Nothingandall: On this day in History

0645 - Yazid I was born (d. 0683). Sixth caliph of Islam.
0685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1227 - Qiu Chuji dies (b. 1148). Chinese Taoist.
1301 - Otto the Merry was born(d. 1339). Duke of Austria.
1339 - King Louis I of Naples was born (d. 1384).
1373 - Saint Birgitta dies b. 1303). Swedish saint.
1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester dies executed (b. 1643). English rebel.
1415 - Partida da expedição portuguesa (30 mil marinheiros e 50 mil soldados) para a conquista do Ceuta.
1503 - Anna Jagello was born (d. 1547). Queen of the Romans.
1508 - El militar español Pedro Navarro toma Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, importante núcleo de piratas del Mediterráneo.
1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet dies. Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1584 - John Day dies (b. 1522). English printer.
1588 - Battle of the Armada.
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi was born (d. 1676). Jewish false Messiah.
1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
1649 - Pope Clement XI was born (d. 1721).

1692 - Gilles Ménage dies (b. 1613). French scholar.

1705 - Francis Blomefield was born (d. 1752). English topographer.

1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt dies. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

1734 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini was born (d. 1786). Italian composer.

1757 - Domenico Scarlatti dies (b. 1685). Italian composer.

1764 - Gilbert Tennent dies (b. 1703). Irish-born religious leader.

1773 - O Papa Clemente XIV emite bula extinguindo a Companhia de Jesus (Jesuítas).

1773 - George Edwards dies (b. 1693). English naturalist.

1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus was born (d. 1812). French physicist and mathematician.

1777 - Philipp Otto Runge was born (d. 1810). German painter.

1781 - Zarpa de Cádiz una escuadra española destinada a rescatar la parte de Menorca que estaba en poder de los ingleses desde hacia casi veinte años.

1781 - John Joachim Zubly dies (b. 1724). Swiss-born Continental Congressman.

1793 - the Prussians conquer Mayence.

1793 - Roger Sherman dies (b. 1721). American signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1796 - Franz Berwald was born (d. 1868). Swedish composer.

1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.

1806 - Félix Arvers was born (d.1850. French poet and dramatist.

1823 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché was born (d. 1894). Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop.

1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.

1833 - Cornerstones laid for construction of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio.

1838 - Edouard Judas Colonne was born (d. 1910). French violinist.

1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

1853 - Andries Pretorius was born (d. 1798). Boer leader.

1856 - Lokmanya Tilak was born (d. 1920). Indian freedom fighter.

1857 - Carl Meinhof was born. German linguist.

1860 - José María Vargas Vila was born. Colombian writer.

1862 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

1862 - José María Bocanegra dies (b.1787). Mexican politician.

1864 - Apolinario Mabini wa born (d. 1903). Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister.

1865 - Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff was born (d. 1919). Danish Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic.

1874 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.

1875 - Isaac Singer dies (b.1811). American inventor and entrepreneur.

1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky dies (b. 1804). Bohemian physician.

1878 - Hilarión Eslava dies. Spanish composer and musicologist.

1881 - Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the assassination of President James Garfieldthe (See the cartoon)

1881 - The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded.

1884 - Emil Jannings was born (d. 1950). Swiss actor.

1885 - Ulysses S. Grant dies (b. 1822). General, 18th President of the United States

1886 - Salvador de Madariaga was born (d. 1978). League of Nations disarmament chief

1886 - Walter H. Schottky was born (d. 1976). German physicist.

1888 - Raymond Chandler was born (d. 1959). American author.

1892 - Haile Selassie was born (d. 1975). Emperor of Ethiopia.

1893 - Karl Menninger was born (d. 1990). Psychiatrist.

1894 - Arthur Treacher was born (d. 1975). English character actor.

1895 - Aileen Pringle was born (d. 1989). American actress.

1898 - Jacob Marschak was born. American economist.

1898 - Red Dutton was born (d. 1987). Canadian ice hockey player.

1899 - Gustav Heinemann was born († 7 Jul 1976). Politician, 3rd. President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

1901 - Hank Worden was born (d .1992). American actor and rodeo cowboy.

