On this day in History - Sep. 08

• 551 BC – Confucius was born (d. 479 BC). Chinese philosopher.
• c.20 BC- Virgin Mary was born. Mother of Jesus Christ.
• 0070 - Titus, General of Rome, sacks Jerusalem. See also: Destruction of Jerusalem.
• 0701 - Pope Sergius I (687-701) dies.
• 0780 - Leo IV dies. Byzantine Emperor.
• 0801 - Ansgar was born (d. 0865). German Catholic archbishop.
  
• 0828 - Ali al-Hadi was born (d. 0868). Shia Imam.
• 1157 - King Richard I of England ("The Lionheart") was born (d. 6 Apr 1199). King of England (1189-99) ; third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal was born (d. 1248).
• 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
• 1271 - Charles Martel d'Anjou was born (d. 1295). Son of Charles II of Naples.
  
• 1273 - Election of Pope John XXI.
• 1276 - John XXI elected Pope.
• 1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia.
• 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1380 - Saint Bernardino of Siena was born (d. 1444). Italian Franciscan missionary.
  
• 1429 - Paris attacked by Joan of Arc: French heroine Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who believed she was acting under divine guidance, attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take Paris for the newly crowned King Charles VII.
• 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
• 1474 - Ludovico Ariosto was born (d. 1533). Italian poet (Orlando Furioso).
• 1504 - Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
• 1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarussians and Poles defeat Russian army.
• 1515 - Alfonso Salmeron was born (d. 1585). Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar.
  
• 1522 - Captain Sebastian del Cano sails into port in Spain, completing the round-the-world voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan. With him is tourist Antonio Pigafetta, whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage.
• 1529 - The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as the puppet king of Hungary.
• 1560 - Fundação da cidade de Itaquaquecetuba.
• 1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles settles St. Augustine, Florida.
• 1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
• 1588 - Marin Mersenne was born (d. 1648). French mathematician.
• 1611 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius was born (d. 1671). German classical scholar.
• 1612 - Fundação da cidade de São Luis do Maranhão (Brasil).
• 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo dies (b. 1566). Italian composer.
• 1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé was born (d. 1686). French general.
• 1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany was born (d. 1654).
• 1636 - Harvard University is founded.
• 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College as the first college founded in the Americas.
• 1637 - Robert Fludd dies (b. 1574). English mystic.
• 1644 - John Coke dies (b. 1563). English politician.
• 1644 - Francis Quarles dies (b. 1592). English poet.
• 1644 - Nasce Manuel Luís Maldonado (m. 1711). Historiador, sacerdote católico e militar açoriano.
• 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo dies (b. 1580). Spanish writer.
• 1656 - Joseph Hall dies (b. 1574). English bishop and writer.
• 1664 - As part of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the duke of York (later James II) took the city of New Amsterdam, whose name was changed to New York.
• 1672 - Nicolas de Grigny was born (d. 1703). French organist and composer.
• 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz dies (b. 1606). Spanish writer.
• 1721 - Michael Brokoff dies (b. 1686). Czech sculptor.
• 1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy dies (b. 1668). Governor of Belgorod.
• 1742 - Ozias Humphrey was born (d. 1810). English artist.
• 1749 - Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac was born (d. 1793). French aristocrat.
  
• 1749 – Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, Italian-born French aristocrat (d. 1792)
• 1753 - John Soane was born. English architect.
• 1755 - French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
• 1756 - French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
• 1760 - Capitulação da Nova França (hoje Ontário e Quebeque) aos ingleses.
• 1761 - Marriage of George III of the United Kingdom to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz / Casamento de Jorge III com a princesa alemã Sofia Carlota de Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• 1767 - August Schlegel was born (d. 1845). German poet.
• 1771 - Mungo Park was born. Scottish born explorer of Africa.
• 1778 - Clemens Brentano was born (d. 1842). German poet.
• 1780 - Enoch Poor dies (b. 1736). General in the American Continental Army.
• 1781 - American troops commanded by General Nathanael Greene defeated British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart in the Battle of Eutaw Springs during the American Revolution.
• 1783 - Nicolai Grundtvig was born (d. 1872). Danish writer and philosopher.
  
