On this day in History - Oct. 13

• 0054 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies (b. 10 BC) after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina. Nero ascends to the Roman throne.
• 0409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
• 0709 - Emperor Kōnin was born (d. 0781). Emperor of Japan.
• 1066 - Death of St. Edward, "the Confessor," King of England.
• 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders dies.
• 1162 - Leonora of England was born (d. 1214). Wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
• 1195 - Morte Gualdim Pais (1118-1195), mestre da Ordem dos Templários em Portugal, e companheiro de Afonso Henriques, primeiro rei de Portugal.
• 1244 – Jaques de Molay was born (d. 1314). Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
• 1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
• 1296 - Ílhavo recebe foral de D. Dinis.
• 1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
• 1332 - Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan became the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
• 1381 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel was born (d. 1415). English politician.
• 1399 - Coronation of Henry IV as King of England.
• 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel dies (b. 1381). English military leader.
• 1453 - Edward of Westminster was born (d. 1471). Prince of Wales.
• 1474 - Mariotto Albertinelli was born (d. 1515). Italian painter.
• 1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
• 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros dies (b. 1446). English politician.
• 1534 - Início do pontificado do Papa Paulo III.
• 1563 - Francesco Caracciolo was born. Italian religious founder and saint (Caracciolini), canonized by Pio VII on 24 May 1807.
• 1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork was born (d. 1643). Irish politician.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1605 - Theodore Beza dies (b. 1519). French theologian.
• 1613 – Luisa of Medina-Sidonia was born (d. 1666). Queen of Portugal / Nasce D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão, rainha de Portugal (esposa de D. João IV).
• 1666 - Morre D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (n. 1608). Militar e escritor português.
• 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel dies (b. 1617). Danish statesman.
• 1687 - Geminiano Montanari dies (b. 1633). Italian astronomer.
• 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf dies (b. 1632). German jurist.
• 1696 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey was born (d. 1743). English statesman and writer.
• 1706 - Iyasus the Great dies (b. 1682). Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1713 - Allan Ramsay was born (d. 1784). Scottish painter.
• 1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger was born (d. 1778). Dutch philologist.
• 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche dies (b. 1638). French philosopher.
• 1754 - Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) was born (d. 22 Jul 1832). American heroine.
• 1759 - John Henley dies (b. 1692). English minister.
• 1768 – Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin was born (d. 1839). French explorer.
  
• 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier.
  
• 1773 - Nascimento de Luís Filipe I da França (rei da França 1830-1848).
• 1775 - The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
• 1777 – After his defeat on October 7, 1777, General John Burgoyne's Army at The Battles of Saratoga become surrounded by superior numbers, setting the stage for its surrender — which feat of arms inspires the Kingdom of France to enter the American Revolutionary War against the British.
• 1784 - Ferdinand VII was born (d. 1833). King of Spain.
• 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent dies (b. 1702). Irish politician and poet.
• 1789 - Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza was born in Vera Cruz (d. 23 Oct. 1851). Mexican writer.
• 1792 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
• 1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
• 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock dies killed in battle (b. 1769). British general.
• 1815 - Joachim Murat dies executed (b. 1767). French marshal and King of Naples.
• 1820 – John William Dawson was born (d. 1899). Canadian geologist.
• 1821 - Rudolf Virchow was born (d. 1902). German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician.
• 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria dies (b. 1756).
• 1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
• 1844 – Ernest Myers was born (d. 1921). English poet, Classicist and author.
  
• 1845 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
• 1853 - Lillie Langtry was born (d. 1929). British actress.
• 1862 - Mary Kingsley was born (d. 1900). English writer and explorer.
• 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve dies (b. 1804). French literary critic.
• 1870 - The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by six pioneering women.
• 1874 – József Klekl was born (d. 1948). Slovene politician in Hungary.
  
• 1876 - Rube Waddell was born (d. 1914). American baseball player.
• 1878 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan was born (d. 1952). Australian Roman Catholic priest.
  
