On this day in History - Apr. 5

• 2348 BC -According to tradition, Noah's ark grounded on Mt. Ararat on this date.
• 0456 - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary Bishop.
• 0582 - Eutychius dies. Patriarch of Constantinople.
  
• 0828 - Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77.
• 1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1104).
• 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forcesunder Prince Alexander Nevsky rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
• 1258 - Julian of Cornillon / Liege, dies. Flemish visionary / saint.
• 1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1336).
• 1419 - Saint Vincent Ferrer dies (b. 1350). Spanish missionary and saint.
• 1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, was born. Daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1479 - Guru Amar Das was born ( † 1574). Third Sikh Guru.
• 1523 - Blaise de Vigenère was born (d. 1596). French cryptographer.
• 1566 - 200 Netherlands noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
• 1588 - Thomas Hobbes was born († 1679). English philosopher and political theorist is best known for his publications on individual security and the social contract.
• 1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine was born (d. 1675).
• 1605 - Adam Loftus dies. English Protestant archbishop in Ireland.
• 1609 - Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma clan in Southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
• 1614 - In Virginia Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
• 1617 - Alonso Lobo dies. Spanish composer.
• 1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
• 1622 - Vincenzo Viviani was born (d. 1703). Italian mathematician, leading geometer of his time, who founded the Accademia del Cimento.
• 1626 - Jan van Kessel was born in Antwerpen († 1679). Flemish painter.
• 1649 - Elihu Yale was born (d. 1721). Philanthropist. Founder of American Yale University.
• 1654 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1673 - François Caron dies (b. 1600). French explorer.
• 1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger dies (b. 1606). American politician.
• 1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur was born († 1730). French actress.
• 1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier dies (b. 1627). French writer.
• 1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax dies (b. 1633). English writer.
• 1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (1660-97) dies (b. 1655).
• 1717 - Jean Jouvenet dies (b. 1647). French painter.
• 1732 - Jean-Honore Fragonard was born ( † 1806). French painter.
• 1735 - William Derham dies (b. 1657). English minister and writer.
• 1735 - Samuel Wesley dies (b. 1662). English poet.
• 1739 - French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty.
• 1752 - Sébastien Érard was born (d. 1831). French musical instruments maker.
• 1765 - Edward Young dies (b. 1683). English poet.
• 1772 - O almirante holandês Jacob Roggeveen descobre Rapa Nui, a Ilha de Páscoa.
• 1784 - Louis Spohr was born (d. 1859). German violinist.
• 1792 - U.S. President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States.
• 1794 - Georges Danton dies guillotined (b. 1759). French Revolutionary leader.
• 1794 - Camille Desmoulins dies (b. 1760). French journalist and politician.
• 1804 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
• 1806 - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider.
• 1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller was born († 1890). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1818 - Chile's independence movement, led by José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins, won a decisive victory over Spain in the Battle of Maipú /Batalla de Maipú: el Ejército Libertador de San Martín vence definitivamente a los realistas.
• 1821 - A Inquisição é abolida em Portugal.
• 1827 - Joseph Lister was born († 1912) . British surgeon.
• 1832 - Jules Ferry was born (d. 1893). French statesman.
• 1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne was born († 1909). English poet.
• 1840 - Mariano Necochea dies (b. 1792). Argentine soldier.
• 1843 - A rainha inglesa Vitória proclama Hong Kong uma colônia britânica.
• 1851 - Inauguração da primeira linha férrea da América do Sul, entre Lima e o porto de El Callao.
• 1856 - Booker T. Washington was born (d. 1915). American educator.
• 1859 - António Augusto de Lima was born in Vila Nova de Lima (MG) (d. 22 Apr. 1934). Brazilian poet, journalist and politician.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown - The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
• 1866 - Nascimento em Santos - SP, Brasil de Vicente de Carvalho (Vicente Augusto de Carvalho), advogado, jornalista, político, magistrado, poeta, contista e membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• 1869 - Albert Roussel was born (d. 1937). French composer.
• 1869 - Sergei Chaplygin was born (d. 1942). Russian physicist and engineer.
• 1871 - Mirko Seljan was born (d. 1913?). Croatian explorer.
• 1872 - Samuel Cate Prescott was born (d. 1962). American food scientist and microbiologist.
• 1874 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, was opened in Birkenhead.
• 1875 - Mistinguett was born († 1956). French vaudeville performer.
• 1879 - Chile declared war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
• 1889 - Donga was born (d. 1974). Brazilian composer and sambist.
• 1893 - Clas Thunberg was born (d. 1973). Finnish speed skater.
