Nothingandall: On this day in History

0610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
0663 - The battle of Baekgang begins. (Traditional Chinese date: August 28, 663).
1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod dies (b. 1020).
1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin was born (d. 1220). Daughter of Louis VII of France.
1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1221 - William III Talvas dies (b. 1179). Count of Ponthieu.
1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden dies (b. 1226).
1276 – Margaret of Brabant was born (d. 1311). Queen of Germany.
1289 - King Louis X of France was born (d. 1316).
1305 - Emperor Kameyama dies (b. 1249). Emperor of Japan.
1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde was born (d. 1382).
1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang: the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1379 - King Henry III of Castile was born (d. 1406).
1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger was born (d. 1586). German painter.
1532 - Francisco de Toledo was born. Spanish theologian and philosopher.
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1542 - Robert Bellarmine was born (d. 1621). Italian Jesuit, theologian and saint.
1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden was born (d. 1611).
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus was born (d. 1647). Danish astronomer.
1570 - Peter Pazmany was born (d. 1637). Hungarian cardinal and statesman.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1582 - Teresa of Avila dies (b. 1515). Spanish mystic writer and saint. She co-founded with John of the Cross (1542-1591) the Order of Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites.
1585 – Anna of Tyrol was born (d. 1618). Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire.
1597 - Sarsa Dengel dies (b. 1550). Emperor of Ethiopia.
1607 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla was born. Spanish dramatist.
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal was born (d. 1661). French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal.
1626 - Richard Cromwell was born (d. 1712). Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1636 - The Swedish Army defeates those of Saxony and Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel dies (b. 1586). English statesman.
1657 - Francesco Solimena was born (d. 1747). Italian painter.
1660 - Francesco Albani dies (b. 1578). Italian painter.
1661 - Jacqueline Pascal dies (b. 1625). French child prodigy.
1669 - Rembrandt dies (b. 1606). Dutch painter and etcher (Steel Masters, Night Watch).
1676 - O Cardeal Benedeto Odescalchi é eleito papa com o nome de Inocêncio XI
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet dies. French engineer and canal builder
1687 - Robert Simson was born (d. 1768). Scottish mathematician.
1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.

1699 - Francisco Vieira de Matos (Vieira Lusitano) was born in Lisbon(d. 13 Ago 1783). Portuguese painter.

1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born (d. 1778). Italian artist.

1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus was born (d. 1798). German entomologist.

1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.

1742 - Franz Joseph Muller von Reichenstein was born († 12 Oct 1825). Austrian minerologist who discovered the element Thelurium.

1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll dies (b. 1678). Scottish soldier.

1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck dies (b. 1711). Austrian soldier.

1754 - Tanacharison dies. Catawba Indian chief.

1759 - Antoine Arbogast was born (d. 1803). French mathematician.

1777 - Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.

1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.

1785 - David Brearly dies (b. 1703). Delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.

1787 - François Guizot was born (d. 1874). French statesman.

1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).

1801 - Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla was born. President of Costa Rica (1844).

1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was born (d. 1864). French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada

1814 - Jean-François Millet was born (d. 1875). French painter.

1821 - John Rennie dies (b. 1761). Scottish engineer.

1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes was born (d. 1893). 19th President of the United States.

1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.

1836 – Juliette Adam was born (d. 1936). French writer.

1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria was born (d. 1925). Queen of the Two Sicilies.

1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros was born (d. 1912). President of Brazil.

1851 - Manuel de Godoy dies (b. 1767). Spanish statesman.

1852 - James Whitcomb dies (b. 1795). American politician.

1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.

1858 - Michael Pupin was born (d. 1935). Serbian-born telephone pioneer and author.

1859 - Karl Baedeker dies (b. 1801). German author and publisher.

1861 - Frederic Remington was born (d. 1909). American painter.

1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch was born (d. 1918). Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister.

1862 - Edward Stratemeyer (one of his pen names was Laura Lee Hope) was born (d. 10 May 1930). American author. He created the Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins.

