Nothingandall: On this day in History

0804 - Alcuin dies (b. c. 735). Monk from York, England.
0988 - Dunstan dies (b. 909). Archbishop of Canterbury.
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois dies (b. c. 1045).
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh dies (b. 1053).
1296 - Pope Celestine V dies (b. 1215).
1319 - Louis d'Évreux dies (b. 1276). Son of Philip III of France
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi dies (b. 1350). Grand Prince of Muscovy.
1499 - Catherine of Aragon, is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan dies (b. 1464).
1531 - Jan Łaski dies (b. 1456). Polish statesman and diplomat.
1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England is beheaded for adultery.
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
1593 - Jacob Jordaens was born in Antwerp. Flemish painter.
1601 - Costanzo Porta dies. Italian composer.
1604 - The town of Montreal is founded.
1610 - Thomas Sanchez dies (b. 1550). Spanish theologian.
1637 - Isaac Beeckman dies (b. 1588). Dutch scientist and philosopher.
1643 - Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi dies (b. c. 1584). Japanese swordsman.
1649 - An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament.
1675 - D. António Luís de Meneses, Marquês de Marialva, dies (b. 13 Dez 1603). Portuguese soldier and noble, important figure in the process of the Portuguese Restauration (1640).

1700 - José de Escandón was born (d. 1770). Spanish colonial governor.

1715 - Charles Montagu dies (b. 15661). Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol was born (d. 1779). British admiral and politician

1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born (d. 1818).

1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

1750 - Portugal: Marco António de Azevedo Coutinho, primeiro secretário de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros e da Guerra, morre.

1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born (d. 1814). German philosopher.

1769 - Ao fim de três meses de contenda entre as facções a favor e contra os Jesuítas, o conclave de cardeais elege papa Lorenzo Ganganelli, candidato da facção adversa aos Jesuítas, que adopta o nome de Clemente XIV.

1773 - Arthur Aikin was born (d. 1854). English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

1780 - New England's Dark Day: never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.

1786 - John Stanley dies (b. 1712). English composer.

1795 - Johns Hopkins was born (d. 1873). American philanthropist.

1795 - James Boswell dies (b. 1740). Scottish biographer.

1795 - Josiah Bartlett dies (b. 1729). Signatory of the USA Declaration of Independence.

1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal was born (d. 1818). Queen of Spain.

1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron dies (b. 1722). English dueler.

1800 -António Joaquim da Costa Carvalho was born (d. 20 Jun 1874). Portuguese noble (Barão de São Lourenço).

1802 - The Légion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte.

1821 - Camille Jordan dies (b. 1771). French politician.

1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon dies (b. 1760). French political philosopher.

1825 - Saint-Simon dies (b. 1760). Founder of French socialism, economist.

1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was born (d. 1896). French statesman.

1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.

1844 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born (d. 1818).

1848 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for USD $15 million.

1861 - Dame Nellie Melba was born (d. 1931). Australian opera singer.

1862 - João do Canto e Castro Silva Antunes was born. Portuguese Almirant and 5 th President of Portugal.

1862 - Mikhail Nesterov was born (d. 1942). Russian painter.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.

1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne dies (b. 1804). American author.

1865 - Sengge Rinchen dies. Qing Dynasty field Marshal KIA.

1870 - Albert Fish was born (d. 1936). American serial killer.

1870 - Portugal - Ocorre o último dos muitos golpes militares liderados por Saldanha, ao longo do século XIX (Saldanhada). O marechal impõe ao rei D. Luís a demissão do governo liderado pelo duque de Loulé, e a sua nomeação para a chefia do governo. O governo não dura cem dias, e o duque de Saldanha será enviado para Londres, como embaixador, para um exílio dourado. Morrerá em 1876.

1874 - Gilbert Jessop was born (d. 1955). English cricketer, known as fastest-scoring batsman of all time.