• 1784 - Ann Lee dies. American religious leader.
• 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
• 1795 - Nasce em Santo Amaro de Jaboatão (PE), José da Natividade Saldanha (m. 30 Mar 1830). Escritor e político brasileiro.
• 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
• 1804 - Eduard Mörike was born (d. 1875). German poet.
• 1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
• 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas dies (b. 1741). German zoologist.
• 1814 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was born (d. 1874). French writer, historian and specialist in Mesoamerican studies.
• 1819 - Nasce, em Lisboa, António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo (m. 22 Jan 1887). Estadista português.
• 1824 - Jaime Nunó was born (d. 1908). Spanish composer.
  
• 1828 – Clarence Cook was born (d. 1900). American writer and art critic.
  
• 1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born. American Civil War soldier.
• 1830 - Frédéric Mistral was born (d. 1914). French poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1904.
• 1831 - William IV was crowned King of Great Britain.
• 1841 - Antonín Dvořák was born (d. 1 May 1904). Czech composer (Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies).
• 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau was born (d. 1882). American assassin of James A. Garfield.
• 1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea was born (d. 1919).
• 1857 - Georg Michaelis was born (d. 1936). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• 1873 - Alfred Jarry was born (d. 1907). French playwright.
  
• 1873 - David O. McKay was born (d. 1970). Ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1881 - Harry Hillman was born (d. 1950). American athlete.
• 1883 - A linha de caminho de ferro que atravessa os Estados Unidos da América de costa a costa - a Northern Pacific Railroad - é concluída.
• 1884 - Théodore Pilette was born (d. 1921). Belgian racing driver.
  
• 1886 - Siegfried Sassoon was born (d. 1967). Siegfried Sassoon, British author and poet famous for his anti-war writing about World War I.
• 1886 - Joanesburg (South Africa) is founded.
• 1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia was born (d. 1972)
• 1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• 1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever are played.
• 1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft was born (d. 1953). U.S. Senator from Ohio.
• 1895 - Uma coluna militar portuguesa derrota uma força de índigenas no Combate de Magul, durante a «Campanha de 95» em Moçambique, de pacificação das revoltas de negros começadas em 1894, com um ataque a Lourenço Marques.
• 1895 - Sara García was born (d. 1980). Mexican actress.
  
• 1896 - Howard Dietz was born (d. 1983). American lyricist and librettist.
  
• 1897 - Jimmie Rodgers was born (d. 1933). American country music singer and composer.
• 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• 1901 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born (d. 6 Sep 1966). Prime minister of South Africa from 1958 - 1966.
• 1903 - Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
• 1904 - Coroação da estátua de Nossa Senhora Aparecida.
  
• 1907 - Agenor Miranda Rocha was born in Luanda, Angola (d. 2004). Brazilian professor and writer (babalorixá do Candomblé).
• 1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault was born (d. 1994). Actor, director.
• 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
• 1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun was born (d. 2001). Architect.
• 1915 - Frank Cady was born. American actor.
• 1915 – Frank Pullen was born (d. 1992). English businessman and racehorse owner.
  
• 1915 - Pinheiro Machado dies (b. 1851). Brazilian politician.
• 1918 - Devido ao prolongamento da Guerra, e à guerra submarina alemã, começam a ser distribuídas, em Portugal, senhas de racionamento e cartas de consumo.
• 1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton was born (d. 1998). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
  
• 1919 - Gianni Brera was born (d. 1992). Italian journalist and writer.
  
• 1921 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
• 1921 - Harry Secombe was born (d. 2001). Welsh entertainer.
  
• 1922 – Lyndon LaRouche was born. American politician.
• 1922 - Sid Caesar was born. Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951], Caesar’s Hour [1956].
• 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
• 1924 – Grace Metalious was born (d. 1964). American novelist.
  