1864 - Joseph Montferrand dies (b. 1802). French Canadian logger and strong man.

1865 - Jose Maria Perez de Urdininea dies. President of Bolivia (18 Apr 1828 -02 Aug 1828).

1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos dies (b. 1819). German-American Roman Catholic priest.

1868 - Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco was born. President of Argentine (1922-1928).

1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

1876 – Hugh McCrae was born (d. 1958). Australian writer.

1877 - Pancho Villa [Doroteo Arango] was born (d. 1923). Mexican revolutionary rebel.

1877 - Razor Smith was born (d. 1946). English cricketer.

1880 - Damon Runyon was born (d. 1946). American writer.

1880 - Jacques Offenbach dies (b. 1819). German-born composer.

1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch was born (d. 1948). German Commander-in-Chief.

1883 - First run of the Orient Express linking Istanbul, Turkey, to Paris by rail.

1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

1884 – Subramaniya Siva was born (d. 1925). Indian freedom fighter.

1886 - Luis Alberni was born (d. 1962). Spanish actor.

1887 - Fundação da cidade de Monte Azul (no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil).

1888 - Oscar Mathisen was born (d. 1954). Norwegian speed skater.

1890 – Dr. Alan L. Hart (Lucille Hart) was born (d. 1962). First known American female to male transsexual (SRS in 1917), radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer and novelist.

1890 - Catherine Booth dies (b. 1829). The Mother of The Salvation Army.

1891 - Assis Chateaubriand was born († 1968). Brazilian journalist and politician.

1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss was born (d. 1934). Austrian politician.

1892 – Hermann Glauert was born (d. 1934). British aerodynamicist.

1895 - The first U.S. Open Mens' Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.

1895 - Buster Keaton was born (d. 1 Feb 1966). American comedian, actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hollywood Clowns, Man in the Silk Hat, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, When Comedy was King, Sunset Boulevard, God’s Country, Doughboys, The Saphead). Grandfather of actor Michael Keaton.

1895 - Hattie McDaniel was born. Academey award actress (Gone With the Wind).

1895 - Richard Sorge was born († 1944). URSS spy.

1896 – Ida Frabboni was born. Italian supercentenarian.

1897 - Manuel Luís Osório dies (b. 1808). Brazilian militar, heroe of Paraguay war.

1902 - Prudente de Morais dies (b. 1841). Brazilian President.

1903 - Bona Arsenault was born (d. 1993). French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist.

1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born (d. 1946). German military officer.

1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff was born (d. 1995). American computer pioneer.

1903 – Pierre Garbay was born (d. 1980). French army general and military governor of Paris.

1903 - Otto Weininger dies (b. 1880). Austrian philosopher.

1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi dies (b. 1834). French sculptor (Statue of Liberty).

1904 - Karl Bayer dies (b. 1847). Austrian chemist.

1907 - Run Run Shaw was born. Hong Kong media mogul.

1907 - Alfredo Keil dies (b. 1854). Portuguese archeologist, art collector and music composer (A Portuguesa).

1908 - Fundação do Sport Club São Paulo.

1910 - Portugal: King Manuel II is deposed and flees to the United Kingdom. Next day the Republic is declared / Início da revolução republicana em Portugal depõe o rei D. Manuel II

1910 - Morre por suicídio (ao julgar que a revolução falhara) Carlos Cândido dos Reis (n. 1852). Almirante português, republicano, chefe carbonário, liderou a revolta republicana de 1910.

1910 - Bermuda: adopted the flag.

1910 - Frankie Crosetti was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.

1910 – Sergey Muromtsev dies (b. 1850). Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma.

1911 – Sir Michael Hordern was born (d. 1995). British actor.

1914 – Brendan Gill was born (d. 1997). American writer.

1914 - Jim Cairns was born (d. 2003). Australian politician.

1916 – George Sidney was born (d. 2002). American film director.

1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg was born. Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1918 - An explosion occurred killing more than 100 and destroying the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continued for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.

