Nothingandall: On this day in History

38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla.
0395 - Theodosius I dies. Roman Emperor.
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden dies. German soldier.
1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus dies murdered (b. 1328).
1377 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1463 - Friedrich III was born (d. 1525). Elector of Saxony.
1468 - Skanderbeg dies (b. 1405). Albanian leader.
1484 - George Spalatin was born (d. 1545). German reformer.
1501 - Leonhart Fuchs was born (d. 10 May 1566). German botanist and physician whose botanical work Historia Stirpium (1542) is a landmark in the development of natural history.
1504 - Pope Pius V was born (d. 1572).
1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
1536 - François Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III & allowed to resume medical practice.
1560 - Gaspard Bauhin was born (d. 1624). Swiss botanist.
1562 - France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of St. Germain.
1584 - Bohemia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1595 - King Henri IV of France declares war on Spain.
1600 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born (d. 1681). Spanish playwright, the last great figure of the Golden Age of Spanish Drama. Wrote La Vida es Sueño.
1605 - First publication of Don Quixote.
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was born (d. 1671). English Civil War general.
1617 - Faust Vrancic dies (b. 1551). Croatian inventor.
1620 - Diego Alvarez de Paz dies at about 59. Spanish missionary/writer (Peru).
1636 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte was born.
1648 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1654 - Paulus Potter dies (b. 1625). Dutch painter.
1666 - Antonio Maria Valsalva was born (d. 1723). Italian anatomist.
1686 - Archibald Bower was born (d. 1766). Scottish historian.
1705 - John Ray dies (b. 1627). English naturalist and botanist.

1706 - Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (d. 17 Apr 1790). American Statesman, printer, scientist, and writer. He become widely known in European scientific circles for his reports of electrical experiments and theories.

1709 - Lord Lyttelton was born (d. 1773). British statesman and writer.

1712 - John Stanley was born (d. 1786). English composer.

1718 - Captain Benjamin Church dies. Plymouth Colony settler.

1719 - William Vernon was born (d. 1806). American merchant.

1719 - Jean-Joseph Vadé was born. French poet.

1728 - Johann Gottfried Müthel was born. German composer.

1732 - King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland was born (d. 1798).

1734 - François-Joseph Gossec was born (d. 1829). Belgian composer.

1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann dies (b. 1662). German architect.

1746 - Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a Hanoverian army at Falkirk in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.

1751 - Tomaso Albinoni dies (b. 1671). Italian composer.

1761 - James Hall was born (d. 1832). Scottish geologist.

1763 - John Jacob Astor was born (d. 1848). Entrepreneur.

1771 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark

1771 - Charles Brockden Brown was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Father of the American Novel" [Wieland (1798)].

1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.

1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

1789 - August Neander was born (d. 1850). German theologian.

1793 - A Convenção Francesa decide por um voto de diferença, com 361 a favor e 360 contra, a pena de morte do Rei Luis XVI.

1798 - Auguste Comte was born (d. 1857). French sociologist.

1799 - Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriot is executed.

1806 - James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the White House.

1811 - Joshua A. Norton was born (d. 1880). "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico"

1814 - Mrs. Henry Wood was born (d. 1887). English novelist.

1819 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.

1820 - Anne Brontë (pseudonym, Acton Bell) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire (d. 1849). British author ( Agnes Grey 1847; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1848).

1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga dies (b. 1806). Spanish composer.

1828 - Eduard Remenyi was born (d. 1898). Hungarian violinist.

1828 - Lewis A. Grant was born (d. 1918). American Civil War General.

1831 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria was born (d. 1903).

1832 - Henry Martyn Baird was born (d. 1906). American historian and educationalist.

1834 - August Weissman was born [d. 5 Nov 1914]. A German biologist and one of the founders of the science of genetics, who is best known for his opposition to the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired traits and for his "germ plasm" theory, the forerunner of DNA theory.

1834 - Giovanni Aldini dies (b. 1762). Italian physicist.

1849 - Eugene Carriere was born. French painter.

1850 - Aleksandr Taneyev was born (d. 1918). Russian composer.

1851 - A. B. Frost was born (d. 1928). American illustrator.

1852 - United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.

1853 - Alva Belmont was born (d. 1933). American socialite.

1856 - Charles V. Chapin was born (d. 31 Jan 1941). American physician and epidemiologist who, with Gardner T. Swarts, established the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. (1888) in Providence, Rhode Island.

1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste was born (d. 1935). French inventor.

