On this day in History - Apr. 11

• 0146 - Septimius Severus was born (d. 0211). Roman emperor.
• 0491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
• 0678 - Donus dies. Italian Pope (676-78).
• 0896 - Boniface VI is elected Pope. Died on Apr. 26, 0896.
  
• 1034 - Romanus III dies (b. 1028). Byzantine emperor.
• 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
• 1199 - Morte do rei inglês Ricardo I Coração de Leão.
• 1240 - Llywelyn the Great dies. Prince of Gwynedd.
• 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Bela IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. Battle of Muhi.
• 1357 - King John I of Portugal was born "the One With Good Memory" (d. 1433) / Nasce em Lisboa D. João I cognominado "O Boa- memória" ( m. 14 Ago 1433). Rei de Portugal.
• 1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March was born.
• 1492 - Margaret of Navarre, was born (d. 1549). Queen of Navarre and writer.
• 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: Battle of Ravenna - The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French.
• 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger dies executed (b. 1521). English rebel.
• 1555 - Joanna of Castile dies (b. 1479). Mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1564 - England and France sign Peace of Troyes
• 1568 - Marin Getaldić was born (d. 1626). Croat physicist and astronomer.
• 1586 - Pietro Della Valle was born. Composer.
• 1592 - John Eliot was born (d. 1632). English statesman.
• 1607 - Bento de Góis dies (b. 1562). Portuguese explorer and missionary.
• 1612 - Emanuel van Meteren dies (b. 1535). Flemish historian.
• 1612 - Edward Wightman dies burned at the stake (b. 1566). English Baptist preacher
• 1626 - Marin Getaldić dies (b. 1568). Croatian mathematician.
• 1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
• 1705 - William Cookworthy was born (d. 1780). English chemist.
• 1712 - Richard Simon dies (b. 1638). French Biblical critic.
• 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht .
• 1721 - David Zeisberger was born (d. 1808). Moravian missionary.
• 1722 - Christopher Smart was born (d. 1771). English poet.
• 1723 - Franz Anton Bustelli was born (d. 1763). Porcelain moulder.
• 1723 - John Robinson dies (b. 1650). English diplomat.
• 1755 - James Parkinson was born (d. 1824). English physician.
• 1764 - O tratado entre a Rússia e a Prússia garante as constituições vigentes da Polónia e da Suécia e assegura tanto o controlo da eleição do monarca polaco como a acção conjunta contra os nacionalistas.
• 1769 - Jean Lannes was born (d. 1809). French marshal.
• 1770 - George Canning was born (d. 1827). British prime minister.
• 1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana was born. Spanish author, poet (El Duque de Viseo).
• 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany .
• 1794 - Edward Everett was born (d. 1865). American statesman, educator and orator.
• 1798 - Macedonio Melloni was born (d. 1854). Italian physicist.
• 1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler dies (b. 1725). German poet.
• 1803 - French Foreign Minister Charles Talleyrand offers to sell all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States .
• 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson was born (d. 1895). English soldier and orientalist.
• 1814 - Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
• 1815 - The eruption of Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia, killed about 10,000 people.
• 1819 - Charles Hallé was born (d. 1895). German pianist and conductor.
• 1824 - António de Morais Silva dies. Portuguese lexicographer and philologist.
• 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle was born (d. 1864). German politician.
• 1827 - The Greek national assembly at Troezene elected Capo d'Istria president of the republic.
• 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca
• 1843 - Protocolo alemão de reconhecimento da soberania e independência da Confederação Argentina.
• 1844 - Alexandros Mavrokordatos assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Grécia.
• 1848 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria confirmed the March Laws, which formed the foundation of the modern state of Hungary.
• 1852 - Cap Anson was born (d. 1922). American baseball player.
• 1856 - In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
• 1856 - Juan Santamaría dies (b. 1831). National hero of the Republic of Costa Rica .
• 1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra dies (b. 1824). Mexican poet.
• 1862 - Charles Evans Hughes was born (d. 1948). 11th Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1862 - Emílio Ribas was born at Pindamonhangaba, Vale do Paraíba, São Paulo (d. 19 Dec 1925). Brazilian physician.
• 1862 - William Wallace Campbell was born (d. 1938). American astronomer.
