On this day in History - Jan. 11

• 0314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
• 0347– Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome was born (d. 0395).
• 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 0630 - El profeta y fundador del Islam, Mahoma, destruye la idolatría del santuario de la Kaaba en La Meca.
• 0705 - Pope John VI dies. 85th Pope.
• 0802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia dies.
• 0812 - Stauracius dies. Byzantine Emperor.
  
• 0844 - Michael I Rhangabes dies. Byzantine Emperor.
• 0889 – Abd-ar-Rahman III was born (d. 0961). Emir and Caliph of Cordoba.
• 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos dies (b. 1000). Byzantine Emperor.
• 1083 – Otto of Nordheim dies (b. c. 1020). Duke of Bavaria.
  
• 1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
• 1284 - En una compilación titulada Recognoverunt Proceres, el rey de Aragón Pedro III otorga privilegios civiles y económicos a los barceloneses.
• 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan was born (d. 1380).
• 1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan was born (d. 1393).
• 1395 - Michelle of Valois was born (d. 1422). Duchess of Burgundy.
• 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio dies (b. 1449). Italian artist.
• 1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza dies (b. 1428). Spanish cardinal and statesman.
• 1503 - Parmigianino was born (d. 1540). Italian artist.
• 1519 - Maximiliano I de Austria, fallecimiento de, padre de Felipe el Hermoso y abuelo de Carlos I de España.
• 1547 – Pietro Bembo dies (b. 1470). Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal.
  
• 1569 - First recorded lottery in England.
• 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
• 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex was born (d. 1646). English Civil War general.
• 1630 - John Rogers was born (d. 1684). American President of Harvard.
• 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar dies (b. 1583). Spanish poet.
• 1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie was born (d. 1745). French military leader.
• 1693 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• 1696 - Charles Albanel dies (b. 1616). French missionary explorer in Canada.
• 1703 - Johann Georg Graevius dies (b. 1632). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1713 - Pierre Jurieu dies (b. 1637). French protestant leader.
• 1717 - Se firma en La Haya la Triple Alianza.
• 1723 - Prithvi Narayan Shah was born (d. 1774).Began the unification of modern Nepal.
• 1735 – Danilo I was born (d. c. 1670). Vladika of Montenegro.
• 1753 – Sir Hans Sloane dies (b. 1660). Ulster-Scot physician and collector.
• 1755 - Alexander Hamilton was born (d. 1804). 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1757 - Samuel Bentham was born (d. 31 May 1831). English mechanical engineer, naval architect, and navy official in Russia (1780-91) and England (from 1795) who was an early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships.
• 1759 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac dies (b. 1695). French sculptor.
• 1763 - Caspar Abel dies (b. 1676). German theologian, historian and poet.
• 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens dies (b. 1704). French writer.
• 1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur.
  
• 1782 - Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle was born. Mexican politician, redactor del Acta de Independencia.
• 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister was born (d. 1869). English opticist and physicist.
  
• 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1788 - William Thomas Brande was born (d. 1866). English chemist.
• 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn dies (1717). Welsh hymnist.
• 1794 - Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.
• 1800 - Nat Turner was born (d. 1831). American slave.
• 1800 - Anyos Jedlík was born (d. 1895). Hungarian physicist.
• 1801 - Domenico Cimarosa dies (b. 1749). Italian composer.
• 1805 - The Michigan Territory is created.
• 1807 - Ezra Cornell was born (d. 1874). American businessman, founder of Cornell University.
• 1814 - James Paget was born (d. 30 Dec 1899). (1st Baronet) British surgeon and physiologist who is considered (with Rudolf Virchow) to be a founder of the science of pathology. Paget discovered (1834) in human muscle the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis. See Paget's disease of bone.
• 1815 - John A. Macdonald was born (d. 1891). First Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1825 – Bayard Taylor was born (d. 1878). U.S. poet and writer.
• 1836 - John Molson dies (b. 1763). Canadian brewer.
• 1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos was born. Educator and writer.
• 1842 - William James was born (d. 1910). American psychologist and philosopher.
• 1843 – Charles Yelverton O'Connor was born (d. 1902). Irish-Australian engineer.
• 1843 - Francis Scott Key dies (b. 1779). American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem.
• 1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund was born (d. 1912). Swedish physicist.
• 1850 - Joseph Charles Arthur was born (d. 30 Apr 1942). American botanist who discovered basic facts about the parasitic fungi known as rusts.
• 1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach was born (d. 1926). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1853 - Georgios Jakobides was born (d. 1926). Greek painter.
• 1856 - Christian Sinding was born (d. 1941). Norwegian composer.
• 1857 – Fred Archer was born (d. 1886). English jockey.
  
