On this day in History - Mar. 11

• 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
• 0222 - Roman emperor Heliogabalus (b. c. 203) and his mother Julia Soaemias (b. 180), die, killed by the Praetorian Guard.
• 0859 - Eulogius of Cordoba dies. Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr.
• 0928 - Trpimir II succeedes to the Croatian throne.
• 1198 - Marie de Champagne dies (b. 1145). Daughter of Louis VII of France.
• 1387 - Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
• 1482 - Tomás Torquemada es nombrado Inquisidor de España.
• 1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg dies (b. 1414).
• 1502 - Persia: Ismail I Safi funda la dinastía safaví.
• 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
• 1514 - Bramante (Donato D'Angelo) dies (b. 14). Italian architect, the greatest architect of the High Renaissance.
• 1526 - Carlos I de España contrae matrimonio en Sevilla con Isabel de Portugal.
• 1537 - Fernão Mendes Pinto partiu para a Índia.
• 1539 - Os reis de Portugal e do Guzurate assinaram um contrato de paz.
• 1542 - Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, primer gobernador de nombramiento real de Asunción, hace su entrada en esta ciudad.
• 1544 - Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento, Kingdon of Naples (b. 1595). Italian poet, the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance.
• 1560 - Colocación de la primera piedra de la catedral de Cuzco (Perú).
• 1575 - Matthias Flacius dies (b. 1520). Croatian Protestant reformer.
• 1596 - Isaac Elsevier was born (d. 8 Oct 1651). Dutch book publisher.
• 1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri dies. Italian composer.
• 1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino dies. Italian composer.
• 1641 - Battle of Mbororé, Guaranís from Jesuit Reductions against Bandeirantes, and portuguese explorers after separation of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.
• 1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
• 1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
• 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
• 1722 - John Toland dies (b. 1670). Irish philosopher.
• 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart was born (d. 1807). Pretender to the throne of Great Britain.
• 1754 - Meléndez Valdés was born at Ribera del Fresno (d. 1817). Spanish lawyer and poet.
• 1759 - John Forbes dies (b. 1710). British general.
• 1769 - Por ordem de D. José I, a praça de Mazagão, em Marrocos, é abandonada sendo a sua população transferida para o Brasil em Setembro seguinte, onde funda a Vila Nova de Mazagão, na Amazónia.
• 1769 - Cândido José Xavier was born (d. 1833). Portuguese statesman and soldier.
• 1778 - Tratado do Pardo, que põe termo à Guerra existente na América do Sul, entre Portugal e a Espanha. Portugal cede as ilhas de Fernão Pó e Ano Bom.
• 1779 - Army Corps of Engineers for the United States was authorized by the Congress.
• 1780 - August Leopold Crelle was born (d. 1855). German mathematician and engineer.
• 1785 - John McLean was born (d. 1861). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1786 - Charles Humphreys dies (b. 1714). American delegate to the Continental Congress.
• 1787 - Ivan Nabokov was born (d. 1852). Russian general.
• 1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne.
• 1810 - O imperador francês, Napoleão Bonaparte, casou com Maria Luisa, arquiduquesa da Áustria.
• 1811 - Urbain Le Verrier was born (d. 1877). French mathematician who discovered Neptune.
• 1818 - Marius Petipa was born (d. 1910). French ballet dancer and choreographer.
• 1820 - Benjamin West dies (b. 1738). English-American painter.
• 1821 - Assassinato do Czar Paulo I da Rússia.
• 1822 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand was born (d. 1900). French mathematician.
• 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 1842 - Nace Leandro N. Alem, caudillo radical, jurisconsulto, legislador y diplomático argentino.
• 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
• 1845 - British citizen Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
• 1846 - Gonçalves Crespo was born (d. 1883). Portuguese poet.
• 1847 - Johnny Appleseed dies (b. 1774). American pioneer agronomist.
• 1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
• 1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi.
• 1851 - George McDuffie dies (b. 1790). Governor of South Carolina.
• 1852 - Emília Bandeira de Melo was born (d. 1910). Brazilian writer.
• 1854 - Willard Richards dies (b. 1804). American religious leader.
• 1856 - James Beatty dies (b. 1820). Irish railway engineer.
• 1860 - Thomas Hastings was born. Architect of the New York Public Library.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1863 - Andrew Stoddart was born (d. 1915). English cricketer.
