Nothingandall: On this day in History

331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela.
0208 - Alexandre Severo was born († 0235). Roman emperor.
0366 - Eleição de São Dâmaso I, papa até 11 de Dezembro de 0384. Nasceu em Idanha, no actual território de Portugal, por volta do ano 304, sendo o 37.º pontífice romano. Era irmão de Santa Irene.
0642 - Subida ao trono do rei visigodo Chindasvinto.
0911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
0959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
0959 - King Edwin of England dies (b. 0941).
0965 - John XIII becomes Pope.
1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany dies poisoned (b. 0997).
1061 - Alexander II is elected Pope.
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Templars since 1184 is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1207 - King Henry III of England was born († 1272).
1273 - Rudolf of Hapsburg was elected emperor in Germany.
1310 - Beatrice of Burgundy dies (b. 1257). Lady of Bourbon.
1404 - Pope Boniface IX dies (b. 1356).
1470 - Nascia Isabel de Aragão, filha de Fernando V e de Isabel I de Castela († 1498).
1471 - Frederick I of Denmark was born († 1573).
1499 - Marsilio Ficino dies (b. 1433). Italian philosopher.
1500 - John Alcock dies. English Catholic bishop.
1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born ( † 1573). Italian architect .
1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus was born (d. 1617). Swiss protestant clergyman.
1549 - Anna of H Bartolomaeus was born. She was a Flemish prioress and founded a nunnery.
1567 - Pietro Carnesecchi dies (b. 1508). Italian humanist.
1570 - Frans Floris dies (b. 1520). Flemish painter.
1574 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen dies (b. 1498). Dutch painter.
1577 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen was born (d. 1622). Swiss friar, martyr and saint.
1578 - Don John of Austria dies (b. 1547). Military leader.
1588 - Execution of Blessed Edward James, Christian martyr.
1609 - Giammateo Asola dies. Italian composer.
1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born (d. 1683). Dutch painter.
1644 - Alessandro Stradella was born (d. 1682). Italian violinist and composer.
1671 - Guido Grandi was born (d. 1742). Italian mathematician.
1684 - Pierre Corneille dies (b. 1606). French author.
1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor was born (d. 1740).
1691 - Arthur Onslow was born (d. 1768). English politician.

1693 - Pedro Abarca dies (b. 1619). Spanish theologian.

1708 - John Blow dies (b. 1649). British composer.

1730 - Richard Stockton was born (d. 1781). American attorney, signer of the Daclaration of Independence.

1760 - William Thomas Beckford was born (d. 1844). English writer and politician.

1768 - Robert Simson dies (b. 1687). Scottish mathematician.

1771 - Pierre Baillot was born (d. 1842). French violinist and composer.

1774 - Marquês de Pombal publica decreto que sepulta a Inquisição portuguesa.

1775 - Execução de João Batista Pele, acusado de ter planeado um atentado contra o Marquês de Pombal.

1777 - Assinatura do tratado de Santo Ildefonso entre Portugal e Espanha.

1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam.

1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

1791 - Sergei Aksakov was born (d. 1859). Russian writer.

1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.

1795 - Robert Bakewell dies (b. 1725). English agriculturist who revolutionized sheep and cattle breeding in England by methodical selection, inbreeding, and culling.

1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via Treaty of San Ildefonso.

1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius was born (d. 1861). Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism.

1801 - O Tratado de Amiens é assinado pondo fim ao conflito começado na Primavera de 1792 com as sucessivas declarações de guerra da França revolucionária às potências europeias.

1804 - William Stokes was born (d. 10 Jan 1878). Physician and the leading representative of the Irish, or Dublin, school of anatomical diagnosis, which emphasized clinical examination of patients in forming a diagnosis.

1805 - Antónia Pusich was born in Cape Vert (d. 6 Oct. 1883). First Portuguese journalist woman.

1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans.

1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.

1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.

1827 - Walter Howell Deverell was born. American painter.

1827 - Wilhelm Müller dies (b. 7 Oct 1794). German poet.

1829 - South African College founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to become the University of Cape Town.

1833 - Luísa Todi died. Portuguese opera singer.

1835 - Júlio César Machado was born. Portuguese writer.

1835 - Ádám Politzer was born (d. 1920). Austrian physician.

1837 - Nicolás Avellaneda was born. President of Argentine.

1837 - Robert Clark dies (b. 1777). American politician.

1838 - Charles Tennant dies (b. 1768). Scottish chemist and industrialist.

1842 - Charles Cros was born ( d. 9 Aug 1888). French inventor and poet whose work in several fields foreshadowed or paralleled important developments.

1843 - The News of the World began publication in London.

1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske

1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

1862 - Esther Boise Van Deman was born (d. 3 May 1937). American archaeologist.

1864 - Rose Greenhow dies (b. 1817). American Confederate spy.

1864 - Juan José Flores y Aramburu dies. President of Ecuador.

1865 - Paul Dukas was born (d. 1935). French composer.

1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," was published.

1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.

1870 - Josiah Edward Spurr was born (d. 1950). American geologist.

1876 - James Lick dies (b. 1796). California land baron.

1878 - Othmar Spann was born (d. 1950). Austrian philosopher and economist.

1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.

1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

1881 - William Boeing was born (d. 1956). American engineer.

1885 - Louis Untermeyer was born (d. 1977). American author.

1886 - U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada closes.

1886 - Paul Morgan was born († 1938). Austrian actor and comedian.

1887 - Baluchistan conquered by the British Empire.

1888 - National Geographic magazine published for 1st time.

1889 - Nagoya is founded.

1889 - Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms.

1890 - The Yosemite National Park is established by Congress.

1890 - Stanley Holloway was born (d. 1982). British actor.

1891 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors.

1892 - Emilio Pettoruti was born. Argentine painter.

1893 - Cliff Friend was born (d. 1974). American songwriter.

1893 - Yip Man was born (d. 1972). Martial Arts Master.

1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.

1894 - António Alves Martins was born in Viseu (d. 22 Feb. 1929). Portuguese poet and journalist.

1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan was born (d. 1951). First Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1896 - Ted Healy was born (d. 1937). American actor and comedian.

1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities

1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

1899 - Ernest Haycox was born (d. 1950). American writer.

1900 - Tom Goddard was born (d. 1966). English cricketer.

1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan dies (b. c. 1844). Afghan amir.

1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

1903 - Vladimir Horowitz was born (d. 1989). Ukrainian pianist.

1904 - A.K. Gopalan was born (d. 1977). Indian communist leader.

1904 - Otto Robert Frisch was born in Vienna (d. 1979). Austrian-born British nuclear. physicist who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, described the division of neutron-bombarded uranium into lighter elements.

1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.

1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

1909 - Maurice Bardèche was born (d. 1998). French fascist.

1909 - Sam Yorty was born (d. 1998). Mayor of Los Angeles.

1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.

1910 - Bonnie Parker was born (d. 1934). American outlaw.

1910 - Fritz Köberle was born († 1983). Austrian-born, Brazilian physician and scientist.

1910 - José Enrique Moyal was born (d. 1998). Australian mathematical physicist.

1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 20.

1911 - Wilhelm Dilthey dies. German philosopher.

1913 - Helio Gracie was born (d. 2009). Martial Arts Master.

1913 - Eugene O'Keefe dies (b. 1827). Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin was born (d. 2004). American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress. (Empire of Czar). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 .

1915 - Jerome Seymour Bruner was born in New York City. American psychologist and educator whose work on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children has, along with the related work of Jean Piaget, influenced the American educational system.

1917 - Cahal Cardinal Daly was born. Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Armagh.

1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.

1920 - Walter Matthau was born (d. 2000). American actor.

1921 - James Whitmore was born. American actor.

1924 - Jimmy Carter was born. 39th President of the United States.

1924 - William Rehnquist was born (d. 2005). Chief Justice of the United States.

1925 - Bob Boyd was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.

1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.

1926 - Arirang premiers in Seoul.

1926 - Roger Williams was born. American pianist.

1927 - Tom Bosley was born. American actor.

1927 - Sandy Gall was born. Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster.

1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.

1928 - Laurence Harvey was born (d. 1973). Lithuanian-born actor.

1928 - George Peppard was born (d. 1994). American actor.

1928 - Willy Mairesse was born (d. 1969). Belgian racing driver.

1928 - Zhu Rongji was born. Chinese politician.

1929 - Ken Arthurson was born. Australian rugby league identity.

1929 - Antoine Bourdelle dies (b. 1861). French sculptor.

1930 - Frank Gardner was born. Australian racing driver.

1930 - Naimatullah Khan was born. Pakistani politician and ex-mayor of Karachi.

1930 - Philippe Noiret was born. French actor.

1930 - Sir Richard Harris was born (d. 2002). Irish actor.

1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

1931 - Spain: The II Republic recognizes to women the right to vote.

1931 - Sylvano Bussotti was born. Italian composer.

1932 - Albert Collins was born (d. 1993). Blues guitarist.

1934 - Emilio Botín was born. Spanish banker, presidente del BSCH.

1935 - Julie Andrews was born. British actress and singer Mary Poppins.

1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

1936 - Duncan Edwards was born (d. 1958). English footballer.

1936 - Stella Stevens was born. American actress.

1937 - The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.

1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.

1939 - Geoffrey Whitehead was born. English actor.

1939 - George Archer was born (d. 2005). American golfer.

1939 - George R. Carruthers was born. African-American astrophysicist who was the principal inventor of a new space camera to measure ultraviolet light which can be used to identify interstellar atoms and molecules.

1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Marunot knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong.

1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".

1942 - Frank Gardner was born. Australian formula one driver.

1942 - Jean-Pierre Jabouille was born. French race car driver.

1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

1943 - Angèle Arsenault was born. Canadian-Acadian singer and songwriter.

1943 - Jean-Jacques Annaud was born. French film director.

1943 - Jerry Martini was born. American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)

1945 - Spider Sabich was born (d. 1976). American skiier.

1945 - Donny Hathaway was born (d. 1979). American soul musician and composer.

1945 - Ellen McIlwaine was born. American singer/songwriter.

1945 - Rod Carew was born. Panamanian baseball player.

1945 - Walter Bradford Cannon dies (b. 19 Oct 1871). American neurologist and physiologist who was the first to use X-rays in physiological studies.

1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.

1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.

1946 - Tim O'Brien was born. American writer.

1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1947 - Aaron Ciechanover was born. Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1947 - Adriano Tilgher was born. Italian politician.

1947 - Mariska Veres was born (d. 2006). Dutch singer (Shocking Blue).

1947 - Stephen Collins was born. American actor.

1948 - Cub Koda was born (d. 2000). American singer.

1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.

1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa.

1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass.

1949 - Isaac Bonewits was born. American author.

1950 – Elpida was born. Greek singer and Eurovision contestant (Sokrati, Tora Zo).

1950 - Jeane Manson was born. American singer and actress.

1950 - Randy Quaid was born. American actor.

1952 - Jacques Martin was born. Canadian hockey coach and executive.

1953 - Grete Waitz was born in Oslo. Norwegian athlete, marathoner.

1953 - John Hegley was born. British poet.

1953 - Pete Falcone was born. American baseball player.

1953 - Klaus Wowereit was born. German politician.

1953 - Edwin Joseph Cohn dies (b. 17 Dec 1892). American biochemist who helped develop the methods of cold ethanol blood fractionation (the separation of plasma proteins into fractions).

1954 - Martin Strel was born. Slovenian swimmer.

1955 - Duško Tadić was born. Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity.

1955 - Howard Hewett was born. American R & B singer.

1955 - Charles Christie dies (b. 1880). American film studio owner.

1956 - Andrus Ansip was born. Estonian Prime-Minister.

1956 - Theresa May was born. British politician.

1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper currency.

1957 - Stelios Mainas was born. Greek actor.

1957 - Yvette Freeman was born. American actress.

1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.

1958 - Masato Nakamura was born. Japanese musician.

1958 - Robert Falk dies (b. 1886). Russian painter.

1959 - Youssou N'Dour was born in Dakar. Senegalese composer and singer (Shaking the tree).

1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.

1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60.

1961 – Corrie van Zyl was born. Former South African cricketer.

1961 - Gary Ablett was born. Australian rules footballer.

1961 - Rico Constantino was born. American professional wrestler.

1961 - Robert Rey was born. Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality

1962 - A Amnistia Internacional é fundada em Londres, por Sean Mac Bride e Peter Bernson.

1962 - Johnny Carson begins a 30-year run as the host of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson at NBC.

1962 - Esai Morales was born. American actor.

1962 - Paul Walsh was born. English footballer.

1963 - California State Board of Education created.

1963 - Jean-Denis Délétraz was born. Swiss race car driver.

1963 - Mark McGwire was born. American baseball player.

1964 - Marco Aurélio Robles becomes President of Panama.

1964 - Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.

1964 - Japanese Shinkansen (or, "bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka

1964 - Harry Hill was born. British comedian.

1964 - Jonathan Sarfati was born. Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author.

1964 - Max Matsuura was born. Japanese record producer.

1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.

1965 - Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians (led by the later PM of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis) who have betrayed and overthrown the Prime Minister George Papandreou in Greece in favour of the formerly King of Greece.

1965 - Andreas Keller was born. German field hockey player.

1965 - Chris Reason was born. Australian journalist.

1965 - Cindy Margolis was born. American model and actress.

1965 - Cliff Ronning was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1965 - Ted King was born. American actor.

1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.

1966 - Christopher Titus was born. American actor/comedian.

1966 - Cuco Ziganda was born. Spanish footballer.

1966 - George Weah was born. Liberian football player.

1967 - Daniel Timofte was born. Romanian footballer.

1967 - Scott Young was born. American hockey player.

1967 - Mike Pringle was born. American football player.

1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

1968 - Jon Guenther was born. American author.

1968 - Rob Collard was born. British racing driver.

1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1969 - Em Lisboa, inauguração da sede e museu da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, projectada pelos arquitectos Alberto José Pessoa, Ruy Athoughia e Pedro Cid.

1969 - Igor Ulanov was born. National Hockey League defenseman.

1969 – Marcus Stephen was born. Nauruan weightlifter and politician, current President of Nauru.

1969 - Ori Kaplan was born. Israeli jazz musician.

1970 - Alexei Zhamnov was born. Russian hockey player.

1970 - Gam Wu-seong was born. South Korean actor.

1970 – Jung Joon-ho was born. South Korean actor and singer

1970 - Moses Kiptanui was born in Kenya. Athlet 1996 Olympics silver.

1970 - Simon Davey was born. Barnsley football manager.

1970 - Raoul Riganti dies (b. 1893). Argentine racing driver.

1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.

1971 - Andrew O'Keefe was born. Australian television personality.

1971 - Gigi Lai was born. Hong Kong actress.

1971 - Song Il Gook was born. Korean actor.

1972 - 2nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41.

1972 - 3rd New York City Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52.

1972 – Jean Paulo Fernandes was born. Brazilian footballer.

1972 – Ronen Altman Kaydar was born. Israeli author.

1972 - Louis Leakey dies (b. 7 Aug 1903). Archaeologist and anthropologist

1973 - Jana Henke was born. German swimmer.

1973 - John Thomson was born. American baseball player.

1973 - Rachid Chékhémani was born. French runner.

1974 - Portugal : O general Costa Gomes toma posse como presidente da República do III Governo Provisório, após a renúncia do general António de Spínola.

1974 - Christian Borle was born. American actor.

1974 - Keith Duffy was born. Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor.

1974 - Mats Lindgren was born. Swedish ice hockey player.

1974 - Spyridon Marinatos dies (b. 4 Nov 1901). Greek archaeologist whose most notable discovery was the site of an ancient port city on the island of Thera, in the southern Aegean Sea

1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government.

1975 - The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.

1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila.

1975 - Al Jackson was born (b. 1935). American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)

1975 - Chulpan Khamatova was born. Russian actress.

1975 - Kim Suna was born. Korean actress.

1975 - Zoltán Sebescen was born. German footballer.

1976 - É empossado o Governo Regional da Madeira.

1976 - Antonio Roybal was born. American painter and sculptor.

1976 - Denis Gauthier was born. Canadian hockey player.

1976 - Dora Venter was born. Hungarian pornographic film actress.

1976 - Inna Zobova was born in Khimky. Russian actress.

1976 - Mandisa was born. American singer.

1976 - Ümit Karan was born. Turkish footballer.

1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires.

1977 - Claudia Palacios was born. Colombian journalist.

1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk was born. Belgian race car driver.

1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.

1978 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK.

1978 - Andrew JC Jackson was born. Australian Surf Lifesaver.

1978 - Leticia Cline was born. American model and TV Personality

1979 - Alhaji Shehu Shagari assumes the Presidency of Nigeria.

1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.

1979 - Activision founded.

1979 - Cameron Bruce was born. Australian rules footballer.

1979 - Gilberto Martínez was born. Costa Rican football player.

1979 - Marko Stanojevic was born. English-born Italian rugby player.

1979 - Rudi Johnson was born. American football player.

1980 - George Meany dies (b. 1894). American trade union leader.