1857 - Wilhelm Kienz was born (d. 1941). Austrian composer.

1858 - Tomás Carrasquilla was born (d. 1940). Colombian writer.

1860 - Douglas Hyde was born (d. 1949). President of Ireland .

1860 - Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog (d. 1904). Russian playwright.

1861 - Lola Montez dies (b. 1821). Irish-born adventurer.

1863 - Constantin Stanislavski was born (d. 1938). Russian theatre practitioner.

1863 - David Lloyd George was born (d. 1945). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1863 - Horace Vernet dies (b. 1789). French painter.

1865 - Charles Fergusson was born (d. 1951). Governor-General of New Zealand.

1867 - Carl Laemmle was born (d. 1939). German-born film executive.

1871 - David Earl Beatty was born (d. 1936). British admiral was born.

1871 - Nicolae Iorga was born (d. 1940). Romanian writer.

1873 - A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.

1875 - Florencio Sánchez was born. Uruguayan dramatist.

1876 - Frank Hague was born (d. 1956). American politician, mayor of Jersey City (1917-1947).

1877 - May Gibbs was born (d. 1969). Australian children's author.

1880 - Mack Sennett was born (d. 1960). Canadian film director and producer.

1881 - Antoni Łomnicki was born (d. 1941). Polish mathematician.

1882 - Noah Beery was born (d. 1946). American actor.

1883 - Sir Compton Mackenzie was born (d. 1972). Scottish novelist.

1884 - Hermann Schlegel dies (b. 1804)- German ornithologist.

1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.

1885 - Emmy Hennings was born in Flensburg, Germany. Writer/performer associated with the Dada movement in Zurich.

1886 - Glenn L. Martin was born (d. 4 Dec 1955). American airplane inventor whose bombers and flying boats played important roles in WW II.

1886 - Ronald Firbank was born (d. 1926). British novelist.

1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli dies (b. 1834). Italian composer.

1887 - Ola Raknes was born (d. 1975). Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist.

1890 - Peter Henderson dies (b. 17 Jan 1890). Scottish-American scientist, known as the "Father of American Horticulture".

1893 - American sugar planters led by the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1893 - The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the Government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes dies (b. 1822). 19th President of the United States.

1897 - Marcel Petiot was born (d. 1946). French mass murderer.

1899 - The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

1899 - Al Capone was born (d. 1947). American gangster, nicknamed "Scarface".

1899 - Robert Maynard Hutchins was born (d. 1977). Educator.

1899 - Nevil Shute was born (d. 1960). British-born Australian novelist, best-known for the novel On the Beach (1957).

1901 - Aron Gurwitsch was born (d. 1973). Lithuanian-born philosopher.

1901 - Emilio Iribarne was born. Uruguayan pianist and composer.

1901 - Vasily Petrovich Chirinsky was born. Russian composer.

1901 - Catherine Bennett was born. Australian actress.

1902 - US: Washington State Federation of Labor formed.

1902 - Ñico Saquito was born. Cuban music.

1903 - Warren Hull was born. American actor.

1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala was born (d. 1953). Assamese poet, playwright, film maker

1904 - Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

1905 - Ray Cunningham was born (d. 2005). Baseball player.

1905 - Guillermo Stábile was born (d. 1966). Argentine footballer.

1905 - Peggy Gilbert was born (d. 2007). American jazz saxophonist and bandleader.

1907 - Henk Badings was born (d. 1987). Dutch composer.

1908 - Cus D'Amato was born (d. 1985). American boxing manager.

1910 - Joaquim Nabuco dies (b. 1849). Brazilian diplomat, politician, journalist, historian and writer.

1911 - Albino Jara Benegas becomes President of Paraguay.

1911 - George Joseph Stigler was born (d. 1991). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1911 - Sir Francis Galton dies (b. 16 Feb 1822). English scientist, explorer, anthropologist, statistician and eugenicist, known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence.

1912 - Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1913 - Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.

1914 - Anacleto Angelini was born (d. 2007). Chilean businessman.

1914 - Irving Brecher was born. American screenwriter.

1914 - William Stafford was born (d. 1993). American poet and essayist.

1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.

1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

1917 - M. G. Ramachandran was born (d. 1987). Indian politician, actor.

1917 - Ramón Cardemil was born (d. 2007). Chilean huaso.

1918 - Keith Joseph was born (d. 1994). British politician.

1920 - Nora Kaye was born. Ballerina.