• 1880 - Sasha Cherny was born (d. 1932). Russian poet.
• 1881 - Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
• 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau dies (b. 1816). French philosopher.
• 1884 - Greenwich was established as universal time meridian of longitude.
• 1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1887 - Charles Stevenson was born in Sacramento, California (d. 4 Jul 1943). American actor.
• 1887 – Jozef Tiso was born (d. 1947). Slovak politician.
• 1890 - The Delta Chi Fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
• 1890 - Criação do Jogo do Bicho, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ, pelo Barão de Drumond, para ajudar o Jardim Zoológico.
• 1890 – Conrad Richter was born (d. 1968). American novelist and short story writer.
  
• 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller dies (b. 1816). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14.
• 1895 – Mike Gazella was born (d. 1978). American baseball player.
• 1896 – E. Beatrice Riley was born (d. 2009). Australian supercentenarian.
• 1900 – Gerald Marks was born (d. 1997). American songwriter.
• 1902 – Arna Wendell Bontemps was born (d. 1973). American writer.
  
• 1904 - Sigmund Freud's “The Interpretation of Dreams” was published.
• 1904 – Wilfred Pickles was born (d. 1978). English actor and broadcaster.
  
• 1904 - Pavlos Melas dies (b. 1870). Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
• 1905 – Coloman Braun-Bogdan was born (d. 1983). Romanian football midfielder and manager.
  
• 1905 - Sir Henry Irving dies (b. 1838). The first British actor to be knighted.
• 1907 - Yves Allégret was born (d. 1987). French film director.
• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia dies (b. 1849). Spanish free-thinker.
• 1909 - Art Tatum was born († 1956). American jazz pianist
• 1909 - Herbert Block was born (d. 2001). American cartoonist.
• 1911 - Ashok Kumar was born (d. 2001). Indian actor.
• 1913 – Igor Torkar was born (d. 2004). Slovenian writer.
  
• 1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
• 1915 - Cornel Wilde was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1915 - Terry Frost was born (d. 2003). English artist.
• 1916 - Edu da Gaita was born (d. 1982). Brazilian musician.
• 1917 - The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 persons in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal.
• 1917 - Burr Tillstrom was born (d. 6 Dec 1985). American puppeteer (Berlin Wall Hand Ballet, That was the Week that Was [1965-66]; Kukla, Fran & Ollie).
• 1917 – George Virl Osmond was born (d. 2007). Osmond family patriarch.
  
• 1917 - Laraine Day was born. American actor.
• 1917 - Florence La Badie dies. American actress.
• 1918 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
• 1918 - Robert Hudson Walker was born (d. 1951). American actor.
• 1919 - Coelho e Campos dies (b. 4 Feb. 1843). Brazilian politician.
  
• 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup dies (b. 1857). Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1920 – Laraine Day was born (d. 2007). American actress.
  
• 1921 - Yves Montand was born (d. 1991). Italian-born French singer and actor.
• 1923 - Ankara replaces Constantinople as the capital of Turkey.
• 1923 – Cyril Shaps was born (d. 2003). English actor.
• 1923 - Faas Wilkes was born (d. 2006). Dutch football (soccer) player.
• 1924 - Jose Donoso was born in Santiago (d. 1996). Chilean writer.
• 1924 – Moturu Udayam was born (d. 2002). Indian women's activist.
  
• 1924 - Nipsey Russell was born. American comedian, actor, and television personality.
• 1924 - Roberto Eduardo Viola was born. President of Argentine (1981).
• 1925 - Gustav Winckler was born (d. 1979). Danish singer.
• 1925 - Lenny Bruce was born (d. 1966). American comedian.
• 1925 - Margaret Thatcher was born. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1926 - Ray Brown was born (d. 2002). American jazz bassist.
• 1926 – Walter "Killer" Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian Wrestler (d. 2008)
• 1926 - Hans E. Kinck dies (b. 1865). Norwegian author and philologist.
• 1927 - Lee Konitz was born. American jazz saxophonist.
• 1927 - Turgut Özal was born. President of Turkey (1989-1993).
• 1930 - Bispo de Leiria torna público, oficialmente, as aparições de Fátima.
• 1931 - Eddie Mathews was born (d. 2001). Baseball player.
• 1931 - Raymond Kopa was born. French footballer.
• 1931 - Ernst Didring dies (b. 1868). Swedish author.
• 1932 - Jack Colvin was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1933 – Baron Bingham of Cornhill was born. Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
• 1933 – Raynald Frechette was born (d. 2007). Quebec politician and judge.
• 1933 – Queen Narriman was born (d. 2005). Second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad.
  