1876 - Júlio Dantas was born in Lagos, Portugal (m. 25 May 1962). Portuguese writer. Leading member of the Nationalist Party, he was at the forefront of attempts to create a right wing republican coalition with Cunha Leal which would support the military regime. Doctor of Medicine. Vice-President and formerly president of the Lisbon Academy of Science. Director and professor of the National Conservatoire. Inspector of Libraries. A poet, publicist and dramatist of distinction. Is a man of great literary talent and has considerable influence over the National Theatre. One of his plays, called "The Cardinal's Supper," is said to have been translated into 40 languages. He was Minister of Instruction on two separate occasions in 1920, and Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1921 and 1923. Elected member of the Intellectual Committee of the League of Nations in January 1934, and President of the Lisbon Academy of Science for the eleventh time in December 1935 / Nasce Júlio Dantas em Lagos. Poeta, dramaturgo, cronista, jornalista, conferencista, médico, deputado, militar, ministro, glória das instituições, da política, da literatura, do teatro, da sociedade da época, acadêmico de dezenas de academias. Em Portugal e no Brasil, ficou mais conhecido por seu teatro voltado para o amor elegante e o heroísmo aristocrático. A meio caminho entre o romantismo e o parnasianismo, seus poemas foram enfeixados em Nada (1896) e Sonetos (1916). O interesse pelo amor elegante levou-o a estudos como O Amor em Portugal no Século XVIII (1915). A procura do passado heróico rendeu Pátria Portuguesa (1914) e Marcha Triunfal (1954). Foi na dramaturgia, porém, que alcançou grande sucesso: em A Severa (1901) foi baseado o primeiro filme português sonoro, de Leitão de Barros, e A Ceia dos Cardeais, escrita em 1902, tem longa história nos palcos. Escreveu ainda Paços de Veiros (1903) e O Reposteiro Verde (1912). Morreu em Lisboa, em 25 de maio de 1962.

1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer dies (b. 1801). Dutch politician.

1879 - Nancy Astor was born (d. 1964). First woman to sit in British House of Commons.

1880 - Sir Albert Richardson was born (d. 1964). English architect.

1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born (d. 1938). 1st President of Turkey.

1882 - Mohammed Mossadegh was born (d. 1967). Prime Minister of Iran.

1885 - Peter W. Barlow dies (b. 1809). English engineer.

1890 - Mário de Sá Carneiro was born (d. 1916). Portuguese poet. He was one of the greatest poets of Portuguese Modernism. The poet put an end to his life, committing suicide in Paris / Nasce Mário de Sá-Carneiro. Grande poeta, amigo íntimo de Fernando Pessoa [este a propósito de Sá Carneiro disse:«...O Sá-Carneiro não teve biografia: teve génio. O que disse foi o que viveu.»], dado a grandes depressões, deixou, uma obra singular como poeta e ficcionista. Foi com Pessoa um dos fundadores de "Orpheu", que marca o início do Modernismo português.

1890 - Ho Chi Minh was born (d. 1969). Vietnamese leader.

1891 - Oswald Boelcke was born (d. 1916). German World War I pilot.

1895 - José Martí dies (b. 1853). Cuban independence leader.

1896 - Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was born. President of Chile (1958-1964).

1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1897 - Frank Luke was born (d. 1918). American World War I pilot.

1898 - Julius Evola was born (d. 1974). Italian philosopher.

1898 - William Ewart Gladstone dies (b. 1809). British prime minister.

1898 - Guerra de Cuba: o almirante Cervera consegue burlar a vigilância da esquadra norte-americana e chegar na baía de Santiago.

1904 - Auguste Molinier dies (b. 1851). French historian.

1906 - Gerd Bucerius was born (d. 1995). Publisher and publicist.

1906 - João Franco é nomeado chefe do governo. Dá início a um governo ditatorial, que tenta resolver a crise política do regime liberal, provocada pelo sistema rotativista, com uma governação autoritária.

1906 - The Simplon Tunnel was officially opened as the world's longest railroad tunnel. Cutting through the Alps between Italy and Switzerland, it was officially opened by the King of Italy and the president of the Swiss Republic.

1906 - Bruce Bennett was born (d. 2007). American athlete and actor.

1907 - Benjamin Baker dies (b. 1840). English engineer.

1908 - Percy Williams was born (d. 1982). Canadian athlete.

1909 - Nicholas Winton was born. British Humanitarian.

1909 - Isaac Albéniz dies (b. 1860). Spanish composer.

1910 - Alan Melville was born (d. 1983). South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948.

1910 – Nathuram Godse was born. The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.

1912 - Bolesław Prus dies (b. 1847). Polish writer.

1914 – Alex Shibicky was born (d. 2005). Canadian ice hockey player.

1914 - Go Seigen was born. Japanese Go player.

1914 - Max Ferdinand Perutz was born (d. 2002). Austrian-born British biochemist, corecipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his X-ray diffraction analysis of the structure of haemoglobin.

1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick dies (b. 1892). Stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I.

1918 - Abraham Pais was born (d. 2000). Dutch-born American physicist.

1918 - Raoul Lufbery dies (b. 1885). World War I American flying ace.

