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2010-09-06

On this day in History - Sep. 06

  • 3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
  • 3114 BC - According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
  • 0394 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
  • 0972 - Pope John XIII dies.
  • 1425 - Carlos III el Noble de Navarra, dies.
  • 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
  • 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi dies (b. 1481). Japanese shogun.
  • 1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
  • 1535 - Emanuel van Meteren was born (d. 1612). Flemish historian.
  • 1536 - William Tyndale dies (b, c, 1494). Protestant bible translator.
  • 1566 - Soliman II The Magnificent dies. Otoman sultan.
  • 1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
  • 1620 - Isabella Leonarda was born (d. 1704). Italian composer.
  • 1625 - Thomas Dempster dies (b. 1579). Scottish historian.
  • 1628 - Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 1635 - Metius dies (b. 1571). Dutch mathematician and astronomer.
  • 1640 - Portugal: D. Manuel de Bragança was born and died on the same day. Son of King John IV and D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão.
  • 1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick dies (b. 1574). English explorer and geographer.
  • 1656 - Guillaume Dubois was born (b. 1723). French cardinal and statesman.
  • 1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia was born (d. 1696).
  • 1669 - The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
  • 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert dies (b. 1619). French politician.
  • 1708 - Sir John Morden dies (b. 1623). English merchant and philanthropist.
  • 1711 - Henry Muhlenberg was born (d. 1787). German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church.
  • 1724 - Felipe V vuelve a ocupar el trono de España, tras la muerte de su hijo Luis, que sólo reinó siete meses y medio.
  • 1729 - Moses Mendelssohn was born (d. 1786). German philosopher.
  • 1732 - Johan Wilcke was born (d. 1796). Swedish physicist.
  • 1748 - Edmund Gibson dies (b. 1669). English jurist.
  • 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette was born (d. 1834). French soldier and statesman.
  • 1766 - John Dalton was born (d. 1844). British chemist and physicist; a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory and considered by some contemporaries as the “father” of both meteorology and chemistry.
  • 1776 - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
  • 1781 - Anton Diabelli was born (d. 1858). Austrian music publisher and composer.
  • 1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory.
  • 1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson dies (b. 1748). Wife of Thomas Jefferson.
  • 1783 - Bertinazzi dies (b. 1710). Italian actor and writer.
  • 1792 - French Revolutionary leader Georges Danton was elected deputy for Paris to the National Convention.
  • 1795 - Frances Wright was born (d. 1852). English writer, activist, and lecturer.
  • 1800 - Catharine Beecher was born (d. 1878). American educator.
  • 1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny was born (d. 1857). French naturalist.
  • 1808 - Abd al-Qadir was born (d. 1883). Algerian political and military leader.
  • 1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil was born (d. 1723). French historian.
  • 1811 - Aparece "El Peruano", primer periódico patriota de Perú. Diez años después, el Libertador Bolívar fundaría un diario oficial con el mismo nombre, que sobrevive hasta hoy.
  • 1814 - George-Étienne Cartier was born (d. 1873). Canadian politician.
  • 1815 - St. John Richardson Liddell was born (d. 1870). American Civil War Confederate General.
  • 1817 - Alexander Tilloch Galt was born (d. 1893). Politician, father of Canadian Confederation.
  • 1822 - Portugal: Os constitucionalistas eliminam a Inquisição (que havia sido estabelecida por João III ( o "Piedoso").
  • 1829 - Marie Zakrzewska was born (d. 1902). Polish physician.
  • 1838 - Samuel Arnold was born (d. 1906). Lincoln conspirator.
  • 1847 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
  • 1857 - Zelia Nuttall was born (d. 1933). American archeologist and historian.
  • 1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev was born (d. 1962). Russian mathematician.
  • 1860 - Jane Addams was born († 1935). American activist and social worker. 1931 Nobel Prize for Peace laureate (with Nicholas Murray Butler).
