Nothingandall: On this day in History

469 B.C - Socrates was born. Greek philosopher.
0070 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
0535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople dies. Patriarch of Constantinople.
1017 - Sanjo dies (b. 0976). Emperor of Japan.
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester dies.
1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights.
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, dies (b. 1245).
1305 - Pope Clement V elected.
1316 - King Louis X of France dies (b. 1289).
1341 - Edmund of Langley was born (d. 1402). A younger son of King Edward III of England.
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich dies (b. 1324), Russian prince.
1443 - Fernando de Portugal dies in Fez (b. 1442). Portuguese Prince (Infante Santo).
1493 - Justus Jonas was born (d. 1555). German protestant reformer.
1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry was born (d. 1573).
1553 - Bernardino Baldi was born (d. 1617). Italian mathematician.
1554 - Elisabeth of Austria was born (d. 1592). Queen consort of France.
1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont dies (b. 1522). Flemish general and statesman.
1625 - Orlando Gibbons dies (b. 1583). English composer.
1640 - Pu Songling was born (d. 1715). Chinese writer.
1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia was born (d. 1684). Italian mathematician.
1656 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was born (d. 1708). French botanist.
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough was born (d. 1744).
1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino dies (b. 1607). Italian cardinal and historian.
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon dies (b. 1667). Greek adventurer.

1716 - Roger Cotes dies (b. 1682). English mathematician.

1718 - Thomas Chippendale was born (d. 1779). English furniture maker.

1722 - Johann Kuhnau dies (b. 1660). German composer, organist, and harpsichordist.

1723 - Adam Smith was born (d. 17 Jul 1790). Scottish economist. (An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations).

1729 - Cláudio Manoel da Costa (Glauceste Satúrnio) was born in Vila do Ribeirão do Carmo, today Mariana (MG) (d. suicide in Ouro Preto (MG), 4 Jul 1789). Brazilian poet and politician.

1738 - Isaac de Beausobre dies (b. 1659). French protestant pastor.

1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis was born (d. 1808). French physiologist.

1760 - Johan Gadolin was born (d. 1852). Finnish scientist.

1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover was born (d. 1851)

1781 - Christian August Lobeck was born (d. 1860). German classical scholar.

1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

1791 - Frederick Haldimand dies (b. 1718). Swiss-born British colonial governor.

1798 - Battle of New Ross, attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster defeated.

1816 - Giovanni Paisiello dies (b. 1741). Italian composer.

1817 - The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

1819 - John Couch Adams was born (d. 1892). English mathematician and astronomer.

1825 - Odysseas Androutsos dies. Hero in the Greek War of Independence.

1826 - Carl Maria von Weber dies (b. 1786). German composer.

1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

1832 - The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.

1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.

1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

1850 - Pat Garrett was born (d. 1908). American Western lawman.

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the owly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

1852 - Portugal - Promulgação do Acto Adicional à Carta Constitucional de 1826. O Acto tentou pôr termo à divisão entre cartistas e setembristas, tornando a carta aceitável por todos os partidos.

1862 - Allvar Gullstrand was born. Swedish oftalmologist. 1911 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont - Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

1866 - Carlos Maia Pinto was born (d. 1932). Portuguese military and politician.

1866 - John McDouall Stuart dies (b. 1815). Australian explorer.

1868 - James Connolly was born (d. 1916). Irish socialist.

1868 - António Peregrino Maciel Monteiro dies (b. 30 Apr 1804). Brazilian poet.

1873 - Urbano Ratazzi dies. Prime-Minister of Italy (1862 and 1867).

1876 - Tony Jackson was born (d. 1920). American musician.

1878 - Pancho Villa was born (d. 1923). Mexican revolutionary.

1879 – René Pottier was born (d. 1907). French cyclist.

1879 - Robert Mayer was born (d. 1985). German-born philanthropist.

1883 - John Maynard Keynes was born (d. 21 Apr 1946). English economist.

1884 - Ralph Benatzky was born (d. 1957). Czech composer.

1887 - Ruth Benedict was born. Anthropologist.

1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888: Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5 Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.

1890 - Ernesto Canto da Maia was born. Portuguese sculptor.

1894 - Roy Thomson was born (d. 1976). Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher.

1895 - William Boyd was born (d. 1972). American actor (Hopalong Cassidy)

1898 - Federico García Lorca was born (d. 1936). Spanish lyricist and dramatist.

1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo was born (d. 1960). Italian shoemaker.

1899 – Otis Barton was born (d. 1992). American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.

1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa.

1900 - Dennis Gabor was born (d. 1979). Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1900 - Stephen Crane dies (b. 1871). American author.

1902 - Louis J. Weichmann dies (b. 1842) . Chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

1905 – Jock Cameron was born (d. 1935). South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936.

1905 - John Abbott was born (d. 1996). British actor.

1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann dies (b. 1842). German philosopher.

1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

1910 - O. Henry dies (b. 1862). American author.

1912 – Dean Amadon was born (d. 2003). American ornithologist.

