On this day in history - Aug. 18

• 293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus founded, institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
• 0353 - Decentius dies. Roman usurper.
• 0472 - Ricimer dies. Roman general.
• 0849 - Walafrid Strabo dies. German monk and theologian.
• 1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
• 1227 - Genghis Khan dies. Mongol leader.
• 1258 - Theodore II Lascaris dies. Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea.
• 1276 - Pope Adrian V dies.
• 1318 - Clare of Montefalco dies (b. c. 1268). Italian Abbess and religious leader.
• 1414 - Jami was born (d. 1492). Persian poet.
• 1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros dies drowned (b. 1406). English soldier and politician.
• 1450 - Marko Marulić was born (d. 1524). Criatian poet.
• 1503 - Pope Alexander VI dies (b. 1431).
• 1541 - A Portugese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541).
• 1559 - Pope Paul IV dies (b. 1476).
• 1563 - Étienne de La Boétie dies (b. 1530). French judge and writer.
• 1572 - Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
• 1579 - Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau was born (d. 1640). Roman Catholic nun.
• 1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
• 1590 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and inds his settlement deserted.
• 1596 - Jean Bolland was bortn (d. 1665). Flemish Jesuit writer.
• 1605 - Henry Hammond was born (d. 1660). English churchman.
• 1606 - Maria Anna of Spain was born (d. 1646). Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary.
• 1611 - Ludwika Maria Gonzaga was born (d. 1650). Queen of Poland.
• 1613 - Giovanni Artusi dies. Italian composer.
• 1620 - Wanli dies (b. 1563). Emperor of China.
• 1634 - Urbain Grandier dies burned in Loudun, France. French priest, accused and convicted of sorcery.
• 1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed.
• 1642 - Guido Reni dies (b. 1575). Italian painter.
• 1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva dies (b. 1608). Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia.
• 1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena was born (d. 1743). Italian architect/designer.
• 1683 - Charles Hart dies (b. 1625). English actor.
• 1685 - Brook Taylor was born (d. 1731). English mathematician.
• 1692 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon was born (d. 1740). Prime Minister of France.
• 1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire dies (b. 1640). English soldier and statesman.
• 1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers dies. English soldier.
• 1720 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers was born (d. 1760). English murderer.
• 1750 - Antonio Salieri was born (d. 1825). Italian composer.
• 1754 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat was born (d. 1833). French general.
• 1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1708).
• 1774 - Meriwether Lewis was born (d. 1809). American explorer.
• 1775 - The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona.
• 1781 - Mexico: Nace en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí, José Mariano Jiménez (m. 26 Jun 1811) , quien será ingeniero de minas de Guanajuato y habrá de unirse a la lucha libertadora de don Miguel Hidalgo en 1810 y lo acompañará en la ruta de la independencia.
• 1792 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell was born (d. 1878). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1803 - Nathan Clifford was born (d. 1881). American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1804 - Mexico: Nace en el Mineral de Pinos, Zacatecas, Luis de la Rosa, quien se distinguirá como polifacético personaje liberal: periodista, diputado local, colaborador cercano del gobernador García Salinas. Como militar combatirá a Santa Anna. Miembro de varios gobiernos.
• 1809 - Matthew Boulton dies (b. 1728). Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society.
• 1815 - Chauncey Goodrich dies (b. 1759). American politician, Senator from Connecticut.
• 1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg was born (d. 1876).
• 1822 - Isaac P. Rodman was born (d. 1862). American Union general.
• 1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria was born (d. 1916).
• 1832 - Nascimento, em Desterro, actual Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, do pintor brasileiro Vítor Meireles de Lima (m. 1903). Em suas obras predominam os temas religiosos e históricos. “A Primeira Missa no Brasil”, “A Batalha de Guararapes”, “Juramento da Princesa Isabel" “Flagelação de Cristo”, “Moema”, “Cabeça de Velho”, “Morta” e “Uma Rua do Rio de Janeiro”.
• 1834 - Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
• 1838 - The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838.
• 1838 - Criação do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Brasil na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
• 1841 - William Halford was born (d. 1919). American naval officer.
• 1842 - João Domingos Bomtempo dies (b. 1775). Portuguese composer and pianist.
  
• 1842 - Louis de Freycinet dies (b. 1779). French explorer.
• 1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
• 1849 - Buenaventura Báez é nomeado Presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1850 - Honoré de Balzac dies (b. 1799). French writer.
• 1855 - Alfred Wallis was born (d. 1942). English artist and mariner.
• 1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems was born (d. 1926). Roman Catholic prelate.
