On this day in History - Sep. 05

• 1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan dies (b. 1143).
• 1187 - Louis VIII of France was born (d. 1226).
• 1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1161).
• 1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1165).
• 1494 - Ratificação do Tratado de Tordesilhas por Portugal.
• 1548 - Catarina Parr dies (b. 1512). Last wife of Henrique VIII of England.
• 1567 – Date Masamune was born (d. 1636). Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan.
• 1568 - Tommaso Campanella was born (d. 1639). Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet.
• 1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
• 1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre dies (b. 1529). Chancellor of France.
• 1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma was born (d. 1694). Spanish noble.
• 1629 - Domenico Allegri dies (b. c. 1585). Italian composer.
• 1638 - Louis XIV of France was born (d. 1715).
• 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo dies (b. 17 Sep 1580). Spanish poet.
• 1661 - Fall of Nicolas Fouquet : Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers before being transferred to the castle of Vincennes then at Angers and Amboise. He remained incarcerated in the fortress of Pignerol until his death in 1680.
• 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
• 1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri was born (d. 1733). Italian mathematician.
• 1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin was born (d. 1770). Swedish politician.
• 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
• 1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1763).
• 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczyńska of Poland.
• 1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla was born (d. 1799). French mathematician.
• 1734 - Nicolas Bernier dies (b. 1664). French musician and composer.
• 1735 - Johann Christian Bach was born (d. 1782). German composer.
• 1750 - Robert Fergusson was born (d. 1774). Scottish poet.
• 1771 - Archduke Charles was born (d. 1847). Austrian general.
• 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1774 - Caspar David Friedrich was born (d. 1840). German Romantic artist, painter.
• 1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (The undaunted), was born (d. 1825). Spanish guerillero.
• 1781 - Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
• 1786 - Jonas Hanway dies (b. 1712). English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist.
• 1787 - François Sulpice Beudant was born (d. 1850). French mineralogist and geologist.
• 1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer was born (d. 1864). German composer.
• 1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy was born (d. 1857). French geologist and mineralogist.
• 1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.
• 1798 - Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
• 1800 - Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
• 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos dies (b. 1741). French general and author.
• 1803 - François Devienne dies (b. 1759). French composer.
• 1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was born (d. 1865). French general.
• 1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench was born (d. 1886). Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist.
• 1808 - John Home dies (b. 1722). Scottish writer.
• 1809 - Manuel Montt Torres was born (d. 1880). President of Chile.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
• 1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
• 1826 – John Wisden was born (d. 1884). England cricketer.
• 1827 - Goffredo Mameli was born. Italian poet and writer.
• 1831 - Victorien Sardu was born (d. 8 Nov 1908). French actor and playwright.
• 1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1836 - Justiniano Borgoño was born (d. 1921). President of Peru.
• 1836 - Ferdinand Raimund dies (b. 1790). Austrian playwright.
• 1838 - Charles Percier dies (b. 1764). French architect.
• 1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
• 1840 - Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
• 1847 - Jesse James was born (d. 1882). American outlaw.
• 1850 – Jack Daniel was born (d. 1911). Creator of Jack Daniel's.
• 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born (d. 1935). Russian rocket scientist and inventor.
• 1857 - Auguste Comte dies (b. 1798). French sociologist.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
• 1864 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
• 1867 - Amy Beach was born. American composer and pianist.
• 1867 - Santiago Derqui dies (b. 1809). Argentinian politician.
• 1870 - Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1874 - Nap Lajoie was born (d. 1959). American baseball player.
• 1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi was born (d. 1944). Tunisian politician.
• 1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb was born (d. 1956). German field marshal.
• 1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi was born. Tunisian politician.
• 1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada dies (b. 1790). First president of Chile.
• 1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1877 - Crazy Horse dies (b. 1849). Lakota (Sioux) chief.
• 1881 - Otto Bauer was born (d. 1938). Austrian Social Democratic politician.
• 1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186.
• 1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born (d. 1975). Second President of India.
• 1892 - Joseph Szigeti was born (d. 1973). Hungarian violinist.
• 1898 - Sarah Edmonds dies (b. 1841). Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy.
• 1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1901 – Mario Scelba was born (d. 1991). Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič dies (b. 1853). Slovenian physicist.
• 1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck was born (d. 1979). American film producer and executive.
• 1902 - Rudolf Virchow dies (b. 1821). German pathologist and politician.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
• 1905 - Arthur Koestler was born (d. 1983). Hungarian writer.
• 1905 – Justiniano Montano was born (d. 2005). Filipino politician.
• 1905 - Maurice Challe was born (d. 1979). French general, one of the leaders of the Algiers putsch in 1961.
• 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• 1906 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
• 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann dies (b. 1844). Austrian physicist.
• 1908 – Gloria Holden was born (d. 1991). British actress.
• 1908 - Josué de Castro was born. Brazilian writer, geographer and nutricionist.
• 1908 - Gloria Holden was born (d. 1991). British actress.
• 1909 – Archie Jackson was born (d. 1933). Australian cricketer.
• 1910 – Phiroze Palia was born (d. 1981). Indian cricketer.
• 1910 – Leila Mackinlay, née Leila Antionette Sterling (aka Brenda Grey) was born. British romance writer.
• 1912 – Frank Thomas was born (d. 2004). American animator.
• 1912 - John Cage was born (d. 1992). American composer.
• 1912 - Kristina Söderbaum was born (d. 2001). German actress and photographer.
• 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr. dies (b. 1845). U.S. Army general.
• 1913 - Frank Thomas was born (d. 2004). American animator.
• 1913 - Joaquim Câmara Ferreira was born in São Paulo. Brazilian comunist.
• 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1914 - Nicanor Parra was born. Chilean poet and mathematician.
• 1914 - Charles Péguy dies (b. 1873). French poet, essayst and editor.
• 1915 - The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1916 - Frank Shuster was born (d. 2002). Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster).
• 1916 – Frank Yerby was born (d. 1991). American novelist.
• 1917 – Sören Nordin was born (d. 2008). Swedish harness racing driver and trainer.
• 1917 - Marian Smoluchowski dies (b. 1872). Polish physicist.
• 1918 - Decree "Red Terror" is published in Russia.
• 1918 - Luis Alcoriza was born (d. 1992). Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor.
• 1920 - Alvaro Obregón is electeted President of México.
• 1920 - Robert Harron dies (b. 1893). American actor.
• 1921 - Jack Valenti was born (d. 2007). American political advisor and film executive.
• 1922 - Georgette Agutte dies (b. 1867). French painter.
• 1923 – Ken Meuleman was born (d. 2004). Australian cricketer.
• 1924 - Paul Dietzel was born. American college football coach.
• 1926 - Karl Harrer dies (b. 1890). German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", which would become the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).
• 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 1927 - Paul Volcker was born. American banker.
• 1929 - Andrian Nikolayev was born (d. 2004). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1929 – Bob Newhart was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1930 - Robert Means Thompson dies (b. 1849). American naval officer.
• 1931 - John Thomson dies after an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909). Football player.
• 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• 1932 - El Congreso Mexicano acepta la dimisión del presidente Ortiz Rubio. Le sustituye el general Rodríguez.
• 1932 - Francisco Acebal dies (b. 1866). Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist.
• 1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa was born. Chilian catholic archbishop.
• 1934 - Carol Lawrence was born. American actress and singer.
• 1935 – Johnny Briggs MBE was born. English actor.
• 1935 – Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes was born. President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.
• 1936 - Bill Mazeroski was born. American baseball player.
• 1936 - Federico Borrell García dies (b. 1912). Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War.
• 1936 – Jonathan Kozol was born. American writer, sociologist.
• 1936 – John Danforth was born. American politician.
• 1936 - Gustave Kahn dies (b. 1859). French Symbolist poet and art critic.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
• 1937 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1937 – Colin Wesley was born. South African cricketer.
• 1937 – William Devane was born. American actor.
• 1938 - Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the National Socialist Movement (MSN) are assassinated after a attempted coup d'état against the government of Arturo Alessandri Palma in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
• 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
• 1939 – Claudette Colvin was born. American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
• 1939 - Clay Regazzoni was born (d. 2006). Swiss racing driver.
• 1939 - George Lazenby was born. Australian actor.
• 1939 – John Stewart was born (d. 2008). American musician (The Kingston Trio).
• 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa was born. Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1940 - Raquel Welch was born. American actress.
• 1941 - Rachid Boudjedra was born. Argelian writer.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in Pacific theatre. Two Australian Brigades and one U.S.Army Corps of Engineers hold airfields.
• 1942 – Denise Fabre was born. French television presenter.
• 1942 - Eduardo Mata was born (d. 1995). Mexican conductor and composer.
• 1942 - Werner Herzog was born. German film director.
• 1942 - François de Labouchère dies (b. 1917). French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération.
• 1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
• 1943 – Dulce Saguisag was born (d. 2007). Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary.
• 1943 - Aleš Hrdlička dies (b. 1869). Czech anthropologist.
• 1944 - Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• 1944 - Dario Bellezza was born (d. 1996). Italian poet, author and playwright.
• 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• 1945 - Al Stewart was born. Scottish singer and songwriter.
• 1945 - Clem Hill dies (b. 1877). Australian cricketer.
• 1946 – Begum Khaleda Zia was born. Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
• 1946 – Dennis Dugan was born. American actor and film director.
• 1946 - Freddie Mercury was born (d. 1991). Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen).
• 1946 - Loudon Wainwright III was born. American singer and composer.
• 1946 - Hugo Verboven was born in Lommel. Belgian painter.
• 1947 – Bruce Yardley was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1947 - Buddy Miles was born (d. 2008). American musician.
• 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• 1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner was born. Austrian diplomat and politician.
• 1948 - Richard C. Tolman dies (b. 1881). American mathematical physicist.
• 1949 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
• 1950 - Cathy Guisewite was born. American cartoonist.
• 1950 - Paul William Roberts was born. Canadian writer.
• 1951 - Michael Keaton was born. American actor.
• 1951 – Patti McGuire was born. American model and television producer.
• 1951 - Paul Breitner was born. German footballer.
• 1953 - Richard Walther Darré dies (b. 1895). Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists.
• 1954 – Frederick Kempe was born. American author, journalist, and executive.
• 1954 – Richard Austin was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1954 - Eugen Schiffer dies (b. 1954). German politician.
• 1955 - João de Melo was born in Luanda. Angolan poet.
• 1956 - Roine Stolt was born. Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings).
• 1957 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1957 - Luís Marques Mendes was born. Portuguese politician and lawyer.
• 1957 - Peter Winnen was born. Dutch bicycle road athlete.
• 1960 - Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
• 1960 - Senegal: Poet Leopoldo Sedar Senghor is elected President.
• 1960 - O Real Madrid ganha a Taça Intercontinental ao vencer o Peñarol por 5 a 1.
• 1961 - The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
• 1961 - Brasil: João Goulart chega de viagem à China para ser empossado presidente (v. Campanha da Legalidade).
• 1961 - Marc-André Hamelin was born. Canadian pianist.
• 1962 - Peter Wingfield was born. Welsh actor.
• 1963 - António Pires Vicente was born. Portuguese poet and reporter.
• 1963 – Jeff Brantley was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 – Jonathan Phillips was born. English actor.
• 1963 - Kristian Alfonso was born. American actress.
• 1963 – Taki Inoue was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1964 - The song "The House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
• 1964 – Amanda Ooms was born. Swedish actress.
• 1964 - Frank Farina was born. Australian footballer.
• 1964 – Ken Norman was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - Abilio Machado de Lima Filho [Poet Ha, Abilio Machado] was born in Campo Largo, Paraná. Brazilian poet, writer and artist.
• 1965 - Estádio do Mineirão is founded in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
• 1965 – César Rincón was born. Colombian bullfighter (matador).
• 1965 – Chris Gore was born. American filmmaker.
• 1965 - Chris Morris was born. British writer.
• 1965 – David Brabham was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1965 - Thomas Johnston dies (b. 1882). Scottish-born politician.
• 1966 - Achero Mañas was born. Spanish actor and film director.
• 1966 - Milinko Pantić was born. Serbian footballer.
• 1966 - Dezső Lauber dies (b. 1879). Hungarian athlete.
• 1967 – India Hicks was born. English model.
• 1967 - Jane Sixsmith was born. English field hockey player.
• 1967 - Mathias Sammer was born. German football player.
• 1968 - Brad Wilk was born. American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine).
• 1968 – Dennis Scott was born. American basketball player.
• 1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• 1969 - Dweezil Zappa was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1969 – Mark Ramprakash was born. English cricketer.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
• 1970 – Kim Hye-su was born. South Korean actress and model.
• 1970 - Liam Lynch was born. American musician (Sifl and Olly).
• 1970 – Mohammad Rafique was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 1970 – Steve Burton was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Jochen Rindt dies (b. 1942). Austrian race car driver.
• 1971 – Adam Hollioake was born. England cricketer.
• 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
• 1972 – Guy Whittall was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.
• 1972 – Shane Sewell was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Alexandra Kerry was born. Daughter of American Senator John Kerry.
• 1973 – Paddy Considine was born. English actor.
• 1973 - Rose McGowan was born. Italian-born actress.
• 1973 - Jack Fournier dies (b. 1889). American baseball player.
• 1974 – Rawl Lewis was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1975 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
• 1975 - George Boateng was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo was born. American horrorcore rapper.
• 1975 - Matt Geyer was born. Australian rugby league footballer.
• 1975 – Rod Barajas was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Georg Ots dies (b. 1920). Estonian singer.
• 1976 - Carice van Houten was born. Dutch actress.
• 1976 – Richard Marsland was born. Australian comedian/writer and radio personality.
• 1976 – Tatyana Gutsu was born. Ukrainian gymnast.
• 1977 - Hanns Martin Schleyer, President of the German Employers' Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. Kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
• 1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 1977 – Alexey Harkov was born. Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
• 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria was born. Spanish football winger
• 1977 – Minoru Fujita was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1977 - Nazr Mohammed was born. American basketball player.
• 1977 – Rosevelt Colvin was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Marcel Thiry dies (b. 1897). Belgian writer and wallon militant.
• 1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1978 - Chris Jack was born. New Zealand rugby union footballer.
• 1978 - Laura Bertram was born. Canadian actress.
• 1978 – Sylvester Joseph was born. West Indian cricketer
• 1978 - Zhang Zhong was born. Chinese chess player.
• 1979 - George O'Callaghan was born. Irish footballer.
• 1979 - John Carew was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio was born. Italian footballer.
• 1979 – Stacey Dales was born. Canadian basketball player and sportscaster.
• 1979 – Stewart Holden was born. English scrabble player.
• 1979 - Alberto di Jorio dies (b. 1884). Former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave.
• 1980 - The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
• 1980 - Franco Costanzo was born. Argentinian football goalkeeper.
• 1981 – Daniel Moreno was born. Spanish professional bicyclist.
• 1981 - Drew Carter was born. American football player.
• 1981 – Filippo Volandri was born. Italian tennis player.
• 1981 – Nina Eichinger was born. German actress.
• 1982 - Alexandre Geijo was born. Spanish/Swiss footballer.
• 1982 - Sondre Lerche was born. Norwegian musician.
• 1982 - Douglas Bader dies (b. 1910). RAF fighter pilot in World War II.
• 1983 - The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
• 1983 - Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight.
• 1983 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
• 1983 – Antony Sweeney was born. Hartlepool United Footballer.
• 1983 – Eugen Bopp was born. Ukrainian-German footballer.
• 1983 – Pablo Granoche was born. Uruguayan footballer.
• 1983 – Xavier Susai was born. Australian comedian.
• 1983 - Antonio Mairena dies (b. 1909). Flamenco singer.
• 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• 1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• 1984 – Trey Hill was born. Grammy-nominated musician.
• 1985 – Ryan Guy was born. American soccer player.
• 1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• 1986 – Pragyan Ojha was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1987 - Pierre Casiraghi was born. Son of princessCaroline of Monaco.
• 1988 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
• 1988 - Felipe Caicedo was born. Equatorian footballer.
  
• 1988 – Nuri Sahin was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1988 - Gert Fröbe dies (b. 1913). German actor.
• 1990 – Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
• 1990 – Kim Yu-Na was born. Korean figure skater.
• 1990 - Ivan Mihailov dies (b. 1896). Bulgarian revolutionary.
• 1990 - Juan Oscar Ponferrada dies (b. 11 May 1907). Argentine writer.
• 1991 - Skandar Keynes was born. English actor.
• 1992 - John Mellencamp marries model Elaine Irwin. It is the third marriage for the 40-year-old Indiana-born rocker and first for the 23-year-old model.
• 1992 - Fritz Leiber dies (b. 1910). American author.
• 1993 - The Musical "Jellys Last Jam" closed at the Virginia Theatre after 569 performances.
• 1993 - Gage Golightly was born. American actress.
• 1993 - Claude Renoir dies (b. 1914). French cinematographer.
• 1994 – Shimshon Amitsur dies (b. 1921). Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient.
  
• 1995 - William Kunstler dies (b. 1919). American lawyer and activist.
• 1996 - Carl Fallberg dies (b. 1915). American cartoon author.
• 1997 - Erykah Badu, R & B singer, wins an unprecedented four honors at the 1997 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. Badu is named best R&B/soul or rap new artist, R&B/soul album of the year, the solo accolade for her debut set "Baduizm," and best R&B/ soul single, solo and song of the honors for "On & On".
• 1997 - Georg Solti dies (b. 1912). Hungarian conductor who led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to international fame as its music director for more than 20 years.
• 1997 - Mother Teresa dies (b. 1910). Albanian nun and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1997 - At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre.
• 1998 – Fernando Balzaretti dies (b. 1946). Mexican actor.
  
• 1998 – Ferdinand Biondi dies (b. 1909). Canadian broadcaster.
  
• 1998 - Leo Penn dies (b. 1921). American film director.
• 1998 - Verner Panton dies (b. 1926). Danish designer.
• 1999 - Allen Funt dies (b. 1914). American radio and television personality.
• 1999 - Bryce Mackasey dies (b. 1921). Canadian politician.
• 1999 - Katie Webster dies of heart failure at her home in League City, Texas at 63. Blues singer and pianist.
• 2000 – The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
• 2000 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
• 2001 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
• 2001 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 2001 - Evidence provided for black hole theory: At a scientific conference in Washington, D.C., scientists described an observation of energy flares that provided strong evidence of the theorized black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
• 2001 – Justin Wilson dies (b. 1914). American Cajun chef and humorist.
• 2001 - Vladimir Zerjavic dies (b. 1912). Croatian UN statistician.
• 2002 - A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
• 2002 - The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, United States, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
• 2002 - David Todd Wilkinson dies (b. 1935). American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation.
• 2003 - Israel troops kill a Hamas leader, Mohammed Hanbali, in the West Bank city of Nablus.
• 2003 - Fabian hurricane comes to Bermudas.
• 2003 - Gisele MacKenzie dies (b. 1927). Canadian-born singer.
  
• 2004 - Tropical Storm Ivan becomes Hurricane Ivan in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 2004 - Hurricane Frances makes landfall at 1 a.m. in Sewell's Point, Florida.
• 2005 - A Russian Navy fighter jet, a Sukhoi Su-33, crashes and sinks to a depth of 1,100 meters near Shetland in the Norwegian Sea during a military exercise.
• 2005 - Ethiopian general elections, 2005: The National Elections Board of Ethiopia, following repeat voting in 31 areas, announces that the ruling EPRDF coalition has retained control of the government, obtaining 59 percent of the seats in Parliament.
• 2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091: A Mandala Airlines flight crashes into a residential area of the Indonesian city of Medan, killing at least 100 passengers. Among the dead are the governor and former governor of Sumatra Utara, Rizal Nurdin and Raja Inal Siregar.
• 2005 - Roberto Viaux dies (b. 1917). Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile.
• 2007 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Quaeda are arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. See German Terror Plot 9/07.
• 2007 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Quaeda are arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. See German Terror Plot 9/07.
• 2007 - Jennifer Dunn dies (b.1941). American politician.
• 2007 - D. James Kennedy dies (b. 1930). American televangelist.
• 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis dies (b. 1939). Greek film director and a writer.
  
• 2007 – Paul Gillmor dies (b. 1939). American politician.
  
• 2007 – Thomas Hansen dies (b. 1976). Norwegian musician.
  
• 2008 - Evan Tanner dies (b. 1971). American mixed martial artist.
  
• Roman festivals - Jupiter Stator to commemorate that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius.
• RC Saints - The feast day of Teresa of Calcutta, currently pending sainthood.
• India - The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.