1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also regarded as a date of remembrance for Pontic Greeks on the Greek genocide.

1921 - The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.

1921 - Daniel Gélin was born (d. 2002). French actor.

1921 - Karel van het Reve was born (d. 1999). Dutch writer.

1921 - Rolando de Sá Nogueira was born (d. 18 Nov. 2002). Portuguese painter.

1921 - Yuri Kochiyama was born. American civil rights activist.

1922 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.

1922 – Joe Gilmore was born. Longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar.

1924 - Sandy Wilson was born. British composer.

1924 - Vasco Morgado was born (d. 22 Nov 1978). Portuguese theatre entrepreneur.

1925 - Guy Provost was born (d. 2004). French Canadian actor.

1925 - Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) was born (d. 21 Feb1965 assassinated). American civil rights activist.

1925 - Pol Pot was born (d. 1998). Khmer Rouge leader.

1926 - Peter Zadek was born. Film and theatre director.

1926 - Swami Kriyananda was born. Spiritual teacher and author.

1928 - Colin Chapman was borm (d. 1982). British automobile founder of Lotus Cars.

1928 - Dolph Schayes was born. American basketball player and coach.

1928 - Max Scheler dies. German philosopher.

1929 - John H. Stroger, Jr. was born. Chicago politician.

1929 - Nascimento no Rio de Janeiro de Johnny Alf (Alfredo José da Silva), considerado precursor da Bossa Nova.

1930 - Lorraine Hansberry was born (d. 1965). American playwright.

1931 - O Grémio Lusitano, sede nacional da Maçonaria portuguesa, é fechado.

1931 - Bob Anderson was born (d. 1967). British racing driver.

1931 - Eric Tappy was born. Swiss tenor.

1932 - The gangster film Scarface: The Shame of a Nation opens at the Rialto Theater in Los Angeles, California.

1932 - Alma Cogan was born (d. 1966). English singer.

1932 - Claude Blanchard was born (d. 2006). Quebec comedian, actor and singer.

1932 - Paul Erdman was born (d. 2007). American economist and author.

1934 - Jim Lehrer was born. American television journalist.

1934 - Ruskin Bond was born. Indian author.

1935 - Xadir N'Diaye was born. Senegalese-American Muslim leader.

1935 - T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") dies (b. 15 Aug 1888). British archaeological scholar, which activity he pursued assiduously from his teens up to the outbreak of WW I. Later he became best known as a military strategist, and author for his legendary war activities in the Middle East during WW I, and for his account of those activities in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1926).

1935 - David Hartman was born. Emmy Award-winning TV host: Good Morning America; actor: Hello Dolly, Lucas Tanner, The Bold Ones Bold Ones.

1935 - T. E. Lawrence dies (b. 1888). English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia.

1937 - Pat Roach was born (d. 2004). English actor and wrestler.

1938 - Madge Hindle was born. English actress.

1938 - Moisés da Costa Amaral was born (d. 1989). East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior.

1939 - Dick Scobee was born (d. 1986). American astronaut.

1939 - James Fox was born. English actor.

1939 - Livio Berruti was born. Italian athlete.

1939 - Nancy Kwan was born. Hong-Kong actress.

1940 - Cáca Diegues (Carlos Diegues) was born in Maceió, Alagoas. Brazilian film and TV director.

1940 - Jan Janssen was born. Dutch cyclist.

1940 - Mickey Newbury was born. American musician.

1940 - Diego Mazquiarán dies (b. 1985). Spanish matador.

1941 - Mário_Sottomayor Cardia was born in Matosinhos. Portuguese essayst and politician, founder of Portuguese Socialist Party.

1941 - Nora Ephron was born. American screenwriter.

1942 - Gary Kildall was born (d. 1994). American computer programmer.

1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk was born. British politician/television presenter.

1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).

1943 - Kristjan Raud dies (b. 1865). Estonian painter.

1944 - Peter Mayhew was born. British actor.

1945 - Pete Townshend was born. English guitarist, lyricist (The Who).

1945 - Philipp Bouhler dies (b. 1889). German nazi leader.

1946 - André the Giant was born (d. 1993). French professional wrestler.

1946 - Claude Lelièvre was born. Belgian commissioner for children's rights.

1946 - Booth Tarkington dies (b. 1869). American novelist.

1947 - David Helfgott was born. Australian pianist.

1947 - Michele Placido was born. Italian actor and director.

1947 - Paul Brady was born. Northern Ireland singer/songwriter.