1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car. Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.

1906 - Vladimir Prelog was born (d. 1998). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1906 - Chandrasekhar Azad was born (d. 1931). Indian revolutionary.

1912 - Michael Wilding was born d. 1979). English actor.

1913 - José de Aguilar was born in Vila Nova de Foz Coa (d. 11 Mar 1981). Portuguese writer.

1913 - Michael Foot was born. English politician.

1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denied Austria-Hungary of their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914

1916 - Sir William Ramsay dies (b. 1852). Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1918 - Bueno de Mesquita was born (d. 2005). Dutch comedian and actor.

1918 - Pee Wee Reese was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.

1920 - Amália Rodrigues was born (oficial date : she always argued her birthday was on 1 Jul (d. 6 Oct 1999). Portuguese singer, fadist (the Queen of Fado) and actress.

1920 - Conrad Kohrs dies (b. 1835). German-born rancher.

1921 - Calvert DeForest was born (d. 2007). American actor (on David Letterman's late night shows)

1923 - Luis Aloma was born (d. 1997). Cuban baseball player.

1923 - Cyril M. Kornbluth was born (d. 1958). American writer.

1923 - Amalia Mendoza was born (d. 2001). Mexican singer.

1923 - Pancho Villa dies (b. 1878). Mexican revolutionary.

1924 - Gavin Lambert was born (d. 2005). British-born screenwriter.

1924 - Frank Frost Abbott dies (b. 1850). American classical scholar.

1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

1927 - Criação da Associação Portuguesa de Editores e Livreiros

1927 - Gérard Brach was born (d. 2006). French film director and screenwriter.

1928 - Hubert Selby Jr. was born (d. 2004). American author.

1928 - Charles Harrelson was born (d. 2007). American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson.

1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.

1930 - Glenn Curtiss dies (b. 1878). American aviation pioneer.

1931 - Viktor Korchnoi was born. Chess champion.

1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu was born (d. 2006). Māori Queen.

1931 - Guy Fournier was born. French Canadian author and screenwriter.

1931 - Claude Fournierwas born. French Canadian film director and screenwriter.

1932 - Alberto Santos Dumond dies (b. 20 Jul 1873). Brazilian aviation pioneer.

1932 - Tenby Davies dies (b. 1884). Welsh half-mile world champion runner.

1933 - Bert Convy was born (d. 1991). American game show host and performer.

1935 - Hein Heinsen was born. Danish artist.

1935 - Jim Hall was b0rn. American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars).

1936 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.

1936 - Don Drysdale was born (d. 1993). Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

1936 - Anthony Kennedy was born. Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born (d.1973). Punjabi revolutionary.

1937 - Dave Webster was born. Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958.

1938 - Bert Newton was born. Australian actor and television show host.

1938 - Charles Harrelson was born (d. 2007). American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson.

1938 - Götz George was born. German actor

1938 - Juliet Anderson was born. American pornographic actress.

1938 - Ronny Cox was born. American actor

1940 - Don Imus was born. American talk radio host

1940 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

1940 - Don Imus was born. American talk radio host

1941 - Richie Evans was born (d. 1985). 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion

1942 - The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened

1942 - World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.

1942 - Myra Hindley was born (d. 2002). English murderer.

1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson was born. Australian politician.

1942 - Adam Czerniakow dies (suicide) (b. 1880). Polish engineer.

1943 - Dr. Randall Forsberg was born (d. 2007). American nuclear freeze advocate.

1943 - Tony Joe White was born. American singer and songwriter.

1944 - Maria João Pires was born in Lisbon. Portuguese pianist.

1945 - The process against Philippe Pétain begins.

1947 - David Essex was born. English Rock and roll singer.

1947 - Gardner Dozois was born. Amecan science fiction author.

1947 - Torsten Palm was born. Swedish racing driver.

1948 - John Cushnahan was born. Northern Irish politician.

1948 - John Hall was born. American politician and former rock musician.

1948 - D. W. Griffith dies (b. 1875). American film director.

1950 - Alex Kozinski was born. Romanian-born American judge.

