On this day in History - Jan. 18

• 52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher dies murdered.
• 0336 - Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope.
• 0350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
• 0350 - Constans dies (b. 0320). Roman Emperor.
• 0474 - Leo I dies (b. 0401). Byzantine Emperor.
• 0474 - Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emperor.
• 0532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
• 0885 - Daigo was born (d. 0930). Emperor of Japan.
• 1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong.
• 1270 - Santa Margarita de Hungría, nacimiento de, religiosa húngara.
• 1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia.
• 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal dies in Estremoz (b. 8 Apr 1320).
• 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March dies (b. 1391). English politician.
• 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1419).
• 1479 - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies at 61.
• 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
• 1519 - Isabella Jagiełło was born (d. 1559). Queen of Hungary.
• 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
• 1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
• 1540 - D. Catarina de Portugal dies. Duchess of Braganza.
• 1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I) was baptised (d. 1588). Italian composer.
• 1546 - Blasco Nuñez Vela dies in Ariaquiro, Peru (b. 1490). First viceroy of Peru.
• 1547 - Pietro Bembo dies (b. 1470). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
• 1580 - Antonio Scandello dies at 63. Italian composer (Passion of John).
• 1586 - Margaret of Austria dies (b. 1522). Regent of The Netherlands.
• 1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
• 1624 - Juan de Ovando Santarén Gómez de Loaisa y Rojas, was born in Málaga (d. 1706). Spanish poet.
• 1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois was born (d. 1691). French war minister.
• 1659 - Damaris Cudworth Masham was born (d. 1708). English philosopher.
  
• 1664 - Moses Amyraut dies (b. 1596). French theologian.
• 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
• 1671 - El pirata inglés Henry John Morgan encabeza un ataque contra la ciudad de Panamá.
• 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte was born (d. 1731). French writer.
• 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck dies (b. 1619). Dutch merchant.
• 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset was born (d. 1765). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1689 - Montesquieu was born (d. 1755). French writer.
• 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
• 1733 - A polar bear was first exhibited in Boston.
• 1734 - Caspar Friedrich Wolff, was born (d. 1794). German physiologist, known as the "founder of modern embryology. ("In Theoria Generationis" - 1759).
• 1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
• 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
• 1779 - Peter Roget was born London (d. 1869). English physician and lexicographer who, in 1814, invented a "log-log" slide rule for calculating the roots and powers of numbers (Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases -1852).
• 1782 - Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire (d. 1852). American statesman, lawyer and orator.
• 1788 - The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay creating the first Australian Penal Colony.
• 1795 - Anna Pavlovna of Russia was born (d. 1865). Queen of The Netherlands.
• 1799 - Joseph Dixon was born (d. 15 Jun 1869). American inventor and manufacturer who pioneered in the industrial use of graphite and many other innovations.
• 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich dies (b. 1743). Russian poet.
• 1813 - Joseph Glidden was born (d. 9 Oct. 1906). American inventor; he 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.
• 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf was born (d. 1874). German biblical scholar.
• 1825 - Sir Edward Frankland was born (d. 9 Aug 1899). English chemist who was one of the first investigators in the field of structural chemistry, invented the chemical bond, and became known as the father of valency.
• 1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. marries Emma Hale.
• 1827 - José António Camões dies (b. 1777). Portuguese (Azores) poet and historiographer.
• 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson was born (d. 1921). English poet.
• 1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier was born (d. 1894). French composer.
• 1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames was born (d. 1911). Mayor of Minneapolis.
• 1848 - Ioan Slavici was born (d. 1925). Transylvanian writer.
• 1849 - Edmund Barton was born (d. 1920). First Prime Minister of Australia.
  
• 1850 - Seth Low was born (d. 1916). American politician.
• 1854 - Thomas Watson was born (d.13 Dec 1934). American inventor, telephone pioneer.
• 1856 - Daniel Hale Williams was born (d. 1931). African-American surgeon.
• 1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins the Confederacy.
• 1861 - Hans Goldschmidt was born. German chemist who developed Welding Mixture.
• 1862 - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the American Civil War at the Battle of Mill Springs.
• 1862 - John Tyler dies (b. 1790). 10th President of the United States, member of the Congress of the Confederate States of America.
• 1867 - Rubén Darío was born (d. 1916). Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat.
• 1870 - Samuel Bailey dies (b. 1791). English philosopher and economist.
• 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire was known as the Second Reich to Germans.
• 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton dies (b. 1803). English author.
• 1877 - Samuel Zemurray was born (d. 1961). American businessman.
• 1878 - Argentina y Chile reconocen como límite entre ambos países la Cordillera de los Andes, en la línea "de las más altas cumbres" enunciada por el perito Francisco P. Moreno.
• 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel dies (b. 1788). French physicist.
  
• 1879 - Henri Giraud was born (d. 1949). French general.
• 1881 - Gaston Gallimard was born (d. 1975). French publisher.
• 1882 - A.A. Milne was born (d. 1956). English author.
• 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
• 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• 1886 - Clara Nordström was born (d. 1962). German writer and translator.
• 1886 - Baldassare Verazzi dies (b. 1819). Italian painter.
  
• 1888 - Thomas Sopwith was born (d. 1989). British aviation pioneer.
• 1890 - Amadeo de Saboya dies (b. 1845). King of Spain.
• 1892 - José Dias Ferreira becomes Prime-Minister of Portugal.
• 1892 - Oliver Hardy was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 7 Aug 1957). American comedian and actor. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed the most successful comedy act in Hollywood. Among others, they played in the films Duck Soup (1927), The Battle of the Century (1928), Two Tars (1928) and Big Business (1929). In 1932 the pair was awarded an Oscar for their performance in The Music Box.
• 1892 - Paul Rostock was born (d. 1956). German surgeon.
• 1892 - Anton Anderledy dies (b. 1819). Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
• 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
• 1896 - C. M. Eddy, Jr. was born (d. 1967). American writer.
  
• 1896 - Charles Floquet dies (b. 1828). French statesman.
• 1899 - José António Duro Jr. dies in Lisbon (b. in Portalegre 22 Oct. 1875). Portuguese poet.
• 1900 - Darío Gómez Serrato was born (d. 1985). Paraguayan poet and musician. His work includes Yasy Yateré and Visión de Patria.
• 1901 - Ivan Petrovsky was born (d. 1973). Russian mathematician.
• 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a message of greetings from a Marconi station built near Wellfleet, Massachusetts to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
• 1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini was born (d. 2006). American accordionist.
• 1904 - Cary Grant was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire (d. 1986). English actor.
• 1905 - Joseph Bonanno was born (d. 2002). Italian-born gangster.
• 1906 - Manuel Mendes was born (d. 1969). Portuguese writer, sculptor and politician.
• 1906 - Bartolomé Mitre dies. Argentine militar, politician and writer. President of Republic (1862-1868).
• 1908 - Humberto Rosa was born (d. 1948). Brazilian painter.
• 1908 - Jacob Bronowski was born (d. 22 Aug 1974). Polish-born British mathematician, poet, and physicist.
• 1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1972).
• 1908 - Herman Snellen dies (b. 19 Feb 1834). Dutch ophthalmologist whose Snellen Chart imprinted with lines of black letters is used for testing visual acuity.
• 1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding was born (d. 1983). English economist.
• 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• 1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
• 1912 - Evandro Lins e Silva was born (d. 2002). Brazilian jurist, journalist, writer and politician.
• 1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
• 1913 - Danny Kaye was born (d. 1987). American actor, singer, comedian.
• 1914 - Arno Schmidt was born (d. 1979). German author.
• 1914 - William Stafford was born (d. 1993). American poet.
• 1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to China in a bid to increase its power in east Asia.
• 1915 - Santiago Carrillo was born. Dirigent of PCE (Partido Comunista Español = Spanish Communist Party).
• 1915 - Pancho Villa é proclamado presidente do México e assume poderes militares e civis.
• 1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die .
• 1915 - Kaúlza de Arriaga was born (d. 2004). Portuguese general (Ver Guerra do Ultramar).
• 1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis was born (d. 1984). Greek singer and songwriter.
• 1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
• 1917 - Wang Yung-ching was born. Taiwanese businessman.
• 1918 - Gustave Gingras was born (d. 1996). French Canadian physician.
• 1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
• 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
• 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. One the very day and the location of the founding of the German Reich, the peace conference intended to end WWI was opened in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Delegates from 27 Allied countries conferred about the future of Europe.
• 1919 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
• 1920 - Erupção do vulcão São Miguel, no México, que causa a morte de 6 mil pessoas.
• 1921 - Belding H. Scribner was born (d. 19 Jun 2003). American physician who invented the Scribner shunt, making long-term kidney dialysis possible.
• 1922 - Bob Bell was born (d. 1997). American clown.
• 1923 - Wallace Reid dies (b. 1891). American actor.
• 1924 - Indulto a los asesinos de Eduardo Dato, presidente del Gobierno español.
• 1925 - Gilles Deleuze was born. French philosopher.
• 1926 - Autran Dourado was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1927 - Sundaram Balachander was born (d. 1990). Indian veena player.
• 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico dies (b. 1840).
• 1929 - Um violento terremoto destrói a cidade de Cumaná, na Venezuela.
• 1930 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was born (d. 2004). Portuguese politician and Prime-Minister.
• 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan was born. President of South Korea.
• 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson was born. American author.
• 1933 - Ray Dolby was born. American physicist, engineer and inventor of the Dolby Noise Reduction Systems.
• 1933 - John Boorman was born. Irish film director.
• 1934 - Revolta de trabalhadores vidreiros da Marinha Grande, contra o governo de Salazar.
• 1934 - Raymond Briggs was born. English writer and illustrator.
• 1935 - Albert Millaire was born. Quebec actor and theatre director.
• 1935 - Gad Yaacobi was born (d. 2007). Israeli minister.
• 1935 - Jon Stallworthy was born. English poet.
• 1936 - Rudyard Kipling dies (b. 1865). British writer, Nobel Prize Literature 1907; (read If).
  
• 1937 - John Hume was born. Northern Irish politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
• 1938 - Anthony_Giddens was born. British sociologist.
• 1938 - Curt Flood was born (d. 1977). American baseball player.
• 1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers.
• 1940 - Pedro Rodriguez was born (d. 1971). Mexican racing driver.
• 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer dies (b. 1865). Polish writer.
• 1941 - Bobby Goldsboro was born. American country/pop singer.
• 1941 - David Ruffin was born (d. 1991). American singer.
• 1941 - Denise Bombardier was born. Quebec journalist, television host and novelist.
• 1941 - Doodles Weaver was born. American singer.
• 1943 - The Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken.
• 1943 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
• 1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• 1943 - Kay Granger was born. American politician.
• 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
• 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
• 1944 - Carl Morton was born (d. 1983). American baseball player.
  
• 1944 - Paul Keating was born. Twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
• 1945 - José Luis Perales was born. Spanish singer.
• 1946 - Joseph Deiss was born. Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1947 - Sachio Kinugasa was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1947 - Takeshi Kitano was born. Japanese actor and director.
• 1949 - Bill Keller was born. American newspaper editor.
• 1949 - Philippe Starck was born. French designer.
• 1950 - Gilles Villeneuve was born (d. 1982). Canadian racing driver.
• 1951 - Bob Latchford was born. English footballer.
• 1951 - Bram Behr was born (d. 1982). Surinamese journalist.
• 1951 - Amy Carmichael dies (b. 1867). Irish missionary.
  
• 1952 - Michael Behe was born. American advocate of Intelligent Design.
  
• 1952 - R. Stevie Moore was born. American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer.
• 1952 - Curly Howard dies (b. 1903). American actor and comedian.
• 1953 - Brett Hudson was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, imposes a death penalty for all those who organise the taking of the Mau Mau oath.
• 1954 - Tom Bailey was borm. English singer and musician (Thompson Twins).
  
• 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet dies (b. 1879). English actor.
• 1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
• 1955 - Fergus Martin was born. Irish artist.
• 1955 - Kevin Costner was born. American actor, director (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham...).
• 1955 - Fergus Martin was born. Irish artist.
• 1956 - Sharon Mitchell was born. American porn actress.
• 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• 1959 - Nei Lisboa was born. Brazilian rock musician.
• 1961 - Jeff Yagher was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Mark Messier was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1961 - Peter Beardsley was born. English footballer.
• 1962 - Alison Arngrim was born. American actress.
• 1962 - David O'Connor was born. American equestrian rider.
• 1963 - Martin O'Malley was born. Governor of Maryland.
• 1963 - Maxime Bernier was born. French Canadian politician.
• 1963 - Otto Mann was born. Fictional bus driver from The Simpsons.
• 1963 - Yury Zakharevich was born. Soviet weightlifter
• 1963 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh dies (b. Jun 1899). English mathematician whose contributions to analysis placed him in the forefront of his profession [Theory of Functions]
• 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell dies (b. 1906). Leader of the British Labour Party.
  
• 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
• 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.
• 1964 - Andrea Leand was born. American tennis player.
• 1964 - Enrico Lo Verso was born. Italian actor.
• 1964 - Jane Horrocks was born. British actress.
• 1965 - Dave Attell was born. American writer and comedian.
• 1966 - Alexander Khalifman was born. Russian chess player.
• 1966 - André Ribeiro was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1966 - David Bautista was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1966 - Kathleen Norris dies (b. 1880). American writer.
• 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
• 1967 - Iván Zamorano was born. Chilean footballer.
• 1967 - Kim Perrot was born (d. 1999). American basketball player.
• 1967 - Goose Tatum dies (b. 1921). American basketball player.
• 1968 - Frank Quitely was born. Scottish comic book artist.
• 1968 - Emmerico Nunes dies in Sines (b. 06 Jan 1888). Portuguese cartoonist.
• 1969 - A United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
• 1969 - Dave Bautista was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1969 - Jesse L. Martin was born. American actor and singer.
• 1969 - Jim O'Rourke was born. American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco).
• 1969 - Hans Freyer dies (b. 1887). German sociologist.
• 1970 - DJ Quik was born. American rapper.
• 1970 - Peter van Petegem was born. Belgian cyclist.
• 1970 - David O. McKay dies (b. 1873). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1971 - Christian Fittipaldi was born. Brazilian race car driver.
• 1971 - Fabian Ribauw was born. Nauruan politician.
• 1971 - Jonathan Davis was born. American musician (KoЯn).
• 1971 - Josep Guardiola was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1971 - Seamus O'Regan was born. Canadian broadcast journalist.
• 1971 - Virgil Finlay dies (b. 1914). American horror illustrator.
• 1972 - Mike Lieberthal was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Anthony Koutoufides was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1973 - Crispian Mills was born. British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker).
• 1973 - Richard Archer was born. British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi).
• 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
• 1974 - The Six Million Dollar Man debuts on ABC.
• 1974 - Christian Burns was born. English musician (BBMak).
• 1974 - Devon Odessa was born. American actress.
• 1974 - Maulik Pancholy was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Michael Tunn was born. Australian television and radio.
• 1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium was born.
• 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
• 1975 - Gertrude Olmstead dies (b. 1897). American actress.
• 1976 - Damien Leith was born. Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006
• 1976 - Laurence Courtois was born. Belgian tennis player
• 1976 - Marcelo Daniel Gallardo was born. Argentine football (soccer) player.
• 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease".
• 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
• 1977 - Alina Jidkova was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1977 - Curtis Cregan was born. American actor.
• 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• 1978 - Bogdan Lobont was born. Romanian football player.
• 1978 - Brian Falkenborg was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Carl Betz dies (b. 1921). American film and television actor.
• 1978 - Hasan Askari dies (b. 1919). Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer.
• 1978 - Walter H. Thompson dies (b. 1890). English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill.
• 1979 - Troops in the Central African Republic suppress a youth led riot against the imposition of school uniforms.
• 1979 - Brian Gionta was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Jay Chou was born. Taiwanese singer, producer, actor and director.
• 1979 - Kenyatta Jones was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Paulo Ferreira was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1979 - Ruslan Fedotenko was born. Ukrainian ice hockey player.
• 1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 .
• 1980 - Estelle Swaray was born. English singer
• 1980 - Jason Segel was born. American actor
• 1980 - Julius Peppers was born. American football player
• 1980 - Robert Green was born. English footballer
• 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton dies (b. 1904). English fashion designer.
• 1981 - Kang Dong-won was born. South Korean model and actor.
• 1981 - Khari Stephenson was born. Jamaican soccer player.
• 1981 - Olivier Rochus was born. Belgian tennis player.
• 1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
• 1982 - Joanna Newsom was born. American harpist/singer-songwriter.
• 1982 - Quinn Allman was born. American musician (The Used).
• 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• 1983 - Samantha Mumba was born. Irish singer and actress.
• 1983 - Arturo Illía dies. President of Argentina (1963-1966).
• 1984 - Benji Schwimmer was born. American dancer.
• 1984 - Kristy Lee Cook was born. American Idol 7 cast member.
• 1984 - Maarja Kivi was born. Estonian singer.
• 1984 - Michael Kearney was born. American child prodigy.
• 1984 - Seung-Hui Cho was born (d. 2007). Shooter at Virginia Tech.
  
• 1984 - Ary dos Santos dies (b. 1937). Portuguese poet/ Faleceu o poeta português José Carlos Ary dos Santos.
• 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis dies (b. 1915). Greek singer and song writer of rebetiko.
• 1985 - Dale Begg-Smith was born. Australian freestyle skier.
• 1985 - Minissha Lamba was born. Indian actress and model.
• 1985 - Riccardo Montolivo was born. Italian footballer.
• 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell dies (b. 1912). Irish actor.
• 1985 - Manuel Antunes dies (b. 1918). Portuguese teacher and essayst.
• 1985 - A Federação Latino-Americana e do Caribe de Jornalistas Desportivos elege o brasileiro Joaquim Cruz o melhor atleta latino-americano de 1984.
• 1986 - 88 pessoas morrem em colisão de um avião em Santa Elena, na Guatemala.
• 1987 - Johan Djourou was born. Swiss footballer
• 1987 - Renato Guttuso dies (b. 1911). Italian painter.
• 1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board.
• 1988 - Ronald Guglielmone Jr. was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1989 - Bruce Chatwin dies (b. 1940). English novelist.
• 1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
• 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
• 1990 - Rusty Hamer dies (b. 1947). American actor.
  
• 1991 - Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel: Iraq has attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War / Durante a Guerra do Golfo, o Iraque lança oito mísseis contra Israel, com o objectivo de forçar o estado judeu a entrar no conflito.
• 1991 - O festival internacional de música, o “Rock in Rio” inicia no Rio de Janeiro .
• 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
• 1991 - La selección española de waterpolo consigue la medalla de oro en los Mundiales de natación.
• 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
• 1993 - Morgan York was born. American actress.
• 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert dies (b. 1906). British author.
• 1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
• 1995 - Cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old are discovered in southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc .
• 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
• 1995 - Lamberto Dini torna-se o novo primeiro-ministro da Itália.
• 1995 - Adolf Butenandt dies (b. 24 Mar. 1903). German biochemist who shared The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1939 (with Leopold Ruzicka), for pioneering work (1923-34) on sex hormones.
• 1995 - Ron Luciano dies (b. 1937). Baseball umpire
• 1996 - O partido socialista da Grécia escolhe Costas Simtis como o novo primeiro-ministro do país, substituindo Andréas Papandreou.
• 1996 - O casamento de Lisa Marie Presley, filha de Elvis Presley, e do cantor Michael Jackson, chega ao fim depois de dois anos.
• 1996 - A cantora Madonna chega à Argentina para filmar Evita, filme de Alan Parker. Ela é recebida com protestos pela população.
• 1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao dies (b. 1923). Indian film actor.
• 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
• 1997 - Paul Tsongas dies (b. 1941). U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
• 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
• 2000 - The Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
• 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky dies (b. 1897). Austrian architect.
• 2001 - The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
• 2001 - Al Waxman dies (b. 1935). Canadian actor.
• 2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War was finally declared over.
• 2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
• 2003 - Canberra firestorm kills 4 and destroys 491 homes.
• 2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
• 2003 - Richard Crenna dies (b. 1927). Actor.
• 2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat dies (b. 1924). American professional wrestler.
• 2004 - A suicide truck bombing outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad killed at least 31 people.
• 2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
• 2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
• 2005 - Lamont Bentley dies (b. 1973). American actor.
• 2006 - Jan Twardowski dies (b. 1915). Polish poet.
• 2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.
• 2007 - Brent Liles dies (b. 1963). American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion).
• 2008 - Frank Lewin dies (b. 1925). American composer and music theorist.
  
• 2008 - Georgia Frontiere dies (b. 1927). American football team owner.
• 2008 - John Stroger dies (b. 1929). First African-American Cook County Board President.
• 2009 – Bob May dies (b. 1939). American actor.
  
• 2009 - Grigore Vieru dies (b. 1935). Romanian poet.
  
• 2009 - Tony Hart dies (b. 1925). British artist and TV presenter.
  
• Christian ecumenism - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins.
• Winnie The Pooh Day (In observance of the birthday of of Alan Alexander Milne, 1882).
• Feast day of Saint Athanasius (Eastern Orthodox).
• Feast day of Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
• Feast day of Saint Volusianus.