On this day in History - Aug. 10

• 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
• 612 BC - Sinsharishkun dies. Assyrian king.
• 0258 - Saint Lawrence dies. Martyr.
• 0610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
• 0955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
• 0991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalized in a well-known poem.
• 0997 - Las tropas de Almanzor saquean y destruyen la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, llevándose como recompensa las campanas de la ciudad.
• 1267 - King James II of Aragon was born (d. 1327).
• 1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg was born (d. 1346).
• 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry.
• 1360 - Francesco Zabarella was born (d. 1417). Italian jurist.
• 1382 - Tratado de paz entre D. Fernando e João I de Castela.
• 1397 - Albert II of Habsburg was born. Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1415 - Frota portuguesa com 50 mil soldados chega em Ceuta.
• 1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck was born (d. 1553). German statesman and reformer.
• 1500 - Diego Diaz, explorador português, é o primeiro europeu a desembarcar na ilha de Madagascar, situada no Oceano Índico.
• 1511 - Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Malaca.
• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1520 - Madeleine de Valois was born (d. 1537). Queen of James V of Scotland.
• 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici dies poisoned (b. 1509). Ruler of Florence.
• 1557 - Batalla de San Quintín: Las tropas españolas de Felipe II derrotan a las francesas de Enrique II.
• 1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius was born (d. 1629). German composer.
• 1602 - Gilles de Roberval was born (d. 1675). French mathematician.
• 1608 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
• 1633 - Anthony Munday dies (b. 1553). English writer.
• 1637 - Johann Gerhard dies (b. 1582). German Lutheran leader.
• 1645 - Eusebio Kino was born (d. 1711). Italian Catholic missionary.
• 1647 - Rodrigo Caro dies. Spanish writer.
• 1653 - Maarten Tromp dies (b. 1598). Dutch admiral .
• 1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar dies (b. 1572). Spanish cardinal and diplomat.
• 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
• 1678 - A paz de Nimega põe fim à guerra que Luis XIV da França travava contra Espanha, Holanda, estados alemães e Dinamarca.
• 1680 - The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
• 1716 - Eugenius Bulgaris was born (d. 10 Jun 1806). Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
• 1723 - Guillaume Dubois dies (b. 1656). French cardinal and statesman.
• 1737 - Anton Losenko was born (d. 1773). Russian painter.
• 1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan") was born (d. 1754). Daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour.
• 1759 - King Fernando VI of Spain dies and Carlos III is proclaimed King.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
• 1784 - Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1713). Scottish painter.
• 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
• 1802 - Franz Aepinus dies (b. 1724). German scientist.
• 1806 - Michael Haydn dies (b. 1737). Austrian composer.
• 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
• 1810 - Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour was born (d. 1861). Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1813 - Se funda el Instituto Nacional de Chile, actual Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera.
• 1814 - Henri Nestlé was born (d. 1890). Swiss industrialist.
• 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 1821 - Jay Cooke was born (d. 18 Feb 1905). American financier.
• 1823 - Charles Keene was born (d. 4 Jan 1891). English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
• 1823 - Antonio Gonçalves Dias was born (d. 1864). Brazilian poet. "I Juca Pirama", "Canção do Exílio".
• 1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown was born (d. 1886). Manx preacher.
• 1827 - Lovro Toman was born (d. 1870). Slovenian politician.
• 1829 - First ascent of Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps.
• 1837 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov was born (d. 1897). Russian physicist.
• 1839 - John St Aubyn dies (b. 1758). British fossil collector.
• 1843 - Joseph McKenna was born (d. 21 Nov 1926). American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925).
• 1844 - Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Peru..
• 1845 - Abai Kunanbaev was born (d. 1904). Kazakh poet.
• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
• 1856 - In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
• 1856 - William Willett was born (d. 1915). English inventor of Daylight Saving Time.
• 1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was born (d. 1936). Indian musician.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo dies (b. 1829). Japanese Go player.
• 1865 - Alexander Glazunov was born (d. 1936). Russian composer.
• 1869 - Gabriel García Moreno assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador.
