On this day in History - Oct. 9

• 0768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are coronated Kings of France.
• 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
• 1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America.
• 1047 - Pope Clement II dies (b. 1005).
• 1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir was crowned as king of the Croatia.
• 1201 - Robert de Sorbon was born (d. 1274). French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne.
• 1221 - Salimbene di Adam was born. Italian chronicler.
• 1238 - James I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1253 - Robert Grosseteste dies. English statesman and bishop.
• 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal was born (d. 1325).
• 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany dies.
• 1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus was born (d. 1369).
• 1390 - King John I of Castile dies (b. 1358) /Morre Rei João I de Castela, de uma queda de cavalo (n. 1358).
• 1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1547 - Miguel Cervantes is baptized. Spanish novelist best known for El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. In English translation: Don Quixote.
• 1555 - Justus Jonas dies (b. 1493). German protestant reformer.
• 1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
• 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio dies (b. 1523). Italian anatomist and inventor of the condom.
• 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa dies (b. 1533). Russian prince.
• 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was born (d. 1638). French mathematician.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz was born (d. 1672). German composer.
• 1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria was born (d. 1632). Regent of Tyrol.
• 1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
• 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki dies (b. 1537). Japanese shogun.
• 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
• 1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• 1688 - Claude Perrault dies (born 1613). Architect, physician and physicist. He was the architect of the oldest building of the Paris Observatory when it was founded in 1667 by King Louis XIV.
• 1691 - William Sacheverell dies (b. 1638). English statesman.
• 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• 1704 - Ján Andrej Segner was born (d. 5 Oct 1777). Slovak and German physicist and mathematician who recognized the surface tension of liquids.
• 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland dies (b. 1640). English mistress of Charles II of England.
• 1729 - Richard Blackmore dies (b. 1654). English physician and writer.
• 1740 - D. Luís da Cunha dies (b. 1662). Portuguese diplomat.
• 1757 - King Charles X of France was born (d. 1836).
• 1760 - Seven Year's War: Russia conquers Berlin.
• 1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
• 1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 1781 - Dionisio de Herrera was born. President of Honduras (1824-1827).
• 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot dies (b. 1718). French missionary.
• 1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger was born (d. 1878). English Egyptologist.
• 1797 - Vilna Gaon dies (b. 1720). Lithuanian rabbi.
• 1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
• 1801 - Auguste-Arthur de La Rive was born (d. 1873). Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries.
• 1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
• 1806 - Prussia declares war to France.
• 1806 - Benjamin Banneker dies (b. 9 Nov 1731). American astronomer, mathematician, author and clockmaker.
• 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
• 1818 - Francisco Navarro Villoslada was born. Spanish writer.
• 1820 - Guayaquil declared independence from Spain.
• 1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
• 1831 - Capo d'Istria was assassinated.
• 1831 - John Capodistria dies (b. 1776). Governor of Greece.
• 1833 - Eugen Langen was born (d. 2 Oct 1895). German engineer who pioneered in building internal-combustion engines.
• 1835 - Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
• 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns was born (d. 1921). French composer.
• 1837 - A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
• 1840 - Simeon Solomon was born (d. 1905). British artist.
• 1841 - Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 6º vez) a presidência do México.
• 1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer was born (d. 15 Jul 1919). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1902, in recognition of his investigations of the sugar and purine groups of substances.
• 1853 - José do Patrocínio was born (d. 1905). Brazilian writer, journalist and abolicionist / Nasce José do Patrocínio (m. 1905). Jornalista, orador, poeta e romancista brasileiro, destacada figura abolicionista.
• 1854 - Crimean War: Beginning of the siege of Sebastopol.
• 1855 - The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer of New York.
• 1855 - The first calliope is patented by Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus was born (d. 1935). French military officer.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Union troops repel Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
• 1867 - Camões Statue by sculptor Vitor Bastos is inaugurated in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
• 1871 - Didak Buntić was born. Croatian monk and scholar.