• 1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet dies (b. 1803). English general.
• 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
• 1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano).
• 1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos written by Verdi.
• 1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky dies (b. 1803). Russian philosopher.
• 1870 - Louis Bachelier was born (d. 1946). French mathematician.
• 1870 - August Leopold Crelle was born. German mathematician.
• 1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho dies.
• 1871 - Como consecuencia de la epidemia de fiebre amarilla, se habilita en Buenos Aires el cementerio de la Chacarita.
• 1872 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. Also on this day in 1872, the Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
• 1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
• 1873 - David Horsley was born (d. 1933). English-born film executive.
• 1874 - Charles Sumner dies (b. 1811). American politician.
• 1876 - Carl Ruggles was born (d. 1971). American composer.
• 1876 - David Wijnkoop was born. Dutch revolutionary socialist.
• 1880 - Harry H. Laughlin was born (d. 1943). American eugenecist.
• 1884 - Lewi Pethrus was born (d. 1974). Swedish politician.
• 1885 - Malcolm Campbell was born (d. 1948). English race car driver.
• 1887 - Raoul Walsh was born (d. 1980). American film director.
• 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 1890 - Vannevar Bush was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1974). American engineer and politician.
• 1895 - Tasso de Azevedo da Silveira was born in Curitiba (PR) (d. 3 Dec. 1968). Brazilian poet, journalist and politician.
• 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
• 1897 - Henry Cowell was born (d.1965). American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario.
• 1898 - Dorothy Gish was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1898 - William Rosecrans dies (b. 1819). American Civil War Union general.
• 1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark was born (d. 1972). Danish King.
• 1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
• 1903 - Lawrence Welk was born (d. 1992). American musician.
• 1903 - Ronald Syme was born (d. 1989). New Zealand classicist and historian.
• 1907 - Helmut von Moltke was born (d. 1945). Jurist.
• 1907 - Jessie Matthews was born (d. 1981). English actress.
• 1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier dies (b. 1847). French politician.
• 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh dies (b. 1839). American activist, social reformer, founder of NSPCC.
• 1910 - Robert Havemann was born (d. 1982). German chemist.
• 1910 - Nascimento de Jacinta Marto um dos três pastorinhos de Fátima (m. 1920).
• 1911 - Por primera vez se eleva un aeroplano en el aeródromo de Cuatro vientos (Madrid).
• 1912 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
• 1914 - Una sufragista daña el cuadro de Velázquez "La Venus del espejo" de la National Gallery.
• 1915 - Revolución de México. Zapata y sus hombres entran en la capital azteca, de la que huye el general Obregón.
• 1915 - Hans Peter Keller was born (d. 1988). German writer.
• 1915 - Karl Krolow was born (d. 21 Jul 1999). German lyricist and essayist.
• 1915 - Vijay Hazare was born (d. 2004). Indian cricketer.
• 1915 - JCR Licklider was born (d. 1990). Computer scientist and internet pioneer.
• 1916 - Harold Wilson was born (d. 1995). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.
• 1916 - Ezra Jack Keats was born (d. 1983). Children's literature author.
• 1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
• 1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• 1918 - In Portugal is decreted universal suffrage/ O governo dirigido por Sidónio Pais decreta o sufrágio universal, ao permitir o voto aos iletrados do sexo masculino. As restrições ao voto serão restabelecidas após a queda do Sidonismo.
• 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
• 1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
• 1919 - Mercer Ellington was born (d. 1996). Musician, composer.
• 1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen was born. Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero dies (b. 1865). Colombian astronomer.
• 1921 - Astor Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata (d. 1992). Argentine composer.
• 1921 - Frank Harary was born (d. 2005). American mathematician.
• 1922 - Cornelius Castoriadis was born (d. 1997). Greek philosopher and economist.
• 1922 - José Luis López Vásquez was born. Spanish actor.
• 1926 - Eamon de Valera funda na Irlanda o partido Fianna Fail.
• 1926 - Ralph David Abernathy was born in Linden, Alabama. African American civil rights leader.
• 1926 - İlhan Mimaroğlu was born. Turkish musician and composer.
• 1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 1927 - Joachim Fuchsberger was born. Actor.
• 1927 - Robert Mosbacher was born. United States Secretary of Commerce
• 1928 - Albert Salmi was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1929 - Timothy Carey was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1930 - Em Lisboa, foi fundada a Casa do Algarve.
