On this day in History - Jun 16
- 0656 - 'Uthman ibn 'Affan dies. He was the third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. He was also the first man of high social and economic standing to convert to Islam.
- 1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan was born (d. 1155).
- 1161 - Pope Innocent III was born (d. 1216).
- 1215 - King John sealed the Magna Carta.
- 1216 - Pope Innocent III dies.
- 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio was born (d. 1375). Italian writer.
- 1332 - Isabella de Coucy was born (d. 1382). English princess.
- 1373 - Ratificação do Tratado de Tajilde, entre D. Fernando e Eduardo III de Inglaterra, em que o rei de Portugal se compromete a apoiar o rei inglês contra Henrique II de Castela.
- 1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu dies (b. 1358). French soldier.
- 1464 - Roger van der Weyden dies (b. 1399). Flemish painter.
- 1468 - Jean Le Fevre dies (b. ca. 1395). Burgundian chronicler.
- 1514 - John Cheke was born (d. 1557). English classical scholar.
- 1583 - Axel Oxenstierna was born (d. 1654). Swedish statesman.
- 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
- 1591 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo was born (d. 1655). Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist.
- 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall was born (d. 1675). Irish soldier.
- 1612 – Murad IV was born (d. 1640). Ottoman Sultan.
- 1613 - John Cleveland was born (d. 1658). English poet.
- 1620 - Carlo Saraceni (or Sarucini) dies (b. 1580). Venetian Baroque era painter (Madonna and Child with Saint Anne ; Saint Cecilia and the Angel ).
- 1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline dies (b. ca. 1555). Chancellor of Scotland.
- 1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel dies (b. 1599). German Protestant military leader.
- 1626 - Christian the Younger dies (b. 1599). Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander.
- 1633 - Jean de Thévenot was born (d. 1667). French traveler and scientist.
- 1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart was born (d. 1670). Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans.
- 1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates.
- 1666 - Richard Fanshawe dies (b. 1608). English poet, translator and diplomat.
- 1671 - Stenka Razin dies executed (b. ca. 1630). Cossack rebel leader.
- 1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, dies (b. 1625). Sovereign princess of Neuchatel, best known for her Mémoires.
- 1713 - Meshech Weare was born (d. 1786). Governor of New Hampshire.
- 1716 - The first volume of Alexander Pope's* translation of the lliad is published. Admonishes classical scholar Richard Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer."
- 1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough dies (b. 1650). English general.
- 1723 - Adam Smith, date of baptisme (d. 1790). Scottish philosopher and economist.
- 1735 - Michel Nicolas Bernard Lépicié was born (d. 14 Sep 1784). French painter, draftsman, and professor (A mother feeding her child).
- 1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard was born (d. 1816). American printer and publisher.
- 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini dies (b. 1672). Italian trader.
- 1752 - Giulio Alberoni dies (b. 1664). Spanish cardinal.
- 1752 - Joseph Butler dies (b. 1692). English philosopher.
- 1754 – Salawat Yulayev was born (d. 1800). Bashkir poet.
- 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1775 - Começo da construção da Igreja da Candelária, no Rio de Janeiro.
- 1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset dies (b. 1709). French poet and dramatist.
- 1778 - Konrad Ekhof dies (b. 1720). German actor.
- 1779 - Sir Francis Bernard dies (b. 1712). Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
- 1792 - John Linnell was born (d. 1882). English artist.
- 1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell was born (d. 1855). Australian explorer.
- 1801 - Julius Plücker was born (d. 22 May 1868). German mathematician and physicist.
- 1804 - Johann Hiller dies (b. 1728). German composer.
- 1806 - Edward Davy was born (d. 1885). English physician, chemist, and inventor.
- 1813 - Otto Jahn was born (d. 1869). German archaeologist.
- 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas dies (b. 1759). Statesman and financier.
- 1820 - Athanase Coquerel was born (d. 1875). French protestant preacher.
- 1821 – Old Tom Morris was born (d. 1908). Scottish golfer.
- 1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance dies b. 1739). Third Consul of France.
- 1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen was born (d. 1897). Austrian geologist and botanist.
- 1829 - Geronimo was born (d. 1909). Apache warrior and leader.
- 1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement.
- 1836 - Wesley Merritt was born (d. 1910). American soldier.
- 1837 - Ernst Laas was born (d. 1885). German philosopher.
- 1838 - Cushman Davis was born (d. 1900). American politician.
- 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick was born (d. 1913). German engineer.
- 1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferreti becomes Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
- 1848 - Ludwig II dies (b. 1777). Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt.
- 1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette dies (b. 1780). German theologian.
- 1855 - John Gorrie dies (b. 1803). American physician, early pioneer in refrigeration.
- 1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1858 - John Snow dies (b. 1803). English obstetrician.
- 1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden was born (d. 1950) .
- 1863 - Arturo Michelena was born. Venezuelan artist.
- 1866 - Auguste Barthelemy dies (b. 1796). French satirical poet.
- 1866 - Joseph Méry dies (b. 1798). French poet.
- 1869 - Charles Sturt dies (b. 1795). English explorer (b. 1795).
- 1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
- 1872 - Norman MacCleod dies (b. 1812).Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria.
- 1874 - Arthur Meighen was born (d. 1960). Ninth Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1878 - Crawford Long dies (b. 1815). American physician.
- 1880 - Otto Eisenschiml was born (d. 1963). Austrian-American chemist and historian.
- 1881 - Natalya Sergeyevna Goncharova was born (d. 17 Oct 1962). Russian French Cubist painter, stage designer, printmaker, and illustrator [ Green and Yellow Forest (1912); Cats (1913); Stage set design for act 1 of the opera-ballet Le coq d'or (1914); Stage Design for Act I of the ballet Chota Roustaveli (1946)].
- 1881 - Marie Laveau dies (b. 1801). American Voodoo practitioner.
- 1881 - Sir Josiah Mason dies (b. 1795). English pen-manufacturer.
- 1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen dies (b. 1818). German painter.
- 1888 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman was born (d. 1925). Russian physicist.
- 1888 - Peter Stoner was born (d. 1980. American mathematician and astronomer.
- 1890 - Stan Laurel was born (d. 1965). American actor and comedian (Laurel & Hardy).
- 1894 - Norman Kerry was born (d. 1956). American actor.
- 1894 - William Calder Marshall dies (b. 1813). Scottish sculptor.
- 1896 - Murray Leinster was born (d. 1976). American author.
- 1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1897 - Elaine Hammerstein was born (d. 1948). American actress.
- 1897 - Georg Wittig was born (d. 26 Aug 1987). German chemist, whose studies of organic phosphorus compounds won him a share (with Herbert C. Brown) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979.
- 1900 - Prince François dies (b. 1818). Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France.
- 1902 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
- 1902 - Barbara McClintock was born (d 1992). American geneticist, Nobel laureate.
- 1902 - George Gaylord Simpson was born (d. 1984). American paleontologist.
- 1902 - Ernst Schröder dies (b. 1841). German mathematician.
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company incorporates.
- 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1903 - Pepsi Cola company formed.
- 1903 - Helen Traubel was born (d. 1972). American soprano.
- 1903 - Huldreich Georg Früh was born (d. 1945). Swiss composer.
- 1904 - Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; traditionally "Bloomsday".
- 1907 - Jack Albertson was born (d. 1981). American actor.
- 1909 - Archie Fairley Carr was born (d.1987). American biologist.
- 1910 - O Castelo de S. Jorge, em Lisboa, foi declarado monumento nacional.
- 1910 - Juan Velasco was born (d. 1977). President of Peru from 1968 to 1975.
- 1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1911 - The City of Fez, Morocco, is occupied by the French army.
- 1911 - Paulo Gracindo (Pelópidas Guimarães Brandão Gracindo) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
- 1912 - Enoch Powell was born (d. 1998). British politician.
- 1912 - Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
- 1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born (d. 1956). Athlete.
- 1915 - The Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
- 1915 - John Tukey was born (d. 2000). American statistician.
- 1916 - Hank Luisetti was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.
- 1917 - Aurelio Lampredi was born (d. 1989). Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari).
- 1917 - Irving Penn was born. American photographer.
- 1917 - Katharine Graham was born (d. 2001). Washington Post publisher.
- 1920 - John Howard Griffin was born (d. 1980). Americasn writer.
- 1920 - José López Portillo was born (d. 2004). President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
- 1920 - Raymond U. Lemieux was born (d. 2002). Canadian scientist.
- 1920 - Giovanni Giolitti assume (pela 5º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Itália.
- 1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.
- 1923 - Ron Flockhart was born (d. 1962). Scottish racing driver.
- 1924 - The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- 1924 - Faith Domergue was born (d. 1999). American actor.
- 1925 - Chittaranjan Das dies (b. 1870). Indian patriot and freedom fighter.
- 1925 - Emmett Hardy dies (b. 1903). American musician.
- 1927 - Ariano Suassuna was born in João Pessoa. Brazilian dramatist and poet.
- 1927 - Tom Graveney was born. English cricketer.
- 1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld was born (d. 2001). German author and playwright.
- 1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel dies (b. 1867). County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928.
- 1929 - Ramon Bieri was born (d. 2001). American actor.
- 1929 - Bramwell Booth dies (b. 1856). 2nd General of The Salvation Army.
- 1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond was born. Hungharian-American cinematographer.
- 1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies (b. 1860). American inventor.
- 1930 - Ezra Fitch dies (b. 1866). Abercrombie & Fitch founder.
- 1934 - Roger Neilson was born (d. 2003). Canadian ice hockey coach.
- 1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe was born. American economist, Nobel laureate.
- 1934 - Elvira Vinogradova was born. Russian TV persona.
- 1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins was born. English actress.
- 1935 - Jim Dine was born. American artist.
- 1937 - Erich Segal was born. American author.
- 1937 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born. Tsar of Bulgaria.
- 1938 - James Bolam was born. English actor.
- 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates was born. American novelist.
- 1938 - Torgny Lindgren was born. Swedish writer.
- 1939 - Billy Crash Craddock was born. American country singer.
- 1939 - Chick Webb dies (b. 1905). American jazz drummer and big band leader.
- 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France.
- 1940 - Neil Goldschmidt was born. Governor of Oregon.
- 1940 - DuBose Heyward dies (b. 1885). American writer.
- 1941 - Lamont Dozier was born. American record company executive.
- 1941 - Mumtaz Hamid Rao was born. Pakistani journalist.
- 1942 - Giacomo Agostini was born. Italian motorcyclist.
- 1942 - Eddie Levert was brn. American singer (The O'Jays).
- 1943 - João Miguel Jorge was born in Bombarral. Portuguese poet.
- 1943 - Joan Van Ark ws born. American actress.
- 1944 - Marc Bloch dies executed (b. 1886). French historian.
- 1945 - Ivan Lins (Ivan Guimarães Lins) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer: Brazilian Popular Music (MPB).
- 1945 - Claire Alexander was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1945 - Lucienne Robillard was born. Canadian politician.
- 1945 – Aris Velouchiotis dies (b. 1905). Greek guerrilla resistance leader.
- 1946 - Derek Sanderson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1947 - -minu was born. Swiss columnist and writer.
- 1947 - Proclamada a independência da Birmânia.
- 1948 - The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
- 1948 - Ron LeFlore was born. American baseball player.
- 1949 - Paulo César Lima was born. Brazilian football player.
- 1950 -Inauguração do Estádio do Maracanã, no Brasil, começado a construir em 02 Ago 1948.
- 1951 - Roberto Durán was born. Panamanian boxer.
- 1951 - Sonia Braga was born in Maringá-Pernambuco. Brazilian actress (Gabriela, D. Flor e os seus dois maridos...)
- 1952 - Michel Blanc was born. French actor.
- 1952 - George Papandreou was born. Greek politician.
- 1952 - Gino Vannelli was born. Canadian singer and songwriter (Living Inside Myself).
- 1952 - Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in My Little Margie which debuted on CBS-TV on this day.
- 1952 - Andrew Lawson dies (b. 1861). Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault.
- 1953 - Ian Mosley was born. British drummer (Marillion).
- 1953 - Valerie Mahaffey was born. American actress.
- 1953 - Margaret Bondfield dies (b. 1873). English politician and feminist.
- 1954 - FIFA World Cup begins in Switzerland.
- 1954 - Luísa Costa Gomes was born. Portuguese writer.
- 1955 - Laurie Metcalf was born. American actress.
- 1955 - Ozias Leduc dies (b. 1864). Quebec painter.
- 1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath.
- 1957 - Jordanian embassy in Cairo is closed.
- 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- 1958 - Jóhannes Helgason was born. Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr).
