On this day in History - Nov. 22

• 0365 - Felix II dies. Italian anti-pope.
• 0498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
• 0845 - the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 0950 - King Lothair II of Italy (947-950)
• 1286 - Eric V of Denmark dies (b. 1249). Danish King.
• 1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich dies (b. 1271). Russian prince.
• 1428 - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick was born (d. 1471). English politician and nobleman; powerful during Wars of the Roses.
• 1458 - Jacob Obrecht was born (d. 1505). Dutch composer.
• 1497 - Rounding the Cape of Good Hope: The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, who was en route to India by order of King Emanuel I of Portugal, rounded the southern tip of Africa – the Cape of Good Hope - on this day in 1497.
• 1515 - Marie of Guise was born (d. 1560). Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland.
• 1564 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham was born (d. 1610). English conspirator.
• 1573 - The city of Niterói (Brazil) is founded.
• 1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 1594 - Martin Frobisher dies. English explorer.
• 1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon was born (d. 1644). Queen of Philip IV of Spain
• 1617 - Ahmed I dies (b. 1590). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1635 - Francis Willughby was born (d. 1672). English biologist.
• 1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle was born (d. 1687). French explorer.
• 1694 - John Tillotson dies (b. 1630). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1697 - Liberal Bruant dies. French architect.
• 1698 - Pierre de Rigaud was born (d. 1778). Canadian-born French Governor.
• 1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was born (d. 1784). German composer.
• 1710 - Bernardo Pasquini dies (b. 1637). Italian composer.
• 1718 - Off the coast of Virginia, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
• 1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres was born (d. 1824). Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman.
• 1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda was born (d. 1794). Ukrainian poet.
• 1744 - Abigail Adams was born (d. 28 Oct 1818). American first lady (1797-1801).
• 1753 - Dugald Stewart was born (d. 1828). Scotish philosopher.
• 1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe dies (b. 1680). British politician.
• 1767 - Andreas Hofer was born (d. 1810). Tyrolian patriot.
• 1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive dies (b. 1725). British general and statesman.
• 1780 - Jose Cecilio del Valle was born (d. 1834). Honduran politician.
• 1783 - John Hanson dies (b. 1715). American Continental Congressman.
• 1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask was born (d. 1823). Danish linguist.
• 1794 - John Alsop dies (b. 1724). American Continental Congressman.
• 1803 - José María de Heredia was born. Cuban-French poet.
• 1808 - Thomas Cook was born inn Melbourne, Derbyshire (d. 1892). British travel entrepreneur, railway excursion and tourist pioneer, who organized his first railway excursion in 1841, from Leicester to Loughborough.
• 1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings was born (d. 1893). American politician.
• 1819 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) was born (d. 1880). British novelist. Her work includes (Silas Marner, 'The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch).
• 1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1830 - Justin M'Carthy was born (d. 24 Apr 1912). Irish politician and historian
• 1849 - Christian Rohlfs was born (d. 1938). German artist.
• 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant born (d. 1924). French diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1856 - Heber J. Grant was born (d. 1945). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1858 - Denver, Colorado is founded.
• 1859 - Cecilia Grierson was born (d. 1934). Argentine physician (ginecologist) and women right activist.
• 1859 - Cecill James Sharp was born. English composer
• 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
• 1868 - John Nance Garner was born (d. 1967). U.S. Vice President.
• 1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
• 1869 - André Gide was born (d. 1951). French writer and Nobel Prize laureate in 1947 (Lafcadio's Adventures)
• 1875 - Georges Rency was born (d. 24 Sep 1951). Belgian poet
• 1875 - Henry Wilson dies (b. 1812). United States Vice President.
• 1877 - Endre Ady was born (d. 1919). Hungarian poet.
• 1877 - Joan Gamper was born (d. 1930). Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona.
• 1878 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov was born. Russian politician.
• 1880 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
• 1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi was born (d. 1953). Pakistani biographer of Muhammad.
• 1886 - William Bliss Baker dies (b. 1859). American painter.
• 1890 - Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille (d. 9 Nov1970). President of France.
• 1891 - Eric Lindahl was born. Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital).
• 1893 - Harley J. Earl was born (d. 1969). Automobile designer.