• 1930 - Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $80,000.
• 1930 - Claude Jutra was born (d. 1986). Quebec film actor and director.
• 1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• 1931 - Spanish boxeur Paulino Uzcudum beats by K.O. the Californian Kennedy.
• 1931 - Rupert Murdoch was born. Australian-born entrepreneur.
• 1931 - F.W. Murnau dies (b. 1888). German film director.
• 1932 - Leroy Jenkins was born (d. 2007). American composer and violinist.
• 1934 - Sam Donaldson was born. American reporter.
• 1935 - Sandra Milo was born. Italian actress.
• 1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
• 1936 - Antonin Scalia was born. Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1937 - Carlos Larrañaga was born. Spanish actor.
• 1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan dies (b. 1860). American oil industrialist.
• 1939 - Lorraine Hunt was born. Former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada.
• 1939 - Flaco Jiménez was born. American musician.
• 1940 - Alberto Cortez was born. Argentinian singer.
• 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
• 1942 - Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o presidente Getulio Vargas decreta o confisco de bens de imigrantes alemães e italianos no Brasil.
• 1942 - Charles Swan was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Hendrik Willem van Loon dies (b. 1882). Dutch-born American historian.
• 1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
• 1945 - Dock Ellis was born. American baseball player.
• 1945 - Harvey Mandel was born. American musician.
• 1947 - Tristan Murail was born. French composer.
• 1948 - César Gerónimo was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1948 - Dominique Sanda was born. French actress.
• 1948 - Roy Barnes was born. 80th Governor of Georgia.
• 1950 - Bobby McFerrin was born. American singer.
• 1950 - Jerry Zucker was born. American producer, director, writer.
• 1952 - Douglas Adams was born (d. 2001). English writer.
• 1952 - Pierre Renoir dies (b. 1885). French stage and film actor and director.
• 1953 - Following the murder of a British farmer in Kenya, 11 Kikuyu tribesmen are hanged.
• 1953 - Bernie LaBarge was born. Canadian musician.
• 1954 - Nascimento de Tetê Espíndola (Terezinha Maria Miranda Espíndola), em Campo Grande - MS (veja o site oficial), cantora da MPB.
• 1954 - Gale Norton was born. 48th United States Secretary of the Interior.
• 1955 - Nina Hagen was born. German singer.
• 1955 - Alexander Fleming dies (b. 1881). Scotish biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine / Morte de Alexander Fleming, grande cientista escocês e gênio da humanidade, em Londres-Inglaterra (conheçam a Descoberta de Penicilina).
• 1955 - Oscar Mayer dies (b. 1859). Bavarian-born American meat packer.
• 1956 - Joey Buttafuoco was born. American statutory rapist.
• 1956 - D. J. MacHale was born. American author and television writer.
• 1956 - Rob Paulsen was born. American voice actor.
• 1956 - Helen Rollason was born (d. 1999). British sports journalist and television presenter.
• 1957 - Lady Chablis was born. American entertainer.
• 1957 - Cheryl Lynn was born. American singer.
• 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd dies (b. 1888). American explorer.
• 1957 - Se establece la colonia Esperanza, en la provincia de Santa Fe.
• 1958 - Anissa Jones was born (d. 1976). American actress.
• 1958 - Flemming Rose was born. Danish journalist.
• 1958 - Jim Pinkerton was born. American pundit.
• 1958 - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer was born. Interim President of Iraq.
• 1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen dies (b. 1891). Danish inventor of Legos.
• 1959 - The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
• 1959 - In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
• 1959 - Nina Hartley was born. American pornographic film actress.
• 1960 - Lanzamiento del cohete estadounidense Pioner V con el objetivo de llegar a Venus en cuatro meses.
• 1960 - Christophe Gans was born. French film director.
• 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews dies (b. 1884). American naturalist, zoologist and explorer
• 1961 - Elias Koteas was born. Canadian actor.
• 1963 - Alex Kingston was born. English actress.
• 1964 - Vinnie Paul was born. American musician (Pantera).
• 1964 - Peter Berg was born. American film actor, director and producer.
• 1964 - Shane Richie was born. British actor.
• 1964 - Raúl Leoni asume la Presidencia de Venezuela en sustitución de Rómulo Betancourt.
• 1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen was born. British television presenter.
• 1965 - Nigel Adkins was born. English football manager.