• 1858 - Intercâmbio das primeiras comunicações submarinas por cabo entre Europa e América.
• 1862 - Minnesota trader Andrew Myrick is killed and has his mouth stuffed with grass.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Weldon Railroad - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad forcing the Confederates to use wagons.
• 1866 - Assinatura do tratado da Aliança, que funda a Confederação da Alemanha do Norte, sob a liderança da Prússia.
• 1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium while analysing the chromosphere during a total solar eclipse in India. This was the first element detected in space before being found on Earth.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
• 1870 – Hugh Bromley-Davenport was born (d. 1954). England cricketer.
  
• 1870 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov was born (d. 1918). Russian general.
• 1873 - Durante el gobierno del licenciado Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, el Congreso de la Unión declara a don Benito Juárez como "Benemérito de la Patria". Ya el Congreso de Colombia lo había declarado "Benemérito de las Américas", el 1º de mayo de 1865.
• 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes was born. President of Brazil.
• 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
• 1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko was born (d. 1970). Russian general.
• 1885 - Nettie Palmer was born (d. 1964). Australian poet and essayist.
• 1888 - Franklin Távora dies. Brazilian writer.
• 1890 - Walther Funk was born (d. 1960). German Nazi politician.
• 1891 - Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
• 1892 - Em Lisboa, é inaugurada a Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno.
• 1893 - Burleigh Grimes was born (d. 1985). American baseball player.
• 1893 - Ernest MacMillan was born (d. 1973). Canadian musician.
• 1896 - Jack Pickford was born (d. 1933). Canadian-born actor.
• 1897 - José Tomás de Sousa Martins dies (b. 1843). Portuguese physician.
• 1900 - Glenn Albert Black was born (d. 1964). American archaeologist.
• 1901 - Nasce, no Porto (R. São Brás, 503), Henrique (de Barros) Medina (m. 30 Nov 1988). Pintor português, paisagista, um dos grandes retratistas do século XX. Foi distinguido a medalha de ouro da cidade do Porto.
• 1902 - Adamson-Eric was born (d. 1968). Estonian painter.
• 1902 - Margaret Murie was born (d. 2003). American conservationist, naturalist, and author.
• 1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
• 1903 - Lucienne Boyer was born (d. 1983). French singer.
• 1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeded by George Reid.
• 1904 - Max Factor was born (d. 1996). Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur.
• 1906 - Marcel Carné was born (d. 1996). French film director.
• 1906 - Ladislao Vajda was born. Hungarian-born Spanish film director.
• 1908 – Bill Merritt was born (d. 1977). New Zealand cricketer.
• 1908 - Edgar Faure was born (d. 1988). French politician and historian.
• 1908 - Trindade Coelho dies (b. 18 Jun 1861). Portuguese writer.
• 1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
• 1909 - Nasce em Lisboa Adolfo Simões Müller (m. 1989). Jornalista e escritor português célebre pela literatura infantil e juvenil. Em 1990, a Editorial Verbo instituiu um prémio com o seu nome do como homenagem à memória deste mestre da literatura infantil e como estímulo à revelação de novos autores. Recebeu, em 1982, o Grande Prémio de Literatura Infantil da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian pelo conjunto da sua obra. Asas de Ícaro (poesia 1926), Caixinha de Brinquedos (1937, Prémio Nacional de Literatura Infantil), O Feiticeiro da Cabana Azul (1942, galardoado com o mesmo prémio) e A Primeira Volta ao Mundo (1971, Prémio Nacional de Literatura). Recebeu, em 1982, o Grande Prémio de Literatura Infantil da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian pelo conjunto da sua obra. Ler aqui poemas de Adolfo de Simões Müller.
• 1909 - Gérard Filion was born (d. 2005). French Canadian businessman and journalist.
• 1913 - Romain Maes was born (d. 1983). Belgian cyclist.
• 1915 - Aldo Locatelli was born. Brazilian painter.
• 1915 - Grande Otelo was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1915 - Max Lanier was born (d. 2007). Baseball player.
• 1916 - Dame Moura Lympany was born (d. 2005). British pianist.
• 1916 – Don Keefer was born. American actor.
• 1916 – Neagu Djuvara was born. Romanian diplomat.
• 1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
• 1917 - Caspar Weinberger was born. United States Secretary of Defense.
• 1918 - Cisco Houston was born (d. 1961). American folk singer.
• 1918 - Walter Joseph Hickel was born. 2^nd and 8^th Governor of Alaska and US Secretary of the Interior.
• 1919 - Joseph E. Seagram dies (b. 1842). Canadian distillery founder.