1918 - Kenichi Fukui was born († 1998). Japanese chemist.

1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.

1921 - Francisco Morales Bermudez Cerruti was born. President of Peru.

1922 - Malcolm Baldrige was born (d. 1987). 26th United States Secretary of Commerce.

1922 – Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman

1924 - Charlton Heston was born (d. 2008). Academy Award-winning actor: Ben-Hur [1959]; In the Mouth of Madness, A Thousand Heroes, Tombstone, El Cid, Earthquake, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Khartoum, Airport ’75, Midway, Omega Man, Antony & Cleopatra, True Lies; former president of the NRA.

1926 – Phar Lap was born. New Zealand racehorse.

1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.

1928 - Alvin Toffler was born. American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave).

1928 – Torben Ulrich was born. Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player.

1929 - Leroy Van Dyke was born. American singer.

1929 – Scotty Beckett was born (d. 1968). American child actor, Our Gang comedies.

1931 - Debut appearance of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

1931 – Richard Rorty was born (d. 2007). Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University.

1932 - Milan Chvostek was born. Canadian television director.

1933 - Esquire magazine was published for the first time.

1934 - Sam Huff was born. American football player.

1935 - Jean Béraud dies (b. 1849). French impressionist painter.

1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder dies (b. 1874). German soprano.

1937 - Jackie Collins was born. British author.

1937 – Jim Sillars was born. Scottish politician.

1938 - Kurt Wüthrich was born. Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1940 - Meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.

1940 – Alberto Vilar was born. Cuban-American investor and philanthropist.

1940 - Silvio Marzolini was born. Argentine footballer.

1941 - Anne Rice was born. American writer (Interview with a Vampire).

1941 - Jackie Collins was born in London. Actress and author. Her books included “The world Is Full of Married Men (1968), “Stud” (1969), “Bitch” (1979) and “Deadly Embrace” (2002).

1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser was born. Austrian racing driver.

1941 – Robert Wilson was born. American theatre director.

1941 – Roy Blount, Jr. was born. American writer.

1942 - Álvaro del Amo was born. Spanish dramatist and film director.

1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon was born. American musician (Sweet Honey in the Rock).

1942 – Johanna Sigurdardottir was born. Prime Minister of Iceland.

1942 - Karl W. Richter was born (d. 1967). American aviator.

1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.

1943 - H. Rap Brown was born. American civil rights activist.

1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz dies (b. 1906). Polish intelligence agent.

1944 - Tony La Russa was born. American baseball manager.

1944 – Rocío Dúrcal was born (d. 2006). Spanish singer and actress.

1944 - Al Smith dies (b. 1873). Presidential candidate and Governor of New York.

1945 - Clifton Davis was born. American actor.

1946 – Bridget St John was born. English singer/songwriter and guitarist.

1946 - Chuck Hagel was born. American politician.

1946 – Michael Mullen was born. American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1946 - Susan Sarandon was born. American actress.

1946 - Barney Oldfield dies (b. 1878). American automobile pioneer.

1947 - Ann Widdecombe was born. British politician.

1947 - Julien Clerc was born. French singer.

1947 - Jim Fielder was born. American bassist (Blood, Sweat & Tears).

1947 - Max Planck dies (b. 1858). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1918.

1948 – Linda McMahon was born. CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

1949 - Armand Assante was born. American actor: Mambo Kings, Hoffa, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Blind Justice, Fatal Instinct, Trial by Jury, Private Benjamin, Jack the Ripper, The Lords of Flatbush.

1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal was born. American director.

1950 - Snoopy's first appearance.

1950 - Alan Rosenberg was born. Actor: The Last Temptation of Christ, The Preppie Murder, L.A. Law, Witch Hunt, Cybill, Chicago Hope, The Guardian.

1950 – Meg Bennett was born. American writer and actress.

1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov was born. Kazakh poet.

1951 - Willie Moretti dies (b. 1894). American gangster.

1953 - Tchéky Karyo was born. Turkish-born actor.

1955 - Jorge Valdano was born. Argentine football player.

1955 - Alexander Papagos dies (b. 1883). Greek general and political leader.

1957 - Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.

1957 - The CBS television show Leave it to Beaver debuts (starring Jerry Mathers as "The Beaver").

1957 - Alexander Tkachev was born. Soviet gymnast.

1957 - Bill Fagerbakke was born. American actor.

1957 – Kyra Schon was born. American actress.

1957 – Russell Simmons was born. American entrepreneur.

1958 - Fifth Republic of France established.

1959 - Inauguração da Base Aérea de Monte Real - Portugal.

1959 - Chris Lowe was born. British singer (Pet Shop Boys).

1959 - Tony Meo was born. English snooker player.

1960 - Afrika Bambaataa was born. American musician.

1960 - Joe Boever was born. American baseball player.

1960 - Afrika Bambaataa was born. American musician.

1960 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.

1961 - Kazuki Takahashi was born. Japanese author and artist.

1961 – Philippe Russo was born. French singer.

1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov) dies (b. 1880). Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America.

1962 – Carlos Carsolio was born. Mexican alpinist. Fourth person to summit all 14 of the eight-thousanders.

1962 - Jon Secada was born. Cuban-American singer and songwriter.

1963 - A.C. Green was born. American basketball star.

1963 – Koji Ishikawa was born. Japanese children's author.

1963 - Robert Schuman dies. Politician father of European Union.

1964 – Sarah Lancashire was born. British actress.

1964 - Harpo Marx dies. American comedian (Marx brothers).

1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

1965 – Skip Heller was born. American musician.

1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.

1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

1967 – Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin was born. Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer.

1967 - Liev Schreiber was born. American actor.

1967 - Marcus Bentley was born. British voice actor.

1969 - Natalino Otto dies (b. 1912). Italian singer.

1969 - Morre Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade. Arquitecto português. Prémio Valmor 1939.

1970 - Janis Joplin dies from a drug overdose (b. 1943). American singer (Down on Me, Pearl ; Every Little Piece of My Heart; Me and Bobby McGee).

1970 - Richard Hancox was born. English footballer.

1971 – Darren Middleton was born. Australian guitarist.

1971 - Friderika Bayer was born. Hungarian singer.

1972 – Kurt Thomas was born. American basketball player.

1972 - Murray Happer was born. American wrestler.

1973 - Chris Parks was born. American wrestler.

1974 - Mafalda Arnauth was born. Portuguese singer (fadist).

1974 – Paco León was born. Spanish actor.

1974 - Anne Sexton dies (b. 1928). American poet.

1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli was born. Italian football player (Shaktar Donetsk).

1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.

1975 - Joan Whitney Payson dies (b. 1903). American heiress.

1976 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).

1976 - Alicia Silverstone was born. American actress (Clueless, The Babysitter, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past).

1976 - Mauro Camoranesi was born. Argentine-Italian football player.

1977 – Cabral Ibacka was born. Romanian actor and television presenter.

1978 – Ko Soo was born. South Korean television and movie actor.

1978 – Kyle Lohse was born. American baseball player.

1978 – Phillip Glasser was born. American actor and producer.

1979 – Adam Voges was born. Australian and West Australian cricketer.

1979 – Bjorn Phau, German tennis player.

1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook was born. American actress.

1979 – Stefan Booth was born. British actor.

1980 – Kristina Lenko was born. Canadian ice skater.

1980 - Me'Lisa Barber was born. American track and field sprint athlete.

1980 – Sarah Fisher was born. American race car driver.

1980 – Tim Peper was born. American actor.

1980 - Tomáš Rosický was born. Czech football player.

1981 – Juka was born. Japanese singer.

1981 - Justin Williams was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1981 – Scott Hammond was born. American photographer.

1981 - Freddie Lindstrom dies (b. 1905). Major League Baseball Hall of famer.

1982 – Jered Weaver was born. American baseball player.

1982 – Tony Gwynn Jr. was born. American baseball player.