• 1871 - George Gauthier was born (d. 1940). Bishop of Montreal and rector of the University of Montreal.
• 1873 - Carl Flesch was born (d. 1944). Hungarian violinist.
• 1873 - Charles Walgreen was born (d. 1939). American entrepreneur.
• 1873 - Karl Schwarzschild was born (d. 11 May 1916). German theoretical astrophysicist, born in Frankfurt, Germany, who made both practical and theoretical contributions to 20th-century astronomy.
• 1873 - George Ormerod dies (b. 1785). English historian and antiquarian.
• 1874 - General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
• 1874 - Nicholas Roerich was born (d. 1947). Russian painter.
• 1879 - Max von Laue was born (d. 23 Apr 1960). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals.
• 1885 - Francisco Franco de Sousa was born in Funchal, Madeira. Portuguese sculptor / Nascia, no Funchal, ilha da Madeira, Francisco Franco de Sousa (m. 15 Fev 1955). Escultor português.
• 1886 - Rube Marquard was born (d. 1980). American baseball player.
• 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was born (d. 1938). Russian politician.
• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson was born (d. 1944). American evangelist.
• 1890 - It is reported, however without evidence, French electrical engineer Clément Ader was the first person to actually fly an airplane, but his steam-powered bat-like plane, "Eole", only rose a few inches off the ground. Ader coined the french word "avion" for aircraft. It is said to mean Appareil Volant Imitant les Oisaux Naturels: Flying Machine Imitating Natural Birds.
• 1892 - Ivo Andrić was born (d. 1975). Croatian writer.
• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva was born (d. 1941). Russian poet.
• 1893 - Mário de Andrade was born (d. 1945). Brazilian writer and photographer / Nasce, em S. Paulo, Mário de Andrade (m. 1945). Escritor brasileiro e idealizador da Semana de Arte Moderna.
• 1899 - Bruce Catton was born (d. 1978). American journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954.
• 1900 - Alastair Sim was born (d. 1976). Scottish actor.
• 1900 - Ismael Nery was born (d. 1934). Brazilian painter who was a pioneer of the surrealism in Brazil.
• 1900 – Joseph Friedman was born (d. 1982). American inventor.
• 1902 - Freddie Young was born (d. 1998). British cinematographer.
• 1903 - Walter O'Malley was born (d. 1979). American baseball executive.
• 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor was born (d. 2001). Senegalese poet and politician who was President of Senegal (1960-1980).
• 1906 - Joseph Farwell Glidden dies (b. 18 Jan 1813). A native of New Hampshire, Glidden was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire, patented 24 Nov 1874, a product that would transform the West.
• 1909 - Jacques Tati was born (d. 4 Nov 1982). French Academy Award-winning director: Mon Oncle [1958].
• 1907 - Quintin Hogg was born (d. 2001). British politician.
• 1908 - Harry Hooton was born (d. 1961). Australian poet.
• 1908 – Lee Wiley was born (d. 1975). American jazz singer.
• 1909 - Donald Coggan was born (d. 2000). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire.
• 1911 - Joe Rosenthal was born. American photographer.
• 1911 - Antonio Borrero y Cortázar dies (b. 29 Oct 1827). President of Ecuador (1875-1876).
• 1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 1915 - Clifford M. Hardin was born. United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• 1916 - Jean Dausset was born. French physician and imunologist.
• 1918 - O príncipe Friedrich Karl é eleito rei da Finlândia.
• 1918 – E. Howard Hunt was born (d. 2007). American Watergate figure.
• 1918 - Lila Kedrova was born (d. 2000). Russian-born actress.
• 1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
• 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe was born (d. 1976). Norwegian author.
• 1921 - Michel Boisrond was born (d. 2002). French film director.
• 1922 - Léon Dion was born (d. 1997). Quebec political scientist.
• 1922 - Fyvush Finkel was born. American actor.
• 1924 - Valery Bryusov dies (b. 1873). Russian writer and critic.
• 1925 - Johnny Stompanato was born (d. 1958). American organized crime figure.