• 1920 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
• 1920 - Bob Kennedy was born (d. 2005). Baseball player and manager.
• 1920 – Godfrey Evans was born (d. 1999). England cricketer.
• 1920 - Shelley Winters was born (d. 2006). American Academy Award-winning actress: Patch of Blue [1965], The Diary of Anne Frank [1959]; The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, The Pickle.
• 1921 - Ignacio Montes de Oca dies. Mexican archbishop.
• 1921 - Lydia Litvyak was born (d. 1943). Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces.
• 1921 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr. was born. Polish art historian.
• 1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet was born. French writer.
• 1922 - William Henry Hudson dies (b. 4 Aug 1841). Argentinan-British author, naturalist and ornithologist.
• 1923 - Jenni Irani was born (d. 1982). Indian cricketer.
• 1923 – Sadashiv Shinde was born (d. 1955). Indian cricketer.
• 1925 - Brian Aldiss was born. English writer.
• 1925 - Pierre Grondin was born (d. 2006). French Canadian cardiac surgeon.
• 1926 - Termina a greve do carvão na Grã-Bretanha, da qual participaram mais de um milhão de mineiros, contra 1.500 proprietários.
• 1927 - Rosalynn Carter was born. First Lady of the United States.
• 1928 - Marge Schott was born (d. 2004). Baseball team owner.
• 1928 - Em Lisboa, é inaugurada a Estação de Comboios do Cais do Sodré.
• 1928 - Marge Schott was born (d. 2004). Baseball team owner.
• 1929 - Anatoli V. Kuznetzov was born. Soviet writer.
• 1929 - Hugues Aufray was born. French singer.
• 1930 - Agustín Ibarrola was born. Spanish painter.
• 1930 - Liviu Librescu was born. Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre.
• 1931 - Bramwell Tillsley was born. Canadian Salvation Army general.
• 1931 - Dick White was born. English footballer.
• 1932 - William R. Bennett was born. Premier of British Columbia.
• 1932 - Luc Montagnier was born. French virologist, credited with the discover of AIDS.
• 1932 - William R. Bennett was born. Premier of British Columbia.
• 1933 - Just Fontaine was born. French footballer.
• 1933 - Roman Polanski was born. French-born Polish director (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth).
• 1934 - Vincent Bugliosi was born. American attorney.
• 1934 - Manuel Guilherme Faria de Almeida was born. Portuguese film director.
• 1934 - Roberto Clemente was born (d. 1972). Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitariun.
• 1934 - Ronnie Carroll was born. British singer.
• 1934 - Vincent Bugliosi was born. American attorney.
• 1935 - Gail FisherEmmy was born (d. 2 Dec 2000). Award-winning actress: Mannix [1969-1970].
• 1935 - Rafer Johnson was born. American athlete.
• 1935 - Sir Howard Morrison was born. New Zealand entertainer.
• 1936 - Robert Redford was born. American actor and director (actor: All the President’s Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Out of Africa; Academy Award-winning director: Ordinary People [1980]; A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show).
• 1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1938 - Joe Frank was born. American radio personality.
• 1939 - Johnny Preston was born. American singer.
• 1939 - Robert Horton was born. British businessman.
• 1940 - Walter P. Chrysler dies (b. 1875). American automobile mogul.
• 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to the concentration camps, where they continued in their trade.
• 1942 - Lauro António was born. Portuguese film director and critic and essayst.
• 1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski dies (b. 1865). Russian-Azerbaijani general.
• 1943 - Carl Wayne was born (d. 2004). English singer.
• 1943 - Gianni Rivera was born. Italian footballer and politician.
• 1943 - Martin Mull was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1945 - Barbara Harris was born. Singer (Toys).
• 1946 - Around 70 people died in the Vergarolla explosion.
• 1947 - Pelo menos 155 pessoas, entre elas 25 crianças, morrem com a explosão de um depósito de explosivos da Marinha de Cádiz, no sul da Espanha. Cinco mil pessoas ficam feridas na ocasião / España: Estalla un depósito de explosivos de la Marina de Guerra en los astilleros de Cádiz, mueren más de 150 personas y el número de heridos supera los 5000. Gran número de edificios resultan dañados.
• 1947 - Osmar Prado was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1948 - Joseph Marcell was born. British actor.
• 1949 - Um terramoto causa 437 mortes perto de Erzerum (Anatólia, Turquia).
• 1949 - Hungary adopts constitution.
• 1949 - Rudy Hartono was born. Indonesian badminton player.
• 1949 - Paul Mares dies (b. 1900). American musician.