1982 - Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr dies. President of Irak (1968-1979).

1982 - Glenn Gould dies (b. 1932). Canadian pianist.

1983 - Hooters restaurant first opened in Clearwater, Florida.

1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

1983 – Dan Clarke was born. British racing driver.

1983 – Kurt Suzuki was born. American baseball player.

1983 - Risa Kudo was born. Japanese gravure idol.

1983 – Ueda Tatsuya was born. Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN).

1984 – Álvaro Parente was born. Portuguese racing driver.

1984 - Elena Katina was born. Russian musician (t.A.T.u.).

1985 - Portugal: Laranjeiro é elevado a freguesia (concelho de Almada).

1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.

1985 - Shontelle Layne was born. Barbados born singer.

1986 - Yuridia was born. Mexican singer.

1987 – Rawez Lawan, was born. Swedish footballer.

1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker indicted for fraud.

1988 – Derrick Rose was born. American basketball player.

1989 - Dakota Johnson was born. American actress.

1989 – Kimmie Meissner was born. American figure skater.

1989 - Lil Mama was born. American rapper.

1989 - Graham Chapman dies (b. 1941). British comedian (Monty Python).

1989 - Secretariat dies (b. 1970). American race horse.

1989 - Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker convicted of commandeering a Jordanian jetliner in 1985 with two Americans aboard, was sentenced in Washington to 30 years in prison.

1990 – Alyn Ainsworth dies. British bandleader.

1990 – Avis Bunnage dies (b. 1923). English actress.

1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.

1991 - J. Frank Wilson dies (b. 1941). American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers).

1991 - Holly Wells was born (d. 2002).

1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp.

1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16 years' civil war in Mozambique. / Assinado em Roma o Acordo Geral de Paz, entre o governo de Moçambique e a RENAMO, que pôs fim a 16 anos de guerra

1992 - Dennis Hulme dies (b. 1936). New Zealand race car driver.

1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.

1993 - At least five US soldiers die and two Blackhawk helicopters are shot down in a firefight with Mogadishu warlords (Somalia).

1993 - Russian constitutional crisis of 1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders tanks to storm the Russian parliament building.

1993 - The events portrayed in the movie and book Black Hawk Down (a military insurgency in Somalia) occurred.

1993 – Jim Holton dies (b, 1951). Scottish footballer.

1994 - Danny Gatton dies (b. 1945). American guitar virtuoso.

1996 - Larry Gene Bell dies executed by electric chair. American child murderer.

1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurred at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually resulted in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.

1997 - Gunpei Yokoi dies (b. 1941). Japanese game developer.

1997 - Otto Ernst Remer dies (b. 1912). Nazi general.

1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.

1998 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso is reelected President of Brazil with 50.3% of the vote in early returns vs. 35.6% for Luiz Inacio da Silva of the Workers Party

1999 - Art Farmer dies (b. 1928). American jazz trumpet player.

1999 - Bernard Buffet dies (b. 1928). French painter.

1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim) dies (b. 1969). Norwegian black metal musician.

2000 - Michael Smith dies (b. 1932). English chemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa dies (b. 1914). Former Premier of Taiwan.

2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

2001 – Ahron Soloveichik dies (b. 1917). Orthodox Jewish rabbi.

2001 - Blaise Alexander dies (b. 1976). American Race Car Driver.

2002 - Alphonse Chapanis dies (b. 1917). Founder of ergonomics.

2002 - André Delvaux dies (b. 1926). Belgian film director and screenwriter.

2002 - Gwen Araujo dies, murdered in an act of transphobia.

2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.

2003 - Sid McMath dies (b. 1912). Governor of Arkansas.

2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.

2004 - Portugal: Início das transmissões do canal de TV RTP Memória.

2004 - Gordon Cooper dies (b. 1927). Astronaut.

2004 – Rio Diaz dies (b. 1959). Filipino actress & TV hosts.

2005 - Marks the first day that the Vanadu rideshare van did not run in King County, WA