  • 1861 - American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
  • 1863 - American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
  • 1868 - Heinrich Häberlin was born (d. 1947). Swiss Federal Councilor.
  • 1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost dies (b. 1797). Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner.
  • 1869 - Felix Salten was born (d. 1945). Austrian author.
  • 1869 - Valentín Alsina dies. Argentinian politician who was Governor of Buenos Aires in 1857.
  • 1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • 1876 - John James Richard Macleod was born. English physician. 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine. laureate.
  • 1877 - Buddy Bolden was born (d. 1930). American musician.
  • 1879 - Joseph Wirth was born (d. 1956). Chancellor of Germany.
  • 1879 - Max Schreck was born (d. 1936). German actor.
  • 1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
  • 1885 - Eugenio Noel (Eugenio Muñoz Diaz) was born. Spanish writer.
  • 1885 - Narciso Monturiol dies (b. 28 Sep 1819). Spanish politician and inventor.
  • 1888 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
  • 1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was born (d. 1969). American politician.
  • 1888 - Abd el-Kader was born. Emir algérien.
  • 1890 - Clara Kimball Young was born (d. 1960). American actress.
  • 1892 - Sir Edward Appleton was born (d. 1965). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
  • 1893 - Claire Chennault was born (d. 1958). American pilot.
  • 1895 - Ricardo Cobarrubias Chacón was born in Lagos Moren, Jalisco. Mexican historian.
  • 1897 - Di Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 26 Oct 1976). Brazilian painter and caricaturist.
  • 1899 - Emídio Guerreiro was born († 2005). Portuguese politician.
  • 1899 - Billy Rose was born (d. 1966). American composer.
  • 1900 - W.A.C. Bennett was born (d. 1979). Canadian politician.
  • 1900 - Julien Green was born (d. 1998). French-American writer.
  • 1901 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  • 1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel dies (b. 1827). English chemist.
  • 1904 - Max Rosenbloom was born (d. 1976). American boxer.
  • 1904 - Pedro Homem de Melo was born in Porto (d. 05 Mar 1984). Portuguese poet.
  • 1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom was born (d. 1976). American boxer.
  • 1906 - Luis Federico Leloir was born († 1987). French-born Argentine scientist Premio Nobel de Química in 1970.
  • 1907 - Sully Prudhomme dies (b. 1839). French writer, 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
  • 1907 - Jerónimo de la Osa dies (b. 1847). Panamanian writer.
  • 1909 - Michael Gordon was born (d. 1993). American actor and director.
  • 1911 - Harry Danning was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
  • 1914 - French and British forces launched an offensive against advancing Germans in the First Battle of the Marne during World War I.
  • 1915 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
  • 1915 - Franz Josef Strauß was born (d. 1988). German politician.
  • 1917 - Philipp von Boeselager was born. German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler.
  • 1918 - Don Pedro M. Barros dies at 82. Peruvian educator.
  • 1919 - Wilson Greatbatch was born. American inventor.
  • 1920 - Maria Leonor was born. Portuguese radio personality.
  • 1921 - Carmen Laforet was born. Spanish writer.
  • 1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia was born (d. 1970).
  • 1925 - Jimmy Reed was born (d. 1976). American blues singer.
  • 1926 - Claus von Amsberg was born (d. 2002). Prince Consort of the Netherlands.
  • 1926 - Maurice Prather was born (d. 2001). American motion picture and still photographer.
  • 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig was born. American author.
  • 1928 - Evgeny Svetlanov was born (d. 2002). Russian conductor and composer.
  • 1929 - Yash Johar was born (d. 2005). Indian film producer.
  • 1930 - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup / Golpe militar en Argentina, el general José Félix Uriburu derroca al presidente democrático Hipólito Yrigoyen. Comienza la Década Infame.
  • 1935 - Jacques Desallangre was born. French politician.
  • 1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  • 1936 - Francisco Frutos was born. Spanish politician.
  • 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
  • 1937 - Jo Anne Worley was born. American actress.