1921 - Antonio Prohias was born (d. 1998). Cuban cartoonist.

1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez was born. President of Mexico.

1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach was born. American politician.

1922 - Betty White was born. American actress.

1925 - Robert Cormier was born (d. 2000). American author.

1925 - Abdul Kardar was born. Pakistani cricketer.

1926 - Newton N. Minow was born. American telecommunications lawyer and statesman.

1926 - Moira Shearer was born. Scottish actress and dancer.

1927 - Eartha Kitt was born. American actress and singer.

1928 - Jean Barraqué was born (d. 1973). French composer.

1928 - Vidal Sassoon was born. English cosmetologist.

1929 - Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

1929 - Jacques Plante was born (d. 1986). Canadian hockey player.

1930 - Eddie LeBaron was born. American football quarterback.

1931 - James Earl Jones was born. Actor.

1931 - Douglas Wilder was born. 66 th Governor of Virginia.

1931 - Don Zimmer was born. American baseball coach.

1932 - Sheree North was born (d. 2005). American actress.

1933 - O Congresso dos Estados Unidos vota a favor da independência das Filipinas.

1933 - Dalida was born (d. 1987). French singer.

1933 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan was born (d. 2003). French UN High Commissioner for Refugees

1933 - Shari Lewis was born (d. 1998). American ventriloquist.

1933 - Ray Dolby was born. American inventor.

1933 - Sadruddhin Aga Khan was born (d. 2003). French UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

1933 - Sheree North was born. American actress.

1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany dies (b. 1848). American artist and designer.

1935 - Ruth Ann Minner was born. Governor of Delaware.

1937 - Troy Donahue was born. American actor.

1939 - Maury Povich was born. American talk show host.

1940 - Kipchoge Keino was born. Kenyan runner.

1940 - Tabaré Vázquez was born. President of Uruguay.

1941 - Kuomintang forces under the order of Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force, Chinese Civil War resumes after WWII.

1941 - José Leite de Vasconcelos dies at 82. Portuguese scholar and writer (Etnografia).

1942 - Muhammad Ali was born. Heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8).

1942 - Cus D'Amato was born (d. 1985). Boxing manager.

1942 - Ulf Hoelscher was born. German violinist.

1942 - Nancy Parsons was born (d. 2001). American actress.

1942 - Walther von Reichenau dies (b. 1884). German field marshal.

1943 - Chris Montez was born. American singer.

1943 - Geoffrey Deuel was born. American actor.

1943 - René Préval was born. President of Haiti.

1944 - Françoise Hardy was born. French singer.

1944 - Jan Guillou was born in Södertälje. Swedish journalist/writer of popular spy novels.

1945 - Soviet forces do the liberation of the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw (end of Nazi occupation).

1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.

1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody.

1945 - Javed Akhtar was born. Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter.

1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.

1947 - Eugène Adam (known as Lanti) dies (b. 1879). Anarchist.

1947 - Jane Elliot was born. Internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education.

1947 - Romulo Gallegos is elected for the Presidency of Venezuela. He will be deposed on 23 Nov 1948.

1947 - Pyotr Krasnov dies (b. 1869). Russian counter-revolutionary.

1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve dies (b. 1883). French catholic priest, cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec.

1948 - Davíð Oddsson was born. Former Prime Minister of Iceland.

1948 - Mick Taylor was born. British musician (The Rolling Stones).

1948 - Jim Ladd was born. American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey (KLOS).

1949 - Andy Kaufman was born (d. 1984). American comedian.

1949 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs.

1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.

1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto was born. Japan, rocker (Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orchestra) .

1952 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian nationalist, is arrested by French authorities.

1952 - Darrell Porter was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.

1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto was born. Japanese musician.

1954 - Milovan Djilas, presidente da Assembléia Federal e vice-presidente da República da Iugoslávia, é destituído de seus cargos.

1954 - Susan Kiefel was born. Australian lawyer and judge.

1954 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was born. American lawyer and environmental activist.

1955 - Steve Earle was born. American musician.

1956 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "America".

1956 - Paul Young was born. English musician (Every Time You Go Away).

1957 - Suzanne Danielle was born. English actress.

1957 - Keith Chegwin was born. English TV presenter.

1957 - Steve Harvey was born. American actor, comedian and radio personality.

1959 - Susanna Hoffs was born. American musician (The Bangles).

1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi was born. Japanese singer and actress.

1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich was born. Thai actor.

1960 - Chili Davis was born. Baseball player.

