1743 - Jeronimo Francisco de Lima was born. Portuguese composer.
1765 - José María Morelos was born (d. 1815). Mexican revolutionary.1770 - George Whitefield dies (b. 1714). English-born Methodist leader.1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham dies. English politician and diplomat.1772 -
James Brindley dies (b. 1716). English engineer, pioneer canal builder, who constructed the first English canal of major economic importance.
1846 - Wilhelm Adolf Becker dies (b. 1796). German classical archaeologist, remembered for his works on the everyday life of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
1882 -
Hans Geiger was born (d. 1945). German physicist.
1902 - The "making of cellulose esters" was jointly patented by William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little and Harry S. Mork of Massachusetts. A month later, on 28 Oct 1902, they also patented artificial silk. Viscose was an early name for the product. The term
rayon was adopted by the textile industry in 1924 to replace "artificial silk" and similar names.
1912 -
Kenny Baker was born (d. 1985). American singer and actor.
1913 -
Bill Walsh was born (d. 1975). American film producer and writer.
1916 - Morreu, na Figueira da Foz,
António Ramalho (n. 1858). Pintor português pertenceu à geração naturalista e distinguiu-se essencialmente como retratista.
1917 -
Buddy Rich was born (d. 1987). American drummer.
1918 -
Lewis Nixon was born (d. 1996). II World War Veteran.
1920 -
Aldo Parisot was born. Brazilian-American musician and cellist.
1921 -
Deborah Kerr was born. Scottish actress (
The King and I, From Here to Eternity, A Woman of Substance, The Night of the Iguana, Quo Vadis, Tea and Sympathy, Separate Tables).
1924 -
Truman Capote was born (d. 25 Aug 1984). American author.
In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; actor:
Murder by Death / Nascimento do escritor norte-americano Truman Capote (1924-1984), em Nova Orleães, no estado do Alabama. O seu nome de baptismo era Truman Streckfus Persons, tendo adoptado o apelido do padrasto. Conhecido sobretudo pelos seus livros
Pequeno Almoço no Tiffany e
A Sangue Frio.
1927 -
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 -
Angie Dickinson was born. American actress (
Police Woman, Cassie and Company, Wild Palms, Dressed to Kill, Rio Bravo, Ocean’s 11). Hollywood’s Best Legs Award [1962]
1932 -
Shintaro Ishihara was born. Japanese author and politician (governor of Tokyo).
1938 - The
League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 -
Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of
war.
1939 - Martha Wollstein dies (b. 21 Nov 1868). American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology.
1940 - Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield dies (b. 28 Nov 1858). British
metallurgist who developed manganese steel, an alloy of exceptional durability that found uses in the construction of railroad rails and rock-crushing machinery.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German
Einsatzgruppe C complete
Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs are killed at Babi Yar on September 29 – 30, 1941.
1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille dies (b. 1919). German fighter pilot.
1943 - Ian Ogilvy was born. British actor.1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43.1945 - Bob Lassiter was born. American radio personality.1945 -
Ehud Olmert was born. Twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
1946 -
Héctor Lavoe was born (d. 1993). Puerto Rican singer.
1952 -
Jack Wild was born (d. 2006). British actor.
1953 -
S.M. Stirling was born. Canadian-born American science fiction and fantasy author.
1953 - Victoria Tennant was born. Actress: Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance.
1953 - Lewis Fry Richardson dies (b. 11 Oct 1881). British physicist and psychologist who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately. 1954 - Patrice Rushen was born. American musician.1955 - Film icon
James Dean dies from injuries suffered in a car crash (b. 1931). American actor (
Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause). 1959 - Ross Granville Harrison dies (b. 13 Jan 1870). American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques.
1961 - Mayor Snyder of
Oregon writes a check for $1.96 to cover the cost of the tea lost in the
Boston Tea Party.
1961 -
Eric Stoltz was born. American actor (
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Our Town, Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Glass Menagerie, Pulp Fiction, Once and Again). 1961 -
Sally Yeh was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
1965 - Six generals of Indonesian National Army assassinated by counter-coup action known as 30 September Movement.
1965 - Kathleen Madigan was born. American comedian. 1965 - Omid Djalili was born. British stand-up comedian and actor.1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.1966 – Gary Armstrong was born. Scotland rugby player.1966 -
Kerry G. Johnson was born. African American graphic designer and caricaturist.
1967 -
BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
1972 -
Ari Behn was born. Norwegian author.
1972 –
Shaan was born. Indian singer.
1974 - Portugal: Tomada de posse do 3.º Governo Provisório, chefiado por Vasco Gonçalves.
1974 - Portugal: General Costa Gomes assume a Presidencia da Republica após a renúncia do presidente António de Spínola.
1974 - Daniel Wu was born. American-born Chinese film actor, director, and producer.1974 – Jeremy Giambi was born. American baseball player.1975 - Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali fight (Thriller in Manila).
1976 - Mary Ford dies (b. 1928). American singer.1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the
Apollo program's
ALSEP experiment packages left on the
Moon are shut down.
1977 -
Roy Carroll was born. Northern Irish football player.
1977 -
Sun Jihai was born. Chinese football player.
1977 -
Mary Ford dies (b. 1924). American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford).
1981 - The death penalty is abolished in France.
1981 - Cecelia Ahern was born. Irish author.1981 - Dominique Moceanu was born. American gymnast.1982 – Ryane Clowe was born. Canadian ice hockey player.1982 -
Seth Smith was born. American baseball player.
1985 -
Charles Richter dies (b. 26 Apr 1900). American seismologist and inventor of the
Richter Scale that measures earthquake intensity which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in the early 1930's.
1986 -
Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1993 - An earthquake hits
India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (
Aurangabad division) in
Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1998 - Lisbon Expo-98 finishes.
1999 - German novelist Guenter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences credited Grass’ first novel, The Tin Drum, with restoring honor to German literature "after decades of linguistic and moral destruction."
1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in
Tokai-mura, northeast of
Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
2002 –
Göran Kropp dies (b. 1966). Swedish adventurer and mountaineer.
2004 - A Rússia aprova adesão ao Protocolo de Kyoto.
2004 - The first images of a live
giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of
Tokyo.
2004 - The
AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the
F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2004 –
Jacques Levy dies (b. 1935). Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist.
2004 -
Michael Relph dies (b. 1915). British film producer and director.
2008 –
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam dies (b. 1926). Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party.
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