• 1869 - Laurence Binyon was born (d. 1943). British poet.
• 1872 - Bill Johnson was born (d. 1972). American jazz musician.
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover was born (d. 20 Oct 1964). 31st President of the United States.
• 1875 - Karl Andree dies (b. 1808). German geographer.
• 1877 - Frank Marshall was born (d. 1944). Chess player.
• 1878 - Alfred Döblin was born (d. 1957). German writer.
• 1880 - Robert L. Thornton was born. American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas.
• 1884 - Panait Istrati was born (d. 1935). Romanian writer.
• 1889 - Charles Darrow was born (d. 1967). American inventor best known for his role in developing the Monopoly board game.
• 1890 - Remigio Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru enquanto Mariano Nicolás Valcárcel Salazar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
• 1890 - Angus L. MacDonald was born (d. 1954). Canadian politician.
• 1890 - Béchara El-Khoury was born. President of Lebanon (1943-1952).
• 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz was born (d. 26 May 1973). Russian-born French sculptor.
• 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
• 1893 - Douglas Stuart Moore was born (d. 25 Jul 1969). American composer of folk operas
• 1894 - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was born (d. 16 Aug 1946). Latvian-born American labor leader
• 1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri was born (d. 1980). Fourth President of India.
• 1895 - Hammy Love was born (d. 1969). Former Australian cricketer.
• 1896 - Otto Lilienthal dies (b. 1848). German aviation pioneer.
• 1897 - John W. Galbreath was born (d. 1988). American businessman.
• 1898 - Jack Haley was born (d. 1979). American actor.
• 1899 - Flávio de Carvalho was born (d. 1973). Brazilian arcjhitect and artist.
• 1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt was born (d. 1994). New Zealand politician and athlete.
• 1901 - C A E Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain allegedly experience a time slip, encountering the ghost of Marie Antoinette in the gardens of Versailles
• 1901 - The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
• 1902 – Arne Tiselius was born (d. 1971). Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1902 - Curt Siodmak was born (d. 2000). Science fiction author.
• 1902 - Norma Shearer was born (d. 1983). Canadian actress.
• 1903 - Morrem 84 pessoas num acidente de metro em Paris.
• 1903 - Ward Moore was born (d. 1978). American author.
• 1904 - The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
• 1904 - Clemente Yerovi Indaburu was born. President of Ecuador (1966).
• 1904 - Club Sport Costarricense (Costa Rica) is founded.
• 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
• 1905 - Eugene Dennis was born (d. 31 Jan 1961). American Communist Party leader and labor organizer.
• 1905 - Era Bell Thompson was born (d. 1986). American journalist.
• 1908 - Adelino ("Billy") Gonçalves was born (d. 1977). American soccer player.
• 1909 - Leo Fender was born (d. 21 Mar 1991). American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments.
• 1911 - A. N. Sherwin-White was born (d. 1993). English historian.
• 1912 - Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1912 - Jorge Amado was born (d. 6 Aug 2001). Brazilian novelist.
• 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
• 1913 - Noah Beery, Jr. was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1913 - Wolfgang Paul was born (d. 1993). German physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1914 - Carlos Menditéguy was born (d. 1973). Argentine racing driver.
• 1914 - Jeff Corey was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1915 - Henry Moseley dies (b. 1887). English physicist.
• 1918 - Erich Loewenhardt dies (b. 1897). Germany flying ace of World War I.
• 1919 - Sacha Vierny was born (d. 2001). French cinematographer.
• 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
• 1920 - Red Holzman was born (d. 1998). American basketball coach.
• 1920 - Ádám Politzer dies (b. 1835). Austrian physician.
• 1921 - Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará (d. Lisbon, 1 Jul 1981). Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and writer.
• 1923 - US: Carlo Tresca, Italian-American anarchist, arrested.
• 1923 – Fred Ridgway was born. Former England cricketer.
• 1923 - Rhonda Fleming was born. American actress.
• 1923 - Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida dies (b. 1863). Spanish painter.
• 1924 - Carlos Castro Saavedra was born. Colombian writer and poet.