1980 - Fernanda Vogel was born. Brazilian model.

1981 - Arnau Riera was born. Spanish footballer.

1981 - Johnny Oduya was born. Swedish ice hockey player.

1981 - Júlio Baptista was born. Brazilian footballer.

1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World

1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

1982 - Haruna Babangida was born. Nigerian footballer.

1982 - Sandra Oxenryd was born. Swedish singer.

1983 - Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.

1983 - Ashley Green was born. Yorkshire author and comic.

1983 - Mirko Vučinić was born. Montenegrin footballer.

1984 - Daniel Guillén was born. Spanish footballer.

1984 - Matt Cain was born. American baseball player.

1984 - Walter Alston dies (b. 1911). Baseball player.

1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.

1985 - Dizzee Rascal was born. British musician.

1985 - Nazimuddin Ahmed was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.

1985 - Revazi Zintiridis was born. Greek judoka.

1985 - Tim Deasy was born. English footballer.

1985 - Ryo Miyamori was born. Japanese singer.

1985 - E. B. White dies (b. 1899). American author.

1986 - Hammer DeRoburt assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência de Nauru.

1986 - Jurnee Smollett was born. American actress.

1986 - Justin Westhoff was born. Australian rules footballer.

1986 - Ricardo Vaz Té was born. Portuguese footballer.

1986 - Sayaka was born. Japanese singer.

1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.

1987 – Hiroki Aiba was born. Japanese actor, singer.

1987 – Lionel Ainsworth was born. English footballer.

1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet

1988 - Cariba Heine was born. Australian actress.

1988 – Jorge Núñez was born. Puerto Rican singer.

1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell dies (b. 1897). English writer.

1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"

1990 - Serbs in Croatia proclaimed autonomy.

1990 - Curtis LeMay dies (b. 1906). American Air Force general.

1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.

1992 - Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) destroyed by two Sea Sparrow missiles launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.

1992 - Cartoon Network debuts.

1992 - Petra Kelly dies (b. 1947). German politician.

1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for her murdering Klaas.

1994 - André Lwoff dies. French physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1965.

1994 - Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).

1994 - Carlos Lleras Restrepo dies. President of Colombia (1966-70).

1994 - Em São Tomé e Príncipe, o MLSTP/PSD vence as eleições legislativas.

1994 - Paul Lorenzen dies (b. 1915), German philosopher.

1995 - O PS ganha as eleições em Portugal levando António Guterres ao cargo de Primeiro Ministro.

1995 - Em Portugal, entra em vigor o novo Código Penal.

1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted in New York of conspiring to attack the United States through bombings, assassinations and kidnappings.

1997 - Sam Verlinden was born. New Zealand child singer and actor.

1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson dies (b. 1923). American inventor.

1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names for the Internet.

1998 - Mika Hakkinen sagra-se campeão mundial de Fórmula 1.

1998 - Pauline Julien dies (b. 1928). French Canadian singer.

2000 - 27th Olympic games close at Sydney, Australia.

2000 - Reginald Kray dies (b. 1933). British gangster.

2000 - Robert Allen dies (b. 1928). Pianist and songwriter.

2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released.

2001 - Guy Beaulne dies (b. 1921). French Canadian actor and theatre director.

2002 - Walter Annenberg dies. American publisher and philanthropist.

2003 - Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman was born. New Zealand medical figure.

2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

2004 - Richard Avedon dies (b. 1923). American photographer.

2004 - Bruce Palmer dies (b. 1946). Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield).

2004 - Spain's Socialist government approved a controversial law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals

2004 - The United Nations launched a massive voluntary repatriation program to return an estimated 340,000 Liberian refugees still scattered across West Africa.

2005 - Almost exactly three years after a similar event, a bombing kills 23 people in Bali.

2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.

2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.

2006 - Jerald Tanner dies (b. 1938). American religious activist.

2006 - André Viger dies (b. 1952). French Canadian wheelchair marathoner.

2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.

2007 - Smoking age raised from 16 to 18 in United Kingdom.

2007 - Al Oerter dies (b. 1936). American track and field athlete.

2007 - Chris Mainwaring dies (b. 1965). Australian rules footballer.

2007 - Harry Lee dies (b. 1932). Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

2007 - Ned Sherrin dies (b. 1931). English broadcaster, author and stage director.

2007 - Ronnie Hazlehurst dies (b. 1928). English conductor and theme song composer.