965 - Edogawa Ranpo dies (b. 1894). Japanese author of detective novels.
• 1966 - Miguel Angel Nadal was born. Spanish football (soccer) player.
• 1966 - Portugal get the third place in The World Cup in football beating USSR 2-1.
• 1966 - Armando J. Tirado was born. American lawyer.
• 1966 - Shikao Suga was born. Japanese singer/songwriter.
• 1967 - Taka Hirose was born. Japanese musician (Feeder).
• 1967 - Karl W. Richter dies (b. 1942). American aviator.
• 1968 - Otto Hahn dies (b. 8 Mar 1879). German chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate in 1994 shared with the radiochemist Fritz Strassmann. He also shared the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 with Strassmann and Lise Meitner.
• 1969 - Garth Snow was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Alexis Arquette was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Dana White was born. UFC President.
• 1969 - Frank Loesser dies (b. 1910). American composer.
• 1969 - Ramón Grau dies (b. 1882). Cuban president.
• 1970 - Michael Amott was born. Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy).
• 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur was born. French Canadian figure skater.
• 1971 - Stephen Lynch was born. American musician.
• 1971 - Annie Perreault was born. French Canadian short track speed skater.
• 1971 - Charles E. Pont dies (b. 1898). American artist.
• 1971 - Myril Hoag dies (b. 1908). American baseball player.
• 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley was born. American actress (Saved by the Bell, The First Wives Club, Random Encounter, Any Given Sunday, Africa, The Elevator, Soulmates).
• 1972 - Ed Templeton was born. American skateboarder.
• 1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah was born. South Korean actress.
• 1972 - Helen Traubel dies (b. 1903). American soprano.
• 1972 - Charu Majumdar dies (b. 1918). Indian revolutionary leader.
• 1973 - Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.
• 1973 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend what was for many years the largest musical concert in history, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway.
• 1973 - Steve Staios was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1973 - Marc Dupré was born. Quebec humorist and singer.
• 1974 - Justin Lee Collins was born. British comedian.
• 1975 - Leonor Watling was born. Spanish actress and singer.
• 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
• 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix was born. American singer (Papa Roach).
• 1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz was born. Brazilian composer.
• 1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili was born. Argentine basketball player.
• 1977 - Aki Berg was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Lee Minwoo was born. Korean singer (Shinhwa).
• 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal was born. Icelandic singer.
• 1979 - Henrik Hansen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1979 - Charles Shadwell dies (b. 1898). English conductor and bandleader.
• 1980 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes Constitutional President of the Republic Peru for a second time.
• 1980 - Stephen Christian was born. American singer (Anberlin).
• 1981 - Michael Carrick was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Jo In Sung was born. South Korean actor.
• 1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir was born. Icelandic singer and actress.
• 1982 - Tom Pelphrey was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Keith Green dies (b. 1953). American gospel singer, songwriter and pianist.
• 1983 - O Grémio de Porto Alegre vence em casa o Peñarol do Uruguay por 2 -1 e conquista a Taça Libertadores. No jogo da 1ª. mão o resultado tinha sido um empate 1-1.
• 1984 - The 23rd Summer Olympic Games opened at the Los Angeles Coliseum in Southern California this day. Peter V. Uberroth, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, welcomed 7,800 athletes from 140 nations during the 3-1/2 hour opening ceremonies.
• 1984 - DeMeco Ryans was born. American football player.
• 1984 - Zach Parise was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1985 - Alan García becomes president of Constitutional President of the Republic of Peru.
• 1985 - Dustin Milligan was born. Canadian actor.
• 1985 - Tynisha Keli was born. American singer.
• 1986 - Alexandra Chando was born. American actress.
• 1988 - Ayla Brown was born. American singer.
• 1988 - Casper Johansen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1990 - Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
• 1990 - Shana Swash was born. English actress.
• 1990 - Soulja Boy was born. American rapper.
• 1990 - Jill Esmond dies (b. 1908). British actress.
• 1992 - Mary J. Blige releases her album What's the 411?. It is considered the album that started the new subgenre, hip-hop soul (also see 1992 in music).
• 1993 - Constituição da Federação Portuguesa de Bilhar.
• 1993 - Hannah Lochner was born. Canadian actress.
• 1994 - Pitcher Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers throws a perfect game against the California Angels in a 4-0 win at The Ballpark in Arlington.
• 1995 - Portugal: Inauguração do metropolitano ligeiro de superfície de Mirandela.
• 1995 - Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet.
• 1995 - Alberto Fujimori begins the second mandate to the Presidency of Peru.
• 1995 - Miklos Rozsa dies (b. 1907). Hungarian composer.
• 1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
• 1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser dies (b. 1948). American singer (Shangri-Las).
• 1996 - Roger Tory Peterson dies (b. 1908). American ornithologist and educator.
• 1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1997 - Seni Pramoj dies (b. 1905). Thai politician, Thai Prime Minister.
• 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 - Lenny McLean dies (b. 1949). English bareknuckle fighter.
• 1998 - Zbigniew Herbert dies in Warsow (b. 29 Oct. 1924). Polish poet, essayst and writer.
  
• 2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for an unprecedented third term of office, infuriating demonstrators who set government buildings ablaze.
• 2000 - Abraham Pais dies (b. 1918). Dutch-born American physicist and science historian.
• 2001 - Alejandro Toledo Manrique sworns as President of Peru.
• 2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
• 2002 - Archer John Porter Martin dies (b. 1910). English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 2003 - NPR broadcasts the first episode of Day to Day, a one-hour radio newsmagazine.
• 2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding dies (b. 1918). Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled.
• 2004 - Tiziano Terzani dies (b. 1938). Italian journalist.
• 2004 - Francis Crick dies (b. 8 Jun 1916). English molecular biologist, recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, for their determination of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the chemical substance ultimately responsible for hereditary control of life functions.
• 2004 - Sam Edwards dies (b. 1915). American actor.
• 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The PIRA) call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
• 2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
• 2005 - In Guinea-Bissau, electoral commission declares João Bernardo Vieira winner of the presidential election with a 52-55% majority.
• 2006 - David Gemmell dies (b. 1948). British writer.
• 2007 - Jim LeRoy dies (b. 1961). American stunt plane pilot.
• 2007 - Karl Gotch dies (b. 1924). Belgian professional wrestler.
• 2008 - The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for a second time in 80 years.
• 2008 - Suzanne Tamim dies (b. 1977). Lebanese singer and actress, murdered.
• Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians.
• Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve.
• Peru - Independence Day.
• San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government.
• Dia do Agricultor (Brasil).
• Portugal - Dia Nacional da Conservação da Natureza.