  • 1937 - Sergio Aragonés was born. Spanish-born illustrator.
  • 1937 - Brigid Berlin was born. American actor and artist.
  • 1938 - Spain: Alfonso XIII de Borbón dies in a car crash.
  • 1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh dies (b. 1907). British racing driver and aviator.
  • 1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
  • 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa was born. Japanese scientist who was 1987 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.
  • 1939 - Dan Cragg was born. American soldier, essayist, and science-fiction author.
  • 1939 - David Allan Coe was born. American country singer, one of the key figures in the Outlaw country movement.
  • 1940 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
  • 1941 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
  • 1943 - The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
  • 1943 - Richard J. Roberts was born. British chemist who was 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicinelaureate.
  • 1943 - Roger Waters was born. English musician (Pink Floyd).
  • 1944 - Swoosie Kurtz was born. American actress.
  • 1944 - Germany fired the first long-range V-2 missile at an Allied target during World War II.
  • 1944 - World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
  • 1945 - Go Nagai was born. Japanese writer.
  • 1945 - Larry Lucchino was born. American baseball executive.
  • 1947 – Bruce Rioch was born. Scottish footballer and coach.
  • 1947 - Jane Curtin was born. American actress.
  • 1947 – Sylvester James was born. American singer
  • 1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
  • 1948 - Claydes Charles Smith was born (d. 2006). American musician (Kool & the Gang).
  • 1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
  • 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 - Olaf Stapledon dies (b. 1886). British writer and philosopher.
  • 1951 - James W. Gerard dies (b. 1867). American jurist and diplomat.
  • 1952 - Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
  • 1952 - Gertrude Lawrence dies (b. 1898). English actress.
  • 1953 - Giambattista Baronchelli was born. Italien cyclist.
  • 1954 – Carly Fiorina was born. Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
  • 1954 - Ève Luquet was born. French stamp designer.
  • 1955 - Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
  • 1955 - Emmett Till dies murdered (b. 1941). His murder has been cited as one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
  • 1956 - Bill Ritter was born. American politician.
  • 1957 - José Sócrates was born. Portuguese politician who is at present time Prime Minister of Portugal.
  • 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel was born. British singer.
  • 1958 - Jeff Foxworthy was born. American comedian, actor, and author .
  • 1958 - Michael Winslow was born. American actor and comedian.
  • 1958 - Nigel Westlake was born. Australian musician and composer.
  • 1960 - El ciclón Donna causa 102 muertos, 200 desaparecidos y unos 550 heridos a su paso por Puerto Rico.
  • 1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy was born. Norwegian guitarist (a-ha).
  • 1961 - Scott Travis was born. American musician (Judas Priest).
  • 1961 – Simon Reeve was born. Australian journalist.
  • 1962 - Elizabeth Vargas was born. American journalist.
  • 1962 - Kevin Willis was born. American basketball player.
  • 1962 - Hanns Eisler dies (b. 1898). German-born composer.
  • 1962 - Seiichiro Kashio dies (b. 1892). Japanese tennis player.
  • 1963 - The 100,000th Major League baseball game is played.
  • 1963 - Alice Sebold was born. American novelist.
  • 1963 – Bryan Simonaire was born. American politician.
  • 1963 - Geert Wilders was born. Dutch politician.
  • 1963 – Pat Nevin was born. Scottish footballer.
  • 1964 - Rosie Perez was born. American actress.
  • 1965 - War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
  • 1965 - John Polson was born. Australian actor and film director
  • 1966 - In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
  • 1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd dies (b. 1901). Prime Minister of South Africa.
  • 1966 - Margaret Sanger dies (b. 1879). American birth control activist.
  • 1966 - Gabino Diego was born. Spanish actor.
  • 1966 - Nicolás Olivari dies. Argentine writer.
  • 1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
  • 1968 – Christopher Brookmyre was born. Scottish writer.
  • 1968 – Paul Rea was born. American television journalist.
  • 1968 - Saeed Anwar was born. Pakistani cricketer.