• 1924 – Marie-Claire Kirkland was born. Quebec politician.
• 1924 - Mimi Parent was born (d. 2005). Surrealist painter.
• 1925 - Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.
• 1925 - Peter Sellers was born (d. 1980). Actor, comedian. Famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau ( The Pink Panther series , What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There).
• 1926 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1927 - Harlan Howard was born (d. 2002). American country music songwriter.
  
• 1927 - Nasce, em Lisboa, Laura Alves (m. 6 Mai 1986). Grande actriz portuguesa. Alcançou sucesso em palco, nos diversos géneros: revista, opereta, comédia, drama, sobretudo no Monumental (1951). Também participou em cinema [ O PAI TIRANO (1941); O PÁTIO DAS CANTIGAS (1941); O LEÃO DA ESTRELA (1947); SONHAR É FÁCIL (1951); UM MARIDO SOLTEIRO (1952);O COSTA D’ÁFRICA (1954);PERDEU-SE UM MARIDO (1956);O PARQUE DAS ILUSÕES (1963)]. Retirou-se em 1982. Foi casada com o empresário de teatro Vasco Morgado.
• 1927 - Harlan Howard was born (d. 2002). American country music songwriter.
  
• 1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi was born. German conductor.
• 1929 – Roger Byrne was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
  
• 1930 - The comic strip "Blondie," created by Chic Young, was first published.
• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• 1930 – Mario Adorf was born. Swiss-born German actor.
• 1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky was born. South Vietnamese politician.
• 1931 - John Garrett was born (d. 2007). British politician.
  
• 1932 - Patsy Cline was born (d. 1963). Country music singer ("Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces").
• 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq dies (b. 1883).
• 1933 - Asha Bhosle was born. Indian singer.
• 1933 – Eric Salzman was born. American composer.
• 1933 – Michael Frayn British playwright (A Very Private Life, Noises Off).
• 1933 – Paul M. Fleiss was born. American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss.
• 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
• 1934 – Peter Maxwell Davies was born. British composer.
• 1934 - Rodrigue Biron was born. Canadian politician.
• 1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
• 1937 - Barbara Frum was born (d. 1992). Canadian news anchor.
• 1937 – Virna Lisi (Pieralisi) was born. Italian actress (Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard, Christopher Columbus, Le Serpent [Night Flight from Moscow], Casanova, The Secret of Santa Vittoria).
• 1938 - Kenichi Horie was born. Japanese adventurer.
• 1938 - Sam Nunn was born. U.S. Senator from Georgia.
• 1939 - Carsten Keller was born. German field hockey player.
• 1939 – Guitar Shorty was born. American musician.
• 1940 - Quentin L. Cook was born. LDS apostle.
  
• 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
• 1941 - Bernie Sanders was born. American politician.
• 1942 - Brian Cole was born (d. 1972). American musician (The Association).
• 1943 – World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
• 1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
• 1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik is executed by the Nazis.
• 1943 - Adelaide C. Eckardt was born. American politician.
• 1943 - Julius Fucik dies executed. Czech communist and journalist.
• 1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
• 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
• 1944 - Terry Jenner was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
• 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• 1945 – Rogie Vachon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan was born (d. 1973). American musician (the Grateful Dead).
• 1946 - The monarchy in Bulgaria is abolished in a referendum called by communists installed by the Soviet Army. Georgi Dimitrov became the 1st premier of communist Bulgaria.
• 1946 - 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (11-9, 6-3).
• 1946 - 66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (9-7, 6-3, 6-0).
• 1946 - L.C. Greenwood was born. American football player.
• 1947 - Ann Beattie was born. American writer (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Picturing Will).
• 1947 – Benjamin Orr was born (d. 2000). American bassist and singer (The Cars).
  
• 1947 – Halldor Asgrimsson was born. Former Prime Minister of Iceland.
  
• 1947 – Valery Afanassiev was born. Russian pianist.
• 1948 – Great Kabuki was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1948 - Jean-Pierre Monseré was born (d. 1971). Belgian cyclist.
  