• 1863 - António Maria Gomes Machado Fogaça was born in Barcelos (d. 27 Nov. 1888). Portuguese poet.
• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
• 1865 - Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro do Peru.
• 1867 - Mark Keppel was born (d. 1928). Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County.
• 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan .
• 1869 - Gustav Vigeland was born (d. 1943). Norwegian sculptor.
• 1869 - Kasturba Gandhi was born (d. 1944). Wife of Mohandas Gandhi.
• 1870 - Justo José de Urquiza dies killed. Argentine politician and militar.
• 1873 - Edward Lawson was born 1873 (d. 1955). Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 1873 - Edward Canby dies assassinated at a peace conference during the Modoc War (b. 1817). US Army General
• 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
• 1876 - Paul Henry was born (d. 1958). Northern Irish artist.
• 1881 - River ferry "Princess Victoria" sank in Thames River, Ontario, and 180 died.
• 1882 - Fernando Fader was born (d. 1935). French-born Argentine impressionist painter.
• 1882 - Joaquim Manuel de Macedo dies in Rio de Janeiroo (b. 24 Jun 1820). Brazilian journalist, poet, writer and memorialist.
• 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto was born (d. 1951). Japanese author.
• 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
• 1889 - Nick LaRocca was born (d. 1961). American jazz musician, cornetist and composer.
• 1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini was born (d. 1979). Wife of Benito Mussolini.
• 1890 - Joseph Merrick dies (b. 1862). "The Elephant Man".
• 1893 - Dean Acheson was born (d. 1971). United States Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, adviser to four presidents, and the principal creator of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War period following World War II.
• 1894 - Constantin Lipsius dies (b. 1832). German architect.
• 1895 - Cuban patriot José Julián Martí landed in Cuba at the head of an invading force whose goal was to win independence from Spain.
• 1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers was born (d. 1967). Quebec novelist.
• 1896 - Wieland Herzfelde was born (d.1989). Publisher and author.
• 1898 - President McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain.
• 1899 - The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect. Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
• 1899 - Percy Lavon Julian was born (d. 1975). African American Scientist.
• 1900 - Sandor Marai was born (d. 1989). Hungarian writer.
• 1900 - Morte de Bezerra de Menezes (Dr. Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti), eminente e venerável médico, político e líder espírita, cognominado 'médico dos pobres', no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1901 - Adriano Olivetti was born. Italian engineer, manufacturer (typewriter).
• 1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity.
• 1905 - József Attila was born (d. 1937). Hungarian poet.
• 1906 - Dale Messick was born (d. 2005). American cartoonist.
• 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church dies (b. 1839). American editor and publisher.
• 1906 - James Anthony Bailey dies (b. 1847). Co-founder with Phineas Taylor Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
• 1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas was born (d. 2001). English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor.
• 1908 - Jane Bolin was born (d. 2007). First African American female judge.
• 1908 - Masaru Ibuka was born (d. 1997). Japanese industrialist.
• 1908 - Dan Maskell was born (d. 1992). English tennis commentator.
• 1908 - Leo Rosten was born (d. 1997). American humorist and author.
• 1908 - Masaru Ibuka was born (d. 1997). Japanese industrialist (Sony).
• 1908 - Henry Bird dies (b. 1829). English chess player and author.
• 1909 - Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1910 - António de Spínola was born. Portugese general and politician. 15th President of Portugal (15 May 1974 - 30 Sep 1974)/ Nascimento de Antonio Sebastião Ribeiro Spínola. Militar e político português, Presidente da República Portuguesa entre 15 Mai 1974 e 30 Set 1974.
• 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, aka Stella Walsh, was born (d. 1980). Polish-American sprinter.
• 1912 - Henri Brisson dies. French statesman .
• 1913 - Oleg Cassini was born. American fashion designer.
• 1914 - Norman McLaren was born (d. 1987). Canadian film animator and director.
• 1914 - Robert Stanfield was born (d. 2003). Premier of Nova Scotia.
• 1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp.
• 1916 - Alberto Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires (d. 1983). Argentine composer.
• 1916 - Howard W. Koch was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1916 - Richard Harding Davis dies (b. 1864). American author.
• 1917 - David Westheimer was born (d. 2005). American novelist.
