Nothingandall: On this day in History

0053 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
0062 – Claudia Octavia commits suicide (b. 0040). Wife of Nero.
0068 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide (b. 0037) imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
0373 - Ephrem the Syrian dies. Christian hymnodist.
0597 - St. Columba dies (b. 0521). Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland.
0630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia dies.
0721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena Italy.
1361 - Philippe de Vitry dies (b. 1291). French composer.
1386 - Ratificação do Tratado de Windsor, entre D. João I de Portugal e Ricardo II de Inglaterra.
1448 - Portugal: Afonso V de Portugal atinge a maioridade e assume o reino.
1508 - Primož Trubar was born (d. 1586). Slovenian Protestant reformer.
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget dies (b. 1506). English statesman.
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret dies (b. 1528). Queen of Navarre.
1580 - Daniel Heinsius was born (d. 1655). Flemish scholar.
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex dies. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst was born (d. 1666). German composer.
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland was born (d. 1648).
1597 - Pieter Janszoon Saenredam was born in Assendelft (d. 1665). Dutch Baroque painter, son of the engraver Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam [1565-1607].
1597 - Padre José de Anchieta dies. Spanish Jesuit, missionary.
1640 - Leopold I was born (d. 1705). Emperor of Holy Roman Empire.
1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1656 - Thomas Tomkins dies (b. 1572). Welsh composer.
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia was born (d. 1682).
1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
1672 - Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich) Peter I, was born (d. 8 Feb 1725). Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725].
1686 - Andrei Osterman was born (d. 1747). Russian statesman.

1708 - Casamento de D. João V e D. Maria Ana de Áustria.

1716 - Banda Bahadur dies executed. Sikh military commander.

1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon dies (b. 1648). French mystic.

1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.

1746 - Fernando VI e D. Maria Bárbara, filha D. João V, ascendem ao trono de Espanha.

1768 - Samuel Slater was born (d. 1835). American industrialist.

1772 - The British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.

1781 - George Stephenson was born (d. 1848). English mechanical engineer.

1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.

1802 - US Academy at West Point was founded.

1810 - Otto Nicolai was born (d. 1849). German composer.

1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle was born (d. 1910). German astronomer who on 23 Sep 1846, was the first to observe the planet Neptune

1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.

1822 - Peter Henderson was born (d. 17 Jan 1890). Scottish-American scientist, known as the "Father of American Horticulture."

1834 - William Carey dies (b. 1761). One of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society.

1836 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born (d. 17 Dec 1917). English physician who sought the admission of women to professional education, especially in medicine. She become the first woman to qualify as a medical practitioner in Britain (1865), despite being refused admission by the medical schools because it was their policy not to train women as doctors.

1843 - Bertha von Suttner was born (d. 1914). Novelist, pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace 1905.

1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto was born (d. 1914).

1849 - Michael Peter Ancher was born (d. 1927). Danish painter.

1850 - Wilhelm Roux was born (d. 15 Sep 1924). German zoologist who was a founder of experimental embryology, by which he studied how organs and tissues are assigned their structural form and functions at the time of fertilization.

1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte was born d. 1921). French politician.

1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

1860 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.

1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.

1865 - Albéric Magnard was born (d. 1914). French composer.

1865 - Carl Nielsen was born (d. 1931). Danish composer.

1870 - Charles Dickens dies (b. 7 Feb 1812). English author (Oliver Twist; David Copperfield).

1873 – Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.

1875 - Henry Hallett Dale was born (d. 23 Jul 1968). English physiologist who in 1914 isolated the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from ergot fungi. In 1936 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with the German pharmacologist Otto Loewi) for discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes dies (b. 1795). French geologist.

1882 - Bobby Kerr was born (d. 1963). Canadian sprinter.

1882 - Angus Walterswas born (d. 1968). Schooner captain.

1890 - Leslie Banks was born (d. 1952). British actor.

1891 - Cole Porter was born (d. 1964). American composer and lyricist.(Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Can Can, Silk Stockings; songwriter: I’m in Love Again, Let’s Do It, You Do Something to Me, It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day, Don’t Fence Me In, What is This Thing Called Love, Love for Sale, I Get a Kick Out of You, Just One of Those Things, Begin the Beguine, I Love Paris, In the Still of the Night, True Love) Note: other several fonts date 1893.

1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi dies (b. 1839). Japanese woodblock print artist.

1892 - William Stairs dies (b. 1863). Canadian explorer.

