Nothingandall: On this day in History

0766 - Chrodegang of Metz dies. Frankish bishop of Metz.
1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar.
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo dies (b. 1235). Italian saint.
1255 - Pope Alexander IV permitted Mindaugas to crown his son as king of Lithuania.
1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster was born (d. 1399).
1405 - King John II of Castile was born (d. 1454).
1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1459 - Jacob Fugger was born (d. 1525). German banker.
1460 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti was born (d. 18 Feb 1564). Italian artist : sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, born in Caprese, Tuscany.(Renaissance artist: Sistine Chapel ceiling; sculptor: David; architect: St. Peter’s [Rome];
1480 - Treaty of Alcacovas is ratified. Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa /Ratificação por parte dos Reis Católicos do Tratado de Alcáçovas, que terminou a Guerra de Sucessão de Castela. D. Afonso V abandona definitivamente as pretensões de Portugal sobre as Canárias, sendo reconhecido a Portugal o senhorio da Madeira, Açores, Guiné e Cabo Verde, assim como a conquista do Reino de Fez.
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini was born (d. 1540). Italian statesman and historian.
1490 - Ivan the Young dies (b. 1458). Ruler of Tver.
1495 - Luigi Alamanni was born (d. 1556). Italian poet.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam / Fernão de Magalhães descobre a ilha Guam.
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila dies. Spanish conqueror.
1619 - Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac was born (d. 1655). French soldier and poet.
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski dies (b. 1580). Polish statesman.
1635 - Decreto que alarga o imposto do real-d'água a todo o país. A aplicação do imposto é feito em proveito integral da coroa. Vai tornar-se um dos impostos mais detestados, e símbolo da opressão castelhana em Portugal.
1663 - Francis Atterbury was born (d. 1732). English man of letters.
1679 - João Manuel de Noronha was born (d. 1761). Portuguese noble.

1706 - George Pocock was born (d. 1792). British admiral.

1716 - Pehr Kalm was born (d. 1779). Finnish explorer and naturalist.

1719 - Portugal: Violento tremor de terra em Lisboa e no Algarve.

1754 - Henry Pelham dies (b. 1694). Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington dies. English politician.

1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy was born (d. 1828). French General.

1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke dies (b. 1690). Lord Chancellor of England.

1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini was born (d. 1869). French general.

1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer was born (d. 1826). German physicist.

1788 - The First Fleet arrives to Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal dies (b. 1713). French writer.

1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born (d. 1861). English poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese).

1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison was born (d. 1895). American watch manufacturer.

1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans was born (d. 1907).

1818 - William Claflin was born (d. 1905). 27th Governor of Massachusetts.

1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

1826 - D. João VI nomeia, quatro dias antes de morrer, um conselho de regência presidido pela sua filha a infanta Isabel Maria.

1831 - Philip Sheridan was born (d. 1888). American Civil War Union cavalry officer.

1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

1834 - George du Maurier was born (d. 1896). British illustrator and writer.

1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.

1836 - Davy Crockett dies (b. 1786). American frontiersman.

1836 - William Barret Travis death (b. 1809). American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier.

1836 - James Butler Bonham dies (b. 1807). American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier.

1836 - Jim Bowie dies (b. 1796). American pioneer and soldier.

1839 - Olegário Víctor Andrade was born (d. 1882). Argentinian politician, poet and journalist.

1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.

1841 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born (d. 1902). French physicist.

1842 - Constanze Mozart dies (b. 1763). Wife of W.A. Mozart.

1851 - Miguel Bombarda was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 3 Oct. 1910). Portuguese republican politician and psychiatrist.

1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.

1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry dies (b. 1778). British soldier and politician.

1856 - The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.

1857 - Supreme Court of the United States rules in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.

1860 - While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.

1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer dies (b. 1783). German cellist and composer.

1866 - William Whewell dies (b. 1794). English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science.

1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1870 - Oscar Straus was born (d. 1954). Viennese operetta composer.

1871 - Afonso Costa was born in Seia (d. 1937). Portuguese politician and jurist.

1881 - Horatia Nelson dies (b. 1801). The illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.

1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman was born (d. 1980). American architect.

1885 - Ring Lardner was born (d. 1933). American writer (You Know Me, Al).

1888 - Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father (b. 1832). American novelist Little Women" (1868)).

1893 - Furry Lewis was born (d. 1981). American blues guitarist.

1895 - Camilla Collett dies (b. 1813). Norwegian writer and feminist.

1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman's discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.

1899 - Furry Lewis was born (d. 1981). American blues guitarist.

1899 - Victoria Kaiulani dies (b. 1875). Hawaiian princess.

1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.

1900 - Lefty Grove was born (d. 1955). American baseball player.

1900 - Gottlieb Daimler dies (b. 1834). German engineer and industrialist.

1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.

1902 - The Spanish football club Real Madrid is founded.

1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan was born (d. 2000).

1904 - Joseph Schmidt was born (d. 1942). Austrian tenor.

1904 - José Antonio Aguirre was born (d. 1960). Basque politician.

1905 - Bob Wills was born (d. 1975). American singer.