1960 - John Crawford was born. American musician.

1961 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".

1961 - Maia Chiburdanidze Kutaisi was born. USSR women's world chess champ.

1961 - Brian Helgeland was born. American writer and film director.

1961 - Patrice Lumumba dies assassinated (b. 1925). Leader of anti-colonial struggle and former premier of the newly independent Republic of the Congo (Zaire) / Assassinato em Katanga do dirigente do Congo, Patricio Lumumba, um dos principais nomes da Independência do país.

1962 - Monserrat Caballé premieres in Gran Teatro de Barcelona.

1962 - Jim Carrey was born. Canadian actor and comedian.

1962 - Sebastian Junger was born. American journalist and author.

1963 - Kai Hansen was born. German musician/singer.

1964 - Andy Rourke was born. Bass guitarist.

1964 - Michelle Obama was born. Wife of Barack Obama.

1964 - T.H. White dies (b. 1906). English author.

1965 - Nikos Nioplias was born. Greek footballer.

1965 - Sylvain Turgeon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release their second album, Sounds of Silence, on Columbia Records.

1966 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.

1966 - Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.

1966 - Shabba Ranks was born. Jamaican singer.

1966 - Stephin Merritt was born. American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies).

1967 - Richard Hawley was born. English singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs).

1967 - Filippo Raciti was born (d. 2007). Italian police officer.

1967 - Paul Summers was born. English poet.

1967 - Song Kang-ho was born. South Korean actor.

1967 - Evelyn Nesbit dies (b. 1884). American actress.

1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer was born. Dutch writer.

1968 - Svetlana Masterkova was born. Russian athlete.

1969 - UCLA Black Student Union members John Huggins and Bunchy Carter, also members of the Black Panther Party, were shot and killed in Campbell Hall.

1969 - Lukas Moodysson was born. Swedish film director.

1969 - Naveen Andrews was born. British actor.

1969 - Tijs Verwest (DJ Tiësto) was born. Dutch DJ.

1970 - Jeremy Roenick was born. American hockey player.

1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky was born. Russian-born animator.

1970 - James Wattana was born. Thai snooker player.

1970 - Simon Kovar dies (b. 1890). Russian-American bassoonist.

1970 - Billy Stewart dies (b. 1937). American singer.

1971 - Ann Wolfe was born. Female boxer.

1971 - Kid Rock was born. American singer.

1971 - Richard Burns was born (d. 2005). English rally driver.

1971 - Leonardo Ciampa was born. Italian-American musician.

1971 - Youki Kudoh was born. Japanese actress.

1971 - Sylvie Testud was born. French actress.

1972 - Ken Hirai was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.

1972 - Lil Jon was born. American rapper/producer

1972 - Betty Smith dies (b. 1896). American writer and singer.

1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines.

1973 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco was born. Mexican footballer.

1973 - Liz Ellis was born. Australian netball captain.

1973 - Aaron Ward was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1973 - Tarsila do Amaral dies (b. 1886). Brazilian modern painter.

1974 - Portugal: Antonio Sebastião Ribeiro Spínola é nomeado vice-chefe do Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas

1974 - Joni Mitchell releases Court and Spark, arguably her most mainstream album.

1974 - Yang Chen was born. Chinese footballer

1974 - Derrick Mason was born. American football player

1974 - Vesko Kountchev was born. Bulgarian musician

1975 - Bob Dylan releases Blood on the Tracks, often considered one of his best albuns.

1975 - Tom Jenkinson was born. English musician (Squarepusher)

1975 - Freddy Rodriguez was born. Puerto Rican-American actor

1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States. Read Amnesty International : 30 years of executions 30 years of wrongs.

1977 - Kevin Fertig was born. American professional wrestler.

1977 - Leigh Whannell was born. Australian screenwriter and actor.

1977 - Gary Gilmore dies executed (b. 1940). American murderer.

1978 - Carolina Ardohain was born. Argentinian model and TV personality.

1978 - Irina A Borisova was born. Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996).

1979 - Brad Miller was born. American actor.

1979 - Chase Stevens was born. American professional wrestler.

1980 - Zooey Deschanel was born. American actress.

1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy was born. Russian ballroom dancer.

1980 - Kimberly Spicer was born. American model.

1980 - Gareth McLearnon was born. Northern Irish flautist.

1981 - Warren Feeney was born. Northern Irish footballer.

1981 - Ray J was born. American R&B singer.