  • 1969 - Ben Finegold was born. American Chess International Master.
  • 1969 - CeCe Peniston was born. American dance music singer.
  • 1969 – Michael Davis was born. American softball player (Solvents, et al.).
  • 1969 – Michellie Jones was born. Australian triathlete.
  • 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich dies (b. 18 Jul 1969). Brazilian footballer. One of the top goal scorers of all time.
  • 1970 - Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
  • 1970 - Palestina: Yasser Arafat es nombrado general en jefe de las fuerzas revolucionarias Palestinas.
  • 1970 - Paul Miller was born. American composer and author.
  • 1970 - Stephane Guivarch was born. Football player.
  • 1971 - Devang Gandhi was born. Indian cricketer.
  • 1971 - Dolores O'Riordan was born. Irish musician (The Cranberries).
  • 1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Go Away Little Girl" - Donny Osmond. Steve Lawrence hit No. 1 with the song in 1963, making this the first song in the rock era to be a No. 1 hit for two people.
  • 1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany.
  • 1972 – Anika Noni Rose was born. American actress and singer.
  • 1972 - China Miéville was born. English writer.
  • 1972 – Dylan Bruno was born. American actor (Numb3rs).
  • 1972 – Eugene Hütz was born. Ukrainian singer and composer (Gogol Bordello).
  • 1972 - Justina Machado was born. Puerto Rican actress.
  • 1973 - Carlo Cudicini was born. Italian football player.
  • 1973 - Greg Rusedski was born. Canadian-born tennis player.
  • 1974 – Justin Whalin was born. American actor.
  • 1974 - Nina Persson was born. Swedish musician (The Cardigans).
  • 1974 – Sarah Danielle Madison was born. American actress.
  • 1974 – Sarah Strange was born. Canadian actress.
  • 1974 - Tim Henman was born. English tennis player.
  • 1974 - Olga Baclanova dies (b. 1896). Russian-born actress.
  • 1975 - Derrek Lee was born. American baseball player.
  • 1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
  • 1976 - Portuguese writer and poet Miguel Torga receives in Hokke-Heist, Belgium,The International Grand Prize in Poetry.
  • 1976 - Hyun Young was born. South Korean actress and pop singer.
  • 1976 - Naomie Harris was born. American actress.
  • 1976 - N.O.R.E. was born. American rapper.
  • 1976 – Rodrigo Amarante was born. Brazilian musician (Little Joy, Los Hermanos).
  • 1977 - South-African police Polícia jails Steve Biko.
  • 1977 - Kiyoshi Hikawa was born. Japanese enka singer.
  • 1978 - Estados Unidos: los presidentes de Egipto, Anwar el-Sadat, e Israel, Menahem Beguin firman los acuerdos de paz para Oriente Medio en Camp David.
  • 1978 - Alex Escobar was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
  • 1978 - Cisco Adler was born. American singer.
  • 1978 – Mathew Horne was born. English actor.
  • 1978 - Tony Thaxton was born. Drummer (Motion City Soundtrack).
  • 1978 - Tom Wilson dies (b. 1931). Ameerican record producer.
  • 1979 - Argentina: la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos llega a Buenos Aires para investigar más de 30.000 asesinatos perpetrados en apenas tres años por el dictador Videla.
  • 1979 - Brandon Silvestry was born. American professional wrestler.
  • 1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales was born. Mexican footballer.
  • 1979 - Foxy Brown was born. American rapper.
  • 1979 - Massimo Maccarone was born. Italian football player.
  • 1980 – Jillian Hall was born. American professional wrestler.
  • 1980 - Joseph Yobo was born. Nigerian footballer.
  • 1980 - Samuel Peter was born. Nigerian heavyweight boxer.
  • 1980 – Yuji Hamano was born. Japanese archer.
  • 1981 – Mark Teahen was born. American baseball player.
  • 1981 - Søren Larsen was born. Danish football player.