• 1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
• 1952 - Elayne Boosler was born in Brooklin, NY. American comedienne, actress (Meatballs Part II, Mother Goose Rock ’n’ Rhyme).
• 1952 - Patrick Swayze was born. American actor ( Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Father Hood, Red Dawn, Point Break, North and South).
• 1952 - Ricky Villa was born. Argentine former footballer.
• 1952 – Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga dies (b. 1901). Chilean Jesuit saint.
  
• 1953 - Louie Gohmert was born. American politician.
• 1955 - Dr. Taher ElGamal was born. American-Egyptian scientist.
• 1956 - John Debney was born. American composer.
• 1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz was born. American musician.
• 1956 – Sandeep Patil was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1957 - Carole Bouquet was born. French actress.
• 1957 - Denis Leary was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1957 - Ron Strykert was born. Musician, guitarist group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under.
• 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• 1958 - Perez Prado, the ‘Mambo King’, received one of the first gold records awarded by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). The single, Patricia, was certified as having sold over one million copies.
• 1958 - Madeleine Stowe was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Tom Prichard was born. American wrestler.
• 1960 - É comercializado o primeiro contraceptivo oral pela Searle Drug Company, nos EUA.
• 1960 - Fat Lever was born. American basketball player.
• 1960 - Mike LaValliere was born. Baseball player.
• 1961 - Bob Woodruff was born. American journalist, anchor.
• 1962 - Felipe Calderón was born. President of Mexico.
• 1962 - Geoff Courtnall was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1963 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
• 1963 - Clifford Odets dies (b. 1906). American playwright.
• 1964 - South Africa was banned from Olympic Games (Tokyo) because of apartheid policies.
• 1964 – Craig Bierko was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Edith Frost was born. American singer/songwriter.
• 1964 – Kenny Walker was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - A nova Constituição de Guatemala declara o comunismo fora da lei.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the US base at Chu Lai.
• 1965 - Jim Florentine was born. American comedian.
• 1965 - Koji Kikkawa was born. Japanese singer.
• 1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
• 1966 - Gustavo Charif was born. Argentine artist.
• 1966 - Kang Soo-yeon was born. South Korean actress.
• 1967 - Brian Michael Bendis was born. American comic-book writer.
• 1967 – Daler Mehndi was born. Indian bhangra/pop singer.
• 1967 – Dan Peters was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Lee Seung-yeon was born. South Korean actress.
• 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
• 1969 – Christian Slater was born. American actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Murder in the First, Untamed Heart, Young Guns, Interview with the Vampire).
• 1969 - Edward Norton was born. American actor (Fight Club, American History X, Keeping the Faith, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Scorer).
• 1969 - Everlast was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Masta Killa was born. Americcan rapper.
• 1970 - South Vietnam send troops to Laos.
• 1970 – Greg Dean Schmitz was born. American online film journalist.
• 1970 - Jessica Hsuan was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
• 1971 - Jacob Vargas was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Richard D James was born. Irish-born musician.
• 1972 - Keiko Yamada was born. Japanese singer.
• 1972 - Leo Ku was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1972 - Shaun Wilson was born. Australian artist.
• 1974 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1976 - In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the DMZ which had obscured their view.
• 1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
• 1976 – Bryan Volpenhein was born. American rower.
• 1976 - Daphnee Duplaix Samuel was born. American actress, Playboy Playmate.
• 1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to apartheid.
• 1977 - Régine Chassagne was born. Canadian musician Arcade Fire.
• 1978 - Andy Samberg was born. American comedian.
• 1978 – James Corden was born. British actor.
• 1978 – Luke Williams was born. Welsh musician (Quinoline Yellow).
• 1979 - Selena Silver was born. Australian actress.
• 1979 - Stuart Dew was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1980 - Athina Papayianni was born. Greek race walker.
• 1980 - Esteban Cambiasso was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1980 - Jeremy Shockey was born. American football Tight End.
• 1980 - Preeti Jhangiani was born. Indian actress.
• 1980 - Rob Nguyen was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1980 - Morre Domingos Monteiro Pereira Júnior (b. 6 Nov 1903). Jornalista e escritor português (Oração do Crepúsculo (1919), Nau Errante (1921) O Primeiro Crime de Simão Bolandas, Caminho para Lá, Evasão 1953, O Livro de Todos os Tempos, O Homem Contemporâneo, O Mal e o Bem, O Caminho para Lá, Contos do Dia e da Noite, Histórias Castelhanas, O Dia Marcado, A Vinha da Maldição).
