Nothingandall: On this day in History

0042 BC - Tiberius was born (d. 0037). Roman emperor.
0534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
0827 - Pope Valentino dies. Pope during 1 Sep 0827 - 16 Nov 0827.
1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland dies. Wife of King Malcolm Canmore.
1240 - Edmund Rich dies. St. Edmund of Canterbury.
1272 - King Henry III of England dies (b. 1207).
1328 - Prince Hisaaki dies (b. 1276). Japanese shogun.
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1436 - Leonardo Loredan was born (d. 1521). Doge of the Republic of Venice.
1491 - An auto de fe, held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1569 - Paul Sartorius was born. German composer.
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki was born (d. 1673). Polish prior.
1609 - Henrietta Maria was born (d. 1669). French-born, Queen Consort of England-
1613 - Trajano Boccalini dies (b. 1556). Italian satirist.
1623 - Francisco Sanches dies. Portuguese philosopher and physician.
1628 - Paolo Quagliati dies. Italian composer.
1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden dies (killed in battle) (b. 1594).
1643 - Jean Chardin was born (d. 1703). French explorer.
1695 - Pierre Nicole dies (b. 1625). French philosopher.

1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born (d. 1793). French mathematician and encyclopædist.

1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni was born (d. 1788). Italian composer.

1724 - Jack Sheppard dies hanged (b. 1702). English burglar.

1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde dies (b. 1665). Irish statesman and soldier.

1758 - Peter Andreas Heiberg was born (d. 1841). Danish author and philologist.

1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer was born (d. 1831). French violinist.

1773 - John Hawkesworth dies. English writer.

1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).

1779 - Pehr Kalm dies (b. 1716). Finnish explorer and naturalist.

1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer dies (b.1723). American Continental Congressman.

1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia dies (b. 1744).

1802 - André Michaux dies (b. 1746). French botanist.

1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

1806 - Moses Cleaveland dies (b. 1754). Founder of Cleveland, Ohio.

1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii was born (d. 1891). Hawaiian king.

1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon dies (b. 1761). Dutch mycologist.

1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette was born (d. 1908). French Canadian poet.

1841 - Jules Violle was born (d. 1923). French physicist.

1847 - Edmund James Flynn was born (d. 1927). Canadian politician.

1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.

1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.

1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).

1862 - Charles Turner was born (d. 1944). Australian cricketer.

1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.

1873 - W. C. Handy was born (d. 1958). American composer. ‘Father of the Blues’: St. Louis Blues.

1873 - Alberto de Oliveira was born (d. 1940). Portuguese writer.

1880 - Alexander Blok was born (d. 1921). Russian poet.

1884 - František Chvostek dies (b. 1835). Moravian physician.

1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for high treason.

1885 - Michael Gonzi was born (d. 1984). Maltese archbishop.

1885 - Louis Riel dies (b. 1844). Canadian activist and politician.

1888 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet was born (d. 1957). Uruguayan composer and musician.

1889 - George Kaufman was born (d. 2 Jun 1961). American playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can’t Take It with You.

1890 - Elpidio Quirino was born. President of Philipines (1948-1953).

1892 - Guo Moruo was born (d. 1978). Chinese writer.

1892 - Tazio Nuvolari was born (d. 1953). Italian racing driver.

1893 - Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to Sparta Prague.

1894 - Marechal Lott was born (d. 1984). Brazilian militar and politician.

1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was born (d. 1972). Austrian politician.

1895 - Paul Hindemith was born (d. 1963). German composer.

1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York.

1896 - Joan Lindsay was born (d. 1984). Australian author.

1896 - Lawrence Tibbett was born (d. 1960). American singer.

1896 - Oswald Mosley was born (d. 1980). British fascist.

1896 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov was born (d. 1982). Russian mathematician.

1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali was born (d. 1951). Pakistani nationalist.

1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

1904 - Treaty of Windsor : Agreement between United Kingdom and Portugal providing for the Settlement by Arbitration of Certain Classes of Questions which may arise between the Two Governments.

1904 - Nnamdi Azikiwe wasborn (d. 1996). President of Nigeria.

