On this day on History - Aug. 16

• 1027 - Giorgi I dies (b. 0998). King of Georgia.
• 1297 - John II of Trebizond dies (b. 1262).
• 1327 - Roch dies (b. 1295). French saint.
• 1355 - Philippa Plantagenet was born. Countess of Ulster.
• 1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria dies (b. 1298).
• 1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China was born (d. 1425).
• 1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans dies (b. 1361). King of Bohemia.
• 1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu dies (b. 1434). Japanese shogun.
• 1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France) dies (b. 1424). Wife of the future King Louis XI.
  
• 1513 - King Henry VIII of England and his troops defeated the French in the Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs), NW France.
• 1518 - Loyset Compère was born. French composer.
• 1519 - Después de fundar la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (hoy puerto de Veracruz), Hernán Cortés parte hacia Cempoala que él llamó Sevilla .
• 1532 - John, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1468).
• 1557 - Agostino Carracci was born (d. 1602). Italian artist.
• 1570 - Cédula española establece la Inquisición en las colonias de América.
• 1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1632).
• 1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was born (d. 1706). German countess and poet.
• 1645 - Jean de La Bruyère was born (d. 1696). French writer.
• 1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli was born (d. 9 Dec 1718). Italian cartographer and encylopedist.
• 1661 - Thomas Fuller dies (b. 1608). English churchman and historian.
• 1678 - Andrew Marvel dies (b. 31 Mar 1621). English poet.
• 1681 - Nascimento de Bernardo Filipe Neri de Távora (m. 27 Abr 1744). 2º conde de Alvor - Portugal.
• 1682 - Louis, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 18 Feb 1712). Heir to the throne of France.
• 1705 - Jakob Bernoulli dies (b. 1654). Swiss mathematician and scientist.
• 1711 - A cidade do México é atingida por por um grande terramoto que causa consideráveis danos.
• 1716 - Toma posesión como el 36º virrey de la Nueva España, don Baltazar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, marqués de Valero, duque de Arión. Su mandato ha de prolongarse hasta octubre de 1722.
• 1732 - Portugal : Tem início a construção do Aqueduto das Águas Livres.
• 1733 - Matthew Tindal dies (b. 1657). English deist.
• 1746 - Nascimento de Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (O Tiradentes) (m. 21 Abr 1792).
• 1773 - Publicação do Breve de Clemente XIV que dissolve a Companhia de Jesus em todo o mundo.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• 1781 - O marquês de Pombal, afastado da corte desde 1777, é declarado culpado e merecedor de um castigo exemplar, no processo que Francisco José Caldeira Soares Galhardo Mendanha intentou contra ele, por motivo da Apologia, obra manuscrita que circulou pelo país a partir de 1779, e que defendia a política do marquês.
• 1788 - Francisco Xavier Alegre dies. Mexican historian and humanist. Jesuit.
• 1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec dies (b. 1719). French soldier and diplomat.
• 1792 - Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
• 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
• 1812 - España: en la Plaza Mayor de Madrid se proclama la Constitución promulgada por las Cortes de Cádiz.
• 1815 - John Bosco was born (d. 1888). Italian priest and educator / Nascimento de São João Bosco em Becchi, Itália (m. 1888). Fundou os Salesianos em 1859.
• 1819 - Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
• 1821 - Arthur Cayley was born (d. 26 Jan 1895). British mathematicien.
• 1827 - Johan Siegwald Dahl was born. Norwegian painter.
• 1831 - John Jones Ross was born (d. 1901). Quebec politician.
• 1832 - Wilhelm Wundt was born (d. 31 Ago 1920). German philosopher and psycologist.
• 1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval dies (b. 1755). French mathematician.
• 1840 - Jose Jacinto Milanés was born in Matanzas (d. 14 Nov 1863). Cuban poet.
• 1841 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• 1842 - Perú - O General Juan Crisóstomo Torrico se proclama-se Chefe da Nação.
• 1842 - Jakob Rosanes was born (d. 1922). German mathematician.
• 1845 - Gabriel Lippmann was born (d. 1921). French physicist. 1908 Physic Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1855 - Henry Colburn dies. British publisher.
• 1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 1858 - Arthur Achleitner was born (d. 1927). German writer.
• 1859 - Costa Rica: Escoltado por el Coronel Blanco, a la cabeza de 100 soldados y 10 oficiales, sale de San José (Costa Rica), con destino a Puntarenas, el depuesto Presidente Juan Rafel Mora Porras, para ser embarcado posteriormente camino al exilio.
• 1860 - Jules Laforgue was born (d. 29 Aug 1887). French poet.
• 1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg was born (d. 17 Mar 1965). American coach.
• 1864 - John Chambliss dies. American Confederate general.
• 1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
• 1867 - Nasce no Porto, António Nobre (m. 18 Mar 1900 de tuberculose). Poeta português. Formado em Direito na Sorbonne, fez uma "peregrinação" desesperada pelo mundo devido à sua doença. ("Só" - Paris 1892).
• 1868 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
• 1868 - Bernarr McFadden was born (d. 12 Oct 1955). American publisher.
• 1869 - Batalha de Barreiro Grande, durante a guerra da Argentina, Uruguai e Brasil contra o Paraguai.
• 1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1869 - Morte do poeta português Faustino Xavier de Novais (irmão da futura esposa de Machado de Assis). É considerado o maior poeta satírico português depois de Nicolau Tolentino. Poeta portuense fixou-se no Brasil.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• 1876 - Ivan Bilibin dies (b. 1942). Russian illustrator.
• 1884 - Hugo Gernsback was born (d. 19 Aug 1967). Luxembourg-born editor and publisher.
• 1884 - Walther von Reichenau was born (d. 1942). German field marshal.
• 1886 - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa dies (b. 18 Feb 1836). Indian guru.
• 1888 - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born (d. 19 May 1935). English writer and soldier.
• 1888 - Armand J. Piron was born (d. 1943). American musician.
• 1888 - Venezuela: El Presidente Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl ordena la fundación del Hospital Vargas de Caracas.
• 1888 - John Pemberton dies (b. 1831). American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola.
• 1892 - Otto Messmer was born (d. 28 Oct 1983). American cartoonist.
• 1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot dies (b. 1825). French neurologist.
• 1894 - George Meany was born (d. 10 Jan 1980). American labor union leader.
• 1895 - Albert Cohen was born in Corfu, Greece (d. 7 Oct 1981). Swiss novelist and diplomat. (Belle du Seigneur -1968).
• 1895 - Liane Haid was born (d. 28 Nov 2000). Austrian actress.
• 1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike in Canada.
• 1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was born (d. 1811). German chemist.
• 1900 - Eça de Queirós dies (b. 1845). Portuguese writer / Eça de Queirós morre em Neuilly, França (n. 25 Nov 1845 na Póvoa do Varzim). Escritor português. É por muitos considerado o maior escritor realista português do século XIX. Ver biografia completa em Vidas Lusófonas.
• 1902 - Georgette Heyer was born (d. 4 Jul 1974). English novelist.
• 1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley was born (d. 1971). American chemist, Nobel laureate.
  
