Nothingandall: On this day in History

36 BC - In the battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
0301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
0590 - Consecration of Pope Gregory I, the Great.
0863 - Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan was born (d. 1073).
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned in Westminster.
1260 - The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1384 - Portugal: Fim do cerco de Lisboa (Crise de 1383-1385).
1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti dies (b. 1351). Duke of Milan.
1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany dies. Regent of Scotland.
1474 - Ariosto was born (d. 1533). Italian poet.
1499 - Diane de Poitiers was born (d. 1566). Mistress of Henri II of France.
1568 - Adriano Banchieri was born (d. 1634). Italian composer.
1592 - Robert Greene dies (b. 1558). English writer.
1634 - Edward Coke dies (b. 1552). English colonial entrepreneur and jurist.
1650 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).
1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1653 - Roger North was born (d. 1 Mar 1734). English lawyer, historian and biographer.
1653 - Claudius Salmasius dies (b. 1588). French classical scholar.
1658 - Oliver Cromwell dies (b. 1599). Lord Protector of England.
1662 - William Lenthall dies (b. 1591). English politician.
1666 - The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London.

1675 - Paul Dudley was born (d. 1751). Attorney-General of Massachusetts.

1693 - Charles Radclyffe was born (d. 1746). British politician.

1695 - Pietro Locatelli was born (d. 1764). Italian composer.

1710 - Abraham Trembley was born (d. 1784). Swiss naturalist.

1720 - Henri de Massue dies (b. 1648). Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat.

1722 - Ivan Skoropadsky dies (b. 1646). Hetman of Ukraine.

1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester was born (d. 1808). British soldier and Governor of Quebec.

1729 - Jean Hardouin dies (b. 1646). French scholar.

1758 - José I de Portugal escapa a uma tentativa de regicídio da qual resulta o Processo dos Távoras.

1759 - Em Portugal, D. José I (conhecido pelo cognome O Reformador) procedeu à abolição da Companhia de Jesus.

1766 - Archibald Bower dies (b. 1686). Scottish historian.

1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.

1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais was born (d. 1824). Son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine.

1783 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.

1798 - The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.

1802 - William Wordsworth composed the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".

1803 - English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

1808 - John Montgomery dies (b. 1722). American Continental Congressman.

1810 - Paul Kane was born (d. 1871). Canadian painter.

1811 - John Humphrey Noyes was born (d. 13 Apr 1886). American founder of the Oneida Community.

1812 - 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre.

1814 - Mark Hopkins was born (d. 29 Mar 1878). American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad.

1820 - George Hearst was born (d. 1891). American businessman, miner, US Senator, father of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

1830 - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach was born (d. 1916). Austrian novelist.

1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.

1841 - Tom Emmett was born (d. 1904). England cricketer.

1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett was born (d. 24 Jun 1909). American writer.

1851 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia was born (d. 1926). Queen of Greece.

1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children.

1856 - Louis Sullivan was born (d. 1924). American architect.

1856 – Robert Stewart was born (d. 1913). South African cricketer.

1857 - John McLoughlin dies (b. 1784). Canadian trapper.

1859 - Jean-Léon Jaurés was born. French socialist politician.

1860 - Edward Filene was born (d. 26 Sep 1937). American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist.

1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov dies (b. 1804). Russian poet.

1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky dies (b. 1830). Russian painter.

1869 - Fritz Pregl was born (d. 1930). Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, which will result in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.

1874 - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".

1875 - Ferdinand Porsche was born (d.1951). Austrian automotive engineer.

1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

1882 - Johnny Douglas was born (d. 1930). England cricketer and boxer.

1883 - António Sérgio (de Sousa) was born in Damão, India (d. 1969). Portuguese polygraph writer and essayst. [Considerações Histórico-filosoficas (1916); Ensaios (1920); O Desejado (1924); Antero de Quental e António Vieira (1948), Cartas ao Terceiro Homem (1953-57); ... ].

