On this day in History - Mar. 05

• 0254 -St Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring to his own death.
• 1046 - Naser Khosrow begins his "itinerary" which he would later describe in Safarnameh.
• 1133 - King Henry II of England was born (d. 1189).
• 1152 - Friedrich I (Friedrich Barbarossa) is elected the German Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1291 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, was assassinated.
• 1324 - King David II of Scotland was born (d. 1371).
• 1461 - Em Inglaterra, Eduardo IV ascendeu ao trono.
• 1496 - England King Henry VII issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
• 1512 - Gerardus Mercator was born (d. 1594). Flemish cartographer.
• 1534 - Antonio da Correggio dies (b. 1489). Italian painter.
• 1539 - Nuno da Cunha dies (b. 1487). Portuguese governor in India.
• 1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes.
• 1563 - John Coke was born (d. 1644). English politician.
• 1575 - William Oughtred was born. English mathematician.
• 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1656).
• 1592 - Michael Coxcie dies (b. 1499). Flemish painter.
• 1605 - Pope Clement VIII dies.
• 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa dies (b. 1533). Japanese daimyo and samurai.
• 1616 - La Iglesia Católica condena el libro de Copérnico que contiene sus teorías astronómicas.
• 1622 - Ranuccio Farnese I dies (b. 1569). Duke of Parma.
• 1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac was born (d. 1730). French explorer
• 1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
  
• 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein was born (d. 1754). Swiss theologian.
• 1695 - Henry Wharton dies (b. 1664). English writer.
• 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born (d. 1770). Italian painter.
• 1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was born (d. 1768). Russian poet.
• 1723 - Princess Mary of Great Britain was born (d. 1773).
• 1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull dies. English politician.
• 1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge was bon (d. 1819). Doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature.
• 1748 - Jonas C. Dryander was born (d. 1810). Swedish botanist.
• 1748 - William Shield was born (d. 1829). English musician.
• 1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison was born (d. 1805). French classical scholar.
• 1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
• 1776 - Yeongjo of Joseon dies (b. 1694). Ruler of Korea.
• 1778 - Thomas Augustine Arne dies (b. 1710). English composer.
• 1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade in its second iteration.
• 1790 - Flora Macdonald dies. Jacobite heroine.
• 1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liege is recaptured.
• 1794 - Jacques Babinet was born (d. 1872). French physicist.
• 1794 - Robert Cooper Grier was born (d. 1870). Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht was born (d. 1889). German historian.
• 1815 - John Wentworth was born (d. 1888). American politician.
• 1815 - Franz Mesmer dies (b. 1734). Austrian developer of hypnotism.
  
• 1817 - Austen Henry Layard was born (d. 1894). English archaeologist, excavator of Nineveh.
  
• 1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
• 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
• 1827 - Alessandro Volta dies (b. 1745). Italian physicist ("Volt" electricity unity is called from his name).
• 1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace dies (b. 1749). French mathematician.
• 1829 - John Adams dies (b. 1766). Last surviving Bounty mutineer.
• 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
• 1836 - Charles Goodnight was born (d. 1929). American cattle rancher.
• 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas revolution.
• 1848 - Se establece en Francia el sufragio universal.
• 1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages named French minister of Finance.
• 1849 - Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
• 1849 - David Scott dies (b 1906). Scottish painter.
• 1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales was opened.
• 1851 - Václav Brožík was born. Artist.
• 1853 - Howard Pyle was born (d. 1911). American author and illustrator.
• 1854 - El general Justo José de Urquiza accede a la Presidencia de la Confederación Argentina.
• 1856 - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire.
• 1858 - José Mascarenhas Relvas was born in Golegã (d. 1929). Portuguese politician and Prime Minister. / Nasceu, na Golegã, o político e diplomata português José Mascarenhas Relvas (m. 1929 em Alpiarça).
• 1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1860 - Isabel II crea por decreto la Meteorología oficial en España.
• 1860 - Santiago Derqui asume la presidencia de la Confederación Argentina, al terminar el mandato del presidente Urquiza.
• 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
• 1861 - Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln.
• 1864 - For the first time, Oxford met Cambridge in track and field competition in England.
• 1867 - Little River County, Arkansas is organized in the United States.
• 1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was born. Premier of Quebec.
• 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
  