• 1906 - Nasce em Málaga, Espanha, Oscarito (Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz) (m. 4 Ago 1970). Actor e comediante brasileiro. Formou uma dupla histórica com Grande Otelo.
• 1906 - A cidade de Valparaíso, no Chile, é atingida por um forte terramoto. Cerca de 1,5 mil pessoas morrem e a costa sobe 1,5 metro de altura.
• 1907 - James Hector dies (b. 1834). Scottish geologist.
• 1908 - William Maxwell was born (d. 2000). American novelist and editor.
• 1911 - Luz Vieira Méndez was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos (d. 1971). Argentinian educator.
• 1911 - E. F. Schumacher was born (d. 1977). German economist and statistician.
• 1912 - Ted Drake was born (d. 1995). English footballer.
• 1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
• 1913 - Menachem Begin was born (d. 1992). 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
• 1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
• 1915 - Al Hibbler was born (d. 2001). American singer.
• 1916 - Iggy Katona was born (d. 2003). American race car driver.
• 1918 - España: se crean los dos primeros Parques Nacionales españoles: el de Peña Santa (en Covadonga (Asturias)) y el de Ordesa (en el Pirineo oscense).
• 1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
• 1920 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
• 1920 - Charles Bukowski was born (d. 1994). American poet.
• 1921 - King Peter I of Serbia dies (b. 1844).
• 1922 - Ernie Freeman was born (d. 2001). American pianist and arranger.
• 1923 - Shimon Peres was born. Israel's eighth Prime Minister, co-laureate in 1994 with The Nobel Peace Prize.1923 - Millôr Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian writer and cartoonist.
• 1924 - Fess Parker was born. American actor.
• 1924 - Francisco José was born in Évora (d. 1988). Portuguese singer.
• 1925 - Estréia em Nova York de "A quimera do ouro", primeiro longa-metragem de Charles Chaplin.
• 1925 - Constituição do Primeiro Partido Comunista de Cuba.
• 1925 - Willie Jones was born (d. 1983). American baseball player.
• 1926 - Artur Bual was born in Lisbon (d. 1999). Portuguese painter.
• 1927 - Ramón Veloz was born in Havana (d. 16 Aug 1986). Cuban singer and musician
• 1927 - Osvaldo Rossler was born. Cuban singer, author and poet.
• 1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing 20 people.
• 1928 - Ann Blyth was born. American actress (The Merry Monahans, The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso, The Buster Keaton Story).
• 1929 - The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
• 1929 - Bill Evans was born (d. 1980). American jazz pianist.
• 1929 - Fritz Von Erich was born (d. 1997). American professional wrestler.
• 1929 - Helmut Rahn was born (d. 2003). German footballer.
• 1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
• 1930 - Nasce Glauce Rocha, em Campo Grande, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil (m. 12 Out 1971 em S. Paulo). Actriz brasileira.
• 1930 - Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer.
• 1930 - O general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 1930 - Se inaugura en los Estados Unidos el primer supermercado del mundo (King Kullen Grocery Company in New York).
• 1930 - Ted Hughes was born. English poet.
• 1930 - Robert Culp was born. American actor.
• 1930 - Frank Gifford was born. American football player and announcer.
• 1930 - Tony Trabert was born. American former tennis player.
• 1931 - Eydie Gorme was born. American singer.
• 1933 - Julie Newmar was born. American actress.
• 1933 - Stuart Roosa was born (d. 1994). American astronaut.
• 1934 - Diana Wynne Jones was born. British author.
• 1934 - Ketty Lester was born. American singer.
• 1934 - Pierre Richard was born. French actor.
• 1935 - Andreas Stamatiadis was born. Greek footballer and coach.
• 1935 - Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive.
• 1936 - Encerram os Jogos Olímpicos de Berlim iniciados em 1 de Agosto. Portugal obteve uma medalha de bronze na modalidade de Hipismo, no concurso de obstáculos por equipas, através de Luís Mena e Silva, Domingos de Sousa Coutinho e José Beltrão.
• 1937 -Félix Paiva assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1937 - David Anderson was born. Canadian politician.