1905 - John Henninger Reagan dies (b. 1818). American Confederate politician.

1906 - Lou Costello was born (d. 1959). American comedian, actor.

1914 - German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania.

1914 - Kiril Kondrashin was born (d. 1981). Russian conductor.

1915 - José Armelim Bernardo Guimarães was born (d. 2004). Brazilian historian and poet.

1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin was born. Bohra spiritual leader.

1915 - Pete Gray was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.

1916 - The Allies recapture Fort Douamont in France during the Battle of Verdun.

1917 - Frankie Howerd was born (d. 1992). English comedian.

1917 - Hélio Borges wasborn (d. 2003). Brazilian biologist.

1917 - Will Eisner was born (d. 2005). American illustrator and cartoonist.

1917 - Luís de Albuquerque was born (d. 22 Jan 1992). Portuguese historian.

1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappeared in "Bermuda Triangle."

1919 - Maurice Grosse was born (d. 2006). British paranormal investigator.

1921 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International./Criação do Partido Comunista Português, sucessor da Federação Maximalista Portuguesa.

1923 - Ed McMahon was born. American television personality.

1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith.

1925 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded.

1925 - Wes Montgomery was born (d. 1968). American musician.

1926 - Alan Greenspan was born. American economist and chairman of the Federal Reserve.

1926 - Andrzej Wajda dies. Polish film director.

1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis is released.

1927 - Gordon Cooper dies (b. 2004). American astronaut.

1927 - Norman Treigle was born (d. 1975). American bass-baritone.

1928 - Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca. Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera).

1930 - Lorin Maazel was born. French-born American conductor.

1931 - Hal Needham was born. American stunt man.

1932 - John Philip Sousa dies (b. 1854). American band leader, conductor, and composer.

1933 - Ted Abernathy was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.

1933 - Anton Cermak dies (b. 1873). Mayor of Chicago.

1934 - John Noakes was born. British television presenter.

1935 - Ron Delany was born. Irish athlete.

1935 - João Pedro Morais was born in Cascais. Portuguese footballer.

1935 - Fridolf Rhudin dies (b. 1895). Swedish actor and comedian.

1936 - Bob Akin was born (d. 2002). American industrialist and race car driver.

1936 - Marion Barry Jr. was born. Mayor of Washington DC.

1936 - Jean Boht was born. English actress.

1937 - Ivan Boesky was born. American stock trader.

1937 - Jose Pena Gomez was born in Valverde, Dominican Republic (d. 1998). Advocate for the poor and later mayor of Santo Domingo.

1937 - Valentina Tereshkova was born. Russian cosmonaut, the first woman to orbit the Earth.

1939 - Adam Osborne was born (d. 2003). British author and computer designer.

1939 - Perry Salles (Perilúcio José de Almeida) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.

1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain was born. Duchess of Soria.

1939 - Cookie Rojas was born. Baseball player.

1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann dies (b. 1852). German mathematician.

1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.

1940 - Willie Stargell was born (d. 2001). Baseball player.

1940 - Paulo Figueiredo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.

1941 - Gutzon Borglum dies (b. 1867). Danish sculptor.

1942 - Ben Murphy was born. American actor.

1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa was born. New Zealand soprano.

1944 - Mary Wilson was born. American singer (Supremes).

1945 - Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges' First Army.

1945 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.

1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

1946 - David Gilmour was born. English musician (Pink Floyd).

1947 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.

1947 - Rob Reiner was born in The Bronx, New York. American actor, director, producer.

1947 - Kiki Dee was born. English singer.

1947 - Dick Fosbury was born. American track-and-field athlete and gold-medal winner (1947)

1947 - Martin Kove was born. American actor.

1947 - Teru Miyamoto was born. Japanese author.

1948 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.

1948 - Anna Maria Horsford was born. American actress.

1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr. dies (b. 1914). American novelist.

1949 - Shaukat Aziz was born. Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1949 - Martin Buchan was born. Scottish footballer.

1950 - Albert Lebrun dies (b. 1871). President of France.

1951 - Gerrie Knetemann was born (d. 2004). Dutch cyclist.

1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

1951 - Natália do Valle was born. Brazilian actress.

1951 - Gerrie Knetemann was born (d. 2004). Dutch cyclist.

1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko dies (b. 1880). Ukrainian politician and statesman.

1951 - Ivor Novello dies (b. 1893). Welsh actor, musician and composer.

1952 - Jürgen Stroop dies executed. Nazi SS-leader.

1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1953 - Jan Kjærstad was born. Norwegian author.

1953 - Jacklyn Zeman was born. American actress.

1955 - Alberta Watson was born. Canadian actress.

1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.

1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.

1958 - Eddie Deezen was born. American actor.

1959 - Tom Arnold was born. American actor and comedian.

1959 - Saul Anuzis was born. American politician from Michigan.

1960 - The Swiss grant women the right to vote in municipal elections.

1961 - George Formby dies (b. 1904). British comedian and singer.

1962 - Valerie French was born. American artist and animatronics art director.

1963 - D.L. Hughley was born. American comedian and actor.

1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah".

1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.

1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy was born. American musician.