1893 - Irish Meusel was born (d. 1963). American baseball player.

1897 - Japan protests United States' takeover of Hawaii.

1898 - China leases Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years.

1898 - Luigi Fagioli was born (d. 20 Jun 1952). Italian car racer.

1900 - Fred Waring was born († 1984). American bandleader, inventor.

1900 - José Gomes Ferreira was born in Porto (d. 1985). Portuguese writer / Nasce no Porto, José Gomes Ferreira. Escritor português († 1985).

1901 - Hajj Muhammad bin Abdullah Hassan, known to the British as the Mad Mullah, is defeated by British forces under the command of Colonel Swane.

1901 - Edward Moran dies (b. 19 Aug 1829). American painter.

1904 - William Joscelyn Arkell was born (d. 18 Apr 1958). English paleontologist, an authority on Jurassic fossils (those dating from 208 to 144 million years ago).

1905 - Albert Einstein published his analysis of Planck's quantum theory and its application to light. His article appeared in Annalen der Physik. Though no experimental work was involved, it was for these insights that Einstein earned his Nobel Prize.

1905 - Manoel Camilo dos Santos was born (d. 1987). Brazilian poet.

1906 – Robert Klark Graham was born (d. 1997). American eugenicist and entrepreneur.

1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.

1910 - Patrícia Rehder Galvão (Pagú) was born in São João da Boa Vista (d. 12 Dec. 1962). Brazilian writer and journalist.

1911 – George Webb was born (d. 1998). British actor.

1911 - Paulo Gracindo was born. Brazilian actor.

1912 - Ingolf Dahl was born (d. 1970). American composer.

1912 - Kenneth L. Pike was born (d. 31 Dec 2000). American linguist and anthropologist known for his studies of the aboriginal languages of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, New Guinea, Java, Ghana, Nigeria, Australia, Nepal, and the Philippines.

1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale dies (b. 1852). Romanian writter.

1913 - Patrick Steptoe was born (d. 21 Mar 1988). British scientist and medical researcher who, with Robert Edwards, perfected in-vitro fertilization of the human egg.

1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.

1915 - Les Paul was born. American guitarist.

1916 - Robert McNamara was born. United States Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank.

1921 - Agnes Keleti Hungary was born. Gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56).

1921 - Arthur Hertzberg was born (d. 2006). American Jewish scholar.

1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.

1922 - Fernand Seguin was born (d. 1988). French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator.

1922 - George Axelrod was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director.

1922 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was born († 1941). American poet and aviator.

1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

1924 – Ed Farhat was born (d. 2003). American professional wrestler.

1925 - Keith Laumer was born (d. 1993). American Science fiction writer.

1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

1929 - Johnny Ace was born (d. 1954). American singer.

1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

1930 - Ben L. Abruzzo was born (d. 11 Feb 1985). American balloonist who, with three crew mates, made the first transpacific balloon flight hat was also the longest nonstop balloon flight, in the Double Eagle V

1930 - Barbara was born (d. 1997). French singer.

1931 - The rocket-fueled aircraft design is patented by Robet Goddard.

1931 – Bill Virdon was born. American baseball player and manager.

1931 - Jackie Mason was born. American comedian.

1931 - Joe Santos was born. American actor.

1932 - Émile Friant dies (b. 1863). French realist painter. (Les canotiers de la Meurthe La Toussaint ).

1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen / Walt Disney cria um novo personagem: o Pato Donald.

1934 - Jackie Wilson was born (d. 1984). American singer.

1934 - José Joaquim de Campos da Costa Medeiros e Albuquerque dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Sep 1867). Brazilian poet and politician.

1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China, under KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.

1936 - Mick O'Dwyer was born. Gaelic footballer and manager.

1937 - Harald Rosenthal was born. German biologist.

1938 - Charles Wuorinen was born. American composer.

1939 - Charles Webb was born. American author.

1939 - David Hobbs was born. English race car driver and personality on American TV.

1939 - Dick Vitale was born. American sportscaster.

1939 – Ileana Cotrubaş was born. Romanian soprano.

1940 - Victory for Coppi in the Giro d´Italia.

1940 - Shirley Muldowney was born. Racecar Driver.

1941 - Jon Lord was born. Organist in Deep Purple.

1943 - Joe Haldeman was born. American science fiction writer.

1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.

1945 - Luis Ocaña was born (d. 1994). Spanish cyclist.

1945 - Nike Wagner was born. German woman of the theater.

1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.