• 1937 - Rodolfo Chiari dies (b. 15 Nov 1869). President of Panamá (1924-1928).
• 1938 - Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado assume a presidência da República Dominicana que exerceu até à sua morte (7 Mar 1940).
• 1938 - Robert Johnson dies (b. 8 May 1911). Blues singer and guitarist.
• 1938 - Andrej Hlinka dies (b. 27 Sep 1864). Slovak politician and priest.
• 1939 - Sir Trevor Mcdonald was born., Trinidadian-born British television newsreader.
• 1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
• 1940 - Bruce Beresford was born. Australian film director.
• 1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
• 1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
• 1942 - Barbara George was born (d. 2006). American singer and songwriter.
• 1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
• 1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
• 1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
• 1945 - Suzanne Farrell was born. Ballet dancer.
• 1946 - The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 - The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
• 1946 - Dumarsais Estimé assume a presidência do Haiti.
• 1946 - Massoud Barzani was born. Iraqi Kurdish politician.
• 1946 - Lesley Ann Warren was born. American actress.
• 1946 - Dick Murdoch was born (d. 1996). American professional wrestler.
• 1947 - Carol Moseley Braun was born. American politician and lawyer.
• 1947 - Katharine Hamnett was born. English fashion designer.
• 1947 - Marc Messier was born. Quebec actor.
• 1948 - Moria Casán (Ana María Casanova) was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian actress.
• 1948 - Babe Ruth dies (b. 1895). American baseball player.
• 1949 - Margaret Mitchell dies (b. 1900). American novelist.
• 1950 - Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidad and Tobago athlete.
• 1950 - Federico Chaves assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1950 - Hasely Crawford was born. Trinidadian athlete.
• 1950 - Marshall Manesh was born. Iranian-born American actor.
• 1950 - Stockwell Day was born. Canadian politician.
• 1951 - Arnaldo Barsanti dies (b. 1889). Composer and musician ("Anastasio el pollo", "Echale aceite a la manija", "Los invisibles").
• 1951 - Richard Hunt was born (d. 1992). American puppeteer.
• 1951 - Louis Jouvet dies (b. 1887). French actor and producer.
• 1951 - Eduardo Chibás dies. Leader of Partido del Pueblo Cubano, Ortodoxo.
• 1952 - Reginald VelJohnson was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Lydia Field Emmet dies (b. 1866). American painter.
• 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford was born. French-born singer and actress.
• 1953 - Federico Chávez toma posse como Presidente do Paraguai.
• 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford was born. American singer and actress.
• 1953 - James "J.T." Taylor was born. American singer (Kool & The Gang).
• 1954 - The first edition of Sports Illustrated is published.
• 1954 - James Cameron was born. Canadian film director (Titanic, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, True Lies 2).
• 1955 - Nascimento Fernandes dies (b. 1881). Portuguese actor.
• 1956 - Bela Lugosi dies (b. 1882). Hungarian actor.
• 1957 - Tim Farriss was born. Australian musician (INXS).
• 1957 - Irving Langmuir dies (b. 1881). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1958 - Angela Bassett was born. American actress Waiting to Exhale, FX, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Malcolm X, Boyz N the Hood.
• 1958 - Madonna was born. American singer (Material Girl, Like a Virgin) and actress (Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own).
• 1959 - Wanda Landowska dies (b. 1879), Polish harpsichordist.
• 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
• 1960 - Timothy Hutton was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Francisco Lauro dies. Musician ("Los Mendocinos") Author tango "Perfidia".
• 1960 - Ausenda de Oliveira dies in Lisbon (b. 20 Apr 1888 in Cantanhede). Portuguese actress.
• 1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq dies (b. 1870). Father of Modern Urdu.
  