• 1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge was born (d. 1947). American retailer.
• 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon was born (d. 1925). British statesman, Viceroy of India.
• 1859 - Francisco de Andrade was born (d. 1921 ). Portuguese bariton.
• 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon was born (d. 1925). British statesman, Viceroy of India.
• 1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff was born (d. 1884). Ukrainian artist.
• 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• 1864 – Thomas Dixon was born (d. 1946). American playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author.
• 1866 - Naufrágio no Golfo de Viscaya do barco de passageiros inglês London. Morreram afogadas 220 pessoas.
• 1867 - Edward Bradford Titchener was born [d. 3 Aug 1927]. English-born psychologist and a major figure in the establishment of experimental psychology in the United States.
• 1867 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
• 1867 – Sir Stuart Donaldson dies (b. 1812). first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales.
• 1868 - Cai Yuanpei was born (d. 1940). Chinese educator.
• 1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder was born (d. 1945). American sculptor.
• 1872 - George Washington Pierce was born (d. 1956). American inventor who was a pioneer in radiotelephony and a noted teacher of communication engineering.
• 1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin was born (d. 1949). American political and military figure and journalist.
• 1875 - Alfonso XII desembarca en Valencia, procedente de Barcelona, y se dirige hacia Madrid para ocupar el trono de España.
• 1875 - Reinhold Glière was born (d. 1956). Russian composer.
• 1876 - Elmer Flick was born (d. 1971). American baseball player.
• 1878 - Milk is first delivered in bottles.
• 1878 – Theodoros Pangalos was born (d. 1952). Greek general who briefly ruled the country.
  
• 1879 - The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1880 - Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.
• 1882 - Theodor Schwann dies (b. 1810). German biologist.
• 1885 - Alice Paul was born (d. 1977). American women's rights activist .
• 1885 - Jack Hoxie was born (d. 1965). American actor, rodeo performer.
• 1887 - Aldo Leopold was born (d. 1948). American ecologist.
• 1888 – Chester Conklin was born (d. 1971). American comedian and actor.
  
• 1888 – Joseph B. Keenan was born (d. 1954). American political figure.
• 1889 – Calvin Bridges was born (d. 1938). American geneticist who helped establish the chromosomal basis of heredity and sex.
• 1890 - No seguimento da apresentação do Mapa Cor de Rosa, o governo britânico enviou um ultimato ao governo português exigindo a retirada das tropas portuguesas do território entre Angola e Moçambique.
• 1890 – Max Carey was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
• 1890 - Oswald de Andrade was born (d. 1954). Brazilian writer.
• 1891 – Baron Georges Haussmann dies (b. 1809). French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris.
• 1895 - Laurens Hammond was born (d.1973). American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ (patented 24 Apr 1934).
• 1896 - João de Deus dies in Lisbon (b. 8 Mar 1830). Portuguese poet and pedagogue.
• 1897 - August Heissmeyer was born (d. 1979). German SS officer.
• 1899 – Eva Le Gallienne was born (d. 1991). English-American actress.
  
• 1901 - Kwon Ki-ok was birn (d. 1988). First Korean female pilot.
• 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov dies (b. 1866). Russian composer.
• 1902 - Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
• 1902 - Maurice Duruflé was born (d. 1986). French composer.
• 1902 - Johnny Briggs dies (b.1862). English cricketer.
• 1903 - Alan Paton was born (d. 1988). South African writer.
• 1904 - 1.000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland.
• 1905 - Clyde Kluckhohn was born (d. 1960). American cultural anthropologist with a deep interest in culture and personality.
• 1905 – Manfred B Lee was born (d. 1971). American author.
  
• 1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter dies (b. 1847). Hasidic rabbi.
• 1906 - Albert Hofmann was born (d. 2008). Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD effects.
• 1907 – Pierre Mendès-France was born (d. 1982). French politician.
• 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1908 - Lionel Stander was born (d. 1944). American actor.
• 1910 – Izler Solomon was born (d. 1987). American conductor.
  