1883 - Ivan Turgenev dies (b. 1818). Russian author.

1886 - William W. Snow dies (b. 1812). American politician.

1887 - Frank Christian was born (d. 1973). American musician.

1888 - Nereu Ramos was Born (d. 1958). President of Brazil.

1888 - Thomas Milton Rivers was born (d. 12 May 1962). American virologist; helped to develop the polio vaccine.

1892 - English football club Nottingham Forest played their first league game, it was against Everton FC and ended 2-2.

1893 - James Harrison dies (b. 1816). Scottish-born inventor.

1895 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).

1897 - Francisco Mignone was born (d. 1986). Brazilian composer and conductor.

1897 - Sally Benson was born (d. 1972). American writer.

1898 - Alves dos Reis was born (d. 1955). The man who stole Portugal.

1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet was born (d. 31 Aug 1985). Australian Nobel Prize-winning (1960) physician and virologist.

1900 - Maurice Dobb was born (d. 1976). British economist.

1900 – Percy Chapman was born (d. 1961). England cricketer.

1900 - Urho Kekkonen was born (d. 1986). Eighth President of Finland.

1901 - Eduard van Beinum was born (d. 1959). Dutch conductor.

1902 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.

1903 - Joseph Skipsey dies (b. 1832). British poet.

1905 - Carl David Anderson was born (d. 1901). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1905 – John Mills was born (d. 1972). New Zealand cricketer.

1907 - Loren Eiseley was born (d. 1977). American anthropologist.

1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin was born (d. 1988). Russian mathematician.

1910 - Kitty Carlisle was born. American actress and television personality.

1910 - Maurice Papon was born (d. 2007). French Nazi collaborator.

1911 - Bernard Mammes was born (d. 2000). American cyclist.

1913 - Alan Ladd was born (d. 1964). American actor (Bonanza).

1914 - Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as Pope Benedict XV.

1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.

1914 - Dixy Lee Ray was born (d. 1994). American politician.

1914 - Albéric Magnard dies (b. 1865). French composer.

1916 - Eddie Stanky was born (d. 1999). Baseball player.

1918 - Helen Wagner was born. American actress.

1921 - Marguerite Higgins was born. American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner.

1921 – Thurston Dart was born (d. 1971). English harpsichordist and conductor.

1923 - Mort Walker was born. American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey).

1925 - Bengt Lindström was born (d. 2008). Swedish artist.

1925 – Hank Thompson was born (d. 2007). American singer.

1925 - Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira was born. Portuguese professor.

1925 – Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer

1926 - Alison Lurie was born. American novelist.

1926 - Irene Papas was born. Greek actress.

1928 - Gaston Thorn was born. President of the European Commission.

1929 - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.

1929 - Carlo Clerici was born (d. 2007). Swiss cyclist.

1930 - Cherry Wilder was born (d. 2002). New Zealand author.

1931 - Albert DeSalvo was born (d. 1973). The Boston Strangler.

1931 - Dick Motta was born. American basketball coach.

1931 - Paulo Maluf was born. Brazilian politician.

1932 - Eileen Brennan was born. American actress.

1932 - Ferreira Simões was born. Portuguese journalist.

1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).

1933 – Basil Butcher was born. West Indian cricketer.

1933 - Tompall Glaser was born. American singer.

1934 - Freddie King was born (d. 1976). American musician.

1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH.

1938 - Caryl Churchill was born. English playwright.

1938 - Eileen Brennan was born. American actress.

1938 - Ryoji Noyori was born. Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.

1940 - Eduardo Galeano was born. Uruguayan journalist.

1940 – Pauline Collins was born. English actress.

1941 - Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.

1941 - Sergei Dovlatov was born (d. 1990). Russian writer.

1942 - World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto.

1942 - Al Jardine was born. American musician (the Beach Boys)

1942 - John Shrapnel was born. English actor

1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.