• 1924 - Martha Hyer was born. American actress.
• 1927 - Vernon Washington was born (d. 1988). American actor.
• 1928 - Eddie Fisher was born. American singer.
• 1928 - Gus Mercurio was born. American-born Australian actor.
• 1928 - Jimmy Dean was born. American singer.
• 1928 - Rex Cherryman dies (b. 1897). American actor.
• 1929 - Pierre Fatou dies (b. 1878). French mathematician.
• 1932 - A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• 1932 - Intento de golpe de estado en España, protagonizado por el general Sanjurjo, denominado la "sanjurjada". Tras intentar huir a Portugal, es detenido en Huelva, juzgado y condenado a muerte, el Presidente de la República le conmuta la pena por cadena perpetua. En 1934, es amnistiado por el gobierno del partido radical y se traslada a Portugal, donde moriría en accidente de aviación al tratar de volver a España para encabezar la sublevación que dio origen a la guerra civil.
• 1932 - Rui Knopfli was born (d. 1997 in Lisbon). Mozambican poet.
• 1932 - Rin Tin Tin dies (b. 1918). German shepherd dog.
• 1933 - Doyle Brunson was born. American professional poker player.
• 1933 – Keith Duckworth was born (d. 2005). English mechanical engineer (Cosworth).
• 1933 - Rocky Colavito was born. American baseball player.
• 1934 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11.
• 1934 - Manuel Ríos was born. Spanish writer.
• 1937 - Anatoly Sobchak was born. Russian politician.
• 1938 - Manuel María Borrero González assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1939 - Kate O'Mara was born. British actress
• 1940 - Julio Enrique Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador.
• 1940 - Bobby Hatfield was born (d. 2003). American singer (The Righteous Brothers).
• 1940 – Sid Waddell was born. Darts Commentator for the PDC.
• 1942 - Agepê was born (d. 1995). Brazilian singer.
• 1942 - Betsey Johnson was born. American fashion designer.
• 1943 - Jimmy Griffin was born (d. 2005). American guitarist (Bread).
• 1943 - Louise Forestier was born. French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.
• 1943 – Michael Mantler was born. American trumpeter and composer.
• 1943 - Pervez Musharraf was born. President of Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army.
• 1943 - Ronnie Spector was born. American singer (Ronettes).
• 1943 – Shafqat Rana was born. Former Pakistani cricketer.
• 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
• 1945 - Harriet Miers was born. White House counsel.
• 1945 - Robert Goddard dies (b. 1882). American rocket scientist.
• 1946 - James Reynolds was born. Actor (''Days of Our Lives'').
• 1947 – Alan Ward was born. Former England cricketer.
• 1947 - Anwar Ibrahim was born. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• 1947 - Ian Anderson was born. Scottish musician (Jethro Tull).
• 1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
• 1948 - Patti Austin was born. American singer.
• 1948 – Andrew Brown dies (b. 1870). Scottish football coach.
• 1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa dies (b. 1873). Japanese historian.
• 1948 - Montague Summers dies (b. 1880). English writer.
• 1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishement with the United States Department of Defense.
• 1949 - Gene Johnson was born. Country musician (Diamond Rio).
• 1950 - Rémy Girard was born. Canadian actor.
• 1952 - Entra em vigor a Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço (CECA).
• 1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly was born. American actor.
• 1952 – Diane Venora was born. American actress.
• 1953 - Mark Doty was born. American poet and prose writer.
• 1954 - At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
• 1954 - Indonesia proclama su independencia y se desvincula de Holanda.
• 1956 – Charlie Peacock was born. American record producer, singer-songwriter.
• 1956 - Fafá de Belém was born in Belém do Pará. Brazilian singer.
• 1956 - Fred Ottman was born. American wrestler.
• 1958 - Frank Demaree dies (b. 1910). American baseball player.
• 1959 - Inauguração, em Salvador, do Museu de Arte Sacra da Bahia (Brasil).
• 1959 - Florent Vollant was born. Canadian musician (Kashtin).