• 1910 - Nikos Kavvadias was born (d. 1975). Greek poet and writer.
• 1910 – Sir Shane Paltridge was born (d. 1966). Astralian politician.
  
• 1911 - the "Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science" was founded in Berlin. This became the present Max Planck Society.
• 1911 – Nora Heysen was born (d. 2003). Australian artist.
• 1911 - Zenko Suzuki was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1912 - The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• 1913 - Proclamación de la independencia del Tíbet.
• 1914 - Carl Jacobsen dies (b. 1842). Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named.
• 1915 - Robert Blair Mayne was born (d. 1955). British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service.
• 1916 - Bernard Blier was born (d. 1989). French actor.
• 1917 - The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
• 1917 - John Robarts was born (d. 1982). Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
• 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1920 - Um navio francês que viajava para a África afunda perto de La Rochelle com 553 pessoas a bordo.
• 1921 – Gory Guerrero was born (d. 1990). American professional wrestler.
  
• 1921 - Juanita M. Kreps was born. Former US Secretary of Commerce.
  
• 1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1922 – Ernle Bradford was born (d. 1986). English historian and writer.
• 1923 - Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• 1923 - Carroll Shelby was born. American automobile designer.
• 1923 – Ernst Nolte was born. German historian.
• 1923 – Jerome Bixby was born (d. 1998). American writer.
  
• 1923 - King Constantine I of Greece dies (b. 1868).
• 1924 - Roger Guillemin was born. French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  
• 1924 - Don Cherry was born. American singer and golfer.
• 1924 - Roger Guillemin was born. French-born American physiologist who researched the hormones produced by the hypothalamus gland.
• 1924 - Sam B. Hall was born (d. 1994). American politician.
• 1924 - Slim Harpo was born (d. 1970). American musician.
• 1925 - Grant Tinker was born. American television executive.
• 1926 - Lev Demin was born (d. 1998). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1928 - David L. Wolper was born. American television producer.
• 1928 - Thomas Hardy dies (b. 1840). English writer.
• 1930 - The element Fr (francium) was discovered.
• 1930 – Mitchell Ryan was born. American actor.
• 1930 - Rod Taylor was born. Australian actor.
• 1930 - Ron Mulock was born. Australian politician.
• 1931 – Betty Churcher was born. Australian museum director and curator.
• 1931 - James Milton Carroll dies (b. 1852). Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author.
• 1932 - Alfonso Arau was born. Mexican film director.
• 1934 - Jean Chrétien was born. Twentieth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1934 – Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare was born. British computer scientist.
• 1935 - Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1935 - Ghita Nørby was born. Danish actress.
• 1935 – Melvyn Hayes was born. British actor.
• 1936 - La Cámara de Representantes de la República Dominicana aprobó una ley (derogada posteriormente al gobierno del dictador) por la que se cambiaba el nombre de la capital, Santo Domingo, por el de Ciudad Trujillo, por iniciativa del presidente de la República, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
• 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
• 1938 - Arthur Scargill was born. Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader.
• 1938 - Fischer Black was born (d. 1995). American economist.
  
• 1939 - Anne Heggtveit was born. Canadian alpine skier.
• 1941 - Gérson was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1941 - Emanuel Lasker dies (b. 1868). German chess player.
• 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
• 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
• 1942 - Clarence Clemons was born. American musician (E Street Band).
• 1943 – Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca assassinated in New York.
• 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• 1943 - Eduardo Mendoza was born. Spanish writer.
• 1943 - Jim Hightower was born. American radio host and author.
• 1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai was born (d. 1989). Sudanese writer and academic.
• 1944 - Shibu Soren was born. Indian politician.
• 1944 - Galeazzo Ciano (Count Ciano) dies (b. 18 Mar 1903). Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.
• 1945 - Ley fundacional del Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, (actualmente es la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, AECI.
• 1945 - António Homem Cardoso was born. Portuguese photographer and writer.
• 1945 - Christine Kaufmann was born. German-Austrian actress.
• 1945 - Geraldo Azevedo was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry was born. Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order.
  