• 1926 - Danièle Delorme was born. French actress.
• 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara was born. Finnish composer.
• 1931 - Tony Booth was born. British actor and father of Cherie Blair.
• 1932 - Karl (Immanuel Eberhard) von Goebel dies (b. 8 Mar 1855). German botanist whose Organographie der Pflanzen (1898-1901; Organography of Plants, 1900-05) clarified the principles of the science of plant morphology in relation to form and structure.
• 1933 - Meteor shower: a great unpredicted meteor shower was seen from Europe that surprised astronomers. Dr. W.J. Fisher, a Harvard astronomer, identified the Giacobini-Zinner comet as the cause.
• 1933 – Judy Tyler was born (d. 1957). American actress.
• 1933 - Peter Mansfield was born. British physician.
• 1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (b. 1888) and Louis Barthou this accidentally (b. 1862). Foreign Minister and before Prime Minister of France.
• 1934 - Jill Ker Conway was born. Australian-American author.
• 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia dies assassinated (b. 1888).
• 1934 - Louis Barthou dies assassinated (b. 1862). Prime Minister of France.
• 1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent was born. Member of the British Royal Family.
• 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
• 1937 – Brian Blessed was born. English actor.
• 1938 - The radio altimeter is first demonstrated in New York by Bell Labs, in the first public display of the device that gives pilots the height of an aircraft above the local terrain by bouncing radio signals off the ground to give a reliable altitude reading, thus changing aviation forever.
• 1938 – Heinz Fischer was born. Austrian politician.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
• 1940 – Joe Pepitone was born. American baseball player.
• 1940 - John Lennon was born (d. 1980). British musician and songwriter (The Beatles).
• 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell dies (b. 1865). Medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
• 1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango new president.
• 1941 – Brian Lamb was born. Founder of C-SPAN.
• 1941 – Chucho Valdés was born. Cuban musician.
• 1941 – Karam ud Din was born (d. 2008). Pakistani Navy officer.
• 1941 - Trent Lott was born. American politician.
• 1941 - Helen Morgan dies (b. 1900). American singer and actress.
• 1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
• 1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
• 1943 – Douglas Kirby was born. Research scientist.
• 1943 - Mike Peters was born. American cartoonist.
• 1943 - Pieter Zeeman dies (b. 1865). Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1902 (shared with Hendrik A. Lorentz ) for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
• 1944 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
• 1944 - John Entwistle was born (d. 2002). British musician (The Who).
• 1944 - Nona Hendryx was born. American singer (LaBelle).
• 1945 - Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients.
• 1945 - Taiguara was born (d. 1996). Brazilian musician.
• 1946 - the Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., manufactured the first electric blanket. Its price was $39.50.
• 1946 – Tansu Çiller was born. Prime Minister of Turkey.
• 1947 - France Gall was born. French singer.
• 1947 - Tony Zappone was born. American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer.
• 1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr. was born (d. 2007). American lawyer.
• 1948 - Jackson Browne was born. American musician.
• 1949 - Maria Cláudia was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1950 – Brian Downing was born. American baseball player.
• 1950 - Jody Williams was born. American teacher and aid worker who was the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• 1950 – Reichi Nakaido was born. Japanese rock guitarist.
• 1950 - Robert Wuhl was born. Emmy Award-winning writer: The 63rd Annual Academy Awards [1991], The 64th Annual Academy Awards [1992]; actor: A Kiss Goodnight, Cobb, The Bodyguard, Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance.
• 1950 - Demetrio Herrera Sevillano dies (b. 1902). Panamanian poet.
• 1950 - George Hainsworth dies (b. 1895). National Hockey League goaltender.
• 1952 - Sharon Osbourne was born. English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne.
• 1953 - Tony Shalhoub was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba was born. African politician.
• 1954 - James Fearnley was born. English musician (The Pogues).
• 1954 - John O'Hurley was born. American actor and game show host.
• 1954 – Scott Bakula was born. American actor.
• 1955 – Linwood Boomer was born. Canadian writer.