• 1893 – Masaharu Taniguchi was born in Kobe (d. 17 Jun 1985). Founder of Seicho-No-Ie Mouvement.
• 1893 - James Calder dies (b. 1826). 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University.
• 1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert was born (d. 1989). German astronomer.
• 1897 - Elziário Prudência da Lapa Pinto dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. São Cristóvão (SE), 28 Apr. 1839. Brazilian physician and writer.
• 1898 - Gabriel González Videla was born. Chilean politician and lawyer.
• 1898 - Wiley Post was born (d. 1935). American pioneer aviator who completed the first solo fllight round the world..
• 1899 - Hoagy Carmichael was born (d. 1981). American composer.
• 1900 - Tom Macdonald was born (d. 1980). Welsh journalist and novelist.
• 1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan dies (b. 1842). British composer best known for his light operatic collaboration with W. S. Gilbert.
• 1901 - Carlos Conde was born in Murtosa (d. 1981). Portuguese poet.
• 1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo was born (d. 1999). Spanish composer.
• 1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque was born. French general
• 1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs was born (d. 1990). Governor of Rhodesia.
• 1902 - Albert Leduc was born (d. 1990). National Hockey League defenseman.
• 1902 - Joe Adonis was born (d. 26 Nov 1971). American crime boss.
• 1902 - Friedrich A. Kupp dies (suicide). Cannon manufacturer.
• 1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel was born (d. 2000). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1970.
• 1907 – Asaph Hall dies in Annapolis, Maryland (b. 15 Oct 1829). American astronomer.
• 1908 - The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1909 - Mikhail Mil was born (d. 1970). Russian aviation designer.
• 1911 - Paulo Ferreira was born (d. 1999). Portuguese painter. Lisbonne au mille couleurs - 1937
• 1913 - Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk (d. 1976). British composer whose major works include the opera 'Peter Grimes' (1945).
• 1913 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was born (d. 2006). First female Philippine Supreme Court Justice.
• 1914 - Peter Townsend was born (d. 1995). British Equerry and air pilot.
• 1916 - Jack London dies (b. 1876). American writer, best known for his adventure novels 'Call of the Wild' (1903) and 'White Fang' (1906).
• 1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley was born. British physiologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963.
• 1917 - In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).
• 1917 - Teoberto Maler dies (b. 1842). German-born explorer.
• 1918 - Tratado de Brest-Litovsk: Russia suspendes the hostilities against Germany.
• 1918 - Blas Piñar was born. Spanish politician.
• 1918 - Claiborne Pell was born. American politician.
• 1919 - Francisco Moreno dies. Argentine scientist and explorer.
• 1919 - Máire Drumm was born (d. 1976). Irish civil rights activist.
• 1920 - Anne Crawford was born (d. 1956). British film actor.
• 1921 - Brian Cleeve was born (d. 2003). Irish broadcaster.
• 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield was born (d. 2004). American comedian.
• 1921 - Christiane Nilsson dies. Swedish lyric singer.
• 1921 - Em Lisboa, inauguração do Monumento aos Mortos da Grande Guerra.
• 1921 - Em Genebra, Portugal assinou a convenção internacional contra o tráfico de mulheres e crianças.
• 1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• 1923 - Arthur Hiller was born. Canadian film director (Love Story).
• 1923 - Dika Newlin was born (d. 2006). American composer and singer.
• 1924 - Marlene (Vitoria Martino Bonaiutti) born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer and actress.
• 1924 - Geraldine Page was born (d. 1987). American actress (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful).
• 1924 - José Domingues dos Santos assumes the place of prime-minister of Portugal.
• 1925 - Gunther Schuller was born. American composer and conductor.
• 1925 - Miguel Barbosa was born in Lisbon. Portuguese poet, writer and painter.
• 1926 - Arthur Jones (inventor) was born (d. 2007). American inventor.
• 1926 - Lew Burdette was born (d. 2007). American baseball player.
• 1928 - Boléro by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (in Paris).
• 1928 - Timothy Beaumont was born (d. 2008). Baron Beaumont of Whitley.
• 1929 - Aleksandar Popović was born (d. 1996). Serbian theatre writer.