1981 - Scott Mechlowicz was born. American actor.

1982 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.

1982 - Jodie Sweetin was born. American actress.

1982 - Alex Varkatzas was born. American singer (Atreyu).

1982 - Dwyane Wade was born. American basketball player.

1982 - Brasil: O desabamento de uma ponte pênsil sobre o salto de Sete Quedas, no Paraná, provoca a morte de 29 pessoas. Cerca de mil turistas ficam isolados e são resgatados por helicópteros.

1983 - A Nigéria expulsa dois milhões de imigrantes ilegais vindos de Gana.

1983 - Johannes Herber was born. German basketball player.

1983 - Alvaro Arbeloa was born. Spanish footballer.

1983 - Johannes Herber was born. German basketball player.

1983 - Andrea Lowell was born. American model.

1983 - Rick Kelly was born. Australian racing driver.

1983 - Doodles Weaver dies (b. 1911). American actor.

1983 - Saul Dias (Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira) dies in Vila do Conde (b. 1903). Portuguese poet, brother of José Régio.

1984 - Abertura, em Estocolmo, da Conferência sobre Desarme na Europa, em que participaram representantes de 35 países.

1984 - Shin-yeong Jang was born. South Korean actress

1985 - British Telecom announces the retirement of Britain's famous red telephone boxes.

1985 - Japan: Hashimoto Yoshiharu dies at 55 in Tokyo. Japanese anarchist, writer and translator

1985 - Riyu Kosaka was born. J-POP japanese singer, actual member of BeForU

1985 - Simone Simons was born. Dutch singer (Epica)

1985 - Kang-In was born. South Korean singer, dancer, actor, MC/DJ (Super Junior)

1986 - Se firma en La Haya, el protocolo que establece relaciones diplomáticas entre Israel y España.

1986 - Chloe Rose Lattanzi was born. Australian actress and singer

1987 - 50 pessoas desaparecem após o naufrágio de um navio, perto da ilha de Bohol, nas Filipinas.

1987 - Hugo Fregonese dies (b. 1908). Argentine film director.

1988 - Nikki Reed was born. American actress.

1989 - Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.

1990 - Hank Ballard, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, The Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel, the Platters & The Who inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

1991 - Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.

1991 - King Olav V of Norway dies (b. 1903)

1992 - Punk rock band Green Day releases their second full-length album, Kerplunk.

1993 - Albert Hourani dies (b. 1915). English historian.

1994 - Helen Stephens dies (b. 1918). American runner.

1994 - Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. a

1995 - The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.

1995 - Miguel Torga dies (b. 1907). Portuguese poet, writer and essayst / Morte de Miguel Torga (n.1907). Poeta, ficcionista e ensaísta português.

1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.

1996 - O ex-primeiro ministro da Itália, Silvio Berlusconi, vai a julgamento por acusações de corrupção alegadas por seus oponentes políticos.

1996 - David Bowie, Tom Donahue, The Jefferson Airplane, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, The Shirelles & the Velvet Underground and Little Willie John are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

1996 - Barbara Jordan dies (b. 1936). American politician.

1996 - Amber Hagerman dies (b. 1986). American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system.

1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed dies (b. 1953). Sudanese singer.

1997 - Um tribunal na Irlanda concede o primeiro divórcio na história do país.

1997 - A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.

1997 - Clyde Tombaugh dies (b. 4 Feb 1906). American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930, the only planet discovered in the twentieth century.

1997 - NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely, with $25,000 fine, for kicking a cameraman, in the basketballs.

1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.

1998 - President Clinton became the first sitting U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit.

1998 - Mexico: Over 2000 indigenous Tzeltals & Tojolbals from the state of Chiapas occupy the military barracks of the 39th Military Zone in protest over Army incursions into their communities.

1998 - Junior Kimbrough dies (b. 1930). American bluesman.

1999 - Robert Eads dies (b. 1945). American transexual.

2000 - British pharmaceutical firms Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC announce a merger to form the world's largest drug maker .

2001 - President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Captain Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.

2001 - Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency concerning California's electricity crisis.

2001 - Sophie Delezio was born. Australian burn victim

2001 - Gregory Corso dies (b. 1930). American poet.

2002 - Camilo Jose Cela dies (b.1916). Spanish author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1989.

2002 - Bishop Karas dies (b. 1955). First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery.

2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

2003 - Richard Crenna dies (b. 1926). American actor.

2004 - Harry Brecheen dies (b. 1914). Baseball player.