• 1959 - Né Ladeiras was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1959 - Rosanna Arquette was born. American actress.
• 1960 - Antonio Banderas was born. Spanish actor.
• 1960 – Kenny Perry was born. American golfer.
• 1960 – Nicoletta Braschi was born. Italian actress.
• 1960 - Todd David Hess was born. First USAF Member to receive Military Medical Merit.
• 1961 - Dinamarca apresenta pedido de adesão as Comunidades Européias.
• 1961 - Jon Farriss was born. Australian musician (INXS).
• 1962 - Julia Fordham was born. English singer.
• 1963 - Andrew Sullivan was born. English-born journalist.
• 1963 - João Baião was born at Buraca. Portuguese actor and TV star ("Big show Sic").
• 1963 – Phoolan Devi was born (d. 2001). Indian bandit and revolutionary.
• 1963 - Ernst Wetter dies (b. 1877). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 1963 - Estes Kefauver dies (b. 1903). American politician, Senator from Tennessee.
• 1964 - Aaron Hall was born. American singer.
• 1964 - Afonso Eduardo Reidy dies. Brazilian architect.
• 1965 - Claudia Christian was born. American actress.
• 1965 - John Starks was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - Mike Smith was born. American jockey.
• 1966 - Hansi Kürsch was born. German singer.
• 1967 - Lorraine Pearson was born. Musician (Five Star).
• 1967 - Mart Sander was born. Estonian singer and actor.
• 1967 - Philippe Albert was born. Belgian former footballer.
• 1967 – Reinout Scholte was born. Former Dutch cricketer.
• 1967 - Riddick Bowe was born. American boxer.
• 1967 - Todd Nichols was born. Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket).
• 1968 - Greg Hawgood was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Michael Bivins was born. American singer (New Edition & Bell Biv DeVoe).
• 1968 - Peter Docter was born. American film director.
• 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 1969 - Presidente da Zâmbia, Kenneth Kaunda, anuncia a nacionalização das companhias mineiras de cobre indispensáveis para a economia do país.
• 1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (b. 1925) and Rosemary LaBianca (b. 1930), American housewife, are murdered.
• 1969 - Emily Symons was born. Australian actress.
• 1970 – Brendon Julian was born. Former Australian cricketer.
• 1970 - Bret Hedican was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1970 – Jeff Mangum was born. American musician.
• 1970 – Steve Mautone was born. Australian footballer.
• 1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1971 - The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1971 - Fábio Assunção was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actor.
• 1971 - Justin Theroux was born. American actor.
• 1971 – Kevin Randleman was boprn. American mixed martial artist.
• 1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa was born. Cuban boxer.
• 1971 - Roy Keane was born. Irish footballer.
• 1971 - Sal Fasano was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 – Stephan Groth was born. Norwegian musician
• 1972 - Angie Harmon was born. American model and actress.
• 1972 - Christofer Johnsson was born. Swedish musician.
• 1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio was born. English rugby union footballer.
• 1973 - Javier Zanetti was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1973 - Lisa Raymond was born. American tennis player.
• 1974 - David Sommeil was born. French footballer.
• 1974 - Luis Marín was born. Costa Rican footballer.
• 1974 – Rachel Simmons was born. American feminist and author.
• 1975 – İlhan Mansız was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1976 - Michael Depoli was born. American wrestler.
• 1976 - Bert Oldfield dies (b.1894)., Australian test cricketer.
• 1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
• 1977 - Aaron Kamin was born. American musician (The Calling).
• 1977 - Danny Griffin was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1977 - Matt Morgan was born. British comedian.
• 1978 - Chris Read was born. English cricketer.
• 1978 – Claire Yiu was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1978 - Daniel Allsopp was born. Australian footballer.
• 1978 – Marcus Fizer was born. American basketball player.
• 1979 - Jaime Roldós Aguilera becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1979 – Brandon Lyon was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 – Dinusha Fernando was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1979 - Joanna Garcia was born. American actress.
• 1979 – Ted Geoghegan was born. American filmmaker and author.
• 1979 - Yannick Schroeder was born. French racing driver.