• 1930 - Sir Peter Hall was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. English theatre, opera, and film director, who succeeded Olivier as director of the National Theatre (1973-88).
• 1932 - Keith Wickenden was born (d. 1983). British politician.
• 1932 - Robert Vaughn was born. American actor.
• 1932 - William Walker Atkinson dies (b. 1862). American author.
• 1935 - Ludmila_Belousova was born. USSR, pairs skater (Olympic Gold, 1964, 68)
• 1935 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
• 1935 - Michael_Callan was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Camilo Nogueira Román was born. Spanish politician and economist.
• 1936 - James Burke was born. British writer.
• 1936 - Joachim Bißmeier was born. German actor.
• 1936 - Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah was born. Prime Minister of Bahrain.
• 1937 - Leon Hirszman was born (d. 1987). Brazilian film director and ficcion author.
• 1938 - Henry C. Lee was born. Chinese-born American criminologist.
• 1938 - Tomás Taveira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1938 - Henry C. Lee was born. Chinese American criminologist.
• 1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav was born. Indian politician.
• 1939 - Tom West was born. American astrophysicist.
• 1939 - Allen_Garfield was born. American actor.
• 1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa.
• 1940 - Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
• 1940 - Roy Thomas was born. American comic book writer.
• 1940 - Terry Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Michigan. American-British comedian and director who produced the fantasy animations in television's "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969-74).
• 1941 - Jacques Laperriere was born. National Hockey League defenseman and coach.
• 1941 - Jesse Colin Young was born. American musician.
• 1941 - Terry Stafford was born (d. 1996). American singer and songwriter.
• 1941 - Tom Conti was born. Scottish actor and theatre director.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
• 1942 - Guion S. Bluford was born. Astronaut
• 1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
• 1943 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1943 - Billie Jean King was born. American tennis player.
• 1943 - Yvan Cournoyer was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1943 - Lorenz Hart dies (b. 1895). American lyricist.
• 1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington dies (b. 1882). English astrophysicist.
• 1945 - Tom Freston was born. American television executive.
• 1946 - Aston Barrett was born. Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band).
• 1946 - Otto Georg Thierack dies (b. 1889). German jurist.
• 1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley was born. American author.
• 1947 - Alfredo Cristiani was born. President of El Salvador (1989-1994).
• 1947 - Nevio Scala was born. Italian football (soccer) coach.
• 1947 - Sandy Alderson was born. American baseball executive.
• 1949 - Richard Carmona was born. Former surgeon general.
• 1950 - Paloma San Basilio was born. Spanish singer.
• 1950 - Lyman Bostock was born (d. 1978). Baseball player.
• 1950 - Steve Van Zandt was born. American musician.
• 1950 - Tina Weymouth was born. American musician (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club)
• 1951 - Kent Nagano was born. American conductor.
• 1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi dies (b. 1884). Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad.
• 1954 - The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1954 - Roderick McMahon dies (b. 1882). Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker.
• 1955 - Shemp Howard dies (b. 1895). American actor and comedian.
• 1956 - XVI modern Olympic Games opens in Melbourne.
• 1956 - Fernando Gomes was born. Portuguese football player (FC Porto).
• 1956 - Lawrence Gowan was born. Canadian singer (Styx)
• 1956 - Richard Kind was born. American actor (''Spin City,'' ''Mad About You'').
• 1956 - Theodore Kosloff dies (b. 1882). Russian-born choreographer.
• 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis was born. American actress [Anything But Love, Halloween, Trading Places (1983) ; A Fish Called Wanda (1988)].
• 1958 - Jason Ringenberg was born. Rock singer (Jason & the Scorchers).
• 1958 - Lee Guetterman was born. Baseball player.
• 1958 - Horse McDonald was born. Scottish singer/songwriter.
• 1960 - Bruce Payne was born. English actor.
• 1960 - Léos Carax was born. French film director.
• 1960 - Victoria Paris was born in Great Falls, Montana. American adult film actress.
• 1961 - Mariel Hemingway was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Randal L. Schwartz was born. American computer programmer.
• 1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist.
• 1962 - Victor Pelevin was born. Russian writer.
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Later the same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States.
• 1963 - Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK.