• 1917 - Danny Gallivan was born (d. 1993). Canadian radio and television sportscaster.
• 1918 - Richard Wainwright was born (d. 2003). English politician.
• 1919 - International Labour Organization founded. /Foi formada a Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT).
  
• 1920 - Marlen Haushofer was born (d. 1990). Austrian author.
• 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.
• 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
• 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
• 1921 - Jim Hearn was born (d. 1998). American baseball player.
• 1921 - Empress Augusta Vitoria [Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodore Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg ] dies in Doorn, Utrech, Netherland (b. 22 Oct 1858 in Dolzig, Germany).
• 1923 - Theodore Isaac Rubin. American psychiatrist and author.
• 1924 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections.
• 1925 - Pierre Péladeau was born (d. 1997). Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor).
• 1926 - Victor Bouchard was born. Quebec pianist and composer.
• 1926 - Luther Burbank dies (b. 1849). American botanist.
• 1927 - Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president.
• 1928 - Ethel Kennedy was born. Widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1929 - Disney's Mick Mouse short When the Cat's Away is released.
• 1929 - Almino Affonso was born in Humaitá, Amazonas. Brazilian politician.
• 1930 - The Disney Mickey Mouse short Cactus Kid is released.
• 1930 - Anton LaVey was born (d. 1997). American founder of the Church of Satan.
• 1930 - Kazuo Fukushima was born. Japanese composer.
• 1931 - Johnny Sheffield was born. American actor.
• 1931 - Koichi Sugiyama was born. Japanese composer.
• 1931 - Johnny Sheffield was born. American actor.
• 1932 - Joel Grey was born. American singer and actor.
• 1933 - É promulgada e entra em vigor em Portugal a Constituição Política, terminando o período conhecido por Ditatura Militar.
• 1933 - Hermann Goering became premier of Prussia.
• 1933 - Tony Brown was born. American journalist.
• 1934 - Mark Strand was born. Canadian-born American poet.
• 1935 - Richard Kuklinski was born (d. 2006). Mafia hitman.
• 1935 - Richard Berry was born (d. 1997). American singer and composer.
• 1938 - Kurt Moll was born. German bass.
• 1938 - Michael Deaver was born (d. 2007). Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff.
• 1939 - Louise Lasser was born. American actress.
• 1941 - Ellen Goodman was born. American political columnist.
• 1941 - Carlos Humberto Pederneiras Corrêa was born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. Brazilian professor and writer.
• 1941 - Shirley Stelfox was born. English actress.
• 1943 - Se inaugura el Estadio José Amalfitani, propiedad del Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, en partido en que el local y River Plate igualan a 2 goles.
• 1944 - John Milius was born. American director, writer.
• 1944 - Nicoletta was born. French singer.
• 1944 - A los 36 años, fallece Alejandro Villanueva Martinez, apodado el Maestro. Gran figura del futbol peruano. El estadio de Alianza de Lima lleva su nombre.
• 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. Some 250,000 prisoners passed through the camp and 50,000 are known to have died there.
• 1946 - Bob Harris was born. British disc jockey and presenter.
• 1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in a modern-day Major League Baseball game.
• 1947 - Louise Peete dies (b. 1880). American murderess.
• 1947 - Meshach Taylor was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Peter Riegert was born. American actor.
• 1948 - 12th Golf Masters Championship Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279.
• 1948 - Marcello Lippi was born. Italian football coach.
• 1949 - Bernd Eichinger was born. German film producer.
• 1949 - Carl Franklin was born. American actor.
• 1950 - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco.
• 1950 - Bill Irwin was born. American actor, director, and proponent of new vaudeville.
• 1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which English monarchs are traditionally. crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.
• 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea .
• 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton was born (d. 1997). American socialite.
• 1951 - James Patrick Kelly was born. American author.
• 1951 - Paul Fox was born (d. 2007). English guitarist (The Ruts).
• 1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
• 1952 - Peter Windsor was born. English motor racing journalist and F1 television reporter.
• 1953 - Oveta Culp Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
• 1953 - Andrew Wiles was born in Cambridge. English mathematician, deviser of a proof of Fermat's last theorem.
• 1953 - Francisco Xavier Cândido Guerreiro dies in Lisbon (b. in Alte, Loulé on 3 Dec. 1871). Portuguese poet and politician.