• 1979 - Dick Foran dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1979 - Walter Gerlach dies (b. 1889). German physicist.
• 1980 - Kaysar Ridha was born. Iraqi-American reality TV contestant.
• 1980 - Yahya Khan dies (b. 1917). President of Pakistan.
• 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
• 1981 – Jon Prescott was born. American actor
• 1981 – Malek Mouath was born. Saudi Arabian footballer.
• 1981 - Natsumi Abe was born. Japanese singer and actress.
• 1981 – Taufik Hidayat was born. Indonesian badminton player.
• 1982 - Devon Aoki was born. American supermodel and actress.
• 1982 – Josh Anderson was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Abel Manta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1983 - Pinheiro de Azevedo dies (b. 1917). Portuguese politician who was Prime Minister (1975-1976).
• 1983 - Alexander Perezhogin was born. Russian professional ice hockey player.
• 1983 - Mathieu Roy was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 - Mariel Rodriguez was born. Filipino TV host.
• 1985- Roy O'Donovan was born. Irish footballer.
• 1986 - Mark Harrison was born. Brititish music critic and publisher.
• 1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
• 1988 - Rodrigo Borja Cevallos assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1989 - O descarrilamento de um comboio nas proximidades de Guamuchil, estado mexicano de Sinaloa, deixa pelo menos 108 mortos, 20 desaparecidos e 198 feridos.
• 1989 - Ben Sahar was born. Israeli footballer.
• 1989 – Sam Gagner was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• 1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in the North East Sri Lanka by the paramilitaries.
• 1990 - Lucas Till was born. American actor, Hannah Montana: The Movie.
• 1992 - Ko Ah-seong was born. South Korean actress.
• 1993 - Yuto Nakajima was born. Japanese actor and singer.
• 1993 - An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
• 1993 - Øystein Aarseth dies (b. 1968). Norwegian musician (Mayhem).
• 1994 - President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
• 1995 - Los Angeles Dodgers are forced to forfeit against the St. Louis Cardinals in the only case of baseball forfeit in the latter 30 years of the 20th century after fans throw souvenir baseballs on to the field en masse.
• 1995 - José Valente dies. Portuguese economist.
• 1996 - Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz sorns as President of Ecuador.
• 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow dies (b. 1912). American composer.
• 1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon dies (b. 1953). Quebec film director.
• 1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
• 1998 - Jamil Mahuad assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1999 - Morre, em Sintra, Ernesto de Melo Antunes (n. 2 Out 1933). Militar e político português ideólogo da “Revolução dos Cravos”. Foi o principal autor do documento O Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Nação e do programa do MFA. Foi Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros durante os Governos Provisórios e o primeiro subscritor do Documento dos Nove no Verão quente de 1975.
• 1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya dies (b. 1899). Eminent Sanskrit Scholor in India.
• 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion according to www.ibiblio.org world population tracker.
• 2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse dies (b. 1925). England cricketer.
• 2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
• 2001 - Lou Boudreau dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 2002 - Nicolas Cage / Lisa Marie Presley wedding.
• 2002 - Kristen Nygaard dies (b. 1926). Norwegian computer scientist.
• 2002 - Michael Houser dies (b. 1962). American guitarist (Widespread Panic).
• 2003 - Xenia Seeberg / Sven Martinek wedding.
• 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space.
• 2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent.
• 2003 - Carmita Jiménez dies (b. c.1944). Puerto Rican singer.
• 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2005 - Rui Silva, Portuguese athlete, wins the bronze medal in 1500 m in The World Championships in Helsinki.
• 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
• 2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
• 2007 – Chris Reyka dies (b. 1956). BSO Sergeant.
• 2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler dies (b. 1925). American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist.
• 2007 – James E. Faust dies (b. 1920). Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 2007 – Tony Wilson dies (b. 1950). British music personality and broadcaster.
• 2008 - Isaac Hayes dies (b. 1942). American musician and actor.
• Roman Empire - Opalia, Festival in honor of Ops.
• Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held.
• Independence Day in Ecuador - Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.