1946 - Ananda Mahidol dies (b. 1925). Rama VIII, king of Thailand.

1947 - John Gurda was born. American historian.

1947 - Kiran Bedi was born. The First Lady Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer.

1948 - Gudrun Schyman was born. Swedish politician.

1949 - Maria Cebotari dies. Austrian soprano.

1951 - Dave Parker was born. American baseball player.

1951 - James Newton Howard was born. Film composer.

1951 - Bonnie Tyler [Gaynor Hopkins], was born. Rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart).

1952 - Uzi Hitman was born. Israeli singer.

1952 - Adolf Busch dies (b. 1891). German composer.

1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.

1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.

1954 - George Pérez was born. American comic book artist.

1954 - Gregory Maguire was born. American fantasy writer.

1956 - A heavy earthquake struck Afghanistan and 400 were killed.

1956 - Patricia Cornwell was born. American author.

1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).

1958 - London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, UK officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

1958 - Geoff Wilson was born. Canadian politician.

1958 - Robert Donat dies (b. 1905). English actor.

1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus dies (b. 25 Dec 1876). German organic chemist, who was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize for Chemistry " for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins", the first Nobel prize for work in human nutrition.

1959 - Christian Wulff was born. German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.

1959 - Jorge Furtado was born in Porto Alegre. Brazilian film director.

1960 – Steve Paikin was born. Canadian journalist.

1961 – Aaron Sorkin was born. American writer.

1961 - Michael J. Fox was born. Canadian-born actor.

1961 - Camille Guérin dies (b. 1872). French scientist.

1962 – Yuval Banai was born. Israeli musician and singer.

1963 – David Koepp was born. American screenwriter and director.

1963 – Gilad Atzmon was born. Israeli jazz musician and author.

1963 - Johnny Depp was born. American actor (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Arizona Dreams, Nick of Time, Dead Man, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Platoon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 21 Jump Street, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).

1964 - Gloria Reuben was born. Canadian actress.

1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru was born. Japanese actress and singer.

1964 – Wayman Tisdale was born (d. 2009). American basketball player and guitar musician.

1964 - Max Aitken dies (b. 1879). Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician.

1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.

1967 - Singer and songwriter John Denver married Annie Martell.

1967 - Dean Felber was born. American guitarist.

1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

1968 - Niki Bakoyianni was born. Greek high jumper.

1968 – Bernard Cronin dies (b. 1884). Australian author and journalist.

1969 - Eric Wynalda was born. American footballer.

1970 - Bob Dylan received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Princeton University.

1970 - Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia dies. President of Costa Rica (1940-1944).

1971 - Gilles De Bilde was born. Belgian footballer.

1971 - John McKeown was born. Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s).

1971 - Rick Renstrom was born. American guitarist.

1972 – Matt Horsley was born. Australian footballer.

1972 - Tomoe Hanba was born. Japanese voice actress.

1972 - Rudolf Belling dies (b. 26 Aug 1886). German sculptor. “Guilty” of Entartete Kunst, he had to flee Nazi Germany.

1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.

1973 - Frederic Choffat was born. Swiss film director.

1973 - Laura Ponte was born. Spanish model and royal.

1973 - Tedy Bruschi was born. American football player.

1973 - Erich von Manstein dies (b. 1887). German military commander.

1974 - The diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union were established.

1974 - Randy Winn was born. Major League Baseball outfielder.

1974 - Samoth was born. Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon).

1974 – Tim Shaw was born. British radio personality.

1974 - Sai de circulação após 73 anos no Rio de Janeiro o jornal Correio da Manhã.

1974 - José Manuel Sarmento de Beires dies. Portuguese aviation pioneer.

1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias dies (b. 1899). Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate.

1975 - Andrew Symonds was born. Australian cricketer.

1975 – Jeff Saturday was born. American football player.

1975 - Otto Addo was born. Ghanaian footballer.

1977 - Amisha Patel was born. Indian actress.

1977 - Peja Stojakovic was born. Serbian basketball player.

1977 - Roopa Mishra was born. Indian civil servant.

1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the priesthood to "all worthy men,"ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.

1978 - Matthew Bellamy was born. British musician (Muse).

1978 - Michaela Conlin was born. American actress.

1978 - Miroslav Klose was born. German footballer.

1978 – Shandi Finnessey was born. American beauty queen.

1979 - 1979 Sydney Ghost Train fire happens.

1979 - Ruka was born. Japanese Drummer.

1979 - Cyclone Taylor dies (b. 1884). Canadian ice hockey player.