• 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt was born. Prime minister of Belgium.
• 1953 - Kid Nichols dies (b. 1869). American baseball player.
• 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the KMT.
• 1955 - Kevin Brady was born. American politician.
• 1955 - Michael Callen was born (d. 1993). American singer and songwriter.
• 1956 - French government sent 200,000 reservists to Algeria.
• 1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule to come into effect next year.
• 1957 - Noruega assina a Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre a Escravatura (1926).
• 1958 - Gana passa a ser membro da UNESCO.
• 1958 - Brynn Hartman was born (d. 1998). American murderer.
• 1958 - Stuart Adamson was born (d. 2001). British musician (Big Country).
• 1958 - Konstantin Yuon dies (b. 1875). Russian painter.
• 1959 - Frank C Scott was born. Australian photo-journalist.
• 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson was born. British journalist and TV Presenter of Top Gear .
• 1961 - Portugal - Abrilada: Tentativa de golpe militar em Portugal, liderado pelo general Botelho Moniz, ministro da Defesa, imediatamente sufocado, que tenta derrubar Salazar, presidente do Conselho de Ministros e nomear Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de presidente do conselho. Salazar assume a pasta da Defesa.
• 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• 1961 - 15th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1.
• 1961 - Doug Hopkins was born. American lyricist and musician.
• 1961 - Roberto Cabañas was born. Paraguyan footballer.
• 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début in New York City.
• 1962 - Vincent Gallo was born. American actor.
• 1963 - John XXIII put forth his encyclical “On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty.”.
• 1963 - Chris Ferguson was born. American poker player.
• 1963 - Billy Bowden was born. Test cricket umpire from New Zealand.
• 1964 - Steve Azar was born. American country music singer-songwriter.
• 1964 - Bret Saberhagen was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch was born. American cellist.
• 1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people.
• 1965 - 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
• 1966 - 30th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 and becomes the 1st man to win consecutive Masters
• 1966 - Lisa Stansfield was born in Rocdake, Lancashire. English singer and songwriter (All Around the World, You Can’t Deny It, This is the Right Time).
• 1966 - Zeca Baleiro was born in Maranhão. Brazilian popular singer.
• 1966 - Mason Reese was born. American actor.
• 1966 - Virgil Runnels III was born. American professional wrestler (Dustin Rhodes; Goldust; Black Reign).
• 1967 - Lachlan Dreher was born. Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-silver-92, 96).
• 1967 - Donald Sangster dies (b. 1911). Jamaican prime-minister.
• 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
• 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin.
• 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko was born. Russian author.
• 1969 - Chisato Moritaka was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 - Roger Moore / Luisa Mattioli wed.
• 1969 - Cerys Matthews was born. Welsh singer (Catatonia).
• 1969 - Janeth dos Santos Arcain was born in Carapicuíbam, São Paulo. Brazilian basketball player.
• 1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
• 1970 - Johnny Messner was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Trevor Linden was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1970 - Virgil Runnels III was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1970 - Cathy O'Donnell dies (b. 1923). American actress.
• 1970 - John O'Hara dies (b. 1905). American author.
• 1971 - 35th Golf Masters Championship Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279.
• 1971 - Oliver Riedel was born. German bassist for Rammstein.
• 1972 - Jason Varitek was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - Balls Mahoney was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Jennifer Esposito was born in New York. American actress.
• 1973 - Monica Chala was born. Miss Universe-Ecuador 1996.
• 1974 - Àlex Corretja was born in Barcelona. Spanish tennis player.
• 1974 - Anton Glanzelius was born. Danish actor.
• 1974 - Ashot Danielyan was born. Armenian Olympic Weightlifter.
• 1974 - Olivia Bonamy was born. French actress.
• 1974 - Tricia Helfer was born. Canadian model and actress.
• 1974 - Trot Nixon was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 - Zöe Lucker was born. British television actress.
• 1975 - Walid Soliman was born. Tunisian author.
• 1976 - 40th Golf Masters Championship Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271.
• 1977 - Jacques Prévert dies (b. 04 Feb 1900). French poet (La puil et le beau), scenarist and screenwriter.
• 1978 - Aretha Franklin / Glynn Turman wed.
• 1978 - Josh Hancock was born. Baseball player.