• 1894 - Lawrence Dale Bell was born (d. 20 Oct 1956). U.S. aircraft designer, founder of Bell Aircraft Co., whose experimental X-1 rocket-propelled airplane in 1947 was the first to break the sound barrier in level flight.
• 1897 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1898 - Clinical psychologist Morton Prince first hypnotized "Sally Beauchamp," a patient of his. He later claimed to have found three separate personalities in her. This was one of the first attempts to document a case of the alleged existence of multiple personality syndrome.
• 1899 - Alfred Blalock was born (d. 15 Sep 1964). American surgeon who, with pediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig, devised a surgical treatment for infants born with the condition known as the tetralogy of Fallot, or "blue baby" syndrome.
• 1900 - Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails.
• 1900 - Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy was born († 10 Jun 1967) . Academy Award-winning actor. [Captains Courageous [1937], Boys Town [1938]; San Francisco, Stanley and Livingstone, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941], Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Adam’s Rib, Father of the Bride [1950], Pat and Mike, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Mountain, The Old Man and the Sea, How the West Was Won, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner].
• 1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies (b. 1822). French mathematician.
• 1901 - Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) was born († 04 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning actor: [supporting] Hud [1963], [supporting] Being There [1979]; The Vampire Bat, Captains Courageous, Ninotchka, Three Hearts for Julia, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Americanization of Emily, I Never Sang for My Father, The Candidate, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, The Changeling, Ghost Story).
• 1901 - Hattie Elizabeth Alexander was born (d. 24 Jun 1968). American pediatrician and microbiologist whose groundbreaking work on influenzal meningitis significantly reduced infant death rates and advanced the field of microbiological genetics.
• 1902 - Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25.
• 1903 - Pedro Ivo dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1906 - Lord Buckley was born (d. 1960). American monologist.
• 1907 - José Carlos Queiroz Nunes Ribeiro was born in Lisbon (d. 27 Oct 1949). Portuguese poet.
• 1908 - Jagjivan Ram was born (d. 6 Jul 1986). Indian politician.
• 1908 - Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis was born († 06 Oct 1989). Academy Award-winning actress : [Dangerous [1935], Jezebel [1938]; Dark Victory, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, Mr. Skeffington, All About Eve, The Star, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?].
• 1908 - Herbert von Karajan was born ( † 1989). Austrian conductor.
• 1909 - Albert R. Broccoli was born (d. 1996). American film producer.
• 1911 - Jussi Björling was born († 1960). Swedish tenor.
• 1912 - John Le Mesurier was born († 1983). British actor.
• 1912 - Carlos Guastavino was born in Santa Fe (d. 29 Oct. 2000). Argentine composer and pianist
• 1916 - (Eldred) Gregory Peck was born ( † 12 Jun 2003). Academy Award-winning actor [To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]; The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Duel in the Sun, Gentleman’s Agreement, Twelve O’Clock High, David and Bathsheba, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Roman Holiday, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Moby Dick [1956], The Guns of Navarone, Marooned, MacArthur, The Boys from Brazil, Moby Dick [TV 1998]; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian (Academy) Award (1968)].
• 1917 - Os Estados Unidos declaram guerra à Alemanha e entram na Primeira Guerra Mundial.
• 1917 - Robert Bloch was born (d. 1994). American author.
• 1918 - Joseph Sobek was born (d. 27 Mar 1998). American inventor of racquetball who developed the sport (1950) to play at the Greenwich, Connecticut, YMCA.
• 1918 - Primera Guerra Mundial: finaliza la segunda batalla del río Somme, en Francia.
• 1918 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73.
• 1920 - Arthur Hailey was born († 2004). Writer : Airport, The Final Diagnosis.
• 1920 - Rafique Zakaria was born (d. 2005). Indian author.
• 1922 - Gale Storm was born. Singer, actress.
• 1922 - Tom Finney was born. English footballer.
• 1922 - Christopher Hewett was born (d. 2001). British actor.
• 1922 - Gale Storm was born. American singer.
• 1923 - Michael V. Gazzo was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu was born ( † 2001). South Vietnamese president.
• 1923 - Ernest Mandel was born. Belgian philosopher/economist.
• 1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.
• 1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon dies (b. 1866). English financier.
• 1924 - Mart Kempers was born (†1993). Dutch graphic artist/sculptor.
• 1926 - Roger Corman was born. American film director.
• 1928 - Tony Williams was born (d. 1992). American singer (The Platters).
• 1928 - Roberto J. Payró dies (b. 1867). Argentine writer and jornalist.
• 1928 - Roy Kilner dies (b. 1890). English cricketer.
• 1929 - Nigel Hawthorne was born († 2001). British actor.