• 1934 - Nana Mouskouri was born. Greek singer.
• 1937 – Sami Frey was born. French actor.
• 1938 - Em Lisboa, inauguração da Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, da autoria de Pardal Monteiro.
• 1938 - Hugo Young was born (d. 2003). English journalist.
• 1938 - E.C. Segar dies (b. 1894). American cartoonist (Popeye) / Morre o desenhador e cartoonista americano Elzie Segar, inventor do marinheiro Popeye.
• 1939 – Melinda Dillon was born. American actress.
• 1939 - T. J. Cloutier was born. American poker player.
• 1940 - Pharoah Sanders was born. American saxophonist.
• 1941 - Paul Simon was born. American singer, songwriter, and guitarist [ duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; solo: Mother and Child Reunion, Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin’ Away; LP: Graceland; Wonderful World [with Art Garfunkel, James Taylor]; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; in film: Annie Hall].
• 1942 – Bob Bailey was born. American baseball player.
• 1942 – Jerry Jones was born. American football team owner.
• 1942 – Pamela Tiffin was born. American film actress.
• 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
• 1943 – Mike Barnicle was born. American newspaper columnist.
• 1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia, is liberated by the Red Army.
• 1944 - Robert Lamm was born. American musician (Chicago).
• 1945 - Christophe was born. French singer.
• 1945 – Dési Bouterse was born. Surinam politician.
• 1945 - Milton S. Hershey dies (b. 1857). American chocolate tycoon.
• 1946 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
• 1946 - Edwina Currie was born. British politician.
• 1947 – Alan Wakeman was born. English saxophonist (Soft Machine).
• 1947 – Jerry Trupiano was born. American sports broadcaster.
• 1947 - Sammy Hagar was born. American singer.
• 1948 - John Ford Coley was born. American musician.
• 1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born (d. 1997). Pakistani musician and singer.
  
• 1948 - Ted Poe was born. American politician.
• 1949 – Marisol Malaret was born. Miss Universe 1970.
• 1949 - Tom Mees was born (d. 1996). Sports broadcaster.
• 1949 – Patrick Nève was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1950 - Dan Seals was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1950 - Fagner was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1950 - Ernest Haycox dies (b. 1899). American write
• 1952 - Beverly Johnson was born. American supermodel, actress: The Cover Girl Murders, Ashanti, Land of No Mercy.
• 1952 – John Lone was born. Hong Kong actor.
• 1953 - Pat Day was born. American jockey.
• 1954 - Claude Ribbe was born. French historian.
• 1954 - George Frazier was born. Baseball player.
• 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu was born. Israeli nuclear technician.
• 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho dies (b. 1897). President of Mexico (1940-46).
• 1955 - Morte da Venerável Alexandrina - Alexandrina Maria da Costa (Portugal).
• 1956 - Chris Carter was born. American television producer.
• 1956 – Joseph Anthony Toal, Roman Catholic Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, Scotland
• 1956 - Judy Blumberg was born. Skater.
• 1957 – Reggie Theus was born. American basketball player and head coach.
• 1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
• 1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells was born. American musician and composer.
• 1958 – Maria Cantwell was born. American politician, junior senator from Washington.
  