• 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer dies (b. 1875). Archbishop of Vienna.
• 1956 - Marie Doro dies (b. 1882). American actress.
• 1957 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
• 1957 - Don Garber was born. American sports commissioner.
• 1958 - Al Jourgensen was born. American musician (Ministry).
• 1958 - Michael Pare was born. American actor.
• 1958 – Mike Singletary was born. Former American football player.
• 1958 - Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) dies (b. 1876); 261st pope.
• 1959 - Sir Henry Tizard dies (b. 1885). Scientist and administrator. Around 1920, with David Pye, his work on aircraft fuels ultimately led to the octane rating system, which expresses the anti-knocking characteristics of the fuel.
• 1960 - Kenny Garrett was born. American jazz saxophonist.
• 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
• 1961 - Julian Bailey was born. British racing driver.
• 1962 - Milan Vidmar dies (b. 1885). Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player.
• 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent republic from Great-Britain.
• 1962 - Jorge Burruchaga was born. Argentinian football player.
• 1963 - Edward Mutesa assume a presidência de Uganda.
• 1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
• 1964 - Guillermo del Toro was born. Mexican actor and film director.
• 1964 - Bobby Flay was born. American celebrity chef and restaurateur.
• 1964 – John Ralston was born. Canadian actor.
• 1966 - Christopher Östlund was born. Swedish Publisher and entrepreneur.
• 1966 – David Cameron was born. British politician.
• 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara (b. 1928) is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso was born. Canadian professional tennis player.
• 1967 – Eddie Guerrero was born (d. 2005). American professional wrestler.
• 1967 - Che Guevara dies executed (b. 1928). Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader.
• 1967 - André Maurois dies (b. 1885). French writer.
  
• 1967 - Gordon Allport dies (b. 11 Nov 1897). Humanistic psychologist and educator who developed trait theory in an original theory of personality.
• 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood dies (b. 1897). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1967 - Gheorge Popescu was born. Romanian footbal player.
• 1968 - Pierre Mulele dies (b. 1929). Congolese revolutionary.
• 1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
• 1969 - Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
• 1969 – P.J. Harvey was born. English musician.
• 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• 1970 - Annika Sörenstam was born. Swedish golfer.
• 1970 - Jason Butler Harner was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Kenny Anderson was born. American basketball player.
• 1970 - Park Sang-min was born. South Korean actor.
• 1970 - Savannah was born (d. 1994). American actress.
• 1971 – Jason Jones was born. American filmmaker and humanitarian.
• 1971 - Michael Manna was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 - Simon Atlee was born (d. 2004). British Photographer, most notable person killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake.
• 1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh was born. Australian actor.
• 1972 - Miriam Hopkins dies (b. 1902). American actress.
• 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi becomes F1 World Champion.
• 1973 - Carlos Pavón was born. Honduran footballer.
• 1973 - Erin Daniels was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Fabio Lione was born. Italian musician (Rhapsody).
• 1973 - Steven Burns was born. Actor and musician.
• 1973 - Terry Balsamo was born. American guitarist.
• 1974 - Kieren Hutchison was born. New Zealand actor.
• 1974 - Oskar Schindler dies (b.28 Apr 1908). German businessman who saved Jews.
• 1975 - Nobel Peace Prize is attributed to the soviet dissident, physician Andreï Dmitrievitch Sakharov in recognition of his struggle against "the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms."
• 1975 – Mark Viduka was born. Australian footballer.
• 1975 – Rale Micic was born. Serbian musician.
• 1975 – Sean Lennon was born. American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon.
• 1976 - Nick Swardson was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Walter Warlimont dies (b. 1894). German General WWII.
• 1977 - Brian Roberts was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 – Juan Dixon was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Nicky Byrne was born. Irish musician (Westlife).
• 1978 - Jacques Brel dies (b. 1929). Belgian musician.
• 1979 - Alex Greenwald was born. American musician (Phantom Planet), actor and model.
• 1979 - Brandon Routh was born. American actor.
• 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo was born. Uruguayan footballer.
• 1979 - Todd Kelly was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg was born. Swedish ice hockey player.
• 1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel was born. Maldivian footballer.
• 1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
• 1981 - Peter Hill was born. British music photographer.
• 1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan was born. American actor.
• 1982 - António Mendonça was born. Angolan football player.
• 1982 - Shi Jun was born. Chinese footballer.
• 1982 - Anna Freud dies (b. 3 Dec 1895). Austrian scientist, psychoanalyst [The ego and mechanisms of defense (1936)].
• 1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survived but the blast killed 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, whilst 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also died in the blast.
• 1983 - Andreas Zuber was born. Austrian racing driver.
• 1983 - Jang Mi-Ran was born. South Korean weightlifter.
• 1983 - Stephen Gionta was born. American ice hockey player.
  
• 1984 - Ghetto was born. British musician.
• 1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.
• 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici dies (b. 1905). President of Brazil.
• 1985 - Henriqueta Lisboa dies. Brazilian writer.
• 1986 - Laure Manaudou was born. French swimmer.
• 1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
• 1986 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
• 1986 - The FOX Network begins broadcasting.
• 1986 – Laure Manaudou was born. French swimmer.
• 1987 – Bill Walker was born. American basketball player.
• 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce dies (b. 1903). American diplomat.
• 1987 - Luis Veiga Leitão dies in Niterói, Brazil (b. in Moimenta da Beira, 27 May 1912). Portuguese poet.
• 1987 - Guru Gopinath dies (b. 1908). Indian classical dancer
• 1987 - William Parry Murphy dies (b. 1892). American physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1934.
• 1988 - Thousands of Latvians start a mass movement to press Moscow for greater independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1988 - Valencia (Espanha) : São inauguradas as primeiras linhas subterraneas de metro.
• 1988 - Felix Wankel dies (b. 13 Aug 1902). German engineer who invented the first rotary internal combustion engine (Wankel Rotary Combustion Engines and Vehicles).
• 1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
• 1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
• 1989 - Penny Lernoux dies (b. 1940). American journalist and author.
• 1990 - Géza Ottlik dies (b. 1912). Hungarian writer
• 1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1991 - Em Bruxelas, o escritor português Vergílio Ferreira é distinguido com o Prémio Europália/91.
• 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
• 1992 - Tyler James Williams was born. American actor.
• 1994 - Jodelle Ferland was born. Canadian actress.
• 1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
• 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home dies (b. 1903). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1996 - Walter Kerr dies (b. 1913). American theater critic.
• 1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Richard E. Smalley, and Sir Harold W. Kroto, share the Nobel Prize in chemistry "for their discovery of fullerenes". Three US scientists, David M. Lee, 65, Douglas D. Osheroff, 51, and Robert C. Richardson, 59, win the physics prize "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3".
• 1996 - Walter Kerr dies (b. 1913). American theater critic.
• 1997 - Renúncia do primeiro-ministro da Itália, Romano Prodi.
• 1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
• 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan dies (b. 1914). Pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries
• 1999 - João Cabral de Melo Neto dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 6 Jan 1920, in Recife, Pernambuco). Brazilian poet and diplomat who won The Camões Prize in 1990.
• 1999 - Milt Jackson dies (b. 1923). American jazz vibraphonist.
• 2000 - The Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2000 is shared by Arvid Carlsson, 77, Paul Greengard, 74, and Eric Kandel, 70, for their pioneering discoveries concerning one way brain cells send messages to each other, called "slow synaptic transmission.” These discoveries have been crucial for understanding how the brain normally works. In addition, the work laid the groundwork for developing the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease and contributed to the development of a class of antidepressants that includes Prozac.
• 2000 - David Dukes dies (b. 1945). American actor.
  
• 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous dies (b. 1918). Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  
• 2001 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, 39 (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology , Boulder, Colorado), Carl E. Wieman, 50 (JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder), and to Wolfgang Ketterle, 43, (German, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts) "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".