1912 - Josef Neckermann was born (d. 1992). Entrepreneur and dressage equestrian.

1913 - Chris von der Ahe dies (b. 1851). German-American baseball pioneer.

1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

1916 - Horatio Kitchener dies (b. 1850). Lord Kitchener, British field marshal.

1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1917 - Pinheiro de Azevedo was born (d. 1983). Prime-Minister of Portugal (1975-1976).

1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

1919 - Richard Scarry was born (d. 1994). American children's author.

1919 - Manuel Franco dies. Paraguayan President. José Pedro Montero Candia succeeds him.

1920 - Cornelius Ryan was born (d. 1974). Irish-American author.

1920 - Rhoda Broughton dies (b. 1840). Welsh author.

1921 - Georges Feydeau dies (b. 1862). French playwright.

1923 - Daniel Pinkham was born (d. 2006). American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.

1923 - Jorge Daponte was born (d. 1963). Argentine racing driver.

1924 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).

1925 - Art Donovan was born (d. 2006). American football star.

1925 - Boy Gobert was born (d. 1986). Actor.

1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.

1928 – Robert Lansing was born (d. 1994). American actor.

1928 - Tony Richardson was born (d. 14 Nov 1991). British actor and Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire.

1930 - Alifa Rifaat was born (d. 1996). Egyptian writer.

1930 - Pascin dies (b. 1885). Bulgarian painter.

1931 - Jacques Demy was born. French playwright.

1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk was born. Polish philosopher, antroposopher.

1932 - Christy Brown was born (d. 1981). Irish author.

1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.

1934 - Bill Moyers was born. American journalist.

1936 – Connie Hines was born. American actress.

1938 - Karin Balzer was born. East German hurdler.

1939 - Joe Clark was born. Sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada.

1939 - Margaret Drabble was born. English novelist.

1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

1941 – Erasmo Carlos was born. Brazilian singer and songwriter.

1941 - Martha Argerich was born. Argentine pianist.

1941 – Robert Kraft was born. American owner of the New England Patriots.

1941 - Spalding Gray was born (d. 2004). American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist

1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was born. Equatoguinean politician.

1942 - Samuel Adams dies (b. 1912). American naval officer.

1943 - Matthew Lesko was born. American author.

1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

1944 - World War II: The two largest invasion fleets heretofore in history sailed that morning on opposite sides of the world. Most of the ship were United States flagged vessels.

1944 - World War II: Rome liberated by the Allies

1944 – Colm Wilkinson was born. Irish singer.

1944 - Tommie Smith was born. American athlete.

1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

1945 - John Carlos was born. American Athlete.

1945 - Patrick Head was born. British engineer.

1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago kills 61 people.

1946 - Freddie Stone was born. American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone).

1946 - John Bach was born. Welsh actor.

1946 - Wanderléa was born. Brazilian singer.

1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

1947 - David Hare was born. English dramatist and playwright.

1947 - Laurie Anderson was born. American performance artist, actress, composer.

1947 - Tom Evans was born (d. 1983). Pop musician (Badfinger).

1949 - Ken Follett was born. Welsh author.

1950 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. was born (d. 1977). Filipino journalist & political activist.

1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder was born. American television host and author.

1950 - Ronnie Dyson was born (d. 1990). American singer and actor.

1951 - Suze Orman was born. American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.

1952 - Carole Fredericks was born (d. 2001). American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones).

1952 – Daniel Katzen was born. American classical musician.

1953 – Kathleen Kennedy was born. American film producer.

1954 – Haluk Bilginer was born. Turkish actor.

1954 - Nicko McBrain was born. English musician (Iron Maiden).

1954 - The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.

1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho was born. Brazilian football player.

1955 - Régis Jauffret was born. French dramatist and writer.

1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1956 - Kenny G. was born. American saxophonist.

1956 - Richard Butler was born. English singer (The Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love), painter and writer.

1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi was born. President of the Comoros.

1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

1959 – Robert Lloyd was born. English musician (The Nightingales).

1960 – Leslie Hendrix was born. American actress.

1960 – Margo Lanagan was born. Australian author.

1961 - Anthony Burger was born. American musician and singer.

1961 - Mary Kay Bergman was born (d. 1999). American voice actress (Beauty and the Beast, South Park).

1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium was born.

1962 - Jeff Garlin was born. American comedian.

1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.

1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.

1963 - Joe Rudán was born. Hungarian heavy metal singer.

1964 - Karl Sanders was born. Vocalist/guitar virtuoso and founding member of the Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile.

1964 - Manuel de Oliveira Guerra dies in Porto (b. 24 Aug 1905 in Oliveira de Azeméis). Portuguese poet.

1965 - Sandrine Piau was born. French soprano.

1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

1967 - Joe DeLoach was born. American athlete.

1967 - Ray Lankford was born. American baseball player.

1967 - Ron Livingston was born. American actor.

1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan and died the next day.

1968 - Ron Livingston was born. American actor.

1969 - The University of Texas at San Antonio is established.