• 1963 - Scoop Jackson was born. American sports journalist.
• 1963 - Aldous Huxley dies (b. 1894). British author.
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy dies assassinated (b. 1917). 35th President of the United States.
• 1963 - C. S. Lewis dies (b. 1898). Irish author, academic and Christian apologist, known for 'The Screwtape Letters' (1942) and the 'Chronicles of Narnia', a classic children's series. His work includes also The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
• 1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck dies (b. 1905). Nazi physician.
• 1964 - Stephen Geoffreys was born. Actor.
• 1965 - D.N. Aidit, head of the Communist Party of Indonesia is captured and killed by the Indonesian military in the aftermath of the G30S coup attempt.
• 1965 - Bob Dilan /Sara Dilan wedding.
• 1965 - Fabrizio Marques was born in Manhuaçu. Brazilian writer and journalist.
• 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen was born. Danish actor.
• 1966 - Richard Stanley was born. South African director.
• 1966 - Charlie Colin was born. Rock musician.
• 1966 - Isabel de Herédia was born. Duchess of Bragança.
• 1966 - Nicholas Rowe was born. Actor.
• 1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
• 1967 - Boris Becker was born. German tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89).
• 1967 - Bart Veldkamp was born. Dutch-born speed skater.
• 1967 - Mark Ruffalo was born. American actor.
• 1967 - Pavel Korin dies (b. 1892). Russian painter.
• 1968 - The Beatles release the double-album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.
• 1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf was born. Greenlandic computer programmer.
• 1970 - Marvan Atapattu was born. Sri Lankan cricket player.
• 1970 - Stel Pavlou was born. British novelist.
• 1971 - Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy: Five teenagers and their female instructor die in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
• 1972 - Olivier Brouzet was born. French rugby player.
• 1972 - Jay Payton was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• 1974 - David Pelletier was born. Canadian figure skater.
• 1974 - Joe Nathan was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain, two days after the death of Francisco Franco.
• 1975 - Aiko was born. Japanese singer.
• 1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect.
• 1976 - Ville Valo was born. Finnish singer (HIM).
• 1976 - Torsten Frings was born. German football player.
• 1976 - Regina Halmich was born. German female boxer.
• 1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• 1977 - Michael Preston was born. English football player.
• 1977 - Luciana Duvall was born. Romanian actor/performer.
• 1978 - Portugal : University of Algarve - Is aproved its creation.
• 1978 - Carlos Mota Pinto assumes the seat of prime-minister of Portugal.
• 1978 - Karen O was born. American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
• 1978 - Vasco Morgado dies (b. 19 May 1924). Portuguese theater entrepreneur and actor.
• 1979 - Chris Doran was born. Irish singer.
• 1980 - Shawn Fanning was born. American creator of Napster.
• 1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov was born. Russian athlete.
• 1980 - Mae West dies (b. 1893). American actress (She Done Him Wrong) and writer.
• 1980 - Norah McGuinness dies (b. 1901). Northern Irish painter.
• 1980 - Jules Léger dies (b. 1913). Governor General of Canada.
• 1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk was born. Polish football player.
• 1981 - Pape Sow was born. Senegalese basketball player.
• 1981 - Ben Adams was born. English Singer/Songwriter.
• 1981 - Song Hye Kyo was born (official birthday is, however, 26 Feb 1982). South Korean
• 1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs dies (b. 1900). German physician and biochemist.
• 1982 - Aiyegbeni Yakubu was born. Nigerian football player.
• 1982 - Alasdair Duncan was born. Australian novelist.
• 1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin was born. Hong Kong singer, member of the Cantopop girl group Twins.
• 1983 - A Fundação Casa de Mateus atribui o Prémio D. Dinis ao escritor português Fernando Namora, pela obra “Resposta a Matilde”
• 1983 - Tyler Hilton was born. American singer/songwriter and actor
• 1983 - Corey Beaulieu was born. American guitarist (Trivium)
• 1983 - Peter Ramage was born. English footballer.
• 1984 - "Like A virgin" by Madonna is released
• 1984 - Davide Chiumento was born in Heiden. Swiss football player
• 1984 - Kate Ground was born. Canadian adult internet model
• 1984 - Scarlett Johansson was born. American actress.