• 1962 - The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
• 1962 - Steve Carell was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1963 - Restauración de la independencia en la República Dominicana.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
• 1964 - Jimmy Arias was born. American tennis player.
• 1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• 1966 - Declaración de Bogotá firman presidentes y representantes de Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela y Perú.
• 1966 - Barry Lather was born. American choreographer, musician and actor.
• 1967 - Pamela Smart was born. American murderer.
• 1967 - Ulrika Jonsson was born. Swedish-born television personality.
• 1967 - René Magritte dies. Belgian painter.
• 1967 - Luis Antonio Eguiguren dies in Lima. Peruvian politician, historian and journalist.
• 1968 - Mateja Svet was born. Slovenian alpine skier.
• 1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested.
• 1970 - Saif Ali Khan was born. Indian actor.
• 1970 - Bonnie Bernstein was born. American sportscaster.
• 1971 - Stefan Klos was born. German footballer.
• 1971 - Mario Zanini dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
• 1972 - Emily Erwin was born. American musician (Dixie Chicks).
• 1972 - Stan Lazaridis was born. Australian soccer player.
• 1972 - Emily Robison was born. American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks).
• 1972 - Pierre Brasseur dies (b. 1905). French actor.
• 1973 - Damian Jackson was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Selman Waksman dies (b. 1888). Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
  