• 1948 - Thomas Mofolo dies (b. 1876). Lesotho writer.
• 1949 - Richard Strauss dies (b. 1864). German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra).
• 1950 – Mike Simpson was born. American politician.
• 1950 - Zachary Richard was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1951 - Nikos Karvelas was born. Greek composer.
• 1952 - 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (6-1, 6-2, 6-3).
• 1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" is published.
• 1953 - Stu Ungar was born (d. 1998). American Legendary Gambler, 3 Time World Series Of Poker Main Event Winner.
  
• 1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• 1954 - Anne Diamond was born. English television presenter.
• 1954 – Mark Foley was born. American politician.
• 1954 – Michael Shermer was born. American science writer.
• 1954 - André Derain dies. French painter.
• 1955 – Terry Tempest Williams was born. American author and environmentalist.
• 1956 - Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget) was born (d. 2002). British singer and musician.
• 1956 – Maurice Cheeks was born. American basketball player and coach.
• 1956 - Stefan Yohansson was born. Sweden Formula One driver.
  
• 1957 - 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (10-8, 7-5, 6-4).
• 1957 - Heather Thomas was born. American actress (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever).
• 1958 - Michael Lardie was born. American musician.
• 1958 – Mitsuru Miyamoto was born. Japanese voice actor.
• 1959 - Daler Nazarov was born. Tajik composer and actor.
• 1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• 1960 - Jussi Bjorling dies at 49. Swedish epic tenor (Manrico, Cavaradossi, Faust, Rodolfo, Riccardo, Romeo).
• 1960 - Aimee Mann was born. American musician.
• 1960 – Aguri Suzuki was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1960 – David Steele was born. English musician.
• 1960 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman; husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (d. 1990)
• 1961 - Fernanda Abreu was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1961 – Paul Zanetti was born. Australian political cartoonist.
• 1962 - Newly independent, Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.
• 1962 - Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'.
• 1962 – Christopher Klim was born. American novelist.
• 1962 - Sergio Casal was born. Spanish tennis player.
• 1962 – Thomas Kretschmann was born. German actor.
• 1963 - 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (7-5, 6-4).
• 1963 - 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (7-5, 6-4, 6-2).
• 1963 – Brad Silberling was born. American television and film director.
• 1963 – Hitoshi Matsumoto was born. Japanese comedian.
• 1963 - Li Ning was born. Chinese gymnast.
• 1964 - Malta tornou-se independente da Grã-Bretanha. Conquistada à Ordem de Malta por Napoleão Bonaparte em 12 de Junho de 1798, quando da expedição francesa ao Egipto, tinha sido tomada por forças britânicas em 1800.
• 1964 – Joachim Nielsen was born (d. 2000). Norwegian musician.
• 1964 - Michael Johns was born. American business executive.
• 1964 – Scott Levy was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1965 - Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church ended.
• 1965 – Darlene Zschech was born. Australian Christian singer.
• 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 1965 – Hermann Staudinger dies (b. 1881). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 - "The Man Trap", the first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
• 1966 - The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
• 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
• 1966 - Carola was born. Swedish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1966 – Peter Furler was born. Australian musician (Newsboys).
• 1967 - The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
• 1967 - Kimberly Peirce was born. American film director.
• 1968 - British tennis player Virginia Wade beats American Billie Jean King to win the US Open.
• 1968 - The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.
• 1968 - Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant.
• 1969 - 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1970 - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September.
• 1969 - Gary Speed was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1969 – Lars Bohinen was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1969 – Oswaldo Ibarra was born. Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel dies (b. 1868). French explorer and writer.
• 1969 - Bud Collyer dies (b. 1908). American television game show host.
• 1970 – Andy Ward was born. Irish rugby player.
• 1970 – Latrell Sprewell was born. American basketball player.
• 1970 - Neko Case was born. American musician.
• 1970 - Yuji Nishizawa was born. Japanese hijacker.
• 1970 - Percy Spencer dies (b. 1894). Microwaves inventor.
• 1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• 1971 - Brooke Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut. American model (See Brooke Burke wallpaper).
• 1971 – Daniel Petrov was born. Bulgarian boxer.
• 1971 – David Arquette was born. American actor (The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Webbers, Dead Man’s Walk, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland).
• 1971 – Dustin O'Halloran was born. American pianist and composer
• 1971 – Martin Freeman was born. English actor
• 1971 – Pierre Sévigny was born. French-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Vico C (Luis Armando Lozada Cruz) was born. American (Puerto Rican) musician.
• 1972 – Giovanni Frezza was born. Italian actor.
• 1972 – Lisa Kennedy was born. American television personality.
• 1972 - Markus Babbel was born. German footballer.
• 1972 – Os du Randt was born. South African rugby player.
• 1972 – Phil Laak was born. Irish-born American professional poker player.
• 1972 - Tomokazu Seki was born. Japanese voice actor.
• 1973 - Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974.
• 1973 - 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (7-6 5-7 6-2).
• 1973 - Khamis Al-Owairan was born. Saudi Arabian footballer.
• 1974 - 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (3-6 6-3 7-5).
• 1974 - 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (6-1, 6-0, 6-1).
• 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 1974 - Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle."
• 1974 – Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer
• 1974 – Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-born American documentarian
• 1975 - Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.
• 1975 - Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge.