1969 - The International communist conference begins in Moscow.

1969 - Brian McKnight was born. American musician.

1969 - Jack Kerouac dies. American writer.

1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1970 - Martin Gelinas was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark") was born. American singer and actor.

1971 - Susan Lynch was born. Northern Irish actress.

1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi was born. Japanese racing driver.

1972 - Basia Milewicz was born. Polish model.

1972 - Chuck Klosterman was born. American journalist.

1972 - Mike Bucci was born. American professional wrestler.

1972 - Pavel Kotla was born. Polish conductor.

1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw was born. Swedish musician and songwriter.

1973 – Gella Vandecaveye was born. Belgian judoka.

1973 - Lamon Brewster was born. American boxer.

1974 - Aaron Charles Wills, aka "P-Nut", was born. American musician.

1974 - Chad Allen was born. American actor.

1974 - Russ Ortiz was born. American baseball player.

1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC

1975 - Anna Nova was born. German erotic actress.

1975 – Sandra Stals was born. Belgian athlete.

1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas was born. NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers).

1975 - Paul Keres dies (b. 1916). Estonian chess player.

1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States of America.

1976 – Jack Ross was born. Scottish footballer.

1976 - Ross Noble was born. English comedian.

1976 – Torry Holt was born. American football player.

1976 - Carlos Mastroiani dies. Argentine writer.

1976 - No Uruguai o presidente Juan Maria-Bordaberry é deposto pelas forças armadas

1976 - Violet Wilkey dies (b. 1903). American actress.

1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.

1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.

1977 - Christian Martucci was born. American musician.

1977 – Kristin Gore was born. American author and screenwriter.

1977 – Liza Weil was born. American actress.

1977 – Navi Rawat was born. American actress.

1977 - Nourhanne was born. Lebanese singer.

1978 - Fernando Meira was born. Portuguese footballer.

1979 - David Bisbal was born. Spanish singer.

1979 - Fraser Watts was born. Scottish cricketer.

1979 - Jason White was born. American NASCAR driver.

1979 - Pete Wentz was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy).

1979 - Heinz Erhardt dies (b. 1909). German comedian.

1980 – Mike Fisher was born. Canadian Ice Hockey Player (Ottawa Senators).

1980 – Sutee Suksomkit was born. Thai football player.

1980 - Yasser Latif Hamdani was born. Pakistani constitutional lawyer.

1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).

1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1981 – Jade Goody was born (d. 2009). British television personality.

1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan).

1983 - Bill Bray was born. American baseball player.

1983 - Marques Colston was born. American football player.

1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the Sikh holy spot.

1984 - Cécilia Cara was born. French singer and actress.

1985 - Rubén De la Red was born. Spanish footballer.

1985 - Jeremy Abbott was born. American figure skater.

1985 – Kenny De Ketele was born. Belgian cyclist.

1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.

1987 - Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special 4-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.

1987 – Charlie Clements was born. English actor.

1987 - Lara Bingle was born. Australian model.

1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.

1991 - Colo-Colo becomes the first chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.

1991 - Mikhail Gorbachov receives, in Oslo, the 1990 Peace Nobel Prize.

1992 - Patriot Games opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford.

1992 – Emily Seebohm was born. Australian swimmer.

1993 - Twenty-Four Pakistani Soldiers dies during Operation Restore Hope.

1993 - Conway Twitty dies (b. 1933). American country musician.

1994 - Sergi Bruguera e Arantxa Sánchez Vicario triunfam em Roland Garros.

1994 - O Chile adere ao Mercosul.

1994 - Jasmim de Matos dies. Portuguese actor, costume designer, cenographer and painter.

1995 - The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

1995 – Troye Mellet was born. Australian actor and singer.

1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).

1998 - Both Reuters and ABC news erroneously report the death of comedian Bob Hope after Arizona congressman Bob Stump announces the demise of Hope on the floor of the US Congress.

1998 - Jeanette Nolan dies (b. 1911). American actress.

1998 - Sam Yorty dies (b. 1909). Mayor of Los Angeles.

1999 - The Party of United Communists of Albania is formed, following the merger of the Communist Reconstruction Party and the New Albanian Party of Labour.

1999 - Mel Tormé dies (b. 1925). American singer, composer, and actor.

2000 - Don Liddle dies (b. 1925). American baseball player.

2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.

2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.

2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo dies (b. 1908). Spanish writer, medical and humanist.

2002 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.

2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.

2002 - In Portugal VAT (IVA em português) rate is increased from 17% to 19%.

2002 - Portugal lost against United States of America 2-3 for 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan in football.

2002 - Gwen Plumb dies (b. 1912). Australian actress.

2002 - Dee Dee Ramone dies (b. 1952). American bassist (The Ramones).

2003 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.

2003 - Jürgen Möllemann dies (b. 1945). German politician.

2003 - Manuel Rosenthal dies (b. 1904). French composer and conductor.

2004 - Smarty Jones loses at the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone and fails to bid the Triple Crown.

2004 - Jennifer López weds the singer Marc Anthony.