• 1929 - Hugo Claus was born. Belgian writer
• 1929 - Ivar Giaever was born. Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate 1973 shared with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson for work in solid-state physics.
• 1929 - Joe Meek was born. English record producer
• 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
• 1932 - Alcohol prohibition in Finland ended. Alcohol sales started in Alko liquor stores.
• 1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seized the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
• 1933 - Se funda el Instituto Sanmartiniano en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1933 - Larry Felser was born. American sports columnist, writer.
• 1934 - Frank Gorshin was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1934 - Roman Herzog was born. German politician
• 1934 - Stanley Turrentine was born (d. 2000). American jazz saxophonist.
• 1935 - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election.
• 1935 - Peter Grant was born (d. 1995). British music manager.
• 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi killing 233. It is the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
• 1937 - Colin Powell was born. US Secretary of State; military leader: four-star general, Chairman U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989-1993] .
• 1939 - Ronald White was born (d. 1995). American singer and songwriter.
• 1939 - Crispian St. Peters was born. British singer
• 1939 - Octávio de Matos nasce no Porto, Portugal. Actor de teatro e cinema [cinema: A Cruz de Ferro (1968); Parque das Ilusões, O (1963) ].
• 1941 - Michael Moriarty was born. American actor
• 1941 - Dave Swarbrick was born. British folk musician
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
• 1942 - Peter Greenaway was born. Welsh film director.
• 1943 - Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is arrested in Berlin because of his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler.
• 1943 - Max Gail was born. American actor
• 1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
• 1944 - Pedro Rossello was born. Puerto Rican politician.
• 1945 - Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."
• 1945 - Tommy Smith was born. English footballer.
• 1945 - Karl Otto Koch dies (b. 1897). German SS-officer.
• 1946 - Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after occupying it for approximately 11 months.
• 1946 - Jane Asher was born. British actress: ( Dreamchild, Masque of the Red Death, The Prince and the Pauper, Brideshead Revisited).
• 1946 - Vincent Youmans dies (b. 1898). American songwriter.
• 1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was born. 14th president of the Philippines.
• 1948 - Les Binks was born. British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest.
• 1948 - Dave Holland was born. British musician (Judas Priest).
• 1949 - Fireside Theatre debuts on television.
• 1949 - A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States, kills 77 people.
• 1949 - Judith Resnik was born (d. 1986). American astronaut.
• 1950 - Nine are convicted of trying to overthrow the government in Czechoslovakia.
  
• 1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, was born. Swedish singer, leading voice of ABBA .
• 1951 - Son condenados a muerte en EE.UU. Julius y Ethel Rosenberg por realizar espionajes a favor de la Unión Soviética.
• 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
• 1951 -Um tribunal americano condena à morte o casal Rosenberg, acusado de espionagem em favor da URSS.
• 1951 - Dean Kamen was born. Inventor.
• 1952 - Mitch Pileggi was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Charles Collett dies (b. 1871). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.
• 1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right".
• 1954 - Stan Ridgway was born. American musician (Wall of Voodoo).
• 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• 1955 - Janice Long was born. English broadcaster.
• 1955 - Akira Toriyama was born. Japanese manga artist.
• 1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim was born. French actress.
• 1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
• 1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna won the general elections in a lanslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike sworn in as the Prime Minister.
• 1957 - In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief minister.
• 1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• 1961 - Lisa Zane was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Lana Clarkson was born (d. 2003). American actress.
• 1963 - Jimmy Osmond was born. Singer (Donny & Marie Show).
• 1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid was born. American rapper (Kid 'n Play).
• 1964 - Steve Beaton was born. English darts player.
• 1964 - General Douglas MacArthur dies (b. 1880). US Army.
• 1965 - 37th Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles- "My Fair Lady" won The Best Picture Award and more seven : Best Director (George Cukor), Best Actor (Rex Harrison); Best Cinematography/Color (Harry Stradling); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration/Color (Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins); Best Costume Design/Color (Cecil Beaton); Best Sound (George Groves-Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.); and Best Music/Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (André Previn). Julie Andrews was awarded an Oscar for Best Actress for her title role; Cotton Warburton won for Best Film Editing; Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske, Eustace Lycett for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects and Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman won for Best Music/Song (Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins) and for Best Music/Score-Substantially Original. The two remaining crowd-pleaser awards went to Peter Ustinov in Topkapi for Best Supporting Actor and to Lila Kedrova in Alexis Zorbas for Best Supporting Actress. The host for this gala ceremony was Bob Hope.
• 1965 - Cris Carpenter was born. Baseball player.
• 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival dies (b. 1887). British Army officer.
• 1966 - Mike McCready was born. American musician (Pearl Jam).