• 1975 – Chris Latham was born. Australian rugby player.
• 1975 – Elena Likhovtseva was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1975 – Larenz Tate was born. American actor.
• 1975 – Lee Eul-Yong was born. South Korean footballer.
• 1975 - Richard Hughes was born. English musician (Keane).
• 1976 – Brendan Kelly was born. American musician (The Lawrence Arms).
• 1976 – Gerald Drummond and Jervis Drummond were born. Costa Rican footballers.
• 1976 – Sarah Kucserka was born. American screenwriter.
• 1976 - Sjeng Schalken was born. Dutch tennis player.
• 1977 - Jay McKee was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1977 - Zero Mostel dies (b. 1915). American actor.
• 1978 - Martial Law declared in Tehran and other cities, Iran, as riots take place.
• 1978 – Angela Rawlings was born. Canadian-American author and performer.
• 1978 - Gerard Autet was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1978 – Gil Meche was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 - Péter Lékó was born. Hungary chess player.
• 1979 - Pink was born. American singer.
• 1979 - Jean Seberg dies (suicide) at 40. American actress (Breathless, Airport).
• 1980 – Slim Thug was born. American rapper.
• 1980 - Teruyuki Moniwa was born. Japanese footballer.
• 1980 - Willard Frank Libby dies (b. 1908). American chemist.
• 1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Morten Gamst Pedersen was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1981 - Hideki Yukawa dies (b. 1907). Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1981 - Roy Wilkins dies (b. 1901). American civil rights activist.
• 1982 - Leandra Leal was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1982 - Em Portugal é legalizado o Movimento Ecologista Os Verdes.
• 1983 – Chris Judd was born. Australian football player.
• 1983 - Diego Benaglio was born. Swiss-Italian footballer.
• 1983 - Lewis Roberts-Thompson was born. Australian football player.
• 1983 - Wali Lundy was born. American football player.
• 1983 – Will Blalock was born. American basketball player.
• 1983 - Antonin Magne dies (b. 1904). French cyclist.
• 1984 - 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (4-6, 6-4, 6-4).
• 1984 – Bobby Parnell was born. Pitcher for the New York Mets
• 1984 – Peter Whittingham was born. English footballer
• 1984 - Vitaly Petrov was born. Russian racing driver
• 1985 - 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (7-6, 6-3, 6-4).
• 1985 - Yendi Phillips was born. Jamaican beauty pageant contestant.
• 1985 - John Franklin Enders dies (b. 1887). American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1986 - The first Oprah Winfrey Show airs.
• 1986 - João Moutinho was born. Portuguese football player, Sporting Lisbon midfielder.
• 1986 - Matt Grothe was born. American football player.
• 1987 - Wiz Khalifa was born. American hip-hop artist.
• 1988 - Arrelious Benn was born. American football player.
• 1988 - Caitlin Hill was born. Australian internet personality.
• 1988 – Chantal Jones, American fashion model
• 1989 - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder).
• 1990 - 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (6-2, 7-6). It was her first grand slam title.
• 1990 - Matt Barkley was born. American football player.
• 1991 - 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (6-2, 6-4, 6-0).
• 1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• 1991 - Alex North dies (b. 1910). American composer.
• 1993 - Hall Bartlett dies at 70. US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull).
• 1994 - A Boeing 737 operating USAir Flight 427 carrying 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.
• 1995 - Bosnia's warring sides reached a compromise in Geneva, agreeing to divide the nation into two states: one for the rebel Serbs and another for the Muslims and Croats.
• 1996 - Supermodel Eva Herzigova marries Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres at a star-studied wedding in the American state of New Jersey.
• 1996 - 110th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-5, 6-4).
• 1996 - 116th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (6-1, 6-4, 7-6).
• 1996 - Krystal Reyes was born. Filipina actress.
• 1997 - A Haitian ferry, the Pride of Gonave, capsized, killing about three-quarters of the 200 people aboard.
• 1997 - Kimberlea Berg was born. English actress.
• 1998 - Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season off of Steve Trachsel (Chicago Cubs), breaking Roger Maris' long standing record of 61.
• 1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. The event actually occured in the rural small community of Elk, Texas some several miles outside the Waco city limits.
• 1999 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published in the United States.
• 1999 - Moondog dies (b. 1916). American composer, musician and poet.
• 2000 - The Republic of Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Albania. World leaders ended the United Nations Millennium Summit with a pledge to solve humankind's problems, including poverty, war, pollution and human rights abuses.
• 2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by beating her sister Serena 6-2, 6-4 in the first prime-time women's Grand Slam final.
• 2001 - Durban, South Africa hosts the World Conference against Racism.
• 2002 - Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi ( 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4) to win his 14th Grand Slam title and the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
• 2002 - Georges-Andre Chevallaz dies in Lausanne (87). Former Swiss president (1980) and member of the ruling cabinet for 10 years.
• 2002 - Laurie Williams dies (b. 1968). West Indian cricketer.
• 2002 - Lucas Moreira Neves dies (b. 1925). Brazilian cardinal.
• 2003 - Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old U.S. schoolgirl, is sued by the RIAA for sharing music illegally.
• 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky dies (b. 1896). Canadian voice actress.
• 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl dies (b. 1902). German film director. Her depiction of Hitler's Nuremberg rally, "Triumph of the Will," was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made.
• 2003 - Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old, is sued by the RIAA for downloading music illegally.
• 2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 2004 - Frank Thomas dies (b. 1913). American animator.
• 2005 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
• 2005 - Maria Lúcia Medeiros dies (b. 1942). Brazilian writer.
• 2005 - Noel Cantwell dies (b. 1932). Irish cricket and football player.
• 2006 – Erk Russell dies (b. 1923). American football coach.
  