1964 - Skip Ewing was born. American country music singer and songwriter.

1964 - King Paul of Greece dies (b. 1901).

1965 - Margaret Dumont dies (b. 1889). American actress.

1966 - Alan Davies was born. British comedian and actor.

1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1967 - John Haden Badley dies (b. 1865). English author and educator.

1967 - Nelson Eddy dies (b. 1901). American singer and actor.

1967 - Zoltán Kodály dies (b. 1882). Hungarian composer.

1968 - Moira Kelly was born. American actress.

1968 - Michael Romeo was born. American musician.

1969 - Black Panther Anthony Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons.

1969 - Tari Phillips was born. American basketball player.

1969 - Nadya Rusheva dies (b. 1952). Russian painter.

1969 - Andrea Elson was born. American actress.

1969 - Greg Scott was born. British TV personality.

1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.

1970 - Shane Brolly was born. British actor.

1970 - William Hopper dies (b. 1915). American actor.

1971 - Sean Morley was born. American professional wrestler.

1971 - Darrick Martin was born. American basketball player.

1971 - Thurston Dart dies (b. 1921). English harpsichordist and conductor.

1972 - Shaquille O'Neal was born. American basketball player.

1972 - Terry Murphy was born. Northern Irish snooker player.

1973 - Michael Finley was born. American basketball player.

1973 - Pearl S. Buck dies (b. 1892). American writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1974 - Sebastian Siegel was born. British-American actor.

1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.

1975 - Aracely Arambula was born. Mexican actress and singer.

1976 - Ken Anderson was born. American professional wrestler.

1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom dies (b. 1903). American boxer and actor.

1977 - Giorgos Karagounis was born in Pyrgos. Greek footballer.

1977 - Carlitos [Carlos M. Silva Cunha] was born. Portuguese footballer.

1977 - Marcus Thames was born. American baseball player.

1978 - Sage Rosenfels was born. American football player.

1979 - David Flair was born. American professional wrestler.

1979 - Erik Bedard was born. Canadian baseball player.

1979 - Tim Howard was born. American soccer player.

1979 - Ryan Nyquist was born. American bmx rider.

1980 - Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first female member of the Académie Française.

1980 - Rodrigo Taddei was born. Brazilian footballer (AS Roma).

1980 - Ross Mawhinney was born. British born Italian radio DJ.

1981 - After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

1981 - Ellen Muth was born. American actress.

1981 - George Geary dies (b. 1893). English cricketer.

1982 - Ayn Rand dies (b. 1905). Russian-American author.

1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.

1983 - Aus Mini-Series The Dismissal debuts on Channel Ten.

1983 - Andranik Teymourian was born. Iranian football player.

1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.

1984 - Becky was born. Japanese-British entertainer.

1984 - Paulo Ribeiro was born. Portuguese footballer.

1985 - Albert Reed was born. American model.

1985 - Henry Wilcoxon dies (b. 1905). Dominican actor.

1986 - Eli Marienthal was born. American actor.

1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe dies (b. 1887). American artist.

1986 - Vol. Mairéad Farrell, Vol. Seán Savage and Vol. Daniel McCann killed within minutes of each other; Irish Republicans.

1987 - The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.

1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon was born. English actress.

1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now.

1990 – Patricia Rodríguez was born. Spanish model.

1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.

1992 - A pintora nascida em Portugal e naturalizada francesa, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva morre em Paris (n. Lisboa 13 Jun 1908).

1992 - Tsugunaga Momoko was born. Japanese singer.

1993 - Douglas Marland dies (b. 1935). American writer.

1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.

1994 - Melina Mercouri dies (b. 1920). Greek actress, political activist, and politician.

1996 - Savanah Stehlin was born. American actress.

1997 - In Angola an armed group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola and held 6 missionaries hostage.

1997 - Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.

1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

1997 - Cheddi Jagan dies (b. 1918). President of Guyana.

1997 - Michael Manley dies (b. 1924). Prime Minister of Jamaica.

1998 - Frank Barrett dies (b. 1913). Baseball player.

1999 - Some 40 Haitians were apparently drowned when 2 boats loaded with refugees sank. There were 3 survivors.

1999 - Dennis Viollet dies (b. 1933). English footballer.

1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah dies (b. 1933). Emir of Bahrain.

2000 - Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and Fire.

2000 - John Colicos dies (b. 1928). Canadian actor.

2001 - Kim Walker dies (b. 1968). American actress.

2001 - Mário Covas dies in São Paulo. Brazilian politician.

2001 - Mario Telles dies (b. 1926). Brazilian singer, composer and painter.

2002 - Bryan Fogarty dies (b. 1969). Canadian ice hockey player.

2003 - John Sanford dies (b. 1904). American author.

2004 - Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched through Caracas to protest the rejection of a petition aimed at recalling President Hugo Chavez.

2004 - Frances Dee dies (b. 1909). American actress.

2004 - Ray Fernandez dies (b. 1957). American wrestler.

2005 - Hans Bethe dies (b. 1906). German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

2005 - Tommy Vance dies (b. 1943). British radio disc jockey.

2005 - Danny Gardella dies (b. 1920). Baseball player.