• 1959 - Marie Osmond was born. American singer, actress, and television personality.
• 1960 - 1960 World Series: Baseballer Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run.
• 1960 - Ari Fleischer was born. White House Press Secretary.
• 1960 – Joey Belladonna was born. American musician (Anthrax).
• 1960 – Peter Keisler was born. United States attorney general.
• 1960 – Tim Brewster was born. American football coach.
• 1961 - Amílcar Cabral dirige uma carta aberta ao governo português reclamando a independência da Guiné e do arquipélago de Cabo Verde.
• 1961 – Derek Harper was born. American basketball player.
• 1961 - Doc Rivers was born. Basketball player and coach.
• 1962 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.
• 1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150mph at several locations; 46 people died.
• 1962 - Kelly Preston was born. American actress (For Love and Honor, Cheyenne Warrior, Double Cross, Love is a Gun, Only You, The Perfect Bride, Amazon Women on the Moon); actor John Travolta’s wife.
• 1962 - Jerry Rice was born. American football star.
• 1962 - T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh was born. American actress.
• 1963 – Chip Foose was born. Renowned automotive designer and fabricator.
• 1963 – Colin Channer was born. Jamaican writer.
• 1964 – Allen Covert was born. American actor.
• 1964 – Christopher Judge was born. American actor.
• 1964 – Marco Travaglio was born. Italian journlaist.
• 1964 - Nie Haisheng was born. Chinese astronaut.
• 1965 - Johan Museeuw was born. Belgian cyclist.
• 1966 - Clifton Webb dies (b. 1889). American actor.
• 1966 - Javier Lopez Cantu was born. American Latino painter.
• 1967 - The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lost to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
• 1967 - Javier Sotomayor was born. Cuban athlet, jumper, World record 1989.
• 1967 – Kate Walsh was born. American actress
• 1967 - Scott Cooper was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Steve Vickers was born. English footballer.
• 1967 – Trevor Hoffman was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 - Carlos Marin was born. Spanish baritone (Il Divo).
• 1968 – Tisha Campbell-Martin was born. American actress and singer.
• 1968 - Bea Benaderet dies (b. 1906). American actress.
• 1968 - Manuel Bandeira dies (b. 1886). Brazilian writer.
• 1969 - Cady McClain was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan was born. American figure skater.
• 1969 - Rhett Akins was born. American country singer.
• 1970 - As Ilhas Fiji são admitidas como Estado-Membro da ONU.
• 1970 - Mel Jackson was born. Actor and R&B musician.
• 1970 – Paul Potts was born. British Opera singer and winner of Britain's Got Talent.
  
• 1970 – Rob Howley was born. Welsh rugby player.
• 1970 - Serena Altschul was born. American reporter.
• 1971 - 1971 World Series: The first night game in World Series history is contested at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 1971 - Billy Bush was born. American TV host.
• 1971 – Hitesh Modi was born. Kenyan cricketer.
• 1971 – Luis Tosar was born. Spanish actor.
• 1971 - Pyrros Dimas was born. Albanian weightlifter.
• 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen was born. British comedian.
• 1971 - Stafford Smythe dies. National Hockey League executive.
• 1972 - Andes flight disaster: An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive, as chronicled in the 1993 film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.
• 1972 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 all 16 survivors were rescued.
• 1972 - Summer Sanders was born. American Olympic swimmer.
• 1973 - The British progressive rock band Family perform their last concert at Leicester Polytechnic in Leicester, England, prior to their disbandment.
• 1973 - Brian Dawkins was born. American football player.
• 1973 - Matt Hughes was born. American mixed martial artist.
• 1973 - Nanako Matsushima was born. Japanese actress.
• 1973 – Peter Dumbreck was born. Scottish racing driver.
• 1974 - Hawick Lau was born. Chinese actor and singer.
• 1974 - Joseph Utsler was born. American rapper (Insane Clown Posse).
• 1974 - Ed Sullivan dies (b. 1901). American television personality.
• 1975 - Tom Anderson was born. American entrepreneur.
• 1975 - David Kennedy was born. American musician (Boxcar Racer, Angels and Airwaves).
• 1975 - Patrícia Lucchesi was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
• 1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
• 1977 - Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
• 1977 - Gareth Batty was born. English cricketer.
• 1977 - Kiele Sanchez was born. American actress.
• 1977 - Paul Pierce was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties.
• 1978 - Jermaine O'Neal was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Katie Walder was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Wes Brown was born. English football player.
• 1979 - Rebecca Clarke dies (b. 1886). English composer and violist.
• 1980 - Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1980 - Ashanti was born. American singer.
• 1980 – David Haye was born. English heavyweight boxer.
• 1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall was born. American singer (Kutless).
• 1980 - Magne Hoseth was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1980 - Scott Parker was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• 1981 - Kele Okereke was born. Lead singer of Bloc Party.
• 1981 - Ryan Ashford was born. English football player.
• 1982 - Mexican Alonso García Robles receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1982 - Ian Thorpe was born. Australian swimmer.
• 1982 - Michael Clayton was born. American football player.
• 1983 - The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven, the largest crew to date, landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• 1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
• 1984 – Frank Simek was born. American footballer.
• 1984 – Misono was born. Japanese singer (Day After Tomorrow).
• 1986 – Gabriel Agbonlahor was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of a Central American peace plan.
• 1987 – Ashley Newbrough was born. American actress.
• 1987 - Sarmento Pimentel dies in S. Paulo, Brazil (b. 1888). Portuguese memorialist and politician.
  