• 1945 - António Joaquim Pereira da Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 9 Nov. 1876). Brazilian poet, lawyer and journalist.
• 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
• 1946 - President Lescot in Haiti is deposed.
• 1946 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
• 1946 - John Piper was born. American theologian.
• 1946 - Naomi Judd was born. American singer.
• 1946 - Tony Kaye was born. British keyboard player (Yes).
• 1947 – Eva Tanguay dies (b. 1879). Canadian-born singer and entertainer.
  
• 1948 - Al Berto was born. Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
  
• 1949 – Chris Ford was born. American basketball player and coach.
• 1949 - Daryl Braithwaite was born. Australian rock singer.
• 1951 - Willie Maddren was born (d. 2000). English former footballer.
• 1952 - Ben Crenshaw was born. American golfer.
• 1952 - Bille Brown was born. Australian actor and playwright.
• 1952 - Lee Ritenour was born. American musician and composer.
• 1952 - Michael Forshaw was born. Australian politician.
• 1952 - Aureliano Pertile dies (b. 1885). Italian tenor.
• 1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny dies (b. 1889). French general, posthumous Marshal of France.
  
• 1953 - John Sessions was born. Scottish actor.
• 1954 - Manifesto da Independência de Marrocos. A data é comemorada como festa nacional no país.
• 1954 - Oscar Straus dies (b. 1870). Austrian composer.
• 1955 - The six-week old state of emergency, imposed after the exile of King Mutese II, ends.
• 1956 - Robert Earl Keen was born. American singer.
• 1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
• 1957 - Bryan Robson was born. English footballer and manager.
• 1957 – Darryl Dawkins was born. American basketball player.
• 1957 – Sir Robert Garran dies (b. 1867). Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law.
  
• 1958 - Diego León Montoya Sánchez was born. Former Columbian crime boss.
• 1958 - Vicki Peterson was born. American musician (The Bangles).
• 1958 – Alec Rowley dies (b. 1892). English composer.
  
• 1958 - Edna Purviance dies (b. 1895). American actress.
• 1959 - North Vietnamese forces enter in Laos.
• 1959 - Rob Ramage was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Chad declares independence from France.
• 1960 - Stanley Tucci was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Jasper Fforde was born. British author.
• 1961 - Karl Habsburg-Lothringen was born. Prince of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary.
• 1961 – Elena Gerhardt dies (b. 1883). German mezzo-soprano singer.
  
• 1962 - An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
• 1962 - Se inauguró el Concilio Vaticano II, que actualizó las estructuras y doctrina de la Iglesia Católica.
• 1962 – Kim Coles was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Susan Lindauer was born. American peace activist and accused spy.
• 1963 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• 1963 - Dean Reynolds was born. English snooker player.
• 1963 - Tracy Caulkins was born. U.S. Olympic swimmer.
• 1964 - United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
• 1964 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• 1964 - Patrícia Pillar was born in Brasilia. Brazilian actress.
• 1965 - Roland Scholten was born. Dutch darts player.
• 1965 – Wally Pipp dies (b. 1893). American Major League Baseball player.
  
• 1966 - Começa no Rio de Janeiro uma chuva que dura 72 horas ininterruptas. A cidade fica em estado de calamidade pública e 200 pessoas morreram.
• 1966 - Kelley Law was born. Canadian curler.
• 1966 - Marc Acito was born. American novelist and humorist.
• 1966 - Alberto Giacometti dies (b. 10 Oct 1901). Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor.
• 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen dies (b. 1889). Finnish runner.
• 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri dies (b. 1904). Third Prime Minister of independent India.
• 1967 - Derek Riddell was born. Scottish actor.
• 1968 - Anders Borg was born. Swedish politician.
• 1968 - Tom Dumont was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi dies (b. 1898). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal dies (b. 1876). Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient.
  