• 1965 - Jesse Jackson, Jr. was born. American politician.
• 1965 - Wallace Langham was born. American actor.
• 1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
• 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
• 1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
• 1967 - The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France.
• 1967 - Pink Floyd presenta su primera canción.
• 1967 - John Barrowman was born. Scottish-American actor.
• 1967 - Brad Carson was born. American politician.
• 1967 - Geraldine Farrar dies (b. 1882). American soprano.
• 1968 - Lisa Loeb was born. American singer.
• 1969 - Terrence Howard was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Soraya was born (d. 2006). Colombian-American singer.
• 1969 - John Wyndham dies (b. 1903). British author.
• 1969 - Rafael Caldera toma posesión de la Presidencia de Venezuela.
• 1970 - O Cônsul-Geral japonês em São Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, é seqüestrado por revolucionários brasileiros.
• 1970 - Delia Gallagher was born. American journalist.
• 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner dies (b. 1889). American novelist.
• 1971 - Johnny Knoxville was born ("Jackass"). American television personality.
• 1971 - Martin Ručinský was born. Czech ice hockey player.
• 1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth dies (b. 1906). American television pioneer.
• 1971 - Whitney Young dies (b. 1921). American civil rights leader.
• 1972 - Frederick Brown dies (b. 1906). Sci-fi author (Martians Go Home).
• 1973 - El partido peronista obtiene casi el cincuenta por ciento de los votos en las elecciones argentinas.
• 1973 - Hector J. Campora vence a primeira eleição presidencial ocorrida na Argentina desde 1965.
• 1973 - Los franceses dan la victoria a los partidarios del general Charles de Gaulle.
• 1973 - Martin Hiden was born. Austrian footballer.
• 1974 - Jon Dalton was born. The infamous "Jonny Fairplay" from the 7th and 16th season of Survivor.
• 1974 - Bobby Abreu was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1975 - Presumível tentativa de golpe de Estado de oficiais afectos ao general Spínola. A derrota deste grupo vai radicalizar a acção política do MFA, levando à política de nacionalizações e da reforma agrária, à institucionalização do MFA e à criação do Conselho da Revolução.
• 1975 - Acusado de una supuesta conjura militar, el general portugués Spinola busca refugio político en Brasil.
• 1975 - Eric the Midget was born. American radio personality.
• 1976 - Thomas Gravesen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1977 - El Gobierno Español, presidido por Adolfo Suárez, aprueba una amnistía total.
• 1977 - Roman Polanski charged with rape: French film director Roman Polanski is charged with raping a 13-year- old girl in Hollywood.
• 1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
• 1977 - Becky Hammon was born. WNBA player.
• 1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV dies (b. 1893). American geologist and paleontologist.
• 1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta dies (b. 1934). Argentine racing driver.
• 1978 - Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Palestinian guerrilas hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
• 1978 - El Gobierno decide el ingreso de España en la OTAN.
• 1978 - Albert Luque was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1978 - Christopher Rice was born. American author.
• 1978 - Didier Drogba was born. Ivory Coast footballer.
• 1978 - Claude François dies (b. 1939). French singer.
• 1978 - Francisco de Oliveira Martins dies. Portuguese historian / Morreu o escritor e historiador português Francisco Oliveira Martins.
• 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
• 1979 - Benji Madden was born. American musician (Good Charlotte).
• 1979 - Joel Madden was born. American musician (Good Charlotte).
• 1979 - Elton Brand was born. American basketball player.
• 1979 - Fred Jones was born. American basketball player.
• 1980 - Paul Scharner was born. Austrian footballer.
• 1980 - Dan Uggla was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - Julio de Caro dies (b. 11 Dec. 1899). Argentinian musician, violinist and orchestral leader.
• 1981 - Augusto Pinochet inicia um mandato de oito anos como presidente do Chile.
• 1981 - David Anders was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Lee Evans was born. American football player.
• 1981 - Heidi Cortez was born. American erotic broadcaster.
• 1981 - Paul Wall was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - Russell Lissack was born. English musician (Bloc Party).
• 1981 - LeToya Luckett was born. American singer (ex-Destiny's Child).
• 1982 - Brian Anderson was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1982 - Thora Birch was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Edmund Cooper dies (b. 1926). English author.
• 1982 - Horace Gregory dies (b. 1898). American poet.
• 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1984 - Marc-André Grondin was born. French Canadian actor.
• 1984 - Tom James was born. British rower.
• 1984 - Anna Tsuchiya was born. Japanese model, actress and singer.
• 1984 - Kostas Roukounas dies (b. 1903). Greek rembetiko singer and song writer.
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader succeeding to Konstantin Chernenko.
• 1985 - Derek Schouman was born. National Football League tight end.
• 1985 - Nikolai Topor-Stanley was born. Australian soccer player.
• 1986 - South African Police fire at 3,000 schoolchildren protesting against the recent. arrest of 26 students.
• 1986 - se cumplen 1.000.000 de días desde la fundación tradicional de Roma, el 21 de abril del 753 A.deC.
• 1986 - Sonny Terry dies (b. 1911). American blues musician.
• 1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 - Joe Gladwin dies (b. 1906). English actor.
• 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Ceasefire declared.
• 1988 - Fábio Coentrão was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1989 - 24 Heads of State and Government or their representatives sign Declaration of Hague on the Environment.
• 1989 - Anton Yelchin was born. Russian-born actor.
• 1989 - James Kee dies (b. 1917). American politician.
• 1989 - John J. McCloy dies (b. 1895). United States Secretary of War.
• 1990 - Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to proclaim its independence from the the Soviet Union.
• 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1973.
• 1990 – Janna Dominguez was born. Filipina actress.
• 1990 - Reiley McClendon was born. American actor.
• 1990 - Dean Horrix dies (b. 1961). English footballer.
• 1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
• 1991 - Jack Rodwell was born. English football player (Everton).
• 1992 - Richard Brooks dies (b. 1912). American film director.
• 1993 - A Coréia do Norte retira-se do Tratado de Não-Proliferação Nuclear. O país se recusa a permitir a inspeção de sua produção de armas nucleares por oficiais Ocidentais.
• 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• 1993 - Manuel Dias da Fonseca dies in Lisbon (b. 1911). Portuguese writer. Morre o escritor português Manuel da Fonseca (n. em Santiago do Cacém em 15 Out 1911).
• 1993 - Dino Bravo dies (b. 1949). Italian-born professional wrestler.
• 1994 - Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, seguindo os passos de seu pai, toma posse na Presidência da República do Chile, substituindo Patrício Aylvin, primeiro líder da redemocratização do país.
• 1994 - El democristiano Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle accede a la presidencia de Chile.
• 1994 - Em Paris, Fernanda Ribeiro sagra-se campeã europeia dos 3 000 mil metros em pista coberta.
• 1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1996 - EU Database Directive passed.
• 1996 - Vince Edwards dies (b. 1928). American film actor and director.
• 1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
• 1997 - Former Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted / O músico e ex- Beatle Paul McCartney recebe o título de Cavaleiro do Império Britânico da rainha Elizabete II.
• 1998 - Pinochet jura como senador y provoca una escalada de violencia.
• 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 1999 - Camille Laurin dies (b. 1922). Quebec psychiatrist and politician.
• 2002 - James Tobin dies (b. 1918). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
• 2003 - Brian Cleeve dies (b. 1921). Irish author.
• 2003 - Ivar Hansen dies (b. 1938). Speaker of the Danish Folketing.
• 2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
• 2004 - Madrid suffered a series of terrorist attacks when 10 bombs, detonated by Islamist militants, exploded on four trains at three different rail stations, killing 191 people and injuring some 1,800 others/Atentado em Madrid-Espanha, contra comboios de passageiros, que deixaram mais de 190 mortos e cerca de 1800 feridos.
• 2004 - Thilo Krasmann dies (b. 1933). German-born Portuguese conductor.
• 2005 – Brian Nichols goes on shooting rampage at Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, killing three. He kills a fourth person before surrendering to the police the next day.
• 2005 - In Brussels airport, 56 Iranian monarchist protesters sit in an airliner for 16 hours to protest against the Islamic government of Iran. Police later remove them from the plane
• 2006 - Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
• 2006 - Slobodam Milosevic dies (b. 1941). President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia.
• 2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion dies (b. 1931). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2007 - Betty Hutton dies (b. 1921). American actress and singer.
• 2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
• 2009 – Charles Lewis, Jr. dies (b. 1963). American businessman, promoter and entertainer.
• Johnny Appleseed Day (United States).
• Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 (Lithuania).
• Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.
• Zambia - Youth Day.
• United States - Johnny Appleseed Day.