1948 - Grace Jones was born. Jamaican singer and actress.

1949 - Archie Manning was born. American football player (quarterback).

1949 - Dusty Hill was born. American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top).

1951 – Dick Slater was born. American professional wrestler.

1951 - Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) was born (d. 15 Apr 2001). American musician, vocalist with The Ramones.

1952 - Bert van Marwijk was born. Dutch football manager.

1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min was born (d. 1997). American convicted murderer.

1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan was born. Soviet Armenian finswimmer.

1953 - Victoria Wood was born. British comic actress.

1954 - Phil Rudd was born. Australian drummer (AC/DC).

1954 - Charles Ives dies (b. 1874). American composer.

1954 - Morre Catarina Eufémia, trabalhadora alentejana, numa manifestação contra o Estado Novo.

1955 - James Gosling was born. Canadian computer programmer.

1956 - James Gosling was born. Canadian computer programmer, the "father" of Java programming language.

1956 - Jayme Monjardim Matarazzo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian film director.

1956 - Steven Ford was born. American actor.

1957 - Bill Laimbeer was born. American basketball player and coach.

1958 - Archie Scott-Brown dies (b. 1927). English race car driver.

1958 - Ronald Colman dies (b. 1891). English actor.

1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson was born (d. 1994). Ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim.

1960 - O Real Madrid win their first European Champions Cup.

1960 - Presidente Eisenhower (Estados Unidos) visita Portugal.

1960 - Radio personality Alan Freed — aka The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll — is arrested and charged with 26 counts of commercial bribery as part of the government’s payola investigation.

1960 - Maribel Guardia was born. Costa Rican singer and actress.

1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back data).

1961 - Gregory Poirier was born. American screenwriter and director.

1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. Thirty-four years later, John F. Kennedy, Jr. had actress Drew Barrymore pose as Monroe for the cover of George magazine with the heading "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in honor of then-President Bill Clinton turning 50.

1963 - Filippo Galli was born. Former Italian footballer.

1963 - Yazz was born. British singer.

1964 - Vietnam War: The United States Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team.

1964 - Miloslav Mečíř was born. Slovakian former tennis player.

1964 - Sean Whalen was born. American actor.

1965 - Tui Malila, the oldest living tortoise or living creature ever, dies in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.

1965 - Cecilia Bolocco was born. Chilean Miss Univers 1987.

1966 – Jodi Picoult was born. American writer.

1966 - Marc Bureau was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.

1966 - Polly Walker was born. British actress.

1966 – Sophia Crawford was born. English actress and martial artist

1968 - Kyle Eastwood was born. American actor; son of Clint Eastwood.

1969 - Coleman Hawkins dies (b. 1901). American jazz musician.

1970 - Choi Kyung-Ju was born. South Korean professional golfer.

1970 - Jason Gray-Stanford was born. Canadian actor.

1970 - Mario Dumont was born. Quebec politician (Action démocratique du Québec).

1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.

1971 - Dionicio Castellanos [Psicosis] was born. Mexican professional wrestler.

1971 - Ogden Nash dies (b. 1902). American poet.

1972 - Claudia Karvan was born. Australian actress.

1972 - Jenny Berggren was born. Swedish singer (Ace of Base).

1973 - Dario Franchitti was born. Scottish automobile racer.

1974 - Giscard d'Estaing is elected President of France, defeating socialist François Mitterrand.

1974 - Andrew Johns was born. Australian rugby league footballer.

1975 - Josh Paul was born. American baseball player.

1975 - London Fletcher was born. American football player.

1975 - Masanobu Ando was born. Japanese actor.

1975 - Pretinha was born. Brazilian footballer.

1975 - Stuart Stevenson was born. Scottish musician.

1976 - Ed Cota was born. American basketball player.

1976 - Kevin Garnett was born. American basketball player.

1977 - Brandon Inge was born. American baseball player.

1977 – Kelly Sheridan was born. Canadian voice actress.

1977 - Manuel Almunia was born. Spanish footballer.

1978 - Marcus Bent was born. English footballer.

1979 - Andrea Pirlo was born. Italian footballer.

1979 - Barbara Nedeljakova was born. Slovak actress (Hostel).

1979 - Diego Forlán was born. Uruguayan footballer.

1980 - Nine dead after Mount St Helens eruption: Nine people die following the massive eruption of Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State, USA.

1980 - Drew Fuller was born. American actor/model.

1980 - Tony Hackworth was born. English footballer.

1980 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry wins the presidencial elections in Peru.

1980 - Ian Curtis dies (b. 1956). English musician, Frontman of post-punk band Joy Division.

1981 - Bong Tae-gyu was born. South Korean actor.

1981 - Georges St. Pierre was born. Mixed Martial Arts Fighter.

1981 - Klaas-Erik Zwering was born. Dutch swimmer.

1981 - Luciano Figueroa was born. Argentinian footballer.

1981 - Nate Cole was born. American singer/songwriter (formerly of Plus One, now in Castledoor).

1982 - Kevin Amankwaah was born. English footballer.

1982 - Pål Steffen Andresen was born. Norwegian footballer.

1983 - Eve Angel was born. Hungarian model/porn star.

1983 - Jessica Fox was born. British actress.

1983 - Jean Rey dies (b. 1902). President of the European Commission.

1984 - Marcedes Lewis was born. American football player.

1984 - Jacinto do Prado Coelho dies. Portuguese professor and essayst.

1984 - John Betjeman dies (b. 1906). English poet and Poet Laureate.

1985 - Cavaco Silva é eleito presidente da Comissão Política, no final do 12.º Congresso do PSD, realizado na Figueira da Foz.

1985 - China national football team was eliminated from the preliminary round of FIFA World Cup after being defeated unexpectedly by Hong Kong national football team by 1:2 at Beijing, leading to a local riot by football fans.

1986 - South African troops attack Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana bringing to an end diplomatic efforts to bring a peaceful end to apartheid.

1986 - Eric Lloyd was born. American actor.

1986 - Mario Chalmers was born. NCAA basketball player.

1986 - Jimmy Lyons dies (b. 1931).American musician.

1987 - David Edgar was born. Canadian-born footballer.

1987 – Mariano Torres was born. Argentine footballer.

1987 - James Tiptree, Jr dies (b. 1915). American science fiction author.

1988 - Lily Cole was born. English model and actress.

1989 - CLR James dies (b. 1901). West Indian writer and journalist.

1991 - Croatians vote for independence at their independence referendum.

1991 - Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

1991 - Jordan Pruitt was born. American singer.

1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy dies (b. 1929). First Lady of the United States.

1994 - Luis Ocaña dies (b. 1945). Spanish cyclist.

1998 - Uno Sosuke dies (b. 1922). Japanese prime minister.

1998 - In Fayetteville, Tennessee, three days before graduation, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis allegedly confronts, then shoots dead 18-year-old Nick Creson in the parking lot of his school. This is the latest in a rash of so-called school massacres which took place in the United States during the 1990s.

1999 - Renúncia do primeiro-ministro holandês, Win Kok.

1999 - Rolandas Paksas assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Lituânia.

1999 – Candy Candido dies (b. 1913). American actor.

1999 - James Blades dies (b. 1901). English percussionist.

2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov dies (b. 1933). Russian cosmonaut.

2001 - One child policy: Zhonghua Sun is put to death by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.

2001 - Susannah McCorkle dies (b. 1946). American singer.

2002 - Liberty X went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Just A Little.'

2002 - John Gorton dies (b. 1911). Nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia.

2002 – Walter Lord dies (b. 1917). American writer.

2003 - Erik Zimen dies. Wolf researcher.

2004 - Mary Dresselhuys dies (b. 1907). Dutch actress.

2004 - É atribuido o Prémio Camões 2004 à escritora portuguesa Agustina Bessa-Luís.

2004 - Elvio_Romero dies in Argentina (b. 1926). Paraguayan poet.

2004 - Mary Dresselhuys dies (b. 1907). Dutch actress.

2005 - Canada: Paul Martin's minority government survives a razor thin majority on bill c-48 by 153-152. The budget bill is considered a non-confidence motion. The budget then went on for a third reading, finally being passed on June 28, 2005.

2005 - Henry Corden dies (b. 1921). American actor and voice artist.

2006 - Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink dies (b. 1895). Oldest Dutch citizen.

2006 - Freddie Garrity dies (b. 1940). English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers.

2007 - Dean Eyre dies (b. 1914). New Zealand politician.

2008 - Geared for Giving Campaign launched.

2008 - Vijay Tendulkar dies (b. 1928). Indian playwright.

2009 – Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

2009 – Herbert York dies (b. 1921). American physicist.

2009 – Nicholas Maw dies (b. 1935). British composer.

2009 – Robert F. Furchgott dies (b. 1916). American chemist, Nobel Laureate.

2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran dies (b. 1954). Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

World Hepatitis Day.