• 1969 - Kyle Richards was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Manny Acta was born. Domenican baseball player.
• 1969 – Richmal Crompton dies (b. 1890). British author.
• 1970 - As Nigerian federal troops launch a final assault on Biafran rebels, the last Biafran airstrip is reported to be out of action.
• 1970 - Chris Jent was born. American basketball player and coach.
• 1970 - Joy Nilo was born. Filipino composer.
• 1970 - Malcolm D. Lee was born. American actor, film director, and screenwriter.
• 1970 – Manfredi Beninati was born. Italian visual artist.
• 1970 - Richmal Crompton dies (b. 1890). British author.
• 1971 - Chris Willsher was born. English singer-songwriter, drummer, writer and performer.
• 1971 - Mary J. Blige was born. American singer.
• 1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1972 - Amanda Peet was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Christian Jacobs was born. Lead singer of The Aquabats.
• 1972 - Luís Delgado was born. Angolan football player.
• 1972 - Marc Blucas was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Padraic Colum dies (b. 1881). Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore.
• 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial in Washington DC.
• 1973 - Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.
• 1973 - The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees.
• 1973 - Joanna Brodzik was born. Polish actress.
• 1973 - Rahul Dravid was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1973 - Rockmond Dunbar was born. American actor.
• 1974 - O recenseamento eleitoral, feito para a realização das primeiras eleições democráticas em Portugal, atingiu mais de 6 milhões de inscritos.
• 1974 - The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1974 - Cody McKay was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1974 - Jens Nowotny was born. German football player.
• 1975 – Dan Luger was born. English rugby player.
• 1975 - Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena was born. Spanish playwriter and journalist.
• 1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1975 – Max Lorenz dies (b. 1901). German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles.
  
• 1976 - Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves.
• 1976 - Efthimios Rentzias was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1977 - France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
• 1977 - Nadia Turner was born. American singer.
• 1977 - Shomari Buchanan was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Emile Heskey was born. English football player.
• 1978 - Holly Brisley was born. Australian actress.
• 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha dies (b. 1927). Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet.
• 1979 - Darren Lynn Bousman was born. American film director.
• 1979 - Michael Duff was born. Northern Irish football player.
• 1979 - Siti Nurhaliza was born. Malaysia's Top Singer.
• 1979 - Jack Soo dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1980 - Nigel Short, 14, from Bolton in Great Britain, becomes the youngest International Master in the history of chess.
• 1980 - Deanna Wright was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Lovieanne Jung was born. American softball player.
• 1980 - Mike Williams was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Barbara Pym dies (b. 1913). English novelist.
• 1981 - Palau adopts constitution.
• 1981 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is elected General-Secretary of Unirted Nations.
• 1981 - Chris Edwards was born. British musician (Kasabian).
• 1981 - Jamelia was born. English singer.
• 1981 - Tom Meighan was born. British singer (Kasabian).
• 1981 - Beulah Bondi dies (b. 1888). American actress.
• 1982 - Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Autónoma Andaluza y Asturias.
• 1982 - Honduras adopts constitution.
• 1982 - A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
• 1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson was born. British actor and singer.
• 1982 - Son Ye-jin was born. South Korean actress.
• 1982 – Tony Allen was born. American basketball player.
• 1983 - Adrian Sutil was born. German racing driver.
• 1983 - Matthew Palleschi was born. Canadian soccer player.
• 1983 - Ted Richards was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla dies (b. 1894). Indian industrialist and educator.
• 1984 - Salvador Dalí anuncia la creación de la fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí y la donación de 621 de sus obras.
• 1984 - Milena Toscano was born in Santo André. Brazilian actress.
• 1985 - Inicia no Rio de Janeiro o mega evento Rock in Rio. Foram 10 dias de shows em que tocaram grandes nomes da música mundial.
• 1985 - Kazuki Nakajima was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1985 - Newton Faulkner was born. British singer.
• 1985 - Rie fu was born. Japanese singer.
• 1985 – Sir William McKell dies (b. 1891). Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia.
  
• 1986 - The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
• 1986 – Rachel Riley was born. British television presenter.
• 1986 – Sid Chaplin dies (b. 1916). UK novelist.
  
• 1987 - Scotty Cranmer was born. American professional BMX rider.
• 1987 – Albert Ferber dies (b. 1911). Swiss-English pianist.
  
• 1988 - Daniel Dzufer was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1988 – Florence Knapp dies (b. 1873). American, one-time oldest person in the world.
  
• 1988 – Gregory "Pappy" Boyington dies (b. 1912). American World War II Marine aviator.
  