• 1967 - Gary Gait was born. Canadian lacrosse player.
• 1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller dies (b. 1890). American geneticist, Nobel laureate.
  
• 1967 - Mischa Elman dies (b. 1891).Ukrainian violinist.
• 1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller dies (b. 1890). Geneticist.
• 1968 - Paula Cole was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstration are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.
• 1969 - Pope Paul VI abolished the galero (red hat) and red shoes and buckles customarily worn by Roman Catholic cardinals.
• 1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere dies (b. 1903). Estonian Nazi.
• 1969 - Shelby Storck dies (b. 1917). American television producer.
• 1970 - Miho Hatori was born. Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto).
• 1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant dies (b. 1891). American geneticist.
• 1971 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
• 1971 - Dong Abay was born. Filipino musician, singer-songwriter.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces invade Binh Long Province, launching a second front of the Nguyen Hue Offensive.
• 1972 - Pat Green was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1972 - Paul Okon was born. Australian former footballer.
• 1972 - Tom Coronel was born. Dutch racing driver.
• 1972 - Krista Allen was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Brian Donlevy dies (b. 1901). American actor.
• 1973 - Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France .
• 1973 - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter.
• 1973 - Pharrell Williams was born. American music producer (The Neptunes) .
• 1973 - Élodie Bouchez was born. French actress.
• 1973 - Tony Banks was born. American football player.
• 1973 - John Coleman dies (b. 1928). Australian rules footballer.
• 1974 - Uhm Tae Woong was born. South Korean actor.
• 1974 - Sahaj Ticotin was born. Musician/producer (Ra (U.S. band)).
• 1974 - A. Y. Jackson dies (b. 1882). Canadian painter.
• 1975 - John Hartson was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1975 - Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely.
• 1975 - Lizandra Souto was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek dies (b. 1887). 1st President of the Republic of China.
• 1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement led to the Tiananmen incident.
• 1976 - Fernando Morientes was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1976 - Kim Collins was born. Nevisian sprinter.
• 1976 - Ross Gload was born. American professional baseball player.
• 1976 - Ryan Drese was born.American baseball player.
• 1976 - Simone Inzaghi was born. Italian footballer.
• 1976 - Howard Hughes dies (b. 1905). American aviation pioneer, film director, excentric.
• 1976 - Wilder Penfield dies (b. 1891). Canadian surgeon.
• 1977 - Os ministros da CEE, reunidos no Luxemburgo, aprovam o pedido de adesão de Portugal.
• 1978 - Brandon Backe was born. Houston Astros starting pitcher.
• 1978 - Stephen Jackson was born. American professional basketball player.
• 1978 - Franziska van Almsick was born. German swimmer.
• 1979 - Timo Hildebrand was born. German footballer.
• 1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky dies (b. 1893). Russian biologist and artist.
• 1980 - Matt Bonner was born. American basketball player.
• 1980 - Lee Jae Won was born. South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
• 1981 - The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev goes to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis.
• 1981 - Jorge de la Rosa was born. Mexican baseball player
• 1981 - Bob Hite dies (b. 1945). American singer (Canned Heat).
• 1982 - A British Naval Task Force leaves for the Falkland Islands, which have been invaded by Argentina.
• 1982 - Matt Pickens was born. American soccer player
• 1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger was born. German footballer
• 1982 - Alexandre Prémat was born. French racing driver
• 1982 - Abe Fortas dies (b. 1910). U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
• 1983 - Danny Rapp dies (b. 1941). American musician (Danny & the Juniors).
• 1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Wilt Chamberlain as the all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Association.
• 1984 - Shin Min-a was born. South Korean model and actress
• 1985 - Lastings Milledge was born. Baseball player
• 1986 - Bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin, Germany, kills three.
• 1987 - Portugal: o primeiro governo de Cavaco Silva, minoritário, cai, devido à aprovação de uma moção de censura proposta pelo PRD. A Assembleia da República é dissolvida em 28 de Abril e as eleições marcadas para 19 de Julho. O PSD obterá a primeira maioria absoluta após o 25 de Abril.
• 1986 - Three people are killed in the Bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
• 1987 - The Fox Broadcasting Company makes its prime time television debut with Married…with Children.
• 1988 - Jacob Grant dies. King of The Cardboard Box .
• 1988 - Hijackers free 25 hostages. Hijackers who have taken control of a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet free 25 passengers.
• 1989 - O movimiento sindicalista polaco "Solidaridad" legaliza-se e assim pode apresentar-se às eleições gerais.
• 1991 - ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia killing all 23 aboard.