• 1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer.
• 1974 - Iván Hurtado was born. Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1974 - Roger Cedeño was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1974 - Robin Hull was born. Finnish snooker player.
• 1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi was born. Hungarian swimmer.
• 1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice.
• 1975 - Didier Agathe was born. French footballer.
• 1975 - George Stults was born. American actor.
• 1975 - Vladimir Kuts dies (b. 1929). Soviet runner.
• 1976 - Jonatan Johansson was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1976 - Dave Ockun was born. American concert producer.
• 1977 - Elvis Presley (b. 1935), the king of rock and roll dies from a drug overdose in his home in Graceland.
• 1978 - Eddie Gill was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer dies (b. 1888). Dutch lawyer and politician.
• 1979 - Michael Stahlman was born. American rower and coach.
• 1979 - John Diefenbaker dies (b. 18 Sep 1875). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1980 - Robert Hardy was born. English bassist (Franz Ferdinand).
• 1980 - Vanessa Carlton was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
• 1980 - Park Choong Hoon assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul.
• 1981 - Roque Santa Cruz was born. Paraguayan footballer.
• 1981 - Taylor Rain was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Joleon Lescott was borm. English footballer.
• 1983 - Colin Griffiths was born. English TV presenter and DJ.
• 1983 - Nikos Zisis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1983 - Colt Brennan was born. University of Hawai'i Quarterback.
• 1983 - Earl Averill dies (b. 1902). American baseball player.
• 1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
• 1985 - Madonna-Sean Penn's wedding.
• 1986 - Joaquín Balaguer takes place, for the third time, as President of the Dominican Republic.
• 1986 - Jaime Saenz dies (b. 1921). Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer.
• 1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (the sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the aircraft flaps.
• 1987 - Kyal Marsh was born. Australian actor.
• 1988 - Rumer Willis was born. American actress.
• 1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
• 1989 - Amanda Blake dies (b. 1929). American actress.
• 1990 - Paulino Vicente dies. Spanish painter.
• 1990 - Pat O'Connor dies (b. 1925). New Zealand professional wrestler.
• 1991 - Shamu dies (b. 1975). One of the famous whales that star at SeaWorld.
• 1991 - Luigi Zampa dies (b. 1905). Italian film director.
• 1991 - Evanna Lynch was born. Irish actress.
• 1992 - In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
• 1992 - El automovilista británico Nigel Mansell se consagra nuevo campeón del mundo de Fórmula 1.
• 1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release".
• 1993 - Stewart Granger dies in Santa Monica, California (b. 06 May 1913). English-born American actor.
• 1994 - Muere Manuel Jiménez de la Guardia, fundador del diario costarricense "La Nación". Fue Ministro de Industria y Comercio de su país.
• 1994 - Joaquín Balaguer toma posse (7º. mandato) do cargo de Presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1995 - J.P. McCarthy dies (b. 1933). American radio personality.
• 1996 - Leonel Fernández assume a Presidencia da República Dominicana.
• 1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan dies (b. 1948). Pakistani musician.
• 1997 - Gerard McLarnon dies (b. 1915). Irish playwright and actor.
• 1999 - Pee Wee King dies (b. 1914). American country musician and songwriter.
• 2000 - Hipólito Mejía assume a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 2000 - Início do segundo mandato do presidente venezuelano Hugo Chávez.
• 2002 - Martin Deutsch dies at 85. Physicist who discovered positronium.
• 2002 - Abu Nidal dies (b. 1937). Palestinian terrorist, founder of Fatah - the Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah) well known as Abu Nidal Organization.
• 2002 - Jeff Corey dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 2002 - John Roseboro dies (b. 1933). American baseball player and coach.
• 2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
• 2003 - Idi Amin dies (b. 1925). Ugandan dictator (1971-1979).
• 2003 - Haroldo de Campos dies (b. 19 Aug 1929 in São Paulo). Brazilian poet and translator.
• 2004 - Carl Mydans dies (b. 1907). American photographer.
• 2004 - Ivan Hlinka dies (b. 1950). Czech hockey coach.
• 2004 - Robert Quiroga dies ( 1969). American boxer.
• 2004 - Luís de Castro Faria dies (b. 1913). Brazilian anthropologist.
• 2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
• 2005 - Frère Roger of Taizé dies (b. 1915). Swiss monk and mystic.
• 2005 - Joe Ranft dies (b. 1960). American animator.
• 2005 - Vassar Clements dies (b. 1928). American musician.
• 2005 - Vicky Moscholiou dies (b. 1943). Greek singer.
• 2006 - Virginia Republican Senator George Allen makes the infamous "Macaca" remark to one of his rival's interns.
• 2006 - Princess Luisa of Savoy was born.
• 2006 - O Sport Club Internacional wins Copa Libertadores da Américam for the first time, after a draw 2-2 against São Paulo Futebol Clube.
• 2006 - Alex Buzo dies (b. 1944). Australian playwright and author.
• 2006 – Alfredo Stroessner dies (b. 1912). Paraguayan politician and President of Paraguay.
  
• 2006 - Herschel Green dies (b. 1920). American pilot.
• 2006 - Jon Nödtveidt dies (b. 1975). Swedish musician.
• 2007 – Bahaedin Adab dies (b. 1945). Iranian politician.
• 2007 – Dewey Robertson dies (b. 1939). Canadian professional wrestler.
• 2007 - Max Roach dies (b. 1924). American percussionist, drummer, and composer.
• 2008 - Sporting wins Portuguese Supercup in football beating FC Porto 2-0 with two goals scored by Yanick Djaló
  
• 2008 – Dorival Caymmi dies (b. 1914). Brazilian singer and songwriter.
  
• 2008 – Elena Leuṣtean dies (b. 1935). Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
  
• 2008 – Masanobu Fukuoka dies (b. 1913). Japanese sustainable farmer and author.
  
• 2008 - Ronnie Drew dies (b. 1934). Irish singer (The Dubliners).
• Palio dell'Assunta in Siena (on the day after the Assumption of Mary).
• Bennington Battle Day: legal holiday in Vermont, USA, for the Battle of Bennington in 1777 (which actually took place in the state of New York).
• Children's Day (Paraguay)
• Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.
• Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan).
• Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France).