• 1978 - Brett Claywell was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Victor Sikora was born. Duch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles).
• 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. During his brutal regime, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed.
• 1979 - Chris Gaylor was born. American drummer.
• 1979 - Michel Riesen was born. Swiss ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Josh Server was born. American actor.
• 1979 - Malcolm Christie was born. English footballer.
• 1979 - Sebastien Grainger was born. Canadian musician.
• 1980 - Mark Teixeira was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• 1981 - President Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
• 1981 - Cary Grant / Barbara Harris wed.
• 1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio was born. Brazilian model. See here wallpapers.
  
• 1982 - 46th Golf Masters Championship Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284.
• 1982 - Waldir Calmon dies (b. 30 Jan 1919). Brazilian pianist.
• 1982 - Ian Bell was born. English cricketer.
• 1982 - 46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284.
• 1983 - NASA launches RCA-F 1983.
• 1983 - In the 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! won.
• 1983 - In the 55th Academy Awards "Gandhi," (Best Picture) Ben Kingsley (Best actor) and Meryl Streep ( the Best Actress for "Sophie’s Choice") won the big prizes; while Jessica Lange received her Best Supporting Actress award for "Tootsie" and Louis Gossett, Jr. picked up his Best Supporting Actor award for "An Officer and a Gentleman".
• 1983 - Nicky Pastorelli was born. Dutch racing driver.
• 1983 - Dolores del Rio dies (b. 3 Aug 1905). Mexican actress.
• 1984 - Junior (Durval Lima Junior) was born in Campinas, São Paulo. Brazilian pop singer (Sandy & Júnior).
• 1984 - Kelli Garner was born. American actress.
• 1984 - Gen. Sec. Konstantin U. Chernenko was named president of Soviet Union.
• 1985 - Will Minson was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1985 - Bunny Ahearne dies (b. 1900). British ice hockey promoter.
• 1985 - Enver Hoxha dies (b. 1908). Albanian statesman.
• 1985 - Bunny Ahearne dies (b. 1900). Hockey promoter.
• 1986 - Halley's Comet reached its perigee (point nearest the Earth) during its most recent passage near the planet.
• 1986 - Dodge Morgan sails solo nonstop around the world in 150 days.
• 1986 - Roman Heart was born. American porn actor.
• 1987 - Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39).
• 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
• 1987 - Joss Stone was born. English singer.
• 1987 - Erskine Caldwell dies (b. 1903). American author.
• 1987 - Primo Levi dies (b. 1919). Italian chemist, Auschwitz survivor, composer, librettist, author.
• 1988 - "The Last Emperor" won best picture at the 60th annual Academy Awards ceremony; Cher won best actress for "Moonstruck," Michael Douglas best actor for "Wall Street".
• 1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• 1990 - Harold Ballard dies (b. 1903). Canadian hockey club owner and executive.
• 1990 - Xenophon Zolotas dies (b. 1904). Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1991 - A U.N. ceasefire ends the Persian Gulf War.
• 1991 - Walker Cooper dies (b. 1915). American baseball player.
• 1991 - Syria Poletti dies. Novelist and child books writer.
• 1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris, France.
• 1992 - Estado de emergencia nacional na Costa Rica em virtude da propagação de grandes incendios florestais.
• 1992 - Alejandro Obregón dies (b. 1920). Colombian painter.
• 1992 - Eve Merriam dies (b. 1916). American playwright, director, and poet.
• 1993 - 57th Golf Masters Championship Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277.
• 1993 - Rachmon Nabiyev dies at 63. President of Tadzjikistan (1973-92).
• 1994 - Dakota Blue Richards was born. English child actress.
• 1995 - Menez (Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca) dies in Lisbon (b. 1926). Portuguese painter, Prémio Pessoa 1990 (1990 Pessoa Prize laureate).
• 1996 - Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win the European Championships (now Euroleague) in Paris, beating FC Barcelona by 67-66.
• 1996 - Israel launches attack on Beirut: Israeli planes and helicopters have launched air strikes against targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time in nearly 14 years.
• 1996 - Jessica Dubroff (7) was killed with her father and flight instructor when their Cessna Cardinal 177B crashed during bad weather in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was attempting to become the youngest person to fly across the US.
• 1996 - Forty-three African nations signed the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.
• 1997 - In Angola a national reconciliation governing body was formed that united the MPLA under president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNITA under Jonas Savimbi.
• 1999 - Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters by two shots over Davis Love III.
• 1999 - In Los Angeles British architect Sir Norman Foster was named the winner of the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
• 1999 - D. António Vitalino Fernandes Dantas toma posse da Diocese de Beja - Portugal.
• 1999 - 63rd Golf Masters Championship.
• 1999 - Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president of Niger. President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara had been assassinated on April 9.
• 1999 - Jean Vander Pyl dies (b. 1919). American voice actress.
• 2000 - In Peru the vote count reached 49.79% for Pres. Fujimori and tensions mounted under suspected irregularities.
• 2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
• 2000 - Jordânia torna-se membro da Organização Mundial do Comércio.
• 2000 – Morgan Lily was born. American actress.
• 2000 - Diana Darvey dies (b. 1945). British actress, singer and dancer.
• 2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in
  Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an F-8 fighter is released.
• 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record.
• 2001 - In South Africa 43 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game in Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. Over 150 were injured.
• 2001 - Sandy Bull dies (b. 1941). American musician.
• 2001 - Harry Secombe dies (b. 1921). Welsh actor and comedian.
• 2002 - Armando Cortez , morre em Lisboa (n. 23 Jun 1928). Grande actor português de teatro, revista, cinema.
• 2002 - In the Philippines the ferry MV Carmela with 240 passengers caught fire and at least 15 people were killed.
• 2002 - In Tunisia a gas tanker truck crashed into the wall of a El Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba and killed 14 Germans, 6 Tunisians and a Frenchman. The government at first called it an accident. Later evidence indicated that it was an act of terrorism. Nizar Nawar (24), a Tunisian citizen who had studied in Canada, was the driver. Al Qaeda later claimed responsibility.
• 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
• 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chavez began.
• 2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich was born. American child actress.
• 2002 - Armando Cortez dies (b. 1928). Portuguese actor.
• 2003 - The Venezuela government of Hugo Chavez and his opponents agreed to a plan for a referendum on his presidency, and the chief of state pledged to leave office if he loses.
• 2003 - U.S. troops take the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight / Guerra do Iraque - Forças da coligação assumem o controle das cidades iraquianas de Kirkuk e Mosul, com a rendiçao da 5ª Unidade do Exército do Iraque (em Mosul). O governo norte-americano declara o fim do regime iraquiano.
• 2003 - Registrados 61 novos casos de Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Severa (SRAS) em Hong Kong.
• 2003 - Cecil Howard Green dies (b. 1900). British-born geophysicist and businessman.
• 2005 - André François dies (b. 1915). French cartoonist.
• 2005 - Lucien Laurent dies (b. 1907). French footballer.
• 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
• 2006 - Israel: Israel's Cabinet declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated, officially ending his five-year tenure.
• 2006 - Winnie the Pooh celebrates hos 80th anniversary by receiving the 2.308 th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California.
• 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
• 2006 - DeShaun Holton, also known as Proof, dies (b. 1973). American rapper.
• 2006 - June Pointer dies (b. 1953). American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 2006 - Proof dies (b. 1973). American rapper (D12).
• 2007 - Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others. 2007 Algiers bombings.
• 2007 - Janet McDonald dies (b. 1954). American novelist.
• 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut dies (b. 1922). American author.
• 2007 - Ronald Speirs dies (b. 1920). American Army officer(CO of Easy Company).
• 2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne dies (b. 1925). American actor.
• 2008 - Portugal: Académica wins 3-0 in Lisbon, beating Benfica in football after 53 years without do it.
  
• 2008 - Merlin German dies (b. 1985). United States Marine.
• 2009 - Susan Boyle appears, on this day, as a contestant on reality TV programme Britain's Got Talent , singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables.
• 2009 – Corín Tellado dies (b. 1927). Spanish romance novelist.
  
• 2009 – Gerda Gilboe dies (b. 1914). Danish actress.
  
• Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Battle of Rivas (State holiday in Costa Rica).
• Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów; Saint Gemma of Lucca; Saint Godeberta.
• The Feast Day of Saint Antipas of Pergamum in the Greek Orthodox Church.