1950 - Blair Thornton was born. Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive).

1951 - É fundada em Lisboa a Liga dos Cegos João de Deus.

1951 - Edie McClurg was born. American actress.

1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain dies in the Île d'Yeu prison fortress (b. 1856). French leader of Vichy France.

1951 - Robert J. Flaherty dies (b. 1884). American filmmaker.

1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.

1952 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.

1952 - Bill Nyrop was born (d. 1995). American ice hockey player.

1953 - Graham Gooch was born. English cricketer.

1955 - Cordell Hull dies (1871). 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate

1955 - Vital Lima was born. Brazilian composer and musician.

1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.

1957 - Theo van Gogh was born (d. 2004). Dutch film director.

1957 - Nick Galis was born. Greek basketball player.

1958 - Carlos Lisboa was born. Portuguese basketball player who is considered one of the best of Portuguese players (if not the best)

1960 - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls.

1960 - Al Perez was born. American professional wrestler.

1961 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.

1961 - André Ducharme was born. Quebec humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author.

1961 - Martin Gore was born. English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode).

1961 - Woody Harrelson was born. American actor.

1961 - Martin Gore was born. English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode).

1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed.

1962 - Eriq La Salle was born. American actor.

1964 - Ed Forchion was born. American marijuana activist.

1965 - Rob Dickinson was born. English musician.

1965 - Slash (born "Saul Hudson") was born. English guitarist (Guns N Roses).

1966 - Euzébio Gonçalves was born. Brazilian football coach.

1966 - Samantha Beckinsale was born. English actress.

1966 - Montgomery Clift dies (b. 1920). American actor.

1967 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).

1967 - En Puerto Rico se realiza el primer plebiscito sobre su status.

1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman was born. American actor.

1968 - Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurred. During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days.

1968 - Gary Payton was born. American basketball player.

1968 - Nick Menza was born. American musician, drummer.

1968 - Stephanie Seymour was born. American supermodel.

1968 - Henry Hallett Dale dies (b. 1875). English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro was born. Portuguese athlet, 10.000 m runner (Olympics-gold-96). / Nasce em Penafiel, Fernanda Ribeiro. Atleta portuguesa, campeã mundial e olímpica dos 10.000 metros.

1970 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman.

1970 - Thea Dorn was born. German writer.

1970 - Charisma Carpenter was born. American actress.

1971 - Alison Krauss was born. American singer and fiddler.

1971 - Chris Michalek was born. American musician.

1971 - Christopher Lee was born. Singaporean actor and model.

1971 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin, was born. American R&B singer.

1971 - Van Heflin dies (b.1910). American actor.

1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.

1972 - Adolfo Casais Monteiro dies. Portuguese professor and writer.

1972 - Marlon Wayans was born. American actor.

1973 - Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.

1973 - Nomar Garciaparra was born. American baseball player.

1973 - Francis Healy was born. Scottish rock musician (Travis).

1973 - Melinda McCullum was born. American actress, fitness model and former professional wrestler.

1973 - Monica Lewinsky was born. American White House intern.

1973 - Himesh Reshammiya was born. Indian singer and musician.

1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker dies (b.1890). American pilot.

1974 - Greek military rule gives in to democracy : The military government in Greece has collapsed and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis has been invited to return.

1974 - Kathryn Hahn was born. American actress.

1974 - Maurice Greene was born. American athlete.

1974 - Rik Verbrugghe was born. Belgian cyclist.

1974 - Sonny Siaki was born. Samoan-born professional wrestler.

1974 - Stephanie March was born. American actress.

1974 - Terry Glenn was born. American football player.

1975 - Alessio Tachinardi was born. Italian footballer.

1975 - Seong Hyeon-ah was born. South Korean actress.

1975 - Surya Sivakumar was born. Tamil actor.

1976 - Tomada de posse do I Governo Constitucional de Portugal com Mário Soares como Primeiro-ministro.

1976 - Judit Polgár was born. Hungarian chess player.

1976 - Jonathan Gallant was born. Canadian musician (Billy Talent).

1977 - Neicer Reasco was born. Ecuadorian footballer.