• 1981 - Anthony Gardner was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - César Delgado was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1981 – Dimitris Salpigidis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1981 – Jon Schneck, American musician (Relient K, Audio Adrenaline).
• 1981 - Jonathan Schneck was born. American musician (Relient K).
• 1981 - Anita Loos dies (b. 1889). American screenwriter, playwright and author.
• 1982 - Carlos Botelho dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
• 1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• 1983 – Cameron White was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!) was born. American record producer/hip-hop artist.
• 1983 - Kris Boyd was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika) was born. Lebanese-born musician.
• 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner dies (b. 1902). German-born art historian.
• 1984 - Robert Huth was born. German footballer player.
• 1985 - O papa João Paulo II encerra o XLIII Congresso Eucarístico no Quênia.
• 1986 - Israel e URSS comemoram em Helsinki seu primeiro contato oficial nos últimos 19 anos.
• 1986 - Ross McCormack was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1987 - Um grupo de cientistas soviéticos sintetiza o elemento 110 da tabela periódica de Mendeleiev.
• 1987 - Mika Boorem was born. American actress.
• 1988 - G-Dragon was born. Leader Of Korean Boyband, Big Bang.
• 1989 - O senador e candidato liberal à presidência da Colômbia, Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, é assassinado em Bogotá por traficantes.
• 1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
• 1990 - Grethe Ingmann dies (b. 1938). Danish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1990 - B.F. Skinner dies (b. 1904). American psychological theorist.
• 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while he was vacationing in the Crimea. The coup was led by eight high-ranking hard-liners (the coup would collapse in less than 72 hours).
• 1992 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
• 1992 - NBA basketball player Larry Bird announces his retirement after winning an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Dream Team.
• 1992 – Elizabeth Beisel was born. American swimmer.
• 1992 – Frances Bean Cobain was born. American daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
• 1992 - John Sturges dies (b. 1911). Film director (Magnificent 7, Gunfight at OK Corral).
• 1992 - Riko Narumi was born. Japanese actress.
• 1994 - The Parliament of Panamá aproves the abolition of the Army.
• 1994 - Jessie Flower was born. American actress and voice actress.
• 1994 - Martin Cahill dies (b. 1949). The General, infamous Dublin criminal.
• 1994 - Richard Synge dies (b. 28 Oct 1914). British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for their development of partition chromatography, notably paper chromatography.
• 1994 - Yeshayahu Leibowich dies. Israeli philosopher.
• 1995 - Parker McKenna Posey was born. American actress.
• 1995 - Julio Caro Baroja dies. Spanish anthropologist, historian and linguist.
• 1998 - Persis Khambatta dies (b. 1950). Indian actress.
• 1998 - Otto Wichterle dies (b. 1913). Inventor of the modern contact lens.
• 1999 - O ex-agente do serviço de inteligência Sellapan Samanatahan, miss conhecido como S.R. Nathan, é nomeado como novo presidente de Singapura, no lugar de Ong Teng Cheong.
• 2000 - Nove pessoas morrem e outras 80 são feridas em um enfrentamento entre duas facções do Partido Revolucionário Institucional (PRI) no município mexicano de Chimalhuacán.
• 2000 - Federal jury found the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
• 2001 - In Luanda, Angola, some 10,000 people marched in a government-organized protest against the Aug 11 train ambush.
• 2001 - David Peakall dies (b. 1931). British scientist.
• 2002 - MTR Tseung Kwan O Line officially opened.
• 2002 - Dean Riesner dies (b. 1918). American film and television writer.
• 2003 - Tony Jackson dies (b. 1938). English musician (The Searchers).
• 2004 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony takes place.
• 2004 - Elmer Bernstein dies (b. 1922). American film composer.
• 2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
• 2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
• 2005 - Christopher Bauman dies (b. 1982). American professional wrestler better known as Chri$ Ca$h.
• 2005 - Gao Xiumin dies (b. 1959). Chinese comedy actress.
• 2006 - Fernand Gignac dies (b. 1934). Canadian singer and actor.
• 2006 - Jamie Astaphan dies (b. 1946). Caribbean-born physician.
• 2007 - Michael Deaver dies (b. 1938). Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff.
• 2008 - President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.
• 2009 – Kim Dae-jung dies (b. 1925). 15th President of South Korea.
  
• 2009 – Robert Novak dies (b. 1931). American journalist and commentator.
  
• Australia – Long Tan Day, also called Vietnam Veterans' Day (Australia).
• National Science Day (Thailand).
• Roman Catholic Saints - Saint Helena of Constantinople, and Saint Alberto Hurtado.
• Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
• Birthday of Virginia Dare (Roanoke Island)