1710 -
Thomas Reid was born (d. 1796). Scottish philosopher.
1711 -
David Hume was born (d. 1776). Scottish philosopher, historian.
1718 -
Esek Hopkins was born (d. 1802). American Revolutionary War admiral.
1774 -
Christian Leopold von Buch was born (d. 4 Mar 1853). German geologist and geographer whose far-flung wanderings and lucid writings had an inestimable influence on the development of geology during the 19th century.
1784 -
Nano Nagle dies (b. 1718). Irish convent founder.
1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley N. O'Bannon. 1812 -
Alfred Krupp was born (d. 14 Jul 1887). German industrialist ( manufacturer of steel and armaments ) who was known as "The Cannon King" .
1829 - Theodor Billroth was born (d. 6 Feb 1894). Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a Viennese surgeon, generally considered to be the founder of modern abdominal surgery .
1836 - Erminnie Adele Platt Smith was born (d. 9 Jun 1886). American
anthropologist who was the first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work.
1857 -
Juan Lindo dies. President of Honduras (1847-1852).
1864 -
Caetano da Costa Alegre was born in Vila da Trindade, S. Tomé (d. 18 Apr 1890). Portuguese poet. He is considered the first significant black African poet writing in Portuguese to deal with the theme of blackness.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina. 1877 - Sir Alliott Verdon Roe was born (d. 4 Jan 1958). He was the first Englishman to construct and fly his own airplane.1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia was born. Mexican Catholic bishop 1879 - Owen Willans Richardson was born (d. 15 Feb 1959. English physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1928 for "his work on the thermionic phenomenon [electron emission by hot metals] and especially for the discovery of the law named after him. 1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen dies (b. 1815). German general.1886 - Ma Rainey was born in Georgia (d. 1939). American blues singer . 1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay was born (d. 1913). Tatar poet.1888 -
Anita Loos was born (d. 1981). American writer.
1896 -
Ernst Udet was born (d. 1941). Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot .
1897 -
Douglas Sirk was born (d. 1987). German-born director.
1897 -
Eddie Eagan was born (d. 1967). American sportsman.
1899 - "Life Saving Guards for Street Cars" were patented by the black American inventor, J.H. Robinson.
1900 -
Charles Richter was born (d. 30 Sep 1985). Geophysicist, seismologist and inventor of the
Richter Scale that measures earthquake intensity which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in the early 1930's .
1900 -
Hack Wilson was born (d. 1948). American baseball player.
1905 - Raul Leoni Otero was born. President of Venezuela (1964-1969)
1905 -
Jean Vigo was born († 5 Oct 1934). French film director.
1908 - Karl August Möbius dies (b. 7 Feb 1825). German zoologist whose work in marine biology included the formation of pearls and the anatomy of the whale. He introduced the ecosystem concept of the "life community" -
"Biocönose"
1911 - Gradanski which would give place to
Dínamo Zagreb is founded.
1912 - A. E. van Vogt was born (d. 2000). Canadian science fiction writer.1914 - Bernard Malamud was born (d. 1986). American author.1914 - James W. Rouse was born (d. 1996). American investor.1914 - Eduard Suess dies (b. 20 Aug 1831). Austrian geologist who helped lay the basis for paleogeography and tectonics - i.e., the study of the architecture and evolution of the Earth's outer rocky shell.1914 -
James W. Rouse was born (d. 1996). American real estate investor, activist, and philanthropist.
1916 -
Morris West was born (d. 1999). Australian writer.
1916 -
Mário de Sá Carneiro dies (b. 19 May 1890). Poet and novelist, one of the most original and complex figures of the Portuguese Modernist movement.
1916 - Morris West was born (d. 1999). Australian writer. 1917 - I.M. Pei was born. Chinese-born American architect. 1917 - Sal Maglie was born (d. 1992). Baseball player.1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan dies (b. 22 Dec 1887). Indian mathematician known for his work on hypergeometric series and continued fractions. In number theory, he discovered properties of the partition function.1922 - Jeanne Sauvé was born (d. 1993). French Canadian politician.1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1927 - Jack Douglas was born. English actor 1929 - Richard Mitchell was born (d. 2002). American author and professor.1932 - Michael Smith was born (d. 4 Oct. 2000). English-born Canadian biochemist who won (wuth Katy B. Mullis) the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of a techique called oligonucleotide-based site-directed mutagemesis, wich enabled researchers to introduce specif mutations into genes and, thus, to the proteins that they encode.1932 - Francis Lai was born. French film music composer. 1932 -
Hart Crane dies - suicide (b. 1899). American poet.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. 1933 - Arno Allan Penzias was born. German-American astrophysicist who shared one-half of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery of a faint electromagnetic radiation throughout the universe.