1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor attempts to commit suicide by dousing himself with rum and setting it ablaze during a cocaine binge.

1980 – Lehlohonolo Seema was born. South African footballer.

1980 - Mike Fontenot was born. American baseball player.

1980 - Udonis Haslem was born. American basketball player.

1981 - Anoushka Shankar was born. Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar.

1981 – Celina Jaitley was born. Indian actress.

1981 - Natalie Portman was born. Israeli-born actress (Mars Attacks!, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace).

1981 - Vic Zhou was born. Taiwanese actor, singer and model (JVKV band member).

1981 - Allen Ludden dies (b. 1917). TV game show host.

1982 – Andrew Walker was born. Canadian actor.

1982 - Christina Stürmer was born. Austrian singer.

1983 - Mário Soares assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.

1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party. Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.

1983 - Alektra Blue was born. American porn star.

1983 - Danny Richar was born. Dominican baseball player.

1983 – Firas Al Khatib was born. Syrian football player.

1983 – Jim Tang was born. Hong Kong actor.

1984 - Cyndi Lauper started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Time After Time' a No.3 hit in the UK.

1984 - Kaleth Morales was born (d. 2005). Colombian singer and songwriter.

1984 - Masoud Shojaei was born. Iranian footballer.

1984 – Wesley Sneijder was born. Dutch footballer.

1984 – Yulieski Gourriel was born. Cuban baseball player.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).

1985 - Sebastian Telfair was born. American basketball player.

1985 – Sonam Kapoor was born. Indian actress.

1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

1986 - Adamo Ruggiero was born. Canadian actor.

1986 - Kary Ng was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.

1987 – Alexis Grace was born. American singer.

1988 - Mae Whitman was born. American actress.

1989 - George Wells Beadle dies (b. 22 Oct 1903). American geneticist who helped found biochemical genetics when he showed that genes affect heredity genes act by regulating definite chemical events. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg.

1989 - Rashid Behbudov dies (b. 1915). Azerbaijani singer and actor.

1990 - Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer.

1990 - Englandneworder started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World In Motion'.

1990 - M.C. Hammer's debut album started a record braking 21 week stay at the top of the US album charts, making it the longest uninterrupted stay at the top since the album charts started.

1991 - The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.

1991 - Jim Courier gained his first Grand Slam of tennis as he won the French Open.

1991 - Claudio Arrau dies (b. 1903). Chilean-born pianist.

1992 - Armenia becomes member of UNESCO.

1993 - Danielle Chuchran was born. American actress.

1993 - O príncipe japonês Naruhito se casa com Masako Owada numa elaborada cerimónia religiosa xintoísta.

1993 - Montréal Canadiens win 24th Stanley Cup and Patrick Roy wins 2nd Conn Smythe Trophy.

1993 – Alexis Smith dies (b. 1921). Canadian actress.

1993 – Thomas Ammann dies (b. 1950). Swiss art dealer and collector.

1994 - Jan Tinbergen dies (b. 1903). Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1996 - Daniel Mazia dies (b. 18 Dec 1912). American cell biologist who was notable for his work in nuclear and cellular physiology.

1997 - Stanley Knowles dies (b. 1908). Canadian politician.

1998 - México assina o Protocolo de Kyoto.

1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

1999 - Daniel Faria dies in Porto (b. 10 Apr. 1971). Portuguese poet.

2000 - In Argentina millions of workers went on strike to protest the economic austerity policies of Pres. Fernando de la Rua and the 14% unemployment rate.

2000 - Jacob Lawrence dies (b. 1917). American painter.

2002 - Albert Costa won the French Open over fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero.

2004 - António de Sousa Franco dies. Portuguese professor and politician who was Minister of Finance.

2004 – Brian Williamson dies (b. 1945). Jamaican activist.

2004 - Rosey Brown dies (b. 1932). American football player.

2006 - German FIFA World Cup has the Kick-Off with the hosts playing against Costa Rica (4-2) . See here more information.

2006 - Drafi Deutscher dies (b. 1946). German Schlager singer.

2006 - Paulo_Vallada dies (b. 1924). Portuguese engineer and politician who was President of Câmara Municipal do Porto.

2007 - Frankie Abernathy dies (b. 1981). Former The Real World: San Diego castmate.

2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

2008 - For the 2008 Germany Eurochampionship Netherlands defeat Italy (World Champions) 3-0

2008 – Algis Budrys dies (b. 1931). American writer.