Nothingandall: On this day in History

0275 - M. Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
0303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
0813 - Al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), was murdered
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era.
1066 - Harald III Hardrada dies (killed in battle) (b. 1015). King of Norway and England (1047-66).
1066 - Tostig Godwinson dies killed in battle of Stamford Bridge. Earl of Northumbria.
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 1025).
1333 - Prince Morikuni dies (b. 1301). Japanese shogun.
1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was born (d. 1408). Japanese shogun.
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1493 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1496 - Piero Capponi was born (d. 1447). Italian soldier and statesman.
1506 - King Philip I of Castile dies (b. 1478).
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He was named governor of Panama and the Pacific by King Ferdinand.
1525 - Steven Borough was born (d. 1584). English explorer.
1534 - Pope Clement VII dies (b. 1478).
1536 - Johannes Secundus dies (b. 1511). Dutch poet.
1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1599 - Francesco Borromini was born (d. 1667). Swiss sculptor.
1602 - Caspar Peucer dies (b. 1515). German reformer.
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan dies (b. 1617).
1617 - Francisco Suarez dies (b. 1548). Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian.
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes dies (b. 1555). English scholar.
1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases dies (b. 1569). Spanish general.
1644 - Ole Rømer was born (d. 1710). Danish astronomer.
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria dies (b. 1610). Electress of Bavaria.
1680 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1613). English poet and satirist.
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau was born (b. 1764). French composer (Treatise of Harmony, Hippolyte and Aricie, Castor and Pollux, Zoroastre, Les Indes Galants).
1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.

1694 - Henry Pelham was born (d. 1754). Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1698 - D. Diogo de Faro e Sousa dies. Portuguese noble.

1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll dies (b. 1658). Scottish privy councillor.

1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China was born (d. 1799).

1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born († 1804). French automobile pioneer.

1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke was born (d. 1789). American lawyer and President of Delaware.

1764 - Fletcher Christian was born (d. 1793). English Bounty mutineer.

1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu was born (d. 1822). French-Russian statesman.

1773 - Agostino Bassi was born (d. 1856). Italian entomologist.

1774 - John Bradstreet dies (b. 1714). Canadian-born soldier.

1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert dies (b. 1728). French-German mathematician.

1780 - Jason Fairbanks was born (d. 1801). American murderer.

1782 - Charles Robert Maturin was born (d. 1824). Irish playwright and novelist.

1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

1791 - William Bradford dies (b. 1719). American printer.

1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke dies (b. 1710). Danish statesman.

1794 - Paul Rabaut dies (b. 1718). French Huguenot pastor.

1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye was born (d. 1875). French sculptor.

1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont was born (d. 1874). French geologist.

1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.

1825 - William Pitt Ballinger was born (d. 1888). Texas lawyer and statesman.

1825 - Joachim Heer dies (b. 1879). Swiss politician.

1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel was born (d. 1904). German palaeontologist.

1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.

1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior dies (b. 1804). Austrian composer.

1862 - Billy Hughes was born (d. 1952). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia.

1862 - Léon Boëllmann was born (d. 1897). French composer.

1866 - Thomas Morgan was born (d. 1945). American geneticist.

1867 - Oliver Loving dies (b. 1812). American pioneer rancher.

1867 - Evgenii Miller was born (d. 1938). Russian counter-revolutionary.

1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia.

1873 - Affonso Camargo was born († 1954). Brazilian politician.

1879 - Lope K. Santos was born (d. 1963). Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar.

1881 - Lu Xun was born (d.1936). Chinese writer.

1884 - Edgard Roquette-Pinto was born († 1954). Brazilian physician, ethnologist and essayist.

1888 - The Royal Court Theatre, London, opened.

1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff was born (d. 1930). Scottish writer and translator.

1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.

1896 - Sandro Pertini was born (d. 1990). President of the Italian Republic.

1897 - William Faulkner was born (d. 1962). American novelist. Nobel Prize-winning writer in 1949. ( The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers).

1898 - Austregésilo de Athayde was born († 1993). Brazilian journalist and writer.

1898 - Robert Brackman was born (d. 1980). American artist.

1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand dies (b. 1832). Premier of Québec.

1901 – Gordon Coventry was born (d. 1968). Australian rules footballer.

1901 - Robert Bresson was born (d. 1999). French film director.

1903 - Mark Rothko was born (d. 1970). Latvian-born painter. His work included “Subway” (1936/1939), “Street Scene” (1936/1938), “Untitled” (1942), “Untitled” (1942/1943), “Phalanx of the Mind” (1945), “The Source” (1946), “Sacrificial Moment” (1946), “Number 18” (1948), and “Untitled” (1945-1946).

1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac dies (b. 1853). French politician.

1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.

1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich was born (d. 1975). Russian composer.

1906 - José Figueres Ferrer was born. President of Costa Rica (1948-1949, 1953-1958 e 1970-1974).

1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

1911 - Eric Williams was born (d. 1981). First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York,_New York.

1915 - Worl War I - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

1915 - Ethel Rosenberg was born (d. 1953). American Communist.

1915 - Herculano Pires was born († 1979). Brazilian writer.

1916 - Jessica Anderson was born. Australian author.

1917 - Phil Rizzuto was born (d. 2007). American baseball player and announcer.

1917 - Johnny Sain was born. American baseball player.

1918 - Mikhail Alekseev dies (b. 1857). Russian general.

1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk was born (d. 1994). Ukrainian-born actor.

1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon was born (d. 1992). Prime Minister of New Zealand.

1922 - Hammer DeRoburt was born (d. 1992). First President of Nauru.

1925 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr. was born (d. 2007). American aeronautical engineer.

1925 - Silvana Pampanini was born. Italian actress.

1926 - Aldo Ray was born (d. 1991). American actor.

1926 - Jack Hyles was born (d. 2001). Baptist pastor.

1926 - Herbert Booth dies (b. 1862). The third son of William and Catherine Booth.

1927 - Sir Colin Davis was born. English conductor.

1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.

1929 - Ronnie Barker was born (d. 2005). British comedian and actor.

1929 - Barbara Walters was born. American broadcaster known for her many years as the first woman network news anchor, on ABC News starting in 1976.

1929 - Miller Huggins dies (b. 1879). American baseball player and manager.

1930 - Shel Silverstein was born (d. 1999). American humorist and author.

1931 - Barbara Walters was born. American broadcaster.

1931 - Manouchehr Atashi was born (d. 2005). Iranian poet.

1932 - Adolfo Suárez was born. Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981).

1932 - Glenn Gould was born (d. 1982). Canadian pianist and composer.

1932 - Terry Medwin was born. Welsh retired footballer.

1933 - Brian Murphy was born. British actor.

1933 - Hubie Brown was born. American basketball coach and broadcaster.

1933 – Ian Tyson was born. Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher.

1933 - Ring Lardner dies (b. 1885). American writer.

1934 - Jean Sorel was born. French actor.

1936 - Astrid Cabral was born in Manaus. Brazilian poet.

1936 - Juliet Prowse was born (d. 1996). British actress and dancer.

1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt was born. First Prime Minister of Greenland.

1939 - Feroz Khan was born. Indian actor.

1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.

1943 - John Locke was born (d. 2006). American musician.

1943 - Robert Gates was born. American director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

1944 - Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

1944 - Michael Douglas was born. Academy Award-winning actor (Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Streets of San Francisco). Son of actor Kirk Douglas.

1944 - Doris Matsui was born. American politician.

1944 - Mário de Carvalho was born in Lisbon. Portuguese writer (A Paixão do Conde de Fróis, Os Alferes, Era Bom que Trocássemos umas Ideias sobre o Assunto, Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde).

1945 - Carol Vadnais was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1946 - Felicity Kendal was born. British actress.

1946 - Bryan MacLean was born (d. 1998). American musician and songwriter (Love).

1946 - Jerry Penrod was born. American bass player.

1946 - Hans Eppinger dies (b. 1879). Austrian physician and war criminal.

1947 - Russ Abbott was born. British actor and singer.

1947 - Cheryl Tiegs was born. American model.

1947 - Ali Parvin was born. Iranian football player.

1948 - Glória Pérez was born. Brazilian telenovelist.

1949 - Pedro Almodóvar was born. Spanish filmmaker.

1950 - Sebastião Lazaroni was born. Brazilian football (soccer) coach.

1951 – Bob McAdoo was born. American basketball player.

1951 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor (Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital).

1952 - Anson Williams was born. American actor and director.

1952 - Christopher Reeve was born († 2004). American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time) and activist.

1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins was born. American scholar

1952 - Jimmy Garvin was born. American professional wrestler.

1952 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor.

1953 - Richard Harvey was born. British musician and composer (Gryphon).

1954 - François Duvalier is elected President of Haiti.

1954 - Juande Ramos was born. Spanish Football Manager.

1954 - Sylvester Croom was born. American college football coach.

1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1955 - Amyr Klink was born. Brazilian navigator.

1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was born. German footballer.

1955 – Ludo Coeck was born (d. 1985). Belgian footballer.

1955 - Steven Severin was born. British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees).

1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

1956 - Jamie Hyneman was born. American visual effects technician.

1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.

1957 - Ian Reddington was born. English actor.

1958 – Eamonn Healy was born. Irish chemist.

1958 - Michael Madsen was born. American actor.

1958 - John B. Watson dies (b. 1878). American psychologist. He is considered the father of behaviorism.

1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

1960 - Igor Belanov was born. Ukrainian footballer.

1960 - Sonia Benezra was born. Canadian television host.

1960 - Emily Post dies (b. 1873). American author; etiquette expert.

1961 - Frank Fay dies (b. 1897). American actor first husband of Barbara Stanwyck.

1961 - Heather Locklear was born. American actress and model (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker).

1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

1962 - Aida Turturro was born. American actress.

1963 - Keely Shaye Smith was born. American journalist; wife of Pierce Brosnan.

1963 – Mikael Persbrandt was born Swedish actor.

1963 - Tate Donovan was born. American actor.

1964 - Início da luta armada em Moçambique.

1964 - Anita Barone was born. American actress.

1964 - Gary Ayles was born. British racing driver.

1964 - Kikuko Inoue was born. Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū).

1964 - Joey Saputo was born. Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact).

1964 - Maria Doyle Kennedy was born. Irish actress and singer

1965 – Dave Rundle was born. Former South African cricketer.

1965 - Scottie Pippen was born. American basketball player.

1967 - Kim Issel was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1968 - Marcelo Caetano sworns as Prime-Minister of Portugal.

1968 - John Worsfold was born. Australian rules football coach.

1968 - Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau was born.

1968 - Will Smith was born. American actor and rapper.

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones was born. Welsh actress (The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment).

1969 - Hal Sparks was born. American actor.

1969 - Hansie Cronje was born (d. 2002). South African cricketer.

1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte was born. British supermodel.

1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.

1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.

1970 - Aja Kong was born. Japanese professional wrestler.

1970 - Dean Ween was born. American musician (Ween).

1970 – Kerri Kendall was born. American model.

1970 - Erich Maria Remarque dies (b. 1898). German author.

1971 - Brian Dunkleman was born. American actor.

1971 - John Lynch was born. American football player.

1971 - Valter Hugo Mãe was born in Saurino, Angola. Portuguese poet and writer.

1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.

1972 - Alejandra Pizernick dies (suicide) (b. 25 Apr 1936). Argentine poet.

1973 - Adam Edwards was born. American film composer-writer-producer.

1973 - Bridget Marquardt was born. American model.

1973 - Bridgette Wilson was born. American actress.

1973 - Sofia Alves was born. Portuguese actress.

1973 - Tijani Babangida was born. Nigerian footballer.

1974 – Bente Elin Lilleøkseth, Norwegian politician.

1974 – Bill Bowler was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1974 – Chris Impellitteri was born. American guitarist.

1974 - Daniel Kessler was born. American musician (Interpol).

1974 – Eric Moss was born. American football player.

1974 – Frank Leder was born. German fashion designer.

1974 – Igor Bogdanović was born. Serbian footballer.

1974 – Javier Rosas Sierra was born. Mexican athlete.

1974 – Joel Prpic was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1974 – John M. Granville was born. American diplomat.

1974 – Kemel Thompson was born. Jamaican athlete.

1974 – Olivier Nicolás André Dacourt was born. French professional footballer.

1974 – Paul Hurst was born. English footballer.

1974 – Richie Edwards (known locally as Wamma) was born. British bassist.

1974 – Robert "Robbie" Mears was born. Australian rugby league player

1974 – Tye Harvey was born. American pole vaulter.

1974 – Víctor Danilo Pacheco, Colombian footballer.

1974 – Victor Medina-San Andrés was born. American filmmaker.

1975 - Daniel Hyde was born. British actor.

1975 - Declan Donnelly was born. English television presenter.

1975 - Matt Hasselbeck was born. American football player.

1976 - The Rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.

1976 - Armando Petit was born. Portuguese football player.

1976 - Chauncey Billups was born. American basketball player.

1976 – Chiara Siracusa was born. Maltese singer.

1976 – Santigold was born. American singer.

1977 - Clea DuVall was born. American actress.

1977 - Mike Krahulik was born. Illustrator.

1977 - Wil Nieves was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.

1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

1978 - Joel Pineiro was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.

1978 - Ricardo Gardner was born. Jamaican footballer.

1978 - Roudolphe Douala was born. Cameroonian footballer.

1978 - Jodie Kidd was born. English model see photo.

1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

1979 - Tapio Rautavaara dies (b. 1915). Finnish athlete, actor, and singer.

1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.

1980 - T.I. was born. American rapper.

1980 - John Bonham dies (b. 1948). British drummer (Led Zeppelin).

1980 - Lewis Milestone dies (b. 1895). Moldovan film director.

1980 - Marie Under dies (b. 1883). Estonian author and poet.

1980 - Earl Curry dies (b. 1890). Religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.

1981 - Belize joins the United Nations.

1981 - Jason Bergmann was born. American baseball pitcher.

1981 - Emmy Clarke was born. American actress.

1981 - Rocco Baldelli was born. American baseball player.

1981 - Shane Tutmarc was born. American songwriter, musician.

1981 - Van Hansis was born. American actor.

1982 - Hyun Bin was born. South Korean actor.

1983 - Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)

1983 - In the 35th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long.

1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium dies (b. 1901).

1984 - Matt Carle was born. American ice hockey player.

1984 - Walter Pidgeon dies (b. 1897). Canadian actor.

1985 - Calvin Johnson was born. American football player.

1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov dies (b. 1896). Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1986 - Donald MacDonald dies (b. 1909). Former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician.

1986 - Hans Vogt dies (b. 1909). Norwegian linguists.

1986 - Darshan Singh Canadian dies (b. 1917). Indian communist leader.

1987 - Mary Astor dies (b. 1906). American actress.

1987 - Emlyn Williams dies (b. 1905). Welsh actor.

1988 - Alain Prost (Equipe McLaren) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril.

1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner won the women's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics.

1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days.

1988 - Oh My Goddess! ( Aa! Megami-sama!) is first published.

1988 - Billy Carter dies (b. 1937). Brother of Jimmy Carter.

1990 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930). American writer.

1991 - Emmy Clarke was born. American actress.

1991 - Klaus Barbie dies (b. 1913). German SS official.

1991 - Viviane Romance dies (b. 1912). French actress.

1994 - Damon Hill (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril.

1995 - Bessie Delany dies (b. 1891). African-American physician and author.

1995 - Manuel Quina dies. Portuguese banker.

1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu dies (b. 1951). Romanian politician.

1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland.

1997 - Wing Commander Andy Green, OBE (RAF) establishes the world Land Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah in the ThrustSSC jet-powered car, and becomes the first man to break the speed of sound on land.

1997 - Ultima Online, the first successful MMORPG, developed by Origin Systems, launches.

1997 - Jean Françaix dies (b. 1912). French composer.

1997 - Hélène Baillargeon dies (b. 1916). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.

1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.

1998 - Reinauguração do Museu do Café do Brasil.

1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930) American writer.

2000 - R. S. Thomas dies (b. 1913). Welsh poet.

2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

2003 - Edward Said dies (b. 1935). Palestinian-born literary critic.

2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi dies. Iraqi politician.

2003 - Herb Gardner dies (b. 1934). American playwright.

2003 - Franco Modigliani dies (b. 1918). Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

2003 - George Plimpton dies (b. 1927). American writer and actor.

2004 - A film about Iraqi children victims of war "Turtles can fly" directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival.

2005 - E1 Train Disaster.

2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.

2005 - Don Adams dies (b. 1923) American actor and comedian.

2005 - George Archer dies (b. 1939). American golfer.

2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner dies (b. 1917). American psychologist, founder of Head Start program.

2005 - M. Scott Peck dies (b. 1936). American psychiatrist and writer.

2005 - Friedrich Peter dies (b. 1921). Austrian politician.

2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan dies (b. 1912). Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist.

2005 - Friedrich Peter dies (b. 1921). Austrian politician.

2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction necessitated by Hurricane Katrina.

2006 - Jeff Cooper dies (b. 1920). Renowned firearms expert.

2006 - John M. Ford dies (b. 1957). American author and poet.