1933 -
Carol Burnett was born. American singer, actress, and comedian.
1936 - Lane Smith was born. American actor.1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1940 -
Carl Bosch dies (b. 27 Aug 1874). German industrial chemist who developed the Haber-Bosch process for high-pressure synthesis of ammonia and received, with Friedrich Bergius, the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising chemical high-pressure methods.
1941 - Claudine Clark was born. American R&B singer-composer. 1941 - John Mitchell was born. American composer. 1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. 1942 - Benedita da Silva was born. Brazilian politician.
1944 -
Amien Rais was born. Indonesian politician.
1947 - Donna DeVarona was born. Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports journalist, sports activist. 1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld dies (b. 5 Dec 1868). German physicist whose atomic model permitted the explanation of fine-structure spectral lines.1954 - Mass testing of the Salk polio vaccine began, involving about 1.8 million children.
1954 - Rondinelli was born in São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo. Brazilian footballer.
1955 -
Mike Scott was born. American baseball player.
1961 - The integrated circuit is patented by Robert Noyce.1961 - Anthony Cumia was born. American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show). 1961 - Joan Chen was born. Chinese-born actress. 1962 - Colin Anderson was born. English footballer.1962 - Debra Wilson was born. American actress and comedian. 1963 - in Libya Amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. 1963 -
Jet Li was born. Chinese martial arts fighter, actor.
1963 -
Colin Scotts was born. Australian-born NFL football player.
1964 - Jens Unmack was born. Danish singer and songwriter.
1965 - TV Globo is founded (Brazil).
1965 -
Kevin James was born. American comedian and actor.
1967 - Glen Jacobs was born. American professional wrestler.1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste was born. Academy Award nominated British actress. 1969 - Morihei Ueshiba dies (b. 1883). Japanese martial artist, founder of Aikido. 1970 - Tionne Watkins was born. American singer (TLC). 1970 - Melania Trump was born. Slovenian model.1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee dies (b. 1911). American actress. 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from the war in May and June, reducing the authorized troop level to 49,000.
1976 - Jose Pasillas was born. American musician (Incubus). 1976 -
Sid James dies (b. 1913). British comedian.
1977 -
Tom Welling was born. American actor (Clark Kent on
"Smallville").
1978 -
Avant was born. American R&B singer.
1978 -
Joe Crede was born. American baseball player.
1980 - Anna Mucha was born. Polish actress. 1981 -
Mariana Ximenes (Mariana Ximenes do Prado Nuzzi) was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
1981 -
Jim Davis dies (b. 1909). American actor.
1982 – Jon Lee was born. British singer (S Club).1983 - The Dow Jones Industrial average breaks the 1,200 mark for the first time.
1984 - Lee Humphrey was born. American basketball player. 1984 - Mija Martina was born. Bosnian singer. 1984 -
Count Basie dies (b. 1904). American musician and composer.
1987 - Jarmila Groth was born. Australian tennis player.1989 – Daesung was born. Korean singer (Big Bang).1989 -
Lucille Ball dies (b. 1911). American actress and comedian.
1991 - O futebolista Diego Maradona foi preso por posse de droga. 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado and 17 people will perish (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado). 1991 - Carmine Coppola dies (b. 1910). American composer and conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire, grandfather of Sophis Coppola.1991 - Emily McLaughlin dies (b. 1930). American actress.1991 - Richard Hatfield dies (b. 1931). Canadian politician.1992 - Riot on the streets of Miami, and several other surrounding towns and suburbs.1992 - Mário Donato dies (b. 1915). Brazilian journalist and writer. President of Brazilian Writers Association (Associação Brasileira de Escritores).1993 - Space shuttle Columbia was
launched on the second German sponsored D-2 Spacelab Mission lasting until 6 May.
1998 - Futebol Clube do Porto wins the fourth consecutive Portuguese football championship.
1999 -
Jill Dando dies (b. 1961). British television presenter.
2002 -
Lisa Lopes dies (b. 1971). American singer.
2003 -
Peter Stone dies (b. 1930). American writer, Oscar- and (3-time) Tony winner.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos dies (b. 1917). Paraguayan author.2005 - Mason Adams dies (b. 1919). American actor.2005 - Blade Icewood dies (b. 1977). American rapper.2005 - Maria Schell dies (b. 1926). Austrian-born actress.2007 - Queen's Pier was officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district.2007 - Bronze Night in Tallinn.2007 - Jack Valenti dies (b. 1921). American political advisor and film executive.2009 - Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese noble, is canonized.Confederate Memorial Day (States of Florida and Georgia).Union Day (Tanzania).Vallenato Legend Festival usually begin on this day. (Valledupar, Colombia).World Intellectual Property Day (International).
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