• 1984 - Mauro Ramos da Mota e Albuquerque dies (b. 1912). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1985 - According to ancient Aztec mythology, the future savior of the world would be born on this date.
• 1985 - Julio Caro Baroja receives the "Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas".
• 1985 - Asamoah Gyan was born. Ghanaian footballer.
• 1985 - Austin Brown was born. American singer.
• 1986 - Boxing: Mike Tyson knocks-out Trevor Berbick in second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months.
• 1986 - David Pasqualini was born. French pianist.
• 1986 - Oscar Pistorius was born. South African paralympic athlete.
• 1986 - Scatman Crothers dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1986 - William Bradford Huie dies (b. 1910). American writer.
• 1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
• 1987 - Marouane Fellaini was born. Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent.
• 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed. It will be superseded one year later by an improved version, the B-2 Bomber with Raisins
• 1988 - Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara were born. Twins, British and Indian novelists
• 1988 - Raymond Dart dies (b. 1893). Australian anatomist and antropologist.
• 1988 - Luis Barragán dies (b. 1908). Mexican architect.
• 1988 - Paul Vario dies (b. 1914). Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family.
• 1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
• 1989 - Rene Moawad dies assassinated (b. 1925). President of Lebanon.
• 1989 - C.C. Beck dies (b. 1910). American Cartoonist.
• 1990 - Prof. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia.
• 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. John Major succeeds her.
• 1991 - Diana Danielle Dannye Beeson was born. Malaysian American actress.
• 1992 - Sterling Holloway dies (b. 1905). American voice actor.
• 1993 - Anthony Burgess dies (b. 1917). British author.
• 1994 - Mount Merapi, on the island of Java, erupted, killing 64 people.
• 1995 - United Kingdon: Life sentence for Rosemary West - Britain's most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
• 1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 1996 - Madison Davenport was born. American actress and singer.
• 1996 - María Casares dies (b. 1922). Spanish-born Frenh actress.
• 1996 - Mark Lenard dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 1997 - Michael Hutchence dies (suicide) (b. 1960). Australian singer and songwriter (INXS).
• 1998 - The CBS News program ''60 Minutes'' aired videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian administering lethal drugs to a terminally ill patient.
• 1998 - Albania constitution adopted by popular referendum.
• 1998 - Stu Unger dies (b. 1953). American professional poker player.
• 1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.
• 2000 - Christian Marquand dies (b. 1927). French actor, director and screenwriter.
• 2000 - Emil Zatopek dies (b. 1922). Czech athlete.
• 2000 - Carlos Cardoso is assassinated. Mozambican journalist.
• 2001 - Mary Kay Ash dies (b. 1915). American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics.
  
• 2001 - Norman Granz dies (b. 1918). American jazz impresario and producer.
• 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2002 - Amílcar de Castro dies. Brazilian sculptor.
• 2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
• 2003 - The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the National Hockey League, is played in Edmonton, Alberta.
  
• 2003 - Carmen Electra / David Navarro wedding.
• 2003 - Brasil: Inaugurado o complexo que abriga o Museu Oscar Niemeyer, em Curitiba
• 2003 - England defeat Australia to win England's first rugby union world cup.
• 2004 - Ukraine: The Orange Revolution begins - Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.
• 2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.
• 2005 - Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democrats, becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2005 - The XBOX 360 releases in North America. First of the next-gen consoles.
• 2005 - Bruce Hobbs dies (b. 1920). American jockey.
• 2005 - Chris Whitley dies (b. 1960). American singer/songwriter.
• 2006 - Pat Dobson dies (b. 1942). American baseball player.
• 2007 - Maurice Béjart dies (b. 1929). Father of the Ballet Renewal.
• 2007 - Verity Lambert dies (b. 1935). First producer of British SF series Doctor Who.
• 2008 - MC Breed dies (b. 1971). American hip hop artist.
• 2009 - Benfica is sent off from Portuguese Cup in football losing 1-0 to Vitória de Guimarães.
  
• Catholicism - Feast of Saint Cecilia.
• Astrology: First day of sun sign Sagittarius.
• Independence of Lebanon in 1943.