1905 - Eddie Condon was born (d. 1973). American musician.

1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.

1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1907 - Burgess Meredith was born (d. 9 Sep 1997). Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir.

1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma dies (b. 1848). Last ruling Duke of Parma.

1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière dies (b. 1829). French born, Canadian politician.

1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames dies (b. 1842). Mayor of Minneapolis.

1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.

1916 - Daws Butler was born (d. 1988). American voice actor.

1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared.

1920 - Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) is older.

1920 - José Lewgoy was born in Veranópolis-RS. Brazilian actor.

1922 - Gene Amdahl was born. American computer scientist.

1922 - José Saramago was born in Azinhaga, Golegã. Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1998.

1922 - Darcy Ribeiro was born. Brazilian ethnologist, antropologist and sociologist.

1922 - José Augusto França was born. Portuguese professor and essayst.

1922 - Max Abraham dies (b. 1875). German physicist.

1924 - Mel Patton was born. American athlete.

1925 - Caroline Michaëlis de Vasconcelos dies in Portugal (b. 1851). German etymologist. In 1912 was elected to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences/ Nascida em 1851, em Berlim, Carolina Michaelis era tida, aos 26 anos, como a sucessora do fundador da Filologia Românica, Friedrich Diez. Em 1911, foi-lhe atribuída uma Cátedra em Portugal, tornando-se a primeira mulher catedrática de Românicas. Em 1912 foi eleita por mérito para a Academia de Ciencias de Lisboa. Faleceu em Portugal, faz hoje 80 anos.

1928 - Clu Gulager was born. American actor.

1930 - Chinua Achebe was born. Nigerian author.

1930 - Salvatore Riina was born. Sicilian mafioso.

1931 - Bob Gibson was born (d. 27 Sep 1996). Singer and songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late ’50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll ’Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp.

1931 - Hubert Sumlin was born. American blues musician.

1931 - Luciano Bottaro was born (d. 2006). Italian comic book artist.

1932 - New York City's Palace Theatre fully coverted to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.

1932 - Pedro de Pezarat Correia was born. Portuguese militar and writer.

1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.

1933 - Garnet Mimms was born. American singer.

1934 - James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis.

1936 - Antonio Gades was born. Spanish dancer and coreographer.

1936 - John Moore was born. Australian politician.

1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

1938 - Robert Nozick was born (d. 2002). American philosopher.

1939 - Pierce Butler dies (b. 1866). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

1940 - World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1940 - Holocaust: In Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

1941 - Gerry Marshall was born (d. 2005). British race car driver.

1942 - Joanna Pettet was born. English-American actress.

1942 - Willie Carson was born. Scottish jockey.

1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.

1943 - Michael Cimino was born. American film director.

1944 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.

1944 - Oliver Braddick was born. British psychologist.

1945 - Cold War: Operation Paperclip: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.

1945 - UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is created.

1946 - Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia. American actress.

1946 - Terrence McKenna was born (d. 2000). American writer.

1947 - Ebby Thust was born. German Boxing promoter and writer.

1948 - Bonnie Greer was born. American playwright and critic.

1949 - António Aleixo dies in Coimbra (b. 18 Feb 1899). Portuguese popular poet.

1950 - David Leisure was born. American actor.

1950 - John Swartzwelder was born. American television writer and novelist.

1950 - Bob Smith dies (b. 1879). American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous

1951 - Miguel Sandoval was born. American actor.

1952 - Piero Falchetta was born. Italian archivist, Biblioteca Marciana.

1952 - Robin McKinley was born. American writer.

1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto was born. Japanese video game designer.

1952 - Charles Maurras dies (b. 1868). French poet and journalist.

1953 - Griff Rhys Jones was born. Welsh comedian, writer and actor.

1954 - Andrea Barrett was born. American author.

1954 - Bruce Edwards was born (d. 2004). American golf caddy.

1954 - Dick Gross was born. Australian politician.

1955 - Pierre Larouche was born. Canadian National Hockey League player.

1956 - Terry Labonte was born. American NASCAR driver.

1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

1957 - Jacques Gamblin was born. French actor.

1958 - Boris Krivokapić was born. Serbian academic.

1958 - Marg Helgenberger was born. American actress.

1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.

1959 - Florencio Molina Campos dies. Argentine painter.

1960 - Clark Gable dies (b. 1901). American actor (Gone with the Wind).

1960 - Ricardo Plat was born in S. Paulo. Brazilian actor.

1961 - Corinne Hermès was born. French singer.

1961 - Frank Bruno was born. British boxer.

1961 - Corinne Hermès was born. French singer.

1961 - Sam Rayburn dies (b. 1892). U.S. Speaker of the House.

1961 - Frank Bruno was born. British-born boxer.

1962 - Gary Mounfield was born. English musician (Primal Scream).

1962 - Josh Silver was born. American keyboardist and record producer (Type O Negative).

1963 - Willian Bonner was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist and TV personality.

1964 - Diana Krall was born. Canadian singer.

1964 - Dwight Gooden was born. American baseball player

1964 - Harry J. Lennix was born. American actor.

1964 - Maeve Quinlan was born. American actress.

1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born. Italian actress.

1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward. Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

1965 - Mika Aaltonen was born. Finnish footballer.

1966 - Otto Arosemena Gómez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador.

1966 - Christian Lorenz was born. German keyboardist (Rammstein).

1966 - Dean McDermott was born. Canadian actor.

1966 - Tahir Shah was born. British travel writer and explorer.

1967 - Craig Arnold was born. American poet.

1967 - Lisa Bonet was born. American actress.

1968 - Vlado Šola was born. Croatian handball goalkeeper.

1968 - Vicente Lombardo Toledano dies. Mexican politician.

1969 - The first episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC.

1969 - Maeve Quinlan was born. American actress.

1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.

1970 - Martha Plimpton was born. American actress.

1970 - Luis Jiménez de Asúa dies. Spanish politician.

1971 - Alexander Popov was born. Russian swimmer.

1971 - Koshi Rikdo was born. Japanese mangaka.

1971 - Mustapha Hadji was born. Moroccan footballer.

1971 - Waqar Younis was born. Pakistani cricketer.

1971 - Edie Sedgwick dies (b. 1940). American socialite and heiress.

1972 - Missi Pyle was born. American actress.

1972 - Vera Karalli dies (b. 1889). Russian ballerina and actress.

1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

1973 - Brendan Laney was born. Scottish rugby player.

1973 - Christian Horner was born. British Formula One team owner.

1973 - Alan Watts dies (b. 1915). English writer.

1974 - Eric Judy was born. American musician.

1974 - Maurizio Margaglio was born. Italian ice dancer.

1974 - Paul Scholes was born. English football player.

1975 - André Gonçalves was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.

1975 - Julio Lugo was born. Dominican baseball player.

1976 - Danny Wallace was born. British author.

1976 - Juha Pasoja was born. Finnish footballer.

1976 - Martijn Zuijdweg was born. Dutch swimmer.

1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.

1977 - Carla Perez was born. Brazilian actress.

1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal was born. American actress.

1977 - Mauricio Ochmann was born. Mexican actor.

1977 - Oksana Baiul was born. Ukrainian figure skater.

1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.

1977 - Aprovada por unanimidade a entrada de Espanha no Conselho da Europa.

1978 - Carolina Parra was born. Brazilian musician (CSS).

1978 - Gary Naysmith was born. Scottish football player.

1978 - Kip Bouknight was born. American baseball player.

1978 - Tiago Teixeira was born. Portuguese journalist.

1978 - Candeia dies (b. 1935). Brazilian singer and composer.

1978 - Sri Lanka: Um acidente aéreo em Colombo causa a morte de 200 pessoas.

1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.

1979 - Bruce Irons was born. American surfer.

1979 - Tony Frias was born. American footballer.

1980 - Louis Althusser murders his wife and immediately confesses.

1980 - Alexa Havins was born in New Mexico. American actress.

1980 - Carol Huynh was born. 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist, 48 kg. wrestling.

1980 - Kayte Christensen was born. American basketball player.

1980 - Juliano Spadacio was born. Brazilian footballer.

1980 - Nicole Giu was born. Italian alpine skier.

1981 - Luke and Laura marry on General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

1981 - Allison Crowe was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.

1981 - Caitlin Glass was born. American actor.

1981 - Osi Umenyiora was born. NFL football player.

1981 - William Holden dies (b. 1918). American actor.

1982 - Amare Stoudemire was born. American basketball player.

1982 - Jannie du Plessis was born. South African rugby player.

1982 - Ronald Pognon was born. French athlete.

1982 - Arthur Askey dies (b. 1900). British comedian.

1982 - Lenny Murphy dies (b. 1952). Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers.

1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov dies (b. 1896). Russian mathematician.

1983 - Britta Steffen was born. German swimmer.

1983 - K was born. South Korean singer.

1983 - Kari Lehtonen was born. Finnish ice hockey goaltender.

1983 - Janete Emmer Dias Gomes (Janete Clair) dies (b. 1925). Brazilian novelist and writer.

1984 - Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School, Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.

1984 - Gemma Atkinson was born. British actress and model.

1984 - Kimberly J. Brown was born. American actress.

1984 - Vic Dickenson dies (b. 1906). American trombonist.

1986 - Saeko was born. Japanese actress.

1986 - Siobhán McKenna dies (b. 1923). Irish stage and screen actress.

1987 - Jim Brewer dies (b. 1937). Major League Baseball relief pitcher.

1987 - Zubir Said dies (b. 1907). Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem.

1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.

1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.

1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops, most of them trained by the School of the Americas, kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

1989 - Paraguayan Augusto Roa Bastos is awarded with the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

1989 - How the Band Got Together, the first episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Man is broadcast on the CBBC section of BBC One.

1989 - Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.

1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.

1989 - Jean-Claude Malépart dies (b. 1938). Quebec politician.

1990 - Rocky V is the 5th and final Rocky sequel to open in theaters, starring Sylvester Stallone.

1993 - Achille Zavatta dies (b. 1915). French clown.

1993 - Lucia Popp dies (b. 1939). Slovakian soprano.

1994 - Dino Valente dies (b. 1943). American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service).

1994 - Doris Speed dies (b. 1899). British actress.

1995 - Liamin Zerual wins the first Presidential elections in Algeria with 61,34% of votes

1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey was born. American child actor.

1995 - Jack Finney dies (b. 1911). American author.

1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.

1996 - The $127.5 million Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.

1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

1997 - 85% of voters of Hungary vote in favor of joining NATO.

1999 - Daniel Nathans dies (b. 1928). American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.

2000 - DJ Screw dies (b. 1971). Legendary Houston DJ who slowed down music and made thousands of tapes of this "screw" music". Founder of the S.U.C. Screwed Up Click

2000 - Joe C. dies (b. 1974). American rapper.

2001 - The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time.

2001 - Tommy Flanagan dies (b. 1930). American jazz pianist.

2003 - Bettina Goislard dies (b. 1974). French relief worker.

2003 - Estádio do Dragão, is inaugurated (Futebol Clube do Porto).

2003 - World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov (b. 13 April 1963), with White, wins against computer program X3D Fritz in the third game of a match which is now tied.

2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s

2004 - Margaret Hassan dies (b. 1945). Irish-born aid worker.

2005 - Donald Watson was born (d. 1910). English founder of the Vegan Society.

2005 - Henry Taube dies (b. 1915). Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

2005 - Robert Tisch dies (b. 1926). American football team owner.

2006 - Art Donovan dies (b. 1925). American football player

2006 - Milton Friedman dies (b. 1912). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

2006 - Yuri Levada dies (b. 1930). Russian sociologist.

2007 - Harold Alfon dies (b. 1914). American businessman.

2007 - Grethe Kausland dies (b, 1947). Norwegian actress and singer.

2007 - Trond Kirkvaag dies (b. 1946). Norwegian comedian and author.

2008 - Reg Varney dies (b. 1916). British actor (On The Buses).