1943 - Frank Lister was born. English footballer.

1943 - Valerie Perrine was born. American actress.

1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.

1945 – As combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater and the final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri.

1947 - Eric Bell was born. Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy).

1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik was born. Prime Minister of Norway.

1948 - Levy Mwanawasa was born (d. 2008). Zambian politician.

1948 - Edvard Beneš dies (b. 1884). President of Czechoslovakia.

1949 - José Pekerman was born. Argentine football manager.

1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria was born (d. 2004).

1950 - "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.

1950 - Racing inaugura en Avellaneda, provincia de Buenos Aires, su estadio de fútbol actual. Diseñado para más de 100.000 espectadores, es uno de los más grandes de Argentina.

1950 - Doug Pinnick was born. American bassist and singer (King's X).

1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

1951 - Denys Hobson was born. Former South African cricketer.

1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born. French film director.

1954 - The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.

1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

1954 - The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.

1955 - Steve Jones was born. English musician (Sex Pistols).

1956 - Pat McGeown was born. Provisional Irish Republican Army member.

1957 - Earl Cureton was born. American basketball player.

1957 - Garth Ancier was born. American television executive.

1958 - In Greece, police starts shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin.

1959 - Merritt Butrick was born (d. 1989). American actor.

1961 - Robert E. Gross dies (b. 1897). American businessman.

1962 - Costas Mandylor was born. Australian-born actor.

1962 - E. E. Cummings dies (b. 1894). American poet.

1962 - Aldo Locatelli dies (b. 1915). Italo-Brazilian painter.

1963 - Amber Lynn was born. American porn star.

1963 – Mubarak Ghanim was born. UAE footballer.

1963 - Louis MacNeice dies (b. 1907). Northern Irish poet.

1964 - Adam Curry was born. Internet entrepreneur.

1964 - Holt McCallany was born. American actor.

1964 - Junaid Jamshed was born. Pakistani singer.

1964 – Nigel Rhodes was born. English actor and musician.

1964 – Spike Feresten was born. American television writer.

1964 - Stewart Holbrook dies (b. 1893). American author.

1965 - Charlie Sheen was born. American actor.

1966 - The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.

1966 - Vladimir Ryzhkov was born. Russian politician.

1967 - The last telecast of the television game show What's My Line? airs on CBS after a 17 year run.

1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution.

1967 - Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right.

1967 - Woody Guthrie dies (b. 1912). American musician and songwriter.

1967 - James Dunn dies (b. 1905). American actor.

1968 - Isabel Withers dies (b. 1896). American actress.

1969 - Dominic West was born. British actor.

1969 - John Fugelsang was born. American actor.

1969 - John Lester dies (b. 1871). American cricketer.

1969 – Marianna Komlos was born (d. 2004). Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler and valet.

1970 - Gareth Southgate was born. English footballer.

1970 - Jeremy Glick was born (d. 2001). American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger.

1970 - Vince Lombardi dies (b. 1913). American football coach.

1970 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson dies (b. 1943). American musician known for his work with the group Canned Heat

1971 - Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom.

1971 - Chabeli Iglesias was born. Spanish journalist.

1971 – Trevor St. John was born. American actor.

1972 – Martin Straka was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1972 - Natalia Estrada was born. Spanish model and actress.

1973 - Damon Stoudamire was born. American basketball player.

1973 - Jennifer Paige was born. American singer.

1973 - Norihiko Hibino was born. Japanese composer.

1974 - Clare Kramer was born. American actress.

1974 – Rahul Sanghvi was born. Indian cricketer.

1974 - Harry Partch dies (b. 1901). American composer.

1975 - Cristobal Huet was born. French hockey player.

1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

1976 - Ashley Jones was born. American actress.

1976 - Jevon Kearse was born. American football player.

1976 – Vivek Oberoi was born. Indian actor.

1977 – Nate Robertson was born. American baseball player.