• 1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
• 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber was born (d. 1952). German cardinal and archbishop.
• 1870 - Frank Norris was born (d. 1902). American writer.
• 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg was born. Socialist revolutionary.
• 1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• 1873 - Olav Bjaaland was born (d. 1961). Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier.
• 1874 - Henry Travers was born (d. 1965). British actor.
• 1876 - Marie d'Agoult dies (b. 1805). German-born writer.
• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
• 1879 - William Beveridge was born (d. 1963). British economist.
• 1883 - Marius Barbeau was born (d. 1969). French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist.
• 1886 - Dong Biwu was born. Founder of the Communist Party of China.
• 1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos was born (d. 1959). Brazilian composer.
• 1893 - Hippolyte Taine dies (b. 1828). French historian.
• 1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
• 1895 - Henry Rawlinson dies (b. 1810). British soldier.
• 1895 - Nikolai Leskov dies (b. 1831). Russian writer.
• 1896 - Italian premier Crispi resigns.
• 1897 - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was born (d. 2003). Chinese political figure.
• 1897 - Set Persson was born (d. 1960). Swedish communist politician.
• 1898 - Soong May-ling was born (d. 2003). Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek.
  
• 1898 - Zhou Enlai was born (d. 1976). Premier of the People's Republic of China.
• 1900 - American Hall of Fame is founded .
• 1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson dies (b. 1854). British soldier.
• 1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
• 1904 - Karl Rahner was born (d. 1984). German theologian.
• 1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
• 1905 - Günther Lüders was born (d. 1975). Actor and film director.
• 1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
• 1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
• 1907 - Friedrich Blass dies (b. 1843). German classic scholar.
• 1908 - Rex Harrison was born. English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle).
• 1908 - Irving Fiske was born (d. 1990). American writer, playwright.
• 1909 - Patativa do Assaré was born (d. 2002). Brazilian poet.
• 1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz was born. Polish mathematician.
• 1912 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die.
• 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• 1914 - Philip Farkas was born (d. 1992). American horn player and teacher.
• 1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire during a patrol mission; it stranded south of Ostend.
• 1915 - Laurent Schwartz was born (d. 2002). French mathematician.
• 1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
• 1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
• 1917 - Manuel de Arriaga dies (b. 1940). First President of Portuguese Republic / Morre Manuel de Arriaga, primeiro Presidente da República de Portugal (n. 1840).
• 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
• 1918 - James Tobin was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1918 - Milt Schmidt was born. Canadian hockey player, coach and manager.
• 1918 - Red Storey was born (d. 2006). Canadian football player and hockey referee.
• 1920 - José Aboulker was born. Anti-Nazi resistance fighter.
• 1920 - Virginia Christine was born (d. 1996). American actress.
• 1921 - Elmer Valo was born (d. 1998). Major League Baseball player.
• 1922 - Estreia em Berlim do filme de Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: "Nosferatu".
• 1922 - James Noble was born. American actor.
• 1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini was born (d. 1975).Italian writer and film director.
• 1923 - David Nathan was born (d. 1966). Welsh journalist.
• 1923 - Laurence Tisch was born. American investor.
• 1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
• 1925 - Lindley Cintra was born. Portuguese philologist and professor.
• 1925 - Johan Jensen dies (b. 1859). Danish mathematician.
• 1926 - Clément Ader dies (b. 1841). French aviation pioneer, engineer.
• 1927 - Jack Cassidy was born (d. 1976). American actor.
• 1927 - Franz Mertens dies (b. 1840). German mathematician.
• 1929 - LanChile airline begins operations.
• 1929 - David Dunbar Buick dies (b. 1854). Scottish-born American automobile pioneer.
• 1929 - Erik Carlsson was born. Swedish rally driver.
• 1930 - Del Crandall was born. American baseball player.
• 1931 - Gandhi aceita pôr fim à campanha de desobediência civil na Índia, dominada pela Grã-Bretanha.
• 1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey named President of Bolivia.
• 1931 - Fred Othon Aristidès was born. French comics artist.
• 1931 - Barry Tuckwell was born. Australian horn virtuoso.
• 1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth dies (b. 1839). SSC Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities.
• 1932 - Em Lisboa, foi criada a Academia Nacional de Belas Artes.
• 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
• 1933 - Tommy Tucker was born (d. 1982). American blues singer and pianist.
• 1933 - Samantha Eggar was born. Actress.
• 1934 - Daniel Kahneman was born. Israeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1934 - James B. Sikking was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s "Mutiny On The Bounty" (produced by Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin) was voted Outstanding Production, as they used to say. The 8th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Director/producer/writer/actor Frank Capra hosted the big giveaway honoring the films of 1935, which saw Victor McLaglen take the Best Actor prize for "The Informer" (John Ford won for directing this one). Best Actress was Bette Davis in "Dangerous". In case you are wondering, they didn’t start handing out those Supporting Actor/Actress awards until 1937. The Best Music/Song award winners were Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) for the song "Lullaby of Broadway" from "Gold Diggers of 1935". An Oscar for Short Subject/Cartoon was awarded to Walt Disney for his ’toon, "Three Orphan Kittens".
• 1936 - First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
• 1936 - Canaan Banana was born (d. 2003).First President of Zimbabwe.
• 1936 - Dean Stockwell was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Mário Zambujal was born. Portuguese writer and journalist ("Crónica dos Bons Malandros").
• 1937 - Foi lançada a revista feminina Marie Claire.
• 1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo was born. President of Nigeria.
• 1938 - Fred Williamson was born. American football player and actor.
• 1938 - Paul Evans was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1939 - Peter Woodcock was born. Canadian serial killer.
• 1939 - Samantha Eggar was born. British actress.
• 1939 - Pierre Wynants was born. Belgian chef.
• 1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
• 1940 - Malcolm Hebden was born. British television and stage actor.
• 1940 - Cai Yuanpei dies (b. 1868). Chinese educator.
• 1942 - Felipe González Márquez was born. Prime Minister of Spain.
• 1942 - Mike Resnick was born. American science fiction author.
• 1943 - Billy Backus was born. American boxer.
• 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor aircraft in Britain.
• 1944 - Roy Gutman was born. American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• 1944 - Lucio Battisti was born (d. 1998). Italian singer.
• 1944 - Max Jacob dies (b. 1876). French poet and writer.
• 1945 - World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
• 1945 - Santiago Doria was born. Argentine theatre director.
• 1945 - Lena Baker dies (b. 1901). American murderer.
• 1945 - Paschal English was born. American Survivor contestant.
• 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. This event is often regarded at the beginning of the Cold War.“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent”.
• 1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
• 1946 - Murray Head was born. British actor and singer.
• 1947 - Clodagh Rodgers was born. Northern Irish singer.
• 1947 - Eddie Hodges was born. American actor and singer.
• 1947 - Kent Tekulve was born. American baseball player.
• 1947 - Alfredo Casella dies (b. 1883). Italian composer.
• 1948 - Eddy Grant was born. Guyana-born singer.
• 1948 - Elaine Paige was born. English singer, actress.
• 1948 - Richard Hickox was born. English musical conductor.
• 1948 - Paquirri was born (d. 1984). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
• 1949 - Franz Josef Jung was born. Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr.
  