• 2006 – Frank Middlemass dies (b. 1919). English actor.
  
• 2006 - Hilda Bernstein dies (b. 1915). English-born South African author, artist, and activist.
• 2006 - Peter Brock dies (b. 1945). Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident).
• 2007 - Ramón Cardemil dies (b. 1917). Chilean huaso.
• 2008 – Ahn Jae-hwan dies (b. 1972). South Korean actor.
• 2008 - Evan Tanner dies (b. 1971). UFC Champion.
• Andorra National day: Mare de Deu de Meritxell.
• Republic of Macedonia - Independence day (from Yugoslavia1991).
• Malta - Feast of Our Lady of Victories (il-Vittorja); anniversary of the 1565 victory of the Knights of Malta over the Ottoman Empire; anniversary of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, marking the end of World War II hostilities on Malta.
• Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA.
• International Literacy Day / Dia Internacional da Alfabetização.
• Rhodri Day in Jersey, Channel Islands.
• Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Birth of Mary.
• Bahá'í Faith – Feast of 'Izzat (Might) – First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
• Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA.
• Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia.
  
• Feastday of Our Lady of Charity.
  
• National Day in North Korea.
• Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Lamego, Mangualde, Marco de Canaveses, Marvão, Montemor-o-Velho, Murtosa, Nazaré, Odemira, Ourique, Sabrosa, Ponta do Sol (Madeira).