1977 - Scott Clemmensen was born. American ice hockey player.

1978 - Stuart Elliott was born. Northern Irish footballer.

1978 - Stefanie Sun was born. Singaporean singer.

1979 - Perro Aguayo, Jr. was born. Mexican professional wrestler.

1979 - Ricardo Sperafico was born. Brazilian racing driver.

1979 – Richard Sims was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.

1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver.

1979 - Rodrigo Sperafico was born. Brazilian racing driver.

1979 - Joseph Kessel dies (b. 1898). French journalist and novelist.

1980 - Michelle Williams was born. American singer (Destiny's Child).

1980 - Mollie Steimer dies (b. 1897). Anarchist agitator and American political prisoner.

1980 - Sarto Fournier dies (b. 1908). Mayor of Montreal.

1980 - Keith Godchaux dies (b.1948). American pianist (Grateful Dead).

1981 - Jarkko Nieminen was born. Finnish tennis player.

1981 - Steve Jocz was born. Canadian drummer (Sum 41).

1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.

1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.

1982 - Gerald Wallace was born. American basketball player.

1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.

1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba.

1983 - Rebecca Cartwright was born. Australian actress.

1983 - Andrew Eiden was born. American actor.

1983 - Bec Hewitt was born. Australian actress.

1983 - Aaron Peirsol was born. American swimmer.

1983 - Georges Auric dies (b. 1899). French composer.

1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.

1984 - Brandon Roy was born. American professional basketball player.

1985 - Luis Ángel Landín was born. Mexican footballer.

1985 - Matthew Murphy was born. English musician (The Wombats).

1985 - Johnny Wardle dies (b. 1923). English cricketer.

1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

1986 - Ayaka Komatsu was born. Japanese model and actress.

1986 - Nelson Philippe was born. French racing driver.

1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39).

1988 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests.

1988 - Pippa Bennett-Warner was born. English actress.

1989 - Daniel Radcliffe was born. English actor (Harry Potter movies).

1989 - Donald Barthelme dies (b. 1931). American author.

1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi dies (b. 1899). Japanese development of television.

1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.

1993 - James R. Jordan, Sr. dies (b. 1936). Father of Michael Jordan.

1993 - Luis de Sttau Monteiro dies in Lisbon (b. a Apr 1926). Portuguese writer.

1994 - Golpe militar na Gambia que derruba o Presidente Dauda Jawara, sustituido no dia seguinte pelo Tenente Yaya Dieme.

1995 - Miguel Indurain torna-se o primeiro cicclista a vencer por cinco anos consecutivos o Tour de France.

1995 - British forces sent to Sarajevo: Britain sends 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and is visibly seen with a naked eye nearly a year later.

1995 - Manuel Augusto Trindade dies. Portuguese priest and essayst.

1996 - Rachel G. Fox was born. American actress.

1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki dies (b. 1934). Greek actress.

1997 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.

1997 - Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police.

1997 - Chuhei Nambu dies (b. 1904). Japanese athlete.

1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.

1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father.

1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco dies (b. 1929).

2000 - Tiger Woods, at became at age 24 the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.

2001 - Eudora Welty dies (b. 13 April 1909). American author. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (The Optimist's Daughter -1972).

2001 - Indonesian president removed from office. Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly 591-0 impeaches President Abdurahman Wahid and swears in Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri as President.

2002 - Chaim Potok dies (b. 1929). American novelist and rabbi.

2002 - Leo McKern dies (b. 1920). Australian actor.

2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce dies (d. 1933). American author, leader of the National Alliance.

2003 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.

2003 - James E. Davis dies murdered (b. 1962). New York City councilman.

2004 - 11 years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened.

2004 - Carlos Paredes dies. Portuguese musician and composer.

2004 - Mehmood dies (b. 1932). Indian actor.

2004 - Piero Piccioni dies (b.1921). Italian musician, conductor and composer.

2004 - Serge Reggiani dies (b. 1922). French singer and actor.

2005 - Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

2005 - Ted Greene dies (b.1946). American jazz guitarist and teacher.