1977 - Olof Mellberg was born. Swedish footballer.

1977 - Rui Marques was born. Angolan footballer.

1978 - Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

1978 - John Curtis was born. English footballer.

1978 - Michal Rozsival was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1978 – Nick Wechsler was born. American actor.

1978 - Paul Moor was born. English ten-pin bowler.

1978 - Valfar was born (d. 2004). Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir).

1979 - Julio Cesar was born. Brazilian football player.

1979 – Tiffany Chapman was born. English actress.

1979 - Tomo Miličević was born. Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars).

1980 - Cone was born. Canadian bassist (Sum 41).

1980 – Daniel Ruben Bilos was born. Argentinian footballer

1980 - Danny King was born. American writer.

1980 - Jennie Finch was born. American softball player.

1980 - The B.G. was born. American rapper.

1980 - Duncan Renaldo dies (b. 1904). American actor.

1981 - Fearne Cotton was born. British television presenter.

1981 - Alec Waugh dies (b. 1898). English writer.

1982 - Fearne Cotton was born. British television presenter.

1982 - Andrew McMahon was born. American singer-songwriter.

1982 - Kaori Natori was born. Japanese singer and model.

1983 - Augusto Farfus was born. Brazilian racing driver.

1983 - Marcus McCauley was born. American football player.

1983 – Nicky Hunt was born. English footballer.

1983 – Valdas Vasylius was born. Lithuanian basketball player.

1984 - Garrett Hedlund was born. American actor.

1984 - Michael Cashin was born. American musician.

1985 - Kelvin Wilson was born. English footballer.

1985 - Scott Carson was born. English footballer.

1986 – Alexa Meade was born. American artist.

1986 - Shaun White was born. American snowboarder and skateboarder.

1987 - Chris Fountain was born. English actor.

1987 - Morton Feldman dies (b. 1926). American composer.

1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.

1991 - Frank Capra dies (b. 1897). American film director.

1993 - Rina Koike was born. Japanese junior idol.

1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.

1994 - James T. Aubrey dies (b. 1918). American television executive.

1994 - Billy Wright dies (b. 1924). English former footballer.

1994 - Major Lance dies (b. 1939). American singer.

1995 - eBay founded.

1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye dies (b. 1910). Australian artist.

1997 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.

1997 - A Vietnamese Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.

1998 - Espartaco Santoni dies. Venezuelan actor and producer.

1999 - 87-automobile pile-up on Highway 401 freeway just east of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.

2000 - Edward Anhalt dies (b. 1914). American screenwriter.

2001 - Pauline Kael dies (b. 1919). American film critic.

2001 - Thuy Trang dies (b. 1973). American actress.

2002 - W. Clement Stone dies (b. 1902). American best selling author and founder of Combined Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.)

2003 - Gilberto Gil recebe o Grammy Latino prémio de Personalidade do Ano, Miami

2003 - Paul Jennings Hill dies (b. 1954). American anti-abortion murderer.

2004 - A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed.

2004 - The Beslan school massacre results in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.

2004 - Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe, experiences a wardrobe malfunction while modelling at Westfield Shopping Mall, Parramatta, Australia.

2004 - The blog Nothingandall is created when the first post Russian troops in Beslan's School is published.

2005 - Fernando Távora dies (b. 1923). Portuguese architect.

2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter dies (b. 1913). British ornithologist and botanist.

2005 - William Rehnquist dies (b. 1924). Chief Justice of the United States.

2007 – Carter Albrecht dies (d. 1973). American musician.

2007 - Jane Tomlinson dies (b. 1964) British charity fund raiser.

2007 – Steve Ryan dies (b. 1947). American actor.

2007 – Syd Jackson dies (b. 1939). Māori activist and trade unionist.

2008 - Donald Blakeslee dies (b. 1917). American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II.

2009 - Portugal: Decision by Court of Lisbon on Casa Pia process, the longest judgement process in court of the Portuguese Justice.