  • 1981 – Yuki Abe was born. Japanese footballer.
  • 1981 - Yumiko Cheng was born. Hong Kong singer.
  • 1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" - Chicago.
  • 1982 - Italian football (soccer) player Paolo Rossi receives from FIFA the Prize for the best player in World Championship played in Spain.
  • 1983 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
  • 1983 - Chile: protestas contra los diez años del régimen del dictador Pinochet, con el resultado de 11 muertos, 25 heridos y 200 detenidos.
  • 1983 – Dimitri Champion was born. French professional bicyclist.
  • 1984 – Helena Jonsson was born. Swedish biathlete.
  • 1984 – Orsi Kocsis was born. Hungarian model.
  • 1984 - Ernest Tubb dies (b. 1914). American singer.
  • 1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
  • 1985 – Alberto Valerio was born. Brazilian racing driver.
  • 1985 – Ali Ashfaq was born. Maldivian footballer.
  • 1985 - Johnny Desmond was born (d. 1919). American singer.
  • 1985 - Webbie was born. American rapper.
  • 1986 - In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
  • 1986 - Raven Riley was born. American porn star.
  • 1986 - Blanche Sweet dies (b. 1895). American actress.
  • 1987 - Ramiele Malubay was born. American singer.
  • 1987 - Quinn Martin dies (b. 1922). American television producer.
  • 1987 - William Haley dies. BBC director (1944-1952).
  • 1988 – Denis Tonucci was born. Italian footballer.
  • 1988 - Leroy Brown dies (b. 1950). Professional wrestler.
  • 1989 – Kim So Eun was born. Korean actress.
  • 1989 - Nikos Boutzikos was born. Greek footballer.
  • 1990 - Boeing VC-25 begins flying.
  • 1990 - Juan Carlos Ghiano dies in Buenos Aires (b. 1920). Argentinian writer, essayist and playwright.
  • 1990 - Len Hutton dies (b. 1916). English cricketer.
  • 1990 - Tom Fogerty dies (b. 1941). American singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival).
  • 1991 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • 1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
  • 1991 - Marrocos: Government agree a cease fire with Frente Polisario.
  • 1991 - Bob Goldham dies (b. 1922). Canadian ice hockey player.
  • 1992 - Fabiola Rodas was born. Guatemalan-American artist.
  • 1994 - Nicky Hopkins dies (b. 1944). British musician.
  • 1995 - With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
  • 1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
  • 1996 - Eddie Murray becomes the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
  • 1997 - P. H. Newby dies (b. 1918). British author and BBC radio director.
  • 1998 - Akira Kurosawa dies (b. 1910). Japanese film director.
  • 1999 - El motociclista español Alex Crivillé triunfa en el Gran Premio de la Ciudad de Imola, Italia.
  • 1999 - René Lecavalier dies (b. 1918). French television play-by-play hockey broadcaster.
  • 2000 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit takes place with more than 180 world leaders present.
  • 2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart was born and died (d. 2000). First Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth.
  • 2001 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
  • 2002 - Spanish Professor Juan Velarde receives The Prize Rey Juan Carlos of Economics.
  • 2003 - Tropical Depression 9 (Hurricane Isabel) formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.
  • 2003 - Harry Goz dies (b. 1932). American actor.
  • 2005 - The California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage without a pre-emptive judicial order to do so.
  • 2005 - Hasan Abidi dies (b. 1929). Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet.
  • 2006 - Prince Hisahito of Akishino was born. Japan Imperial Family member.
  • 2007 – Alex dies (b. 1976). African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg.
  • 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti dies (b. 1935). Italian tenor.
  • 2007 – Madeleine L'Engle dies (b. 1918). American author.
  • 2007 – Percy Rodrigues dies (b. 1918). Canadian actor.
  • 2008 – Anita Page dies (b. 1910). Silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards.
  • 2008 - Sören Nordin dies (b. 1917). Swedish harness racing driver and trainer.
  • Bulgaria - Unification Day.

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