• 1988 - Isidor Isaac Rabi dies (born 29 Jul 1898); American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms, molecules, and atomic nuclei.
• 1988 - Pappy Boyington dies (b. 1912). American aviator.
• 1989 - La policía francesa detiene a Josu Ternera, máximo dirigente de ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna).
• 1989 - Um acordo assinado entre 140 países na Convenção para a Proibição de Armas Químicas acaba com esse tipo de armamento. A prática, no entanto, só passa a vigorar em 1997.
• 1989 – Sammy Carlson was born. American professional freeskier.
• 1989 - José Luis Bustamante y Rivero dies (b. 1894). Peruvian President.
• 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence.
• 1991 - Tropas soviéticas invadem prédios em Vilna, capital da Lituânia, para impedir um movimento de independência no país.
• 1991 - Carl David Anderson dies (b. 3 Sep 1905). American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.
• 1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
• 1993 - La UNESCO declara la Ruta Jacobea española patrimonio de la humanidad.
• 1993 - Flora Cross was born. American actress.
• 1994 - The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein / O governo irlandês anuncia o fim da censura ao movimento terrorista IRA e seu braço político, o Sinn Fein.
• 1994 - Helmut Poppendick dies (b. 1902). Nazi physician.
• 1995 - António Anjos dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1995 – Josef Gingold dies (b. 1909). Russian-American violinist.
  
• 1995 – Lewis Nixon dies (b. 1918). U.S. Army officer.
  
• 1996 - O parlamento japonês elege Ryutaro Hashimoto como seu novo primeiro-ministro.
• 1996 - O primeiro-ministro da Itália, Lamberto Dini, anuncia a sua renúncia.
• 1996 - Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavor.
• 1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1998 - Se celebran elecciones generales en Cuba.
• 1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
• 1998 - Klaus Tennstedt dies (b. 1926). German conductor.
• 1999 - Brian Moore dies (b. 1921). Irish-born writer.
• 1999 - Fabrizio de André dies (b. 1940). Italian singer.
• 1999 – Naomi Mitchison dies (b. 1897). Scottish novelist and poet.
• 2000 - The British government declares Chile's General Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain for crimes against humanity. — Londres decreta la libertad del general Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte.
• 2000 – Betty Archdale dies (b. 1907). Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer.
  
• 2000 - Bob Lemon dies (b. 1920). American baseball player.
• 2000 - Ivan Combe dies (b. 1911). American inventor.
• 2001 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
• 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun dies (b. 1914). English architect.
• 2001 – Michael Williams dies (b. 1935). British actor, husband of Judi Dench.
  
• 2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2002 - Henri Verneuil dies (b. 1920). French playwright and film director.
• 2002 - Struan Sutherland dies (b. 1936). Australian medical researcher.
• 2003 - Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state's death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates.
• 2003 - Entra em vigor o Novo Código Civil Brasileiro. O conjunto de leis trouxe inovações em áreas como regime de bens, vida familiar, maioridade civil, pagamentos de indenização e usucapião.
• 2003 - Maurice Pialat dies (b. 1925). French actor and director.
• 2003 - Mickey Finn dies (b. 1947). English drummer (T. Rex).
• 2003 - Richard Simmons dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 2005 - Black Tuesday bushfires swept across the southern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
• 2005 - Cavem dies at 72. Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
• 2005 - Fabrizio Meoni dies (b. 1957). Italian motorcyclist.
• 2005 - James Griffin dies (b. 1943). American musician (Bread).
• 2005 - Miriam Hyde dies (b. 1913). Australian composer.
• 2005 - Spencer Dryden dies (b. 1938). American drummer (Jefferson Airplane).
• 2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon) dies (b. 1966). German DJ.
• 2006 - Nixzmary Brown dies (b. 1998). American Child abuse victim.
• 2007 – JK Rowling completes the 7th novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
• 2007 - Puchi Balseiro dies (b. 1926). Puerto Rican singer & songwriter.
• 2007 - Robert Anton Wilson dies (b. 1932). American author.
• 2007 - Solveig Dommartin dies (b. 1961). French-German actress.
• 2008 - Carl Karcher dies (b. 1917). Founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain.
• 2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary dies (b. 1919). New Zealand mountaineer, the first person to climb Mt Everest in 1953.
• 2009 – David Vine dies (b. 1936). British sports broadcaster.
  
• Albania - Republic Day (1946).
• Morocco – Independence Resistance Day«
• Nepal - Unity Day.
• Puerto Rico - Eugenio Maria de Hostos Day.
• Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmen.