Nothingandall: On this day in History

BC 47 - The legendary Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, aided by her Roman lover Julius Caesar, was reinstated as coruler of Egypt (with her brother Ptolemy XIV), following a civil war with her brother Ptolemy XIII.
196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
0972 - King Robert I of France was born (d. 1031).
0973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony dies.
1191 - Pope Clement III dies.
1306 - Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned king and Queen of Scotland.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile dies (27 or 26 March) (b. 1312).
1351 - As part of the struggle between Charles of Blois (supported by the king of France) and John of Montfort (backed by the king of England) over succession to the duchy of Brittany, their knights waged the Battle of the Thirty near Ploërmel.
1378 - Pope Gregory XI dies (b. c. 1336).
1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi was born (d. 1480). Italian composer.
1462 - Vasili II of Russia dies (b. 1415). Grand Prince of Moscow.
1482 - Mary of Burgundy dies (b. 1457). Daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I.
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
1513 - Falhou o ataque da armada portuguesa de Afonso de Albuquerque a Meca.
1555 - William Hunter (Protestant martyr) dies.
1572 - Girolamo Maggi dies (b. c. 1523). Italian Renaissance man.
1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland, dies (b. 1566).
1625 - Upon the death of James I, Charles I ascended the throne of Great Britain and Ireland.
1627 - Stephen Fox was born (d. 1716). English politician.
1635 - Robert Naunton dies (b.1563). English politician.
1642 - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes his office.
1676 - Francis II Rákóczi was born (d. 1735). Leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg.
1696 - Antoine Court was born (d. 1760). French Huguenot minister.

1697 - Simon Bradstreet dies (b. 1603). English colonial magistrate.

1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin was born (d. 1762). German composer.

1712 - Claude Bourgelat was born (d. 1779). French veterinary surgeon.

1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria was born (d. 1795). Italian theologian and historian.

1721 - Em Portugal, os funcionários superiores do Ultramar são proibidos de exercer comercio particular.

1721 - France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid .

1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt was born (d.1786). English classical scholar.

1746 - Michael Bruce was born (d. 1767). Scottish poet.

1757 - Johann Stamitz dies (b. 1717). Czech composer and violinist.

1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader was born (d. 1841). German philosopher and theologian.

1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo dies (b. 1696). Italian artist.

1781 - Em Portugal, Pina Manique decretou a obrigatoriedade de inspecção sanitária para todas as prostitutas.

1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1785 - King Louis XVII of France was born (d. 1795) .

1794 - The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

1797 - Alfred de Vigny was born (d. 17 Sep 1863). French author ("Poemas Antiques et Modernes", "Eloa", "Ou la soeur des anges" "Les Destines"... ).

1809 - Baron Haussmann was born (d. 1891). French civic planner.

1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien dies (b. 1716). French painter.

1810 - William Hepworth Thompson was born (d. 1886). English classical scholar.

1813 - Nathaniel Currier was born (d. 1888). American illustrator.

1814 - War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was born (d. 1891). Swiss biologist.

1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt dies (b. 1747).

1833 - Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio dies (b. 1774). Portuguese politician.

1834 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.

1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.

1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.

1836 - James Fannin dies (b. 1804). Texas Revolutionary.

1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal dies (d. 1769). German jurist.

1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born (d. 1923). German physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in physics 1901.

1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.

1847 - Otto Wallach was born (d. 1931). German chemist and Nobel Prize winner.

1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford dies (b. 1776).

1850 - Wilhelm Beer dies (b. 1797). German astronomer.

1851 - Vincent d'Indy was born (d. 1931). Composer and teacher.

1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.

1851 - Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was born. Spoanish composer.

1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

1857 - Karl Pearson was born (d. 1936). English statistician.

1859 - George Giffen was born (d. 1927). Australian cricketer.

1859 - Joaquim Bensaúde was born (d. 1952). Portuguese engineer and historian.

1860 - Frank Frost Abbott was born (d. 1924). American classical scholar.

1863 - Sir Henry Royce was born (d. 1933). Automobile pioneer.

1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère dies (b. 1800). French scholar.

1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp dies (b. 1786). Dutch scholar.

1866 - President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1867 - Na Argentina, fundación del Rosario Cricket Club, que luego se transformaría en el Rosario Central futbolístico .

1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

1869 - James McNeill was born. Irish politician.

1871 - The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1871 - Heinrich Mann was born (d. 1950). German writer.

1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry dies (b. 1797). French journalist and historian.

1875 - Edgar Quinet dies (b. 1803). French historian.

1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott dies (b. 1811). English architect.

1879 - Edward Steichen was born (d. 1973). American photographer.

1879 - Miller Huggins was born (d. 1929). Baseball player and manager.

1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army.

1883 - Marie Under was born (d. 1980). Estonian author and poet.

1886 - Sergey Kirov was born (d. 1934). Russian bolshevik leader.

1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born (d. 1969). German architect whose rectilinear forms crafted in elegant simplicity epitomized the International style of architecture.

1889 - John Bright dies (b. 1811) . English statesman.

1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

1892 - Ferde Grofé was born. Composer and conductor.

1892 - António Assis Esperança was born (d. 1975). Portuguese writer.

1893 - Karl Mannheim was born (d. 1947). Hungarian sociologist.

1897 - Douglas Hartree was born (d. 1958). English mathematical physicist.

1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis dies (b. 1826). Greek physician.

1898 - Francisca de Bragança dies (b. 184). Princess of Brazil.

1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan dies (b. 1817). Indian Muslim intellectual.

1899 - Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier (d. 1988). French essayist and poet.

1899 - Gloria Swanson was born (d. 1983). American actress.

1901 - Carl Barks was born (d. 2000). American illustrator.

1901 - Erich Ollenhauer was born (d. 1963). German politician.

1901 - Eisaku Sato was born (d. 1975). Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1901 - Kenneth Slessor was born (d. 1971). Australian poet.

1901 - Sasaki Naojiro was born (d. 1943). Japanese author.

1902 - Charles Lang was born (d. 1998). American cinematographer.

1903 - Xavier Villaurrutia was born (d. 25 Dec 1950). Mexican poet ( "Reflejos nocturnos", "Nostalgia de la muerte"... ).

1905 - Elsie MacGill was born (d. 1980). Canadian aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes".

1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

1906 - Pee Wee Russell was born (d. 1969). American jazz musician.

1909 - Golo Mann was born (d. 1994). Historian and publicist.

1909 - Ben Webster was born (d. 1973). American jazz saxophonist.

1910 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312.

1910 - John Pierce was born (d. 02 Apr 2002). Electrical engineer. Father of communications satellits.

1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz dies (b. 1835). US scientist and engineer.

1912 - First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.

1912 - James Callaghan was born (d. 2005). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1913 - Theodor Dannecker was born (d. 1945). SS officer.

1914 - Richard Denning was born (d. 1998). American actor.

1914 - Budd Schulberg was born. American screenwriter and novelist.

1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels).

1915 - Robert Lockwood Jr. was born (d. 2006). American blues guitarist.

1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.

1917 - Cyrus Vance was born (d. 2002). American politician.

1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.

1918 - Henry Adams dies (b. 1838). Historian and novelist.

1919 - Nasce o político grego Andreas Papandreu, na ilha de Quios. Foi Primeiro ministro da Grecia nos períodos de 1981 a 1989 e de 1993 a 1996. Morreu em 23. Jun. 1986.

1920 - Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD).

1920 - Robin Jacques was born (d. 1995). Illustrator.

1921 - Harold Nicholas was born (d. 2000). American dancer.

1922 - Pierre Pairault aka Stefan Wul was born (d. 2003). French author.

1922 - Stefan Wul was born (d. 2003). French author.

1923 - FART construction completed.

1923 - Endo Shusaku was born (d. 1996). Japanese author.

1923 - Louis Simpson was born. Jamaican-born poet.

1923 - Sir James Dewar dies (b. 1842). Scottish chemist.

1924 - Walter Parratt dies (b. 1841). English composer.

1924 - Sarah Vaughan was born (d. 1990). American singer.

1926 - Georges Vézina dies (b. 1887). Canadian ice hockey player.

1927 - Anthony Lewis was born. Newspaper columnist.

1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Soviet conductor, pianist and one of the best-known cellists of the 20th century. He was music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1994.

1927 - Joe Start dies (b. 1842). American baseball player.

1931 - David Janssen was born (d. 1980). American actor.

1931 - Walter Kieber was born (d. 1978). Liechtenstein head of Government.

1931 - Arnold Bennett dies (b. 1867). British novelist.

1932 - Gandhi allegedly mocked the deaths of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.

1932 - Roberto Farias was born. Brazilian film director/ Nascimento de Robert (Figueira) Farias, em Nova Friburgo-RJ. Realizador brasileiro.

1933 - O Japão retirou-se da Sociedade das Nações.

1934 - Arthur Mitchell was born. Dance company director.

1935 - Abelardo Castillo was born. Argentine writer.

1935 - Julian Glover was born. British actor.

1936 - Jerry Lacy was born. Actor.

1937 - Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam.

1937 - Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna was born. Brazilian writer.

1938 - Battle of Taierzhuang.

1939 - Cale Yarborough was born. American race car driver.

1940 - Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the concentration camp of Auschwitz at Katowice, Poland.

1940 - Austin Pendleton was born. Actor.

1940 - Cale Yarborough was born. NASCAR race car driver .

1940 - Janis Martin was born (d. 2007). American singer.

1940 - Michael Joseph Savage dies (b. 1872). Prime Minister of New Zealand.

1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.

1941 - Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia.

1941 - Ivan Gasparovic was born. President of Slovakia

1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodles coup.

1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.

1942 - John E. Sulston was born. British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1942 - Michael York was born. English actor.

1942 - Michael Jackson was born (d. 2007). English writer.

1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

1943 - Phil Frank was born (d. 2007). American cartoonist.

1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.

1944 - The case Follett v. Town of McCormick is decided: Should people who earn their living by selling or distributing religious materials be required to pay the same licensing fees and taxes as are expected of those who sell or distribute non-religious materials? Does "freedom of religion" also mean "freedom from having to pay government fees" like everyone else?

1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

1945 - General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.

1946 - Olaf Malolepski was born. German musician (Die Flippers)

1947 - Brian Jones was born. British balloonist.

1947 - Walt Mossberg was born. The highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal

1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.

1949 - Leigh Steinberg was born. American sports agent.

1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China .

1950 - The Indian government places the Calcutta suburb of Howrah under martial law in order to stem the rising tide of religious violence in the area.

1950 - Tony Banks was born. English musician (Genesis)

1950 - Petros Efthimiou was born. Greek politician

1950 - Lynn McGlothen was born (d. 1984). American baseball player.

1952 - Maria Schneider was born in Paris. French actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor).

1952 - Richard Séguin was born. Quebec singer and songwriter

1952 - Sun Records begins operations.

1954 - Wally Stocker was born. Musician of The Babys .

1956 - Leung Kwok Hung was born. Hong Kong activist

1956 - Thomas Wassberg was born. Swedish cross-country skier

1957 - Krzysztof Pieczynski was born in Opole, Poland. Actor.

1957 - 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman win

1957 - Nick Hawkins was born. British politician

1957 - Billy Mackenzie was born (d. 1997). Scottish musician (Associates).

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union replacing Nikolay Bulganin

1958 - Viriato Teles was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.

1959 - Madagascar: un ciclón causa 3.300 muertos.

1959 - Andrew Farriss was born. Australian musician (INXS).

1960 - Muere el compositor mexicano Mario Talavera. Con Lerdo de Tejada, Alfonso Esparza Oteo y Tata Nacho formaron los "Tres Ases de la canción", conviertiendose después en "El Trío Veneno". Entre sus composiciones se encuentran "Gratta plena", "El nopal", "Flor de mayo", "Muchachita mía", "Adiós", "La china", "Dulce amor", "El día que te vayas", "Así te quiero", "Caballera", "Luz de cirio", entre otras. Nació en Xalapa en 1885.

1960 - Hans Pflügler was born. German footballer.

1961 - Tak Matsumoto was born. Japanese guitarist (B'z).

1961 - Tony Rominger was born. Swiss cyclist.

1961 - Moisés Neto was born in Recife, Pernambuco. Brazilian actor, director and producer.

1962 - Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end their policies of racial segregation.

1962 - Jann Arden was born. Canadian musician.

1963 - Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.

1963 - Charly Alberti was born. Argentinian musician.

1963 - Randall Cunningham was born. American football player.

1963 - Quentin Tarantino was born. American director, writer, and producer.

1963 - Xuxa (Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel) was born. Brazilian television personality and actress.

1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1964 - Derrick McKenzie was born. Rock musician (Jamiroquai).

1964 - Glenn Carter was born. English actor and singer-songwriter.

1966 - Paula Trickey was born. American actress.

1967 - Paul Adams was born. American celebrity.

1967 - Talisa Soto was born. American actress.

1967 - Jim Thompson disappeared (b. 1906). American designer.

1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky dies (b. 1890). Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1968 - Sandra Hess was born. Swiss-born actress and model.

1968 - Yuri Gagarin dies in a plane crash (b. 1934). Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to orbit the earth.

1968 - Sadie Frost was born. British actress.

1968 - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia .

1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.

1969 - Keith Flint was born. Member of British group The Prodigy

1969 - Pauley Perrette was born. American actress, photographer, poet, writer.

1969 - Mário Sacramento dies (b. 7 Jul 1920). Portuguese essayst.

1969 - B. Traven dies. Writer .

1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight

1970 - Mariah Carey was born. American singer

1970 - Brent Fitz was born. Canadian Musician (Theory of a Deadman)

1970 - Brendan Hill was born. British drummer (Blues Traveler)

1970 - Princess Leila of Iran was born (d. 2001)

1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell was born. American actress.

1971 - SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard.

1971 - David Coulthard was born in Twynholm, Scotland. Scottish Formula One racing driver.

1971 - Thom Barron was born. German porn star.

1971 - Nathan Fillion was born. Canadian actor.

1972 - Charlie Haas was born. Professional wrestler.

1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was born. Dutch football striker.

1972 - Pedro Tochas was born. Portuguese comedian.

1972 - M. C. Escher dies (b. 1898). Dutch artist.

1972 - Sharkey Bonano dies (b. 1904). American musician.

1973 - 45th Academy Awards: "Godfather", Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win. Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.

1973 - Rui Jorge was born. Portuguese footballer.

1974 - Gaizka Mendieta was born. Spanish footballer.

1974 - Russ Haas was born (d. 2001). Wrestler.

1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson was born. American musician (Black Eyed Peas).

1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.

1976 - Carl Ng was born. Hong Kong/British actor and model

1976 - Djamel Belmadi was born. Algerian footballer

1977 - Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.

1977 - Violetta Blue was born. American porn star

1977 - Vitor Meira was born. Brazilian racing driver

1977 - Adrian Anca was born. Romanian footballer

1977 - A. P. Hamann dies. American politician.

1977 - Diana Hyland dies (b. 1936). American actress.

1979 - Eric Clapton end Pattie Boyd get married.

1979 - Michael Cuddyer was born. Minnesota Twins baseball player

1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1980 - Silver Thursday market crash.

1981 - Carey Davis was born. National Football League fullback

1981 - Lin Jun Jie was born. Chinese Singer

1981 - Terry McFlynn was born. Northern Irish footballer.

1981 - Mao Dun dies (b. 1895). Chinese writer.

1982 - Kurara Chibana was born. Japanese beauty queen, First runner-up Miss Universe 2006

1983 - Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title .

1983 - Emily Ann Lloyd was born. Actress.

1985 - Caroline Winberg was born. Swedish supermodel.

1985 - Dario Baldauf was born. Austrian footballer.

1985 - Stijn De Smet was born. Belgian footballer.

1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet

1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.

1986 - Melissa Stern aka "Baby M"was born.

1987 - Chad Denny was born. Canadian ice hockey player

1988 - Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

1988 - Brenda Song was born. American actress.

1988 - Renato Salvatori dies (b. 1934). Italian actor.

1989 - Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.

1989 - Claudio Santoro dies (b. 1919). Brazilian composer and conductor.

1989 - May Allison dies (b. 1890). American actress.

1989 - Jack Starrett dies (b. 1936). American actor and director.

1990 - Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.

1991 - Ralph Bates dies (b. 1940). British actor.

1991 - Aldo Ray dies (b. 1926). American actor.

1992 - Easley Blackwood dies (b. 1903). American bridge player.

1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

1993 - Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.

1993 - Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.

1993 - Paul Laszlo dies (b. 1900). Hungarian interior designer and architect.

1993 - Clifford Jordan dies (b. 1931). American saxophonist and bandleader.

1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

1994 - O expresidente da Colombia César Gaviria Trujillo é eleito em Washington novo secretario general da Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA).

1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany, two years later than expected.

1995 - Portugal: Em Sintra tem início o 11º. Congresso da Organização Mundial de Poetas.

1995 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer, is laureated with 1994 Camões Prize.

1995 - 67th Academy Awards: "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win.

1995 - Taylor Atelian was born. American actress.

1996 - An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.

1997 - Na California verifica-se um suicídio em massa de 38 seguidores do grupo pseudoreligioso "Heaven's Gate", cujo líder é Marshall Applewhite.

1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States /Os Estados Unidos aprovam o remédio Viagra, produzido pela companhia Pfizer, que ajuda a combater a impotência sexual de homens.

1998 - David McClelland dies (b. 1917). Psychological theorist.

1998 - Ferry Porsche dies (b. 1909). Austrian automobile manufacturer, founder of Porsche.

1999 - An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.

2000 - A Phillps Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.

2000 - Ian Dury dies (b. 1942). English rock musician.

2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

2002 - Milton Berle dies (b. 1908). American actor, comedian.

2002 - Dudley Moore dies (b. 1935). British actor, musician.

2002 - Billy Wilder dies (b. 1906). American director.

2003 - An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France kills 4 people.

2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi dies (b. 1927). French actor.

2003 - Paul Zindel dies (b. 1936). American writer.