• 1991 - John Tower dies (b. 1925). American politician, Senator from Texas.
• 1991 - Sonny Carter dies (b. 1947). American astronaut.
• 1991 - Davis Love, Sr. dies on the Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 Embraer 120RT N270AS crash. Professional golfer.
• 1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
• 1992 - Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protester Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
• 1992 - Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolved the Peruvian congress by military force / O presidente do Peru, Alberto Fujimori, lidera um Golpe de Estado no país. Ele dissolve o Congresso, prende oponentes políticos e suspende artigos da Constituição peruana.
• 1992 - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president.
• 1992 - Samuel H Reshevsky dies at 80. Polish /US chess grandmaster.
• 1992 - Molly Picon dies (b. 1898). French actress.
• 1992 - Sam Walton dies (b. 1918). American retailer.
• 1993 - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad.
• 1993 - The Child Support Act 1991, administered by the Child Support Agency, comes into effect in the United Kingdom.
• 1993 - O governo brasileiro em leilão na Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro privatiza a CSN (Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional) por US$ 1,05 bilhão. O controle acionário da companhia foi comprado pelo consórcio formado por Docenave (subsidiária da Vale do Rio Doce), Bamerindus, Vicunha, trading Emesa e os empregados da siderúrgica.
• 1994 - Kurt Cobain dies (suicide) (b. 1967). American grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana.
• 1994 - André Tchelistcheff dies (b. 1901). Russian-born U.S. enologist, was a pivotal figure in the revitalization of the California wine industry following Prohibition (1919-33).
• 1997 - Allen Ginsberg dies (b. 1926). American poet.
• 1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
• 1999 - As Nações Unidas suspendem as sanções contra a Líbia após Moammar Gadhafi ter rendido dois suspeitos (agentes da inteligência do país) para serem julgados pelo atentado de 1988 da Pan Am.
• 1998 - Cozy Powell dies (b. 1947). British musician.
• 1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
• 1999 - In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.
• 1999 - Paul David dies (b. 1919). French Canadian cardiologist.
• 2000 - Mori Yoshiro of the Liberal-Democratic Party became prime minister of Japan, replacing Obuchi Keizo, who had suffered a stroke earlier in the month and subsequently died.
• 2000 - Leeds United football fans clash with Galatasaray SK fans resulting in the death of Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight from multiple stab wounds.
• 2000 - Lee Petty dies. 3-time. American race driver, NASCAR Grand champion.
• 2001 - Driver jailed for immigrant deaths A Dutch lorry driver has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his part in the deaths of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants.
• 2001 - Brother Theodore dies (b. 1906). German comedian.
• 2002 - Layne Staley dies (b. 1967). American musician (Alice in Chains).
• 2003 - For the first time, US forces enter cross the city limits of Baghdad, Iraq when they make a brief foray into a suburb of Baghdad.
• 2004 - Paul Bremer declares militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to be an outlaw and an Iraqi judge issues an arrest warrant for him.
• 2004 -Heiner Zieschang dies (b. 1936). German mathematician.
• 2004 - Sławomir Rawicz dies (b. 1915). Polish soldier.
• 2005 - ABC News anchor Peter Jennings informs his viewers that he has lung cancer. This was his final broadcast.
• 2005 - Saul Bellow dies (b. 1915). Canadian-born American writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2005 - Dale Messick dies (b. 1906). American comic strip artist.
• 2005 - Debralee Scott dies (b. 1953). American actress.
• 2005 - John Sichel dies (b. 1937). British film and television director.
  2006 - The first case of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in the UK after tests on a dead swan found in Cellardyke, Fife.
• 2006 - Gene Pitney dies (b. 1941). American singer.
• 2006 - George Savalla Gomes [Carequinha] dies (b. 1915). Brazilian clown.
• 2007 - IGZones.com releases there Gaming Client, Which will Support Multiple CD-Rom Games that Zone.com Canceled in Late June 06, such as; The Age of Empires Series Games, Flight Simulator etc.
• 2007 - Teatro Popular de Niterói is inaugurated.
• 2007 - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone named Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church.
• 2007 - Mark St. John dies (b. 1956). American musician (Kiss).
• 2007 - Darryl Stingley dies (b. 1951). American football player.
• 2007 - Maria Gripe dies (b. 1923). Swedish writer.
• 2007 - Leela Majumdar dies (b. 1908). Bengali writer.
• 2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi dies (b. 1938). Kannada writer.
• 2008 - Charlton Heston dies (b. 1923). American actor.
• 2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
• Arbor Day and Hansik in South Korea.
• Saint Vincent Ferrer; Saint Irene (d. 304); Saint Ruadhan (d. 584).
• Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar.