Nothingandall: On this day in History

0618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
1250 - Teresa of Portugal dies (b. 1181). Princess, daughter of D. Sancho I
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon dies (b. 1265)
1429 - French forcs, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, crush the English under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. It came to be recognized as the war's turning point.
1464 - Rogier van der Weyden dies. Painter
1629 - Piet Hein (Netherlands) dies (b. 1577). Naval commander and folk hero.
1649 - Juan de Martínez Montañés dies. Spanish sculptor.

1685 - The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.

1704 - Tom Brown, dies (b. 1662). English satirist.

1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas was born (d. 1833). Argentine leader.

1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot dies (b. 1760). French Revolutionary leader

1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1812 - Ivan Goncharov was born (d. 1891). Russian author.

1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time .

1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen was born (d. 1881). German general.

1823 - Em Portugal, foi anulada a Constituição de 1822.

1823 - Jesús Jiménez Zamora was born. President of Costa Rica (1863-1866 and 1868-1870)

1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1769)

1835 - William Cobbett dies (b. 1763). Journalist and author

1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr. was born (d. 1920). Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War.

1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born. French physicist 1907 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.

1845 - José Joaquín de Olmedo assume a presidência do Equador

1849 - António Bernardo da Costa Cabral assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal

1854 - E.W. Scripps was born (d. 1926). American journalist and publisher.

1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.

1861 - Trindade Coelho was born in Mogadouro (d. 18 Aug 1908). Portuguese writer and jurist.

1863 - George Essex Evans was born (d. 1909). Australian poet.

1868 - Miklós Horthy was born (d. 1957). Hungarian admiral and regent.

1872 - Ana Osório was born in Mangualde (d. 23 Mar 1935). Portuguese writer.

1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election

1875 - António Feliciano de Castilho dies. Portuguese poet. /Morreu António Feliciano de Castilho. Poeta e escritor ultra-romântico português (n. 28 Jan 1800).

1877 - James Montgomery Flagg was born (d. 1960). American illustrator.

1882 - Georgi Dimitrov was born (d. 1949). Bulgarian Communist leader.

1884 - Édouard Daladier was born (d. 1970). French Prime-Minister.

1886 - Alexander Wetmore was born (d. 1978). American ornithologist.

1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia

1891 - Mae Busch was born (d. 1946). Australian actress.

1895 - Blanche Sweet was born (d. 1986). American actress.

1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco was born. Spanish supercentenarian.

1896 - First film exibition in Portugal / Realizou-se a primeira exibição cinematográfica em Portugal

1900 - Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova was born (d. 1918)

1901 - Josip Murn - Aleksandrov dies (b. 1879). Slovenian poet.

1902 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1835). English writer

1903 - Jeanette MacDonald was born (d. 1965). American actress and singer.

1903 - Raymond Radiguet was born (d. 1923). French author.

1904 - Keye Luke was born (d. 1991). Chinese-born actor.

1904 - Manuel Rosenthal was born (d. 2003). French conductor and composer.

1906 - Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol is founded

1906 - Helena D'Algy was born. Portuguese actress.

1907 - Frithjof Schuon was born (d. 1998). Swiss metaphysician, poet and painter.

1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship

1908 - Bud Collyer was born (d. 1969). American game show host.

1908 - Nedra Volz was born (d. 2003). American actress.

1908 - Stanley Knowles was born (d. 1997). Canadian politician.

1909 - Willi Kramp was born (d. 1986). Writer.

1910 - E.G. Marshall was born (d. 1998). American actor.

1910 - Ray McKinley was born (d. 1995). American jazz drummer and bandleader.

1910 - Dick Foran was born (d. 1979). American actor.

1913 - Sammy Cahn was born (d. 1993). American composer.

1913 - Sylvia Field Porter was born. American economist and journalist.

1915 - Red Adair was born (d. 2004). American firefighter.

1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala was born (d. 2005). Colombian politician.

1917 - Arthur Tremblay was born (d. 1996). Canadian politician.

1917 - Richard Bopone was born (d. 1981). American actor.

1918 - Jerome Karle was born. American chemist Nobel Prize laureate.

1918 - Franco Modigliani was born (d. 2003). Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1920 - Ian Carmichael was born. English actor.

1921 - Arquimedes da Silva Santos was born in Póvoa de Santa Iria, Vila Franca de Xira. Portuguese poet and physician.

1922 - Claude Helffer was born (d. 2004). French pianist.

1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn dies (b. 1851). Dutch astronomer.

1923 - Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets

1924 - George Mikan was born (d. 2005). American professional basketball player.

1927 - Paul Eddington was born (d. 1995). English actor.

1927 - Eva Bartok was born. Hungarian-born British actress

1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).

1928 - David T. Lykken was born. American scientist.

1928 - Roald Amundsen dies (b. 1872). Explorer.

1929 - Jürgen Habermas was born. German sociologist and philosopher

1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.

1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born. President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002

1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1932 - Geoffrey Hill was born. English poet

1933 - Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do México.

1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama was born (d. 2004). Japanese manga artist.

1935 - Hugh McColl was born. American banker

1935 - John Spencer was born. English snooker player .

1935 - Carlos Ibarguren is elected to President of Argentine Academy of Letters

1936 - Denny Hulme was born (d. 1992). New Zealand race car driver and one-time F1 world champion.

1936 - Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author

1937 - Gaston Doumergue dies (b. 1863). French statesman

1937 - Wray Carlton was born. American football player

1937 - Gail Godwin was born. Author

1937 - Vitali Zholobov was born. Soviet cosmonaut

1938 - Kevin Murray was born. Australian rules footballer

1939 - Jean-Claude Germain was born. French Canadian author, journalist and historian

1939 - Lou Brock was born. American baseball star.

1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle

1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.

1940 - Michael Sheard was born (d. 2005). British actor.

1942 - Sir Paul McCartney was born. English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)

1942 - Hans Vonk was born (d. 2004). Dutch conductor.

1942 - Thabo Mbeki was born. President of South Africa.

1942 - Carl Radle was born (d. 1980). American bass guitarist.

1942 - Roger Ebert was born. American film reviewer.

1942 - Celly Campelo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian rock musician.

1943 - Raffaella Carrà was born. Italian singer.

1944 - Sandy Posey was born. American singer.

1945 - César Maia was born. Brazilian economist and politician.

1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason

1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.

1946 - Russell Ash was born. British author

1946 - Fabio Capello was born. Italian football coach

1946 - Bruiser Brody was born (d. 1988). Professional wrestler.

1946 - Maria Bethânia was born. Brazilian singer.

1946 - Lídia Jorge was born in Boliqueime, Algarve. Portuguese writer.

1949 - Chris Van Allsburg was born. Author and illustrator

1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson was born (d. 1990). Jamaican musician

1949 - Lech Kaczyński was born. Polish president, 2005-present

1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński was born. Polish prime minister, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński

1950 - Jackie Leven [Sir Vincent Lone] was born. Scottish singer and songwriter

1952 - Isabella Rossellini was born. Italian actress.

1952 - Carol Kane was born. American actress.

1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished. Muhammad Aguib is the first President.

1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129

1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.

1955 - Fernando Botto Semedo was born in Lisbon. Portuguese poet.

1956 - Brian Benben was born. American actor.

1956 - Ondina Veloso (Dina) was born in Carregal do Sal. Portuguese singer.

1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina was born. Spanish football manager.

1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.

1959 - Ethel Barrymore dies (b. 1879). Actress

1960 - Ralph Brown was born. British actor

1961 - Alison Moyet was born. English pop singer

1961 - Andrés Galarraga was born. Venezuelan baseball player

1963 - Bruce Smith was born. American football player.

1963 - Dizzy Reed [Darren Arthur Reed] was born. American keyboardist for (former) Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver

1963 - Pedro Armendáriz dies. mexican actor.

1964 - Uday Hussein was born (d. 2003) Iraqi leader.

1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam

1966 - Kurt Browning was born. Canadian figure skater

1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius was born. Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)

1969 - Vito LoGrasso was born. American professional wrestler

1969 - Christopher Largen was born. American author

1971 - Nathan Morris was born. American singer (Boyz II Men)

1971 - Jason McAteer was born. England-born Irish footballer

1971 - Paul Karrer dies (b. 1889). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1972 - Michal Yannai was born. Israeli actress and model.

1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou was born. Greek hammer thrower.

1973 - Eddie Cibrian was born. American actor.

1973 - Julie Depardieu was born. French actress.

1973 - Roger Delgado dies (b. 1918). Actor.

1974 - Vincenzo Montella was born. Italian footballer.

1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko was born. Latvian footballer.

1975 - Daron Malakian was born. Rock musician.

1975 - Jemma Griffiths was born. Welsh singer-songwriter.

1975 - Jamel Debbouze was born. French actor and producer.

1975 - Maria João Bastos was born. Portuguese actress.

1975 - Marie Gillain was born. Belgian actress.

1975 - Martin St. Louis was born. Canadian hockey player.

1976 - Alana de la Garza was born. American actress.

1976 - Witte Wartena was born. Dutch artist.

1976 - Blake Shelton was born. American country singer.

1976 - Wellington Mello was born in Recife. Brazilian poet.

1978 - Wang Liqin was born. Chinese table tennis player.

1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1979 - Milene Domingues was born. Brazilian footballer and model.

1980 - Antonio Gates was born. American football player.

1980 - Craig Mottram was born. Australian middle distance runner.

1980 - Ivana Wong was born. Hong Kong singer and songwriter.

1980 - Tara Platt was born. American actress.

1980 - Kazimierz Kuratowski dies (b. 1896). Polish mathematician.

1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.

1981 - Teresa Cormack was born (d. 1987). New Zealand murder victim.

1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen was born. Member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

1982 - Sean Conant was born. Irish-American artist.

1982 - John Cheever dies (b. 1912). Author.

1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

1984 - Major clash between about 5,000 Police and a similar number of Miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire during the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave

1984 - Fernanda Souza was born. Brazilian actress.

1984 - Janne Happonen was born. Finnish skijumper

1984 - Mateus was born. Angolan footballer

1984 - Alan Berg dies murdered. Radio talk show host.

1986 - Richard Gasquet was born. French tennis player.

1989 - Giscard d'Estaing (França) é eleito para o Parlamento Europeu.

1989 - Renee Olstead was born. American singer and actress

1991 - Willa Holland was born. American actress

1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.

1999 - A global Carnival Against Capitalism.

2000 - Nancy Marchand dies (b. 1928). American actress.

2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.