• 1951 - Giorgos Ninios was born. Greek actor.
• 1952 - Alan Clark was born. British keyboardist (Dire Straits).
• 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev dies (b. 1891). Russian composer.
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin dies (b. 1879). Leader of the Soviet Union.
  
• 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz dies (b. 1897). American screenwriter.
• 1954 - Marsha Warfield was born. American actress, comedienne.
• 1955 - President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to Saratov, Soviet Union.
• 1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
• 1955 - Penn Jillette was born. American magician and comedian.
• 1955 - Antanas Merkys dies (b. 1888). President of Lithuania.
• 1956 - Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen by a 15-round decision, in Chicago.
• 1956 - "King Kong" first televised.
• 1956 - Teena Marie was born. American singer.
• 1957 - Mark E. Smith was born. English singer (The Fall).
• 1957 - Ray Suarez was born. American journalist and author.
• 1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
• 1958 - Explorer 2, part of the Explorer program, launched and eventually failed.
• 1958 - Andy Gibb was born (d. 1988). English singer (Bee-Gees).
• 1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan was born (d. 1999). Armenian politician.
• 1959 - David Fury was born. American television writer and producer.
• 1960 - The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
• 1960 - Elvis Presley is discharged from the United States Army.
• 1960 - El Gobierno venezolano de Rómulo Betancourt promulga la ley de Reforma Agraria.
• 1960 - David Tibet was born. English musician (Current 93).
• 1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid was born. Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
• 1962 - Jonathan Penner was born. American actor and Survivor contestant
• 1963 - Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, country music singers- and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash at Camden, TN, near Nashville. The famous country music stars were returning from a benefit performance.
• 1963 - Joel Osteen was born. Senior pastor of Lakewood Church and best selling author.
• 1964 - Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
• 1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
• 1965 - Chen Cheng dies (b. 1897). Chinese politician.
• 1965 - Pepper Martin dies (b. 1904). American baseball player.
• 1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
• 1965 - A new constituition is promulgated in Honduras.
• 1965 - First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
• 1966 - Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
• 1966 - A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124.
• 1966 - In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria singing "Merci, cherie" (Thanks, babe).
• 1966 - Aasif Mandvi was born. Indian-born American actor and comedian.
• 1966 - Bob Halkidis was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1966 - Michael Irvin was born. American football player.
• 1966 - Tim Crutchfield was born. Controversial politician.
• 1966 - Anna Akhmatova dies (b. 1889). Russian poet.
• 1967 - Georges Vanier dies (b. 1888). Governor General of Canada.
• 1967 - El coronel Fidel Sánchez Hernández es elegido presidente de El Salvador.
• 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
• 1969 - Danny King was born. British author.
• 1969 - MC Solaar was born. French hiphop artist.
• 1969 - Moussa Saïb was born. Former Algerian footballer.
• 1969 - Paul Blackthorne was born. British actor.
• 1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
• 1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
• 1970 - John Frusciante was born. Musician ("The Red Hot Chili Peppers").
• 1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly was born. American actress.
• 1971 - First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
• 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff was born. American musician (Bloodhound Gang).
• 1971 - Filip Meirhaeghe was born. Belgian mountainbiker.
• 1971 - Jeffrey Hammonds was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Yuri Lowenthal was born. American actor/author/painter.
• 1972 - Luca Turilli was born. Italian musician (Rhapsody).
• 1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
• 1973 - Ryan Franklin was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Yannis Anastasiou was born. Greek footballer.
• 1973 - Michael Jeffery dies (b. 1933). British music manager.