• 1987 - Walter Brattain dies (b. 1902). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1988 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, was named recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1988 – Scott Jamieson was born. Australian football (soccer) player.
• 1988 - Mike Venezia dies (b. 1945). American jockey.
• 1990 - End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
• 1990 - Le Duc Tho dies (b. 1911). Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1991 - Daniel Oduber Quirós dies. Presidente of Costa Rica (1974-1978).
• 1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashed near Kiev, Ukraine.
• 1992 – Aaron Dismuke was born. American voice actor.
• 1993 - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew
• 1994 - Kenzabuto Oe, Japanese novelist, won the Noble prize for literature. His work included “An Echo of Heaven.”
• 1995 - British physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he founded, the Pugwash Conference, were named winners of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1998 - The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Robert B. Laughlin of Stanford, Horst L. Stormer of Columbia Univ. and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton for their work on the fractional quantum Hall effect where groups of electrons act as if they are quarks.
• 1998 - The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Walter Kohn of UC Santa Barbara and John Pople (d.2004) of Northwestern Univ. for their work in computational chemistry.
• 1999 - Golpe militar no Paquistão.
• 1999 - Robert A. Mundell (66), a Canadian born professor at Columbia Univ., won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of cross-border capital flows, flexible foreign exchange rates, and supply side economics.
• 1999 - France legalized same sex unions under legislation called "civil solidarity pacts" pushed through by the Socialist-dominated National Assembly.
• 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
• 2000 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South- Korea, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to make peace with North Korea.
• 2000 - Jean Peters dies (b. 1926). American actress.
• 2001 - Anthrax was confirmed in 3 US states. In Florida 5 more employees tested positive; in Nevada a letter sent to a Microsoft office tested positive; and in NYC a letter sent to NBC News tested positive.
• 2001 - Peter Doyle dies (b. 1949). Australian pop singer (The New Seekers).
• 2002 - Stephen Ambrose dies (b. 1936). American historian and biographer.
• 2002 - O Brasil sagra-se campeão mundial de Voleibol masculino ao vencer a Rússia.
• 2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
• 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse dies (b. 1918). Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 2004 - Enrique Fernando dies (b. 1915). Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court.
  
• 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones dies (b. 1942). American civil rights activist.
• 2006 - Wang Guangmei dies (b. 1921). Chinese first lady.
• 2007 - Bob Denard dies (b. 1929). French mercenary.
• 2008 – Alexei Cherepanov dies (b. 1989). Russian ice hockey player.
  
• Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
• RC Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac, optional feast of Our Lady of Fatima
• French Republican Calendar - Pêche (Peach) Day, twenty-second day in the Month of Vendémiaire
• John Peel Day - A day celebrating the life and influence of the late John Peel.