- 1958 - Ulrike Tauber was born. East German swimmer.
- 1958 - Imre Nagy dies (b. 1895). Former Premier of Hungary and symbol of the nation's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, is hanged for treason by his country's communist authorities.
- 1959 - Warrior was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1959 - George Reeves dies (b. 1914). Aerican actor who played Superman.
- 1960 - Peter Sterling was born. Australian rugby league footballer.
- 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
- 1961 - Steve Larmer was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1961 - Marcel Junod dies (b. 1904). Swiss physician.
- 1962 - Anthony Wong Yiu Ming was born. Hong Kong composer and producer.
- 1962 - Arnold Vosloo was born. South African actor.
- 1962 - Femi Kuti was born. Nigerian Afrobeat musician.
- 1962 - Wally Joyner was born. American baseball player.
- 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1963 - Jim Fullington was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1963 - Scott Alexander was born. American screenwriter.
- 1966 - The Miranda rights are established. The Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation.
- 1966 - Adrienne Shelly as born (d. 2006). American actress, director and screenwriter.
- 1966 - Jan Železný was born. Czech athlete.
- 1967 – The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival begins in Monterey, California.
- 1967 - Monterey Pop Festival begins in Monterey, California.
- 1967 - John Franklin was born. America actor.
- 1969 - Mark Crossley was born. Welsh footballer.
- 1969 - Harold Alexander dies (b. 1891). British military commander.
- 1970 - Clifton Collins Jr. was born. American actor.
- 1970 - Cobi Jones was born. American soccer player.
- 1970 - Phil Mickelson was born. American golfer.
- 1970 - Brian Piccolo dies (b. 1943). American football player.
- 1970 - Heino Eller dies (b. 1887). Estonian composer.
- 1971 - An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, was recovered in New York City by the FBI.
- 1971 - Derek R. Audette was born. Canadian artist and poet.
- 1971 - Chris Gomez was born. American baseball player.
- 1971 - Tupac Shakur was born (d. 1996). American rapper.
- 1971 - Lord Reith dies (b. 1889). British broadcast executive.
- 1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.
- 1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.
- 1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.
- 1972 - John Cho was born. Korean-American actor.
- 1972 - Simon Khan was born. English golfer.
- 1972 - Ann Shoket was born. American magazine editor.
- 1973 - Em Portugal, Espinho foi elevada a cidade.
- 1973 - Nikos Machlas was born. Greek footballer.
- 1976 - Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
- 1976 - Edwin Tenorio was born. Ecuadorian footballer.
- 1976 - Hector Pieterson dies. One of the first children (566 in all) killed during the Soweto Uprising.
- 1976 - Em Portugal é publicado o decreto-lei que poíbe o homem de abrir a correspondência da mulher.
- 1977 - Oracle Corporation was incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
- 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR.
- 1977 - Kerry Wood was born. Baseball pitcher.
- 1977 - Wernher von Braun dies (b. 23 Mar 1912). German-born American engineer who played a prominent role in all aspects of rocketry and space exploration.
- 1978 - Dainius Zubrus was born. Lithuanian ice hockey player.
- 1978 - Daniel Brühl was born. German actor.
- 1978 - Jasmine Leong was born. Chinese Malaysian singer.
- 1979 - Lyndsey Marshal was born. British film/stage/television actress.
- 1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong dies (b. 1931). Ghanaian dictator.
- 1979 - Vernon Presley dies (b.1916). Father of Elvis Presley.
- 1979 - Nicholas Ray dies (b. 1911). American film director.
- 1980 - Brad Gushue was born. Canadian curler.
- 1980 - Brandon Armstrong was born. American basketball player.
- 1980 - Daré Nibombé was born. Togolese footballer.
- 1980 - Joey Yung was born. Hong Kong singer.
- 1980 - Martin Stranzl was born. Austrian footballer.
- 1980 - Nehir Erdoğan was born. Turkish actress
- 1980 – Phil Christophers was born. German rugby player.
- 1981 - Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis.
- 1981 - Ben Kweller was born. American singer/songwriter.
- 1981 - Benjamin Becker was born. German tennis player.
- 1981 - Kevin Bieksa was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1981 - Miguel Villalta was born. Peruvian footballer.
- 1981 - Jule Gregory Charney dies (b. 1917). American meteorologist.
- 1982 – Chris Wingert was born. American footballer.
- 1982 – Fraser Cartmell was born. British triathlete.
- 1982 – Jodi Santamaria was born. Filipina actress.
- 1982 – Matt Costa was born.American singer/songwriter
- 1982 - May Andersen was born. Danish supermodel.
- 1982 - Missy Peregrym was born. Canadian actress.
- 1982 - James Honeyman-Scott dies (b. 1956). English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders).
- 1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR.
- 1983 - Armend Dallku was born. Albanian footballer.
- 1984 – Jonathan Broxton was born. American baseball player.
- 1984 - Rick Nash was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
- 1984 - Steven Whittaker was born. Scottish footballer.
- 1984 - Lew Andreas dies (b 1895). American basketball coach.
- 1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis, IN. Banks broke the record that had been set by Brazil’s Joao Oliveira in 1975.
- 1986 - Farhad Reza was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
- 1986 - Fernando Muslera was born. Uruguayan footballer.
- 1986 - Robert Rothbart was born. Bosnian-Israeli basketball player.
- 1986 - Rodrigo Defendi was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1986 - Urby Emanuelson was born. Dutch footballer.
- 1986 - Maurice Duruflé dies (b. 1902). French composer and organist.
- 1987 – Abby Elliott was born. American comedienne.
- 1987 – Christian Tshimanga Kabeya was born. Belgian footballer.
- 1987 - Diana DeGarmo was born. American singer.
- 1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred was born. Norwegian footballer.
- 1988 - Keshia Chante was born. Canadian singer.
- 1988 - Leeland Dayton Mooring was born. American musician (Leeland).
- 1988 - Kim Milford dies (b. 1951). Actor.
- 1988 - Marinó Sigurðsson was born. Iceland actor/director.
- 1988 - Miguel Piñero dies (b. 1946). Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
- 1989 – Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
- 1989 – Elena Glebova was born. Estonian figure skater.
- 1990 - Megan Leigh dies (b. 1964). American porn star.
- 1991 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of Russian SSR.
- 1991 - Joe McElderry was born. X Factor Winner 2009.
- 1993 - Lindsay Hassett dies (b. 1913) Australian cricketer.
- 1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160.
- 1994 – Aarya Ambekar was born. Marathi singer.
- 1994 - Kristen Pfaff dies (b. 1967). American bass guitarist (Hole).
- 1996 - David Mourão-Ferreira dies in Lisbon (b. 24 Fev 1927). Portuguese poet.
- 1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election.
- 1996 - Mel Allen dies (b. 1913). American baseball announcer.
- 1996 - Curt Swan dies (b. 1920). American comic book artist.
- 1997 - The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
- 1997 – Dal Stivens dies (b. 1911). Australian author.
- 1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa succeeding Nelson Mandela.
- 1999 - Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey's 9.84.
- 1999 - David Edward Sutch dies (b. 1940). British musician.
- 2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdrew from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
- 2000 - Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan dies (b. 1903). Consort of Emperor Hirohito.
- 2002 - Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
- 2003 - The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
- 2003 - Enrico Baj dies. Italian avantgarde artist.
- 2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright dies (b. 1916). Finnish-Swedish philosopher.
- 2003 – Pierre Bourgault dies (b. 1934). French Canadian politician.
- 2004 - Portugal vence em Lisboa a Rússia por 2-0 para o Campeonato da Europa de Futebol (Euro 2004). Para o mesmo grupo a Espanha empata com a Grécia 1-1.
- 2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn dies (b. 1912). Prime Minister of Thailand.
- 2005 - Corino de Andrade dies (b. 1906). Portuguese humanist and neurologist.
- 2005 – Enrique Laguerre dies (b. 1906). Puerto Rican writer.
- 2006 - Igor Śmiałowski dies (b.1917). Polish actor.
- 2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi dies (b. 1942). Iranian archaeologist.
- 2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani dies (b. 1931).
- 2006 – Igor Śmiałowski dies (b. 1917). Polish actor.
- 2007 – Mikhail Kononov dies (b. 1940). Soviet actor.
- 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern dies (b. 1921). Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor.
- 2008 – Tom Compernolle dies (b. 1975). Belgian athlete.
- Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers; Saint Benno; Saint Julitta and Saint Quiricus; Saint Lutgart of Tongeren (died 1246, patron saint of the Flemish National Movement).
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