• 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
• 1974 - Candide, by Leonard Bernstein, opens at the Broadway Theatre in New York City, beginning a run of 740 performances.
• 1974 - Eva Mendes was born. American actress.
• 1974 - Jens Jeremies was born. German footballer.
• 1974 - Kevin Connolly was born. American television actor and comedian.
• 1974 - Matt Lucas was born. English comedian.
• 1974 - Billy De Wolfe dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1974 - Sol Hurok dies (b. 1888). Russian-born impresario.
• 1975 - Jolene Blalock was born. American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise).
• 1975 - Luciano Burti was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1975 - Niki Taylor was born. American fashion model.
• 1975 - Sasho Petrovski was born. Australian footballer.
• 1976 - British pound falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.
• 1976 - Katerina Matziou was born. Greek actress.
• 1976 - Paul Konerko was born. Baseball player.
• 1976 - Šarūnas Jasikevičius was born. Lithuanian basketball player.
• 1977 - Bryan Berard was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Mike MacDougal was born. American baseball player
• 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak was born. American basketball player.
• 1977 - Manuel Fraga es nombrado presidente del partido por el congreso constituyente de Alianza Popular.
• 1977 - Tom Pryce dies (b. 1949). British Formula One driver (1977 South African Grand Prix).
• 1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren dies. Dutch volunteer marshall (1977 South African Grand Prix).
• 1978 - Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
  
• 1978 - Jared Crouch was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1978 - Kimberly McCullough was born. American actress.
• 1978 - Mike Hessman was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Papoose was born. American rapper.
• 1979 - Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios 2 all are hit with "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
• 1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
• 1979 - Flick Shagwell was born. British porn actress.
• 1979 - Tang Gonghong was born. Chinese weightlifter.
• 1980 - Jay Silverheels dies (b. 1912). Canadian actor.
• 1980 - Winifred Wagner dies (b. 1897). Geman opera producer, Bayreuth Festival organizer.
• 1981 - Andreas Wiig was born. Norwegian snowboarder.
• 1981 - Barret Jackman was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1981 - Paul Martin was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1981 - Shugo Oshinari was born. Japanese actor.
• 1981 - Yip Harburg dies (b. 1896). American lyricist.
• 1981 - Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
• 1982 - Actor and SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.
• 1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
• 1982 - Daniel Carter was born. New Zealand rugby player.
• 1982 - Giorgia Palmas was born. Italian television personality and model.
• 1982 - John Belushi dies (b. 1949). American actor.
• 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
• 1984 - Ryan Crowley was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1984 - Tito Gobbi dies (b. 195). Italian baritone.
• 1984 - William Powell dies (b. 1892). American actor.
• 1984 - Pedro da Cunha Pimentel Homem de Mello dies in Porto (b. 1904). Portuguese poet / Morre no Porto o poeta Pedro Homem de Mello, conhecido sobretudo pelos seus programas sobre Folclore na RTP.
• 1985 - Body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena found.
• 1985 - La junta de Gobierno de Nicaragua pone en libertad al joven José Urbina Lara, cuya detención provocó el boicot costarricense a las gestiones de paz del Grupo de Contadora.
• 1985 - Incendio en las islas Galápagos (Ecuador), que en varios días arrasó más de 25.000 hectáreas en un frente de 25 kilómetros.
• 1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama was born. Japanese actor.
• 1985 - Whitney Port was born. American reality TV star.
• 1986 - Matty Fryatt was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - Anna Chakvetadze was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
• 1988 - Bjarni Viðarsson was born. Icelandic footballer.
• 1988 - Trevor Carson was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1988 - Alberto Olmedo dies (b. 1933). Argentine comedian.
• 1989 - Jake Lloyd was born. American actor.
• 1990 - Público a Portuguese newspapewr is first published / Começa a publicar-se o jornal Público em Portugal.
• 1990 - Gary Merrill dies (b. 1915). American film actor.
  
• 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
• 1991 - El presidente chileno, Patricio Aylwin, publica un informe sobre las violaciones de los derechos humanos en Chile durante los 16 años de dictadura de Pinochet.
• 1993 - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die.
• 1993 - Es detenido un integrista islámico, acusado del atentado de las torre Gemelas.
• 1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
• 1993 - Cyril Collard dies (b. 1957). French author and filmmaker.
• 1995 - Se inicia en Copenhague la Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social.
• 1995 - The Free Internet Chess Server was brought online and remains operational today.
• 1995 - Vivian Stanshall dies (b. 1943). English musician (Bonzo Dog Band).
• 1996 - El Parlamento de EEUU aprueba la ley Helms-Burton, que endurece las sanciones económicas contra Cuba.
• 1996 - Whit Bissell dies (b. 1909). American actor.
• 1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker dies. American diet author (Coauthor of the Scarsdale Diet).
  
• 1998 - La nave no tripulada Lunar Prospector descubre la existencia de hielo en los casquetes polares de la Luna.
• 1998 - El líder de la red de intrusos informáticos que atacó el Pentágono reta al FBI a que le encuentre en Internet.
• 1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
• 1998 - NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
• 1998 - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola.
• 1998 - Alda Nogueira dies. Portuguese women rights activist.
• 1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
• 1999 - Richard Kiley dies (b. 1922). American actor.
• 1999 - From Sudan it was reported that southern rebels had kidnapped 7 people working with the International Committee of the Red Cross near the town of Bentiu, 500 miles south of Khartoum.
• 2000 - In Angola some 500 armed men killed 30 diamond prospectors in Chivungo. UNITA rebels were blamed.
• 2000 - NATO peacekeeping troops arrested Dragoljub Prcac, a Bosnian Serb, for war crimes committed at the Omarska prison camp in 1992, where he served as deputy commander.
• 2000 - In Mozambique some 600 US troops arrived to help deliver food and medical supplies where flooding left an estimated 1 million people homeless.
• 2000 - Yoshiro Mori é nomeado como novo primeiro ministro do Japão em sustituição de Keizo Obuchi, em coma depois de uma hemorragia cerebral.
• 2000 - Lolo Ferrari dies (b. 1962). French actress.
• 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
• 2001 - In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
• 2002 - MTV begins airing The Osbournes.
• 2003 - University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations..
• 2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
• 2003 - Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
• 2003 - Hellmuth Buddenberg dies. German entrepreneur.
• 2003 - In Argentina the Supreme declared unconstitutional a government decree that converted dollar bank accounts to devalued pesos.
• 2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
• 2003 - In Armenia Pres. Robert Kocharian won Armenia's presidential runoff. The opposition claimed he was trying to fix the outcome. Kocharian had 67.5 percent and challenger Stepan Demirchian had 32.5 percent.
• 2004 - A three-headed frog is found in Weston-super-Mare, England.
• 2004 - Carlos Julio Arosemena (84), one-time president of Ecuador whose term ended in a 1963 military coup, died. Elected vice president in 1960, Arosemena rose to the presidency following the ouster of President Velasco Ibarra a year later in a military coup.
• 2004 - The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers set a record for most penalty minutes in one game with 419.
• 2004 - Walt Gorney dies (b. 1912). American actor.
• 2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its 1st National Convention
• 2005 - Agnes Fontoura dies (b. 1928). Brazilian actress.
• 2006 - The 2006 National People's Congress opens in Beijing, beginning a week-long session of China's parliament. Premier Wen Jiabao makes a Working Report.
• 2006 - 78th Academy Awards.
• 2006 - Three 6 Mafia become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.
• 2006 - Richard Kuklinski dies (b. 1935). American Mafia hit man.
• 2008 - Joel Serrão dies (b. 1919). Portuguese historian.
• 2008 - Joseph Weizenbaum dies (b. 1923). German-American professor of computer science.
• CCHR Day (Scientology).
• Learn from Lei Feng Day in China.
• Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar.
• St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day.
• Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar.
• Saint Theophile (d. 195).
• Saint Olivia (d. 308).
• Dia do Filatelista (Brasil).